Good Looking and Ugly ships

System · March 2012

Curious what you guys think some good looking and ugly ships are available on STO

Here is my list
Note that T1, T2, T3 refers to the Tier of the ship.

Super Hawt
Miranda, and The "Real 5":
Kirk's Enterprise
Archer's Enterprise
Picard's Enterprise (show)
Voyager
Defiant

Hawt
T1 Cruiser
T1 Science
Excelsior
Star Cruisers
Oddy

Above Average
Assault Cruiser
Obreth
Nebula

Average
T5 Science (both kinds)
Prometheus
Fleet Escorts
T1 Escort

Not so hot
Stargazer
Zephyr
Thunderchild
Other Advanced Escorts

Disgusting
T3 Science
Oslo

How the hell did this ugly thing make it into Canon, someone needs to be fired
Akira

Just SEEING this makes me want to quit STO, stop watching all Star Trek, throw my computer off a bridge, go down there and jump on it until it tuns to dust, buy another computer, throw THAT one off the same bridge (just to be safe) then throw up on it.
Chyenne

Archived Post · March 2012

And the Klingon version

Super Hawt
Bird of Prey
T4 Bird of Prey
T4 Battle Cruiser

Hawt
Anything else Klingon

Above Average
All Orion ships

Average
All Gorn ships

Not so hot
All Nausican ships

Archived Post · March 2012

Saw that star cruisers were listed as "hawt". Stopped reading.

Archived Post · March 2012

When you say T1 cruiser, what ship are you referencing? The Miranda or the TOS Enterprise? Both are T1 cruisers.

Also, the Oberth IS the T1 Science ship.

Archived Post · March 2012

thenewteddy wrote:

Archer's Enterprise

How the hell did this ugly thing make it into Canon, someone needs to be fired
Akira

apart from the fact the akira is a beautiful ship, how does archer's ships get into your best and the akira almost the worst? they are very similar in appearance.

Archived Post · March 2012

synkr0nized wrote:

Saw that star cruisers were listed as "hawt". Stopped reading.

Pretty much this. How did Miranda make it into the top tier? Girl no.

Archived Post · March 2012

Miranda - good
Centaur - ugly
Shi'Kar - good
TOS Connie - good
NX - ugly
Oberth - ugly
Excalibur - ugly
Vesper - ugly
Connie Refit - good
Exeter - good
Saber - ugly
Rapier - ugly
Ushaan - ugly
Gladius - ugly
Nova - ugly
Aurora - ugly
Quasar - ugly
Rhode Island - ugly
Cheyenne - ugly
Dakota - good
Stargazer - good
Excelsior - good
Akira - ugly
Oslo - ugly
Zephyr - ugly
Thunderchild - ugly
Olympic - ugly
Hope - ugly
Horizon - ugly
Nebula - good
Galaxy - ugly
Celestial - ugly
Envoy - good
Venture - ugly
Defiant - ugly
Vigilant - ugly
Gallant - ugly
Sao Paulo - ugly
Intrepid - ugly
Cochrane - good
Discovery - good
Bellerophon - good
Avenger - ugly
Vanguard - ugly
Emissary - ugly
Nomad - ugly
Sovereign - good
Majestic - good
Noble - good
Imperial - good
Dervish - ugly
Gryphon - ugly
Hermes - ugly
Maelstrom - ugly
Cerberus - good
Phoenix - ugly
Prometheus - good
Hephaestus - good
Luna - ugly
Polaris - ugly
Sol - ugly
Comet - ugly
Destiny - ugly
Oracle - ugly
Trident - ugly
Nimbus - good
Magellan - good
D'Kyr - good
Monarch - ugly
Galaxy Dread - ugly
Venture Dread - ugly
Odyssey - good
B'Rel - good
Koloth - good
QulDun - good
Somraw - ugly
K'Tanco - ugly
Norgh - good
Ning'tao - ugly
Qorgh - ugly
SuQob - ugly
K't'inga - good
K't'inga Refit - good
Koro't'inga - good
Vandal - good
Phalanx - good
Dacoit - good
Ki'tang - ugly
Ch'tang - ugly
Pach - ugly
Puyjaq - ugly
Vor'cha - good
Tor'Kaht - good
Vor'Kang - good
Scourge - good
Draguas - good
Corsair - good
Hegh'ta - ugly
Haj - ugly
Qin - ugly
Birok - ugly
Negh'Var - good
Qu'Daj - good
Vo'Quv - good
VoD'leh - good
Varanus - good
Marauder - good
Bortas - good
Guramba - good

It has led me to say that the reason the Feds have so much customization available is because the ships are so fugly...

