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CaptainCrunch · 10-04-2025, 07:30 PM

3) Star Trek Franchise

I do think that with the exception of the Enterprise Sovereign Class that the best designed ships in the Star Trek Franchise happened in the original series or the original franchise movies.

I was never a fan of the Galaxy Class Enterprise, the defiant was generic, Voyager was an ok ship design, but nothing special Discovery was as ugly as it gets. But give me the original Enterprise of the Refit Enterprise from STMP and I'm happy.

But the best designed ships, or coolest looking ships belong to the age old enemy of the Federation. The D-7 or K'Tinga Class is just a great looking war ship. The Bird of Prey is one of my favorite ship of all time.

Enterprise A

Enterprise E

K-Tinga (D7)

Bird of Prey

Star Wars

You can say a lot of things about George Lucas, that he can't write dialogue, or sometimes his stories are a stretch. But everything in Star Wars tells a story and adds to the Lore.

Take ship design. In the Original trilogy, ships were pretty color less, or even worn out telling a story of a militant society that's in a oppressive and uncaring state. In the Prequel Trilogy, we have sleek shiny chromed ships that harken back to the 1950's serials. The Republic War Ships had color schemes and the Droid army ships looked like brutish machines of war. We saw where that has fallen apart under Disney when the Sequels just ripped off the original trilogy designs and the TV series didn't do anything innovated.

While ships like the Millenium Falcon went against classic balanced ship designs, the Empire was the opposite and George made the Star Destroyers that looked like oppressive engines. The unshielded Tie Fighters were a different and neat design built to attack in swarms with disposable pilots. On the Rebels side their ships had a begged borrowed and stolen design. The Y-Wings looked like disposed of fighters that were assembled in a garage. The sleek X-Wings still had a batterred look to them. Even when you watched the PT, you could see the evolution of ship designs that were to come as the galaxy fell into darkness.

Imperial Class Star Destroyer

Venator Star Destroyer

Tie Fighter

Y-Wing

BattleStar Galactica Franchise

I'm counting the original franchise and the 2000's reboot. But the ship design by Glenn Larson was breathtakingly great. Though I prefer the design of the original BattleStar to the reboot for esthetics reasons. The reboot BattleStar looks old, battered a ship of the line that had fallen into disrepair and was ready for an honorable retirement before being called back into one more war. I preferred the original base stars to the twinkies style base stars. But the best designs are the Viper and the Original Cylon Raider instead of the bat wing Raiders of the reboot.

The ships of BattleStar made sense, The Vipers were high speed highly maneuverable fighters with the Maverick Button ("I'm going to hit the brakes and he'll fly right by me" Button). The Cylon Raiders looked like a heavy brawler, where its Cylon pilots were more then happy to ram an enemy for maximum damage. You can even reserve love for the ships of the Rag Tag Fleet whether it was space moving vans or oil tankers or garden ships.

BattleStar Galactica

Cylon Basestar

Colonial Viper

Cylon Raider

What are some of your favorite franchise ship designs?

10-04-2025, 07:30 PM	#15
CaptainCrunch Norm! Join Date: Jun 2002 Exp:	3) Star Trek Franchise I do think that with the exception of the Enterprise Sovereign Class that the best designed ships in the Star Trek Franchise happened in the original series or the original franchise movies. I was never a fan of the Galaxy Class Enterprise, the defiant was generic, Voyager was an ok ship design, but nothing special Discovery was as ugly as it gets. But give me the original Enterprise of the Refit Enterprise from STMP and I'm happy. But the best designed ships, or coolest looking ships belong to the age old enemy of the Federation. The D-7 or K'Tinga Class is just a great looking war ship. The Bird of Prey is one of my favorite ship of all time. Enterprise A Enterprise E K-Tinga (D7) Bird of Prey Star Wars You can say a lot of things about George Lucas, that he can't write dialogue, or sometimes his stories are a stretch. But everything in Star Wars tells a story and adds to the Lore. Take ship design. In the Original trilogy, ships were pretty color less, or even worn out telling a story of a militant society that's in a oppressive and uncaring state. In the Prequel Trilogy, we have sleek shiny chromed ships that harken back to the 1950's serials. The Republic War Ships had color schemes and the Droid army ships looked like brutish machines of war. We saw where that has fallen apart under Disney when the Sequels just ripped off the original trilogy designs and the TV series didn't do anything innovated. While ships like the Millenium Falcon went against classic balanced ship designs, the Empire was the opposite and George made the Star Destroyers that looked like oppressive engines. The unshielded Tie Fighters were a different and neat design built to attack in swarms with disposable pilots. On the Rebels side their ships had a begged borrowed and stolen design. The Y-Wings looked like disposed of fighters that were assembled in a garage. The sleek X-Wings still had a batterred look to them. Even when you watched the PT, you could see the evolution of ship designs that were to come as the galaxy fell into darkness. Imperial Class Star Destroyer Venator Star Destroyer Tie Fighter Y-Wing BattleStar Galactica Franchise I'm counting the original franchise and the 2000's reboot. But the ship design by Glenn Larson was breathtakingly great. Though I prefer the design of the original BattleStar to the reboot for esthetics reasons. The reboot BattleStar looks old, battered a ship of the line that had fallen into disrepair and was ready for an honorable retirement before being called back into one more war. I preferred the original base stars to the twinkies style base stars. But the best designs are the Viper and the Original Cylon Raider instead of the bat wing Raiders of the reboot. The ships of BattleStar made sense, The Vipers were high speed highly maneuverable fighters with the Maverick Button ("I'm going to hit the brakes and he'll fly right by me" Button). The Cylon Raiders looked like a heavy brawler, where its Cylon pilots were more then happy to ram an enemy for maximum damage. You can even reserve love for the ships of the Rag Tag Fleet whether it was space moving vans or oil tankers or garden ships. BattleStar Galactica Cylon Basestar Colonial Viper Cylon Raider What are some of your favorite franchise ship designs? __________________ My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Last edited by CaptainCrunch; 10-04-2025 at 07:35 PM.