Galaxy Class Exploratory Cruiser | Star Trek 

Even Scotty said of the _Galaxy_ class: “She’s a beauty.”

Engineers to the Federation, “so do you want a cruise ship or a battleship?” Federation government “Yes!”

I love this ship. She was definitely the 8th main character

The Galaxy class. Better armed than dedicated warships. Better defended than dedicated strongholds. Better equipped than your local capital planet.

The ships hull was meant to last a century and individual ships were designed to go on 20 year missions alone, no wonder they put all the bells and whistles on it. Great ship.

Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise.

The sharing of rooms was pretty hilarious, the designer of the ship said it's really fit for a crew the size of 4,000 plus, and Rodenberry and the Producers just reduced it to 1,000 because of a lack of extras. There is no way anyone would have to share a room if you look at the blueprints and factor in some family members already living together.

The Galaxy Class also known as the Marriott Convention center with guns.

The Galaxy class, the most heavily armed and technologically advance versatile multi-purpose scientific & exploratory luxury battle apartment cruiser in space. She was done right in this episode. May history remember the maiden voyage week of _The Templin Arsenals_ and may it continue to explore strange new technologies and seek out new vehicles and new vessels. _"Live long and prosper."_

200 guests? More like 2000. It's been widely discussed how empty the Enterprise would actually be with only 1000 personnel, especially with ensigns inexplicably bunking together. They could rescue the entire crew of another Galaxy class and still maintain total luxury for everyone.

Imagine if a Galaxy Class starship was the one thrown across the galaxy, instead of voyager.

Love the lines on the enterprise, sleek and futuristic. Them damn shuttles, though.

You treat her like a lady, and she’ll always bring you home.

She is still a beautiful ship. No matter how many times I lay eyes on a Galaxy class, only one stands out…Enterprise. The Federation built a beautiful ship in the Galaxy class; I just hope they make more ships just like her.

4:10 and that is why Starfighters aren't popular in the Star Trek universe.

This video was an absolute love letter to a fantastic ship. Nicely done.

Probably the best "all-around" ship design the Federation had. Sure, it was later surpassed in specific roles by other classes (Defiant-class for combat, Sovereign-class for long-range "show-the-flag" missions and diplomacy, Intrepid-class and Nova-class for exploration), but a jack of all trades, and master of many.

"Well, this is a new ship. But she's got the right name. Now, you remember that, you hear? [....] You treat her like a lady. And she'll always bring you home."

"Let's see what this Galaxy-class starship can do!"-Captain Jean-Luc Picard, former Captain of the Federation Starfleet Starship, USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, during the years 2364-2371

"That is a Galaxy-Class Starship! We are no match for them!" -- B'Etor

Still can't believe, Riker lost it to a 20 years old bird of prey....Damn you, number one!

10:18 I still love the cetacean labs, it seems so Starfleet to say: “Oh, you uh, can’t get around on land? Don’t worry, we’ll figure something out.”

One of the defining features of my childhood. She's a fine class.

I feel like the "All Good Things" Galaxy-X refit would have warranted at least a mention about just how powerful it could be as a warship. Of course, it was an excellent video regardless.

Present me enjoys the engine of war that is the Imperium of Man's struggle for survival in a cruel galaxy. But the Enterprise will always be the ship of dreams where mankind may explore the void and hopefully find friends from all walks of life and unite them in a shared purpose of harmony and betterment of all.

The Galaxy Class Starship; A luxury apartment block in space as well as a convention centre. Does not hold up well when rammed.

It's been a while since I've seen a RU-vid video that didn't take a cynical and sour view of the Galaxy Class as "too soft" or "too luxurious." I'm very happy to see the class finally get some love! The Constitution Refit will always be my pick for the most beautiful starship design, but the Galaxy Class is the one that comes the closest to representing the Federation's ideals and embodying Gene Roddenberry's vision of a future worth living in. People understood this back when TNG was on the air, but these days not so much. So the few exceptions are most welcome!

