The Prototype: The NX Class 

The future Galaxy class: "Shields are down to twenty percent! Hail them. Buy time. Or we are doomed." The NX Class: "I have several holes in me that are on the verge of tearing me apart. My phase cannons are down. My armour is now crippled. GUESS WHAT MOTHER FUCKER? The boss music just started playing. WE ARE GOING TO SEE HOW FAR THIS TOPEDO CAN BE SHOVED UP YOUR ASS BEFORE IT EXPLODES."

I feel there are a lot more stories to be told from that era of Star Fleet.

My favourite thing about the NX-01 is that it’s sort of named after itself. In universe, it was named after the space shuttle, then the NCC-1701 was named after it, but in reality, the space shuttle was named after the NCC-1701. Its a closed loop, and I love it!

I find rather delicious the in-universe canon that the ship was named after the first shuttle (and subsequent vessels in the NX line were to follow the same convention) given the the first shuttle was named after Kirk's Enterprise following a fan campaign. It mirrors rather nicely the way the ship design follows a design from over a hundred years in its own future

Ric: "...Launched in 2151, earlier than expected, with several components not yet installed." Me: Let me guess-- Tuesday. 😀

It has been a long time coming. It’s definitely been a long road. Getting from there to here.

I personally love this little ship. I love this show too, it was rough around the edges but did have a decent story going in the end, and I did care about the crew from start to finish. I feel bad now for not giving it the attention it truly deserves. I would love to see more from this era of Starfleet, even if on a different ship.

The NX01 is one of my favourite ships, it’s just so on the edge of what humanity is capable of. When it’s pushed to 5.2 absolutely everything is shaking and the injectors catch of fire. And the absolute beating it takes in the Expanse and keeps flying throughout that. It just really highlighted what humanity pre-Federation were doing, and it’s brilliant.

At first... I didn't like NX-01... 18 years on, Enterprise has become one of my favorite vessels... She was a tough little ship too; Archer brought her back from the Xindi conflict in one piece...

Considering how much I loved learning about the NASA shuttle program growing up. I love how the NX class bridges the gap between the more contemporary designs of our own space programs and what we see in the TOS era.

NX-01 is my fave ship in Star Trek i love it. It's powerful enough to go throw stuff way beyond it's capabilities. Plus it can go Toe to Toe with way more powerful ships. Plus it had a new Rought Ship design but still had it's elegant Fedaration look and feel. Respect and keep up the epic work

Yes! More! I get that people don't like the show (personally I find it mediocre, but interesting at times. Though Season 4 is one of the best Star Trek Seasons of all time IMO - feels a bit like a separate beast from Seasons 1-3 though), but the ship itself is a gem. More. Moar. "Differently spelled words for 'we need more videos on this' ". Also, I can't wait for another main story line STO episode. I wish they would create a possibility of being captain of like 3rd NX ship, or even Deadalus one during those years as an intro and background to new characters. Like they did for OG Star Trek. Take some part in Earth-Romulan War. Or maybe slightly later, first years of federation and you could serve on soon to be decommissioned NX-01 (as first officer - as usual). Separate from Archer's Gold Crew and strictly for decommissioning purposes. But then you're needed - and we all know how it goes. Sorry geeking out, thinking of possibilities. Would be fun if we could see whole technological development of Starfleet and play some good game spanning like 250 years.

The Enterprise NX-01, the epitome of "I didn't hear no bell"

The "Enterprise" TV show was quite good in my opinion, it added a lot of content to the ST universe canon. 👍

I remember a lot of disparaging remarks from certain parts of the fandom about this ship, calling it the "Akiraprise", that it didn't look primitive enough because it had a saucer. At that point fanon had put the development of the saucer after the secondary hull. There was a lot of hate. Enough that the show only lasted four seasons when it was just finding its legs.

truly my favorite ship in trek and i hope with all of the callback to enterprise nx 01 in picard and strange new world and lower deck i do hope we see the ship on full insted in the background at the fleet museum

Personally, there is no piece of information/lore about that era in general and the NX class in particular that I don't want to know. This is me letting you know I will eagerly devour any content you create on this, my friend. Thanks for your excellent work and the presentation of such!