Archived Post · March 2012

well i have to disagree with you on a lot there and i am sure a lot more people will as well considering its just personal taste. I happen to love the akira and the fact that you said the NX or archers enterprise is good looking kinda contradicts each other since the NX was based on the Akira. Secondly the Galaxy is a ship i find to be ugly i hate it.
So here is my list

Really Good looking ship
Assault Cruiser
Odey
excelsior
Akria
Intrepid

Good looking ship
Both T5 escorts defiant and griffin
the Nova classes
Luna classes
Prometheus class

Not so good looking
Destiny classes
Constitution (I never did like the neck on it)
sabre class
Miranda
stargazer
Galaxy
NX

Ugly ships
Olympic class
Nebula (I hate this ship)

So there we have it lets see what others have to say

Archived Post · March 2012

I'm just glad that there are so many different ships and aesthetics that almost anyone can find something they like.

Archived Post · March 2012

When you all say Assault Cruiser, do you mean this ...

The Imperial Class Assault Cruiser?

Archived Post · March 2012

superchum wrote: »

When you all say Assault Cruiser, do you mean this ...

The Imperial Class Assault Cruiser?

there were only parts of that i liked. the neck was one of them along with the hull the rest is ugly as hell. i thought it was a interesting design. it looked a lot more aggressive than almost all the fed ships

Archived Post · March 2012

wrote:

When you all say Assault Cruiser, do you mean this ...

The Imperial Class Assault Cruiser?

trollololol

Archived Post · March 2012

+2
Exploration cruiser (Galaxy class) Enterprise D
Nebula class
Sovereign class, Enterprise E
Odyssey
Excelsior

+1
Defiant
Akira
Comet/Luna/polaris/sol

0
Nomad/emissary/vanguard/avenger (all star cruisers)
All assault cruisers excluding sovereign
Venture/Monarch Exploration cruisers
Nova class
Intrepid/Discovery/cochrane
Exeter
Maelstrom/Dervish/Gryphon/Hermes

-1
Aurora/quasar
D'kyr
Jem'hadar attack ship
Galor
Centaur
Miranda
Excalibur

-2
Hope/olympic/horizon
Nimbus/Trident/Oracle/Destiny
Shikar
Constitution
Vesper
TOS Connie
Cheyenne/Dakota/stargazer

Archived Post · March 2012

This really is a case of 'each to their own'. Whereas a good number of people have listed Nova class, for example, as either meh or ugly I, personally, love that little ship. Anyway - a few thoughts (in terms of looks rather than capabilities):

Nova class: As noted, I love this little ship personally - small, underrated, and it looks a litlte like a squashed Sovereign class. Have a particular soft-spot for the Rhode-Island variant (mostly due to how well it performed during the earlier stages of the game).

Luna Class: Great ship to fly, and looks almost elegant from certain angles, but looks like a slug when viewed from the aft.

Defiant class: Sorry Escort Fanboy's - it's a ruddy saucer section with nacelles and a big nose that shouts 'look at my guns'. Didn't like the look of thing on DS9 and don't like it now.

Prometheus class: In my humble opinion, what the Defiant should have been. Sleek, but unassuming, and has an odd sense of being powerful without needing to shout about it like the Defiant class does.

Odyssey class: Generally love it - probably my favorite design, certainly of the newer breed of ship although, to nitpick, I can't make up my mind on whether I like the deflector. The rather fantastic bridge deserves comment too!

And I shall reserve comment so far as the rest are concerned.

Archived Post · March 2012

Anything not canon is ugly as hell.

Archived Post · March 2012

Captain_Revo wrote:

apart from the fact the akira is a beautiful ship, how does archer's ships get into your best and the akira almost the worst? they are very similar in appearance.

The Archerprise IS the Akira, just flipped upside-down and with some different greebles. I guess OP thinks the Akira looks good when it's inverted.

My Hot or Not list:

Canon ships: Hot

CRYPTIC designs: Not

Archived Post · March 2012

thenewteddy wrote:

How the hell did this ugly thing make it into Canon, someone needs to be fired
Akira

I take you never watched First Contact? If you did, you would answer your own question. The Akira class was featured on screen which makes it as cannon as a Howitzer.

Archived Post · March 2012

silo935 wrote:

The Archerprise IS the Akira, just flipped upside-down and with some different greebles. I guess OP thinks the Akira looks good when it's inverted.

My Hot or Not list:

Canon ships: Hot

CRYPTIC designs: Not

So what about ships that were not designed by Cryptic but are not canon either?

Archived Post · March 2012

So what are we using to gauge the "hawtness" of these ships?

"Hawt" based on the ship's design?

or

"Hawt" in that the in-game graphics are well done for the ship?

If going by design, I would say the following:

(In order from Best to Worst)

1. Excalibur
2. Constitution Refit
3. Nova Rhode Island Refit
4. Constitution
5. Nova
6. Miranda
7. Excelsior
8. Excelsior Refit
9. NX
10. Sovereign
11. Intrepid
12. Bellephron
13. Venture
14. Galaxy
15. Defiant
16. Sao Paulo
17. Fleet Escorts
18. Thunderchild
19. Akira
20. Sabre
21. Star Cruisers
22. Odyssey
23. Oberth
24. Shi'kar
25. Nebula
26. DSSVs
27. Luna
28. Prometheus
29. Cheyenne
30. Galaxy-X
31. Olympic / Hope / Golfball ships

Archived Post · March 2012

everyone has their own favorite ships , i mean , i have a real dislike for a few , like the olympic and the miranda
but at the same time , every time i see an excelsior or akira i smile

Archived Post · March 2012

Personally I never really liked the Galaxy class or its over-sized saucer. The premise of flying everyone's families around on high risk first contact missions never really made sense to me, and the aesthetically the ship looks lopsided. The Galaxy X was an exception to that for me... the extra engine balances the hull better, and I think the secondary hull is larger too.

I do like most klingon hulls and federation escorts, as they tend to seem more functional to me. Never really been fond of most federation science ships either (although I love the intrepid class).

Not that I'd ever want to fly one, but I like the freighter hulls too (again functional).

Archived Post · March 2012

I like the Imperial, it had a 'warship' feel to it most other ships don't have. It wasn't 'friendly' like Fed ships usually are, which really did make it out of place. A favorite pic of mine http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb204/CapnBludd/STO/screenshot_2010-10-09-17-44-00-1.jpg

Archived Post · March 2012

Personally? While I'm not in favor of a T5 Connie (simply a stylistic thing for me, I have no logical case against it), I love the Excalibur..

I'm also a big fan of the Sao Paulo, the Venture, and of course the Odyssey.. I'm not in favor of the ships with a bunch of stuck-on angles and panels (the Gladius and Yellowstone being the worst offenders).

KDF-side.. I'm not much for the BortaS, but I love the styling of the Vor'Kang and the Vor'Cha.. The ships which look like blades.. But not the ones like the Tor'Kaht, like they're more bludgeoning than bladed.. Those I dislike.

Archived Post · March 2012

I would put the Thunderchild in the Hot/very hot category.

Archived Post · March 2012

Katic wrote: »

Personally? While I'm not in favor of a T5 Connie (simply a stylistic thing for me, I have no logical case against it), I love the Excalibur..

I'm also a big fan of the Sao Paulo, the Venture, and of course the Odyssey.. I'm not in favor of the ships with a bunch of stuck-on angles and panels (the Gladius and Yellowstone being the worst offenders).

KDF-side.. I'm not much for the BortaS, but I love the styling of the Vor'Kang and the Vor'Cha.. The ships which look like blades.. But not the ones like the Tor'Kaht, like they're more bludgeoning than bladed.. Those I dislike.

With the Excalibur being a 'modern' ship, it could be the t5 Connie.......

Archived Post · March 2012

Too many to list opinions on everything.....

