I’ve never paid much attention to the variety of ships in Star Trek. Therefore, I’m extremely impressed about those who do and Sean’s ability to make videos like this entertaining.
Pretty sure the USS Endeavour was the solo survivor of the battle of Wolf 359. USS Ahwahnee was heavy damage but was salagved but i wouldnt count it as "surviving". Captain Amasov of the Endeavour is also gets a called out in Voyager.
Ironically, the low budget kit bashing method of creating tv starships is probably close to how an actual futuristic federation would create their actual starships… pre-designed saucers, nacelles, main hulls, etc that are modular and attached in a way to best serve the individual ships mission purpose, with style and looks being secondary.
Something about the New Orleans class has always appealed to me. I wish it had been seen some on DS9 along side the Ambassador, Nebula and Galaxy class ships.
I loved the Yeager, sometimes ships arent polished streamlined hulls like a Visby Class or a Zumwalt Class, they are functional workhorses and you end up with something like the Slava class with its sea of radar domes, gubbins and giant dustbin 3D radar.
I agree with some ships having to be the workhorses of the fleet and not the shiny flagship - all smooth and curvy and so. But the Yaeger class fails to present a harmonic overall design in my eyes - it looks exactly like the thing it is: two random things smoshed together - a car crash in space. And you can totally see the seam where both halves where put together. Most of the others do it way better - exept the Curry where I always feel like the saucer/nacel-half is mounted backwards on the engineering hull... Anyhow I would have loved to see some more re-uses of known designs that actually make sense as a ship (Ambassador, Constellation, Nebula, ...) instead of having to see the Galaxy-saucer outfitted with different brands of markers just to make it less obvious you're using the same old saucer again. Why can't those older ships live out their days as the workhorses instead?
I love the Yeager. Yeah it's ugly but I love it. I have my own headcanon when it comes to the lore: It makes so much sense that the Dominion war would produce ships cobbled together with whatever pieces they had saved in the replicator. The Intrepid-Class was highly advanced, but likely very resource intensive in the Engineering section due to that variable geometry warp drive (the flappy bits), so they slapped on a known solid Engineering section and called it good, all the brains of an Intrepid and the warp power of whatever the Maquis Raider was called in Federation hands.
11:00 Pavel Chekov (from TOS)'s surname IS spelled "Chekov". Not "Checkov" (as shown on screen) or "Checkof" (as you misspoke). So the ship being called the USS Chekov would still be named after the TOS character.
Just sticking more warp necelles on is / and was dumb. It didn't make any sense. Did it make the ships faster? no. It would have been a profound waste of resources. Making nacelles can't be cheap from an enegegy expense point of view. "Why have two equally power ships when you can have one equally powerful and look ridiculous at the same time!!
Some of them may be ugly as hell, But I love them all. And wish they got more love in the Star Trek Games and Mods using Star Trek stuff. Also you keep my Curry Class out of your God Damned mouth unless its Endless praise. lol
I sometimes wonder if the Akula class from Star Trek: Shattered Universe is cannon. It's similar to the Challenger class, but refit constitution and minus the secondary hull.
I have always LOVED the Cheyenne-Class, New Orleans-Class (aside from that bottom highlighter), the Centaur-Class. and finalized Nebula-Class (and I also don't mind the Springfield-Class). Wish those ships had also been given the full heroship finalization the way the Nebula-Class (and partly the Centaur-Class as it got some real screen time as opposed to wreckage - prior to "Resurgance") did. Yes, I like lists like this, but maybe make them 5 ships per list allowing for more in-depth discussions on the ships, their production history, etc.
8:30 NO NO NO NO *NO!!!* It was the Endeavor that survived! A Nebula class. Not the Ahwahnee! Why do people get this wrong? The Endeavor would also be a part of Picard's blockage fleet and see action during the Battle of Sector 001.
What happenned with the medical ship that Dr. Crusher commanded and destroyed on the last episode of STNG? it was like a big ball with nacelles. And after being destroyed she acted like nothing of value was lost and there were no consequences beyond that.
The Olympic-class USS Pasteur? Memory Alpha just says that a cadet named Marcutus M. Aether was assigned as one of its crew in 2401. In beta canon, the Pasteur helps Cardassia find a cure for Yarim Fel Syndrome and is currently stationed at ESD after the Undine attacked Earth.
