This isn't a D-7 Battle cruiser. This looks more like an earlier design from late 22nd Century/ Early 23rd Century Klingon vessel. That would make it a D-5 or 6. Also, lounges would not be found on a Klingon ship. What you will find are combat training areas, hand to hand fighting gyms, and an area to do Klingon rituals. They don't clutter their vessel with non-essentials, as Koloth once said. Everything about their ships is made for combat.
Actually, it is not a straightforward D-4 model. It is a modified Klingon battle cruiser based off the standard D-4. In "reality" it is a sub variant. It is classified by the Federation as a D-4.002 because it has separate bathrooms for both female and male Klingon warriors.
well he based it on the blueprints from "Galactic Designs And Productions" from 1975, great blueprint of the D7 ^^ search for "cygnus d7 blueprint" and you can find them and some other very good ones ;)
Those three versions of this ship the D7 the katanga and in the battle cruiser the battlecruiser the last one sometimes did have powerful phaser turret in the old torpedo tube
A Starfleet officer under the nx-01 Enterprise Latina Reed another clan of Captain Archer stowed Photon torpedo technology from the Klingon it wasn't deliver Espionage it was just an opportunity but he couldn't pass up
Talks about the Klingon D7, then shows a ship that looks very little like a D7. Nowhere in either TOS nor the movies, do you see any of the piping/support structure that is shown on these illustrations. And I don’t remember seeing any of those on the 1975 blueprints either. There are also critical differences in the upper engineering section as well. I just verified these by watching “Elan of Troyius” and the Klingon battle against V’ger. Nor are there any see through portions of the warp nacelles, they’re solid. Also, the bridge module was equipped with an impulse engine in case it had to separate from the engineering section in case of crew mutiny. Not sure what ship you’re showing us, but it sure isn’t a D7.
Listening to the description of the interior spaces I came to the conclusion that you used the fanmade blueprints from the 1970's, and that you acknowledge the somewhat dated reference (I got the same set of blueprints). The layout suggests a more "human" approach to needs and comforts that fit in with TOS than the warrior culture it morphed into in TNG. Gotta love those "Inspirational Media Centers". I'm sure if they did blueprints today the crew quarters wouldn't be so spacious, but may have several more dentist's offices!
for everyone who is judging the video because of him getting the ship wrong, he still worked very hard on this video and tried his best & i doubt any of you could do any better at it, it’s a harmless mistake
Curious that there is so much space dedicated to medical. Klingons would rather die with honor than live as dishonored survivors. There is no glory for that.
Great video is usual my friend. I miss your videos so far but you put great detail into explaining everything I love the way you do this a lot of other channels do not explain in detail. You do not respect to you, my friend. You are awesome keep bringing these videos up. Don't stop I want to see more videos.
@@Halfscreen I can imagine it takes hours and hours to edit. This RU-vid thing is a lot of work I have a small RU-vid channel but it's completely different. It's about automatic living cause I live a simple life I don't edit like that thank God this way I appreciate what you're doing.
@@Halfscreen The reason why you don't succumb to it. My friend is because you love what you're doing, that's the point. Anything you love doesn't. That's all like I love alternative living and camping and it's never tiring to me so I understand what you're saying. My friend? You do a great job because your passion is this awesome. I love it.
Or a highly advanced state of the art medical facillities, Given thier warriior mindset and culture. Military combat training and armanant design and manufacturing was much more emphasized than with medical care and training.. And quarters of the crew would be pretty spartan, @@Halfscreen
@@oldgordo61 That's mostly for Klingon Crews later in the Movie era and post into the TNG era as they began to embrace more the warrior belief they had. If anything given they were supposed to be the alternative super power compared to the Federation. Its very likely they had Klingon ships that was purposefully decked out with the best Klingon Tech had to offer to show boat the empires capabilities, So Klingon ships looking like high tech wonders inside instead of looking one step to looking like a tramp hualer was more likely. By the time you get to the movie era, you likely had older klingon ships running around and becoming a little worn out. The more Warrior aspect and culture starting to come into being.
