The Best Starship: Odyssey Star Cruiser Full Breakdown 

It's a shame a series wasn't made using the Enterprise F as the hero ship.

Nothing against anyone who likes the G, but I felt is was criminal that the only time we get to see the Enterprise F is when she is being decommissioned. It could be my bias, but the Odyssey is far and away the better looking and equipped than the G

We didn't get to see enough of her just like the sovereign class

Picard did the F dirty. just like they did the Titan-A

No matter what, the Odyssey is a beautiful ship, and a worthy Enterprise.

Based on how small the Enterprise-F's bridge we see in Picard is, I'm wondering if it was actually the battle bridge. If I recall, the justification for the F's retirement was that it had suffered significant internal damage on it's last mission, perhaps this included the main bridge?

You know what? That's one beautiful ship. This is honestly what I hoped the Galaxy class would have looked like back when TNG first aired. She's got sleek, flowing lines. Like a classic (Italian) sports car. And it makes her look a lot smaller than she is. Like she's in motion standing still. It's a toss-up for me between the relatively sleek brutality of the Excelsior class and this one for my favourite Star Trek ships. To me, both are the most gorgeous of their respective era's.

Love the Odyssey-Class. Glad to see it canonized. Currently running a Sojourner Operations Star Cruiser variant in STO on my main. Looks like a Odyssey and a Galaxy smashed together and then someone stuck Ambassador-style Nacelles on it. Got it running an Beam loadout! It's a Warbird killer in a boardside, and can tank like a SoB too! Love it!

I love the Odyssey so much, I really hope they bring it back

For decades I maintained the Galaxy class was the most beautiful design but, i must admit, the Odyssey is drop dead gorgeous. To the person(s) who designed it, very well done!

Rick thank you because this is what I was looking for. Many sources of cannon and non cannon are unable to provide the information on for example armaments' and point defense where they are etc. so far I have not watched anyone else who went in depth with as much cannon as possible. Thank you is what I am trying to say.

"So.... you folks have come to our planet on a mission of peaceful exploration?" "Indeed." "... and this peaceful exploration necessitated you looming over our planet in a ship visible from the ground, a ship large enough to hold the standing armies of at least two entire planets, enough arms to knock a planet out of its orbit, and enough armor to withstand getting hit by said planet, with sensors so intrusive you could probably tell me the exact moments of my last three erections, and what I was thinking about at the time?" "... look, man. Space is beautiful, but space is big, and space is mean. You'd be amazed how few space-faring powers will agree to sit down in a drum circle and talk about their feelings. It's not zero! But it's not enough."

When they had the design the next Enterprise contest for Star Trek Online, I thought the winning sketch was pretty ugly. But what the STO team did with that starting point really became a beautiful ship. I'm very sad with how it was treated in Picard S3. And then succeeded by the horrible mess of how they justified the creation of an Enterprise G.

I like that the F is the best of the Galaxy and the best of the E.

I never really comprehended how big the Odyssey class is, but checking lengths and comparison charts it actually dwarfs the Galaxy class, which is kinda insane.

I have this ship in STO and it was the go-to back when it came out and for a long long time afterwards.

CI: "It's a big ship." Universe-class Enterprise-J: *Ahem.*

Not gonna lie, this ship and its variants, has become my new favorite in the entirety of Star Trek lore, hands down. Lots of them I love and enjoy, but this is by far my #1 choice. Thanks for the informational video, Rick! Love your channel!!

I would like to see this ship used as a hero ship in a show set some years after the end of Picard with a updated version going on a extreme duration exploration and research cruise

An iconic ship, with one of tue most unique legacies in the franchise. Shame they kinda neutered the Enterprise F lore, but hey alternate timelines and stuff with STO and the lot. Loved her there and loved her in Picard all the same.

Looking at the eaglemoss model of the Enterprise F on my shelf as I watch this, thanks for the video :D

Very good ship breakdown. I think one of your best yet.

A video on my favorite ship for my birthday? Thank you so much!

