I love how the Sovereign's arrival at the battle of sector 001 was called by one channel creator: 'Daddy's Home!' Forget the Aries, forget the Defiant; this is Starfleet's first thoroughbred Warship. For eff's sake, the Klingons got hot and bothered by the Sovereign!
A few years ago, I downloaded several images of the Century-class from DeviantArt, and as impressed as I was by the design, I wondered about its history. Thanks for solving a 24th "Century" mystery! 😁
A very sleek design that compliments the Sovereign. From a distance, their differences are quite subtle but I think the size of the Century is perfect. I've said this before but I love when you can see a similar design language.
I love these stories. Have you ever considered doing any "What if?" type of content? What if the Century Class was made into the Enterprise-F and the Federation flagship?
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios You are very welcome, I love the videos like this. Did you ever do one about the Exeter class? If not I would love to see one, maybe offer my advice on it?
There were attempts made when the enterprise f design challenge was made but a whole bunch of people were uploading it calling it their own so it was disqualified and sadly the devs made it clear they won't add it because of that incident
Sorry but whats your source on this? Having discussed this class with many on the STO team I haven't heard that one, rather, the Century Class just lost out to the Odyssey Class as it was felt that design was better...
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I don't exactly have a source but I did a post few months back on reddit about the century class on the sto subreddit and almost everyone told me about the incident, granted not all were exactly the same but the consistent part was a bunch of people tried submitting the century class as the new enterprise f and most were claiming they owned it or gave credit to DJ Curtis but didn't have permission to submit it witch was against the rules of the contest The least consist part is cryptic's response to the incident but the most common claim is cryptic declared they will never add it because of the spam and the fact they didn't like the design
Love your prospective on the beta cannon ships I truly enjoy the visuals. There’s a division 14 ship featured in Lower Decks S1 E7 that’s very different I’d like to see your stardust on this one
Always enjoy your content, but this class deserved a more positive spin, in my opinion. She was the stuff of legend in the Bridge Commander community back in the day. I do hope to see you cover the Eclipse class tho :-)
I understand your feeling, but disagree! You see, the class was NOT chosen and although I love it, it's only a fan design, BC mod or no! So the fact I tried to include it at all shows the respect I have for it!
If memory serves I think the DJ Curtis model was made for a Bridge Commander mod I think that predated the STO model this has been like 15 plus years so details might be a bit fuzzy.
I really dig this design and the history you gave it. I agree that the loss of the Enterprise-D to a 20 year old defective Klingon Bird Of Prey would be a huge embarrassment for Starfleet. Good job on this one, sir.
it makes sense for the century class to be a footnote as starfleet was facing dominion at the time of launch and the Galaxy was still fresh at the time
Severely underrated design...in my opinion, FAR more visually pleasing than either the Odyssey or Sovereign classes. This should have been the -E, and if created too late for that, ABSOLUTELY the -F.
The anti-borg fleet had great designs but they were all on the smaller side except for the Sovereign. This would of been a great class for exploration and fleet action that didn't call for Big Daddy. Similar to the Nebula and Excelsior.
It's a pretty thing, but I like something a bit more compact, like a Magee class. I know, it's an order design, but I could easily enough do a proper refit and upgrade. I think that I have a way to shunt the delta radiation out of the nacelles,instead of requiring all of that expensive shielding that takes up so much space.
Right, but Im not sure what your point is? As up to the point it was entered in to the contest, it was nothing more than a fan design... It was the STO contest that made it a big thing!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios My comment was pure nostalgia remembering her fondly from the thousands of hours I spent playing and modifying Bridge Commander. It wasn’t a criticism of your video at all. On the contrary I quite enjoyed it.
Ahhhhh ok, thanks for clarifying, as it seemed like you were trying to point out some type of important info I had left out or something lol Its so hard to tell online without emotes!
I still love the Galaxy class 5 star, built for comfort and no slouch in offense and defense. Any of these other upgraded goodies could be retrofitted to my Galaxy class mega home. It's just not quite as nimble because of it's overall design. Still my choice if I could have one of the ships for now for real like a present from God.
542 meters, she’s 20 meters longer in length than the Ambassador-Class Enterprise-C and only 20 meters Shorter than the Constitution-III-Class Enterprise-G, it fits her Aesthetics! and i can see the design team of the Odyssey-Class in the late-2370s taking notes from or having the same design team members as this Ship. The Deflector dish, while smaller, is similar; The Pylons on both designs utilize Impulse drive units, although the Odyssey has more of them; and the Nacelles have a similar design to them, although not identical having Dual Warp Grills instead of Dual Bussards on each nacelle. I wouldn’t be surprised if not only was the reactivated and refitted Discovery-Class USS Theseus NX-1987 used as a testbed for the Odyssey, but maybe a ship of the Century-Class was aswell, testing technologies that would someday make it into the frame of her Younger Bigger Sister. She’s an awesome design, and i love this ship in a similar way that i love the Odyssey, you did am amazing job on her backstory! ^w^
Picard wanted most of his old enterpise d crew to be on board the century just did not had space to house 700+ officers and crew. Also starfleet was going into war with the domminion war picard needed a faster ship to be doing back water dilplomatic mission and back water bush fires. The second borg battle of sector 001 the enterpise proved to things 1 just how well sovergine class can fight. 2 just how fast at maxium warp the sorvergine class can travel. I know commander laforge i am sure that he was able to knock enterpise to more speed then speced warp speed. Romulan nutral zone to eath is a long way
I knew DJCurtis very well virtually through the Star Trek Bridge Commander Community forum. He was (is) a master starship modeler and his creativity in designs were second to none. The Century Class is truly one of his best. I remember when he first introduced this ship design, all in the BC community were amazed at how beautiful and "canon-ish" this ship was. I like this video and I hope that DJ is out there, and sees this. IMO however, you gave this class of ship somewhat of a mediocre rap in this presentation - and I think she deserves a much better place of honor and reputation than what you assigned - but... this is your opinion. Most importantly though, I hope DJ would approve of you using his creation in this video with proper permissions.
First, I didnt give it a mediocre rep, as it IS a fan design, and just because YOU love it, doesnt make it anymore than that. Now, I love the design too, however, it DID lose the competition in STO and to rightfully include it I had one issue, why it was never seen. Without Beta Canon to support it, I created a story to explain away those issues. So infact, unlike a LOT of other fan designs, Ive honored it, by including it here, and showing it to a new generation of Trekkies! Not to mention I had to do an EXTENSIVE retexturing just to be able to use the model in a video in the first place! So there's that! Second, as the documentation included states, so long as credit is given, I can use it, so you shouldnt worry about such things, as this channel is always respectful of such things!
I wonder how well DJ Curtis' designs could be worked into Trek lore as the Project Galaxy equivalent for the Odyssey. They seem to have quite a few parallels in their design language, especially the Century, Sun Tzu, and Vivace classes.
Knowing that a ship with bioneural circuits can basically get sick(and whoever did not think about that possibility in universe)..can these things catch a common,not cheese related cold if you lower the internal temperature enough??^^
Canon doesn't work that way... Until it was made canon in Picard S3, there was NO Enterprise-F... And once it was, it made the Odyssey Class Enterprise-F ALWAYS the Enterprise-F... A fan design in a mod is not even Beta Canon!
