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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    2 months ago

    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)

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    2 months ago

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

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      2 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…

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    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.

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        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

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        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”.

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    2 months ago

    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

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      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.)