29 Days of Star Trek Meme: Day 28
Mar. 4th, 2012 11:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
4thofeleven28 - If you could change one thing about Star Trek, what would it be?
Wait, didn’t we just do this one? I distinctly remember ranting about Section 31… Have they infiltrated this meme and deleted my complaints about them? No, wait, it’s just a duplicate question.
Alright, we’ll count it as a wild-card question! I choose…
28 – What’s your favourite Star Trek ship design?
Well, as I said before, I still really like those toy ships I bought when I was a kid – the Reliant/Miranda class is a nice stripped down version of the classic Federation design, the Excelsior class is my all-time favourite Starfleet ship, with elegant sweeping lines. And my all-time favourite is the Klingon Bird of Prey.
(And, I assume, it was also a favourite of the producers, considering after being introduced in Star Trek III, it then played prominent roles in the next four movies, was the iconic Klingon ship of the TNG era, and made anachronistic appearances in Enterprise too…)
The Bird of Prey’s also my choice for ship I’d most like to own. It’s capable of handling itself in combat, but it’s also got a cloaking device and can land, so you can get out of trouble easily and make repairs. You only need a small crew, so you don’t need to find a few hundred buddies to keep the thing running. And while it’s small, it can accommodate two full-grown humpback whales, so more than enough cargo space for most people’s needs.
The downside, of course, is that the interior would probably need some remodelling – dull red lighting certainly makes a villainous statement, but it’s not something you’d really want to work with long term. It also lacks the amenities you get on ships like the Enterprise, but I assume Next Generation-era Birds of Prey at least have replicators – surely Klingons have worked out an army marches on its stomach? And, hell, you’ve got a damn starship, you can live without holodecks!
I’m also fond of the various Romulan warbird designs, that have the same predatory look as the Bird of Prey. One of the big things that disappointed me about the reboot film was that Nero’s ship was such an uninspired generic spiky thing, rather than a proper Romulan design.
Wait, didn’t we just do this one? I distinctly remember ranting about Section 31… Have they infiltrated this meme and deleted my complaints about them? No, wait, it’s just a duplicate question.
Alright, we’ll count it as a wild-card question! I choose…
28 – What’s your favourite Star Trek ship design?
Well, as I said before, I still really like those toy ships I bought when I was a kid – the Reliant/Miranda class is a nice stripped down version of the classic Federation design, the Excelsior class is my all-time favourite Starfleet ship, with elegant sweeping lines. And my all-time favourite is the Klingon Bird of Prey.
(And, I assume, it was also a favourite of the producers, considering after being introduced in Star Trek III, it then played prominent roles in the next four movies, was the iconic Klingon ship of the TNG era, and made anachronistic appearances in Enterprise too…)
The Bird of Prey’s also my choice for ship I’d most like to own. It’s capable of handling itself in combat, but it’s also got a cloaking device and can land, so you can get out of trouble easily and make repairs. You only need a small crew, so you don’t need to find a few hundred buddies to keep the thing running. And while it’s small, it can accommodate two full-grown humpback whales, so more than enough cargo space for most people’s needs.
The downside, of course, is that the interior would probably need some remodelling – dull red lighting certainly makes a villainous statement, but it’s not something you’d really want to work with long term. It also lacks the amenities you get on ships like the Enterprise, but I assume Next Generation-era Birds of Prey at least have replicators – surely Klingons have worked out an army marches on its stomach? And, hell, you’ve got a damn starship, you can live without holodecks!
I’m also fond of the various Romulan warbird designs, that have the same predatory look as the Bird of Prey. One of the big things that disappointed me about the reboot film was that Nero’s ship was such an uninspired generic spiky thing, rather than a proper Romulan design.