I really like the drop-down pylons on this one, if a little thicker it looks like the ship might be able to land easily enough.

Thank you.

Not impressed with the pylon attachment, inconsistant with the classic design, and precludes the saucer separation from the warp system. The secondary hull/hanger section would have been better designed to not have the rear duplicated for the front, just lame. Some of the old SFB designs had the deflector array fitted below the forward hanger door instead of the lame stern cut out. Similarly, the deflector array on the saucer just ain't right. There was a rationale to the classic designs that the newer versions and the fannish interpretations have pretty much ignored.

So you don't like it at all?

While it uses bits of OST hardware, it ignores the actual design sense of that hardware. I don't like it, or for that matter, wasn't too enthusiastic about even STNG, and really have no use at all for the stuff since.

Ok.

A final note/question, what's the role of such a ship anyway? While the notion of a "star fleet" implies a nautical analog, there isn't any mission for the equivelent of an aircraft carrier. SF didn't have nor didn't need anything like a "fighter" (with the exception of bad script writers who needed some ill-considered gimmick to allow for individual heroics or fake drama, the scenario made it clear that such types had next to no real value)

What about shuttle carriers?

With transporters as well, what is the need? And if there was some special logistics need, I'd assume there would be some kind of over-size/specialized shuttle and a starship more suited for that kind of mission. It is simply not a realistic mission for the type of technology.