The NX Class is one of my favorite Trek ship designs.

Oh god. Enterprise was such a lovely story for me, so much enjoyment and so much... other stuff, like laughter. I still remember Captain Archer and Trip, answering questions from kids back home on Earth and getting asked what they do regarding flushing the toilet! (Season 1, episode 8, Breaking the Ice.) Them getting stuck with "the poop question" still makes me laugh until I'm out of breath, to the point where I still can't watch that episode without busting into an uproar of laughing tears! Point is there's a lot of enjoyment in Enterprise. A LOT more than people think - if you didn't like the show back then when it was on TV, I strongly, STRONGLY urge you to give it another go. As someone who doesn't particularly like Star Trek Discovery or Picard, I consider Enterprise to be the last of the great Trek series.

I always had faith in my heart that you would cover this ship😉

Humanity, coming out of a devastating WW3, stepping into a sector rife with political conflicts and the ever-looming threat of klingon aggression, while the romulans pull their strings from the shadows. Starfleet was pretty much forced to speed-run the tech tree in order to not become a casualty in various border conflicts. One thing, I am not sure if the Deadalus-class came before NX. There seem to be conflicting sources and since it is a bigger ship (thus overall resource investment), I would put first appearance after NX. Going purely by technology and design lineage, I would think of it as Starfleets first 'workhorse' line of vessel built around the great success of the Warp 5 project.

I just decommissioned a kubernetes cluster in an enterprise environment that I named 'nx-01' for its experimental status in enabling containerization there. Its decommissioning means it successfully did its job. Nicely timed.

It's not my favorite of the Enterprises, but this old girl definitely has a special place in my heart. She was the first to boldly go.

If they chose to use the 'Refit' version of the NX in the show I dont think the ship would of gotten as much hate as it did.

Missed "It's been a long road" reference gold in that opening, mate. 😂

Please do more videos on this amazing ship.

i'm pretty sure even in the 24th century, there are people who managed to rebuild this class of ship with tech of the time with certain caveats due to the hull design

Yes we are waiting on part two!! Honestly, they should have been part of this video....

I just wanted to drop a comment here, this is probably my favorite star trek channel on RU-vid.

I’d be very interesting in learning more about this ship. It’s my favorite Star Trek ship and my favorite Enterprise. Even without shields, I’d take this ship out any day. The pioneer days of Space Flight are an exciting period of human and StarFleet history, and I would love to be apart of that era.

Yes please do continue with the lore of this class! ENT get less love than the other series and needs to be pooled at further!

I just finished enterprise like 30 minutes ago. What a timing

The NX Enterprise is my favourite ship design in Star Trek by a fair bit... followed closely by the Akira. Still if I was to "own" my ship in real life, if that was possible, I'd go with either the Delta Flyer or a runabout. Runabouts being the RV's of the federation shuttle line. Decently powerful for thier size but have living space on board where as the Delta Flyer is just badass cool.

A thing I never understood (nor I remember being ever mentioned in the shows) is whether the NX is a warp 5 in the linear TOS scale, or in the logarithmic TNG scale.

The NX gives me Faith of the Heart

About Polerized hull plating... the modern US Navy's Grelad R. Ford class Super carrier may be getting it in the near future as a why of defeating incoming anti ship missiles... So while ST:E was light on detail's the USN figured it out for real atleast in theory.

Really a shame Enterprise didn't have a 5th season. I'd love to see a series about the Romulan War.

As far as the advancement of starships. The daedalus-class was still the primary ship in use. Kind of disappointment they didn't show that it is a tie-in.

I'm interested in those topics. I just dig your videos so I'll watch whatever you post but more depth on the NX is a good way to go.

One of my favorite ship, the show was also pretty good. T'Pol was so beautiful with nice...yeah...

Drex said that the powers that be said it was all to hard and went with the akira. Drex said he and the rest of designers said the fans would lose it if it was just akira so he redesigned it.

I love this shimmering in effect you have there, really grabs the attention, and consistent so it flows without too rapt of distruption in attention.

As a fan of Enterprise since Broken Bow premiered back in 2001, I really appreciate your comments at 11:36. She may not be as flashy as a Constitution, Galaxy, or Odyssey, but she's scrappy and has way more charm. As you stated in the video, there would have been no Federation without her.

