Ship Spotlights

Starfleet’s ships are characters in their own right. The design of the Enterprise-D tells you something about what TNG thought the future should look like. The Defiant tells you something about what DS9 thought it had to become to survive. This series works through the classes and vessels that left a mark, covering design history, production context, and what each ship communicated about the era that built it.

A starship is never just a starship.