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One of the first Star Trek reference books I ever got was the Encyclopedia circa 1994 (IIRC Generations, DS9 S3 and Voyager were just about mentioned in it) and ever since I lay eyes on that tiny black and white photo of the New Orleans-class I fell in love with it and also the idea that there were these other ship classes I had no idea even existed. But as a 13-year old, the New Orleans-class really blew me away. I love that design. It was, in a way, my introduction to expanded fiction within Star Trek.
I do like that Yeager class ship! It’s like someone in the production office said “Let’s see what would happen if Star Fleet tried building a Klingon ship!”
Good video and ship content is always a thumbs-up from me, but one thing though... I thought it was the U.S.S. Endeavour, a nebula class starship lead by Captain Amasov that was the sole surviving ship at Wolf 359? They supposedly were involved in the Battle of Sector of 001 aswell. (Captain Amasov is referenced as a great starfleet captain who faced the borg by Captain Janeway)
I always assumed the U.S.S. Melbourne was the Excelsior class that Hansen arrives on. Never saw a reason to doubt it, but multiple UA-camrs bring up this Nebula... I watched BOBW last week... when Hansen hails them from the fight, the bridge appears consistent with the old style/Excelsior. What is the evidence for a 2nd Melbourne I'm missing? Name printed on model or something from behind the scenes?
Nice and well researched video. You're absolutely right, the Yeager is horrible. You got almost everything right. Just two mistakes: 1) Photo of the ship the engineering hull of the dreadful Yeager was taken from shows Federation fighter, not Maquis raider. 2) Our ensign is spelled Chekov just as printed on the hull. There may have been some sort of transition behind the scenes with Chekhov (the writer) being an intermediate step until they ended up with Tolstoy (another writer) because Chekhov sounds just like Chekov.
I surprisingly respect the Yeager Class, and I only learn of it NOW! It looks and feels like a "Scrap-yard ship" put together out of whatever folks could find. I can definitely see this in civilian ownership*. *Whether or not it would be legal for civilians to own such a class of ship is debatable. (but also more fun)
Highlighters are elementary... let's not forget the tug ship tractoring the Excelsior-class at 2:16-2:19. That ship was made from Intrepid-class warp pylons, Romulan warp nacelles, motherboard parts, and what appears to be a can-opener! 😆
I get your problem with the Yaeger class - it just far to obviously has details, which are known from Marquis ships and look completely different from any Star Fleet design. I'd say, using this as some kind of larger Marquis ship would have worked far better.
I had a spare eaglemoss Springfield Class ship that befell one on my involuntary hand spasms and crashed on the floor, knocking off the secondary hull and the shuttlebay pod... it made me think how much it resembled the NX Class but if it were reimagined as a TNG era version of the class. I didn't repair the sections that snapped off but carefully removed the bits left and kept it in its more spartan form. I too despise the Yeager & Elkins class ships... though surprised the USS Crazy Horse wasn't mentioned as with its similarity to the Curry Class.
A Horgon on the sponsorship intro - that's cheating. I wasn't ready. I liked the teaser of the highlighter pens, at the beginning - cos I know what that means. Oh cool, you showed the model of the 3 nacelled - future Enterprise.being worked on. I've never seen that ship anywhere except for in the episode. I might be seeing what I want to see, but did I see a model Refit NX Enterprise in actual space in the segment about the USS Centaur? I hope so.
How can you think the Yaeger is ugly!? It's the one of the only two cool looking Starfleet ships, along with the Defiant (I'm not counting Maquis raiders as Starfleet). Granted, it could use an update pass to unify the look of the two parts a bit, but the overall shape is pretty good. Gods I hate the saucer+nacelles design.
old TV was really kind to background kitbashes. tbh I never spotted the Yeager in DS9 but I had a 2in1 Voyager and Marquis Raider model kit, and was disgusted when I saw the kitbash photo as alternate assembly ffs they just glued the complete raider under the upper decks not even smoothing out the transition. it's like the caretaker didn't give a frack and Tuvixed both ships into the delta quadrant and then let Neelix paint it. there were Vortas unable to command their ships because they were so disgusted by the looks of the Yeager, and Vortas can't see frack!
Oddly enough I personally do not like the Centaur. That said I also got a bit choked up at its representative history as growing a pride for the ship from playing resurgence. Almost a "Centaur strong" to borrow parlance from Lower Decks.