Remember in the Star Trek:Voyager season 7 episode 'Prophecy' where we got to see a Klingon D7 BattleCruiser again that was found in the Delta Quadrant by the crew of the U S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 man that was a neat episode seeing a classic Klingon ship we haven't seen since the T.O.S. series going up against an advanced Federation Starship.
Hi this is our D4 model (Stellar Parallax) that we made for our ages of the Federation mod. You did not get permission to use our model, and would like to know how you aquired it...
Thats very interesting about the ship & interior design. The Klingon D7 Cruiser KTinga class battle cruiser. Nice Klingon ship besides the Vor,cha attack cruiser & Bird of Prey. ❤😊🤩☺️⭐
Great Work! But for me it is very hard to get a reference for where exactly the decks on the ship are . . . a "Front" Indicator would be great too . . .
Anyone find it funny that with most races of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants have starships that are smaller than Federation starships with the acception of the Borg and the Dominion and the Romulans.
Remember in Star Trek Enterprise season 1 episode 'Sleeping Dogs' and the Star Trek the Next Generation season 2 episode 'A Matter of Honor' where in those 2 episodes it was revealed the Klingons like to eat their food while it was fresh in other words they ate their food while it was still alive which is no surprise as the Klingons are a Predatory Warrior race.
By the way, when you do videos like this, can you compare somebody's ships to the size to America's biggest battleships or aircraft carriers? I wanna see the size differenperhaps? Can you do a video like that to my friend? Thank you very much, appreciate it if you could.
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I'm not sure if it was mentioned, but extended neck play important role as psychological armour. When D7 was introduced, most ships still did have directional shielding. Klingons make they bridges look exposed and venerable, when in reality they did have powerful localized shielding. This tactic fail against Federation, what has tendency of disabling enemy ships and as such prefer to attack drive system, what by comparison was relatively lightly protected.
@@peerkirksey3678Not until the trio of ships in TMP (1979), which are I believe later identified as K'Tinga class. The D7s of TOS never used Photon Torpedoes in the show, and the deckplan collection predates the TMP production by several years.
@@peerkirksey3678 your confusing the k'tinga and the D7 , the D7 during teh TOS era didn't have photon torpedoes it had heavy disruptors and phaser banks . it wasn't until the TMP era K'tinga refit happened which added the torpedoes
You do such a great job with these videos and the effort which goes into them is obvious, which is why it infuriates me when I see the mistakes which are made. Biggest mistake here, no offence intended, is that it's a D4. You can tell by the sublight engine configuration and the extra support booms along the neck structure. The impulse engines on the D7 were aligned horizontally across the rear of the hull, not in vertical banks, as is shown here. It's clearly a D4.
Fair enough. And I totally understand. Like I said no offence intended. Your internal modelling and attention to detail are excellent. It's all well researched and mostly correct, but it is a nuisance when something like that trips up an otherwise excellent video. Doesn't matter anyway, I am still subscribed and I still happily watch everything you make. 👍👍
It seems like this is a troop transport ship, as quite a lot of room is dedicated to barracks. Great for boarding actions or planetary invasions. So I tried counting out the number of beds, and this is the charter I found: 25 officers (8 senior, 17 junior), 200 crewmen (116 enlisted, 62 engineering, 22 security), and 86 combat personnel; for a total of 311 Klingons. (Plus an extensive brig with 26 cells)
@@tomhenry897 I'd say I'm a casual fan. I've seen all the movies and a handful of episodes from each series and I'll watch youtube videos from time to time, but I don't really do any deep lore stuff or base my existence on the franchise if that's what you mean. I got into Star Trek because I love fictional spaceships. I'm a mechanic irl and I love combing through technical manuals about how stuff works.