This why other races in Star Trek think the Federation are such a big threat. Just imagine what they think when they encounter the Enterprise. Pirate crew: Captain, I am detecting a Federation vessel. It appears to be a luxury cruise liner with several recreational areas, large comfortable quarters, and what appears to be a school for children. Pirate captain: Excellent, easy prey. No doubt there are many valuable hostages onboard. And I'm sure a vessel of that size will have a large quantity of dilithium. Charge weapons and prepare boarding parties. Pirate crew: Sir! I'm also detecting over 200 high yield photon torpedoes, dozens of phaser arrays, dreadnought class shield generators, and the warp engines are more powerful than any we have ever encountered before! Pirate captain: What? How can anyone equip such heavy armaments on a luxury vessel? I would hate see what their warships are like. We better tell all our ships to avoid Federation ships in the future. They're clearly too powerful to be reckoned with and we cannot afford to incur their wrath.

15:51 God, imagine being a bridge officer of that Cardassian Galor class cruiser and seeing two wartime Galaxy class ships open fire towards you at the same time. I'd die of a heart attack before they even open fire.

Basically a flying research / military base, built to go for years with out major resupply

Still ticks me off how they destroyed the "D". :/

I like to think that the Galaxy-Class vessels built during the Dominion war, were more akin to Battleships when compared to vessels built before hand.

Last time I was this early, MacDougal was the new Scotty.

The first time I saw the Galaxy Class Starship was when Star Trek The Next Generation aired on t.v. and when I first saw that ship and it was called the Enterprise I was in complete awe that Starfleet could build such a massive starship when compared to the old Constitution Class it would probably look puny compared to the Galaxy Class and I was even surprised that these ships had families on board and it had a Klingon for a security chief and a blind man for a chief engineer and an android for a second officer just shows how far Starfleet has come since the days of the legendary Starfleet officers of the forementioned Constitution Class like the legendary Captain James T. Kirk.

I thought a Galaxy Wing was a group of starships centered around a Galaxy, similar to a US Carrier Battlegroup or Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Group.

Can you do the Sovereign-class

Enterprise D is back and the lady will fight one more time

Brought tears to my eyes. ST:NG was a show that todays Sci Fi try to emulate. No matter how advanced film production gets. They pale at the scope of which NG reached.

Nothing beats the Galaxy Class, be it in aesthetics or raw power, a true Explorer, does everything a little and does everything very well and still with legroom

I love these recent videos! While Stardock does a great job giving me the technical layouts of these ships you do an amazing job giving us the 'feeling' of them. You emphasis these vessels as being far more then specs but as a living entity. Well done!

I had no idea Star Trek predicted the threat of the Kardashians...

You know, I have little to no knowledge about Star Trek but these ships sound pretty cool! I like the idea of a ship being able to separate into two parts for various situations!

Man 7 episodes in the space of a week! Really outdone yourself

I still miss the Enterprise - D. what an iconic ship. none of its successors can compare.

The design was eventually greatly improved by the fitting of surge protectors. Eventually.... Also as inertial dampers were unreliable seat belts were eventually fitted.

Let's see what this Galaxy class starship can do!

Super sized, super luxurious, ludicrous number of amenities, the Galaxy class design perfectly captures the 80's excess from which is born.

The Enterprise D served for 8 years. The Next Generation series has 178 episodes. That means that 1701-D was faced with some crisis or catastrophe a little under once every 2 weeks. Great for television. Not the ship I would want to raise a family on.

Still my favourite Star Trek class of vessel. The Galaxy Class are basically a floating Metropolis.

Well, Star Trek: The Next Generation had to make a starship that had all the capability that Scotty squeezed out of Kirk's Constitution-class starship already built into it because they can't mass-produce Scotty's. And let's add replicators, holodecks, and scores of luxuries and space on top of that to make such a ship also a military base where many personal can take family along. You know, so family and civilian drama can happen in deep space for us to watch on the same show too.

"Space,... The Final Frontier"

Now I feel the urge to rewatch TNG

Would love to see a video of the Excelsior class.. The longest serving ship of the Federation EVEN out living the Galaxy class in terms of years. Being in Service for over two hundred years.

A wonderfully put together video on an incredible and beautiful class of starship! I especially love the massive variety of clips used, from every season of TNG, Generations, DS9, and Picard; it's nice to see everything included. :)

"Lieutenant, press the F button for the salute to the Galaxy class." "Aye, captain." (Templin anthem plays) And so ends Fleet Week with a look at an iconic starship from Star Trek. I can't wait to see more of Arsenal soon. In fact, I've got some ideas for future Arsenal videos: - RX-78-2 Gundam - Mobile Suit Gundam - The Waverider - Arrowverse/Legends of Tomorrow - The Death Star - Star Wars - Helicarrier - MCU - The Megazord - Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Battlestar Galactica - Metal Gear - Thunderbirds - The TARDIS - Doctor Who - The Orbital Ion Cannon - Command and Conquer

If possible, I'd like to see in a future video something from the show "Space: Above and Beyond"

Ah yes the civilian War ship.

