The New Akira Battlestar: The Alita Class 

Most starships: "3 Torpedo launchers; 2 forward one aft" Alita: "14 torpedo launchers; 6 forward, 4 aft dorsally; 2 forward, 2 aft ventrally." ... Alita: "Plus 11 phaser strips, 4 pulse cannons, and 2 shield-disprupters/jammers"

A canon ship with 14 torpedo launchers? I won't be ashamed of my fan-designed ship with 10 launchers now!

"...you are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

It honestly looks like it has more than a little Klingon DNA in it.

A BattleStar... In that case, fit it with a Coaxial Warp drive so that the captain can yell _"Jump"_ in an emergency. Just imagine this thing suddenly appearing behind/above/below an enemy ship(s) with its own front firing arc facing them.

I may have missed it being mentioned, but just like Alita and Akira, the Armitage was also named after a classic Cyberpunk anime, named Armitage III

"Harrassing hangars of heated hail of hellfire", that was beautiful, pure poetry. Well done, sir.

The Armitage class is another anime reference, Referring to Armitage the Third (or Armitage III) Which is also referenced on it's corresponding patch with the roman numeral 3 on it. Armitage the Third was released by Pioneer in the wake of the success of Ghost in the Shell, both in it's original series format, as well as a film: Amitage III: Polymatrix.

This ship looks more like a old school Pirate ship, got to love that rounded aft section, it almost looks like the stern gallery found on 16th century sailing ships.

Really appreciate you doing more STO ships that appeared in Picard.

I loved the Akira class ever since I listened too Jeff Wayne's war of the worlds, and then watched star trek first contact.

That front profile makes me think more than a few Klingons were on the design team for this beast.

Honestly I’m not surprised we don’t see point defense more in Star Trek. Torpedoes are usually portrayed, at least before the last seasons of DS9 and Voyager as being too fast to shoot down. And non-torpedo projectiles do get shot down by the ships Phasers more than once

I’m not going to lie, I do hope to see the Thunderchild Class or the Armitage Class become canon, cause I’m not fully onboard with the Alita Class being the only evolution of the Akira. Its profile honestly looks more like a precursor to the Akira rather than a successor with all the rougher, more utilitarian shapes making it stand out in an odd way compared to the rest of the rather smooth and clean-looking 25th century fleet. Maybe with the Alita basically being a carrier like the original idea for the Akira Class, maybe the Thunderchild or the Armitage Classes are more akin to support “escort” vessels that could work really well in formation (not that formation) with the Alita Class.

I fly this hull from time to time. Just wish the Matsumoto class was renamed Arcadia to keep the A name convention and to properly respect Leji Matsumoto.

Would definitely welcome a Thunderchild video (heck, two of them; one for the Akira-Class vessel and one for the Thunderchild-Class)

Whoa. I came here just for the name. The two classics of Anime in my collection that inspired my love of Sci Fi into adulthood, spawned by a childhood spent with a father who is a Trekie. I had a hunch it was actually what it looked like on the surface. Thanks for confirming it within the first few minutes.

My favourite Akira variations are the Kusanagi and Matsumoto classes.

Rosa Salazar, who played Alita in the 2019 movie was also in one of the short trek episodes.

Rick been watching you for almost 2 years now and noticed i haven't subscribed to you... that changes today!

This ship's appearance was a surprise and possibly a last-minute addition. Most of the STO ships in Picard were recently made; remastered in more detail, or (in the case of the Odyssey class) a brand new, high detail model was made for the show. The Alita was an older model that wasn't updated at all.

It's nice to see Battle Angel Alita get some recognition outside of its relatively niche fandom.

i really like the aft section that looks like a sailors-ships back cabin thing

U.S.S. EDGERUNNER Cause I really wanna stay at your house.... Gods, why do I have to hear her everywhere?!

Finally, a Star Trek ship that _almost_ caught up with 1970s naval surface warfare tactics.

It's a tough ship! A couple squadrons of these things could make even the Dominion rethink its plans for the Alpha Quadrant!! Nice! So say we all!

Akira, Alita and Armitage class ships... Need an A-Ko class, next.

Akira is the perfect representation of federation PTSD after wolf 359 cause there are never enough torpedoes

I find that tiered mini-starbase looking back section really interesting visually

Thunderchild, Armitage & Alita all come from one fine ship

Armitage is also an anime about a Combat Droid on a Cyberpunk Mars... (the anime is "Armitage the Third"). As a Trekkie and Anime Nerd, I approve of this convention.

