#constellation class

ship-o-rama
toa-banshee-deactivated20171231 asked:
What do you think of ship designs with four necelles, such as the Constellation, Cheyenne, and Prometheus classes?
ship-o-rama answered:

Ho-ho! Well as matter fact I do like those designs for the most part.

Constellation class:

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I love the design, it’s built with reinforcement and redundancy in mind and it’s symmetrically pleasing. Some versions either have a tiny deflector between the nacelles or torp launchers too. It’s a good workhorse and I tend to like it more than the Miranda class tbh.

I enjoy the attention to detail and random add-ons in the aft quarter

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Cheyenne class: 

There’s two versions that I’ve seen of Cheyenne class. There’s the smaller one with a saucer that’s never been seen in mainline trek

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Kind of like a comtemporary to the New Orleans class (another I like which looks like a squat precursor to the galaxy class). In this version the nacelles make sense to power a ship that size. 

Based on the kitbashed barely glimpsed in BoBW

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The other other version uses instead the existing Galaxy Saucer:

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Which is weird that they would have these nacelles still for that kind of ship. But I love this version more for some reason even though it makes little sense (like the Nebula class have fun using the saucer’s shuttle bay). 

Finally the Prometheus Class:

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kind of a bastard child of Trek, the Prometheus is Starfleet’s second modern venture into a pure warship. The lines are harsher and like the Constellation the ship is built for purpose-built for redundancy. It’s shame we never saw it in DS9 (althouhg its had a couple of token appeareances in novels) I don’t know if it has a role in peacetime Starfleet? It’s a space dagger that splits in three. Still not bad except for one glaring exception:

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It has the ugliest bridge I have ever seen, and i Idon’t mean that in a good way. I think it even beats out the generic bridge sets we’ve seen for the other Prometheus (Second Sight) or Sutherland or the Enterprise-C. THis is just, terrible. But I’ll let it slide, its a prototype so I’m gonna say they changed the bridge module after this.

So yes in general I like the 4 nacelle configurations. 


Except for one, glaring candidate. The Nebula class variant seen in Future Imperfect (The model in Riker’s ready room) and kitbashed in BoBW

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which just looks weird.

For some reason I also like the three-nacelle Niagara Class

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spockvarietyhour

I spent way too much time on this

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