Best looking
Soverign
Akira/Thunderchild
NX
Luna (though not a fan of the variants)
Magellan
Vigilant
Haj (so menacingly ugly, its perfect)
Vor'kang
B'Rel

Ugly
Vo'quv (does NOT look Klingon)
Galaxy (beautiful in profile, ugh from any angle that shows how overwide the saucer is)
Intrepid
Any Research Science Vessel (what the heck?)
Oberth

And I have to have a special anti-shout-out to the Excelsior. The ribbed neck makes me think of the rolls of flab on someone with the physique of Homer Simpson, and the gurgle-plop noise it made at the finale of its big moment in Search For Spock just reinforced first impression in my mind. Plus the engineering hull tapers so much to the rear it just looks so flimsy. Its like someone with a huge beer gut and frail little limbs, or maybe the starship equivalent of MODOK.

starcruiser · January 2017

UGLIEST LOCKBOX EVER!....

http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/10361233-the-undiscovered-lockbox

legendarylycan · January 2017

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kelador · January 2017

Find it interesting that you like Archers Enterprise but not the Akira the guys behind designing the model for Enterprise have been quoted saying that the producer turned an Akira upside down and said lets go with that and the NX-01 was born lol

nikephorus · January 2017

boachev · January 2017

The polarization is strong with this one.

Personally, I find very few ships to be truly "ugly". Some of them are different, some are not to my tastes, but it's really only a handful that make me cringe.

Ugly to Me

T6 Pilot Escorts (Is it supposed to look like a Jem'Hadar ship and a Defiant had a baby?)
Destiny, Oracle, and Trident DSSVs (Just... weird. An Oberth with birth defects.)
Haakona and Kara class warbirds (about the only Romulan ships I'd never, ever consider flying. They just don't look like they fit in with the rest, and while I usually *like* bulky ships, they seem to try and make it so they're not and just fall inbetween.)
The Federation "future" vessels (Nautilus and its pancake friends... the just look like someone ran over starfleet vessels with a steamroller)
The 31st century timeships (just boring looking, and yet they're everywhere)
Saber and its alternate classes (Looks like an Akira/Oslo with stunted growth. Not to mention I'm a big fan of the Akira and the Oslo, so why bother with lesser versions?)
Na'khul ships (I really enjoy blowing these up).
Breen ships (I know that Cryptic has to work with the canon here, but they're just ugly vessels all around, and not even in a "fun, industrial way" that I often enjoy.)

With that said, I know I have peculiar tastes. For example...

Pretty to Me/Special Shout-outs

Nimbus class DSSV (Yup, I think the other DSSVs are ugly enough to earn some renown for it... but the Nimbus? I really love the Nimbus. Maybe it's because she's the only DSSV that wider than it is tall, like many canon Federation ships.)
D'deridex class warbird (My all time favorite canon Trek ship, and she looks stunning in this game. Cryptic did her justice).
Oslo and Akira (See them getting plenty of hate here, so I'll give them some love. I still need to build a character someday that can properly rock an Oslo as his main vessel).
The Gorn Ships (Criminally underrated in my book, I'm really fond of their design. they "feel" like something that would exist back in the original six films and have this sort of alien ziggural vibe that I really dig. Really wish Cryptic would give us more to play with. Of all the races that Cryptic has mostly created new vessels for wholly from scratch with no real canon to base em' off of, the Gorn win.)
Deinos Destroyer (Not gonna lie, pretty sad I can't get one for another couple years... or unless I break down and buy a LTS finally)
Valdore class (One time Cryptic I think beat the original design they based in on, the Valdore is absolutely beautiful. Just a sleek ship that builds off the already lovable Mogai design).
Hirogen vessels (Okay, Crytpic just took these from Voyager, but I'm biased and VERY happy to see them available in-game. Easily the best looking non-Federation ships introduced in Voyager).
T'Liss class warbird (I will cut a TRIBBLE to have the T6.)
Voth Bulwark (Everyone calls it a sex toy, but to me she reminds me of an old galleon in the best of ways. I just feel formidable when I start to broadside with that bad boy).

I'd say most others fall in the middle somewhere, and if I were to sit down and rank ALL of them it'd take me a long, long time. Most canon ships would end up near the top, as I love me some Intrepids, Galaxies, Connies, Mirandas, Vor'chas, Klingon BoPs, D7s/Ktingas, and on and on. If they actually look like something that belongs to that faction or the style a race's ships would look like (like the Nausicaans, they nailed that one, too), then I'm probably cool with it.

Good Looking and Ugly ships

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