I’d love a new show with one of these as the hero ship!

Wow the federation now uses fighter craft. I was going too say this ship reminds me of a Battlestar

Love all the Akira variants. My fav thou is the Armitage I run on my main. Has both the phaser and torp point defense systems. Great against Hur'q.

In STO one of my main characters flies the Legendary Akira, kit ashed with some elements of the Alita. Using the Terran and Discovery Reputation weapon sets, plus the point defense system and the multi-directional artillery system from the Terran Lexington, it is constantly firing off torpedoes in all directions at all times. Good times.

Was this Sisko's wishlist, but Starfleet said "You gotta make it smaller"? Is that why we ended up with the Defiant?

Given the Inquiry-class was being named after explorers and cartographers, I think it's possible they were originally following in the footsteps of the Galaxy class - in normal service, an exploratory cruiser that could be up-armed and retrofitted to serve in a battleship role; but then it had to be redesigned to fit that role by default in the wake of the destruction of Utopia Planetia. The Alita, on the other hand... Well, Starfleet designs and builds their ships like Swiss Army Knives; multipurpose, and capable of cutting you. The Alita was designed and built from the keel up as a Swiss Army Knife where EVERY attachment is a knife - it is build for the sole, exclusive purpose of cutting you.

The Alita was the first ship I spent actual money on when I started STO in 2021. It's a fun ship, it would cool to see it get an update.

Ok... The Alita Class is very cool. I play Star Trek Online... I know what ship I want to switch over to for a while. She's a tough little ship and I'm interested in playing STO with her. Good job on the video. It was excellent.

I'm currently farming to get this ship so this video was quite a surprise, but a welcome one.

I’m still can’t get over why isn’t there complete squadrons of defiant class ships, Take a shuttle bay with doors at each end scale it to fit 2 to 4 defiants now build a Akira around that. During peacetime and normal theaters of war, they keep the fighter craft compliment. But also can load up for defiant class and become capital ship/Starbase killers Drop out of warp hot as one ship, turn on all sensor pings to make it as loud as possible to enemy sensors, deploy defiants from rear door in “dark” mode. The Akira sets course to target fires the full, complement a forward, facing weapons at a point in the shield grid veers off and uses all of those torpedo tubes to cover the four defiants that had powered up and followed that Akira and totaled five full frontal weapon barrages from five Borg killing ships, and then just to warp nine in five different directions. Awesome channel thank you for posting things that make my imagination question my fandom

Ok I feel more comfy naming my OC Akira class ship 'Aragorn' if the classes' successor is the Alita class! Ship names from stories and fiction are awesome, especially after USS Thunderchild!

My favorite STO ship and canon now too? Noice.

I interpret the shuttle bay layouts to be the smaller fore bays for launching shuttles/fighters and the larger bay for recovery. I know they just launched out the back in game, so thats just my personal headcanon. The fore bays are lower than the aft. So I thought after recovery was done in bay 1, the craft would be moved down to bays 2 and 3 by lifts. I guess it could depend on circumstance. If you had an enemy in front of you and you wanted a protected launch, you'd use the aft bay or vice-versa. I use the same logic for my Presidio class.

Omg…I’m in Love. ❤

Worthy of the name _Battle Angel_ .

We are starfleet, and we are dedicated to peace and exploration. So how many guns should this new class have? All of them! MORE! MORE!

I love it, but Defiant Class is still my favorite.

Loved the outtakes 😂😂

I remember making the Suggestion for the Akira Class on the STO Forum like 13-14 years ago.... managed to convince them to add the Carrier hanger bays and 15 torpedo launchers... even tho in game it would be pretty much a 360 degree firing type device...

Right off the bat, some real cool references

There she is! Been sailing my Alita in STO for a while now. Shes fun :D

Apart from bingewatching your STO Story Series, I *love* these class breakdowns. Would love to either see the Glenn class or the Narendra (personal favorite) as the next video please sir.

My hero ship is an Armitage Class upgraded with an Ailta saucer section. I named my ship the USS Exit Strategy. Been naming my lead ship that ever since the multi vector advanced escort was a thing.

I really love your videos

another awesome video sir cheers from venezuela!

Awesome. Thank you

Great ship, I think a star trek series of this ship should be made. That would be fantastic 🇬🇧

A candidate for my new favorite star ship!

This ship is awesome! I love the design. But the armament is just... wow. I would love to see this ship in battle in one of the tv series or forthcoming films.

