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.
Kitbashing is a time honored tradition. I just assumed everyone who works at Utopia Planitia really loved model making as kids.
True, true.
But the Nebula Class looks like either a Galaxy Class assembled while drunk or they never took it out of its shipping configuration:
One or two. Had to stop when I became a girl though (for obvious reasons).
Wasn’t the inspiration for this also the Northrop Grumman E-2 Hawkeye since they’re meant to be science craft with large sensor arrays?
Found it. The AWACS.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Nebula_class_model
The design upgrades for the Nebula-class were done by Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach and the model was built by Greg Jein. In Drexler’s blog, Okuda elaborated further: "As so often happens with this kind of project, we didn’t give Greg enough time to accomplish this, so we decided to retain the original scale of the Galaxy-class ship saucer. I suggested the original ‘AWACS’ pod in response to a producer’s observation that the ship might otherwise appear unbalanced. Unfortunately, the AWACS pod didn’t look as elegant as we had hoped in “The Wounded”.
Pffft. Who needs an owners manual when you have red shirts to sacrifice while you learn?
I opened the link on my phone and it scaled the images horizontally. Squart Class:
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:
