Do you prefer the hulking majesty of a Galaxy class, the sleek curves of an Intrepid class, the retro-futuristic Constitution or something else?
I’ve grown quite fond of the Danube class runabout. Small, agile, warp capable, and weapons. Most of the amenities of a larger ship in a smaller package. Where the large ships are like flying cities, the runabouts are more like space RVs and the quadrant their open road. There’s just something more personal about them that appeals to me.
Love the Excelsior, love the Intrepid, feel somewhat obligated to love the Constitution, and for a left field pick, remembee the Olympic class, Crusher’s ship from the future in All Good Things? ugly at a first glance but it quickly grew on me, I love the orb “saucer” section
I love the design of golden age scifi and I love how the constitution class is like the perfect bridge between sleek atomic era and whatever you want to call the more detailed aesthetic in the 70s.
The Pasteur’s spherical saucer section always made me think of the Discovery from Space Odyssey.