Ugly and, while I think it’s pretty stupid to put the bridge sticking up out of the very center of the saucer section like a bullseye on the world’s biggest dart board, imagine an Olympic class ship getting attacked. Any frontal assault would kill half the crew.
Fun fact: the Olympic class was based on an early design for the TOS Enterprise.
I had this book, which had that illustration, since before TNG came out and when I first saw the Olympic class, I laughed out loud.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Making_of_Star_Trek
So glad we didn’t get this ugly garbage heap
Ugly and, while I think it’s pretty stupid to put the bridge sticking up out of the very center of the saucer section like a bullseye on the world’s biggest dart board, imagine an Olympic class ship getting attacked. Any frontal assault would kill half the crew.
The Covenant had the right idea, burying the bridge in the middle of the ship, surrounded by armor.
Defiant was like that too wasn’t it?