HE'S BACK! So grateful to see new content from you. Your quality and execution (with your own comedy) is always a welcome part of my subscription feed!
As a Starfleet exploding rocks engineer, I really appreciate you drawing attention to our hard work in your videos. I hope it will help me get promoted to the malfunctioning holodeck department.
Well, we're also always looking for and needly hiring new talent over at the ominous "Department ... of some kind". If you have some nouvelle and sciency sounding thing to easily implement in future episodes: Just use form A-CE-QoS-K-2035-00410-00-4-B[2310.45cv] and keep your communicator close by (and your superiour officer on speed-dial).
@@vistaredgt Excellent work. I was working on the "Never Fails Warp Core Ejection System" until the project ran out of money and we all got laid off. Hoping we got far enough along for someone to complete the work.
My mom only worked on the "Always Fails Starboard Power Coupling", but she was really proud of her work, and got a nice pension when she retired and sold all the broken power couplings to some Pakleds for a barrel of latinum they didn't have any use for.
The gag about rocks never gets old. And the best part for me is that I never noticed until this channel pointed it out. This channel has so much going for it with your talent. I hope you keep at it.
@@mahu1982 Incorrect. Picard says it to Worf in a reconcilliatory conversation on the bridge of the E when they were going to blow it up because of the Borg.
That's silly - big starships are, naturally, filled with rocks and debris packed into every closet and storage space, but Runabouts are clearly laid out like Oberth class ships... where every spare inch of space is instead filled with highly unstable explosives.
7:41 A few conundrums: couldn’t think of whether to start with my praise for your long awaited return or to go ahead and talk about one of the many “Quarks” I love about your channel, this part made it hard Also, this part: I was torn between the excitement of seeing this commercial that was one of very few for this series but played a very pivotal roll in my childhood finances or…..clicking the skip ad button out of programmed hate with bonus curiosity.
Thank you for this, I love the runabouts! Shame DS9 never bothered to use that rear section set, except as a room on another ship in “Second Sight” and just the windows in “The Visitor”. I don’t know why they seemed to give up naming them in the middle of the show, it was fun tracking them all. We only got two new names in the later seasons, Gander and Shenandoah, while at least three were lost without getting names. Sisko’s insurance premiums must be through the roof!
I still have my big runabout like the one shown, it was hidden under the steps for years until I found it 3 years ago. So happy I found it I shed a tear!
I just love these videos. Hearing the theme music (Pink Project - Magic Flight/Romanelli - Connecting Flight/Space - Magic Fly) just brings a smile to my face.
This is the only channel where I will tell my family they have to wait whenever a new video is posted And that commercial with the DS9 bumpers at the beginning and end took me right back to the 90s. Well done.
What ship is this… A utilitarian compact transport ship, that is composed of three main sections, with the middle being a swappable module that can be either science labs, search and rescue/medical, cargo with winches for loads, passenger transport or even combat with a laser turret. The front can detach as a lifeboat or to connect with other compatible ships. It's launched from a raising elevator that lifts it from a hanger though opening doors in the ceiling. Of course it's the Eagle Transporter from Moonbase Alpha - that got blown out of Earth Orit in a massive nuclear explosion in the year 1999
Oh, I got distracted by reading the other comments here and didn’t leave my own. The runabout is one of my favourite designs. Functional above all, and I love that it’s not one swooping sleek shape. I’m so glad it didn’t stick to its origin too closely. Even though they never used it in the show, the modular nature of it still shines through in the design. It’s nice when these things are self evident. I do still wish we’d seen a cockpit detaching and then docking to a much larger cargo vessel or something though, kind of like they did in Enterprise a couple times on those cargo ships. That would suggest the roundabout cockpit was more standardised and can attach to all sorts of different vehicles. It’s really interesting that the window shape was the first thing finalised. Didn’t know that. The deflector dish in the upper pod instead of torpedoes looks kinda badass actually. It would’ve been nice to have seen more of the interior than we did though. It often feels like a slightly bigger shuttle instead of a small starship, what with only seeing the cockpit 99% of the time. Dialogue tries to patch it up with mention of the cabins and so on, but the only other part we actually see in DS9 is Jake looking out the back windows and Sisko in a Jeffries Tube. One time respectively. It’s really interesting how they made the cockpit feel more roomy just by removing the corner-blocking underneath the viewscreens, and pushing the transporter back. The final iteration is definitely my favourite. I feel like I could live in one of those indefinitely, flying around civilian parts of Federation space. Whereas living in a shuttle forever seems hellish. You’d spend most of the time in a cabin in the middle and using the back as a living room, and only enter the cockpit when approaching a pleasure planet or space station. It’s probably got more space than some apartments I’ve lived in. I always liked seeing emergency hatches, just like in Star Trek IV. I figure there’s got to be many of them on all surfaces of the ship, rather than just one. You don’t know which orientation you’ll crash after all. You mentioned they blow up a lot, but no mention of the Rio Grande surviving an explosion AND a crash landing AND being salvageable! The shipyard construction crews really did their job well that day (to paraphrase Dax in “Paradise”). I can understand why they redressed the set so much, it really is a good functional shape. Plus it makes the redresses between seasons have more context - they were putting it back after Voyager or Insurrection anyway, may as well make some more tweaks. They opened up the corners for Voyager and removed the transporter for Insurrection. Good ship all round imo.
