Best Looking Ship Game

I like the Prometheus as a tactical concept but in terms of looks...

The Akira.

The Akira class for me as it is one of my all time favorite Star Trek ships and ots just looks beautiful yey powerful too as well as been fast and maneuverable.

The Prometheus is a good concept but it's just not the best looker here.

Actually the Prometheus has 5 nacelles one is hiding and at least it had a good reason for having them all for its multi vector assault mode when it splits into three separate ships.

So technically it's really just 3 ships together two with 2 nacelles and one with 1 nacelle.

I have no problem with ships that have 4 nacelles thats much better than 1 or 3 or 5 which all just look awkward.

I think Gene Roddenberry would agree with me.

It has to be D’deridex class. The Defiant class is good looking in a scuffed up tomboy sort of way but the D’deridex class belongs on a runway.

Am I taking this starship tinder thing too far?

A lot of the Romulan tech around that era looked good. I think their disruptors are the nicest looking side arms outside of the TOS film phases.

Torn also... cruising along the Defiant doesnt look like much at all compared to the warbird.

But in action swooping through blasting away it is shock and awe... so vote goes to the Defiant.

:O How dare you!

I dunno, I kind of liked the middle gap. Made the design interesting.

Romulan designs, up until the 2009 reboot and STP anyway, seem to always have the nacelles relatively far apart for the size of their ships so I see the D'deridex as the final evolution of that and the all or nothing warship armour concept, ocean going warships obviously can't have massive holes but starships can.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_or_nothing_(armor)

Miranda, it's a much cleaner design and, keeping with the crass tinder concept, Excelsior looks a bit chubby.

Miranda. I love the old Excelsior...but it has to be Miranda

Neither are really that good looking, so California class I suppose.

Danube Runabout - I like it and they're bigger than they look. And I don't like the California class (despite the beauty pass in 1x9) - the placement of the engineering hull / deflector dish is haphazard, at best.

Excelsior class for me. So much better looking than the Miranda class. The Miranda class were the workhorse of starfleet.

As for the Defiant v the Deredex for me it would be the Deredex and the reason the cap is in the ship is because that is what Gene Roddenberry said. He said in order for a warb capable Starship to be able to make a stable warp bubble then both nacelles must be able to see each other and they must be an even number of them. That is why all the Enterprises and all the starfleet and Klingon ships had 2 nacelles opposite and inline with each other. Of course all that changed after Gene died which is a pity. Any hard core trekkie should know that otherwise your not a hard-core trekkie. Warp

I can't help but wonder if the California Class is supposed to look kind of awkward and thrown together. A sort of juxtaposition to the elegant lines of the usual Hero Ships verses the clunky functional design of the "Second Contact" workhorse of starfleet.

Valdore, marginally.

Hmm....no strong feelings either way, but I usually go for the Romulan...so Valdore.

The Vulcan ship - memory alpha list it as D'kyr type (no class name) - I like the circular warp nacelle, the fact the nacelle can be moved horizontal when not powered up and the overall knobby look of the vessel.

(Saying that also like the Valdore, and it's a close thing().