The best/awful looking ship in STO

apulse

A bit of a fun thread,your own taste on what ships that you think looks best and the one you think look like a trainwreck.

Mine are in the same category and that is Assault Cruiser line.

Best looking
Sovereign class - Always loved the look of this ship since I first saw it in First contact. That STO had it made the game more playable during the horrible launch.

Awful looking
This was a tough one, but after much consideration, I must place Imperial class of the Assault Cruiser line here, it is.. I don't know what it is, looks like something Mars made in a week of old starships, it has no fine lines, it is just.. a work of "art" perhaps?

lingeringsoul888

Fed side - the prettiest so far is a tie between the Guardian Cruiser and the Odyssey. Pure charisma.

Ugliest - I think there was one variant of the galaxy that had the most TRIBBLE looking combination of parts put together. maybe it's the monarch I can't remember.

sennahcherib

best looking:

romulan aehlah

awful looking (the choice is huge):

all the romulan pilot ships

lingeringsoul888

rom - prettiest looking ship: ALL OF THEM!!!!!!! I love all the romulan ship design......it's like a new species of bird every time. Pity i don't main romulan......it would take far to much time and effort to collect all the ships.

sennahcherib

Not going to be a popular opinion, but nonetheless.... the Scimitar.

oh! yes I had forgotten this TRIBBLE. Like the rom pilot ships are the children of the scimitar, then i hate all this familly. they are really really awful

ryugasirius

Best looking... well, not a popular one, but I like the looks of the Eclypse as well as its performance.

There are many ugly ships, I hate Nausicaan and Breen ships (personal taste), but if we talk about "badly designed" ships, i'd say the romulan pilot ships are pretty unimpressive...

sunfrancks

Prettiest: Galaxy-X with her new updated skin.

Ugliest. The new Carrier, whether it is Alpha or Omega, they are both ugly.

xyquarze

It is of course different for the many factions with all their different designs, so I'll split it up a little. And of course I do not have them all before my mental eye, so I might be missing out.

Fed Best: I think I'll go with the Guardian as well, taking the iconic elements of Fed ships and meshing them together smoothly. Caitian Atrox is nice as well, and I like the bare mid-saucer section of the Scryer, but it is not round enough, feels like too few polygons. Also, the Vesta variations are still sleek.

Fed Worst: The Oberth. In canon it didn't look half bad, but in STO it just feels off. Maybe because it aged worse? Not a big fan of the Dauntless either.

KDF Best: I really think the Dyson with a KDF skin is great, but not a real KDF ship. I am also partial to the Gorn (Varanus et al) and Nausicaan (Scourge) design styles, but let's stick Klink and I'll put the Negh'Var

KDF Worst: Almost all of the T6 cruisers qualify in my opinion. I'll say the An'quat

Rom Best: Aelahl for me as well, it narrowly edges out the D'deridex. Similar elements but so much sleeker. Of course the D'deri has the nicer face.

Rom Worst: Hands down the Scimitar for me as well. It looks somewhat nice when selecting your captain (yes, I have one) but in Game it's just meh.

Others Best: Not really in love with any I've seen so far. Some are too outlandish, so even if I do like them they don't get the same feeling (Sarr Theln, Benthan Assault Cruiser). I think I'll vote the Sheshar, but with the reservations that it won't make any top 5 list on any of the three main factions for me.

Others Worst: No contest, the Malon battleship. Bad enough in the series, it doesn't get better in the game.

johnwatson71

I only play Fed, so I can only give an opinion on fed ships:

Best Looking: Oddyssey, Multi-Mission line, Regent Class

Worst looking: Imperial Class, Saber Class, Constellation, Excelsior (i know sorry, but I can't stand the way it looks, the T6 one though is very nice looking)

hravik

I'd say the Fed intel ships are some heavy contenders for ugliest.

sunfrancks wrote: »

Ugliest. The new Carrier, whether it is Alpha or Omega, they are both ugly.

I think they all looked ugly. Not a passable one in the whole lot.

kamiyama317

I always liked the Horizon class Research Science Vessel. The spherical shield is awesome. Especially when you put something on it that turns the shield a different color, like the reman shield.