Sometimes it seems like the largest customer base for Trek model kits are later Trek productions. There was a Maquis Raider model ship??? Whaaat? How many did they sell and how many were bought by Paramount?
I wish the Niagara class got more attention... practically the only time it was ever mentioned outside of being included in the Wolf 359 graveyard was it being added to the list of future ships to be added to Star Trek Online along with the Freedom class (the _actual_ Freedom class, as seen in Wolf 359). That was over a _decade_ ago, they're still listed and still ignored.
THERE ARE NO UGLY SHIPS....THE UGLIER THE DOG,... THE BIGGER THE FIGHT!!!! I SEEM TO REMEMBER A CERTAIN COUNTRY THINKING THAT WAY ABOUT A CERTAIN COUNTRY!!!!! AND I SEEM TO REMEMBER THEM PROPERLY STOMPING A MUDHOLE IN THEM LIKE THEY KNOCKED A PINT OF OUT OF Y'ALL'S HAND!!!
Are you kidding having the New. Orleans Class on this list?? She is a beautiful take on a Galaxy based ship! Rest of the list, agreed. Not the New Orleans Class!
You know, guys, I almost always skip past in-video ads with the scroll bar, since most of them are pretty mediocre in how they set them up and read them. They're more ad reads than actual commercials. But you do a wonderful job of creatively inserting the ads you write into a fun and entertaining Trek situation of one type or another. I always let Sean's creative ads play through, if only because they're clever, and it's fun to watch Sean doing voices and playing caricatures. Keep up the great work, your sponsors ought to pay you double!
My first model was the Enterprise-A. Second was the Reliant and third was the Enterprise-E. I tried to give my little cousin an Enterprise-A model and she did put it together but she made an "alteration" to it. Using wires she made the nacelle arms bend so they could flap like a bird because in her reasoning, how else was it supposed to fly? LOL
One change I would make to the New Orleans class, have the captain's yacht area not attached to the engineering section. Basically like the Nebula class, but the New Orleans pylons and highlighters.
The Nebula class - just call that a sensor platform, as it comes in various shapes. I swear the one with the round saucer sensor platform must have been kit-bashed from an US Air Force AWACS plane. Looks like the exact same radar dome that that aircraft has.
The mention of the USS Chekhov made me realise we've never seen a USS James T Kirk . Surely The Fed would have named a ship after him? David Mack put one in one of his novels though.
The Cheyenne Class at least gets to come into it's own in Star Trek Online. Most Wolf 359 wrecks never see the light of day (some justifiably so, but still)
I’m biased, I admit, but I’ve always thought Star Trek has the coolest looking ships in all of Sci Fi. It has all the way back to TOS, and kitbashes can be some of the best.
I just saw incredible leaked footage from Mr. ****** of 10 worlds i can´t visit. But soon after those files mysteriously disappeard [The X-Files Theme] It seems that section 31 works quite fast : ) ps.: Was really a well done video
Love all the ship love you can muster! Also, how about dissecting different ships, telling us tidbits about specific aspects of them. I so wish there was a model of the Captain's yacht Calypso
I luv the Intrepid class (Voyager) she´s just a beautiful ship. I also luv the design of the Maquis-Raider, feels like a fast, shark stlye attacking fighter / ship. Both have a unique, strong and great shape. But together... it´s like mixing a beef burger with a fish burger, or wearing a brown belt to a black suit.. it´s just wrong. 6:23
The centaur class did grow on me thansk to Star Trek Resurgance. Perfect ship for a man like Charlie Reynolds. Likes to swing for the fences does Charlie.
it's hilarious that if you look at the Eaglemoss model of Voyager and Yeager, Yeager actually have much better detail on the saucer section, such as the windows and the secondary deflector...so sad. should be the other way around...
I like Dday landing ship! I imagine that big nose opens up completely to scoop up cargo if teleporter was unsafe for cargo. And it could serve as fleet support /repair ship! 😅
I realize why they used older designs in Next Gen was to save money, but in universe it gave the impression of obsolescence... and this is a brilliant coincidence come the Borg and gave us a fantastic story. It also paid off by giving us the Defiant.
Nice video. Have you made one about alien vessels seen in STTNG? I do recall that one, an autonomous defence drone in an early episode, was made from, I believe, shampoo bottles.
