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Oh yes, very much. I genuinely enjoy the their TOS era design. When I was a teen, I felt it was very simplistic and like .. "Well they tried :)" - Now, in a world where intricate complexity and high-resolution is easily attainable, I've come to appreciate the simplistically of the designs. If you have few pieces to work with, disharmony shows more easily.
I love Romulan designs too: ships, emblems, architecture, clothing, etc. Influenced (somehow) by Ancient Rome, they are dramatic and elegant at the same time.
What is the USS Enterprise? You first must go into history. USS means United States Ship. This tells you the origin. And Starfleet is basically an Air Navy. For a War Bird you should start with Romulan history and mythos. Much like i did with the USS Enterprise.
She a strike first and and ask questions later kind of admiral.and ruthless in doing anything necessary when it comes to protecting the federation and citizens abs defeating any threats to it. Making a very bull head and relentless admiral, who didn’t play well with others in the fleet, though did get in with those who earned her respect like jellico, sisko and Picard
As Eastern-European (from Poland), I see EXACTLY that with war in Ukraine. While they are not part of EU or NATO, we see them as out doorstep. This is especially evident with drones designs.
I think I would have a Thry class variant but be a Starfleet ship but would alter a few things including the weapons there would be a forward facing starboard and port disruptor cannon like the K'Vort class and would have phaser strips forward and aft and starboard and port and dorsal and ventural and four forward torpedo tubes and two aft. Of course cloaking device and ablative armor. Would be the perfect hybrid between Federation and Klingon and Romulan ships and weapons. I'd love to be able to design it.
Honestly, the Sovereign wasn’t all that powerful in the grand scheme of things. It’s a badass ship to be sure, but in a large campaign, with Dominion battle cruisers numbering in the hundreds, possibly thousands, a handful of Sovys placed here or there isn’t going to tip the scales.
In the Motion Picture era Enterprise, according to the deck plans, her launcher is an auto loader in the walls. This was disabled by Khan's initial attack (one of the little red dots on the screen). They had to revert to the manual loader. This is normally used for probes, caskets, and other miscellaneous functions, but can be used for weapons when the auto loader is offline. Also, each tube can hold 4 torpedoes to rapidly fire, one per half second (see ST III). Maybe it isn't the fanciest tool for the job, but it definitely works.
Did not know about the classic 23rd era D'deridex. looks cool. You need to look into Klingon Academy (TMP Era) romulan ships. They are amazing and no one seems to cover freaking Klingon Academy ships it makes me SOOOO ANGRY ";..;" I happen to like the ship designs of every race in that game.
@@smileygabe22 I really loved the Imperium and Senator. Legion and Gladius classes were pretty awesome too. I played SFC1 and 2, not so much KA. I always wished they made more games in that era. Star Trek Armada Fleet Ops has a great mod that shows off those ships.
With the radiation factor, there was also a massive improvement in shields technology, and pursumably also the materials the core itself is made out of. Otherwise it would be a flaw moving forward. Yes both voyager and big D had the blast doors, but so did the conny. So really you still would have much the same issue when it comes to radiation. Yes the D could separate, but many other ships can not. So there had to be a technical advancement in radiation containment and disposal. Other then that it is fairly accurate, and shows very reasonably that the refitted conny did have some dubious design issues. Also is a very good reason you don't see any more massive refits in Star Trek.
Your point about the BoP "just" sitting outside of the system. They'd have spent their time pirating the nascent space lanes being established to and from Earth.
When you say encircled you mean more like a sphere right because if it was just a circle like on the ground you could just fly out the top or bottom and make a run for it. It’s hard showing 3d battles on a 2 d map
Starfleet has shoddy security if a ship carrying an all important battle plan was all by itself and unable to defend against a couple dominion ships. On top of that wouldn’t you notice if a courier ship doesn’t show up red flags should be going off
Starfleet has shoddy security if a ship carrying an all important battle plan was all by itself and unable to defend against a couple dominion ships. On top of that wouldn’t you notice if a courier ship doesn’t show up red flags should be going off
What is the Daedalus class? Why, the one and only starship design by the representative from planet Spaceball before the Spaceballs were ejected from the Federation
I always thought the original merchantman in ST-III was more Runabout sized, and I really didn't see an issue with that. Scale has always been one of the hardest things to nail down, as obviously the art department wasn't super worried about making the images just so...
Only way the treaty’s of Algeron makes sense as a peace treaty which prohibited the federation from having or developing cloaking technology. Is of they already had it in all the ships or next of them pre the tomed incident. Ships which would include the enterprise B.
I've always thought of the Prometheus as a D'Deridex killer. Klingon and Romulan ships with cloaks would likely have forward weapon and shield strength for decloaking, attacking, and recloaking. A Prometheus would be designed to defeat that strategy from huge warbirds because if a warbird attacks one part of Prometheus, there are two others on its flanks.
For sure! Ever watch the Defiant dock with DS9 nose first where the main deflector dish is located? It never sat right with me. We don't see a docking port on the front of the ship.
When it comes to ships like the Vesta where you're able to have large departments who seemingly have nothing to do during times when the ship is on unrelated missions, that's not true because those are the times that they'd be running their larger, time intensive and personal projects without compromising any ordered mission.
Flagship does not mean what you think it means. Also, the Galbatross, with its teensy-tiny 1000 man skeleton crew, spent 7 years waiting for the rest of the crew to arrive. So it could not undertake an exploration mission. Oh, but it's worse than that. There were families on board. The actual crew was less than 1000. Not even enough to move the ship from one dock to the next dock in the same orbit.
Good video and thanks for just focusing on the original series/movies. Now, in those "re-makes/re-imaginings" in the Kelvin Timeline - how the "F" did Kirk (Chris Pine) become CAPTAIN of a major starship when he was just a CADET in the 1st movie and Spock, Uhura, and just about everyone else outranked his pathetic a$$???? One or two movies later this guy is supposedly finished with Star Fleet Academy and NOW in command of ENTERPRISE??? Other than the S-C-R-I-P-T (and I'll say CPT Pike's influence) how did this guy's "boldness/recklessness/pi$$poor leadership style" overshadow Spock, who was already a COMMANDER or Uhura who was already a LIEUTENANT in the first movie??? Sulu was already a LIEUTENANT as well and Scotty a LT COMMANDER. Heck, even Checkov probably outranked him as an ENSIGN, at least in the first movie. How did this 1 dooffess of a dude OUTPERFORM all that E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E and knowledge to suddenly OUTRANK everyone and be placed in command of a major warship????? Guess A$$KISSING gets you everything and that old military adage: "F" up you move up!!!!!!!!!! Or it's NOT what you know it's WHO you know!!! Someone PLEASE explain that cluster "F" to me!!!
The Ambassador class is my absolute all time favorite Trek starship design hands down, with the 1701/A refit a very close second. It's far more balanced and symmetrical than either the unevenly proportioned, bottom-and rear-heavy Excelsior or the absurdly bloated, awkwardly top-and-forward-heavy Galaxy. I love its somewhat 'retro Connie' profile and 'semi-throwback' platform, like a massively beefed-up, super heavy Constitution class on steroids.
Brilliant as always. I like your description of how the Defiant works and does not. Whereas the Interceptor class reminds me of PT boat in WWII. They work very well in single patrol - in the right circumstance - but in a formation they can be devastating.
I feel like the criticism presented in the video isn't a criticism of CGI per se. It's a criticism of a design change between the physical and CGI model. After all, there's no reason that a CGI Warbird can't be made without the hump the narrator dislikes except someone has to actually make it and publish it for everyone to use.