Of all iconic, timeless classic ships, Galaxy Class, Constitution Class, Excelsior Class, Normandy SR-2 and Imperial Class Star Destroyers will be sources for inspiration for humanity.

There have been dozens upon dozens of classes of Federation starships, but the Galaxy-class is undoubtedly the *_most_* Federation starship of all. Flawed yet immensely powerful, and a symbol of peace and hope as much as it is an efficient tool for scientific research and defense. If your first contact with Starfleet was via a Galaxy-class it tells you everything about the Federation you need to know; strength in unity and a society built on cooperation and mutual respect, technologically advanced and endlessly adaptable, but with enough hubris it certainly validates their belief in the need to explore and understand the universe in order to become "complete". To many of us this is the design we first think of when we hear the name Enterprise. Gone before her time, she made The Next Generation visually iconic and firmly cemented herself among ships and names of legend. It's a shame working with the 6-foot filming model proved to be too challenging for the feature films, especially as if they'd held out until Insurrection they wouldn't have had to bother using the practical model. She may not be real, but she's real in our hearts. Her and her crew's missions and stories have delighted and inspired for over 30 years. Long may they continue to do so.

I wish there was footage of the captains yacht. Tremendously good broadcast video Templin.

I never got into Star Trek as much as I did Star Wars, but the Galaxy class is an AMAZING ship; both elegant and deadly! She would be a treasure to fly in ANY universe!!

I always thought of the Galaxy Class as the Porsche of Federation starships.

R.I.P. USS Yamato, USS Odyssey, and USS Enterprise-D.

Can you imagine being deployed for 5 years ? The average Navy deployment is 6-7 months. Some enlisted folks only sign up for careers only lasting 6.5 years. Starfleet is a goddamn life commitment, so splurging on some comfortability makes sense. Space madness is a real thing in Star Trek universe (Naked Time), some level of "im not on a goddamn starship" jas to be done.

That was great do Voyager next!!;

It took me a few years to get used to the design. I watched the TOS cast movies before watching TNG when it first came out. As for the best looking Enterprise. I prefer the Re-fit version we first saw in ST. TMP. Though the Enterprise we see in Azur Lane is quite a looker herself.

I don't know why tears came to my eyes while watching this.

Someone once told me that time is a predator that stalks us all our lives. I rather believe that time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment, ...because they'll never come again. ...What we leave behind is not as important as how we lived. Jean-Luc Picard, Captain NCC-1701-D

9:05 I'm sorry, but gaht DAYUM girl. Might've been one of the women Guinan mentioned would consider Worf "tame".

wasn't this one of the first ever spacedock episodes?

this just confirms that i should fly a galaxy class In the Game Star Trek online, Go around kicking all sorts of ass.

Thank you so much for this the Star Trek that I grew up with originally watching TOS at age 7. Now 60. While I have kept an open mind with Discovery and Picard this Star Trek that I missed it had elegance and grace.

ENGAGE!

If anyone remembers I made previous comments about the drive section of the Galaxy Class having a phaser strip on the top of the neck in front of the battle bridge just watch this video where they show the drive section of the Enterprise D in orbit of Deneb 4 in the TNG pilot episode 'Encounter at Farpoint' and you can clearly see the strip there and the Galaxy Class was mentioned for have 12 phaser strips the 2 massive phaser strips on top and on the bottom of the saucer section and the other 10 on the drive section one on top of what they call the goose neck,4 in between the warp nacelles 2 on top and 2 on the bottom of the ships fantail,one on the sides of the nacelle pylons,one on the ventral side of the drive section oh and the 2 on the dorsal side of the neck above the 2 shuttle bays so if anyone really still thinks there isn't a phaser strip on the top of the drive section in front of the Battle Bridge should either look at pictures of the 2 sections of this ship,get the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual on the Enterprise D or get your eyes checked and watch the episodes with the 2 sections of the Enterprise D or get the dvd and pause at that scene where the Enterprise D's drive section was in orbit of Deneb 4 and pause at the part where the shot zooms in on the drive section and you can clearly see it because if you can't then you clearly need to get your eyes checked.