10:41 Is this one of those deliberate mistakes slipped in just to see if someone (i.e. me) would comment on it? 🤣 Chekhov: Russian playwright Chekov: navigator on the Enterprise and Enterprise-A Checkov: no idea 😛
I'm not exactly too sure why they tuned the main viewer on the bridge of recent Star Trek series into a kind of combination window and screen. You never saw ships like that until Discovery. I forget if it was like that in the reboot movies. You might ask, why shouldn't it be a window? I just think they didn't have the main viewer be a window because it wasn't particularly useful and might have been a weak point in the hull. I don't know what the strength of transparent aluminum was, but I'm sure duranium was even better. Of course, the Enterprise D has a sky light over their heads on the bridge. At any rate, cameras would have been needed for a 360 degree view around the ship, so that's why I thought it was deemed not particularly useful. That, and the use of sensors. If they needed to maneuver the ship visually, the small angle provided by a window didn't offer much information for the spacial awareness of a star ship if you catch my drift.
I love the Yeager class. It's so ugly. And, in universe, it suggests to me that Starfleet was so desperate for ships at the time, they just welded together any available ship parts they had.
So the majority of these ugly class ships, were barely seen on screen, and if so, they were part of the end of a battle and were pretty much smashed up and half destroyed.
The Yeager is indeed a dreadful design, the sleek design of the Intrepid class just hacked off and some industrial waste glued on, not a good look, and of course they named it as such cos they could just use up the decals from the Voyager kit they used, but, the end product, it really was pretty bad, the Elkins was pretty eyesore-level too, but at least it wasn't Yeager bad... :S
Loved the video but correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the triangle shaped attachment on the Nebula class is a weapons pod and the oval shaped one is the sensor pod.
I love these episodes about different classes of ships, but I really wish that you would just hold a picture on the screen for longer of the ship to get a good look at it. The editing is too jump cut quick.
If I've said it before, I've said it a million times: I could look at ST starships all day long.
And I could listen to Seán's (or Ellie's or Marcus') voice all day long.
Amen.
I spend about 20 minutes every day looking at them....as I make them explode.
same, but this can also be said of starwars ships also Babylon 5, also Orville, so basically i like space ships
Yes more episodes on the lesser known ships & related
I’ve never paid much attention to the variety of ships in Star Trek. Therefore, I’m extremely impressed about those who do and Sean’s ability to make videos like this entertaining.
Pretty sure the USS Endeavour was the solo survivor of the battle of Wolf 359. USS Ahwahnee was heavy damage but was salagved but i wouldnt count it as "surviving". Captain Amasov of the Endeavour is also gets a called out in Voyager.
I agree with you on that. I wish they would reveal their reason or source for believing that nonsense. 😂
Centaur and Ambassador Classes are two of my 'non-hero' favorite designs.
After Star Trek Resurgencee i'm not sure if the centaur counts as a non hero ship....
Ironically, the low budget kit bashing method of creating tv starships is probably close to how an actual futuristic federation would create their actual starships… pre-designed saucers, nacelles, main hulls, etc that are modular and attached in a way to best serve the individual ships mission purpose, with style and looks being secondary.
The tech manuals repeatedly talk about the benefits of modular ship design.
@@3Rayfire, I’ve never read any… just what I took from the observation I guess I’m more of a minor Trekkie, but I’ve seen almost all of them.
Should I built a USS Yeager for my giant bluebrixx Deep Space Nine?
Yes more videos on lesser known ships please! Love any videos on Star Trek ships
The Yeager was a ship that my girlfriend really liked. She had a great set of arguments as to why.
Anyway, we're not together anymore.
Sounds like she had a lucky escape.
@@darrengriffin8609
Too right, mate!
Some things I could forgive, but not your irrational hatred of my baby Yeagy 😂
Something about the New Orleans class has always appealed to me. I wish it had been seen some on DS9 along side the Ambassador, Nebula and Galaxy class ships.
The part 1 labeling was a mistake. Chekov's name was always written as "Chekov," and the model kit in the Part 2 segment corrected the error.
The author's name, thus, being spelled Chek*h*ov.
I loved the Yeager, sometimes ships arent polished streamlined hulls like a Visby Class or a Zumwalt Class, they are functional workhorses and you end up with something like the Slava class with its sea of radar domes, gubbins and giant dustbin 3D radar.
That kind of fits too, as Visby and Zumwalt were both... let's be charitable and say "disappointing."
I agree with some ships having to be the workhorses of the fleet and not the shiny flagship - all smooth and curvy and so.
But the Yaeger class fails to present a harmonic overall design in my eyes - it looks exactly like the thing it is: two random things smoshed together - a car crash in space. And you can totally see the seam where both halves where put together.
Most of the others do it way better - exept the Curry where I always feel like the saucer/nacel-half is mounted backwards on the engineering hull...
Anyhow I would have loved to see some more re-uses of known designs that actually make sense as a ship (Ambassador, Constellation, Nebula, ...) instead of having to see the Galaxy-saucer outfitted with different brands of markers just to make it less obvious you're using the same old saucer again. Why can't those older ships live out their days as the workhorses instead?
@@AndrewD8Red To be fair, the Moskva also proved a bit... "disappointing." lol
I love the Yeager. Yeah it's ugly but I love it. I have my own headcanon when it comes to the lore: It makes so much sense that the Dominion war would produce ships cobbled together with whatever pieces they had saved in the replicator. The Intrepid-Class was highly advanced, but likely very resource intensive in the Engineering section due to that variable geometry warp drive (the flappy bits), so they slapped on a known solid Engineering section and called it good, all the brains of an Intrepid and the warp power of whatever the Maquis Raider was called in Federation hands.
The problem with that is the Maquis Raider is a lot smaller than the Intrepid class.
@@craigmarriott6759 No reason a replicator can't scale things up.
The Centaur model is an option for new Federation players in Star Trek Online along with the Miranda
Captain Jean Luc Picard asked if anyone else built ships in bottle as a kid and seemed appalled that no body knew WTF he was talking about 🥲
I love the blooper where Wolf says, "I never played with boys..."
Cue the entire cast and crew breaking down in laughter.
Except for Obrien, of course, who said it was "great fun".
@@BruderEngel agreed - typical Worf remark
11:00 Pavel Chekov (from TOS)'s surname IS spelled "Chekov". Not "Checkov" (as shown on screen) or "Checkof" (as you misspoke). So the ship being called the USS Chekov would still be named after the TOS character.
That's what I thought too
Personally really liked the Inteprid from Enterprise. Also like the Nimitz class the Europa from Discovery
Just sticking more warp necelles on is / and was dumb. It didn't make any sense. Did it make the ships faster? no. It would have been a profound waste of resources. Making nacelles can't be cheap from an enegegy expense point of view. "Why have two equally power ships when you can have one equally powerful and look ridiculous at the same time!!
Some of them may be ugly as hell, But I love them all. And wish they got more love in the Star Trek Games and Mods using Star Trek stuff.
Also you keep my Curry Class out of your God Damned mouth unless its Endless praise. lol
This video and list were great Id love more ship videos like this!
How do you identify these tiny obscure ships in the background?
Some of the kitbash ships are really cool! The Nebula and the Centaur are 2 favourites!
I loved it and it was good to take that closer look at the ships you don't get a great glimpse of.
I sometimes wonder if the Akula class from Star Trek: Shattered Universe is cannon. It's similar to the Challenger class, but refit constitution and minus the secondary hull.
I consider it so as the immediate successor to the Saladin class
I have always LOVED the Cheyenne-Class, New Orleans-Class (aside from that bottom highlighter), the Centaur-Class. and finalized Nebula-Class (and I also don't mind the Springfield-Class). Wish those ships had also been given the full heroship finalization the way the Nebula-Class (and partly the Centaur-Class as it got some real screen time as opposed to wreckage - prior to "Resurgance") did.
Yes, I like lists like this, but maybe make them 5 ships per list allowing for more in-depth discussions on the ships, their production history, etc.
The Curry is, as I see it, an Oberth-class made out of Excelsior and Miranda-class parts
"highlighter pens", well that has blown my mind
Have you ever done a video about the design of alien ships and how/why their design language was chosen?
8:30 NO NO NO NO *NO!!!* It was the Endeavor that survived! A Nebula class. Not the Ahwahnee! Why do people get this wrong? The Endeavor would also be a part of Picard's blockage fleet and see action during the Battle of Sector 001.
I agree with you on that. I wish they would reveal their reason or source for believing that nonsense. 😂
I love these additional ships. It was my favorite part of playing STO and I wish there was a full on ship builder game so I can kit bash my own!
