(236) The Edward Class (A Starfleet Colony Starship Design) 

I really like seeing the work horse classes.

This is a cool addition to the story of the Federation. The shows often raced to rescue of one colony or another and we never got much for explanations for "so how did these folks start here?" even if a colony ship was referenced in passing. That elongated warp field bubble shape might have been tough to maintain though. Explains its speed limits.

One thing I liked about this video was the Starfleet attitude why wait for fair weather but instead build something that can weather the storm

The Edward, what a pleasant surprise. I made stats for this ship for the LUG RPG for Federation Merchant Marines.

Cool ship, easily one of my favorites. Would love to see more of these types of industrial ships. IMO Starfleet could use a bit more variety in their ship designs. Saucer, nacelle, secondary hulls can only be done so many ways before they get to repetitive.

...your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they 'could', that they didn't stop to think if they 'should'.

I always loved these videos that talk about HOW they got colonies up and running.. The pioneers of Colonies! Ty for the video and LLAP!

Love the design, personally love the auxiliary starships models, like this and Hiawatha design 🖖🏻🇲🇽

I love it. A completely cool and reasonable idea for a colony ship.

Lovely ship more please

Could be use for troop transport in wartime in theory

Love the video and style of the ship 😊

Very nice Information Video. Very nice ship mix from nx and Tos

🖖😎👍 Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and informatively explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the Edward Colony class starship's and on all of its functions and abilities and duties and missions required of it indeed Sir!👌.

I love this practical design and I do remember similar from the fasa days. Reminds me of a Thunderbird 2 for Starfleet. It seems that more starfleet ships could be more modular rather than just swappable mission pods for practicalities sake.

Glad you mentioned FASA, this is giving me USS Ark Royal vibes too

I really like this class. Good old workhorse class that could pack a punch if encountering a local bully. Be nice to see additional classes of this nature.

Anything TOS is perfection

I wonder if this class could also be used for terraforming missions. It has the cargo capability for such work.

Thanks for sharing how the Federation hauled ass. Great video and story Nerd Approved.

I love that ship and the story yes please more like that

There’s a Starship for every application and task. This one is no exception. BTW, with April Fools coming I had an idea for a fun video. I remember a scene from Star Trek: First Contact. At the battle of Sector 001 between Starfleet and the Borg, a rather interesting looking ship is in the background. I’m talking about the Millennium Falcon. What if Starfleet had built a ship based on the Falcon. Say a limited run, or at least the prototype showed up at the battle. The designer was a fan of Star Wars and decided to make a ship inspired by the falcon in the aftermath of Wolf 359. Maybe incorporated Victrium and ablative hull armor into it. Was designed in tandem with the Defiant and Saber classes. Maybe Argyle was behind it. Drew at little inspiration from the NX class perhaps among other ships.

Can you please do a Confederation design of the Intrepid Warship?

Thanks!

I'd almost be prepared to swear that I saw this ship viewed from the side profile in a very old rpg book of star trek ship designs.

MORE PLEASE :)

Looks like a die cast metal shuttle carrier that I believe I purchased at a convention "...back in the before-time...". Both of her engines have now snapped off, and I can't find pictures of it on the Internet anywhere, but I believe I got it before TNG aired.

A Starfleet ship that has saucer separation capabilities could make a great colony vessel, if the saucer was temporarily replaced by a colony station that either became a Space station, or could safely de-orbit and land to become a instant city. The ship could be crewed from the star drive section. Imagine the size of the colony if a Galaxy class drive section was dedicated to this mission type? It could even be a interim use if only the saucer section was getting a major refit and the drive section would otherwise be sitting around. Or just repurpose old Constitution class ships.

I actually came up with a design for a cargo/colony vessel years ago that is strikingly similar to this. TNG era, larger than a galaxy class, with a smaller but thicker saucer and massive cargo/shuttle bays instead of detachable pods. Also I'd never even heard of the Edwards class before watching this video. Spooky eh👻

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This is a beautiful starship.....

At first glance I thought it was a Fed heavy carrier from Starfleet Battles!

A fleet is more than its cruisers and frigates. A fleet is not just carriers. Seeing these workaday ships that starfleet needs for its affairs is always good. I also have t owonder. When these vessels are mothballed, do any come up in private hands? Obsolete by a few generations, expensive (resource and man hours wise if not monitarily since money isn't a thing) to refit. Refitting older ships for civillian purpose where possible allows them to be of use and lets civilian groups have access to resources they wouldn't otherwise.

Have you ever come across the colany support ship from the disco novel despite measures. I forget the class but it was a really cool concept. The ship lands plugs into the power grid and acts a hospital/factory/where house/power station

I think when Paramount is making a new Star Trek series or movie they should offer you the Job of designing the federation ships because you make some very good ships and you are good at keeping them in the specific time line of the time period the movie is set in. My two favorite time periods are TNG and the TOS. I like the TOS because it is what Star Trek is based on and I like TNG because it brought Star Trek back to life. When doing TOS they need to keep everything original to the TOS show the technology and uniforms and never try to modernize it but as far as uniforms are concerned I believe in TOS each ship had their own insignia. but as far as the ship are concerned you make some interesting ships for the federation.