For a supposedly super badass master-of-all ship those Galaxy class ships sure seem to get smacked around by every single anomaly/alien of the week.

I have a poster of the Enterprise D as a cutaway of the ships starboard side and it shows that the saucer section has 2 bridges in it as the second bridge as well as the Battle Bridge and even Main Engineering could act as backups incase the main bridge was damaged or deemed uninhabitale as the second saucer section bridge,the Battle Bridge or main engineering could act as a backup by just making adjustments to several consoles in those sections and rerouting the command functions.

ive watched so many break down on the Galaxy class, but this was awesome, covered everything i could think of

Can you guys do a cover of the Elite dangerous universe?

Ships I know of that were part of the Project Galaxy Class development program: Freedom Class Nebula Class Cheyenne Class Niagra Class Galaxy Class

Love the Galaxy Class & all her sister classes. Hope you cover all of them as well. 🖖

I always thought the Galaxy Class was a little weird looking. The way the saucer section just dwarfs the rest of the ship always kinda made me snicker to myself. And that weird shape didn't help. Still liked it though.

I love how people act like the Galaxy Class is good in combat. Its super slow and under gunned. Every design that went after it is better and wasn't approved by a man that thought skirts on men was better than actual conflict

I would like to see a video about the Dominion from Trek. You could ask Lore Reloaded for a guest video about that, the dominion war is his field of expertise.

16:33 Anyone find it funny that those holographic images of the ships called Enterprise the one of the Constitution Class U.S.S. Enterprise is from Star Trek Discovery and Star Trek:Strange New Worlds you can tell by the nacelle pylons.

There is no such thing as redundant and duplicate systems on a ship, especially when you're hurtling through space. This Galaxy Class, United Federation of Planets and the Templin Institute represents mankind at its absolute best.

Love the galaxy class but nothing beats the sovereign, oddyssey, or the excelsior classes imo.

One thing I would like to see for Star Trek is to see a Constitution Class Starship in service again during the time of Captain Jean-Luc Picard only with a 24th century look and redesign of the class like working out the design flaws that decommissioned the original class like the neck that was discovered to be a severe weak spot and they took care of that weakness by maybe making the newly redesigned Constitution Class having a look like that of the Sovereign Class.

Star Trek themes are always be unique!

