Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The Romulan Warbird You Need To Know 

Eeeeeeeeeeh... slight correction. Dilithium doesn't power warp drive. It regulates the matter-antimatter reaction.

Was impressive to see it on the small screen for the first time back in the 80's Back then 27" tube tvs were considered big

D'Deridex is still my all time favorite Star Trek ship design.

D’Deridex, spoken correctly as Romulan Battle Bagel

The D'deridex class Warbird is most definitely my favourite Romulan Ship

There was a time when I was convinced the Warbird could separate (like the Galaxy Class) it's top and bottom half. Or carry a smaller craft inside it.

1:32 says shuttlecraft, shows a runabout: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

To be honest, they didn't call the Warbird by it's Romulan name very often in the shows on purpose. It can be a tongue-twister for actors.

"duh-dare-ah-dex" or "really big fracking green thing"

Yep, STO classifies all Romulan ships as warbirds. Even the Scimitar is a warbird. My fav version is the Valkis Dreadnaught Warbird.

Don't feel bad about your pronunciation. I remember there was an old video on the warbird, and the narrator said (correctly pronounced) "The Romulan D'Deridex Class", but Google's auto-generated captions interpreted that as "the lung and the dairy dicks class".

Dilithium does not power warp drive. It regulates the matter/anti-matter reaction, that provides the power for the drive.

Love the Romulan Warbird. Whenever I doodled in class, I always drew the Warbird.

My favourite non-Starfleet design. It is genuinely timeless, still looks as good today as it did back in the day.

I've always loved the Derideriduladiridew class. It just looks mean.

Interesting thing about the Star Trek ships, is that they are all aerodynamic. I know that because when you accidentally drop a Micro Machines ship, it glides to the ground. That's happened to me several times.

My favourite Warbird the first one from TOS, completely different but the most awesome.

I really love Romulans as a people, and their ships are fantastic.

That "bright vibrant green" is the same colour as Romulan blood. Also, spelled foe-net-ick-lee, the class D'Deridex is pronounced Dee Derry Dex.

12:26 "picking their rings", LOL!!!

...and now I'm wondering what a Romulan Big Bird (from Sesame Street) what would look like. 🤣

holy shed. a forced quantum singularity is far above and beyond what a warpcore would be. like a modern nuclear reactor compared to a steam engine. both fulfill the same purpose but they are on entirely different levels.

I think the romulan war bird is the most iconic ship in star trek next generation

your attempts to pronounce "D'deridex" sounds like you're channeling Porky Pig. Have done anything similar on the Klingon Bird of Prey. It is my favourite non-federation ship.

The reason the Valdore class look like Klingon bird's of prey from the ToS movie/TNG era is because those ships were originally supposed to be Romulan (hence why they look like an evolution of the Romulan bird of prey ships from ToS). The villains of ST3 were changed from Romulans to Klingons during a script rewrite but the ship model had already been built and so was simply made to look dirtier (but the distinctive Romulan bird of prey feathers under the wings are still clearly visible).

To add a comment from the STO Community, Yes romulan ships have for quite some time now been classified as Warbirds.

Didn't aliens use the Romulan engines as a breeding ground?

The Romulan ctrl-c ctrl-v Fleet at the end of season 1 of Picard also appeared to have a few old school Romulan bird-of-prey meaning as in TOs balance of Terror.

derrier dex is my favorite attempt. I'm going to use that from now on

And the warp drive is powered by matter, anti-matter. The crystals are used to regulate it.

Here's my geek. I'm wondering if they used rose quartz for all that dilithium.

From my understanding doesn't the Romulan's forced quantum singularity have to remain powered up at all times and cannot be powered down like a warp core can be.

When I clicked the vid and I had to wait for a premier I almost flipped my lid. I need to know!

The Romulans are my favorite villains and their ships are my favorite to command. Jolan Tru. 🤲🏻 Engage Cloak...

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Best looking ship in my opinion

I'd hate to be on a Rombird bottom, and need to get to the top part. Or back to front. The Valdore is the coolest warbird.

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There she was just walking down the street singing do wah diddy diddy dum diddy D'Deridex

Not gonna- I had no idea I wasn’t subscribed to you guys! Love your stuff

Not like they ever actually read the comments but for comedy value its spoken as Dee-Dera-Dex. Also on the power source issue I was surprise in Discovery that after "The Burn" this was not used/developed more as a power source.

Love This Ship !!!!

