He has proofs that spaceships like that can travel with sufficient requirements. We must be open to the ideas of space travel because we will never know if Earth would worn out near future.

...Did you just dis the F-14?  The basis for Macross' iconic VF mecha?

This Blog deserves far more attention than it is getting right now

It was probably more derivative of the C-57D from Forbidden Planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-57D 

This almost makes up for Pluto... Almost... But anyway, the original Enterprise (no bloody A, B, C, or D...) has always been one of my favorite starships, especially after its refit. (The refit may, externally, look identical to the Ent-A, but the interior asthetics of the 1701-refit were, in my opinion, far superior.)

No!  No respect for the planet killer!  That's the bastard who de-planeted Pluto - Never Forgive, Never Forget!!!

 If you are going to heap praise all over a saucer-shaped space vessel, might I suggest the Corellian Engineering Corporation's YT series?

If the panel was just going by design/look i'd say the Comet from the Captain Future anime beats it by a mile. Loved it at 4 and she still looks ridiculously cool. Who ever doesn't know what i mean check out this fan art. http://florianrenner.deviantart.com/art/Die-Comet-173298804

There is no denying that the Star Destroyer opening is one of my favorite shots of all time. I still get chills when I see it. But...as I sat in the theater in 1977, I also thought of it as kind of an homage to the Discovery pan shot in "2001." It may not have been an intentional thing, to be sure, and certainly had a drastically different feel to it. Yet I didn't think I was seeing something new and radical at the time. Made me love the Star Destroyer design - my favorite next to the Falcon. But by the time "Star Wars" came out (and I am a grumpy enough old bastard to not refer to it as "Ep. IV") we had seen a revolution in SF designs that - at least to me - they were not as revolutionary as the original Enterprise was at its time, which was NdT's point, I think. TOS succeeded in making us feel like this future ship could happen. It wasn't powered by some weirdo macguffin to get us from point A to point B, and it's design and power source became elements in the stories themselves. The Enterprise became a character in her own right - you felt she was in danger as much as the crew. And, I have to say, as grumpy an S.O.B. as I am, I felt a lump in my throat when she burned in "Trek III" way more than I did for Spock in "Khan". But, that's not everyone's story. I think whatever you're exposed to first - whatever makes you gasp in awe on first sight - that will stick with you to your dying days and you will defend it with a passion. As well you should.

Huh, now I wish I'd gone to that panel.   After trying to like the Starship Smackdown panel at SDCC for several years I gave up - it's just too unscientific.  It's basically a popularity contest.  The final straw was last year when they decided to combine a starship with a real-world OS running on it, put Windows 7 on the Defiant, and immediately decided that it would just crash.  It was nearly unanimous. That's just dumb and disgusting.  I am bored, so I am going to rant about it here, you can just skip that.  :-) Windows crashes because of bad drivers or hardware.  Otherwise it's stable as a rock.  Win7 went through literally millions of hours of testing.  The drivers & hardware would have been written by the Starfleet engineers, and would also have gone through an incredible amount of testing.  Which means that this comment is just insane, inaccurate, and illogical.  Instead of considering pros and cons the panel just made a statement and most of the people there cheered.

First of all, you are talking about the E-D, not the original Enterprise that was discussed here.  Second, read Scalzi's "Redshirts" - this is addressed there.  Third, it's well known that the Galaxy class ships had problems - they were over-designed.  That's why only all of them were destroyed within a few years - they were less sturdy than other ships.