(237) The Shi'Kahr Class (Starfleet's NEW Miranda Class?) 

The Shi'Kahr is a cross between the Miranda, Nebula, and Defiant class starships.

Lovely looking ship! It always was amazing how much the tng people did with things like markers and how we can still expand on it

The Sh'Kahr really does look like a TNG era design. I could have seen some of these fight at Wolf 359.

Ah, a fellow STO Beta Tester! Shi'Kahr is an OG, I still have my original one from all of those years ago.

Looks Great. Cross between the Miranda and the Nebula 🖖

A thought. Since there was a Project Galaxy, I wonder what ships would be like under "Project Sovereign".

These Monday morning releases help prepare this nerd for a week of number crunching. Thanks

I definitely see the Miranda influence. Looks like a worthy successor. Miranda class is a favorite of mine. Nicely done.

When I recently got back into STO, I was really surprised by the new Shi Kar class design. I always thought the old one was a bit jagged, but I really appreciate this ship, as a fan of project Galaxy

Somehow looks like it fits in well with the Lower Decks designed ships.

This is a cool design. Definitely something that fits the style of the Galaxy-class.

Gotta love those Hi-Lighter nacelles!...😉

a video on this day that isnt an april fools video? im flabbergasted lol

Love the narrative and good evolution for the Miranda class 🖖🏻🇲🇽

The content you create is absolutely fantastic.

One other thing to consider about why some people may have considered the Galaxy project a failure... at the time it was designed, the Galaxy class was intended to be the dominant, most advanced ship ever built by the Federation... yet 3 or 4 of them were destroyed within a decade of the time they were launched. Now, in reality, this simply happened because the writers of various TNG and DS9 episodes deemed it necessary to destroy some ships for dramatic purposes, not because the writing staff had any predetermined notion that Galaxy class ships had some inherent flaw. But if viewed in universe, it's understandable that some people in Starfleet and in the Federation might see it that way... that if almost half the ships of this incredibly powerful new class had been destroyed in just a handful of years, was there something fundamentally wrong with the class, or with the underlying technology on which it was based? And then of course, with the first Borg incursion happening just 5 years after the Galaxy class launched, followed soon after by the increasing threat of the Dominion, it's understandable that the Galaxy class and other designs based on that shared pool of technology soon gave way to designs like the Sovereign class, which were built with more of a battleship mindset, didn't have families aboard, etc. Also, newer designs like the Sovereign and Intrepid classes had a sleeker, narrower primary hull with a lower profile, as opposed to the tall neck and broad saucer section of the Galaxy class. These features were not only preferable in a combat situation, as there would be less frontal surface area for an enemy vessel to target, but this kind of design also, it seems, helped with the issue of the subspace damage that warp travel was apparently causing to the fabric of subspace, as discovered in the season 7 TNG episode "Force Of Nature". And hey, great video overall... looking forward to the next one! 😀

Beautiful ship, absolutely beautiful

Brilliant looking starship

So for years I have been begging the STO devs to redesign all their original ships of the line when the game released. They look horrendously out of date, but I always loved their 'utility' aesthetic. In recent years my wish has coem true and they seem to be working on them as time goes by, and sure there have been some underwhelming or disappointing redesigns here and there, but several really do make a big difference. The Shikahr Class is one of those jobs well done, I'm happy this made it into your lore videos

Another brilliant extrapolation of the stories, people and designs of the UFP and the world of Star Trek. Love you! Always!❤🎉

The backstory you came up with made me admire this class from just not liking the design (it was the nacelles and thier pylons). Now I like it because of you, and I truely thank you for the storytelling abilities!

Love this god damn ship.

Since this dropped on April 1, I kept expecting it to be a joke. That said this is one good looking ship. Except for the open cargo bays on the front rim of rhe saucer. Would prefer if those were fully port and starboard.

It's a beautiful design. Seen from above, it kind of resembles the Millennium Falcon with warp nacelles 🙂

I love the modern Shi'Kahr Class, it fits in perfectly with the pre TNG Highlighter pen nacelle aesthetic. I do miss the Old Shi'Kahr though, it was the skin I used on my first ship when I originally started playing.

Kinda looks like a prelude to the Parliament class. :)

Wonderful story with an excellent Star Ship class although the other ships are very interesting as well I just LOVE these designs and the narratives you give them Thank You very Much👍👍❤💯😁😁🌹🌹

Glad to see the Galaxy aesthetic re-emerge. I always felt the Galaxy project was done dirty in canon.

A very nice looking vessel (although the nacelles DO somewhat resemble USB drives 🙂 ). Any thoughts on including a much - updated XCV-330 style vessel in your 30'th Century development series? I'm a great fan of the Alcubierre - Drive ring technology, and I feel it just doesn't get the exposure (certainly in fan-fiction) that it truly deserves, even as e.g. interstellar freighter systems.

Not a bad design i like the spring field class nacelles on this ship the design is a worthy of the Miranda class

I like the old S’akar Class design. It just made a whole lot more sense when Star Trek online was lunch back in 2010.

