The ULTIMATE ENTERPRISE - Galaxy-class Dreadnought - Star Trek Explained
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Look, when we say the ULTIMATE Enterprise, you’re likely thinking of your favourite version of the legendary starship, right? Well, no… we’re not talking about the A, B, C or D. Well, we’re talking about a version of the USS Enterprise-D that was a very powerful ship.
The Galaxy-class starship was an iconic symbol of Starfleet in the 24th century, even into the 25th century. But what if we upgraded it and made the exploration starship into a dreadnought that could take on multiple enemy starships at once? Well, an alt-timeline in Star Trek did this. Yes, we’re talking about the Galaxy-X Dreadnought class!
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Title: The ULTIMATE ENTERPRISE - Galaxy-class Dreadnought - Star Trek Explained
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They should have had this ship appear in DS9, especially considering that galaxy classes were refitted, it would have made perfect sense for this to be a refitted war time galaxy class and be a cool reference to the TNG finale and explain why the enterprise D in the alternate timeline was as powerful as it was.
Have all the Galaxy-class refitted so.
Exactly what I was thinking.
@@DavidRLentz I saw this SpaceDock video on the Galaxy Class Starships and they're many refits and one of them was a Battleship variant called the Venture Class that looked like the Galaxy Class on the outside but had a different internal layout with nacelle mounted phasers to a third torpedo launcher and more powerful shields and sadly the Enterprise D never received any of these refits or upgrades as she was destroyed during the Battle of Veridian 3 but if the Duras Sisters never got the Enterprise D's shield frequencies and she survived that battle she would have gotten those upgrades and would have become a real force to be reckoned with as like the Borg said in 'The Best of Both Worlds part 1' 'The Strongest Ship of the Federation Fleet'.
This Enterprise refit was 25 years after the events of either show which wouldn't make much sense if it appeared in DS9
@@JGarciaAKP Captain Jean Luc Picard retained the memory of the future that happen in the episode TNG finale All Good Things Part 2. He would have to receive a exemption from the Temporal Prime Directive to develop The Galaxy X dreadnought.
The ultimate badass Galaxy class!
Phaser Lance go brrrrt
Man you have a great voice. I could listen to you read the phone book. But it’s better that you’re talking trek of course.
Agreed, he has an amazing voice and should be making big money doing voice overs for Hollywood movie trailers. Even so, I'm happy he's here.
In Franz Joseph's "Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual" published in the 1970's, a Federation-class dreadnought was among the ships featured that had a third nacelle. I believe Gene Roddenberry approved of the book too. Therefore, the Galaxy-class dreadnought is a legitimate ship design taking this into account.
I had that book as well in the 70s. That Dreadnaught also had two shuttle bay doors -one front and one rear. Had to make up for the REALLY FAT secondary hull on the Dreadnaught, I guess.
Correction:
I was going from memory when posting above, and decided to look it up again.
It didn't have 2 shuttle bays fore and aft. Just one above the main deflector dish. However, it had for and aft deflector dishes?! Planning to go to warp backwards, are we?
Also, both the primary and secondary hulls were really fat.
I understand what you mean, and Gene's opinion obviously carries a lot of weight, but I think we should be careful of considering Gene's approval tantamount to "legitimization", if only because some will take that to mean that the inverse is true.
I have the Eaglemoss model of it. I love it. Its certainly an interesting concept of the Galaxy even though its technically not 'real' in a sense. Would be neat to see something like that in the current shows like Picard who are in the 25th century which Galaxy class ships should still exist in some fashion.
I have the alternate universe version. Identical except for different decals. It is still my favourite Enterprise.
I was able to watch this finale at our local sports stadium.. about 35,000 trek fans. AWESOME!
On STO the Galaxy Class Dreadnought was my favourite for most of the 8 years I played. In the last year I played I switched to the Jupiter class because I think carriers are the coolest but I had a lot of win with the Dreadnought.
the galaxy class Dreadnought is my fav too so many victories against the breen, borg, Klingons ,alternate timeline ships and starbases
Same, I played using the Galaxy-X for a long time, thanks to a generous person gifting me a T6 coupon. Though recently, I switched to the Terran Lexington.
I love both too. You can get a wonderful middleground with the Legendary Galaxy Dreadnought Cruiser. It has a hangar bay and the dreadnought design in one, and an awesome loadout in general.
Well, the prime timeline did it too; the Galaxy was refit and upgraded to a Dominion War variant known as the Galaxy-II’s. Increased phaser strips, photo torpedo launchers, decreased mass/increased power, etc. Those Galaxy wings were really Galaxy-II wings. Whole lotta ass whoopin’
It's a cool design that I think answers the question of what the Federation is capable of producing given the right motivation. Exploration is great, but space is a dangerous place and its good to see Starfleet adressing that in this alternate timeline.
I have to agree with Probert on the extra fins and bits atop the saucer. Having a weapons pod right behind the bridge is just asking for a catastrophic detonation.
When I fly her in STO I use the variant that does away with those extras but keeps the nacelle and lance. I feel the third nacelle was a nod to the original Starfleet Dreadnaught aka the Federation class.
You also missed the recent mirror universe IDW comics where a Galaxy X is the default Enterprise which Picard steals to fight against the Klingon/Cardassian alliance which had almost defeated the Terrans.
Lastly the lineage of both was passed along to the Mirror Odyssey class in the form of the Lexington variant with a weapons pod above the hull and saucer and a potent lance below its saucer.
This beefed up Galaxy class quickly became my favourite from the standard Galaxy class, well it looks, meaner, tougher and could pack more of a punch in a fight, taking on the largest of the time Klingon battle ships and not even breaking a sweat, it's revelation on screen was amazing and I admit I do have this ship myself in STO, both t5 and t6 versions with the t6 using the t5 appearance, because it looks far superior in my eyes.
I would love to see it again on screen, maybe in Lower Decks or something as a ship in the background. or even in Star Trek Picard
Sorry to be picky here but it is Pasteur not Pasture, they are pronounced differently
No, don't sully the majesty of that ship by putting them on either of those bastard shows.
I've got the legendary version of it, and my Deucalion is an absolute beast in a fight.
I loved that ship ever since I first saw it on TNG. The normal Galaxy-class just seem disproportional with the large saucer and small hull. The third nacelle balances it out. The Galaxy-X was the first ship I bought in STO. I just wish it didn't have the turning radius of a moon. But I do want in game, is the World Razer version from Picard.
Pretty sure the Klingons said the same thing Probert did when it came flying in boring holes in their hulls.
It’s be great if STO allowed players to replace the third nacelle with one of the Nebula-Class mission pods, since the third nacelle is mounted on a variation of the central pylon featured on Nebulas
Anyone want to bet that Tom Paris convinced Torres to add the fins to the design ?
That's going to be my new head canon. After Voyager, she was tasked with incorporating Delta Quadrant technologies and design methods into Federation starship refits and Tom convinced her to do that to the Galaxy Class to help it look meaner. lol.
Also.. The Bridge phasers..
I've always wondered how they would appear. we didn't knowingly see them fire during the battle with the Negh'var's.. The Defiant fan in me, hopes they fire Pulse bursts :)
I like the eaglemoss model used for the video. The phaser mounted under the saucer reminds me of Yamato's wave motion gun.
Wave motion gun ? That’s a blast from the past ! Sea ships in space !! 😝
too bad the Galaxy class Uss Yamato was destroyed
@@soniccdx Excellent reference
@@brookatkins8111 Wave Motion Cannon
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that one of this ship’s variants in Star Trek Online is called the “Yamato class.” Fire the Wave Motion Gun!!!
It's odd that Starfleet would decommission the Enterprise D as it was mentioned in the Star Trek The Next Generation Technical manual that the Galaxy Class was supposed to have a service life of 100 years so by the events of that anti-time alternate future the Galaxy X Dreadnaught Class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D was in it's third or fourth decade of service.