Nice 👍

FASA did have some cool designs.

First place I saw it was the Star Trek PC game Birth of the Federation.

The reason the Eddy class was so successful? They minded their own business and did their job. No going off into some nebula in some unexplored region of the galaxy looking for trouble, no sir! Head down, do the job, and punish anyone who gets in the way. "Let those exploration ships go fuck around and find out, I got a job to do." - Some Edward class starship captain, probably.

I would love to see the WASP class ships

there are models for ST Armada 2 that have similar design aspects for this type of ship.

finally a ship that wasnt introduced and then decommissioned a few years later😂

Question,could the Edward Class be expandable? Can it carry more cargo containers than the one shown?

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looks like the original version of the sfb uss napoleon

Can you please a history of edward class upgrades ams refits over the next 150 years

Such a beautiful and functional ship compared to most Starfleet designs. It seems like the fleet just gets uglier over time, and they rarely follow the rule of form following function.With the Edward, you have a very aesthetically pleasing vessel while leaving no room to doubt what its purpose is. We definitely need more ships like this brought into Alpha canon to make up for the terrible starship designs most shows now sport.

Random question, did it ever happen to you to start designing lore around a starship and you fell so attached to it that you keep revisiting it to update it or change the legacies ships that will bear its name I am wondering because it happened to me 2 times USS Roon the sentient excelsior class that live through over a century and oldest excelsior still in active services. And USS warspite (legacy name carried by multiple ship) the sword of starfleet and the eternal warrior forever condamn to carry the wait war so that the others ships may trive in peace (I may or may not inject spiritisme in my ship lore because I believe that those ship are has much of a character has there crews) Sorry if it is random I am just curious

Logistic wins war.

Those Old Scientists ships were something. Nice kickback. You are improving. The Edward Class is a real beauty.

How about a Luxury Medium range transport?

A dedicated colony vessel is interesting, but to me, it makes far more sense to create more generic container vessels for multiple use purposes... P'tolmy (Constitution variant), Brownwood (Miranda variant), Anaxagoras (Excelsior variant), Fisher Class (Oberth variant), Osmanieh (Jaynes Starship handbook), Mangsysslare (JOAT), etc.... Containers could include types like the below and many more: Military Assault Type Mobile Base Type Medical Type Mobile Repair (aka Dry-dock) Type Shuttle/Fighter Carrier Type Tender Container Type Antimatter/Deuterium/Neutronic Fuel Type Colony Transport Type Dry Bulk Type Liquids Type Marine Transport Type Products Type Refrigeration Type

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Haven’t watched past your opening logos but I’m gonna say based off of the design of the Hiawatha from episode one of discovery’s second season.

The Edward class is from the Birth of the Federation game. The London class was it's counterpart troop transport.

This is an almost exact copy of the Federation Heavy Carrier introduced in Star Fleet Battles sans a few minor cosmetic differences. Mainly the bridge configuration and the location of the deflector dish.

The Edward Class looks a lot like the FASA Overfield class freighter and Sunshine class luxury liner that appeared in the first edition Federation Recognition Manual. It's got a similar design. Personally, neither of the FASA ships made sense as Starfleet vessels. Starfleet has it's own cruise ship? Is everything government owned by the 23rd century?

wow, this is a pretty obscure ship well maybe aside from the maybe the ranger class carrier

Is this meant to be disassembled like previous colony classes were, cause I can imagine that starting a colony is resource intensive. Disassembly would strengthen the ability for saving resources.

This looks very much like the Hiawatha-Class from Discovery, but in TOS style, interesting

I like what you done here but a long range four nacelle ship liner were used in the paramount role playing game modules but no details other than the number of passengers and the number of nacelles were in the game modules

The Edward class is from an old 90s PC game called 'Star Trek - Birth of the Federation'. In the game it's a TNG era design. Normaly i don't like roundbased games exept for BotF (i played it for hours and hours).

check out TOS book Wagon train to the Stars, colony establishing story. Lots of colony starting ships described there

That looks suspiciously like the “mining” vessel from Star Trek Armada 2 only TOS era.

I love the class, the video behind it, the info. But why wouldn't colonization be left to interests outside of the federation institution? I'd like to think that such endeavors would be handled by groups of actual "settlers".

What was wrong with using a Ptolemy and colony container?

Hey!!! Where did my comment go????

I wonder if a colony established outside Federation borders by Federation citizens would still have to abide by Federation restrictions? - a bunch of humans form a colony that heavily uses genetic engineering to create 'sane' Augments for example.

Jeez, Are you for real or what?