(239) The Yamato Class (Special Episode) 

*Starfleet to the Klingon Empire:* Yeah, we just so happened to already be building some transport/construction ships. Really fortunate that.

“The Excelsior aren’t powerful enough and we need years to design a new one? What do we do!” “Put two Excelsior together”

Back in the early 1980s, there was a company called FASA that had the license to make the Star Trek table-top RPG/wargame, and if I remember correctly, there was at least 1 ship miniature that looked kind of like this and had the stats for a battleship.

The Yamato Battleship is a beast in Klingon Academy. It’s 2 Assault Phasers can do massive damage on heavy battlecruisers, and higher types. On cruisers and smaller types, it can be a one shot kill.

I see my request to see this class get a video made from you. Think your so much, I really enjoyed your story on this class.

What?! TWO WAVE MOTION GUNS?! Sweet! What? Okay. I'll just see myself out. Hehe.

A ship designed to take lives, built as a ship to save lives. That is just so Star Trek.

You did it! Thank you. I loved this weird design back in 2000 when in appeared for the first time in KA.

Finally someone reviews a ship from Klingon Academy. There are so wonderful design in that game from all the different races

I want to see more big ships like this from star trek

Words cannot express my excitement at seeing this class. There was a chat room RPG on AOL back in the early 2000's and I was a marine Colonel in command of a Yamato class.

one of my favorite ship. Been wanting to get ahold of a 3d model for this to print it out.

Thank you! This is my favorite ship design in Star Trek.

Awesome video and cool design. I bet the reason why Starfleet found the Orgainian homeworld deserted and no one came when they asked for their help because THEY knew the two powers would put asaide their differences and be friends and allies. I think the only time the Orgainians would have intervened if they were to the point of annihilating each other.

Loved the Starfleet Command games when I was growing up

Amazing video! Great job on the model and thanks for bringing that ship back from the dead!

"We need a new ship design." "Why don't we kitbash some ships we already have?" "You're promoted!"

Great 3 D Model! I remember the class from Klingon Academy, really fits the idea of what a warship constructred by starfleet would look like.

A good looking kitbash model and the story to follow will be your best yet.

Awesome story and kit-bash. Love it!

A twinhull design seems like such an obvious evolution, I'm surprised we've never seen it before. I think it could have made a mean Enterprise.

Would love to see more of this class. Wish that Star Trek online would take this design and update it to a newer version.

That is a cool looking ship nice back story.❤

this looks like 10-year-old me had 2 Excelsior kits, 2 reliant kits, and a pretty good weekend watching the last starfighter.

Incredible. Thank you for doing a video on this, Klingon Academy's greatest Federation starship. The Yamato has been a fave of mine for years; and I've even pondered trying to kitbash a few ship models to try to make a decent one.

I've always loved ship designs like this it reminds me of the bore 2021st century warships and everything A kind of always think they should have big ships like this like maybe three It could have true multi purpose rolls be a colonization ship building space station construction Even long and I mean long voyages like ark ships

Stuff like this needs to be in Star Trek online. Also, here is a ship with parts from Miranda, Connie, and Excelsior😂

Dude....thank you SOOO much for finally making this video. Heh, i know i was probably one of the louder voices for this class. It was my favorite class from Starfleet Command. And youre also the first one to really do this ship justice. Youre the best.

The Lexington-Class Command Cruiser from KA was also a pretty cool design. It was kinda like a Sovereign-class and Ambassador-class rolled into one. Think and Ambassador-class that's been stretched length-wise, and squashed vertically. If I remember correctly, the neck pieces between the saucer and secondary hulls were split and had a V-shape. The nacelles were like a Constitution-refit, but more tapered and had blue internal areas (I think). The saucer was like a slick Excelsior saucer.

Thank you for being amazing

My favorite from Starfleet Command. It makes me happy to see this ship-class again.

I love this design! I also enjoyed your narrative!

Fantastic model, great piece of work dude...

I have a version of this ship for star Trek Armada II. It has a Constitution refit style saucers section though with 4 phaser emitters at all 6 hard points on the saucer section and a different roll bar from the Miranda class.

Something you said in the video got me thinking, and along with the long tradition of kit bashing new ships from old parts, both by fan and studio. Starfleet as you mentioned, normally does not have Warships. However, ships like Yamato-class gets built for components and systems from other ship classes. And that the engineers keep designing and designing. Its almost like they design the ultimate weapon but produce it in sections and then use those designs for ships that would get approved. Then if a war does break out. those readymade ship components an be assembled into the Warship they were designing all along. For lack of a better term. Starfleet is a LEGO fleet. Systems from different classes, types and sometimes eras remain compatible with each other. What would a good term for that be? If that's true, that would be a canon reason kit bashes happen, instead of slap something together for a background shot :o)

Excellent work! Definitely want to see workups of the frigates and other unique vessels from Starfleet Command!! think I need to re-download it now

Damn great job!! Great story and most impressive kit bashing! SOOOOOOOOOOO NERD APPROVED!!!!

Well worth the wait! Thank You very much for your time and uncanny effort in building this Beautiful model She's quite a ship👍👍👍👍😊

Starfleet Command II was a banger of a game. Would've been interesting to see the beta canon races and ships make their way into a series, especially theYamato

Love this class Never heard or seen it You did an amazing job

🎵 _"Uchuu Senkan Yamato!!"_ 🎵

I like how it has the Miranda class torpedo shooters

Sweet, bloody Khaine! I remember this monstrosity!

Now this lives up to the name yamato

Always loved playing those in Empires at War.

They need to drop this baddie for STO!