Yes but like the battleships of ww1 technology had just advanced so far that they weren’t really still useful and cost a fortune in resources.
I’d love to have seen a civilian version used as a colony ship and movable starbase.
It's also a ship you can research in Star Trek: Birth of the Federation on PC - if you can get it to run on a modern PC!
Galaxy X? Sounds about as dicey as Excelsior II. 😏😏😏 Or it could be a bit of a coincidental nod to Megaman X (with the OG Galaxy being the OG Megaman). Whatever the case, the All Good Things version of the Enterprise-D is absosmurfinlutely and fantabulously AWESOME.
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The A-10 of Enterprises
I always loved the Galax-X, I like a third nacelle myself, the Federation class dreadnought from the ole Franz Joseph days was also a favorite.
It was in the episode 'All Good Things' where we were first introduced to the Klingon Neg'Var Class even though it was in an alternate future and we wouldn't see this powerful Klingon Warship till Deep Space Nine when Gowron dissolved the Kitohmer accords and the treaty between the Federation and the Klingon Empire that was later reinstated between the 2 Super Powers after Gowron learned his mistake.
The three warp nacelles design bothers me. Just as the use of one nacelle designs. Gene once stated in an interview that the way he envisioned the warp drive to work required an even number of warp nacelles on a ship to form a stable warp bubble, and that an odd numbers of nacelles would eventually cause a warp bubble failure that destroyed the ship.
UPDATED
The Starship Enterprise, whilst under the command of Captain James T Kirk (William Shatner), briefly had achieved Warp 14.1 (Star Trek [TOS] third-season episode "That Which Survives" [1969, Paramount]). This was in an earlier warp factoring scale, as you know, prior to Starfleet Engineering having developed synthetically grown dilithium crystals, which for their greater uniformity of micro lattice crystalline structure significantly reworked the conversion rate of slush deuterium and analogous antimatter for more efficient power generation, and more refined tuning of warp field mechanics, especially at the upper extent.
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At 7:43, the narrator states, "A powerful phaser emitter was installed on the dorsal hull." If you refer to the phaser lance, the Starfleet Shipyards in orbit over Utopia Planetia, Mars had installed the experimental Phaser 13+ (Starfleet had classified its actual output) on the ventral hull.
The following.material may be apocryphal: a junior field agent of Section 31, whilst on mission on Earth in mid-2022, had called upon me for personal reasons, presenting himself to be my tenth-great grandson, also with the same name as I. He had wished to meet his forebear; such had been his enthusiasm that I had not the heart to tell him that I have no children. However, his scanning equipment had proved to a 99.08% certainty of our consanguinity and his direct descent from me.
He had confided in me that his fiancée, Hermione Potter, was a Starfleet engineer- physicist specialising in various forms of advanced technology. She at age 11, whilst attending at a most extraordinary private school secluded in one of the long, narrow vales of Scotland, had inherited a most unusual black cloak, from which she discreetly had developed a personal cloaking device. One of these had been how my descendant had slipped unseen into various places in the course of his various investigations. She since had completed her studies, soon finding a position with Starfleet Engineering. Through her, he had learnt that the phaser lance had exceeded by more than triple all preceding phaser output, giving it a rating of Phaser 20.
I love this version built for battle
It's too bad there wasn't room on DS9 to even mention that the Galaxy class was being refit during the Dominion War. If there was any time that would motivate Starfleet to do such a thing, that would have been it.
I think they were trying to rush them out. Most of the dw galaxy had the bare minimum in them. No science facilites or luxurious quarters.
We do see a difference in their performance, but I agree that it would be worth mentioning.
It makes me laugh when I heard what Andrew Probert's reactions and thoughts were when he saw the Galaxy Dreadnaught Class and the fact that he cursed about the fins was hilarious.
As much of a fondness, as I have for the Galaxy Class starship; the Dreadnought Class is superior in every way.
Enterprise D is my favorite starship; I wish it was never destroyed and became the ultimate starship!
it deserved better than to be taken out by a bird of prey in a bad movie
@@erics8192 agreed, so glad it was brought back; but shouldn’t have been retired!