I think the Arbiter Battlecruiser looks the worst. The saucer isn't perfectly round - it has points on the sides and looks weird. It also seems like someone took a huge rolling pin to the entire ship and rolled it as flat as a pancake. When you hear the word "Battlecruiser" you think BIG. But there's no depth to the ship...

coupaholic

Best designs go to the Breen ships. A proper space ship doesn't need wings, symmetry or any of that pretty nonsense. Asymmetric vessels always look built for purpose so I naturally prefer them.

As for worse design? Well it's a personal taste thing so I'd argue there is no 'bad' design in the game...but I hate the Galaxy. Always have, always will. The fat saucer just looks so stupid, like it flew too fast into a wall and got squashed.​​

xyquarze

kamiyama317 wrote: »

I always liked the Horizon class Research Science Vessel. The spherical shield is awesome. Especially when you put something on it that turns the shield a different color, like the reman shield.

Oh yes, forgot that one. Some cool designs there, also in the variations. Even if it makes no sense whatsoever.

lopequil

Look below, although the Korath is a little prettier.

tinkerstorm

Best looking is my kit-bashed Star Cruiser. Worst looking, as everyone knows, is the Galbatross and any Galbatross derivative. Klingon and Romulan ships are neither here nor there.

artan42

From the Cryptic originals:

Starfleet
Best: Odyssey
Worst: Olympic (it looks nothing like the canon model)

KDF
Best: Vor'Kang / Dyson Destroyers / Qu'Daj (all in the Type 3 hull material)
Worst: An'quat

RR:
Best: All but the ones below
Worst: The Haakona (its wings are just too big and to highly angled) and the Dhelan / Dhael (not terrible, just not fantastic)

The Romulans are really well served with nice looking ships. The Klingons need a refit of a few more so they can all use the Type 3 material (Vo'quv / VoD'leh, Hegh'ta / Haj, K’Tanco, Somraw, and Kamarag / K’Maj) and then all of their ships (save for the unsavable An'quat) will look bloody nice.
The Federation has too many ships with meaningless spikes, angles, and odd shapes (Avenger, the Lunas, Magellan etc.) or really odd, bloated, oversized, or misshapen parts (Vespa, Excalibur, Celestial, Envoy, Majestic, Zephyr, Oslo, Comet, Polaris, Sol, Rapier, Ushaan, Cochrane, Discovery, Aurora, and Quasar)​​

goodscotch

Great thread! I can't comment on Federation and Romulan ships because I don't play them much.

Best: Vor'cha and K'tinga Battlecruisers. Honorable mention for the Qui'tu Pilot Raptor which reminds me of the SR-71 Blackbird. If the impulse engines in the rear were done better, this would have taken first place.

Worst: It's a toss up between the Qib and the K'tinga refit. Fuggly!

dragnridr

I'm gonna get hate, but:

Best looking-
Romulan- T'Varo
Feds- Phantom Intel Escort
KDF- Toughie........Qib

Worst-
Romulan- D'Deridex
Fed- Galaxy (All Variants)
KDF- Bird of Prey

duncanidaho11

Best: Exeter (C-store Connie). Never used it but I've always been tempted to just for the look (independent of where it falls in ST canon.) It's a very nice, well balanced ship (whose only failing is the fact that it's shackled to the fate of the Constitution class.)

Worst: Majestic. Never again.

tinyfisted

Solely in terms of looks.

Fed.
Best: Aventine, hands down. (Although Oddy has, by far, the best looking bridge, approached only by the Belfast bridge.)
Worst: Hmm... It'll be one of the command cruisers. I really don't like the nacelle arrangement aesthetics.

KDF:
Best: Hmm, I'm rather fond of the B'Rolth and the Ning'tao, but I think I have to give it to the Qui'Tu pilot raptor.
Worst: Kar'Fi battle carrier.

Rommy:
Best: Hmm. The Aelahl, I think.
Worst: The Mogai, followed very closely by the T'varo.

mrsmitty81

Best : Defiant class (simple and beautiful) Runner up Sovereign Class
Worst : Vaadwaur Astika

protogoth

Best-Looking: Tie between
(RRF) Baratan Operations Command Warbird, Deihu Science Command Warbird, Daeinos/Dinaes, "Faeht" (recte: Faehht), all Pilot Warbirds, T'varo, and T'liss. (Edit: Add Haakona/Kara to this tie.)
(KDF) D7, B'rel, and Qib
(Fed) D'Kyr, Scryer, Phantom, Yamato, and Constitution.
(Factionless): Xindi-Insectoid Olaen Heavy Escort Carrier

Worst-Looking: D'deridex, no contest, no competition.

