Star Trek Online: Yorktown Class Star Cruiser | Official Breakdown 

@RealityCheck how about some forward looking constitution class starships

Have u done a luna class breakdown

What if all sto ships in The Motion Picture styled?

Yea Odyssey class made no sence to me.

@@timesthree5757 to think it was a fan design too.

@@lengen179 I ment made no sence to me. Their Corrected it.

Hands down my favorite as well.. And I love the Lexington Dreadnaught sooo much to.. Just a damn show it don't have the Oddy bridge ingame :P

@@darth_yoda why the Ships looks like fan art and is trash.

That is a remarkable story. Yorktown

Kind of, but this class is more named for the 23rd century heavy cruiser that was salvaged intact but with the entire crew dead as a result of life support failure. It was decommissioned - haunted, after all, and Starfleet has carried on the naval tradition of being superstitious - and recommissioned shortly thereafter as USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A.

Not only that, the Enterprise-F was retrofitted into this configuration, meaning that for the first time since the 1940s, the Enterprise is once again a "Yorktown-class" ship.

Yes indeed. I have noticed in some areas, that they seem to be overusing the premium look.

That's because they had the licensing to do so when no one else did.

@@Soundwave142 it's the 25th century refit design of those ships because STO takes place in 2409-2411

@@VipapkStudiosOfficial I know, I've been playing the game for years. I was thinking gamewise not lorewise. Some ship designs seems to be more concerned about the premium look, such as the Hestia a good ship design but the white material color does not seems to suit it as well the Odyssey's, which matches her graceful design. Also, some T6 ship designs don't look that good, such as the Alita (though there is a more uglier variant of the "heavy escort") and the the Andromeda. (The Cygnus is a better design and the white material suits her better.) I think it's worth noting that there is a lack of variation on T6 ships, meaning you don't have the option for varying ship design options and no mix and match options like you had before reaching level 50.

@@Soundwave142 it's a good thing those ships will be all slowly remastered :D

sto ship design > STDSC ship design for sure

I love my Mercury class pilot ship, but it never seams to get any love.

Agree, we get to know what happen to the USS Voyager crew etc. Very expensive lore expansion

Depends how hard Starfleet leaned-in on using AI-powered androids and holograms to handle mundane tasks.

@@deusexaethera good point. But I believe when they mention 1500 crew they don't mention onboard AI or maybe even androids:(

@@TheArklyte : Why? That would be racist.

to a degree this attitude is canon to STO, i dont remember where but quite early on its said 'We can build as many ships as we need, the trouble these days is finding people to captain them'

@@thebronzedragon1 it's also how they explain the fast speed your character can become an admiral

*beta canon

@@OldClassTreky True, I should have said, “as if.”

The Prometheus frame became the Hestia, while the Vesta seems to have taken an Excelsior-style workhorse role (The only notable time I've seen an NPC Vesta was during the "Escort VIP" Officer of the Watch at the Fleet Starbase. There may have been one at the Battle of Jupiter Station at the beginning of Red Shift.)

Blue Antennae Matter. (IIRC, he's a descendant of ENT's Shran.)

Most of the Federation ships being put out now all stick with the new 25th century Starfleet aesthetic that the Odyssey-class created, and sticking with that aesthetic for pretty much all of the new designs being out in STO has created some truly beautiful ships.

Kinda. She was an Odyssey class when she first appeared during the Dominion occupation of DS9 and up to the final battle of the Iconian war, when she was badly damaged. We saw her again upgraded to the Yorktown class in the Hur'q attack on Bajor.

Yorktown, Lexington, Sojourner, and Endeavor are considered Odyssey subclasses. They're likely technically still Odysseys but the additional naming makes it clear what sub-role they're designed for.

It's like when the Essex class carriers were retrofitted with an angled flight deck. It's still the original Essex's bones but so much more.

that's a pretty long gap between the 1717 and the 1717-A don't you think? :)

Constellation (Picard's old Stargazer) wasn't a Connie.

@@MichaelBirks The USS Constellation was a Connie mate it was used by Kirk to suicide ram the Doomsday Machine in TOS.

@@paulgrattan3885 [Gets out venerable Franz Joseph] Right you are. NCC-1017. Call it my being confused over the Constellation Class, and assuming the lead ship would bear that name.

Their rendition of the Crossfield class also looks far better. Slap a TOS hull sceme on it and it feels right at home. Using discoverys Nacells and the TMP hull also looks nice.

Everything looks better than the Bad Robot Designs

@@rookangelofmercy7283 I don't know, the Franklin looks far better than Discovery imo.

@@zafranorbian757 the Franklin was designed by Sean Hargreave, he is not involved in the production of Discovery or any other nuTrek movies.

The ships look right, but the lore is a mess. The whole "we need more shipyards" arguement, DS9 had them building roughly a galaxy glass every week and a dozen other large cruisers too, those yards are only bigger by the STO. Building ships is easy, the hard part was never the ships, it was the crews. That and they rewrote the Iconians, the litteral species that seeded all life in the galaxy, to be some 2 bit species that the federation can even come close to fighting. The federation couldn't even beat the dominion in a fight, they beat a splinter of it, and even then only by using a bio-weapon.

@@cgi2002 I don't recall the Iconians _ever_ being stated to have "seeded all life in the galaxy"; those were the Preservers, *NOT* the Iconians. Also, I'd like to point out that the Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Dominion, & Delta Quadrant alliance didn't even come close to defeating the Iconians in a fair fight. It's only through attempts at Time Travel and sueing for peace that the war didn't end with an utter decimation of the Alliance.