Essential that's what it is. A battle cruiser/troop transport. The Romulan Warbird from TNG and the Cardassian Galor serve basically the same function.
you are not wrong. Klingons are warriors and conquerors. Emphasis is placed on combat prowess, in space and face to face. This ship is meant to burst its way in and land troops. I liked the attention paid to the transporters... 5 platforms of 21 individuals each. thats 105 dudes at once beaming down. That was just one deck. There were a few other transporter station sprinkled about the ship
Love your videos. Awesome visual insights. My only nit-pik is the initial graphics of the ship was actually the (non-cannon) D-6. Otherwise, well done.
The Torpedo tube in the front section, I didn't see anything in that section. You DID mention the Disruptor banks on several levels, but not much on the Torpedoes.
Great work on everything - very comprehensive and detailed. It makes sense that Klingons would have a robust ship design with a ton of troops and a bunch of transporters ready to beam them into combat- or more likely into rapid occupation of an area. Imagine over a hundred Klingons suddenly beaming in to your city center... The placement of the water storage in the boom is interesting to me. I'd definitely add some water storage in the command pod, just in case. They really do segregate the officers from the "combat troops" don't they?
You need to research better. The 'D7' shown in the opening sequences is in reality a D6. The D7 doesn't have the lower support braces from the main hull to the bow section.
every time I look at one of these ships all I see is a very skinny neck that seems like a great place for a photon torpedo. The borg got it right really hard to blow that ship in half.
@@alanmike6883Looks like the Unused D4 model John Eaves designed for Enterprise that'd later appear in the Ships of The Line calendar. It couldn't be made in time and so they used the K'Tinga model left over from DS9 instead, one of the many times the K'Tinga is just randomly used as "Generic Klingon Ship despite not making sense"
I would put the captain's 'sea cabin' on the 2nd deck and relocated the dentist elsewhere. Emergency medical treatment and the proximity of the captain to the bridge both make sense, but anyone with a tooth knocked out is not a medical emergency and treatment can wait.
cool video but weird phrasings and choices of adjectives in this one. did AI write the script? you use phrases like "dominating" to refer to a teeny room on the bridge and controls for the deflector screens "assert their presence?" it's a couple of kiosks in a broom closet-sized room. how are they asserting any presence? and a Klingon ship described as "thoughtfully furnished?" very strange choices of phrases...
so...not a D7. Where did you get the rendering that you used? Its not TOS and certainly not the K'tinga. It would be nice to have used the original design.
A comprehensive design indeed, although where is the area where they keep the live animals for the Klingons. It is known that Klingons don't usually eat dead animals. such as gah, they like warm moving Klingon worms.
I wish this video had the transistions from floor to floor (the lower faid in and the top faid out, I didn't understand where everything is on the ship, unlike the enterprise videos
A major error in your summary. The description of a "separation" of Primary and Secondary Hulls as you describe yet the framework does not house life support nor propulsion necessary for the forward Boom to navigate with out the Main and Secondary Hull.
I wonder why in a much more automated future any military or cargo ships would need any more crew members than modern naval or merchant ships in the seas of Earth demand today. Relying on manual work, having no robots and making spaceships' interior filming- friendly but illogic as engineering is a mark of ST as the Flash Gordon of our times.
From a medical facility standpoint, this design has more than twice the potential of the the Constitution Class. Fascinating that it would actually serve well as a hospital ship. I think the 1975 blue prints had cold storage for hibernating crew. Even that has value from a medical/rescue standpoint.
2 bathrooms for 430 Klingons? It must suck to work there! I work in a warehouse with 15 people and 3 bathrooms. There is never a open bathroom. I have to wait at least 3 hours sometimes to take a piss.
Feel like the bridge doesn’t need those walls and halls unless there’s consoles or screens on those walls there’s no need for walls just supports like most Klingon ships designs are gonna be different then human designs so humans have walls were klingons have supports
I am not familiar with the support struts from the hull to the pod or the struts along the trailing edge of the hull. They do not appear in any of the footage I've ever seen in movies comic's or model kits. Is this something from the games?
This is good, but it depicts a D4 / D5 attack cruiser from the late 22nd to early 23rd Earth centuries, which was actually about 20 percent smaller than the more massive and powerful D7 of the mid 23rd to early 24th centuries.