What happenned with the medical ship that Dr. Crusher commanded and destroyed on the last episode of STNG? it was like a big ball with nacelles. And after being destroyed she acted like nothing of value was lost and there were no consequences beyond that.
The Olympic-class USS Pasteur? Memory Alpha just says that a cadet named Marcutus M. Aether was assigned as one of its crew in 2401. In beta canon, the Pasteur helps Cardassia find a cure for Yarim Fel Syndrome and is currently stationed at ESD after the Undine attacked Earth.
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The original enterprise, had razor handles for warp nacelles.
And a washing up liquid bottle for the body, and paper plates for the saucer.
when in doubt, add a few highlighter pens!!!
One of the first Star Trek reference books I ever got was the Encyclopedia circa 1994 (IIRC Generations, DS9 S3 and Voyager were just about mentioned in it) and ever since I lay eyes on that tiny black and white photo of the New Orleans-class I fell in love with it and also the idea that there were these other ship classes I had no idea even existed. But as a 13-year old, the New Orleans-class really blew me away. I love that design. It was, in a way, my introduction to expanded fiction within Star Trek.
I do like that Yeager class ship! It’s like someone in the production office said “Let’s see what would happen if Star Fleet tried building a Klingon ship!”
You know I don't know why they didn't use a lot of these instead of keep using the Excelsior all through TNG
Good video and ship content is always a thumbs-up from me, but one thing though...
I thought it was the U.S.S. Endeavour, a nebula class starship lead by Captain Amasov that was the sole surviving ship at Wolf 359? They supposedly were involved in the Battle of Sector of 001 aswell.
(Captain Amasov is referenced as a great starfleet captain who faced the borg by Captain Janeway)
I always assumed the U.S.S. Melbourne was the Excelsior class that Hansen arrives on. Never saw a reason to doubt it, but multiple UA-camrs bring up this Nebula... I watched BOBW last week... when Hansen hails them from the fight, the bridge appears consistent with the old style/Excelsior. What is the evidence for a 2nd Melbourne I'm missing? Name printed on model or something from behind the scenes?
Nice and well researched video. You're absolutely right, the Yeager is horrible. You got almost everything right. Just two mistakes: 1) Photo of the ship the engineering hull of the dreadful Yeager was taken from shows Federation fighter, not Maquis raider. 2) Our ensign is spelled Chekov just as printed on the hull. There may have been some sort of transition behind the scenes with Chekhov (the writer) being an intermediate step until they ended up with Tolstoy (another writer) because Chekhov sounds just like Chekov.
I surprisingly respect the Yeager Class, and I only learn of it NOW!
It looks and feels like a "Scrap-yard ship" put together out of whatever folks could find. I can definitely see this in civilian ownership*.
*Whether or not it would be legal for civilians to own such a class of ship is debatable. (but also more fun)
Highlighters are elementary... let's not forget the tug ship tractoring the Excelsior-class at 2:16-2:19. That ship was made from Intrepid-class warp pylons, Romulan warp nacelles, motherboard parts, and what appears to be a can-opener! 😆
I get your problem with the Yaeger class - it just far to obviously has details, which are known from Marquis ships and look completely different from any Star Fleet design. I'd say, using this as some kind of larger Marquis ship would have worked far better.
I had a spare eaglemoss Springfield Class ship that befell one on my involuntary hand spasms and crashed on the floor, knocking off the secondary hull and the shuttlebay pod... it made me think how much it resembled the NX Class but if it were reimagined as a TNG era version of the class. I didn't repair the sections that snapped off but carefully removed the bits left and kept it in its more spartan form.
I too despise the Yeager & Elkins class ships... though surprised the USS Crazy Horse wasn't mentioned as with its similarity to the Curry Class.
A Horgon on the sponsorship intro - that's cheating. I wasn't ready.
I liked the teaser of the highlighter pens, at the beginning - cos I know what that means.
Oh cool, you showed the model of the 3 nacelled - future Enterprise.being worked on. I've never seen that ship anywhere except for in the episode.
I might be seeing what I want to see, but did I see a model Refit NX Enterprise in actual space in the segment about the USS Centaur?
I hope so.
Can we have a top 10 waistcoats episode please? During the TNG era, the wardrobe department definitely loved a colourful waistcoat.