Very nice. 😎

Armitage and Thunderchild classes looking like Mass Effect ships. Also worth noting that Armitage was ALSO an anime. Armitage III.

The Grand Old Lady. The Alita class Battlestar Galactica.

The Akira is when Starfleet is still lying to itself about not being a military organization. The Alita is when they stopped lying.

I always get a kick out of a thunderchild reference

I love that this makes it Canon that these works are treated with the same reverence as other classics of human history like the works of Shakespeare or Tolkien

big fan of AKira class design. this Alita looks good too!

This looks like a fun ship to try and replicate. At least- a slightly less complex version of it. I'd need 2 cockpits. 1 for flight'n, 1 for fight'n.

Love it. I want one!

A mother bear capable of launching a strike and following her brood into battle.

I got to admit this is a cool design. 14 torpedo tubes on a Starfleet ship...yikes. I wouldn't want to be on the opposite side of that thing in battle.

Looking forward to eventually seeing the Lexington dreadnought cruiser appearance on ur channel

HI Rick, ANOTHER - wonderful video…. in ANSWER to the question about “ not wanting to be in front of this thing “ -> my answer would be more along the lines of… I think I would need to be on the other side of a closed wormhole? Kapisch ? LOL

This thing is terrifying

I love the Armitage III movies and I'm going to assume that was the namesake given the Akira and Alita names. For that reason alone I really hope it makes it into canon.

I like the Wing-sword Logo.

This ship's visual design is 50/50 for me. I absolutely love every bit of the saucer and most of the hull (except that weird shape of the impulse engines), but I hate the nacelles and pylons. Upper pod isn't great either. What's worse is that the pylons raise the nacelles upwards instead, creating one of the worst side profiles of any ship in the fleet. Seriously though, that saucer is perfect. The shape is great, the cannons are visually distinct now, and the hangar doors are enlarged and emphasized even better than on the Armitage. It looks more like the light carrier it's meant to be, in addition to looking more heavily armed as a warship.

I'm curious regarding the bay silhouette displayed at the 4:53 mark. When I watched your video for the original Akira-class, that acknowledges a through-deck hanger concept. Bow to Aft. With the intention that it was carrier of fighter craft. As interpreted by the artist who designed it for Star Trek. But was never seen filmed as such. Is it not possible that within the Alita that the aft hanger reaches further forward to permit a lift situation connecting to the spaced apart shuttlebays at the bow?

Remember in the 90s how everything was *_eXtreme!!_* ? That's this ship. I would ask if Rob Liefeld designed it, but I can tell he didn't because it lacks a thousand pouches.

Awesome ! 😎👍

We really need a new game like Star Trek: Armada but with these new updated ships and enemies :)

That is definitely a battleship. It certainly has a battlestar vibe, too.

It's a ship thats a bit too tall for my taste, it almost looks like an old Akira Class had hull parts added from a Klingon ship. Also it's soo not the USS Imperious, it was Achilles-class.

*quietly weeps* Farewell Thunderchild!

My new favorite!

Maybe Starfleet needs combat starships because there are a lot of strange new worlds in the Milky Way that could be hostile to strangers, And wouldn't think twice about destroying them.

Strike Wing Escort implies that this thing operates in groups which, I think, makes it even more terrifying to adversaries.

Put opening salvo, along with the auto targeting torp spam and your normal torpedo orders and you pretty much turn the Akira or its offshoots into a god of destruction and choas with torps flying everywhere

This thing is capable of the firepower of an entire carrier strike group.

I use this ship a lot U.S.S Arethusa NCC-95632

It’s Japanese name would be Gunm considering that’s the actual name of BattleAngel Alita, that was almost called Rusty Angel. Being an old anime/manga fan back when it came out makes me do this.

god i love the Akira class!

I'm not a fan of most STO or Picard ships, but this thing is a beast and the design makes a lot of sense.

Honestly, I love the idea of anime inspired class names using the classics. Akira, Armitage, Alita. Also, they all start with "A", coincidence?

Oooh, she's great. Talk about gnashers. I gotta get me one of these on STO

7.50 mins in, are those additional phase cannons at the pylon join point???

This ship, I like it.

A deeper dive into "carrier" ship effectiveness would be interesting.

The only part of the design that's weird, IMO, is the back end of that curved structure above the main hangar bay on the aft. For some reason, it's got windows extending far back into the hull in a place where the space is questionable at best, but the windows are totally pointless. Beyond that, this thing is just beautiful and terrifying. This is one design I will always support in STO.

She really is an Angel of battle.