Thank you, finally One who knows what he talks about, pointing out the real "awesomeness" of the Galaxy Class. To add some theory crafting: When turning a Galaxy Class into a Warship, her best feature is the ability to sport an insane amount of Reactor Power. It would be enough to up the 12 to 24 Phasor Arrays to each side, allowing 48-Phaser-Volleys that may even get upped by Offensive maneuvering. Also, you can go up to 50+Volleys in regards of Torpedoes. But, the main Advantage here from the possible 2 Main Cores and additional 4 Supplemental Reactors is not only to sport thoose "common" additional Weapons. In combination with the now discarded unneeded Scientific Parts (I do not talk about Astrometry or such - they are very much needed. I talk about Biolabs aside Medical and such) and the leftout Crew Accomodations we can add more secondary Systems - the "Redundant Ones" - to be able to compansade System Failures (more Backup-EPS, dammit!). Also, we can now add more Energy to structural Integrity, upping the sturdyness of the Ship a lot. The Cargo Bays get repositioned as Crewquarters get relocated as well, leaving space in the Saucer and Saucers now independent Reactor and its 2 supplemental Cores to Power the Weponry we add in the "Cargo Bay". We call this System the Kira/Dukat-Phalanx: 4 Planetary Defense Cannons, 2 of them to be able to be discharged the same Time, 60 Minutes recharge Time or less when you burn through the Conductors and Capacitors. Also, the Hangar gets now used for Runabouts with Torpedo Attachment or dome Fighters as used in Planetary defense. You have a Bomber or a Fighter Squad at hand. And that is just the "Legal Part". If we throw Khitomer out the Window and do not care about the Romulan Treaty, it gets really scary. Because, the "leftover Scientific Stations" allow for real Atrocities to be used. Lets just take a look at the metaphasic Shields that are considerably stronger than normal ones. When you project our a further "Shield" that just resonates to passing Energy (and Matter), you can analyze its Frequency and thus auto-alter the Shields to adapt optimal to it - Borg-Shields Plus. Also, we can fit in the Transphasic System from the Pegasus Experimental Cloak to make us "immaterial" for Attacks. That System was - as seen, not so big and can be deployed in a Torpedo, now bypassing all defense Systems and materializing and exploding inside a Ship - rendering the "Shields get worn down and Torpedoes go for the Kill"-Tactic obsolete. And with that, we are at the real ugly Part - Subspace Weaponry. Ever seen TNGs "Remember me"? Weponizing Runabouts is really evil - stripping anemy Ships from all life but leaving the Ship unharmed. Piracy 101 and wet Dream I gotta say. And here, it gets funny - The new and bigger Weapon. Empty Runabout with Warp Core and Transphasic Cloak. Fly in, Materialize and make a Warp Jump from inside the enemy Ship. That Way, you create an instable Black Hole inside the Enemy Ship that feeds from it and then collapses in a microscopic "Big Bang" - which is considerably Powerful even though "Microsopic" Also, Tractor Probes are some evil shit. Link 2 of them opposing and have them lock on 2 different Ships - like "chaining them together". Puts considrable Stress on the Hull. Multiple Probes can hinder a Ships maneuverability sigificantly. And also you can use your Deflector Dish to project one of the "additional Warp Fields" you can now pregenerate (risky, but powerful). What do you think happens when you disturb an existing Field in use with another one you project upon them? Right, Singularity Core Collapse. Projecting this via the Tractor Drones and you literally "lock down" the enemy until he destroyed the Probes - and thoose Seconds are all you need with a Ship as the above. So, by all means - Federation did not go out "Full War" on the Borg. When you do what they did to a Runabout by attaching an oversized Cruiser Reacor, a fuckton of Weapons and defensice Abilitys of a heavy Cruiser plus a cloak.... yes, the Defiant was a Runabout. Look at the front, they just attached a "Saucer" on the Bacl and popped the Engine directly on to the Sides.... well, you get the Idea doing this to a Galaxy Class. So no, the Sovereign Class is not a "Warship". It is something the others Think of as a Warship compared to their Warships. But, it isn't. If Federation would go out full Warships, the Borg would request assimilation by the Federation politely.

Oh, I'm excited for this!

Please do the Yamato, not the one mentioned in this episode but the one from Space Battleship Yamato.... or the SDF-1 from Robotech

Very well done! Thank you! All this just reminds me how much I miss Star Trek TNG. Definitely rewatching every episode when I get some vacation time.

I JUST LOVE THIS!!! The Galaxy-class Enterprise is unforgettable! This brought a tear to my eye! Thank you!

"All I ask is a tall ship... and a star to steer her by."

Galaxy class is a classic but ugly. I can think of uglier, Oberth for instance. but the galaxy is an ugly design. Sovereign, Prometheus (Excluding the stupid multivectoring) Intrepid, NX, those are some good looking designs. Of course it's basically always objectively better looking when the engineering section isnt seperated by a long narrow neck from the saucer.

Whenever i hear the name "Enterprise" i think of this ship. It's a shame they lost the big -D. Even worse because of the incompetence of its crew, most notably the first officer, tactical officer and non present captain. These ships where built to last at least 100 years, receiving a major refit every 25 years. What a shame we never saw the Big -D in its final form. (Galaxy -X doesn't count since it was just Qs fantasy and certainly not the Galaxys 3rd refit, 100 years after her initial launch)

One hell of a ship the federation really know what they are doing

I don't see the 'Sovereign' Class as a replacement of the 'Galaxy Class' If anything it frees up the Galaxy Class to be what it was originally intended to be - Ambassador, dignitory civilian longhaul cruiseliner starship and "symbol" of the Federation.

The Galaxy class. Envoy, cargo hauler, family resort & hotel, puppy daycare centre, nursery, passenger liner, and battleship. Nothing says "responsible parent" quite like bringing your partner and kids on a federation flagship that gets repeatedly shot at, boarded, hijacked, and sometimes explodes due to the pyrotechnic electronics in every computer and wall panel, or the overabundance of trans-dimensional entities that become a normality.

It was not the NX-01 class, it was the NX class.