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I may not know much about warp theory, but I do know the Nebula Class looks ridiculous.

Imagine the TNG opening but with the Nebula Class Enterprise D zooming across and also the theme is played on a tuba.

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[–] SARGE@startrek.website 30 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I fucking love all the kitbash ships and shuffled part ships.

Especially the ugly kitbashes.

I always thought the nebula class was neat. The mission pod is cool. Being able to swap out for combat or sensors or whatever else you need by heading to a space dock, pressing a few buttons and waiting for the worker bees to swap them out in half an hour or less (or your dilithium back)

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love the Nebula-class and I will stand with you against the slander in this comment section.

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 6 points 6 months ago

Some people make it obvious they never built model ships (possibly in bottles) when they were young.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Kitbashing is a time honored tradition. I just assumed everyone who works at Utopia Planitia really loved model making as kids.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

True, true.

But the Nebula Class looks like either a Galaxy Class assembled while drunk or they never unpacked it from its shipping configuration:

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Flat-packed starships

A study model prototype of the USS Excelsior with four warp nacelles.

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Did nobody else make ships in bottles when they were boys?

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I did sir

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I did. I really did.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

I was never a boy.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I feel like Mariner would say something like, "No, why would I waste time doing that when I could just replicate one?"

[–] YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

One or two. Had to stop when I became a girl though (for obvious reasons).

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

No, what were the reasons?

[–] Mwallerby@startrek.website 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

And of course if they'd given it saucer separation that wouldn't look even more goofy, nope, not at all

[–] teft@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Looks like ET.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

You look like ET

[–] Clepsydrae@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I opened the link on my phone and it scaled the images horizontally. Squart Class:

[–] SARGE@startrek.website 7 points 6 months ago

It looks like a real life version of a chibi version of the anime version of the enterprise D.

And I'm not sure how I feel that that's my first thought...

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There's a few other derpy ships. This ship in Prodigy is apparently Centaur Class. What is being done to it is probably for the best.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 14 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I realize the AI upscaler used here had a very bad case of pareidolia, but I, too, always thought the Klingon battle cruisers looked like derpy smiley emojis wearing sombreros:

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

When I see Voyager all I can see is :D in the deflector dish. Looks more like :0 at this angle, though.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

Janeway: “It’s right behind me, isn’t it?”

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I kind of.. want one.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wasn’t the inspiration for this also the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye since they’re meant to be science craft with large sensor arrays?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I have no idea, but that would definitely be plausible.

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I always thought so but can’t find where I may have read that from… maybe just an assumption I made because it looks like it and they are often used in science/sensor roles

[–] SzethFriendOfNimi@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Found it. The AWACS.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nebula_class_model

The design upgrades for the Nebula-class were done by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach and the model was built by Greg Jein. In Drexler's blog, Okuda elaborated further: "As so often happens with this kind of project, we didn't give Greg enough time to accomplish this, so we decided to retain the original scale of the Galaxy-class ship saucer. I suggested the original 'AWACS' pod in response to a producer's observation that the ship might otherwise appear unbalanced. Unfortunately, the AWACS pod didn't look as elegant as we had hoped in "The Wounded".

[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Pffft. Who needs an owners manual when you have red shirts to sacrifice while you learn?

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Red shirts are command by TNG era. It would be the gold shirts (engineering and ops) that would be sacrificed to the dark lord of starship construction.

[–] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thinking about it, I feel like having the nacelles as close to the middle of the ship might actually make more sense. If they're creating a warp bubble around them, it would be centred on the nacelle, so having it centrally placed would balance the 'amount' of warp bubble around the entire ship

[–] sundray@lemmus.org 2 points 6 months ago

The old school justification for ship designs having the nacelles far from crew-occupied parts of the ship was that they were powerfully dangerous. That really isn't a thing any more, which has freed the model designers to make some creative new shapes, which is pretty cool. (I still love the iconic old designs though.)