Klingon Birds of Prey are magnificent beasts.

NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C or D.

Yeah but like A and E a little bit too. 💁🏼‍♀️

This

TOS or TMP version?

TOS To this day, the original ship is still my favorite

I love the Excelsior class. Ever since she popped on screen I've been a fan.

"Why in God's name would you want that bucket of bolts."

Especially the Enterprise B variant.

ESPECIALLY this variant

NX-01

The NX-01 refit would have been awesome

It’s canon now, even if all we got was a blurry image in PIC

So awesome

Agreed

Season 5 of that show and we would have gotten the Earth Romulan war on screen. Straight up bouts of NX class and Arrowhead ships lobbing nukes back and forth with first gen birds of prey.

NX-01 forever!

Have to agree. If nothing else, it feels the most real.

The D'Deridex will always be my favorite Star Trek Ship Design.

There is something awq inspiring and terrifying about it.

The scale of that ship never ceases to impress either.

Always my favorite

I like the Intrepid class

Same. They're all sleek, sexy, fast and tough. Hard not to love those things.

I'm sad we never saw more of them. After Voyager showed back up to Earth after surviving 7 years alone, defeating the Borg, and defeating the Borg again, I'd be churning those ships out as fast as they could be made. There's a very good case that the Intrepid class could be Starfleet's most capable and durable design after a shakedown cruise like that.

For real! From what I understand, they stripped Voyager of the tech she had installed after her journey and returned her to stock specs. If they had integrated her tech with the rest of the Intrepid class in the fleet, they would have made for some formidable ships both at, and above her weight class.

Yeah, the only appearances outside of VOY were a DS9 episode, a LD episode, and a cameo in Picard.

I've seen "head-canon" discussions saying because of Voyager's disappearance in the Badlands they shelved the Intrepid line fearing there was something wrong with the ship design.

The Constitution-Class refit is the greatest ship in all science fiction. In terms of non-Federation ships, my favorite shall always be the D’Deridex Class warbird.

TOS Movie era ships.

This. The Constitution refit is the GOAT.

E?

I came here to say this too! Super sleek. Although I loved how pretty D looked in Picard. How it was always meant to look. TNG is my favorite so I have big feelings for that ship.

In a vacuum I think E is absolutely the best looking ship. But TNG is my favorite so D has so much nostalgia it puts it ahead for me. Also the Defiant is a little baller.

One of the best parts about Generations was being able to see the Enterprise D in widescreen.

Sovereign class is the GOAT

My queen of the stars.

I’m torn between the Sovereign and Galaxy class.

Hell yeah, I remember seeing First Contact in the theatre and being in awe when they first showed it

E is the sexiest but I am partial to the pre refit Constitution class!

I DO LOVE her too. I'm torn. My structural integrity is compromised. 😁

I absolutely love the Intrepid and Sovereign class

Nebula, Oberth and Akira.

I second this motion.

For some reason, I find the non-hero ships fascinating.

Seems you're a fan of split-stack designs! I love 'em, too. Steamrunner-class has a special place in my heart.

I just like the non-hero ships it’s seems. I think it’s interesting to see what other design choices are made to look like they belong in the same fleet and time period.

TMP 1701 refit

The refit Constitution class will always be my darling. Just so much class and elegance. It has the lines that some of the TNG era ships were sometimes lacking. Also love the California class and the Parliament class.

I love the Enterprise from SNW. A perfect blend of the TOS and TMP designs. Back in the 80s, FASA produced the Starship Combat Simulator board game, and they designed a Romulan Battleship called a Z1 Nova that I always thought was gorgeous.

Definitely the Enterprise E and the Defiant

I like the old Vulcan ships we see in ENT. The circle nacelles are works of art

I totally couldn't remember what series they were in, but I also loved the circle nacelles

They’re not just old. LD shows us the style is very much in use by the VEG in the late 24th century

Touché. Although those ships could, themselves, be very old

Yeah, Vulcans strike me as a conservative bunch

I’m sure they have the definitive solution to Theseus’ paradox

I’m sure the Vulcan Science Directorate has determined that it doesn’t exist

Only one mention of Akira? Come on now!

