Ick. Well made model but clumsy design. They should've just gone for the Coventry or Surya instead.
Exactly! The quality of the model work is great here, but why did they have to take what was basically a good, clean, Surya-like design, and uglify it, by slapping a useless squashed secondary hull on the top of it?
It's not just them... this is something I see a LOT of fanfilm producers do... it's like a fixation, to modify ships that don't need to be modified. Remember... the design ethic of TOS was functional simplicity... keep with that... keep it simple, and uncomplicated.