Why no actual saucer shape ships?

[Attentive Senpai]

I once emailed Michael Okuda about this object many years ago. He seemed to think it was something left over from the V TV series. It does vaguely resemble a Visitor mothership, but there are other details that don't quite match up.

It looks like a Visitor mothership that's had extra bits stuck on to it, like those ridgelines and what looks like a bridge module.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

Actually didn't they have a saucer like ship in Disco season 3 or 4 that Tilly used?

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Actually didn't they have a saucer like ship in Disco season 3 or 4 that Tilly used?

You're thinking of the UFP-02 Type Shuttle.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

You're thinking of the UFP-02 Type Shuttle.

That's the one and it's a kind of saucer. I loved that shuttle

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

That's the one and it's a kind of saucer. I loved that shuttle

IMO, it's closer to a Skipping Stone than a Saucer.

 

[XCV330]

not a Starfleet ship but some Kzinti ships are saucers. In an RP I was in based on the beginning of the warp era, it was those early Earth-Kzin conflicts that led to Earth adopting the saucer, since they obviously didn't get it from the Vulcans.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Andromedans (from Star Fleet Battles) also use saucer-looking ships, IIRC.