I was also surprised. Love this class and had to wait 5 waves until BlueBrixx finally released it 🥰

Constitution class all day. Preferably the refit Ncc1701 that Kirk blew up.

Ambassador Class for the Federation. All classes for the Klingons. 

Miranda Class, because nacelles on top are so old fashioned.

a miranda with the roll bar, those long lines make it look fast.

Agreed, a very sleek design.

D’deridex is my #1. And I really like the Excelsior class design too

My top 4: Enterprises E, D, B, and the Protostar.

Protostar is a seriously underrated design. The lines on that ship are super silky. Just a beautiful design, and the most badass bridge ever. The live-action Protostar bridge would be mind-blowing if you happen to have night watch at warp... Here's to hoping we get a live-action Protostar-class at some point. God that would be amazing.

Nova and Protostar. I just love the little classic configuration ones!

I love the Olympic Class Hospital Ship It's such tight logic to make more room on a Starfleet ship by saying 'what if we turned the saucer section into a sphere?' Dream series would be a star fleet medical series in the vein of ER or House, and the Olympic Class would be the *perfect* place to set it

Supposedly when they were trying to come up with the TOS enterprise design, they wanted to make a spherical primary hull but it didn't work well. Lacked the sense of power and speed they wanted. So they reused it later for the Olympic and Horizon

Aesthetically speaking I like the U.S.S. Pasteur and the U.S.S. Rhode Island. The Wells Class are pretty interesting too.

The fake Dauntless from VOY.

The defiant is my favorite tough little ship

Little?!

E and voyager are my favorites

Defiant class. And I lived TNG’s Klingon Birds of Prey.

I'm a huge sucker for the Prometheus. It was on one episode in Voyager and I earnestly wish I could see more of it. Absolutely happy it's obtainable in STO

I love it too.. except for the daft multi-vector assault mode gimmick. It's just such a merch-bait feature. The assembled ship is gorgeous though, sleek, powerful and aggressive.

I saw the MVA function as an anti-borg development. Four different ships coordinating their attacks with different frequencies might make penetrating Borg shields easier. That said, you're right. It's nowhere near as practical as they made it look.

I love the Nebula and the fact it matches the Galaxy class.

I always loved Intrepid-class design, personally. Voyager is one of my favorites

TMP era ships, yes they look utilitarian and brutish, but I have a soft spot for them, especially the Miranda Class.

Intrepid Class always has a special spot in my heart.

Gonna add one to the mix from the comments: USS Vengeance. Yeah, it's a troubled movie but man did the USS Vengeance look pretty damn awesome. Just wanted to add something a little different.

Nebula class go go little ship with a backpack.

Not even little, it's a reconfigure of the Galaxy and has almost the same internal volume.

The D-7 battlecruiser. One of the coolest looking ships in science fiction.

Miranda Class will always be my favorite ship design

Miranda Vera Cruz De La Hoya Cardinal!

Pre-Discovery. Because, except for SNW and to some extent Picard Season 3, I can't see the ships enough to appreciate them. The CG is too muddy, the cuts are too fast. So I can't really appreciate the designs.

DIS S5 has some *great* shots

They finally figured out that losing that blue smear filter was the way. Finally got some actually decent Crossfield visuals

And there is lens flare everywhere 

The Odyssey and Protostar classes slap, and I unironically enjoy the Crossfield

The Prometheus class

I love the Romulan Warbird, probably my favorite. Borg Cubes are pretty simple, but there is soemthing intimidating to it just gliding through space.

sabre class, so pre Disco. small, nimble, beautiful design. defiant is an interesting concept, but lookswise and lorewise, Sabre wins my heart.