As soon as I saw this design, my mind immediately went to a old, printed series of books. Jackill's StarFleet Reference Guides 1-3. Does anyone here remember those? Gather around childrens, before the Internet, ship blueprints/schematics were printed. Really. I still have them. This design gave me a reason to pull them out again. Conventions and mail-order were great places to get such things. The books were collections of known designs, some inspired designs and, kitbashing. Some of the kitbashing worked, most didn't. The Yamato Class looks like it could have come out of those books. Taking existing components and assembling them differently. And somehow...this one works.

That's a pretty cool story behind that ship

This ship was an absolute beast in Starfleet Command

whoo!! a new TriAngulum Video!!

I never played Starfleet Command but I would love to see more of these videos from the game Star Trek Legacy, including some from the various modpacks for the game.

Amazing story and love the juxtaposition that seems to be at the core of every truly classic Star Trek story. (No matter the era)

This reminds me, I've never used Carrier-style ships in STO. I should rectify that at some point.

That model is amazing. I wanna see it in STO.

Whatever you do, don't ask Patrick what he thinks of the "Ground Beef" :P

been waiting for this video, thanks for making it

wow very great! video from the Yamato Class

I remember this design on seceral games and books. The old Fasa books for example.

It's possible that such starships may have been built around the time of the undiscovered country but we're moth balled after the first khitomer accords.

Great video! Thank you for featuring this ship. Can you make a video about the Okinawa class from the same video game?

Interesting as I was playing KA the other evening, pitched two Yamatos and a Ulysses dreadnought vs a single Galaxy Class ship that somehow found itself in the 23rd century ... if it wasn't for firing those assault phasers at a safe distance ... the Galaxy class would have clapped all 3 of us ...

i remember this from klingon Academy

Seeing the Yamato Class makes me wonder: Are there other Classes with two secondary Hulls?

getting nostalgic for Klingon Academy again

Honestly I wish this ship was in Star Trek Online already I always used it in Starfleet Command in skirmish

Nice ship.

Would LOVE to see a tv series that featured this ship and this era . ....kind of the extreme opposite of Starfleet thinking in the next century . when bigger was not always better with game changing Defiant Class

Two secondary hulls! So I guess that means it had two bowling alleys?

Somewhere in the Galaga universe, they are trying to incorporate this design.

You did a good job on that man forget about the haters you're entitled to your opinion I like the Yamato I play the video game Star Trek Empires at at War volume two out of all the games that one is the best it's so realistic it is as if you right out there in space aboard

I really like her. She grows on you.

I’d like to see something on the Midway class carrier myself.

Very Cool ship

There are only two ships in the space battleship Yamato class: the Yamato BBY-01 and the Ginga BBY-03.

Shout-outs and EyaySuust to Leiji Matsumoto (R.I.P. 2023). ✨☠️✨

If she was supposed to be a carrier, she should've been named Shinano instead. Was there a Musahsi in the class as well? Still, it seems this fictional Yamato saw more action in gameplay than her real-life namesake.

Never heard of this class before. Honestly, its so ugly, bonkers and OP i just have to love it lol.

I enjoy all the videos

*squeee** He is doing Klingon Academy. ... I mean...yes...very good.

I was really really hoping to see this ship on Star Trek Online. It was on of my favorite from "Star Trek: Legacy".

Okay, to build this beast you would need 2x Excelsior, 2x Enterprise A, 2x Reliant and some scratch building... expensive and the scale could be a problem🤔

The concept of giant superships is against Starfleet doctrine. They don't like putting all their eggs into a few baskets. A supership becomes the ultimate target of a task force. Starfleets biggest capital ships are still large enough, but tend to be more nimble and aimed to take advantage of tactical opportunities and crew skill rather than be stand and slug it out behemoths. Ideally what Starfleet should have done is build a counterpart to the _Klingon Bird of Prey_ that was designed to kill it, optimised to beat it in a one on one. A bit faster (maybe by a fair amount) and more manoeuvrable, a bit more powerful and tougher, and "cheap enough" to be built quickly in large numbers and with a minimal crew requirement. Not superships, just taking the BOP concept, increasing the size _slightly,_ and improving it with Starfleet ingenuity and technical innovations. This time predates the Treaty of Algeron by decades, so Starfleet could have also equipped them with Cloaks, .... as well as retrofitted existing ships. They'd already "aquired" a few Cloaks by then. With the Federations superior resources and manufacturing capability, they could have outbuilt the Empire soon enough. These Federation _Attack Ships_ could have been attached to existing Capital ships to act as screening forces, and sent out as Wolf packs to take out Klingon BOP's by having superior local numbers in hit and run raids and ambushes, and acted as interceptors to prevent the same. This would have been a far more effective strategy if there had been an actual war of attrition - say if Praxis didn't fortuitously happen to "accidentally" blow up.....

Not my favorite design of those game, but its a solid one. Much prefer the Missouri class, which was the ingame predecessors to this class and was design to be a tank.

This ship is my kit-bash sleep paralysis demon.

How much kit bashing as we going to use on this one? Yes.

I should hate this ship, but I don't. 😊👊💪🖖👍🍻

I remember another Federation BB from SFC, is that one available for a video?

I'd love to see you do a video of this class but updated for Star Trek: Picard times.

Hello! Can i request a video on a starship class? It would be really nice to see a video like this on the (23rd century) hoover class because there are like none on it and your quality is second to none. Thank you in advance if possible. :))

I'm surprised you didn't give any omaj to the Curry class.

Federation should always have had mostly battleships.

Excelsior class on steroids 😂

I'll take two please 😊

I would like to see Yamato in STO

If GTFOH was a starship.

When are you going to do a video review on the columbia and avenger class those two are my favourite..

as usual great video! as for the ship ... dear god must have been designed in the short period when replicator tech was new and one could just replicate lines of cocain xD almost can hear the designers shout 'mooooore poooower'

Classic kitbash design

Star Trek Online should make this ship.

its such an amazing looking ship great job