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Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :

[Side note - I'm almost done my master's degree! Which means that I'm actually gonna siddown and resume the "You're the Admiral!" threads as a solution to rerun hell. It's a matter of weeks, folks!]

And yes, I'd like this on the Tech forum, such that we can discuss the lousy merits of starship design.

Ten nacelles. Twenty-six torpedo tubes. Weapons that could vaporize a planet in a flash, and still have room to take on the entire Borg armada. Fandom is replete with hideously ungainly designs like these, made by any Tom, Chakotay or Harry with a schematic and Photoshop. They're everywhere, they're awful, and we complain about them all the time.

Let's see the worst of the lot. And the reasons WHY you think it's awful.

Mark

Posted by Ultra Magnus (Member # 239) on :

Most of them. This thread should get real big, real fast.

Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :

Where do I start with this one?

EDIT: The Voyager A, BTW.

[ June 21, 2002, 16:54: Message edited by: The BWC ]

Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :

Barring the USS Pamela Anderson & any design that's simply a ship with a few added parts, I'd have t'say my vote goes for this fucking monstrosity right here. Of course, there's also this piece of shit & uh...oh, yeah.

Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :

How about my 20 nacelled Galaxy bash?

[ June 21, 2002, 17:29: Message edited by: The BWC ]

Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :

quote:
Originally posted by The BWC:
How about my 20 nacelled Galaxy bash?

hehe max. speed: Warp 30 [Big Grin]

Posted by DeadCujo (Member # 13) on :

BWC's Galaxy kitbash. [Big Grin]

Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

(after looking at just one section of Starship Schematics Database)

USS Legion NCC-7000, Legion Class Air Carrier
Grace Mountain Class Exploration Carrier
Nimitz Class Heavy Carrier
USS Koratami NCC-9918, Koratami Class Shuttle Carrier

Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :

Khai Tam

Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :

quote:
Weapons that could vaporize a planet in a flash, and still have room to take on the entire Borg armada.

You're speaking of the Voyager, aren't you?

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

BWC! LOL! Love it! LOL!

You know you could make it a refit - and have Fourty Nacelles - like that first ship posted with a little nacelle on top of each big nacelle! LOL!

It looks like a Borg Transwarp Hub.

Andrew

Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :

The newst out of Starfleet! This baybee has 46 nacelles all powered by 1 micro 2 millocochrane warp core! She has a top speed of Warp 56.9990999999! She has 67 torpedoe tubes! This ship is the latest, most advanced! The CUP OF DENTIST CLASS!(Man I love Paint!)

PS: Andrew, you think too small. Make it 66. Two micro warp nacelles for each one and 3 for the top 2!

Posted by J (Member # 608) on :

Uh... I really really really really really hate a good portion of the RPG ships, usually those with super weapons, "kitbashes" of real ships, or those from FASA and LUG [or is it LUC? Last of the Unicorns something is all I know].

Posted by EdipisReks (Member # 510) on :

Last Unicorn Games, i believe.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that that third ship Shik posted actually looks reasonable, if it were from, say, the twenty-sixth century or something. Seriously, if something like that showed up actually onscreen, and it were supposed to be from somewhere between the TNG era and the Relativity era, I wouldn't have a problem w/ it. Aside from the fact that the side of the saucer looks like an Akira...

Posted by Harry (Member # 265) on :

Some more beauties:

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/cruiser_norway_proposed.jpg

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/lightcruiser_wellington.jpg (well, all the RPG shi(p/t)s from the TNG era is horrifying)

http://www.shipschematics.net/startrek/images/federation/dreadnaught_crackin.jpg

Posted by Reverend (Member # 335) on :

This could go on forever, there are literally thousands of lazy, unimaginative and downright silly fan designs out there.
For me though, the worst ones are those that consist of 3 pages of in-depth technical details, a single low resolution pencil sketch of the ship with a ridiculously elaborate name and an equally elaborate registry number.

What would be interesting, I think is a discussion about which is the BEST fan designed starship you've ever seen?

Posted by Wraith (Member # 779) on :

The best fan designs IMO are those at The Starfleet Museum and also the Akula/Akyazi/Arbiter Perimeter Action vessels.

Posted by Lobo (Member # 669) on :

Hmm best fan designed starship ever.
There are Bernds starships(*schleim* [Big Grin]

) http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/my_ships.htm
and some designs form the "Journal of Applied Treknology"
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/journal/starships1.htm
http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/journal/starships2.htm

Lobo

[ June 22, 2002, 06:30: Message edited by: Lobo ]

Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :

Harry's first pic - the top view looks like someone his holding their legs together while they are busting to go to the toilet.

The Third ship top view looks like it has a pair of saggy breasts! [Smile]

Posted by Vogon Poet (Member # 393) on :

Well, at least the Baywatch-class got a mention. 8)

Posted by The359 (Member # 37) on :

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewR:
Harry's first pic - the top view looks like someone his holding their legs together while they are busting to go to the toilet.

The Third ship top view looks like it has a pair of saggy breasts!

I worry about you... [Razz]

Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :

Any kind of kitbash that has parts from different eras. I really do not feel like looking through the millions of schematics at shipschematics.net right now. But half of them over there are like that.

That multi-nacelle Galaxy class isn't all that bad, not good, but damn funny looking.

Posted by The BWC (Member # 818) on :

(plotting next kitbash) Heh heh. I should have made more curvy pylons on the uber-Ambassador.

My Galaxy bash? Yeah. Wait until you see it from the side!