Looks like the rim of the saucer is one very high deck. Would love to stand at one of those narrow but tall window slits around the perimeter and gaze out into the stars.
The Archer type definitely has a Nacelle that's pretty similar to the Enterprise, they just put the grills on the bottom.
I do love the spike on the bussard. If we ever get a flashback to the earliest days of the Enterprise, I'd love to see them put the spikes on the nacelles to honour the look of the original model.
Yes, it is. It's one of the few ships I actually want from them. I've always had a soft spot for single nacelle ships. Plus, I think Jonathan Archer would appreciate a ship being named after him being a plucky little scout ship.
Definitely! Starfleet ships were usually the ones I would try to get as a model. And this one looks very interesting and kind of retro. I’m a sucker for ships that in-universe are meant to be small. For some reason that makes them more real, because their layout and size is easier to grasp. Those red glowing details on the front of the nacelle strut look very cool in this rendering. I wonder what they are supposed to be.
Yeah, I feel the same about small ships. It's why I always loved the NX-01 and other 22nd century ships. As to what those glowing bits are on the nacelle strut, I don't know. But I'd like to think the little nub below is a single phaser.
We don't really know a thing about how the Reliant matched up to the Enterprise in terms of firepower, except that the ship appears to have more places to shoot stuff out of. Personally I always assumed that the Enterprise was the most powerful ship Starfleet had until the Excelsior launched.
