posted June 21, 2002 08:41 AM
[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.
posted June 21, 2002 08:42 AM
Most of them. This thread should get real big, real fast.
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posted June 21, 2002 08:51 AM
Where do I start with this one?
EDIT: The Voyager A, BTW.
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Shik
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posted June 21, 2002 09:11 AM
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.
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posted June 21, 2002 12:27 PM
BWC's Galaxy kitbash.
-------------------- Picard: Mr. Crusher, what's our maximum speed this week? Wesley: [checking manual] Uh, 9.4, sir. Picard: Very good. Take us to Warp 9.8 then. Wesley: Aye, sir. Warp 9.2 it is.
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posted June 21, 2002 01:52 PM
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!
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posted June 21, 2002 04:39 PM
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].
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posted June 21, 2002 06:23 PM
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...
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