Starfleet's UNDERDOG Ship! - Star Trek Starships Explained! 

I believe they are Beluga whales, not Dolphins.

I fell in love with Lower Decks the 1st season. It's refreshing from all the new Trek that's so dark and depressing ( SNW not included, love that too). I've seen every season of every series and movies ( Kelvin timeline barf), the new stuff has been hit and miss, but Lower Decks has been solid from the start! # SAVE PRODIGY!! 🤘😁🖖🇨🇦

Poor Captain Layton never got a break

Your pronunciations were pretty much spot on! Except Rubidoux is pronounced with a dough; Rubi-dough. One wrong out of all of those names is great!!!

Only thing missing is a Captain's dinghy. Not a yacht, that would just be silly.

"I guess those Cali-class ships can hold their own longer than people think." -- William T. Riker

It’s a shame they didn’t use the city’s zip code as the ship’s NCC number.

500 meters?!?! That's HUGE!!!!

You know... I saw that Oberth Class line coming and I STILL had to reign in my Engineering crew! Hehe

Honestly you did well with the city names.

My favorite animated sci fi, on par with futurama

Still say the California class is the updated replacement (or replacements replacement) for whatever class the Farragut is in SNW!

only have a couple streaming services and no cable so i sadly live vicariously thru various clips but love the idea of lower decks and non-capitol ships like the california class a big regret i had for ds-9 was that it wasn't an anthology series featuring different ships throughout the series and different crews [yeah i know the expense would have killed it but can still hope] trek should have a huge fleet due to the size and distances of the galaxy so there's fodder for many series not counting across time

8:38 That’s the Carlsbad NCC-73110, Oakland is Command RED with distinctual Pin-stripes on her dorsal, and is the first ship to arrive after Cerritos was crippled by Aledo following its core ejection.

Love me some Lower Decks!!! Can't wait for Season 4.

As far as I am concerned, STAR TREK rules, STAR WARS is reaching, but RED DWARF and DR. WHO made SCI-FI fun to enjoy!

Got the names of the cities in California pronounced pretty well. I lived or worked in most of them and was born in Anaheim.

The California class, Star fleet's tv stand

Unashamedly my new favourite Starfleet vessel. That said, can you shed any light on the unloved Typhoon Class battleship from STO?

Roo-bee-doe, not Roo-bee-doo; Southern California may not have a uniform accent, but specific place names wind up with pronunciations divorced from the original person or place that inspired the name. This is especially prevalent in San Diego County, for some reason. Other than that, the California Class ship names sounded good.🎉

7:38, WAIT WAIT, isn't that really the guts of Enterprise G

have you done a video on the Bonaventure class Ncc-1000? one of the sexiest starships in non-canon star trek

I love how they took are of the Texas class ships. Sure the are Secondary in nature, but they can do well, unless there's a joke involved. Then all hell breaks loose! ;-). BTW, Adam great job as usual! Oh, how I love the UNDERDOGS! 🖖🏼

i would very much command a California class😊

Leave the Oberth class alone. Its a great little ship.

There has to be more than 35 calis classes, I'd imagine those in the season 3 finally were those who got there in time.

This ship class is 794 m long and is classified as a light support cruiser, if it had a version with the shape of the galaxy class that even took advantage of its narcelles and ability to separate the engineering disc section, would it be over 1000m in length?

Awww no poor star drive 😢

4:22 -- I would think the holding cells' ability to withstand your chili would have more to do with atmospheric reprocessing and filtering than the force field. Unless your chili is somehow interphasic or comprised of particularly exotic particles.

Great video

This thing looks like it has safety flares for engines, or light sabers. Maybe flashlights.

Just realized the final act was California beaing up Texas. Someone had a grudge :P

10:00, well I do bloody live there

i love this ship

The one thing that I DO NOT understand about the ships getting caught in tractor beams. Why they never teleported a huge bomb into the beam. 10:19)By Galaxy Class was he referring to ships like the USS Enterprise-D (NCC 1701-D)? At least 3 times Captain Plcard said that it was the first of the type. That would make them USS Enterprise-D (NCC 1701-D) Class dreadnoughts. They about 25% larger than the Excelsior Class battleship.

