I may not know much about warp theory, but I do know the Nebula Class looks ridiculous.
Imagine the TNG opening but with the Nebula Class Enterprise D zooming across and also the theme is played on a tuba.
And of course if they’d given it saucer separation that wouldn’t look even more goofy, nope, not at all
I fucking love all the kitbash ships and shuffled part ships.
Especially the ugly kitbashes.
I always thought the nebula class was neat. The mission pod is cool. Being able to swap out for combat or sensors or whatever else you need by heading to a space dock, pressing a few buttons and waiting for the worker bees to swap them out in half an hour or less (or your dilithium back)
I love the Nebula-class and I will stand with you against the slander in this comment section.
Thinking about it, I feel like having the nacelles as close to the middle of the ship might actually make more sense. If they’re creating a warp bubble around them, it would be centred on the nacelle, so having it centrally placed would balance the ‘amount’ of warp bubble around the entire ship
The old school justification for ship designs having the nacelles far from crew-occupied parts of the ship was that they were powerfully dangerous. That really isn’t a thing any more, which has freed the model designers to make some creative new shapes, which is pretty cool. (I still love the iconic old designs though.)
There’s a few other derpy ships. This ship in Prodigy is apparently Centaur Class. What is being done to it is probably for the best.
I realize the AI upscaler used here had a very bad case of pareidolia, but I, too, always thought the Klingon battle cruisers looked like derpy smiley emojis wearing sombreros:
I opened the link on my phone and it scaled the images horizontally. Squart Class:
