My crew shuttle brings all the boys to the Babylon 5 yard 

It's a space box with engines, seats 25, and is entirely governed by Newtonian physics. Sounds like classic human tendency to build things in bulk by the lowest bidder. A theme that repeatedly comes up in the B5 universe. Humanity might not have the greatest weapons or the most advanced technology, hell we only just got access to jump technology thanks to the Centauri. However what we excel at is spamming an environment with maneuverable but bare-bones craft and unpredictable tactics. As for that 4cm hull, makes it challenging for even grunts to mess it up.

Still a fan of the Stargate: Atlantis "Puddlejumper" and even moreso the Classic BSG Colonial Shuttle.

250 meters per second per second? 25.44 G's! Not slow.

I dunno what you're talking about with Psi Corps being sinister. The Psi Corps is my friend. Trust the Corps.

The 4.2cm hull is for micro derbies in space

As a minivan drive-by enthusiast currently rewatching the bab5 series i approve this video

I continue to enjoy your content, Dockmaster. Given your love of shuttles/mini vans, I'm surprised you haven't done a bit on the UT-47 Kodiak and it's derivative the UT-47A from the Mass Effect series. I'd every much enjoy your amusing commentary on it.

It has more "armor" then the minivan of the battlefield, the M113

If it was the minivan of all minivans, Sheridan would have used one to go down to Epsilon III instead of the _far_ superior Kestrel minivan ... er ... shuttle.

Those are some good names for good ships, but what about bad names for good ships... like the Infinity soon

The hull thickness likely do to deal with micro meteorites and other space debry. Oh, and occasional accidents with ships or stations. Possibly radiation resistance/blocking too. Would allow long time running before needing to maintain and repair the hull. Or at least survive hits.

Dockmaster, to keep up with the minivan theme, might I recommend the Leopard-class dropship from Battletech? It only carries a lance of 'mechs, 34 tons of cargo, but is remarkably well armed for its size, dead-nuts reliable, easy to maintain, and cheap to operate.

The Babylon5 universe /can/ support defensive shield technology. The B5 movie 'Third Space' had one, at least on an inter-dimensional gateway station. Also, I really don't want to dwell on the fact that zero-G bathrooms require a glorified wet-dry shop-vac to work.

@SacredCowShipyards Please stop saying "Gimme a brake!" We all know that there is no such thing as braking force, only acceleration in the opposite direction. 😸

I firmly believe that every single post-modern TTRPG I have played at some point had the players sat in the cultural equivalent of a Transit Van saying "Fuck, that didn't work, what do we do now?"

Well considering how many times you said harder in this video. I’d like to propose a video about the absurdity of USS Harder. A submarine that would not be questioned if it claimed a kill by ramming. A SUBMARINE, claiming a ship-to-ship kill by tactical collision, would not be deemed out of character for this one. Some may question various captains or pilots in fiction pulling improbable feats and being able to “because their just that good” and call it plot armor, favoritism, or even Mary Sue, but reality is often stranger than fiction and some people in history seem to take insult to the idea they can’t be crazy and USS Harder was a submarine packed full of them.

This, the Type 6, and the ISSCV. You've got the space minivan bingo.

0:20 MINIVAN? what is this heretic saying? the 00-07 outback is the most perfect vehicle! :)

The Eagle isn't a minivan, it's a pickup truck. A real one, not an SUV pretending to be a pickup.

I got a Chevy Bolt in 2019 and have loved it so far. It's basically the demon spawn of a minivan and a hot-hatch. I tried to like Space 1999, but everything about it was too weird. From the nukes on the moon somehow propelling it rather than shattering it, to the gee forces of that acceleration not pasting the people around it, to the bad effects. Even old Trek was better. Glad we have more realistic sci-fi nowadays. I wish I didn't have to worry about that. Need one of those implantable transporters the Trek crews seem to have. The puddlejumper is also awesome, too powerful though. OP glowing squid weapons, cloaking, and occasionally time travel? What can't they cram into that minivan? Could be 2 inches of spaced out meta-materials to block radiation and stuff, not just 2in of solid titanium or steel or whatever.

