Worst Starfleet Starship Designs: A Rant
Worst Starfleet Starship Designs: A Rant In 2009 we were introduced to the Kelvin timeline and JJ Abrams version of the classic NCC-1701: Yeah... Dude! It's not a hot rod! It's the Starship Enterprise. It doesn't need all the aerodynamic fins and sh*#, it's in space. The supposed scale is ridiculous (and doesn't work), the nacelles look totally stupid, the overall color scheme is more TMP than TOS, and I don't even know what the f*$# is going on with the neck sitting way back on the drive section. In Star Trek Beyond, it had apparently gone through a refit (IRL the ship's neck and pylons were slimmed down to make the destruction by Krall's swarm more plausible). And it actually looks worse. A lot worse. Into Darkness gave us this hot mess: The USS Vengeance. When I first saw it I was like "what is this? Really? Is this a joke???" For a Star Trek ship: NO. Just no. When Star Trek Discovery was first announced and anticipation was hig...