Oy, it's not supposed to look sexy. It's a space forklift.
What is the ugliest ship in starfleet?
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That Starfleet/Madusan not-quite-Daedalus in TOS-R "Is There in Truth No Beauty" wasn't too pretty.
That Grissom thing in ST III was pretty ridiculous looking.
I'm not at all fond of the 1701-E, which combines bits and pieces of a lot of previous ships while becoming less than the sum of the parts.
I thought the D was oddly proportioned at first, but got to like it a lot. Part of that was the folks who photographed it finding the angles that looked best.
I'm not at all fond of the 1701-E, which combines bits and pieces of a lot of previous ships while becoming less than the sum of the parts.
I thought the D was oddly proportioned at first, but got to like it a lot. Part of that was the folks who photographed it finding the angles that looked best.
Tall and graceful beats squat and stubby (Ent-D). Survival/reproductive instincts are at work in what humans find beautiful. As my old buddy Carl used to say, "You can throw nature out with a pitchfork, but she always comes back with a vengeance."
The Original and TMP's nacelles go up like arms raised in joy. And that circular saucer with its curves photogtaphs so well. Mmph. The D looks like somebody sat on it.
Oh, and the original Ent combines feminine and masculine archetypes: the circle which houses and shelters the crew; and the cylindrical nacelles driving it. Jeffries leads off the first inning by hitting a home run.
The Original and TMP's nacelles go up like arms raised in joy. And that circular saucer with its curves photogtaphs so well. Mmph. The D looks like somebody sat on it.
Oh, and the original Ent combines feminine and masculine archetypes: the circle which houses and shelters the crew; and the cylindrical nacelles driving it. Jeffries leads off the first inning by hitting a home run.
Rubbish. People find wildly divergent things beautiful, which explains both the fact that people disagree vehemently about which Enterprise is the most attractive and the fact that people who you or I may consider ugly manage to marry and have lots of kids (and who knows what they think of the way we look).
...And you've now forever changed the way I'll look at the Enterprise-D. 
And those nacelles look like they’ve been circumcised!
The Daedalus Class is my all-time most disliked ship design. The Constellation and the Freedom are close runners up, though. Anything with odd numbered nacelles is also high on the list. :-/
He does say "...the primary hull goes well outside the bounds..." but I would call this bad writing rather than failure to make a point. Because that wasn't the point. The width of the rectangle has nothing to do with it.
If you read the rest of the post, he's only talking about lengths, not widths, and how they satisfy the golden ratio in the Constitution design: the length of the secondary hull equals the diameter of the saucer times golden ratio; and the nacelle struts are at the golden ratio point in relation to the full length of the ship.
The point is that by contrast there aren't any examples of the golden ratio in the Galaxy design. Are there?
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Given my choice of ships of my very own, I wouldn't choose an Oberth. BUT - I thought she was excellent as what she was meant to be: a ship thatmade it clear that only the cream of Starfleet got assigned to Connies. ;-)
^^^ Yep, I'm a big Centaur fan, too. I just wish they wouldn't mix scales in their kit bashes. I kind of like the Curry design as well, being Trek's first canonical thru-teck carrier, but putting oversized Miranda engines on an Excelsior space frame just looks wonky to me. Same for using the Miranda roll bar/torpedo launch assembly on the Centaur. An interesting creation for something that was clearly needed on a tight budget and deadline, and not as weird looking as the Curry (and yes, I hate the Yeager), but still a little off.
Variety.
I always thought that 1701-D looked top-heavy (not that gravity is a consideration), and that its detail made it look like it was carved out of stone. Good to see that quite a few of you seem to agree.
1701-E is at least a step towards the "original" shape, and I prefer it.
1701-E is at least a step towards the "original" shape, and I prefer it.
I guess that depends which part you're looking at. To me D looks closer to the original because it has an actual neck.
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