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It's been my observations that starship development has radically changed in the last 40 years in trek. Going out of style is the traditional saucer/dorsal/secondary hull, and coming in is a more flowing, one piece type of starship. So, basically, what do you think the trend of starships will be??
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At the very least, for the starships that retain saucer sections, the saucer sections are moving away from a circular shape. The Nebula, Galaxy, most of the Galaxy-based kitbashes, the Akira, and the Sovereign all have elliptical-shaped saucers. The Intrepid, Prometheus, Nova, Steamrunner, Sabre, and Norway all have triangular shaped saucers (or close-enough to triangular).
I also guess one could make the argument that interconnecting necks on starships is also on its way out. Aside from the Galaxy and a couple of the Galaxy-based kitbashes, the necks are gone. The Sovereign, Nebula, Nova, Prometheus, and Intrepid, while maintaining the saucer-engineering hull-nacelles configuration, lack the neck.
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Actually it's interesting - both the 90 degree turned saucer (Voyager/Sovereign) and the 'more triangular' saucers are featured in those 'possible future designs' in the TNG Tech Manual. Maybe somthing could be inferred by combining various aspects of those ships.
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Honestly, the future designs would probably end up looking like a cross between a Defiant and a Sabre class. Integrated nacelles, no 'necks' little to no secondary hull to speak of.
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I loved the Prometheus-class, I just would've wished the four nacelle pylons were jointed so that they could fold into two pairs, like on the closed S-foil X-wing.
I like the Sovereign/Nova/Prometheus family, I think they take the best traits from the Constitution- and Excelsior-class designs. I'm not sure we'll ever see any more progress in the 2390-2400 era...
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It SEEMS that higher advanced ships get away from needing to be streamlined, having more functional designs.. like borg cubes, fer'instance.
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