Also, I think the Pilot Warbirds are very nice-looking, and do not understand all the hate I've seen people express about them. The Fed Pilot Ships, yes, are kind of drab, but the Pilot Warbirds look good.

sennahcherib

why all the hate against the rom pilot ships? look at them. they are totally ugly, it is a 2 hours job (in a 3d modeller).

the shapes lack of details, the wings seem made with paper. i read somewhere origami ships.
even the faeht could have been better (even if I like this ship), the neck is too short and the hull is too thick. the t'varo is a good example of a ship with nice proportions

devs can do a better job, the aehlah is the proof.

makocalloway

Best: Odyssey

Worst: Scryer

storules

Best looking:
Fed Side: Defiant


and Voyager like ships





Boxed: Any of the Temporal ships and of course the jewel of all time: JHAS T5 or T6




Awful looking:

Box ship: Elachi Sheshar...just so fgly
Fed not in box ship: Any saucer like ship...Oddy, Sovereign class, Galaxy, Andromeda look alikes...uhhggh ​​

alfred399

For me it has to be:

FED
Best - Sovereign. Always loved that ship from the moment I first saw her on the cinema screen in First Contact, I was a very happy boy when I first got it in game. Cryptic, hurry the smeg up and get a T6 version in game!

Worst - quite a few to choose from here, but I'm going to go with the Eclipse. Not only ugly, but also has no similarities at all with established Starfleet design.

KDF
Best - toss up between Negh'Var and Kamarag. Since I don't have the Negh'Var guess I'll say the Kamarag

Worst - The command cruisers. Just plain horrible!

ROM
Best - Mogai. Again, always loved the design right from the moment the Valdore first appeared in Nemesis (the Valdore being one of the very few redeeming features of that movie IMO)

Worst - Unpopular choice perhaps but the D'Deridex. Was never a fan of that design.

Honourable mentions also to the Narcine, Mobius/Wells and the new Kara Dread/Ha'apax

davefenestrator

After a year I still dislike the look of the Phantom intel escort. I've eventually gotten used to the Eclipse cruiser and almost like the Scryer, but the Phantom is a stubby runt by default and a pointy mess with the long nacelles.

tolmarius

Worst: Older Fed Ships, like the Galaxy, Excelsior, etc. and the Klingon CBCs.

Best: Newer Fed and Romulan ships in general, but particularly the Scryer, Avenger, Aelahl, and Faeht. Also the Qib.

In general, a lot of the KDF ships look meh to me. Too much clutter and odd angles. The newer Fed ships look pretty great across the board, and I wish nothing more than for the Romulans to lose the pointless massive wings and go back to the double hull seen on the D'deridex, Aelahl, and (just a him) Faeht.

messahla

Best Looking : D'Deridex

Ugliest : Theres just to many ugly things in the klingon enpire from the klingons themselves to their city not to mention their ships all ugly and they smell badly ...do klingons even bath?

Remember to spay and nueter your federation ships to help prevent federation ship overpopulation

vengefuldjinn

Okay so,
>For best, I'm gonna have to agree with an earlier poster with the Hestia class, that ship and the Pathfinder Intrepid variant are pure beauties IMO. Very much modern trek style to me.
I also like the Odyssey very much and the work on the galaxy and galaxy x and Intrepid was first rate.
I like most of the variants of the Akira too, especially the last one.
And I love the Guardian class.

I love the Romulan Command variants as well.


>The ships I don't like are:
The Galaxy variants - Celestial class and I particularly HATE the Envoy class. In my opinion the Envoy should be taken OUT OF THE GAME it's so fugly.
The Imperial and the Noble classes aren't that nice too look at either.
I am NOT a fan of the new Excelsior class either, although, using some of the parts along with the original Excelsior parts, you can come up with something better.

I don't like the way the Nova and Rhode Island models look, they need work.
The Luna class needs work too, and I absolutely HATE the Comet variant.

I'd LOVE to see the Nova, Rhode Island, and Luna classes get some love and T6 treatment.

tolmarius

Ugh. Addition to worst....Jemmie ships of any kind. Just...no.