I’m sorry, but that’s a horrible design. It looks like it was slapped together the day before the deadline by someone who’s just barely progressed beyond simple geometric shapes in 3ds Max.
Seriously, was this made with the intent of making the LEGO-tie in as easy to assemble as possible? What was the inspiration there, a run-over traffic cone?
I mean, what was the design process here? You got your basic saucer section, the nacelles—no surprises there. For the rest—well, why not a triangle? Triangles are nice. …And done!
The only explanation I can come up with is that they deliberately wanted to distance themselves from the new movie-Enterprise’s excessively styled all-curves design, but there’s gotta be some middle ground here…