Great story as always. In my head cannon a brilliant captain, Captain ScottyB, realizing that Starfleet needs warships quickly brings the great idea for the Galaxy hulls to Starfleet. With all the space for people and families not necessary it's decided to strip those areas completely out and begin installing more armament : more phasers, more torpedo launching capability. Shuttle bays filled with fighters and pop up phaser Gatling guns, a extra warp core to power all the guns and phasers. Hull seperation removed to save weight for all the extra torpedoes and fighters. Pure warships that can be manned by minimal crews. This fleet would be staged near Earth with the crews trained much like the national guard, doing other jobs but training monthly and an entire month each year in their assigned ship. They can quickly get to their ship when necessary.

I appreciate you not crapping all over the Project Galaxy ships. To me they represented the best ambitions of their time, but met too many war-like situations to continue. The Galaxy Class ships were also the most elegant ships ever designed.

Love ur vids!

Sweet little ship!

Just turn it upside down and it looks far more 'conventional'.Warp nacelles above the main saucer hull and deflector dish below.

Nice looking ship. I'd command one.

You gotta love Starfleet. "Sure, we have to worry about the weapons and major threats and multiple ship requirements, but is it going to be a pretty ship?" :D

Can it be upgraded with trans torpedoes trans phaser and borg shields and side torpedoes and few attack shuttles and thick bidy armour?

I return to Sto between my seanonal breaks from wow, and still enjoy the game

I do wish the pod connected to the main body to allow for a full vertical warpcore right through the middle.

I wonder if subspace plasma works like electrical fields. Like that experiment the RU-vidr did with the mile of wire and the power was still instantaneous. I imagine the plasma like wire. But the subspace field goes directly to the warp nacelles, not technically through the plasma conduits. It would help explain why the pylons are always so skinny. Most of the energy is going through subspace. Just need to keep the connection going. /Trek shower thought

I love this video-

I liked the Old Design more.

Altho we all know that in space there is no up or down, to me this ship looks like it is upside down.

Absolutely loved the Shi'Kahr in both iterations (brings back great STO Beta memories), the revamp is gorgeous!

I would like to order one please.

This is the ship class they should of used for Lower Decks.

she's kind of an upside down Springfield. even has the same marker pen nacelles

Not bad.

Looks like a backward federation version of a Jem' Hadar ship

Am I the only one who sees the Millennium Falcon in there?

It's nice looking ship. The only issue I have is that the phaser cannons on the corners of the roll bar from the OG Miranda class (U.S.S. Reliant from Wrath of Khan) weren't included.

That is one sexy looking ship.

Hey Dude, love your videos. May want to have the model fixed. Just nit-picking, but at the 6 minute mark, I noticed there's green lights on the left (port side) and red on the right (starboard side) per the nacelles. Red is left and green is right. Sorry, it's my old age OCD. But I do love the stories and videos you come up with. You are the only channel that I financially support.

Maybe you could put a video about starfleet's shipayards and their respective production capacity.

Nice ship. Although it seems that Starfleet changes its esthetics every 3 minutes. If i were a pirate i would totally raid Starfleet Boneyards and get all those wonderful ships just sitting around waiting to be chopped up

Would also like to see the nx intrepid and freedom class updated to 24th century

Would like to see this class with the defiant class updates.

Does it come stock with the Pogo - Data and Picard song in its music choices?

I’m kinda curious about the use of Cheyenne nacels. Any reason?

The older aesthetic of the Shi'Kahr class looks so much better. The current design looks like it was moulded out of soap - I just really dislike how rounded everything on it looks.

A lot of the best designed ships from any era come from the fans who play Star Trek Online. I just love that new ship smell. Wouldn't you say that the Shi'Kahr Class be a worthy successor to the Miranda Class?

Would the space bus not be a Miranda

You forgot the nebula class which was a galaxy class variant of the Miranda class before the sh'kar class variant of the old Miranda coass

So your fan fiction ignores the reliant class all together, Even though the Reliant class is now canon to tv... Picard s2 and 3

Roll bar is kinda meh. Where are the whoop-ass +1 phasers?

Gonna have to disagree with you and say this class was built at the same time as its sister classes and that theres no reason Starfleet would scrap perfectly serviceable relatively new ships.

The Shi'Kar class was originally mentioned in the Last Unicorn Tabletop RPG long before STO came along. I remember being pleasantly surprised when I discovered the class was in the game only to be annoyed when I realized that for some reason the playable version was classed as a Light Cruiser even though the NPC version is a Frigate like the class was in the tabletop game. I never understood why the people working on STO love to reclassify ships instead of using the class types from the original material.

Thought this was an april fools

Love the video, but your lore always depicts the Federation as a bunch of WHINERS, constantly judging Starfleet. It makes me laugh sometimes! The Galaxy class didn't perform well against the adaptable Borg with a assimilated Starfleet captain in command? Pack it up boys, send the entire program off to pasture! We'll use our trusty ol' Excelsiors to fight the problem!