It would make sense if the shuttle was actually armored hull disguised as civilian craft that can be converted to missile carrier or aa gunboat but i dont think that 4 cm is any match gor the b5 technologies present on any meaningful side. I guess that whatever was the fighter before Starfury or the older capital ships could have problem with it. I like when scifi has purposely included obsolete flawed ships but this is front line duty transport, it would be replaced on way frequent basis than military equipment.

"Minivan drive-bys" takes my brain straight to the Libyan Type 2 of BttF fame

No inertial dampers on these things since Hummies didn't have that tech when these things were made. Same reason there's no artificial gravity on any human ships. The Warlock class would be the first human designed ship with gravitic technology and even there is was babies first steps grav tech. I didn't have inertial dampers because we haven't figure that out yet, on board gravity was somewhere around lunar gravity and could only pull full near 1G in specialized rooms (basically the it would take too much power and added a lot more mass to keep the whole ship at 1G) and the engines had poor thrust to weight compared to earthforces's rockets so they still used them for times when they need to step on the gas and as a a backup if the drive broke down since it was new tech and new tech likes to do that at very improper times. This is one of the things I love about this show, it's not like when your first develop a new technology it's gonna be perfected yet and you're gonna have a steep learning curve. Oh, as for the armor. Remember, it was built to be military shuttle. Human space tactics were based on the fact that we couldn't make lasers as good as other races and our ships were slower but we know how to make armor and short ranged but F you and your family powerful plasma cannons sooo our mind set was build everything with enough armor to survive long enough to get close enough to punch them in the fact and kick in their teeth. Hell even our out dated first gen warships completely massacre even the most well defended ship in the minbari fleet as close range after our failed first encounter.

You just think that minivans don't make good technicals because you haven't seen a b17 ball turret poking out the roof of one.

surprised you didn't mention the star trek TOS shuttle.... I don't recall shields on that altho that might be episode specific, and it's warp capability was extremely limited.. if it had it at all. and having played various games where you drive a cap ship around I would absolutely consider having any sort of childcraft that dock with a mothership that are dedicated to combat as a weapon system of the ship. while just sub 2 inches of armor is nothing compared to most space battleships in fiction.... that's freaking tons of armor compared all the real life space minivans that humanity has ever used. and it's also way more armor than the forementioned TOS shuttle had too. and about the only possible weapon that the TOS shuttle had is if you could jigger the impulse drive to spit out bad radiation or something like that towards something that was chasing you.

As a hill owner I assure you you need a crescent wrench AND a rock.

You're damn right it's better than mine.. nor can I afford the lesson.

30 seconds of pre content. Not the scs intro…… who are you and what have you done with my dockmaster !?!

I never thought of any of these shuttles as _"minivans."_ 🤭

I think a few may have served as light freighters or combis as there is precedent for that in commercial aviation.

I had not considered that sliding doors made a dodge caravan door gunner a possibility before.

3 views on one minute! oh no. Minivans are OP, man. Time to watch this lol.

B5 was so great, Star Trek had to steal the idea for their show

even starfleet shutles have phasers

I think the Shuttle was made to be a carrier to give it an escort

sounds less like a mini van and more like a mini bus

So good they can even time travel.

ah yes...the brick

Hoses, clamps, and seals, oh my!

Max speed, whatever will not allow space dust to penetrate the 4.2 cm hull.

You mean the fly magazine.

*I ❤️ BABYLON 5!!!!!*

How can an AI Grok?

if you want minivans in space... think StarTrek universe one of the things indeed I think is really funny is that (at least in my interpretation) the way most people travel between planets in that setting is actually shuttles... which sort of makes me think of the federation as being a sort of interstellar Vietnam... quite fitting, given it's interesting relationship with economics and the monetary system.

What are technicals?