Nailed It!

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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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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- I love the Nebula-class and I will stand with you against the slander in this comment section.
  
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  Some people make it obvious they never built model ships (possibly in bottles) when they were young.
  
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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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- True, true.
  
  But the Nebula Class looks like either a Galaxy Class assembled while drunk or they never unpacked it from its shipping configuration:
  
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  Flat-packed starships
  
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- Did nobody else make ships in bottles when they were boys?
  
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  I did sir
  
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  I was never a boy.
  
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  I feel like Mariner would say something like, "No, why would I waste time doing that when I could just replicate one?"
  
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  One or two. Had to stop when I became a girl though (for obvious reasons).
  
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And of course if they'd given it saucer separation that wouldn't look even more goofy, nope, not at all

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- Looks like ET.
  
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  You look like ET
  
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I opened the link on my phone and it scaled the images horizontally. Squart Class:

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- 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 realize the AI upscaler used here had a very bad case of pareidolia, but I, too, always thought the Klingon battle cruisers looked like derpy smiley emojis wearing sombreros:
  
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  When I see Voyager all I can see is :D in the deflector dish. Looks more like :0 at this angle, though.
  
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  Janeway: “It’s right behind me, isn’t it?”
  
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  I kind of.. want one.
  
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Wasn’t the inspiration for this also the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye since they’re meant to be science craft with large sensor arrays?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_E-2_Hawkeye

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- I have no idea, but that would definitely be plausible.
  
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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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Pffft. Who needs an owners manual when you have red shirts to sacrifice while you learn?

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- Red shirts are command by TNG era. It would be the gold shirts (engineering and ops) that would be sacrificed to the dark lord of starship construction.
  
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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.)
  
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