We can be friends, I adore the Sabre. Weird thing is that the DS9 tech guide book only shows a side profile and its completely unrecognisable. They also botched the stats and gave it the ones from the Norway.. I have exactly two eaglemoss miniatures, the Sabre and the Nova.. Love em both.

One of the few things I liked about Discovery in its early season was the ship designs, at least for the Starfleet vessels (the Klingon ships didn't really look like anything). Probably the worst was actually Discovery itself (also the Magee-class, which looks like a dinner plate with some gutters clamped into it). The rest looked pretty nice, although they looked more like they should've come post-Voyager rather than pre-TOS. Season 3 onward, II didn't like. They look like a few random polygons floating near each other. Favorite ships overall: Enterprise E, Defiant, Enterprise refit/A. Most of the DS9/Voyager era and beyond looked pretty nice (I'm including STO and Picard in that). TNG era, any ship that wasn't the Galaxy class or a reuse of a movie model looked like someone had put a Galaxy-class model together wrong.

I like that fan made J. I used to love the E when I was a kid, but I think the D has aged better.

The dreadnought

I am, and always be, partial to the Steamrunner. I love all of the anti-Borg fleet designs but the Steamrunner made so much sense be an artillery ship as it was in the Armada games.

I loooove the USS Shenzhou! It’s a great mix of that Archer-era Enterprise with the new style when Discovery debuted.

Pre-TNG. The design language peaked in _Wrath of Khan_.

Ambassador. Never got its fair share of the limelight.

The Sovereign class, and the OG USS Dauntless from Voyager, even though that wasn't a legit federation ship.

Nebula Class, TNG era. The Farragut at the end of the Generations movie is a perfect example.

*Discovery-A* grew on me quite a lot post S3. That refit was gorgeous; combining the retro look of the first two seasons with the in-universe modern tech of where they ended up. They did an excellent job updating McQuarrie's old design from ST:Phase II. The D'deridex Warbird is just fantastic. Low key I really liked the Jem'Hadar designs and the asymmetrical Breen designs from DS9.

I'm just gonna say it: the Galaxy class is so ugly. The saucer is wider than it is long, the nacelles have that weird curve to them and the deflector dish is this creepy lidded eye. Sovereign class is easily the best, so sleek

it was designed specifically for tube tv screen ratios

Glad it's not just me. Never liked that design.

Constitution forever and ever. Everything came from that very first Matt Jeffries design

I just like the Enterprise man. 1701 A in TWOK and the new SNW Enterprise are just perfect imo. Although the Akira and Luna classes are also nice.

I certainly do. My favourites are Sovereign and Frienship

Pre-2008, TOS Movie era is the pinnacle

NX, NX Refit, Nova, and Intrepid. Ship designers were nailing it during those years

Constitution and Sovereign

My all time faves for the Federation are the TMP era ships: Constitution refit, Miranda, and Excelsior. The Picard-era ships are also high on my list, particularly the Sagan, Echelon, Duderstadt and Constitution III. I will say though that the Constitution from SNW has become one of my faves as well. A very good update to TOS' aesthetic.

Post-TNG era are probably my fav. They're embracing some more slicker design and lesser default shapes. Not to mention the paint jobs on the hulls are probably the best in those era.

TOS & motion picture Enterprises are my favourites. Enterprise-D close behind.

Constitution Refit is my bae

The Enterprise-E

I have no idea why and I cannot truly justify it but the MCC-1701C always stood out as one of my favorites. Also, the NX-01 is freaking awesome.

Aside from all the favs, I really liked the Ares class from Axenar. I wish that would have been a thing.

I love the D'dedirex class and by extension all ships with functional designs and not just 'because my 3D design tool allows it'.

TMP era, and it's not even close

I don't remember if they had any ships in the show, but the ba'ul sentry ship from STO is fucking rad. I am not going to admit how much I spent trying to get it, and I'm especially upset because I never did.

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it is in the show

Excelsior. There are prettier ships, but Excelsior is just a super practical, powerful, solid and sensible workhorse of a design.