Great video, very informative. I've always been a fan of this version. It looks fierce and formidable, please keep these videos coming and thanks
Names I would give a Galaxy Class Starship:
USS Milky Way
USS Andromeda
USS Pegasus
Warp 13? I thought max Warp was 10 where everyone turns into Salamanders :D
I wonder how the Enterprise D even made it that far into the future when we all know it died to an outdated Bird of Prey in "Generations" ? Maybe the events of "All Good Things" led Picard to alter the timeline.
Interesting that this variant could insta-kill a Negh'Var battlecruiser with ease.
The fins on the nacelles makes no sense except for atmospheric stabilizers... but why would this ship even be entering a planet's atmosphere.
As for nacelle count, I've always heard ships needed an even number of nacelles. That's why most ships have two or four nacelles. I think this ship and the one from Star Trek 2009 were the only ships with odd number nacelles.
Could you imagine being on 10 Forward and having that spine laser go off. You really will be tasting colors. It's green.
There was once a feared weapon that was basically a giant flying gun called the "Warthog".
Starfleet: Say no more, fam.
This ship is actually quite interesting, that 3rd nacelle is not really a big problem either although it would have made more sense to have 4 nacelles in total instead. The Spinal lance weapon is a real bonus which finishes the ship just nicely. I would think it could have been integrated into other ships as well at some point. Think about a Enterprise-E with that thing fully integrated and not looking as bulky but more smooth for example.
I think the third nacelle was for that phaser lance
Yeah, most of the time, the 3rd nacelle is about power output, as it would make finding resonance among the warp fields of the three ships more difficult, making the warp bubble more unstable, though stronger. It was basically a tradeoff of power versus efficiency, which is why MOST Starfleet vessels had an even number (though some of the weaker vessels of the 22nd and 23rd centuries could be seen with as few as 1).
Ohboy. STO and its universe of miniature people in overscaled ships.
Did the EVER solve the resroom issue? I mean ONE rest room in the captains yacht isnt enough!!!!!
Love the model. Can the saucer be separated on it? It would be cool if it did... 😎
i was about to ask the same thing
They obviously went back to the ToS warp scale in that episode since the Next Gen scale capped out at warp 10. In ToS, warp 13 is around warp 9.25 in TNG.
Also, starfleet needs to put their R&D teams into the phaser lance
I also like the Odyssey Variants like the YorkTown Class and the Lexington Class.
Every odyssey class is amazing but the lexington class is a beast
this ship should've been in ds9 as part of starfleet getting ready for the dominion
omg the stardrive section of the Dreadnought galaxy class would be terrifying
I remember reading something about Picard, after making his report of the temporal crisis Q setup, that Picard had made a point of telling starfleet that they should not allow the dreadnought version to come into existence. Reasons being that a ship that powerful could provoke a response from their enemies. Additionally, starfleet is not a military organization and the refit was a pure warship.
Man I thought Captain Riker's ship was the greatest seeing it like that! Think it could do warp 13
Andrew probert is the man he designed the 1701 refitt as well and those are my 2 favorite ships the classic galaxy class and the 1701 refitt
Just imagine if the dreadnought retained everything, but added armour and a complement of transphasic and quantum torpedoes 😂🤣🤯🤣😜
The best dreadnaught was the USS Vengeance!!!
Love the 3rd nacelle. Love the phaser lance. I can deal with the phasers attached to the bridge module. But the fins on the bottom of the pylons just look stupid.
I have the "The Shattered Mirror/Glass" alternative reality Enterprise Dreadnought class model....
If you think about it, the Federation had a bunch of exploration vessels capable of matching the warships employed by their contemporaries. It makes you wonder why, exactly, all these hostile forces didn't stop for a moment to consider what might happen if they provoked the Federation sufficiently to begin building their own warships. Hell, look at the Defiant. It was this tiny little thing with more guns and stronger shields than a galaxy class and the maneuverability of a combat shuttle. It tore through enemy warships like paper until the Breen developed a special weapon to combat it.
