It’s hard to watch The Wrath of Khan where the Reliant fires and hits the Enterprise’s neck and not think “Gee, if Khan had got a bit more of a shot in, that would’ve been the end of the movie right there.” Beyond even followed through on that. I love the Enterprise’s design and love the way that it shows that it’s in space by not being constrained by the rules you need to follow in gravity but it’s definitely not a tactically sound design.

But then my favourite ship design is the Steamrunner which is equally impractical so sometimes tactics can go out the window for a pretty ship.