Most beautiful ships in Trek?

[Sector 7]

Aside from the new Enterprise, this is my favorite Trek ship. This is also my very first time posting images to TrekBBS (yay me! I learned something new today).

Of course, this is my favorite ship of all (the sexy one on the left):

EDIT: If these images are too large, how do I make it a thumbnail link to the larger image?

Sector 7, still learning

 

[Kira Nerys]

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[Kai Winn]

1) The. Nacelles. Aren't. Rocket. Engines.
B) I've worked with a ton of remote-control model aircraft, and sometimes some of the more spindly looking structures can be the most efficient and reliable.

you see the bright lights at the end of the nacelles of the two mishaps on the pic posted by sector 7? looks like fusion rockets of the impulse drive.
i'm conviced the model of richthofen's ww1 aircraft can do with flimsy structures, but for the f22 you need something more solid. an analogy that fits nicely for a comparison of constitution class : intrepid class.

 

[Corwwyn]

1) TOS Enterprise
2) Refit Enterprise
3) Klingon D7/TMP K'Tinga
4) Prometheus
5) Nova Class
6) Defiant
7) STIII Bird of Prey

 

[TheGodBen]

you see the bright lights at the end of the nacelles of the two mishaps on the pic posted by sector 7? looks like fusion rockets of the impulse drive.

And the deflector dish on the TOS Enterprise looks like it was designed to pick up satellite TV stations, that doesn't mean that's what it is for. The backs of warp nacelles are not, and never have been, any form of rocket or impulse engine, the TOS Enterprise had white spheres added after the pilots precisely to avoid this kind of confusion. Here's where you can see pics.

Warp engines do not work like conventional methods of propulsion as we know them, my limited understanding of the mechanics is that a warp bubble is created around the ship and it is the bubble which moves while the ship stays still within the bubble. The nacelles could be attached to the secondary hull using malleable hoses and they still wouldn't be influenced while travelling at warp.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

^ Makes me wonder why they didn't put the white spheres on all the remastered shots of the E, regardless of season.

I mean, as long as they were committing blasphemy anyway .

 

[Sector 7]

1) The. Nacelles. Aren't. Rocket. Engines.
B) I've worked with a ton of remote-control model aircraft, and sometimes some of the more spindly looking structures can be the most efficient and reliable.

you see the bright lights at the end of the nacelles of the two mishaps on the pic posted by sector 7? looks like fusion rockets of the impulse drive.
i'm conviced the model of richthofen's ww1 aircraft can do with flimsy structures, but for the f22 you need something more solid. an analogy that fits nicely for a comparison of constitution class : intrepid class.

I posted pictures of SHIPS not mishaps. A 'mishap' is an accident, whereas these are designed.

It is also proper to place a capital letter at the beginning of my username. If you feel the need to quote or refer to me, please do it correctly. Proper punctuation and capitalization would lend more credibility to your remarks. Thank you for your attention to this matter in the future.

Sector 7, appreciative

 

[AdmiralGarak]

The best is the refit Enterprise / Enterprise-A.

I'm surprised, though, that there's been no mention for the Bajoran solar sail ships.

 

[Vanyel]

The Sovereign Class
Intrepid
Nova
NX
Galaxy

 

[Admiral Shran]

The D'deridex class Warbird, hands down.

 

[Kai Winn]

I posted pictures of SHIPS not mishaps. A 'mishap' is an accident, whereas these are designed.

It is also proper to place a capital letter at the beginning of my username. If you feel the need to quote or refer to me, please do it correctly. Proper punctuation and capitalization would lend more credibility to your remarks. Thank you for your attention to this matter in the future.

Sector 7, appreciative

my thoughts exactly. those ships are evidently not designed, but accidents. honestly, have you ever seen a ship as hilarious as the kelvin? well, the whole movie lacked intelligent design, maybe that's the reason i don't like the enterprise refit.
by not capitalizing you i meant no disrespect. the left shift key of my keyboard is broken.

 

[SilentP]

my thoughts exactly. those ships are evidently not designed, but accidents. honestly, have you ever seen a ship as hilarious as the kelvin?

Actually, the Kelvin was the first examle of a single nacelle Starfleet vessel that I could take seriously. The others I had seen before had just looked like someone had literally kitbashed it with a half complete Enterprise modelling kit.

My list for beautiful ships (in no particular order):
1) D'Deridex Warbird
2) Excelsior-class
3) ST:XI Constitution-class
4) Galaxy-class
5) Vor'cha-class
6) K'Tinga-class
7) Defiant-class
8) Bird of Prey (B'rel or K'Vort classes)
9) Danube-class runabout
10) Orberth-class

 

[You_Guyz]

I think the exelsior is as ugly as hell, *confused*

 

[Keith1701]

In order:

1) TOS Enterprise
2) Refit Enterprie / 1701-A
3) Romulan Warbird (TNG)
4) 1701-E
5) Defiant
6) Voyager
7) Enterprise era Romulan BOP

My list would be:

1) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E
2) TOS Enterprise NCC 1701
3) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701 {J.J. Abrams, STAR TREK 2009 movie}
4) U.S.S. Voyager
5) Refit U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-A
6) U.S.S. Defiant
7) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-J {seen on STAR TREK ENTERPRISE television series}
8) The battle ships on Deep Space Nine

 

[Chrisisall]

1) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E

Kids really love that one.

Us older romantics go for grandeur over flash, I conjure.
1-6 refit all the way.

 

[SilentP]

1) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E

Kids really love that one.

Us older romantics go for grandeur over flash, I conjure.
1-6 refit all the way.

I don't know if 21 counts as a 'kid' for the purposes of this topic, but I can't stand Sovereigns

 

[Vanyel]

1) U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-E

Kids really love that one.

Us older romantics go for grandeur over flash, I conjure.
1-6 refit all the way.

I don't know if 21 counts as a 'kid' for the purposes of this topic, but I can't stand Sovereigns

I'm pretty sure 41 counts as middle age and I love the Sovereign Class.

 

[ngc7293]

I saw TOS first, but I never "fell in love" with the ship. Thus when ST:MP thru ST:V, I didn't like the new refit either.
I did like the Miranda Class, and I did like the Oberth. Then there was Voyager. I distinctly remember a 'what was the ship going to look like for voyager pics' online. One of them I dubbed Spatula Class Scifi-art.com came out with something called the Katana class which is more realistic (if that word can actually be used).
But in that show, my favorite ship was the Nova Class.
About the only ship that I liked that came out of STNG was the Nebula Class. So:
1. Oberth
2. Nova
3. Miranda
4. Nebula

 

[Braxton]

1. Akira
2. Defiant
3. Sovereign
4. Excelsior

 

[cwnorma]

1. Refit/A
2. Old Grey Lady
3. TOS Klingon cruiser
4. TOS Romulan Warbird

There are many other beautiful ships but those are the ones that are my favorites.

To my sense of aesthetic, the only truly fugly ship in the Star Trek universe is the horribly out of balance D.