Shipchat: Aelahl class (STO) 

I was thinking the same thing.

same here

Me too

Yep, thought the same thing

If I was a Starfleet caption and ran into a White Star the first thing to come to mind would be what new class of ship does the Romulans have now.

Yeah there are a lot of scimitars one day the kerchan hopefully gets the acknowledgement it deserves like the titan did.

The Romulan Republic even have a D'deredex refit that strips a lot of mass from the design.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 kerchan my beloved

and a sprinkle of Galaxy Quest's Protector hehe

yeah it was a welcome suprise.

Welcome aboard

Welcome!

One on the Odyssey and it’s many variants and variants of variants (Lexington my beloved)

Glad you enjoyed

That's a pretty fair statement but you can get through the whole game no expense

yeah besides the og star trek ships the STO are mostly garbage and only rarely make a decent looking ship.

Curious where you get the "shattered empire" bit. I agree actually but I just don't know that much about the STO timeline. My reference point is basically the Shinzon coup followed by the ST novels, and their Typhon Pact. I assume there is no Typhon Pact in STO?

@@richjordan6461 i ignore all STO lore as little more than fan fic. The Cardasians were crushed during the Dominion war and the Romulans lost their home world. It will take generations for the Romulans to rebuild to their pre supernova status.

Most egregious example of ships the romulan republic have little reason to maintain; the fricken miracle worker warbirds. Things make even the d’deredix and scimitar class ships look small.

​@@madrabbit9007it really wouldn't and that's the brain dead logic that helped justify nutrek keep in mind the Romulans are a star empire as in they have more than two built up worlds the loss of their twin homeworlds wouldn't be as crippling as you think they would do what countless other civilizations in our own history would do when their home city fell move to the next most populace one and keep going

Damn, you beat me to be first to say that, lol.

As do i

The ships did just not the facilities to build them so there are a limited amount of them thus not being used. Also discussed is the torpedo issues which make them impractical to use.

Good comparison we don't really have a parallel to the Mongols in trek aside from 22nd century klingons.

Warbird for STO mean it's a romulan ship powered by a singularity core (lower power levels but get singularity powers) and use Romulan Battlecloak, so when you put that aside you get "Light Battlecruiser". In STO Battlecruiser mean a cruiser that can mount cannons, give up a little hull durability for a slightly better turning rate.

@@alexhurlbut I know what it means in STO I was referring to in universe not in marketing.

Interesting. I'm not that well versed in STO ships

Seems logical lynn ( both ) live the valdore type

im glad you enjoyed it :)

What made you think that?

@@venomgeekmedia9886 just seemed like a long time since we got a ship breakdown. Just being a jerk. Love ur breakdowns.

Pretty solid design. But not very revolutionary

I mean. So do most romulan ships.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 True. Befitting of their attitude... Always hol(e)ier than thou.... erm.. I see myself out now...........

It implodes. You don't want to be close when that happens

I have just been trying to picture taking the singularity core out of a D'Deridex, transferring it to another ship and connecting it in, all while its still running and concluded it would be probably the single most terrifying thing ever. Singularity cores are terrifying enough, let alone moving one while its active

Hmmm... what sort or radius are we talking about? This could be a major tactical problem when fighting the Romulans, perhaps, becuase if they get close enough you might fear destroying their ships for this reason?

May you live in interesting times....

@@venomgeekmedia9886 Ancient Klingon curse. :) PS Thanks for the heart!

I was...

That is unnecessary behemoth that doesn't need to exist. The republic can't even provide basic housing, medical supplies, and food to it's far flung member colonies. This got no business flying that resource drain around. The Star Empire next door on the other hand should have enough to utilize them but for some reason they choose to stick with Mogai's, Norexcan's, and D'Derderix's.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 >=(

yeah that trash looks like garbage,but in terms of STO ships its on the low end there are far more idiotic designs in STO

@@Not-Ap Seems more like an issue with the organization, which I agree, I like the ship itself, not the people who built it

I agree

Really? In terms of ships from that era think Vmelak or Horo class warbird.

​@@venomgeekmedia9886 You're not wrong. Thank you, V'melak and Horo were the classes I was thinking of but couldn't remember their names. Let me express an idea for you sir. This thought is not fully fleshed out. It We know in Starfleet designs there are often (What's the word) little and large (That'll have to do) takes on a design concept. Think of the Constitution - Miranda, Galaxy-Nebula, or the Ambassador - I've forgotten the name, please tell me. I think the same can be said for the Romulans. The Raptor is a "Mini" D'Deridex, I agree with you on that. So why can't the Horo or Keras class warbirds be considered downed scaled version of the V'melak? I'm not sure they fit perfectly tho. It's just a thought. The point that you asked me about tho: In my eyes the Aelahl Class Warbird looks like the V'melak but lighter. Disregarding any length (Etc.) statistics. The Aelahl seems to follow typical design aesthetics for the early-mid 24th century, but where as the Horo or Keras are blocky and square, the Aelahl is rounded. I hope that makes sense. I need another coffee. Thanks for another great video.

I have... strong feelings on the Ha'apax

@@venomgeekmedia9886 you may not like it, but the Ha'apax is what peak warbird looks like

Im always thinking the scimitar is in sto the successor to the d’deredix. Or actually the Mogai. The core reasoning for the two being different; The scimitar became a more commonly designed capital ship after its debute during nemesis. The republic simply inhereted a lot of scimitars from captains and admirals leaving the increasingly corrupt empire due to Sela’s and Hakeeve’s increasingly traitorous actions to the romulan people. The R.R.S. Lleiset in fact, is. Tulwar-class dreadnaught, which is effectively a trimmed down refit scimitar with the thalaron weapon removed. The Mogai was designed by the romulan empire in response to the dominion war and weaknesses exposed by the slow, cumbersome d’deredix, which was to large and generally incapable of keeping up with the quick nature of the war. It was designed for war while maintaining the d’deredix versatility. I want to like the Aelahl, but its seating in-game is much to be desired. As a result i tend to use other romulan ships. Its balance of durability and agility is something i favor in ships, often resulting in me flying varying forma of destroyers and lighter battlecruisers, and the Miranda and its now very numerous varients(4 tier six miranda varients to choose from lol). Just the Aelahl has no specialization seating to really take advantage of. If it had say, full intel specialization or full commander specialization i’d fly it.

They couldn't field the same numbers as starfleet or the klingons so they needed ships that were more well rounded and capable of winning against multiple enemies.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 Seems to me in no reality they had a chance against the federation. Even united earth

Anything invovled with JJ is a mess. For me the last time we saw trek was nemesis timelinelines

It does have a few too similarities to praxis. That being said it's the only way to stop a Romulan/Federation war in the late 24th century

@@venomgeekmedia9886 but pracis makes more sense. Moon in system and dilithium ontop of that. Hobus makes no sense much less the fact that the third largest fleet cannot evac the planets adds to it. I credit STO for trying to fix this problem but its another JJ mystery box crap.

@@venomgeekmedia9886 romulan-federation relations were good after the st nemesis incident (aweful movie). They could and should have tried harder