Fun fact: the Olympic class was based on an early design for the TOS Enterprise.
I had this book, which had that illustration, since before TNG came out and when I first saw the Olympic class, I laughed out loud.
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/The_Making_of_Star_Trek
So glad we didn't get this ugly garbage heap
Good thing the inertial dampeners held. Those are usually the first to go.
If they put the resilience and redundancy of inertial dampeners into everything else Starfleet, any encounters with hostiles would be over in seconds, even the first Borg. It's as if Starfleet ships are built with dice rolls and a stat sheet, and they dump everything into keeping the gravity working with all other stats below par.
Should have tagged it #Spaceballs , surely