Oh you reminded me Discovery blew up all ships with a magic space beam or something. *shivers*

9:02 Correction: It's a Klingon Vor'Cha attack cruiser nacelle

The real warbirds were the friends you made along the way 😂😂☠️

The warbird thrilled my young heart beyond compare ❤️

15:11 Given that most military ships in real life are warrantied for 50+ years and most ships in Star trek lore have similar or longer intended life spans... *shrug*

Guys, I started a trek culture binge. I know more about Star Trek than I know school. My nerdom is beyond high. I need serious help. Great video tho

It would be cool to see a D’Deridex WarBird against Star Wars’s Venator Star Destroyer!

3:10, you mean Horizontal???👍🏻 D’Deridex and Orientations not your strong suit, Adam?😆👍🏻

The warbird isnt the only ship they forgot to put impulse engines on. Take a look the nebula in TNG The Wounded, no impulse drives on the saucer which always made me insane considering its the exact same saucer type as the galaxy.

The length that the D'deridex was designed with by Andrew Probert is 1353 m in length, taking this and the given schematics this results in a calculated beam of 988 m and a hight of 430 m.

Been waiting for this one!!!!

The Duhduhdairy-lax Warbird is 32 years old? Holy bejesus, I'm getting up there.

My all time favorite ST ship.

An mentioned, the D'Deridex class was almost double the size of the Galaxy class; Enterprise D: Length - 641m; Beam - 470m; Height - 145m. D'Deridex: Length - 1041m; Beam - 772m; Height - 258m.

This was always my favourite ship in scifi. This one and the Whitestar

I didn't notice the TV turning off either😂😂

Wonderful JOB TrekCulture TEAM, I do have a model of a green warbird that has four sounds COOL

You just made my Monday

I absolutely love this ship! So damn cool. And I've only just realized I'm not subscribed so now I am.

One cool fact. In star trek the return. The enterprise e is a difient class ship. It flues in between the 2 hull's and then twists to destroy it.

You can just call it a B- type warbird. That is also correct.

This question about why the Romulan Warp Drive system wasn't addressed in Disco has bugged me forever... I turned into THAT guy.

I enjoy the Paul Stock footage.MP4

@10:13 It could have been a K'vort as the B'rel are smaller.

D'D'd'dD'''D'deridex... yeah that issue plagued my preteen years. Glad I wasn't the only one!

Ah good old Discovery - plot holus maximus.

Love this

1:31 That's a DS9 runabout surely

thanks for the video. that was 8 for me.

‘They used new or re-cast sets’ isn’t that the only 2 options?? New or reused lol.

I still wanna know how the artificial quantum singularity works! I can't even fathom having the technology to create a micro-black hole!

With the warbird thing, you should have probably mentioned how Klingons have them too. Just the name for most alien ships in the Alpha Quadrant apparently.

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I never noticed the D"deridex class ship didn't have impulse engines or a shuttle bay.

I thought NOG was the first Ferengi in starfleet but theres one at the bridge at 4:42, am i missing something?

I bet hardcore Trekkies are losing their minds every time you murder the name De’deridex.

Great video!

I mean it’s possible that the romulans had stoped using micro-singularities by discovery, given their re-unification with Vulcan. But that does raise the question why didn’t everyone else start using singularity drives after the burn?

The front, nose?, bow?, bridge?, looks similar to the Alien. You know, Sigourney Weaver, Ridely Scott.

They did get around the bird of prey problem by saying that before the Vor'cha class they used a K'Vort class cruiser in TNG (specifically in Defector, Redemption, etc.) They then occasionally used the B'rel class smaller version which is then the staple in DS9.

D’Deridex: Deh dare ee dex. (Used to be an English/phonetics tutor) ❤️

Omg!!! Get on with it!!!!!!! Over 3 mins in and still waffling on!!!!!!!!!

I speculate War Bird is like Earth Ships are called Ships because "Sea of Stars"; Ergo Romulans may imply "Sky of Stars" so all Interplanetary Machines are "Birds" instead of "Ships"... Therefore "War" designations are for "Space Birds" capable of Interplanetary Combat.

So what did the Romulans and the Borg do after the burn?

to be fair, i definitely believe that the Klingon D7 is the other iconic starship outside of the Federation/Starfleet you failed to mention.

I didn't know Adam could do an Arkwright impression

I'm much content with the "stuff" you guys do now, so I'm good 😉

I want your space jacket!!

i am subscribed to this channel long live Star Trek

it was so funny when Adam said, "Da Derriere" Class

If you want some fun statistics, I just skip ahead 3 minutes into the video to when the list actually starts.

They could probably explain that dilithium switch by mentioning that when they reunited with the Vulcans they switched back to dilithium and had been using it for hundreds of years before The Burn.

And this is why I call it the "D'Dex" for short.

im thought what you call Valdore Class, is the Norexan Class warbird

Anyone guess my main ship for my Romulan in Star Trek Online? Yes...that ship.

If this helps the d'deridex phonetic break down is "Duh Der a dex"

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