Star Trek undersells the capabilities of its starships

I saw this [rant/complaint](https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/14buf69/i_really_miss_how_starships_used_to_be_portrayed/) over on Reddit, and it got me thinking a bit....

https://kbin.social/m/daystrominstitut[email protected]/t/55221

I really miss how starships used to be portrayed

The new episode of SNW really hammered home for me how I hate they've turned almost every star ship in the ST universe, into oversized...

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On thing that irked me about Picard S3 was how agile the ~~Millennium Falcon~~Enterprise D was flying into the core of the ~~Death Star~~Borg Cube

sorry mis-click, here's what I meant to say:

One thing that irked me about Picard S3 was how agile the ~~Millennium Falcon~~ Enterprise D was flying into the core of the ~~Death Star~~ Borg Cube. I found the ships being big lumbering hulks much more entertaining as they had believable weight to them.

Of course we have things like The Picard Manoeuvre, but look how much time they spent explaining a second of combat. One of the bigger flaws of new trek is how agile everything is, just a lot of visual noise with random shapes and sizes zooming around like fighter jests with no consideration for inertia. If we just had huge ships flitting around the battlefield like Nightcrawler then you'd lose all sense of relatability and it would just be pure visual noise.

Wait, didn't they do that in Discovery to beat the Klingon ship or something? That was not enjoyable Trek to me.