Well...
1>Original USS Enterprise from the original series. Sorry, but I actually like that 60s style design... the smoothness makes it look more modern,
IMHO, than all the jagged, bolted-together looking designs from the later series
2>Minbari War Crusier from Babylon 5. What a sleek, mean looking ship!
3>Klingon battlecruiser from original series... the proverbial 'enemy' ship
4>Romulan Warbird... for same reasons as my Mimbari choice...
My least favorite ships...
1>Battlestar Gallactica. Sorry, I know that a lot of you are fans, but that was the least inventive ship in history. If you're going to create a
straight forward ship with a traditional maritime style profile, why not make it more realistic like the Bab5 human cruisers. Either be inspirational
or realistic
2>Whitestar class from Bab5... while the main Mimbari cruiser is slick... its smaller companion is flat-out ugly
3>Viper fighter from Gallactica.. Again, I know a lot of you guys love that show, but the Viper was a cheap cross between an F-106 and the X-Wing from
Star Wars... even its paint job was copied from the XWing
4>Various 'alien of the week' ships that have been seen on ST:Voyager and 'Enterprise'. They all look like generic shoe boxes with rust stains.
At least early trek took the time to create distinctive ships for different alien groups
A ship I like but think it doesn't fit into its series: The 'Defiant' class from ST
S9. Yeah, it's really cool looking, but it doesn't fit the
treknobabble we're led to believe runs the technical side of the trek universe. It's much smaller than other federation ships but, somehow, manages
to outgun, outpower, and absorb more fire than all of them... while, all along, we've been assured that ships need big warp cores (and power
generation) to do all of this. The ship also moved trek battles away from the jousting battleship towards the dogfighting model... a move I didn't
like. In short, i just don't like the 'do all, be all' way the ship is portrayed. To compensate, the writers should have made it exceptionally
slow or incapable of doing any scientific research.