@@Timjer92 your right, it wasn't the iconians, I was miss remembering. It also wasn't the preservers either however, they just transplanted populations (in the actual lore it was purposely left unclear, in the game they are the same race, so fair enough). It was an unnamed "ancient humanoid" race, they went around seeding planets which is the lore reason for so many species even so similar in appearance (bipedal humanoids). As for the war, fair enough, it's still one of those stupid "we managed to fight back" stories were in reality, the first strike would have been suns litterally detonating in every system they wanted gone. There would have been no fighting back, the war would have ended before we even knew it was happening. They've litterally been preparing for 200,000,000 years, I'm surprised they didn't just throw planets at each other for fun at that point at speeds greater than warp 9.9999, they have the technology to do it.

@@cgi2002 ??? Did you misremember the Iconian War? The Alliance lost nearly every battle with the Iconians. It took a desperate gamble and ultimately, compassion, to end the war.

@@ffnbbq no,i never really followed it. My point was it wouldn't be a war. This would be like mankind using a nuke to kill a mouse. There simply wouldn't be a war, it would be over the moment it began and we'd all be dead and never know what killed us, no battles, no plans, just instantly wiped out. The only race that could stand up to the Iconians would be the preservers/unknown humanoids (not counting Q, they are basically gods) as they are at an even greater tech level. The iconians are at a level that they could weaponize Omega, it's basically an "I win" button.

Star Trek online truly shines in its space combat and music soundtrack. Ground combat is meh honestly, but they make up for this with really good storylines imo.

@@aresthecrazy9335 The Iconian Arc is peak writing, absolutely. Also, have just replayed the wonder that is "Quark's Lucky Seven". ::chef's kiss::

It has launchers on all 4 sides, so it can already fire in all directions without turning, and better yet can fire in all directions simultaneously.

The Lexington class has the Aquarius, but can also launch two wings of fighters.

If I want to shoot at things more than 10km away, I stop winning at Eve Online.

Thats incorrect, the Lexington can seperate like all the other Odyssey variants. Look up closely in the video where the seperation takes place at 2:46, there is a large triangular pod where the lance is mounted below that stays on the main hull. The Galaxy Dreadnought can seperate aswell in STO btw.

@@corlunae Wrong wrong wrong.. Also at 2:46 that is NOT the Lexington that's the YORKTOWN. AND I have BOTH Lextington AND the Galaxy Dreadnought in STO and no they can't NOT Separate

@@darth_yoda Lexington can separate, as well as other Odyssey class. You just need "Chevron Separation" console from t5 Oddy. As for Galaxy Dread. - you will need a console from t5 Galaxy Retrofit, as far I remember that's called "saucer separation" or something like it

The Terran Emperor Protects!

IIRC, the designer's plan was to have the necks (and part of the hull) form a Vulcan style warp ring when separated.

Cannonically that negative space mitigates a lot of the subspace drag and allows the use of a longer duration quantum slipstream drive (iirc)

@@starliner2498 Yes, I've heard the reasoning behind it. I still despise negative spaces in Star Fleet ships. Although, out of all the ships I've seen, that Odyssey and Discoprise have the least offensive use of negative space.

Two Necks Good, One Neck Not so good!

I love that Odyssey negative space, and was kinda sad for the reinforcement pylon breaking it up in this design lol

Yeah, I love my Arbiter but it's crazy half the time warping in and surrounded by ships 3x my size lol...

Nah 1000 meter long ship is good enough I mean most battleships in EVE Online is around and over that. But then we got Warhammer 40k which 1km long ships is considered small

Honestly I think the Kilometer mark for a Supercaptial class is fairly reasonable considering both the technology of the main Star Trek races (key word main) and the setting they are in.

Star Trek in general had smaller size ships compared to other Scifi franchises, but the Enterprise E was about 700+ meters and the Scimitar was massive. So maybe not too out there. To each their own.

The pass-through is part of the design for allowing better transwarp and/or quantum slipstream. Though it's still a limited technology in the 2410s, vessels designed optimally can make solid use of it.

The Legendary version of the Odyssey/Yorktown/Verity ect as well as the new Lexington class can carry two wings of fighters in addition to the Aquarius. For a through-deck carrier, check out the game's recently remastered Concorde class Command Battlecruiser.

Automation?

Prometheus could be flown by like 4 romulans. Even the Enterprise could be flown by a few old geezers in star trek 3 if only for a short period of time.

I believe originally the empty space was an attempt in making the entier structure more stable during slipstream flight, which would explain the 0.3 speed increase on the base ship compared to my galaxy dreadnought, it feels a little empty to me too so it sort of makes me feel something is missing too

That Spinal weapon is a dead giveaway - the Lexington is a TERRAN design.. It's an Agony Phaser.

When the OG design won the contest back in 2012, the guy who drew it said he based the Odyssey class as an evolution of the Sovereign. The Odyssey is a Super Sovereign.

idk more than one ship might be seen as overly threatening when encountering new civilizations.

@@entropy11 Ships like the Galaxy class, and this one, are designed to nearly be mobile starbases, and not have to come back to the UFP for decades. You're better able to cover more territory this way and ideally each ship, of these types, should be able to handle nearly anything it comes across. Obviously, the Galaxy class turned out to be a glass cannon a lot of the time, which is why you got the Sovereign class and later on others in STO. (You didn't see this in TNG, with it running back to Earth multiple times.)

@@Corbomite_Meatballs and if something goes wrong with the ship then you don't have secondary vessel to take in at least a part of the crew onboard or whom would be able to share spare parts or provide support in case of ambush. Imagine Columbus and other explorers trying to voyage on single ship?;)