Um, I dnt really watch Lower Decks but in one ep didn’t EVERY Cali get called in for an emergency?

Salute! Space Roomba!

You know, I didn't notice that Jack Quaid was too tall to credibly represent Boimler in live action. I'm not sure I'd even consider that episode to be canon because it was too uncanny valley for me.

Oh yes, the pick up truck of the Federation

The only new trek show I have seen most of and my third favourite Trek (only behind DS9 and Enterprise) I adore the Cali Class but the bunk beds in the hallways were daft. Starfleet is manned by Volunteers who are the best of the best having passed through multiple tests and evaluations. They deserve better than a bunk in a damned hallway.

Belugas not Dolphins

U.S.S Resolute ftw!!

Lord's ladies and human subspecies😂

Looking a table

First, also, I love these videos.

Kind of like a stretched centaur

So what I am hearing is that it took 100 Californians to take on a Texan. Honestly, I dislike the ship because it reminds me of either the pre-Borg or mid-Dominion War builds but WITHOUT all the improvements to ship builds that they had up to that point. California, as it's namesake, seems to be weak on its own and has to overwhelm an enemy with numbers to be effective. If this had been Wolf 359 these ships would've been erased within seconds. Honestly, it seems to be only a step up from Oberth class ships in reliability, which makes me question why the writers didn't just get a ship from STO that was better suited for the role? I mean I'm no expert but even the Nova class ensured you had actual quarters for the crew, even if they had to double up. To make it worse, the Defiant, who is about as small as a Saber class had rooms for the barracks-style rooms and this ship is physically bigger than a Defiant class coming in close to an Ambassador class. So, the ship design makes even less sense in the post-Dominion War era, especially given what we have for references of smaller ships and their accommodations. Putting the nonsense of the internal layout in contrast to other ships with similar layouts aside, these ships are far too fragile for the era these are supposed to be in. Had this been the pre-Borg era I could see these being a practical ship. But it just doesn't seem practical for them to keep such a design active. While I am not so much a fan of how the initial season was done, nor the Mary Sueness of a certain character. I do find the addressing of the Below Decks crew to be something that was sorely needed as other shows had touched on the idea but tbh fell flat as they never seem to translate into any meaningful reforms within Starfleet. Like many things made in the current Era, it is a good concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. To those that like the series, fair enough, free world and all that. But from someone who is a serious sci-fi and starship nerd, the California makes no sense to me in a post-Dominion era Starfleet. I like the idea of a darker Startrek show without it going Picard on us, but the initial launch turned me off simply due to me being tired of seeing a character that could seemingly do it all yet didn't want to which was all over tv and movies at the time.

What was that about saving Star Trek Prodigy? Is something wrong with it? Has it been cancelled? Tell me it hasn't been cancelled!

You know it's cool just was I wasn't in the mood for cartoon

I'm a Constution and Sovereign and Galaxy Class Man... Myself. But The Cali Class is not my top ten but she is still beautiful to look at... she's not powerful nor durable about every ship is unique.

AS a Californian, the thought of serving on The Oakland or The Fresno is quite disturbing. Especially if the decks of the Oakland are as rough as the streets in the real City. Or the halls in the Fresno as fog clouded as real Fresno in fall and winter. Literally cannot see across an intersection. Though you CAN hear cars going by at 45...

she may not be the prettiest ship of the line but she does her job and looks after her crew and just like any high-end Galaxy class vessel or sovereign class warship you treat her like a lady she'll get you home every time.

Cheers adam

Obvious that California class would get the best of Texas. No one would ever make a class named for Massachusetts. The naming committee would get their fill of chu-chu-choo train jokes out of their system and move on to a better sounding named state.

The greatest ship in the fleet.

🖖🖖😎🖖🖖🍁

omg its the cali class? pass...

*confused beluga whale noises*

The California class starship is a poor look.... Give me a Gaxly Class starship.....

This is by far the ugliest, unbalanced and badly designed ship I ever seen in my 40 years of watching SF. I refused to watch this star trek show based on how ugly and badly designed this ship looks.

Lower Deck was the one that should of been cancelled. Not Prodigy. Lower Decks is very inappropriate by Star Trek standards.