I truely loved the NX-01! An awsome ship, bleding in with what came before AND feel futuristic despite beeing for a prequel show! Unlike the ships of newer shows and films this one achived what I expect of a ship of the Prime Timeline! And I had loved to see more of it :)

More NX topics and videos are always more than welcome to me! So, yes, more of it please! And thank you for this video!

This thing was over built. In some was it is more durable than later ships like the D and Defiant. Oh, I can feel the replies. To clarify, the power conduits of the NX can handle much higher loads compared to its warp core output, and the amount of internal bracing is insane. Later ships are more efficient with their design and use of recourses. The NX was not. It is a mass of overbuilt space steel. Can it hurt you with its pop guns, not really, but it will take more than you think to destroy it. After all not may ships can survive a tri-cobalt mine.

still love that it looks like an upside down akira,a break down off all the previous prototypes would be awesome

grappling hooks are awesome

I loved the episode of Enterprise with the Borg in the second season. Awesome seeing the nx class vs a advanced Borg and prevail. Love this class. Captain Archer class

For the follow up video ideas: I'm always interested in sci-fi R&D lore.

Of COURSE we want those other videos!

The NX-01 is my favourite starship named Enterprise by a long way. Loved it from the start.

That first drawing from Doug Drexler at 1:31 is actually a cool design!

There are many reasons why the NX-Class is my favourite, but its absolute refusal to say 'die' is one of them. The fact that the Enterprise could keep flying after the Battle of Azati Prime is incredible, let alone enter more battles, fly into a gravitic anomaly while overloading its deflector, and _then_ not only continue to fly for an extended period in an atmosphere, but fight against technology developed by aliens centuries more advanced in said atmosphere. They, and the crews that flew them, defined the phrase "where there's a will, there's a way."

Ooooohhhh yeeeeaaaaah now this is the episode I’ve been waiting for.

This still 1 of my top 5 favorite ships. I still feel robbed to never see the refit on tv.

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter containing to the NX class starship's indeed guys and Sir!,👌.

Easily the coolest design for a space ship. The set design was awesome too.

A personal favourite of mine. Very fitting design for Starfleet of the 22nd Century, prototype though it may be. :)

Enterprise desetved so much better. I actually enjoyed the series

The NX-01 is my favorite Star Trek ship. I remember watching the show and thought the slimmed down look of just the saucer and nacelles was such a cool profile. If I remember, the NX-01 had plasma cannons that were under powered so they installed the phase cannons but wired it wrong (because Trip didn't have all the instructions?) and actually made it more powerful. My only complaint at the time was I thought the ship shouldn't have had a transporter in the 1st season. It should have been a later upgrade like the cannons.

I personally would've loved if we got S1 with the ship being built, but seeing as the show struggled enough as is I guess it's good we didn't start there. It 100% deserved another season though, and the ending still leaves me sour about Trip

the nx enterprise is a criminally underrated ship it deserves more respect

A year of consulting, dicussing, refining the design ... people brought in ... several booklets full of concept sketches. And then the producers say "The Akira-class was really popular. Really popular. Just take that model and flip the engines around".

Not a word about the grapplers?! I love grapplers, grapplers are sick!

The nx class could probably take on a Borg cube, I love that ship. Its so sturdy! Also, I love this channel!

I don't care what some people think, THIS ship is beautiful and is one of my favourites due to the fact its the beginning of a era, its just beautiful all round and was still used years later.

I have heard two different explanations for polarised hull plating; one is that it makes the plating several times harder when EM energy is passed through it and the other is the one from this video; where the EM energy acts to disperse energy weapons that strike the plating. Not sure which is the true explanation.

The NX class walked, crawled, and sometimes dragged itself forward, so its successors the Connie & Galaxy could run.

