This is here just for fun, got tired after hours of suggesting. Which design do you like the best?

I really really love the Galaxy. But Defiant just takes it for me.

If anyone says we shouldn't have both Akira and NX, jigalypuff will probably deleta all your posts and give you a stupid avatar.

I just really like the Akira, for some reason, don't know why actually. What did your avatar looked like, SonOfMogh?

The Akira is gorgeous. Definitely one of my favourites.

I meant signature actually. Jig 'assimilated' it earlier in the week.

Oh that one , really liked it.

iwulff, what order would you put the other ships in the list in?

Mine;
NX-01 (best ship ever)
Defiant
Galaxy
Akira
Excelsior
Sovereign
Nebula
Constitution
Intrepid
Ambassador
NX.

You really don't like Enterprise do you?

Here's mine:

Akira
Sovereign
Defiant
Galaxy
Excelsior
NX
Nebula
Constitution
Ambassador
Intrepid

I really haven't watched much. I watched some of the first season, after hearing people here I really want to get into it.

I do actually quite like the NX, just could only have 10 poll options and I like the other ones more.

Just had a thought about starbases, see you in 'game request'

Evidently my stance on the NX-01 has changed!!!

Hmmm, ill say nothing about the NX

But no supprise here, i voted for the Galaxy, a luxury liner with teeth.

Galaxy
Constitution
Excelsior
Nebula
Intrepid
Ambassador
Defiant
Akira
Sovereign
NX

(ill copy my sig off now shall i)

whatever do you mean?

Hum.. going to have to say.

Sovereign
Galaxy
Akira
Nebula
Defiant
Ambassador
NX
Constitution
Excelsior
Interpid

Prometheus--- I love that ship... is there any chance of it being in BOTFII
Defiant--- The ship just kicks to much butt not to be #1
Akira--- perty ship... kinda reminds of a war bird
Galaxy--- Feels like I spent 7 years with the ship... My Fist star ship
Sovereign--- Nice ship... just never really got to know her
Nebula--- long time favorite
Interpid--- This was my favorite series... not favorite ship...
Ambassador--- kinda tie with Nx
NX--- tie with ambassador
Oberth--- I love the sphere on the future one... not so much the saucer
Constitution--- Fine ship
Excelsior--- Never really got to know one... Sure shes a fine ship

I love the Defiant.... it's like a small kid beating up a bigger bully...

So many weapons packed into a little ship, I think it should make an appearance in the next movie, or at least a next gen of defiants...

I like the NX, but it seems to advanced for a ship in it's time, but it's a good ship.

The intrepid seems like a small sovereign and a super small galaxy. All the other races are getting bigger ships, but the feds keep stretching them so they are longer... not that it's a bad thing

I would have to pick in this order:
Defiant
Prometheus (a deadly ship)
Sovereign
NX
Excelsior

The Nebula looks like it was put in a vice and squished lol

I really dont like these threatds, decisions like this are too difficult to be enjoyed

i voted galaxy because it was the ship i grew up watching, and it has done all aspects of trek

if i had been 30-40 years ago i would choose constitution refit for exactly the same reasons.

everytime i remember ds9 fight seens i take far more pleasure from watching squadrons of galaxy`s ruin the dominions **** than i do watching the defiant scoot around, though saying that i did love the defiant in first contact

see what i mean , its not fair

What?

Defiant for New School

Constitution for Old School

Galaxy Class will Always be the best ship for traveling the Stars In Style.

It's funny. I just thought about "The Adversary" a DS9 ep when A Changling Gets loose in the Defiant, and they have to stop him from starting a war between the Feds and the xincethi. In any other ship, They probably would have never found him in any other ship. The Defiant's small size probably gave them an advantage. "Scooting around" never looked cooler.

Steamrunner class is a definate winner.......it would be a good planetary assault ship in the game.

My opinions, for what they're worth:

NX has a cool look but it seems too advanced for its era. It shouldn't take so long to go from NX to Constitution, even taking into account NCC-1701's 25 years prior to TOS... Otherwise, I like it.

Sovereign and Prometheus have aesthetic curves that seem to ignore utility. It gives them a decadent feel... A *feel*, mind you. I don't know if the curves are for aesthetics alone since I don't have 24th century warp theory to go by.

Galaxy's enormity gives it an opulence that perfectly reflects apparent Federation society of the late 2350s � and that of the US, circa late '80s.

Oddly enough, the ugly squashing of Galaxy into Nebula gave Nebula a utilitarian look that overwhelmed its opulent size and endeared it to me... I feel similarly to Miranda.

Ambassador always looked like an abandoned child: its shape a necessary stepping stone between Excelsior and Galaxy.

Excelsior looked fine to me as a testbed, where such ugliness is a part of utility. As a class, though? Nah. And 1701-B? Ick!... Still, I loved when Sulu came to the rescue with Excelsior. At that moment she was beautiful.

Defiant, the tough little ship. She got me to fantasize of flying through the stars, destroying the enemies of the Federation, much to my tortured and shamed pleasure. She's lovely for her look of brute strength, despite her problems with design continuity.

Akira is to new-wave for me to appreciate. I recognize her superbly utilitarian design and her aesthetics. Yet I can't imagine commanding her. It's entirely my own limitation.

I loved the attempt of the Steamrunner and Norway designs to break up the Fed design monotony. Yet I am capable if appreciating them even less than Akira. Again, my own limitation.

