Worst fan-ships?

[stitch626]

While it is hideous, it is also different from anything we've seen.

[Mikey]

I can see the logic somewhat more with the side view, but it sure doesn't help aesthetically.

[Aaron]

I rather like it. Yeah it's butt ugly, but then so is the A-10.

[Nickswitz]

Yeah, I actually do like it, it's sort of interesting. And very different from what we usually see.

[Sionnach Glic]

It's not that bad, IMO.

[Reliant121]

While I am not really sure how well the vertical design integrates with Starfleet's design "philosophy", if I were to design a vertically orientated Fed ship, I couldnt do a better job than that. I think it looks rather good, even if it resembles a Sunfish with a frying pan on top.

[Mikey]

it resembles a Sunfish

*tries to repress memories of diving for the daggerboard*

[SomosFuga]

It would be good to see a side image.

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Thanks.
It's not THAT bad IMO, plus is nice to see something different.

[Graham Kennedy]

Hmm. Lateral target profile is far larger than before, for one thing. And your crew is going to spend far longer moving from deck to deck than they would in a sensible design. Big cost for a ship whose only real benefit is that it looks kind of interesting.

[Nickswitz]

One way I could see that as a nice idea, is if it had a large cargo hold down in the lower decks. It doesn't, but if it did the sensibleness of the design would increase at least a little bit, or if it was something like a drop ship, and it carried smaller ships or shuttles all in the bottom.

[Tyyr]

I'd like it if it had gone truly vertically oriented. Instead they just draw the secondary hull out vertically and keep a bog standard primary hull. The offset flying cross is not a pleasing form to look at.

[Lighthawk]

It looks like the bastard child of a galaxy class and starbase 74.

[Sonic Glitch]

While I am not really sure how well the vertical design integrates with Starfleet's design "philosophy", if I were to design a vertically orientated Fed ship, I couldnt do a better job than that. I think it looks rather good, even if it resembles a Sunfish with a frying pan on top.

If it were more inline with the established design asthetic then I'd have less of a problem. Someone mentioned vertically oriented SW ships before, I have no problem with those as those are an accepted part of the design ethic. We have never seen an (almost) purely vertical Fed Starship. I will admit, it looks less outrageous from the side.

Hmm. Lateral target profile is far larger than before, for one thing. And your crew is going to spend far longer moving from deck to deck than they would in a sensible design. Big cost for a ship whose only real benefit is that it looks kind of interesting.

Good point. I forget what the theory behind it was but it can be found on the JoAT in the "Recent submissions" category

[Tyyr]

The bigger pictures there let me take a look at the scale. most of that uhh... extension, is only about 15m wide. It's a tremendous extension of the shield bubble for not much usable space.

[Tyyr]

Ok, seriously. What standards are JoAT pretending it has?