I really love how you use start trek online for alot of the ships footage :3

Although the show itself does have many issues I really wished it continued purely so we could witness the NX-01 come closer and closer to actual completion. Of course... one other thing I did like about this show is that comparitevly to things like the enterprise d or e the NX-01 constantly felt as if it was in danger (needing to go into catwalks to bypass dangerous areas, needing to be careful of weapon yeilds due to having no shields, needing to use shuttles to get to other ships or to planets surfaces when the conditions werent perfect due to the distrust or fiddlyness of transporters, which also involved needing to evacuate the launch bay because there wasnt just a permanent air shield, needing to be careful of its diplomatic relations else risk an unprepared Earth being attacked... I mean had the federation been established I doubt the Xindi probe would have worked) which overall gave the show a decent amount of tension... just wish it had been executed that little bit better... and that the higher ups hadn't axed it.

One of my favorite ships. Amazing vid sir

I truly love the NX-01. It's just beautiful.

Woo NX content!!!

Yes tell us more about this lovely little ship, I missed it and the show. But do tell us more!😊

A long time coming,.. Do you mean "A long road getting from then to here"?

100% Wanna hear more IRL stuff on this ship. 9:40 All these years, never really pieced together that bump was a group of sensors, Ala sensor dome, lol. Good to know! 11:36 I was going to fight ya on that, but nah, if not for it, no UFP. Very important indeed.

It's been a long road, gettin' from there to here...

I love the NX class Oh an NX project video would be awesome

❤ YES PLEASE. More NX content!

One small interjection. Doug Drexler corrected the NX class name the other day as the Enterprise class. Paraphrasing his words, the precedent that each class is named after the first ship built has been set long before Star Trek and they were following it.

That era was my favorite after tng. I loved seeing the origins and archer’s crew was great. Still a shame we didn’t get three more seasons.

I absolutely love this design and its inherit flaws. (This ship is the closest thing to a USS Constitution of Star Trek.) It not only shows a big leap forward in starship design by humans but also shows an ignorance and arrogance of a new space faring race. Enterprise wasn't about just exploring the unknown but trying to survive with little to no experience of the unknown.

I'd love to see the full history of in and out of universe history of the NX-01. I'd also love to see what followed directly after the NX-01 ships, if that info exists. I know TOS was 50 or so years after, but between STE and TOS's Enterprise what were the other ships that paved the way.

The NX Class started from my Ramizo grandmother's during the 1970s Cold War. I had many Star Trek ships too. The Delta flyer was mine. I was the one making the Star Trek TV series, except TOS. Nations should not annihilate each other. We need space techs and space ships, which already happened during Star Wars and Star Trek wars in the 1970s. So I think a few remaining advanced groups maintained their space techs and still have their Star Trek ships now, just CLASSIFIED.

Great video ❤

Well done

a 25th century nx class would be really cool to see😊

I love Enterprise sp any and all info you want to put in a video is a definate for me :)

Peldar Joi Ric another good video sir but I do miss the STO videos my friend

A missed opportunity would have been to have the traditional Star Fleet design characteristics spread out amongst some of the founding members of the UFP.

a year on earth that's a long time to get from there to here

It is my personal head canon. But I do not see Freedom class (Franklin) going to warp 4 prior to the show. We in fact do know about incident when NX ship was teared apart, what was main reason Archer hold grudge toward Vulcans, who did know about issue buy didn't say anything. Later arguing that it was entirely Earth fault as they didn't make tests, assuming it would work. Anyway proper NX was build with much larger and sturdier hull, to sustain vibrations of Warp 5. But after Enterprise mission was concluded, the option to install Warp 5 in smaller frames appear and United Earth resumed halted constructions of Daedalus and Freedom class ships. I believe it is when Freedom actually get Warp 4.

NX-01 is my fav ship in ST. But i do also like the other early ship designes. Like NV-01 Intrepid. U.S.S Franklin(Freedom-class). Ganges class. Same goes for the NX refit.

Hit me with more of this, Rick! 🙂

Ok, that tri-nacelle concept design needs to be made; maybe with a Voyager-style saucer, and dropped closer to the engineering hull, and the nacelle ring rotating.

Imagine Janeway and Archer flipping ships for a day. Janeway without her coffee replicator, or holodeck. Archer with a Vulcan security chief, and all the regulations StarFleet had implemented.

Without a doubt...my second favorite version of the Enterprise...next to CVN-65

I always wondered why in the pilot, we do see some kind of energy weapon, then after it was never seen again.

It is still frustrating that I'll never get to see the NX Refit in action.