Oberth never seemed practical to me. And Intrepid's fattened-swan shape with small nacelles just turned me off.

TOS Constitution had a flimsy feel that somehow added to her authenticity. Her movie refit was sexy and felt like the point where Fed warp designs began their spiral of decadence... Still, these were the designs that began my life-long obsession with Trek and I love them both. (Dates me, don't it?)

Talking about flimsy, Daedalus is flimsy. Of the on-screen designs seen, I'd have to say this is my favorite. I know she's not strictly cannon, as she's only been seen as a desk top model on DS9. Still, she brings to mind a time in Fed history where nothing is known, the galaxy is ripe for new discovery; yet the newly formed and hope-filled Federation is out there, defying the unknown. Of the ships, this is the one that, to me, truly defines the purpose of the Federation; and the one I'd most wish to command.

And yet... My parents had an original Star Fleet Technical Manual, published in 1975. Its pages were repeatedly marred by my youthful exuberance; many young fantasies were shaped by the ship designs on those pages. Of course, the Federation class � supposedly being even more powerful than Constitution � was the center of many of those fantasies. "Captain Darby of USS Directorate". For that reason, it's always had a special place; and is my favorite of the non-cannon designs... However, (with one exception) all attempts by fans to export the design to other times or modify the multi-nacelle idea I have found extremely distasteful; repulsive, even. This includes my own aborted attempts. I always saw her as a brilliant but failed experiment in warp ship design, one Star Fleet would never repeat. I guess that's why Masao Okazaki's Wasp from the StarFleet Museum is the one exception to my generalized distaste of three nacelle designs: its invented history is one of qualified failure.

Of the given choices, I vote for Nebula.

My opinions, that's all... Long-winded opinions.

Defiant, without a doubt. Probabily the most maneuvarable ship in Trek. Might be small, but is tough as nails and has attitude too!

Think wolvereine in the X-men, he may have the least flashyness, but he has attitude and most blokes if asked would wanna be him if they could!

Akira ofcourse! She has a great size, not to small not to big. She has a nice streamlined look, with a nice arc finishing the look. This ship has mulitple photon torpedo launchers and can take a big punch before she goes down. I just like the design, and the Akira would be the ship you would see most when facing me in botf2, when i am the federation and have the required technology.

I agree the Akira is very cool. Quite businesslike, yet nice to look at.

There comes a time in life, when choices present a problem. Should I go for the big one? Or should I go for the pretty one?

The same is true of trek. Hands down, Voyager is by far the best series, and Voyager is a cool ship - just not the best. The nacelles are just too...small

It kinda looks like one of the original ideas for the Enterprise-D, where they wanted the nacelles to be ultra small, to show that warp technology has improved (Minaturisation) I for one, do not think that warp drive will ever become small. It is meant to be a biiiiiiig engine!

Anyway, my ship order would be: -

Akira (It has a saucer, it has a...wait, where is it's primary hull gone? Cool, a ship without it's insides!)
Prometheus (Who would say no to a fleet of ships in it's own right?)
Sovereign (Big brother needs more screen time. Movies just aren't enough anymore)
Defiant (It shoots, it destroys!)
Excelsior (Prototypes are where it all begins)
Intrepid (Sleek, modern, and yet somehow stretched and sqaushed at the same time)
Nebula (Hmm...something is missing...)
Galaxy (Wow! a cruise liner that can fight? Well who would have thought?)
Ambassador (She was made to fill in the gap. Nothing but filler...)
NX (Some say it looks similar to the Akira, but I laugh in the face of this besmirchment of the beautiful Akira. And how did it get so...modern? It's meant to be old!)

Well that's my listing. I know that some of you disagree (You've already said) some of you may agree (Get an Ambulance, I feel faint) and some of you are just in quiet disagreement withyourself(ves)

I just hope that the Akira or Prometheus will be in, that's all.

Voyager best series...

Hmm. From a combat point of view, the Sovereign and the Defiant have their obvious place. However, they're still not my favorites.

My favorite is the refitted version of the Galaxy class used by the Federation in the Dominion War. The Galaxy is a little older than the more powerful Sovereign class, but it's the prettiest Trek ship ever designed. And while it might not be as strong as a Sovereign, it can still kick the crap out of most things its size and anything smaller.

From a looks point of view I'd say Excelsior class, she's a real beauty, not too sure about the Enterprise B version, the extra impulse sections and the protruding ridge on her secondary hull spoil her lovely curves.

But I'm afraid I'm more of a practical man at heart and the Defiant gets the job done, the production, or tinkered with version, does it, small fast and very very tough, like a little terrier, what else do you need? Well other than lots of refueling stops?

I think the Defiant is more of a Rottweiler, than a Terrier!

They're vicious little (Well they're quite big actually) things, and just won't let go, 'til their teeth have left their mark.

Kinda like the Pulse Phaser cannons, I suppose

Ambasador Class all the way!

Yep, like a little baby Galaxy that's not grown up yet.

1)Sovereign,(their close) 2)Galaxy, and 3)Defiant (that boyish, fighting streak in me). their each their in their own niche and i'd command any in a second but to me...You don't "command" the defiant, you take it out to fight from a star base but it's not so much a "commanding" ship.
-Jega

Enterprise-A.....and maybe the Nebula Class. Powerful little torpedo boat.