(144)The Baud Class 

Oh, Baud class... I get it. A flying modem

I love how Starfleet always seems to make their key parts so interchangeable 🖖

So, I guess its standard cruising speed would be it's..."Baud Rate"? (I'll see myself out...)

That was awesome I love these in-depth background episodes we always hear about the hero ships it's nice to hear about the infrastructure behind them because without it the hero ships would have never made it passed the moon 😁

Holy crap, I almost spit my waffles out when I heard the name of the ship Eternal September. That is such an obscure reference. The thought that someone would name a ship after it is hilarious. Now I need a real ship to be named that.

It looks like some 'limo' enthusiast saw a Constitution class and thought 'I can stretch that' and then added antique solar panels in order to 'decorate' the ugly section they put in the middle.

Honestly I can see a ship of this style acting almost as an ECM/ECCM or AWACS ship, which are roles that are really underrepresented in sci-fi.

I see three other uses for the Baud class: 1) Place a small T.V. / radio-like studio on the vessel, and have the ship become a small mobile propaganda base. Like what was used by the allies on Earth in WWII. 2) Subspace signal interception. Starfleet Intelligence would had made good use of this ship for listening in on the badies. 3) One cannot tell me that Section 31 would not have made an interesting use for this ship. Just my thoughts.

One spiffy thing about fan-designed ships over the years is how fun they can be at filling in gaps that arise from stories focusing on only a couple of crews. This was always some of the fun with the technical manuals too as they could fill out the world building in unique ways. This design in part reminds me of the role that Babylon 5 exploration vessels filled as well with their dual mission of charting routes and setting up new gates.

This channel and the stories you create along with unique and unusual starship designs make this channel a joy to watch.

Very cool. I always enjoy your "Fan fiction" videos. They're always well thought out and presented. Looking forward to the next one!

No bowling alley or pool! I would resign from Starfleet if I had been assigned to one of these ships.

That was an awesome class. It made sense to construct a class of this design after the first Klingon war. It seems to have served it's purpose. I like the design and the versatility of it in acting as a "Com" array and the ability to construct the new "Com" booster stations where and when they were needed. I very much enjoyed your description of the arrival and building of this design. Thanks again for the little Star Trek fun!

Ah the Baud-class, when you need to make a phone call but your bosses wont let you build the towers. Jokes aside, this class does make sense. Something to fill a role until the main problems are solved. I still have hope you'll do a video on the Yamato-class from Starfleet command.

Thank you for ALL the great content! I always look forward to seeing them as Soon as I can!

Development of the Baud class from the Constitution class reminds me of how the USN converted WWII fleet submarines into radar picket submarines in the 1940's and 1950's.

Looking at the Baud Class was something made for Stargate SG-1.

I love your stories, but it seems those based on the first Starship books seem to center within 30 years of the 2260. I also await your story about The USS Peregrine (NCC-1549) a Sombra-class Federation starship. ( To me a 1/2 scale version of the Consitution class )

great video. my only issue with the design is the middle section of the star ship. seems like a massive weak point having a small rectangular area when they could've just kept the tubular design through the secondary hull thus also increasing the cargo space needed for station building.

Never mind the heckin' bowling alley, that insert in the engineering hull is kinda where the warp core goes........

Ok, so no Bowling Alley, no Pool, but there still a gelato machine?

Captain and first officer, V Biz and Baudhead.

From all my years of listening to hip hop i gotta say that the audio on this video is dope

Looks like a crazy cross between the ISS, and the Enterprise.

Ah, Minutia at it's finest.

Was the bowling alley and pool a reference?

Very nice ship class

Interesting, but wouldn't the Baud class be better named the Baudot class? I get that as a communications ship it's a nod to the unit of symbol rate, baud, but the unit itself was named after Émile Baudot who invented the Baudot code used in telegraphy, and naming ships after people is much more common.

Love these stories. Keep them coming

Interesting ship design😊🤩🤩

As always brilliant.

Can you make video about the mann class and the ranger class (explorer version)?

USS Eternal September and NCC-1993 no less! 😂

I would like to see a shuttle carrier

It looks like a long distance colony ship

Keep up the great work 👍

So would this class be part of STARFLEET CORPS of ENGINEERS?

Can we get a video on the smaller construction from this week's strange new worlds

Excellent video, as always. You know, as much I appreciate these Beta Canon, perhaps it's time for a little more variety. For example, more Back Trek videos ou reviews. You still haven't reviewed the second season of Star Trek : Lower Decks nor Prodigy, and you still haven't talked about Strange New Worlds. Even a video of mistakes would be nice.

I am not a total fan of this design because of the array in the middle.. Just screams SHOOT ME HERE

I think this is the only class that I activally deslike

6:50 that the panels could be detached brings a thought to mind, based on the imagery of the panels being segmented… …It becomes easy to visualise the panels being able to fold away (look at current satellite solar panel arrays and how they collapse of unfold when launched)…but becomes easy to conceive the notion at least that for example, should the ship find itself in jeopardy which required higher warp speeds, to have the panels fold themselves in along the flat spine of the mounting area, plates opening at the ends to accomodate, and the fore and aft sections of the secondary hull retracting over the spine, thus protecting the panels and enabling the higher warp speeds to move to safety? This comes under the notion of the mathematics…you see something coming towards you and your shoelace is untied, do you start moving away as fast as you can from what’s coming, or do you take the few seconds to secure your shoe so you can RUN much faster No I am not implying this IS the case with this design, merely imparting a concept that very easily came to mind whilst seeing the various shots, and hearing the comment about the panels being detachable cemented it Furthermore, being a ship based on a communications array, one might assume that there might have been various ships in the class named after various historically significant people Imagine for example a USS MARCONI, or a USS BELL/ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL are a pair that immediately spring to mind

A mobile communications array makes absolutely no sense - 500 crew members? What would they all do???

This ship ships function could have easily and more efficiently been accomplished by using a Ptolemy class starship with a subspace array pod. I can't believe Starfleet would waste resources that could go to building actual Constitutions instead of using what is already a better design for the intended purpose. It also would look more aesthetically pleasing.

Hmmmm....

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Is anyone else seeing weird video distortion on this video?

The new phasers in the shows suck.