This was my favorite Star Trek vessel EVER until they came up with the Defiant.
I think I'd still prefer the D Dreadnought (I find it funny you call it that after I had been referring to it as a "Galaxy Class Dreadnought Refit" for decades because I didn't know what else to call it)
The Sovereign Class may be the most beautiful and the Defiant class is a tough little ship, but this gorgeously hideous beast is still probably my go to favorite.
Elon?
What is our status on perfecting a warp core?
I've got the Diamond Select model. A no-brainer impulse buy when I saw it in Kings Comics, Pitt St Sydney. Took it home and very carefully removed it from the box. Then removed the batteries, then returned to box in pristine condition, where it remains to this day.
Awesome ship! Always! BUT!!! That 3rd nacelle has got to go! Even Roddenberry had a set of rules explaining how a federation starship should be built!
I agree with Probert on the Galaxy-X.
Me too…
Yeah but remember the cloaking device on the Defiant was not a Federation design it was a Romulan design and was given to the Defiant only to be used to gather information on the Founders though it was used a lot later on.
Yeah that ship looks lit 🔥 asf
Well I can understand creative discord, by original creators, but I have to agree with the fans that beautiful beast. It looks really cool, and powerful. I want one. -No..a fleet of these.
If they wanted the Galaxy X to come across as a Dreadnought, then the Tactical module from the Nebula class should've been sitting menacingly atop that center pylon.
Go to warp 13 :D don't tell tom paris about that, think he might be a bit confused :D
That is one kickbutt starship design.
This ship would've been great for the Terran empire like I saw in a star trek comic book.
Sto has a mirror dread and it'd amazing
I have a lot of screenies of the Legendary version.
you really don't need the third nacelle. nacelle's dont generate energy. if you stick with the two nacelle design you give up a little upper end speed, but have more power for shields and that big honking gun. i would loose the third nacelle and add another phaser strip on the top of the saucer, maybe giving it a 1/3 arc. maybe use it as point defense against some of the incoming attacks from people who want to do you harm (point defense, something else the federation isnt big on apparently)
Well the fourth funnel on the Titanic was for aesthetics ...
YES! I would love to see the THRD NACELLE DREADNOUGHT! I THOUGHT THAT WAS SO VERY COOL! I'd like to get that model too!!
Jokes on you. That IS my favorite Enterprise.
I'm not against the addition to the ship, I'm against how hamfisted they added them. It looks like they transported a generic futuristic scifi rifle through the middle of a masterpiece that is a Maserati. Smooth out those transitions! At least they took the trigger-pull off the 3rd nacel support.
Mad respect for Andrew Probert and all his creations in the Star Trek universe. But I still like the Galaxy-X. It just felt so satisfying to finally see the beloved glass cannon going in guns blazing without having to use any kind of plot armor to win the day.
Yeah, ok, the fins were a bit much...
This' my all time favourite ENTERPRISE! This' what a fitting end to our beloved NCC-1701D. WTF, they have star ships with 4 cells the 3 Cells version just looked bad ass!
That's some pretty ancient Star Trek online footage, either that or they have the graphics settings really low
In my opinion the most visually pleasing version of the Star Trek Enterprise ships. What the F*** is that was probably the response of the Klingon captain a second before vaporisation.
Love the ship design. I could only afford to have the Furuta model and Galoob's Micro Machine version of this ship.
DS 9 should have had galaxy class ships with at least one of these upgrades, the big cannon or the smaller ones on top of the saucer
I LOVED that design! I thought it was a great idea! Watching that episode for the first time, I had full-body chills when the Enterprise Dreadnaught showed up on screen!
First off, very tense scene, everybody on the Pasteur was going to die.
Then 'here comes the cavalry!' and we get an old, seasoned, weathered, grizzled Admiral Ryker with this very special ship.
Within the bounds of that episode, the existence of the Dreadnaught Enterprise was the coolest thing to happen from my perspective. I can see where some people wanted to stay true to Gene Roddenberry's vision of how warp bubbles work (just two nacelles and anything more was too redundant and too expensive). I empathize with those who did not want all the math to be thrown out-of-whack.
