Oooo, I would command the Serenity. And my first official act would be to make ex-Captain TightPants my First Mate. Or my sex slave. Tomayto, tomahto.
And that chick on my shuttle has to go. Now.
Pilot? I’m in command… let somebody else do that. I’m busy counting my doubloons.
Sheesh, why do all you people want huge crews to manage? Talk about headaches. I want something that can be run either by myself, or by a small crew (no more than four), or by a single sane AI. Something with a bit of living space (not all that much needed, just enough.) and SSTO capability, preferably with some kind of star drive as well.
Which leaves me the following vessels, I think: Gay Deciever, a T.A.R.D.I.S., or Ryo-ohki from Tenchi Muyo.
Dahak might squeek in there, except that the idea of landing him anywhere is kinda dangerous.
That’s what the sublight parasites are for. Besides, Gay is just too small, and if I were cooped up with the same people 24/7, there would be mutiny or beaching within a week. No, give me a huge ship to command, so I have a plentiful supply of redshirts to do the dangerous stuff.
Size, degree of streamlining, and arrangement of warp nacelles, I’d say. Roddenberry once suggested that all Starfleet warp-capable ships should have nacelles (in multiples of two) symmetrically arranged outside of a primary hull, perhaps in reaction to the popularity of Franz Joseph’s Star Trek Technical Manual, which had some one- and three-nacelled starships. But later ST production teams modified (or ignored) Roddenberry’s precepts, so more recently there have been some very offbeat designs.