I personally think the Intrepid-class is pretty damn ugly.
What is the ugliest ship in starfleet?
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Why? To me I think its the most elegant.
The oversized saucer section (arrowhead section?) and undersized nacelles... It makes me think of a cartoon wrestler with overmuscled upper body and two toothpicks for legs.
I think its just in comparsion for me. The Prometheus-class doesn't bother me at all.
Yeah, the Intrepid-class "spoon" is ugly, and its landing gearwas poorly thought out. It has 2 feet that extend from the engineering hull (from where, I don't know, there's no room in there for such large feet) and when they're down there's something like 200 meters of saucer in front of them and 50 meters of engineering section behind. it should tip over unless they don't shut the engines down, and then what's the point in landing gear at all?
Taking the kitbashes out of the running, the Steamrunner has always annoyed me. The Norway is too primitive a work that I'd rather not consider. The Steamrunner though is a cross between it and the Akira - just on the cusp of being realized. Though, I think the Akira too, had it played a more focal role in the movie, would have had more work done on it. Its nacelles especially. The Steamrunner though I think looks bad. Setting the deflector aside for now, I don't like the shapes and angles of the saucer and the Bussard collectors being where they are do not work for me from a "treknical" perspective.
^^^ I owned a resin kit of the Prometheus at one time and I actually almost did! 
Cool kit, though.
Cool kit, though.
WTH? It's just the Excelsior but with the parts jumbled up!
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Unsafe!
It looks like they ejected the saucer section and then just couldn't be arsed to reattach it properly. It'll tumble off when they go to warp.
I think this class is probably a troop transport of some kind. The secondary hull looks like a detachable barracks - just leave your marines where they need to be, rest of the ship warps away.
I was always under the impression that it was a thru-deck carrier for all the Perergrine and other style fighters they had flying around in Sacrifice of Budget...er...Angels.
If you look closely at the front of the original filming miniature, the front end of the secondary hull seems to have a recessed set of shuttlebay doors where the main navigational deflector should be. Assuming it also still has the standard Excelsior-style back-end shuttlebay, it would make sense that the entire lower half of the secondary hull is a massive quick-launch hanger system, much like the Akira was initially supposed to be.
Never liked the out-of-scale Connie refit engines on this thing, though. They should have kept the standard Excelsior engines.
I hate the deflector dish of Voyager as the dish itself looks like a smiling mouth and there are two outcroppings above it that look like eyes. I don't what the model builders were thinking.
I hate to say this, but I was never really blown away by the design on Voyager.
That's personally one of my favourite features of Voyager. The other ships have mostly generic circular or squarish deflectors, but Voyager has a distinctively shaped deflector dish that sets it apart, and I love the way the arcs of the dish so perfectly fit the model, where it feels like an artistic feature, and not just a radar dish protruding from the front like on the 1701, for example. Not that the circular dishes don't often look nice, as I really love the dish on the Ent-E, and the D did something unique too.
But those torpedo launchers definitely look like eyes. Little beady eyes.
sorry to say this, but i don't have much love for the constitution-class. that ship is a structural paradox. most notably the neck and support struts for the nacelles. i get that the structural integrity field plays a part in keeping those areas from snapping but just taking into account of how many times the ship was hit in the saucer section causing it to rock. realistically the ship should've been decomisioned at least halfway through the series from structural failure in these areas. its refited version isn't much better off.
Seeing the Curry Class again has taken me back years and years to when I created the image above. I'm not an artist, I had to search for it deep in my computer, and I had to teach myself how to upload images to Photobucket in order to show it to you. Please be kind - artists, fans, and English teachers!
^ Or to put it another way: To curry favor, favor Curry. 
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