I can also see that since the ship is not only from an alternate timeline that would be rescinded/ obliterated with the end of the series (a one-shot-only which would never happen again), but it also included a possible FUTURE timeline. Technologies will have expanded and progressed over time, as they should for any civilization that wishes to continue its existence (along with the political legal restrictions having changed).
SOME sort of explanation had to be given for the Enterprise D to suddenly be able to breach not only Warp Ten but also to obtain the capability of Warp Thirteen. The D's original engines just would not be able to do that, she would simply be too old by that point. So, add another nacelle to buff the original two.
And WHY would that kind of speed have been needed anyway? WAR, of course! So a big beefy frame like the Galaxy Class would become a real battle-wagon. The Phase Cannon was the icing on the cake of everything else she was modified with!
Even as bad as my eyesight has always been, I am a very Visual-Oriented person (sadly it's really a matter of 'out-of-sight, out-of-mind' for me...) and that thing is just COOL to look at! :)
It's a shame you don't have the ISS CONQURE in the game, it could take on the Dreadnought with ease and take out a BORG Cube (with some effort), singlehanded. ;-)
I know this video has been up for awhile and I'm not going to scan through all the comments but I do remember a time when it was said nothing could be in between the warp nacelles because of the warp field
Would the crew of this ship be known as X-Men? Picard would approve 😁
BEST LOOKING GALAXY CLASS STARSHIP EVER !!!! !!!!
In Birth of a (the?) Federation strategy game, the Galaxy-X was basically a suped-up Galaxy that changed from command ship to heavy cruiser. On STO, it's just a better Galaxy, but with the experimental weapon port. If they went anywhere near the show, it'd out-class a Sovereign Class (much bigger ship) in firepower.
I do like the look, it's like a Federation version of a Star Wars "ugly" class of starship... a Frankenstein's monster of a ship. For decades, I wanted to hear what the 3rd nacelle did and why a 3rd instead of another nacelle pair. Was it just a specialized thing that boosted the pair? Was it a specialized version of the nacelle that single-nacelle ships (FASA Star Trek universe) have? Also, the gun-shaped phasers... Klingon-inspired turrets? For its larger size, how much of it was superstructure was ripped open to get extensions? How much of it was just layering on extra outer decks over the old structure?
The interior of the Dreadnought should have looked like the Enterprise D from Yesterday's Enterprise, the darker interior, more like a warship than a cruise ship
I had wished that they continued this design onto the first contact be it that the Enterprise D was destroyed so they could of easily changed a name of a ship that was already constructed that was the Dreadnought class the 3 warp nacelle and Phaser Lance on it as the Defiant name change on the USS San Paulo to USS Defiant it was a starfleet Special order from the Starfleet Chief of Operations. I believe. So they could of done sommething similar.
The Galaxy-Dreadnaught is the Mirror Universe Imperial flagship in the Mirror Universe comics.
IRL that extensive a refit would be considered a separate class, known as a subclass. For example, the U.S. Navy had the spruance class destroyer, Iran ordered 4 spruance hulls with weapons and equipment optimized for anti air warfare. When the fundamentalist crazies took over Iran the U.S. Navy took delivery of the 4 ships naming them the Kidd class.
Wait... if the Spinal lance is fixed, then how could the saucer seperate??
It doesn't make sense. At the very least, you'd expect separating the ship would disable the spinal lance - your most devastating weapon - which would be an odd thing to do in a battle.
This should have been the ship Riker came to save Picard in the first season of Star Trek Picard.
...or should have been the one they use in season 3?
How can a ship go up to warp 13 if warp 10 is equil to infinite speed? In reference to Star Trek Voyagers "Threshhold" episode
I LOVE THE DAUNTLESS CLASS!!! It's my favorite ship in all of Trek!! (Followed by the Klingon BOP from Trek 3, 4, and TNG.) I'm so happy that Star Trek Prodigy brought it back...even if they DID screw it up by moving the nacelles out too far from the hull! And yes, I'd LOVE to see the All Good Things/Dreadnought Enterprise-D again! Why not??
