#excelsior-class

[chernobog13]

Beautiful shot of Captain Sulu's pride and joy.

[alphamecha-mkii]

Facing the Borg at Wolf 359 by Paul Young

[defconprime]

[ncc-60205]

🎆🎇🎆🎇

[pundus]

"History Anew"

Itself and its class both named for the legacy of the original Great Experiment, the USS Excelsior, under Hikaru Sulu's command, the new USS Excelsior of the Excelsior II-Class sets forth to continue a storied legacy.

[theamateurreviewer]

Review: USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit and NCC-1701-A

Rating: 8/10

Usually redesigns of classic, fan favorite Things often end up looking very terrible, or ruin the appeal of the original. Examples of this can be found all across media, but especially in long-running franchises, like Star Trek, Star Wars, and Fallout. But the Constitution Refit succeeds where many other redesigns fail.

The Constitution Refit of the Motion Picture Era has always been a fan favorite of starship designs in Star Trek. For this review, I'll be rolling together both the 1701 and 1701-A of the films, simply for simplicity's sake. A reasonable design of one of the classics of science fiction, my faults lay less with the design itself and more with its usage in the films.

There will be spoilers below the six Original Series films, from The Motion Picture to Undiscovered Country.

Strengths:

When the films were announced, the original shooting model for The Original Series was not up to the task of being on the big picture. The ship could only be filmed from the right side, as the left side was marred by the wiring used to light the model. Not only that, but the original model was not detailed enough, and would look very flat on a film screen.

This new model had all of the bells and whistles that made ships in Star Wars, to which Star Trek: The Motion Picture was developed in response to, so special. Gone were the basic interior lights and spinning domes on the warp nacelles, and in their place were the realistic and downright beautiful lighting and colors of the Refit.

Watching the beginning of The Motion Picture, as Admiral Kirk's shuttlepod approaches and circles the Enterprise, as well as when the Enterprise leaves spacedock, one might feel that there's a little too much fan service going on. However, seeing all of the lights flash on across the hull, revealing the new design of the hull numbers, and the new, glowing deflector dish, it is a sight to behold. Say what you will about the films themselves, the model makers produced nothing but bangers all series long.

Weaknesses:

After the Enterprise's meaningful sacrifice in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, there were theories about what ship would be in the next film. Of course, Kirk and the gang would end up stealing a Klingon Bird of Prey and christening her Bounty, but it was by the end of the film that Kirk was presented with... another Constitution-class with a new hull number?

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock introduced six new major designs for starships, many of which would become mainstays of the franchise, especially the USS Excelsior (Excelsior-class) and USS Grissom (Oberth-class). The former of these exemplified the new era of design, and was expected to become the next hero ship of the series. Unfortunately, however, we were simply left with a repaint of the original model, and what could have been the new face of the franchise was relegated to a secondary character

[iftadwascool]

this is not going to make any sense to anyone but me,

but i love just how 80's the Zeta Gundam is. its like the Excelsior from Star Trek

like the way theyre made just screams. "yeah bro, were modern 80's designs. you know you like it!" there's just something about the lines, shapes, and the overall 𝒶𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓉𝒾𝒸 vibe they effuse

[casside-sionnach]

[that-vexaholic-cryptid]

"Remote Rendezvous" by MckinneyC on DeviantArt

[chernobog13]

A size comparison of some Federation starships of note.

[kasperl-ruprecht]

Why The Excelsior Never Ends...

[alphamecha-mkii]

Queen Bee by Jetfreak-7

[defconprime]

[excelsiorclasses]

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[pundus]

"New Warp Scale"

While "The Great Experiment" of the USS Excelsior was mostly a failure in terms of the trailblazing transwarp drive, leaps and bounds were made in warp field dynamics and thresholds of speed at conventional warp were broken. These new heights reached by cochranes of subspace variance would revolutionize the warp factor scale.