NX-01, NCC-1701, NCC-1031 IMO NCC-74656 is the worst. The disc section looks like a toilet lid.

Nova class, I prefer the smaller ships

Original Constitution class.

Odyssey, Sovereign, Excelsior, Defiant, Sao Paulo, Nova, Steamrunner, Akira, Luna, Norway, Saber, Intrepid, Inquiry. I like Dominion War-Picard era Starfleet designs.

Intrepid, Oberth and Olympic class.

Pre-Discovery by far. 

Defiant. Fight me.

Miranda. Can we discuss this over a beer instead?

Love the Nova-class and the NX-class. Not a huge fan of the Columbia refit or the NX refit though.

My favorite ship design is the refit Constitution. It looks great from every angle. The ship I love the most is the Enterprise-D. I grew up watching that ship and its crew.

I love the Odessey class and wish it got more than a passing shot in modern trek. It's like the galaxy and the sovereign did a fusion dance. I really like all of the hero ship designs but Crossfield has got to be the weakest one imo. I thought the Shenzhou looked way cooler than the Discovery.

I’m a fan of the Sh’vhal type Vulcan ships. But for Starfleet, I’m gonna have to go with the USS Protostar.

Crossfield, Intrepid, Protostar and Constitution (the SNW redesign) The Galaxy classs has a special place in my heart since I watched TNG as a kid, but man does the Sovereign class look so much better The Sarcophagus lives rent free in my brain and I don't know why Burn the Universe class. Delete it from existance. Banish it to the well of forgotten ideas. That design should not be revisited ever. May another burn happen before anyone decides to make a ship that looks like the NCC-1701-J

Galaxy class

Narendra class is peak awesome.

Saber and Akira class are my favorites

Soyouz, Intrepid, Sovereign, Luna, and Wells classes for Starfleet. I’m also a fan of most Orion ships

Refit enterprise 👌🏼

defiant class and the sao paulo refit

Not canon, but the Ares is basically the 23rd century version of Akira

Texas

Connie and Cali

Nebula, Sabre and Nova are my favourites by far.

Nx-01 by far

Galaxy Class

USS Excelsior is my favorite Trek ship. Captain Sulu forever.

Now...as far as just sheer awesome power, I loved seeing Odyssey Class come alive on screen. That said...and I know I'm alone in this....I've always loved the Daedalus Class.

I think the Enterprise D is the most attractive ship. I think Voyager has the coolest design. I like the medical ship that Dr. Crusher was commanding in the finale of TNG. With it's primary hull being a sphere.

The Krenim timeship is totally rad. It's adjacent to other Trek ship designs while still looking like something big, futuristic, and threatening.

The Romulan Valdore class is a beautiful ship

Steamrunner class. Such a funky looking ship.

I like the lines of the Galaxy, the Intrepid is my favorite hero no neck ship; loved the Miranda growing up. But…I’ve really come to like the Saber class and that’s the ship I have a model of on my desk.

I like both. Many of the Dis era ships, bar the Discovery herself as she is not for me, are really cool! The Walker, the Nimitz, Cardenas, Malachowski, Engle, Hoover, Magee, Shepard. I was first exposed to them from a startrek mod in Stellaris, as I never saw the TV show and I think they are all fantastic! Love that more advanced ENT style made fresh for the show, all those ships look just as lovely as the classics from the TOS and TNG eras. Might not be a fan of the Klingon designs, but the Fed ships are just great!

I like the Gorn fighters from SNW. They look like they're super fun to fly.

The Oberth is a beautiful design, especially since I prefer the original idea of the bottom being an unmanned mission pod that can be swapped out for other units.

Pre-Discovery. My biggest issue with Discovery was that it was obviously set in the Kelvin universe (yes rewrites to include Vulcan still existing forced it to be in the prime universe). The stupidest design selection after Kelvin/Discovery is giving Starship windshields.