The third nacelle probably precludes the need for a warp field generator
Probert should watch his words. Keeping nacelles even was more creative than technical, and the rule has been broken in the past. Plus the existence of the warp field generator kinda puts a kibosh on that rule anyway.
Um. The nacelles *are* the warp field generators. It's literally their entire purpose.
There's actually a separate device that produces a warp field too ,but it's purpose is to keep the warp fields produced by the nacelles aligned. It was mentioned by name once during a tng episode.
I like the lance, that's what 40k calls laser weaponry for ships.
I want the Dreadnought D in Hangar 12 at the Picard Show. Would be awesome if Geordie had rebuild it with the remaining D Saucer section. Okay i would also be OK with the normal Enterprise D. I would love to see them all on that Bridge again 🥰❤️
In their old positions.
I love the Galaxy Dreadnaught in TNG as well as STO i used it as my characters flagship and named it the USS Nimoy. supped it up where it could tank and deal major damage with its Spinal and Quantum Torpedoes with a special discovery ship trait. such a tough city sized ship.
I feel like just having the third nacelle and the phaser lance would have been enough. The extra weapons on the saucer and those fins on the original nacelles feel the most tacked on out of everything. It's bad enough to have one unidirectional energy weapon. It takes seriously good piloting to keep the weapon on target, especially since you have to account for both a moving target and accuracy reduction at longer ranges. That's why phaser arrays are more viable than those we saw on Kirk's Enterprise.
When it comes to the third nacelle I think that it helps make the ship more balanced, which to me is good because the classic galaxy class looks very front heavy to me and it lowers its ranking for me design wise, I just keep expecting it to fall forwards. The third nacelle just fills in the gap behind it and gives a better visual feel, not to mention that the whole empty space behind the sorcer always bugged me, which is why I like the sovereign, intrepid and defiant classes over the other enterprises and discovery, I just hate wasted and empty spaces on ship designs, get rid of the flimsy necks.
No chance of falling anywhere in space. There is no gravity. But I no what you mean. But what about inept shuttle users. They fly those shuttles straight into the third nacelle. But in terms of what design you like no sticky out bits like the defiant. Probably the best shape is cube like. You don't need to be aerodynamic in space. Unless you plan to land on a planet.
The Borg Cube is the best basic space ship. Nothing needs to look complicated. A Rhombicosidodecahedron is a good shape. Part of the quadrahedron family.
@@viciousvicious1340 The TNG tech manual says warp space has hydrodynamic properties, hence the "aerodynamic" shaping of ship hulls.
Hey, I liked this version of the Enterprise and I'm getting one as soon as interest rates come back down
How would it go against the Scimitar?
There was a book years ago called ‘Dreadnaught’ that was based on the Constitution Class used in TOS that had a third engine nacelle on the main section over the shuttle bay door.
Why was that starship built?
If you read that book you'd know that a faction in starfleet built it to take over control of the federation, a starfleet academy instructor figured out what they were for and with several trusted former students he stole the first ship U.S.S. Star Empire and demanded that captain James T. Kirk and a Vulcan negotiate it's return.
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Okay, but, it was the first ‘tri motor’ starship in Star Trek lore and it’s a shame it wasn’t mentioned in this video.
I love this design. Should appear in the new TV shows and kick ass!
Not listen or watch the entire video of this. But the Enterprise 1701D did separate for war with the Borg, the best of both worlds pt2. Using antimatter spread to distracted locutus while the drive section launched a shuttle to get picard back. A bit of inconsistent story when you consider the cube destroyed a whole fleet but not 3 parts of 1 ship, the saucer, the drive, and a shuttle. My only guess is a picard turned locutus didn't want to kill them. But the ship separated for safety of most. And for that battle.
They seriously need to give a cannon like this to some starfleet ships.
"What the fuck is that?!?" was also my reaction to it but its grown on me.