Not to get a whole thing going but the Excelsior is the best looking Star ship ever. Which is why the Enterprise E is so awesome. It's the next step in the line. For some reason they took an odd turn with the odd shaped, utterly worthless Ambassador and Galaxy class ships.
Let's face it. All they ever did was fail, break, and get destroyed. Not to mention they look like the cousin know one ever talks about but always comes up at a family get together. C and D look like Bobble Heads. "Look out, they are falling over and they can't get up"
Now come on,.. that was funny.
Enterprise A, Excelsior, Enterprise E. Everything else is just odd, big, bulgy, get's it's butt kicked by very old ships, etc.