Excellent content as always, John! The Defiant class will always be my favourite but the Excelsior is a solid 2nd place. I remember being awed by it the first time it was shown, it looked like a luxury cruise liner but with non of the design frailties of the Constitution Class - thick neck and thick, angled necelles.
That's what I've read, as well. Edit: After additional research, the Lakota was the last use of the original Excelsior model, although there was a smaller physical model built for the episode "Flashback" that was used a few times before completely switching to CG.
More amazing than the Excelsior class being in service long enough to be in Picard and Lower Decks, is that the Oberth is still in service decades after the Nova was supposed to be replacing it.
I mentioned this in the description, but I omitted some scenes of the Excelsior from TNG because they used the same shots repeatedly. Thanks for watching.
Poor helmsman, " Sir, we'll fly her apart ! " Captain Sulu " Oooh get out of the way, I've steered ships way before you were born !!!". Don't exaggerate with Captain Sulu.
Not sure about the Excelsior II class. I definitely prefer the original filming model to anything else. Somehow the smaller scale one built for Flashback just didn't quite have the right heft to it, especially in the secondary hull.
I wish some show writer would explain to us the ultimate fate of the original Excelsior. I’d like to think that it is a floating museum somewhere orbiting Earth.
It wasn't explained on screen what exactly "transwarp drive" meant in terms of the Excelsior. However, I subscribe to the theory that it was an advanced form of warp drive that was eventually adopted throughout Starfleet (just dropping "trans" from the name when it became common)--which could also explain the different warp scale in the TNG era.
@@JohnDiMarco I've been a vocal proponent of that theory for several years. Glad to see it gaining traction. Essentially, "old style" warp engines from the Phoenix until the Excelsior used a sort of "brute force" method of punching through subspace and to warp. Imagine an automobile with only 1 gear. "Transwarp" found a way to push past that method to add more "gears", or the power thresholds shown in the TNG technical manual. Allowing ships to achieve higher speeds with much much lower power levels.
Space the final frontier These Are the voyages of the starship Excelsior the seek out new life and new civilizations to build a go where no man or no one has gone before
In Star Trek Canon the USS Excelsior NX-2000 under the command of Captain sulu was on a mission and there was a strange energy beam wave coming towards them that's when the USS Excelsior Disappeared Captain Sulu Daughter knew that her father was still alive but nobody at Starfleet would listen except for his old shipmates the USS Excelsior Reappeared in the 24 Th century
@@JohnDiMarco it's called Star Trek Cannon and Paramount with back this up Gene Roddenberry was going to put this on film but before he could he passed away
@@confederatestatesofamerica405 For something to be considered Star Trek canon, it has to appear on screen. Books, games, unused script ideas, and so forth are not canon.
@@JohnDiMarco not everything has appeared on film or in the movie theaters regarding Star Trek there are a few things that has not gone into film yet after Gene Roddenberry died passed away his wife asked Paramount to hold on to some things before they be put on to film DVD VHS and before parent can do this they'd have to get families permission
