Worst ship design in sci-fi?

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 2:54 pm

Oh, I agree with you that it is a stupid design.
But it is still infinately cooler than anything from the TNG+ period.

Ozymandias · Post by **Ozymandias** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:34 pm

I've always disliked the look of the Ori motherships in Stargate.

Granitehewer · Post by **Granitehewer** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 3:40 pm

The Ori and their ships and orators/pariahs, whatever they were called were a big let down to me too!
Re: the Constitution, i wasn't a fan because like the 'Balance of Terror' Rommie BoP, the Constitution seemed a little spartan, but i have grown to like its minimalist aircraft carrier aesthetics since watching ENT 'In a Mirror, Darkly'
I love the Hat'aks from SG-1 but think they were overused, eg Lucien Alliance etc

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 3:53 am

I also dislike the Andromeda Ascendant. Actually, I think it's beautiful, but for a ship of the Guard, it looks about as sturdy as a mayfly.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:22 am

Mikey wrote:I also dislike the Andromeda Ascendant. Actually, I think it's beautiful, but for a ship of the Guard, it looks about as sturdy as a mayfly.

To be fair it was a huge ship(over 1300 meters long) with a skeleton crew. It was hadly operating at optimal levels.

Post by **Graham Kennedy** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:48 am

Any kitbashed ship.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:03 am

I'm with Graham on that. Show some freaking originality, for Creations sake. Kitbashing looks like crap. Why not just throw in a bunch of existing classes as wreckage? If you need more burning debris, make it something recognizable. There seem to be about a million Miranda and Excelsior-class ships, right?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:45 am

Kitbahes thirded. I also didn't like the new Galactica at first - it didn't look as solid as the old one, but I must admit it's grown on me. Particularly with the Adama Manoeuvre.

As for worst ship - I think I've expressed my opinion on the Promtheus almost as often as Rochey's expressed his on the Galaxy.

Post by **Teaos** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:14 am

Nebula is Kit bash and I really like it.

Post by **Tsukiyumi** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:19 am

I don't know... I don't really consider the Nebula a kitbashed design. More like a variant, using some of the same technology for a different purpose. I would rather command a Nebula than a Galaxy, personally. More manuverability, more flexibility; really, it is a better ship. Who gives a crap if it can't saucer-seperate?

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 11:33 am

The Nebula isn't so much a kitbash as a Galaxy designed by someone with a brain. The saucer and nacelles may be the same basic design, but there are a lot of differences in the engineering hull plus, of course, the pod pylon. Kitbashes are when you take various randomly scaled Airfix models and glue them together. That God-awful Intrepid/Maquis raider/runabout cross for example.

Blackstar the Chakat · Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:16 pm

The totally random kitbashes are pretty bad, but I remeber finding a fan site a few years back where he technically created Kitbash ships, but they looked like ligit ships. They were built right, unlike those horrible kitbashes from the series.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:29 pm

The Taidan mothership in Homeworld is pretty ugly. Just a big floating box.

Post by **Mikey** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:48 pm

ChakatBlackstar wrote:To be fair it was a huge ship(over 1300 meters long) with a skeleton crew. It was hadly operating at optimal levels.

I understand that - I just mean that it looks fragile. It's too pretty to be a ship of the Guard.

kostmayer · Post by **kostmayer** » Mon Oct 15, 2007 9:52 pm

Teaos wrote:Nebula is Kit bash and I really like it.

I like the Nebula too. I'd love to see one fitted with the big big laser that the Future Enterprise D had in 'All Good Things'

Maybe one of you talented design peeps could knock up a sketch or too...