Star Trek Sexy - Starship Spotlight - The Excelsior

Star Trek's most famous space faring vessel is Captain Kirk's Starfleet starship - the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701.  Of course, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) may differ and say his Enterprise - U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D was more popular.  Whichever you prefer - Voyager and Deep Space Nine are also contenders - the fact is the sci-fi franchise has given space ship fans a host of galactic goodies to choose from.  One of the more sleek, sexy and downright glorious is the U.S.S. Excelsior NCC-2000.

We first saw this awesome, and by the standards of Kirk's era a far more advanced star ship than Enterprise, in the feature film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.  For all of its supposed might, however, it only takes Scotty a wee bit of tinkering to bring the grand old lady to a halt.  Our intrepid engineer removes key components of the warp drive, so that when Kirk hijacks Enterprise, the Excelsior can't follow.  Later, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, none other than Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) now commands the trans-warp powered Excelsior.  At one point, it was even rumored that a new Trek show would debut with Captain Sulu at the helm of star trekking adventures.