I am a fan of the Sovereign, But it's good to see That starfleet .Learnt their lesson with the Galaxy that they gave this ship a Gunship It can deploy at a moment's notice. Overall not a bad ship 👌

Hoping you get to a dedicated breakdown for the Constitution III, Duderstadt, and Echelon classes eventually 👍 Odyssey class is definitely impressive, but my all time favorite is still the Sovereign class.

This a beautiful in-depth look. For God's sake let's see a TV show around the Enterprise F. I know, 'but Star Trek Legacy!'. I agree! But the F is an absolute beauty - can we not have seperate TV shows on both the F and the G? Please?

The Lexington is a bahemoth and is my ship of choice. For all my Starfleet characters

Yay!! I’ve been waiting for a new revision of this breakdown. Love the Odyssey class!

13:07 OK, I was NOT expecting the saucer separation to go like that. I figured the saucer just detached from the two small pylons connecting it to the rest of the hull instead of leaving behind a sliver of its bottommost section.

The first km+ ship in Starfleet.

I can’t wait to see you cover The Dervish class. You got me hooked on that ship and I still use it. The rear turret has saved me more than once.

Been looking forward to this one.

Such a lovely ship... And a biggun'! Great video. Great subtitles. Thanks for it!

Lovely ship and delightful to hear such a thorough briefing on her wealth of innovations.

This is a genuinely gorgeous ship!!!

I love the production value for this episode. It shows how much you love this ship. Probably my current favorite, cus I friggin love the Oddy too. Also, rubber duckie room is on deck 4 on my ship, or is it?

Beautifully designed ship. The low armament is confusing, though, as it was supposed to also be an anti-Borg ship capable of carrying the flag in wartime. I thought I read somewhere that it also had the updated variant of ablative armour, and something about the RCS thrusters being miniature impulse engines to keep it nimble. That might be outdated beta canon stuff, though.

Great video, love the Odyssey class.

I hope we get to see this class on-screen again one day.

Thanks for the video. It was very informative. 😊

I remember receiving an Odyssey when it first came out in STO. The account with it got lost but the Odyssey is probably my favorite STO creates ships.

Even though the F was decommissioned early? I doubt that it’s the last we’ll see of her, she’s slated to join her predecessors at Athan Prime, and, I would like to think, will probably be there until she’s called again in 2410, one year after the Enterprise-G is sacrificed to prevent an Undine invasion, when she’s possibly recommissioned for one last cheer, and one last battle through time itself. I think she would win the day but be critically damaged due to her handicap, But if that does happen? Something tells me she’d partake in similar origins to her Successor’s original predecessor, and would be stripped down and rebuilt from the frame up, into the Yorktown-Class Enterprise-H.

thank you certifiably ingame, i love this video, and i love the odyssey!!

We need more of this lovely ship in a series or movie with this ship we should have had this as the main hero ship in Picard

My favorite ship, i played the hell out of this ship online, it got me through so many mirror universe incursions. I love you my USS Draconomicron!

Nicely Done!

I love the look of this class. It's sleek, deadly, and can be utilized in various situations/scenarios.

Thanks for this video! The Odyssey class is more impressive than I thought. With all the new ship classes (Odyssey, Neo-Constitution, Sagan, Inquiry, Pathfinder, Reliant, Excelsior II...) , it would be really interesting to see their sizes compared to each other and to the original hero ships. 🙂🖖

I love the scope of this analysis. I can tell you like this ship

I really want to see it on screen more than what we saw in Picard

This is my second favorite ship, closely following behind my favorite Akira-class. While its the design aesthetic, carrier capability, and torpedo launcher count that attracts me to the Akira, almost everything about the Odyssey is just a big YES for me. And now that we have a proper internal schematic (though not deck-by-deck), it is on par with my favorite. Always gives me more appreciation for a ship to know the actual details about its design and what it has. And the bridge is absoLUTELY gorgeous, it fits the whole Star Trek aesthetic to a T, while being unique from any other hero bridge we've seen. On a side note, my 3rd place ship/s are the original Dyson ships, with that marble white hull and dark grey lines that sometimes had purple lights. Absolutely love them, they maintain a trekkie look, while being alien in origin. Love the whole idea of their use of different technology too, such as the proton weaponry, gravimetric torpedoes, protonic metaphasic shielding, and so on. Plus, the science destroyers could transform slightly to armor some weakspots and the secondary deflector, and reveal heavy proton cannons. And the Obelisk Carrier? love the whole idea of a carrier that mass-fabricates swarmer drones.

Most informative.

Pretty slick and smooth from the side.

A beautiful ship.

congratulations sir amaizing job well done!

Odyssey Class is my 3rd favourite, great design!!

That bridge variant shown briefly at 13:40 pays homage to TOS and TNG by combining elements of both the original Enterprise's bridge (the front), and that of the Galaxy class (the rear).

This is so cool 🙌

Awesome breakdown. This highlights why the Odyssey-class has easily become my favorite, if not top five favorite, Starfleet class. Personally, when it comes to the backstory, I prefer the STO timeline over ST: Pic. The Sovereign-class closed out the 24th century as the flagship of the fleet. The Odyssey-class was to be the new flagship for the beginning of the 25th century.

The Odyssey Class successfully combined the sharpness and practicality of the Sovereign Class with the pomp and excess of the Galaxy Class. Truly a ship of it's time. It's design tells anyone that encounters an Odyssey Star Cruiser that this is a ship of diplomacy and exploration that will not only defend itself if necessary, but is capable of making an incredible amount of mess in an incredible short time.

One of my favorite classes

back when i played star trek online it was great showing up in one of these and giving all the escorts and science vessels a ship to rally around

Lovely ship ❤❤

My absolute favourite! She is a beauty!

Ngl I love this design

Thank you sir! It was just...

Fantastic how ca you do this thank you. WOW!

I must agree !

This is very nice design.

Hooray for the shout-out of the Rubber Duckie room! lol

Given the massive size and wide mission profile i like the idea of using saucer separation as more of a utility than the galaxy class. i.e. leave the saucer in orbit around a central world/place of importance as an impromptu base of operations/temporary starbase, while the drive section and Aquarius continue semi independently running missions to nearby systems, feels like it would have great implications for speeding up deep space exploration, or managing inter-system operations. Staffing three ships with such a complicated setup might be weird though, at the very least requiring the officer in charge to be designated fleet captain, and possibly justifying a permanent admiralty presence on board?

I'd like a video on the Yorktown refit for this design thanks. This video is great btw

The Odyssey Class has actually grown on me over the last couple of years, thanks in large part to Picard Season 3. My only real complaints with its design are with the placement of the Bridge along with its ridiculous size (personal preference: I like the Bridge lining up evenly with the Sensor dome beneath the Saucer, and while I like certain aspect within the Bridge, I prefer it not being the size of shopping center; call me old fashioned, but as a viewer I prefer the intimate feel of the TOS/TMP/Various TNG-era bridge sizes.) My other issue is with some refit designs of the Odyssey having forward leaning pylons for the Nacelles, which makes the ship look an ugly turkey as opposed to an Elegant Bird with the swept back pylons. The only ship design that forward pylon configuration works for is the Galaxy Class. Speaking of the Galaxy Class, with the Odyssey Class being significantly larger than the Galaxy and the state of the Galaxy being in relative peace, does the Odyssey ships have civilians/families on board?

Given that Scotty was on the design team for this ship, the look of the Aquarius craft takes on a new feel to it, given that it sort of invokes the shape of the Jenolan where they found him.

I think the Oddy is the most beautiful ship in STO. I still have one captain flying one.

This, and its many variations in Star Trek online, are legitimately one of my favorite ship classes in all of Star Trek. If you’re curious which variant is my overall favorite, it’s probably the Yorktown.

My favorite design so far.

