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Most of the fan stuff at starshipschematics.net is far worse. Obvious, mis-scaled kitbashes of...everything.
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My least favorite once i thought about it was the oberth - the way the secondary hull thing doesn't realy work, and of course the fact that it's got more scaling issues than the defiant.
That aside, it looks realy good as a smaller contempory of the connie (except for the fact it's looks newer than the E-nil with a much lower registry).
Mind you, the Yeager kit bash was one hell of a munter. A ship for radio IMHO.
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We don't know that the Oberth is newer than the E-nil. It looks newer, but so does the NXerprise. Maybe the Oberth had an Andorian designer on the team.
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There's nothing stopping it from ALSO being a refit. Maybe one of the first to be refitted paving the way for the refitting of the Miranda's and the remaining Connies.
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Ug. I hate the notion that the Miranda or Oberth would be refits- it's like saying that starfleet ran out of ideas post TOS and just rebuilt all their old ships instead of adding new designs...
Bad enough the Connie Refit is so implausible- what's left of the original ship? A lone bolt in the center of the ship with a dedication plaque under it, probably.
For least-favorite, I'll go with the Raven. It's supposed to be at least 20 years before TNG, but looks like a giant, more advanced Runabout- that can be run wit a crew of two! Really blah design too.
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...Also remember that a J class freighter which in the early 22nd century took an entire clan to run was operated by a single man in TOS. Apparently, rigging a starship for two trainees and a Monkee ain't that much of an engineering feat after all.
My favorite so far: tie between Constellation and Steamrunner. Yeah, I like Industrial Ugly. Which is I've never warmed to the streamlined final version of the Intrepid class. Sternbach's penultimate design should have been kept...
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Least favorite would have to be whichever one of the DS9 kitbashes used part of an f-14 tomcat model in its design. I liked the Excelsior variant whose name escapes me at the moment. And I even like the Yeager Class if I can pretend the part that's a Maquis Raider hull actually looks a little different so as to work with the rest of the ship.
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There were only three Excelsior based kitbashes. One is the three nacelled double saucer sans secondary hull which no one can tell which side is up and is unnamed. Another is the Centaur, and the last one are the Curry/Raging Queen variants.
The Intrepid/Voyager based bashes were the Elkins and the Yeager.
The last one is a Constitution/E-nil refit bash that was also unnamed.
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Curry = Me liking Centaur = Me liking Medusa (three nacelled Excelsior thing) = Me not liking Elkins = Me really not liking Yeager = Me liking through beer goggles
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The "refried Connie bash" was just the saucer, neck, short nacelle pylons, and upside down nacelles that were about level to the torpedo launchers.
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The Defiant-class has always been my favorite.
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: I call it Faux English.
Least favorite would have to be whichever one of the DS9 kitbashes used part of an f-14 tomcat model in its design.
You're thinking of the bueatiful, bueatiful USS Elkins.
Sooo much nicer than the Yeager (which looks like two ships crashed into each other).
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