Every production is top notch, thank you. Like many here, every effort is appreciated. And I applauded/choked/cheered/gargle-belly-laughed when the rocks 🪨 in the trunk showed up. 😝👏😆🥳
Thanks. People still watching after my long breaks is what keeps the channel going from a RU-vid algorithm perspective. I really appreciate you sticking around.
It's a shame the aft compartment never was seen on DS9 as part of the runabout. It was used for the the Nebula-class Prometheus crew quarters and that civilian transport ship crew quarters that Miles and Sisko found on that planet with the "no-tech" woman.
And then they used the bunk beds for the Defiant quarters! I guess they redressed it so many times it was hard to turn it back - kinda like the Battle Bridge set.
They couldn't work them into the scripts often enough to justify keeping the components in storage so they got scrapped. It's a shame about the battle bridge having to be changed every time the script called for it.
These videos are literally the most informative of nearly any Star Trek content on RU-vid. Its like 10 tidbits a minute -- with jokes! I love it, thank you!
I’m just going to keep watching your previous videos over and over until you post a new one. And there’s literally nothing you can do to stop me. I have loved, still love, and will continue to love Junkball Media in the future. Make more!!!!
So say we all!! When I saw the thumbnail I was singing the theme under my breath! From Cape Cod, MA - thanks for the return to form and then some! Great video as always! I also have loved and still think about from time to time the Runabout class! Its so cool but also such an obvious thing to do - have a do it all multi platform Shuttle Craft - Share size that could hold its own in a fight, and its so "federation" and it worked! Love the idea of one just having a small holodeck as its "platform" of choice for long-term missions and so on. Then when they add the weapons pod its now a small mobile weapons platform thats fast, simple to build, and when in numbers can do some damage. However . . make little emitters around the dang thing and make the crew automated. Now THAT would be cool! Also the naming of them was genius given the seemingly amount of them DS9 alone goes through - shoot even the one Picard uses in TNG gets wrecked. lol anyway cheers and here is to the next one!
I absolutely adore the runabout design. As much as we did see them, I wish we saw even more! In many ways they're the perfect ship for a Star Trek episode, as they lend themselves well to a small cast, and provide just enough utility to get the job done while providing limitations for the crew. They're perfect for short-form stories.
Ah. Back when Star Trek wasn't insane. I didn't care much for them at first, but they kind of grew on me. I guess the sleek shuttlecraft spoiled me. But it did solve the one problem I had with the shuttlecraft, it had room for the machinery that make it work. The shuttle is pretty much a hollow shell. The runabout interior was altered slightly through the show's run. Two view sceens on eaither side of the cockpit somehow were no longer necessary in later versions of the ship. A "podium" was added in the middle of the flight deck late in the series. What it was for I don't know. Ops? There were some busy plant ons on the back of the chairs. I guess those things were doing something special to make them more comfortable. They were eventually not needed anymore. For a while there was a compartment in the transporter frame where phasers were stored. Sometimes they were missing. I guess an armory was installed in the back. Latter versions had the control panels change and surface details were altered (video monitors) and less black graphic tape. We learn in TNG that there's a hidden compartment under 'the dash' for storing devices for use against temperal anomalies(they couldn't get them from the back room) and the rear has a board room and with bunks that we only see once.
They maintain the two viewscreens right until the end, just recessed further into the wall and with an actual console under them instead of a right-angle podium :)
2:11 uh! Gotcha! The runabout was only the swoosh in the logo for the first 3 or 4 seasons, it was replaced later by the Defiant. (But runabouts were elsewhere in the opening sequence so your point is still valid)
The runabout was always in the "swoosh." When the credit sequence was redone, the Defiant undocked and entered the wormhole instead of a runabout doing a flyby as the wormhole opens and closes in the background.
Loved that you had the DS9 bumpers added around the commercial. Reminded me when I used to watch the show on syndication, and was a great heads up on when to hit the record button on the VCR 📼
One of the songs you use as background music in your videos popped up on the radio a few weeks back and reminded me of this channel. Glad to see a new video!
