at work last night I was working through a box of DVDs and came across a bunch of Star Trek movies, and I just happened to glance at the back of The Undiscovered Country and what did I see? ENTERPRISE B! it wasn't even in that movie . . . I'm guessing the designer of the jacket wasn't a trekkie and didn't realize that although yes, the B is an Excelsior class it's not the same as the Excelsior that was in the movie. I pointed this out to one of my coworkers and he had this blank look on his face afterwards we both made Stan Lee jokes (Excelsior was on the front of the cover though.)
To be honest, I can't tell the difference between the Excelsior and the Enterprise B. I can't look at them long enough without being repulsed away
Unless ya can read the hull in the picture, or there's some other content (like the space dock or something), how would ya be able to tell one Excelsior-class from another? I tell ya what's sad! The TNG blu ray box has the Enterprise-E in the place of the E-D goin' against the Klingon Bird of Prey from ST: Generations!
Enterprise B is an Excelsior+ It has extra bits on the side of the deflector (the bit that gets ripped open by the nexus) and cabs on the front of its nacelles. Completely changes its profile.
^ Don't be such a geek about it. Everyone knows those flares were only added so they could take a chunk out of the model to show Nexus damage without actually damagin' the model.
Since the Enterprise-B mysteriously loses those extras for a few seconds as we see it warping toward the Nexus only for them to reappear when they arrive... maybe Excelsior can grow and lose them at will, too