Favorite Designs: Ships

[Reliant121]

How is the Sovereign losing this thing?

Simple - there are two better-looking ships ahead of it.

QFT.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

The refit-Connie model used in the movies is also probably one of the most beautiful and detailed models I think I've ever seen.

[Deepcrush]

Some one just switched teams.

[stitch626]

Thats wrong...

[colmquinn]

Some one just switched teams.

I noticed that too, I guess some people want to switch sides when they see they aren't going to win, kinda like the italians in ww2

[Deepcrush]

Better then the french who just run away and come back later to try and take the credit.

[Lighthawk]

Well, I think it's safe to go ahead and call the connie refit the winner here.

[Mikey]

Of course, the Excelsior wins out of the classes without particular nostalgia value.

[Deepcrush]

The Connie will forever be the original badass, and there's nothing wrong with liking the classics.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

If something is considered a classic, there's usually a good reason for it.

[Reliant121]

A classic is a classic, for me, because it was remarkable in some way. The Connie refit is classic because she was the original kick ass ship of modern trek.

[Mikey]

Connie refit

was the original

[Deepcrush]

[Reliant121]

it is to me. Unfortunately, TOS doesnt seem anything like trek that I know.

[RK_Striker_JK_5]

I think Graham summed it up best in this thread with this post:

There's also a matter of context. Trek did this :



When it's contemporaries were doing this :



And even big budget movies were doing this :



Hell, only a decade or so before the average science fiction spaceship looked like this :



Or this :



The Constitution class was an absolute revolution in science fiction. Compared to the kinds of things that had gone before it was mindblowing original and vastly superior. And even now, over 40 years later, virtually every single design you see in Trek is some kind of variation on or refinement of the Connie.

And personally, I don't think there has ever been another sci fi spaceship design that feels as genuine and real as the Star Trek ones do.