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I always loved how the practicality of kit bashing to make this ship in real life lead to it's extreme practicality and modularity in universe. Art imitating life or something.

The Nebula class has always been my favorite starfleet ship. It has all my favorite design aspects of the Galaxy class and the Miranda class

The Phoenix incident is one of the reasons why I hate it when people dismiss Star Trek ships, specifically Starfleet, when discussing firepower. People who view Starfleet ships as only being "Explorers" and therefor not worthy of military discussion clearly underestimate their capability. Starfleet technically classifies their ships as ships of exploration, but Starfleet serves as the primary defense of the Federation and they're surrounded by hostile Empires who do in fact purpose build warships and conquer civilizations around them. The fact that these military grade battlecruisers and warbirds all think twice about engaging a Federation ship in battle should clue you in to how powerful they really are.

The Phoenix was equipped with the AWAC sensor and was pursued by a Galor-class destroyer who was armed with the Phoenix's prefix codes. They disabled her shields and successfully hit her with her shields down and this Nebula-class was still able to outperform the destroyer, successfully destroying it and then their primary target. That's pretty impressive if you ask me. A ship of exploration with a sensor pod, (didn't even have the extra firepower afforded by the triangular torpedo pod), was able to destroyer her attacker, even when the attacker had the tactical advantage. Don't underestimate the Federation or Star Trek in general.

The Nebula class suffered from the same issue the Galaxy class did as well. Namely naming your ship after a interstellar term.
Whenever a Nebula class enters a nebula it must turn into a "who's on first sketch".
Captain: Where exactly in the nebula are we?
Navigation: The bridge sir.

I love these worker class ships, clearly designed in the vein of the biggest shiniest flagship of the time but trimmed back into a more compact and efficient design. The tight Miranda to the graceful Constitution.

And yet the Nebula class is portrayed as a weaker, poor man's, version of the Galaxy class. Seriously underrated.

It's one of my favorite designs, if not my absolute favorite.
More firepower with the weapons pod and less wasted space compared to the Galaxy class. Shield integrity can be higher because the bubble covers a smaller volume. No frills, No BS. Just a solid workhorse ship that's adaptable for research and exploration.

3:25 And here wes see an Oberth-class War Canoe escorting a Nebula-class

The Reliant of TNG. My favorite ship of that show.

I saw a video where it stated that Starfleet had a dilemma on their hands with the design development of both the Galaxy Class and the Nebula Class and that is what class would be chosen as Starfleet's flagship so they decided to start construction on both classes at the same time and in the end we all know both classes became successful in their own right.

I'll bet for the pursuit variant of the Nebula Class being outfitted with 2 extra warp nacelles it needed a modified warp core to send the needed power to the extra nacelles in order for them to function.

Cardassian Legate: Hey we lets be friends. Is there anything you want?

Gul: Give me a squadron of Nebula's

Legate: You sure, what about Galaxy's?

Gul: Nah Nebula's please. I don't want a cruise ship.

I believe the Nebula is by far one of the most underrated ships in the Federation. Its more versatile than standard Galaxy class ships and compact which is a preference of mine. I believe a full tactical warship style variant based on tech designed for Akira and Defiant class ships is warranted and needed.

"A fourth variant introduced in 2367 would see a new style upper pod accomodating several nightclub and bar facilities, serving a variety of cocktails and shots....."

Did you read this in Daniel's voice?

The Nebula in Generations is still the best looking version.

Let's do a poll. Like if you would like to  be in charge of a Nebula class or comment to be in charge of a Galaxy class

I am very proud of you for not trying to paint the Nebula class as some sort of "inferior version" of the Galaxy as so many other reviewers tend to do. The Nebula was designed to be more dangerous than the Galaxy and canonically it proved to be exactly that.

The shot of the Oberth and Miranda next to the Nebula shows just how utterly massive it and the Galaxy are compared to ToS ships.

Nebula in 2363: glass bottle

Dominion War Nebula: GLASS CANNON