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Let's talk starship classes! (startrek.website)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My friends and I recently challenged each other to list our top five starship classes and were surprised by how different our opinions were despite being generally in agreement with what we like about the various series.

Personally it was hard for me to make a definitive "top five" but here are some I rank highly in no particular order:

TOS-era constitution
Refit constitution
Discovery-era Bird of Prey (OG is good too obv but I love the HR Geiger-esque weirdness)
D'Kora class Ferengi ship
~~Not canon, but~~ I love the original "Long-boi" Discovery design. It gives off some very cool art-deco retro-futurism vibes. Not very classically "trek" but I love it nonetheless!

I am curious to see what c/StarTrek thinks!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man, I don't think I could disagree with a list more than this one 😅

(Jk all ships are beautiful in Gene's creation)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not a fan of kitbashing, huh?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I like all ships but anything other than two nacelles is an affront to the Great Bird of the Galaxy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've always been a fan of the canon interpretation that anything other than the two nacelle pattern was because someone needed to compensate for something in the workload. Battleships (Federation-class variants, Galaxy-X) have 3 so one can get chopped off and they can keep on trucking, quads rotate through them to even wear/allow 'sprinting' for longer, singletons being 2 nacelles in a trenchcoat for cost/maintenance reasons (which explains why they're often proportionally oversized), etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

never heard this one actually but I really like it!