Kenny_10_Bellys wrote:Trek ships very rarely enter the atmosphere of planets, and with good reason. They can do pretty much anything they like from the relative safety of orbit, such as bombard targets, shoot down ships, scan wide areas and can place people on the surface in moments via transporter or minutes via shuttle.
I suppose one reason might be the problems with anomalies/fields/etc blocking transporters, so this ship is capable of rapidly transporting people/objects (including things too big to transport like Argo SUVs] up and down from a planet without relying on transporters. Medevac and covert insertion are other possibilities that spring to mind.
It could also gather sensor data (perhaps even trekport stuff) by getting up close and 'burning through' jamming, while being maneuverable enough to avoid getting shot down.
DesertFly wrote:I just have to say that ship doesn't seem like a Trek ship at all to me. I appreciate the time and effort that must have been spent designing that, but it doesn't have the design aesthetic of a Federation built ship.
The same might be said of the Defiant. Maybe future surface details like the irregular dark-grey patchwork of the Defiant, the two dorsal rows of circular structures and similar painted-on hull markings might make it look more Feddish.
One suggestion i just thought of is to make the asses of the nacelles glow blue, c.f.:
