Prometheus Class Starship 

Also known as the " the federation definitely doesn't make warships" class

honestly I wish this ship got more screentime. I think its such a cool design and a unique take on the usual federation ships

This is the Federations tactical nuke. It was top secret, built in small numbers and designed to terrify. Its not very Federation but it is very human if that makes sense, a bit of the Terran coming out. "We're safe the Federation doesn't make warships... what the hell is that?" as a ship thats just come out of warp 9.9 splits into three pieces.

The real reason, why this ship is cool is that the episode itself is a masterpiece of fun entertainment and the ship is just the cherry on top 😁

"Cerberus" is a pretty good name for a Prometheus. I used to play STO and I had a Mirrorverse Prometheus I named the "Shatterstar". Because mirrors and broken glass or something.

i love how the defiant and the Prometheus classes are a direct result of starfleet being kind to the galaxy by being staunch pacifists. they spread their scientists out so much that they are still outpacing their neighbors in almost every aspect of technology and once you direct those minds to one goal suddenly the federation jumps decades into the future in just a couple months.

I always thought the Prometheus was an amazing sign of desperation. The reliable Defiant, Galaxy (war variant), Akira, Sovereign, and Steamrunner classes weren’t moving fast enough to quell the Dominion scourge, so they develop a super cruiser killer to try and win the war faster, only for it to be too logistically infeasible to actually employ anywhere but at home. Then again, I always wanted to see the Seige of Betazed where the Enterprise-E, a squadron of Defiants and Prometheuses, and the back line fleets go up against the Dominion alone.

I absolutely love this ship and it's design and concept. I would kill to have a show based on her and her crew

If I was a lobbyist for building the Prometheus I would point out how this vessel is a much more humanitarian design as it enables the ability to better ensure the capture of of an adversary as well as the Diplomatic opportunity from minimizing the extent in which damage would be needed in order to defend yourself. This of course comes through with a firm but precise application of the multivector response mode. It is also a symbolic statement of Versatility diversity Unity. Sure the separation of the vessels could be seeing simply as advanced Patrol operations, but it is reasonable to believe that many would appreciate that the advanced synthesis systems and scientific investigating capabilities of each of the segments proves that it's not a war machine but a vessel dedicated to learning. Serious desire to follow where curiosity takes us. None of a singular mindset but one that is open to possibilities.

Based on its abilities described, I think a good label for the Prometheus class might be interceptor.

The Prometheus class has always made me wish, they had some galaxy saucer separation combat in the dominion war. Maybe not in a full on battle with it, but a last stand.

I think the interesting thing about the Prometheus is that it's Starfleet handling logistics and shipbuilding in one package. Seems like they saw the need for the Defiant, and eventually its success, and thought, "Ok, we can create overpowered small ships. What if we made a standard-size ship, that's actually a battlegroup unto itself?" Thus was spawned the Prometheus class. Like the Defiant it's all firepower, but it's basically the Defiant up to eleven. Much like the Borg's tactical cube, the cube they send when they get serious about fighting, the Prometheus class is Starfleet's, "Ok, we're done f@#$ing around and letting people batter our shields down. Kid gloves off, brass knuckles on" starship. When the Prometheus class appears, Starfleet's done researching quasars and shuttling diplomats. It's ass-kickin' time.

The ship looks awesome. If the Defiant has a fighting profile akin to a Sumner-class destroyer, then the Prometheus is akin to a Zumwalt!

The episode where Prometheus debuted was set before the Dominion War and it was disappointing we never see it in DS9, even in the background or with some filler line. "The Prometheus managed to take out a Ketracel White depot!" or something like that.

the coolest thing that come out of voyager

Imagine a fleet of Prometheus class ships and all of them splitting…. And then when the battle is over and there are multiple sub ships that have been destroyed… Would they then make up new ships from the ship’s subsections? This could be why the NX part number doesn’t match the NCC part number… perhaps the test bed ships had parts that were from another ship?

One of my favorites. From the BEST Voyager episode and possibly the funniest episode in all of Trek.

I'd say with the Romulan's no longer an issue all Prometheus Class vessels should be retro-fitted with cloaking devices.

I always enjoy that you use footage from Star Trek Online, the quality is very good.

I remember the first time we were introduced to the Prometheus Class was in the Star Trek Voyager Season 4 episode 'Message in a Bottle' and was seen again in the Season 7 episode 'Endgame Part 2' and I think we briefly saw it again in the Star Trek Enterprise season 3 episode 'Azati Prime' where Daniels brought Captain Archer into the future and we saw what looked like a Prometheus Class Starship outside the window.

Saw this in my notifications and was hoping that you were doing a video on the Prometheus class from Stargate SG-1, that being said you should totally do SG-1 videos

I absolutely love listening to your videos on my second monitor. Your voice talking through Star Trek details is like ASMR.

I know why people think the "Multi-vector Assualt Mode" is stupid, but Voyager showed why it still works. MvAM turns a 3 on 1 battle into 3 on 3, with a large, maneuverable ship, with strong shields becoming 3 smaller, and more maneuverable ship, with weaker shields.

“What happened to the Prometheus?” “It had to…” (puts on sunglasses) “…split.” YEEEEAAAAHHHHH!

An interesting thought about holo projectors throughout the ship, they could potentially project any environment they wanted while working. Hooters theme anyone?

to me it was a very good vid, I do miss your story series but understand why, keep up the great work certifiably ingame

Glad to see you covered my favourite Trek ship. Glory to the Bluetooth Fleet!

I love this era of ship designs this one the Akira the sovereign they just look so damn good.

never thought about it looking like a Power Rangers thing. Which, considering me, makes it instantly 400% cooler for me.

I wish this ship was more cool in STO. I love ships that bring their own friends.

This was excellent timing for this episode, given that I just re-watched the episode of Voyager about Prometheus lol. Thank you for this video! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)

I've always liked the concept of the Multi Vector Assault Mode even if its a niche. How many times have we had ships rotate power to shield facings where the damage is coming from? Now you have a counter to that by not having an undamaged side to draw power from and in fact those too now need additional power to bolster shields allowing you to blow through the now unreinforced shields. And of course there is only so much energy to feed weapon systems to target three targets now.

I dislike the "multi vector assault mode." Get rid of the docking systems and redundancy needed for each individual ship, and it would make a great cruiser.

I think the basic Idea behind the MVAM actually came from the Enterprise D. The Saucer Section had been designed as purely a giant STL lifeboat. Yet they made use of it as a tactical asset in "Best of Both Worlds 2". This was just taking the concept and making a dedicated ship out of it.

I actually thought the mic sounded a bit better even before you mentioned new software, so I’d say it’s working well!

Audio is as good as ever, in game captured visuals look smoother and crisper.

Yeah I'd say it came out really well, this video looked and sounded great! The Prometheus is a great ship, and it's good to see a video on it - Nicely Done!!

The Prometheus really exemplifies one of Starfleet's greatest weaknesses, its willingness to field bleeding edge tech rather than work the bugs out before putting it into combat. It's a marvel more ships don't blow up at random or end up found drifting with mummified crews because everything failed all at once. It's also not very clever to field something that large which requires so many maintenance hours per hour of use despite the degree of automation. Granted it can be flown by a literal handful of officers but it still needs a very busy crew just to hold it together. Yes, the new video looks great. I mean, all your videos look great but no worries with the new gear and software.

My favorite ship…. woefully under appreciated

The federation knows how to make one hell of a ship.

I honestly thought it would make more sense to have an intrepid or akira and 2 saber classes and just have them always together and use a coordinated attack program

Nice to see someone picking up some slack from where others are failing on this topic.

It appears to me bow had 12 smaller torpedo ports and four larger ones . The aft is unseen. The sovereign had ten . So 16 isn't completely unreasonable. Video sounds and look great.

What i love about the Prometheus class is that it is, as Rick puts it, a long sword. See we forget that the Constitution was a pretty rugged ship and probably designed to be a heavy fighter during the Klingon federation war. Subsequently every design that bore the name enterprise was the most advanced and well equipped ship of her era. Powerful shields, powerful hulls powerful weapons. However they where never dedicated combat vessels they could just hold their own in a pinch with the idea being that space is dangerous. We also see that this policy has worked out. They had conflicts with the klingons, romulans, cardasians even recently by the time TNG was coming around and this policy of just making good equipment held up as they tended to come out on top or at least exhaust their enemy into a stand-still. The Prometheus is like the Defiant, what happens when you force a nation that doesn't want war, to make war-focused vessels. The defiant is small, durable, and focused. Able to dish out fire power that can as we've seen in the mirror universe, damage some of the biggest most durable ships out there. The prometheus is the weapon used to clear out entire regions. It's likely that a fully equipped federation fleet would have somewhere between a dozen and a hundred of these ships, one stationed at every major star base with no permanent crew but a permanent security detail. A number of trained security who's job it is to just keep the ship safe and probably a good number of people assigned as repair crew but the actual command crew would be just who happened to be avaliable from the starbase when a crisis came up being beamed over and quickly taking off with the Prometheus, find the threat, and deal with it.

I got this ship on STO and it's a blast of fun! Great for Tactical officers and feels great. I could watch the decoupling and recoupling animations for hours.

What I imagine to be on the dedication plaque for the USS Prometheus: "Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war."

I have the prometheus novels. I wasn't crazy about the design but, it's starting to grow on me.

reminder this ship has 3 entire separate warp drives, each one being of the 'overdriven' type installed in the Defiant. The amount of power generation they have available for propulsion, weapons, and shields on this thing is tremendous.

Love This Video !! It’s My Favorite Class Of Starships Besides The Excelesior Class !!!

I love this series on ship classes!

The video quality has definitely improved. Great job. 👍🏾

Love the design of this ship, so much so I considered an "upgrade" to better arm the Prometheus

The "why everyone else in the galaxy was happy that the federation didn't make warships" class. Along with the Defiant.

I love the interior of the Prometheus, and generally the design looks cool. When it first aired I remember thinking the little warp nacelle was just the goofiest-looking thing, though.

It came out well. Very well, like most things you do!

Cool plot armor class.

Woo hoo! I got to hit the Like button FIRST!! 😁 The hull # 59650 is the zip code it was constructed in. 😜

With holo-emitters on each deck, there's always the option to generate extra crew from holograms if needed. (And provided power/holo systems don't get knocked out! :D) Does pose an interesting question on what next-steps Starfleet should take in expanding automation. Voyager touched on holo rights and holo labour in it's final season, pity it wasn't explored more.

Great job. Sound great!

It would have been nice to have shown the vessel go through its many phases of separation and reassembly!

Looked great. 👍🏻

The Prometheus class seems to fit the role of a heavy interceptor based on how it was deployed

This does seem like the kind of convoluted ship design that Cerberus in Mass Effect would make.

Just in case someone wanna know, the ship appeard in Star Trek Voyager 4x14 - Message in a Bottle

Great video, went well and looks great!

The Prometheus concept makes perfect sense. 1. Smaller constituent parts are more maneuverable, and harder to hit. Shields are also more efficient with less hull to cover, hence why the Defiant is so "tough." 2. Star Trek ships have "segmented" shields, the best strategy is always to present your strongest shield facing to the enemy... impossible to do if you're being attacked from multiple vectors. Hence, "multi-vector assault mode." The fact that the enemy has to split their fire between three targets also adds to the aforementioned survivability benefits. 3. The Prometheus is essentially three "escorts" on a Warp Sled. With the speed and range of a long range explorer, and the combat potential of three smaller ships. Plus, each ship is capable of warping independently so the Prometheus can cover more territory once it enters the AO. "But what if one of the segments gets destroyed?" What if an entire Defiant, or Saber class gets destroyed? That's a risk you take. Because each segment is warp capable, 2/3ds of the ship can still make it back, which is more than most ships can say after getting 33% of their hull destroyed. "Wouldn't redundancy make the ship more expensive to operate?" This is probably the reason behind the enhanced automation that allows it to be operated by a skeleton crew. So you don't need three of every kind of crewman.

To pull a a line from the Sovereign video, if one of these shows up in system, they probably aren't going to ask questions or announce themselves. They'll just start shooting. Love the names Cerberus and Kratos for this class.

My favourite ship design of the lot.

I also thought that the bridge was too bright. It reminded me of the Enterprise-D and didn’t match the era. The Defiant And Intrepid bridge colors are more attractive and suited for it’s time. As for the halo emitters I would have would wanted an experimented with an EEH (Emergency Engineering Hologram) as well as any lesser roles such as a crewman class hologram. Which proved to be invaluable when the Voyager crew got taken on the “workforce episode,” and the doctor who was now the ECH (Emergency Command Hologram). Making repairs throughout the ship. Imagine if a ship has the ability to have half the crew complement, repairs would go through more smoothly.

I think my main like of the prometheus was just my general like of quad nacelles. Buuuut... I do think it has a big advantage in having redundant systems. Like one of the most common damages we see to starfleet ships is the warp systems going offline for some reason.

loud and cleas Mister, thank you.

MY FAVORITE SHIP

Most Informative!

Congrats to the new hard and software. Turned out fine

Keep in mind that when split apart, each bit would be a third of the possible power. Seems kinda silly to me. An Akira takes on a couple Romulan warbirds on its own in the same episode, lol.

An amazing ship design, wish we got to see it more often.

What's going on man? I miss your on line story. I'm a retired U.S. marine that suffers from combat ptsd. You have gotten me through many a bad day. I look forward to your Tuesday releases. I have watched your whole series many times, your channel has a bigger impact than you might realize. Your the best.

As much as I want to share the Federation's stance of not having warships, I doubt the rest of the universe would be so peaceful. The Prometheus is the perfect example of Theodore Roosevelt's idiom: "Speak softly, and carry a BIG stick".

Prometheus had a good concept, shame we didn't see more of it.

Loved this class

So top secret that the Romulans not only stole it but we're capable of flying it.

Thank you, as always, for these delightful videos, Rick! And I agree with you, the Cerberus would've been a vastly more fitting name. I have a few thoughts you might (or might not) find to be of potential interest, regarding this vessel. The Prometheus-class Starship's design was always a favorite of mine--the *design*, that is, not the *function*. I don't at all mind the ship being an aggressive combat vessel. In fact, I liked it quite a lot. However, I disliked the "try-hard" Multi-Vector Assault Mode rather strongly. I always felt that feature was just... Unnecessary, and borderline silly. I mean, it's only a matter of time until an opponent learned how to take control of the second and third sections not controlled directly by the crew, using the two secondary hull parts to destroy the primary hull part. This is not even taking into consideration the "how do you put it back together if the center part gets destroyed or its docking points get wrecked?" This issue only gets worse when you consider the possibility of individual parts having their warp nacelles or warp drives damaged beyond what can be repaired in the field, as that would lead to having to leave entire sections of the ship behind if you had to withdraw. Granted, this is better than an entire ship having to be abandoned, but I think I have ideas that help to alleviate this problem. Overall, I feel that it would be better off to have this vessel be a single ship that includes two complete warp drive systems (two of the larger warp cores working simultaneously) in the single vessel's assembly. This would allow it to take advantage of the quad nacelles to have a level of redundancy that other ships simply would not have (you could lose up to two nacelles and even lose an entire warp core, and still make it home without issue). In addition, you would have all of the firepower of those three pieces packed into a single ship. Arguably the most important thing would be shielding: if you included overlapping regenerative shielding systems (including all of the separate components for all three parts--or even just two of them--in a single ship), you'd have a vastly more durable vessel. PLUS, the separate ship-wide shield emitter systems could potentially operate at different frequencies simultaneously in addition to constantly rotating their frequency modulation (not claiming that I know for sure this would work, but it's a neat idea, you have to admit!), making it virtually impossible to adapt to and penetrate by matching shield modulation. You might get through one, but the other would still repel an attack. Sure, it would still be a resource-intensive vessel to build, but it would be less-so than the original three-part vessel--and, more importantly (in my opinion), it would be a ship design far less prone to potential weaknesses than the original design. And, of course, you could still keep the primary hull separation function for emergencies/evacuations, as the feature was originally meant to be, it just wouldn't be a warp-capable primary hull all on its own. This could arguably be considered a step backward, but since this wouldn't be a feature intended for combat use--at least most certainly not at warp speeds--it just makes sense to keep for emergencies. Personally, I kinda like the idea of this being an evolution of the original Prometheus, but that's just me. I'd like to hear your thoughts on this!

I would have loved to see more of it and preferably a battle with Prometheus class ships combined with Defiant class against whoever 😁

Warship... Yes... Battleship... That's very optimistic. Battleships have staying power, the Prometheus doesn't. I see this class closer to a destroyer, or cruiser.

I've always thought that the ship was utterly bonkers and impractical.

Do you have a video covering just the battle of sector 001 or have any plans to make one? I know the scene itself isn’t long in the movie but I feel like there would have been a lot of lore behind something so significant

The Federation: We don't make warships...unless you really piss us off.

Just to note, at least in STO, Multi-Vector Assault Mode, much like the Galaxy Class's re-dockable saucer separation system (I know that other vessels have some sort of saucer separation capability but we never actually see it used, and it tends to be assumed to be in the form of explosive bolts for faster and more reliable separations at the expense of not being able to redock), did not survive the test of time. The Prometheus class's 25th century counterpart, the Hestia class, does not come standard with this feature though it can be retrofitted with it. The Hestia class instead just takes all of the other tech from the Prometheus class and bumps them up to the extreme cutting edge of the 25th century, and adds the ability to intentionally vent large amounts of warp plasma without any negative effects for a built-in Riker Maneuver... because apparently Starfleet decided that the Riker Maneuver was such a useful tactic that they wanted to allow captains to do it even outside of a metron gas cloud.

The ship as a whole looks amazing ! The transformation though... not so much.

Favourite starship ever❤

Wooo, finnally, best ship. Not gonna tell me otherwise, I even made it in Scrap Mechanic

Still my favourite ship, sleek and gorgeous design and uncompromising in its aggression

This is one class of ship I would love to have seen take part in the Dominion war or at least get a cameo in Lower Decks like how my other favorite class of ship the Luna class USS.Titan got.

I can picture the crew stuck around space dock running endless drills. Hopefully they can relax on station or they have holodecks onboard

fwiw, I didn't notice any difference to your old setup.

It's... Almost a reasonable combat design. One of the biggest weaknesses of most Starfleet ships is a lack of system redundancy; Lose one nacelle, and you're stranded. Warp core is damage? There goes everything but emergency fusion power. Bridge exposed on the very top of the ship (for no reason) gets hit? Gotta wait a couple minutes while secondary officers get to the Battle Bridge. The deflector dish? Can't safely go to warp. The Prometheus had an answer to all of that... But then they made it split apart. If you removed the functionality for it to split into multiple ships, you could do so much more. Keep three separate engineering sections, for redundancy. You don't need a full external hull for all three segments now, so you can move all that armour, the weapons, and the shield emitters to the outer hull or drop them to save weight and space - either way a win. The ship now weighs exactly the same or even less, depending, but can bring the same amount of firepower to bear, with more reliable inter-connected systems backing it up. Why not a step further? Conceal the bridge in the centre of the hull, and mirror another deflector dish on top. Have a battle bridge in the rear of the ship which is *actually staffed* when there's a red alert. If they can double the number of warp nacelles, none of this should be that much of a leap. Most weapons in Star Trek hardly ever miss unless they're fixed forward (also a bad design), so only in a small number of cases would your ship being able to split up have any positive effect. Against the BORG is not one of them... They'll just engage you with multiple different weapon banks along the faces of their cubes. So what's the point, even? To drive up the maintenance requirements? Mission accomplished. Yes, it looks badass... But it's still an overly-complicated design that reeks of a 'good idea fairy' admiral pushing the project through when it should have been cancelled or simplified.

In my head the multi vector assault mode was tested with a modified galaxy class with a defiant class mounted on the underside of the saucer.

sound all good mate

i figured it was a engineer's solution to a resource problem. The federation has basically infinite resources, but not infinite manpower. so when the federation found itself outnumbered by the dominion it worked out a way to solve the problem. instead of an aggressive recruitment drive and building a bunch of small ships like the defiant to meet the challenge. they instead tried to turn a single ship into three. Now their new ship (with a single crew), can reliably fight off multiple attackers. especially considering that the "main" ship could remote-control the other two sections; and could run with just 2 people on board. it actually makes sense. Sure there's simpler solutions to this problem; but the federation doesn't do simple. it does complex. Bespite it being a silly ideal it's also very much rule of cool, and yes, it's cool. silly, but cool.

Awesome vid