I LIKE THE SLEEEEEK -F DESIGN BETTER THAN THE E,(my opinion and I hope we get to see its Adventures Someday in the Future! Its debue in Picard was too brief but at least we got to SEE Something! ( I think I understood its ship’s computer to have been taken over buy an invader-I’ll have to watch it again someday to pickup missed details). I like Flowing forms. Do you do the artwork renderings? Because it’s very good! I enjoy the lore of Starfleets ships -very well done🖖

Big ships deserves more love in sci-fi, they're always the punching bags in most media. Give them what they deserve, they are suppose to be the best of the best.

The Ulysses is my main ship in STO, it started as an Odyssey but was refit to a Lexington class

All the video's I've binge-watched of yours has finally convinced me to play STO (on XBox, cause I can't do a keyboard) and I LOVE the game. Can you tell me though, how to get the Odyssey class you use? I see different variants so I'm just wondering... Just starting though, at level 56 so getting there.

I always envisioned this as an Explorer type starship for extreme deep space operations and colonization. Given the size and slipstream, it functions more like a mobile Starbase being able to supply small fleets and deploy outposts on new worlds.

Now, if only in the new series, they can actually improve the internal lighting of the ships. Used to be the internal lighting of federation, ships were quite bright. Now they're dark and dower. You would think a virgining type 2 civilization that's mastered using anti-matter as a power source for interstellar spaceships would have the ability to (light) the inside of the spaceships.

I love my Odyssey in STO. Its my current main.

I love your videos, and particularly when you talk about the Impulse drives. But, does the impulse drive not push the craft faster than light speed, because I seem to remember a TNG episode where the Enterprise D travels from Neptune to Earth in 9 or 19 minutes, Wesley was driving.

The Odyssey really is a starbase with a pair of nacelles.

Honestly if you're going full on to fight the Borg. I wish they also had added a spinal particle lance. Similar to the Galaxy Class Dreadnought. Spinal weapons are so rare in starfleet and they look surprisingly good placed on the lower saucer section.

I’d like to know what happened to the E

Are you doing a video on 32nd century ships anytime soon? Thier designs are really something

During the time when a friend of mine got me to playing the first ( or second? 🤔 ) Star Trek Armada Game I somehow managed to end up on a Star Trek Forum ( probably also because of him ) where at the time they ran a contest of designing a new Star Trek Hero Ship with I think the basic guideline just being that it should easily be recognizable as a Federation designed Ship. Plenty of submissions had already happened at the time I entered with nothing _really_ standing out ( except for stuff _really_ not following the Guideline ) and having just watched Voyager I was kinda enamored with that ships lengthwise stretched design over the Galaxy Classes Oval one so on I went into 3DS Max and whipped out a _very_ rough low poly model ( no textures, no Greeblies, etc... ) of what one would now identify as an Odyssey Class Ship with its two Pylons connecting the Saucer with the rest of the Ship in a flowing manner ( creating that empty space in-between them when looked at from the front / rear ) which people liked _a lot_ back then since a) it _was_ still in the spirit of the Federation and b) it still looked different enough. Haven't followed up what happened to that Hero Ship Contest but man... Seeing the design of the now Odyssey _really_ makes me question the outcome of it - If you get what I mean 😏

You didn't mention the extensive amount of Emergency Top Hat Storage on the bridge of the Odyssey class ships 😁

I agree new star trek series using the " Enterprise F " starship with crews from several other ships . It would have old and new people watching the series and extend the Star Trek legacy more and bring back the excitement and pleasure being new and old together.

I use the Lexington sub class of this in sto but other then thr main hull everything else is odyssey constructed

I hope we get an Ent-F show one day even if its animated we need that lore, and to show off what the Ody can do.

Nice callout of the Rubber Ducky room.

This shit is a wonder a true sucessor to the Galaxy class. This is a character on itself. The potential is monstrous

I love this ship

One of the ships I would love to learn more about that I think was only in a game is a Theorgy class. I think that is a sharp looking ship. Though I would do something similar to this for the bridge instead of what it has.

The Odyssey class ships are beautiful ladies indeed aren't they

Zhiv/Ren SR-83 impulse thrusters, eh? Nice to see Shield of Tomorrow referenced. (I know you can also find the Sally Ride and get it as an admiralty ship, near the Nerandra (sp?) system in sector space)