How can you think the Yaeger is ugly!? It's the one of the only two cool looking Starfleet ships, along with the Defiant (I'm not counting Maquis raiders as Starfleet). Granted, it could use an update pass to unify the look of the two parts a bit, but the overall shape is pretty good.
Gods I hate the saucer+nacelles design.
I'm a Yeager-stan and I am still salty that Star Trek Online *ALWAYS* trolls players about introducing the ship to the game (they never will). 😂🤣😅
old TV was really kind to background kitbashes. tbh I never spotted the Yeager in DS9
but I had a 2in1 Voyager and Marquis Raider model kit, and was disgusted when I saw the kitbash photo as alternate assembly
ffs they just glued the complete raider under the upper decks not even smoothing out the transition. it's like the caretaker didn't give a frack and Tuvixed both ships into the delta quadrant and then let Neelix paint it.
there were Vortas unable to command their ships because they were so disgusted by the looks of the Yeager, and Vortas can't see frack!
Oddly enough I personally do not like the Centaur. That said I also got a bit choked up at its representative history as growing a pride for the ship from playing resurgence. Almost a "Centaur strong" to borrow parlance from Lower Decks.
Sometimes it seems like the largest customer base for Trek model kits are later Trek productions. There was a Maquis Raider model ship??? Whaaat? How many did they sell and how many were bought by Paramount?
I wish the Niagara class got more attention... practically the only time it was ever mentioned outside of being included in the Wolf 359 graveyard was it being added to the list of future ships to be added to Star Trek Online along with the Freedom class (the _actual_ Freedom class, as seen in Wolf 359).
That was over a _decade_ ago, they're still listed and still ignored.
THERE ARE NO UGLY SHIPS....THE UGLIER THE DOG,... THE BIGGER THE FIGHT!!!!
I SEEM TO REMEMBER A CERTAIN COUNTRY THINKING THAT WAY ABOUT A CERTAIN COUNTRY!!!!!
AND I SEEM TO REMEMBER THEM PROPERLY STOMPING A MUDHOLE IN THEM LIKE THEY KNOCKED A PINT OF OUT OF Y'ALL'S HAND!!!
Are you kidding having the New. Orleans Class on this list?? She is a beautiful take on a Galaxy based ship! Rest of the list, agreed. Not the New Orleans Class!
Uhm... so... any chance Chad could do a full episode??? That might be the first ad I didn't skip through.
I LOVE the Yaegar, my group playing Star Trek Adventures wanted one as their ship, lots of fun
Just to let you know these don't really exist and wof 359 didn't happen
I need to find MineCraft crafting images for all the Star Trek ships … kuz that’s what I do in MineCraft… I just build things
You know, guys, I almost always skip past in-video ads with the scroll bar, since most of them are pretty mediocre in how they set them up and read them. They're more ad reads than actual commercials. But you do a wonderful job of creatively inserting the ads you write into a fun and entertaining Trek situation of one type or another. I always let Sean's creative ads play through, if only because they're clever, and it's fun to watch Sean doing voices and playing caricatures. Keep up the great work, your sponsors ought to pay you double!
My first model was the Enterprise-A. Second was the Reliant and third was the Enterprise-E.
I tried to give my little cousin an Enterprise-A model and she did put it together but she made an "alteration" to it. Using wires she made the nacelle arms bend so they could flap like a bird because in her reasoning, how else was it supposed to fly? LOL
One change I would make to the New Orleans class, have the captain's yacht area not attached to the engineering section.
Basically like the Nebula class, but the New Orleans pylons and highlighters.
The Nebula class - just call that a sensor platform, as it comes in various shapes.
I swear the one with the round saucer sensor platform must have been kit-bashed from an US Air Force AWACS plane. Looks like the exact same radar dome that that aircraft has.
The mention of the USS Chekhov made me realise we've never seen a USS James T Kirk .
Surely The Fed would have named a ship after him?
David Mack put one in one of his novels though.
so you don't like the yeager? nah imo best ship ever.
you should check out the STO april fools joke the "Pathyeager"
The Cheyenne Class at least gets to come into it's own in Star Trek Online. Most Wolf 359 wrecks never see the light of day (some justifiably so, but still)
I find it difficult to believe there is a Starfleet vessel Sean hates. I think it’s the FAVORITE, stuck down on the list for potential verisimilitude.
Imagine having your quarters in that "drop-down" front section of the Curry Class....
I’m biased, I admit, but I’ve always thought Star Trek has the coolest looking ships in all of Sci Fi. It has all the way back to TOS, and kitbashes can be some of the best.
I just saw incredible leaked footage from Mr. ****** of 10 worlds i can´t visit. But soon after those files mysteriously disappeard [The X-Files Theme] It seems that section 31 works quite fast : )
ps.: Was really a well done video
Ok, so you don't like the Yeager Class ship...How do you feel about the Jägerbomb?😂
Love all the ship love you can muster! Also, how about dissecting different ships, telling us tidbits about specific aspects of them. I so wish there was a model of the Captain's yacht Calypso
I luv the Intrepid class (Voyager) she´s just a beautiful ship. I also luv the design of the Maquis-Raider, feels like a fast, shark stlye attacking fighter / ship. Both have a unique, strong and great shape. But together... it´s like mixing a beef burger with a fish burger, or wearing a brown belt to a black suit.. it´s just wrong. 6:23
What about the "Crossfield" Class in the episode "The Broken Circle"?
It is literally an in universe kit bash ship!😆
I always wondered what that intrepid saucer like ship was in the background of DS9. Now I know its the Yeager class.
The centaur class did grow on me thansk to Star Trek Resurgance. Perfect ship for a man like Charlie Reynolds. Likes to swing for the fences does Charlie.
it's hilarious that if you look at the Eaglemoss model of Voyager and Yeager, Yeager actually have much better detail on the saucer section, such as the windows and the secondary deflector...so sad. should be the other way around...
I like Dday landing ship! I imagine that big nose opens up completely to scoop up cargo if teleporter was unsafe for cargo. And it could serve as fleet support /repair ship! 😅
I realize why they used older designs in Next Gen was to save money, but in universe it gave the impression of obsolescence... and this is a brilliant coincidence come the Borg and gave us a fantastic story. It also paid off by giving us the Defiant.
Nice video. Have you made one about alien vessels seen in STTNG? I do recall that one, an autonomous defence drone in an early episode, was made from, I believe, shampoo bottles.
the Yeager class was actually refreshing, i like the design.
also, how did you butcher Guillermo so bad?!
10:41 Is this one of those deliberate mistakes slipped in just to see if someone (i.e. me) would comment on it? 🤣
Chekhov: Russian playwright
Chekov: navigator on the Enterprise and Enterprise-A
Checkov: no idea 😛
Brilliant, have always wondered what the ships looked like in the BOBW before the Borg wiped them out!
its amazing how many of these are now in STO with the Wolf 359 pack. Still no Yeager though ugh!
That "time travelling nonsense" was worlds better than the utter drek they're mistakenly calling "Star Trek" now!
I'm not exactly too sure why they tuned the main viewer on the bridge of recent Star Trek series into a kind of combination window and screen. You never saw ships like that until Discovery. I forget if it was like that in the reboot movies. You might ask, why shouldn't it be a window? I just think they didn't have the main viewer be a window because it wasn't particularly useful and might have been a weak point in the hull. I don't know what the strength of transparent aluminum was, but I'm sure duranium was even better. Of course, the Enterprise D has a sky light over their heads on the bridge. At any rate, cameras would have been needed for a 360 degree view around the ship, so that's why I thought it was deemed not particularly useful. That, and the use of sensors. If they needed to maneuver the ship visually, the small angle provided by a window didn't offer much information for the spacial awareness of a star ship if you catch my drift.
5:58 Yeah, I have to agree. Number 6, The Yeager Class looks like something that should be in Star Wars, not Star Trek ...
Big, beautiful, fat and juicy YES for more episodes about ships.
Still got my Playmates USS Enterprise D from 30 years ago. No one is touching my ships.
I love the Centaur Class. It's a perfect design for a Miranda-style Excelsior variant.
I’m a bit surprised the Constellation class didn’t make the cut…
I love the Yeager class. It's so ugly. And, in universe, it suggests to me that Starfleet was so desperate for ships at the time, they just welded together any available ship parts they had.
So the majority of these ugly class ships, were barely seen on screen, and if so, they were part of the end of a battle and were pretty much smashed up and half destroyed.
Centaur and Ambassador Classes are two of my favorite ships I use frequently in STO.
The Yeager is indeed a dreadful design, the sleek design of the Intrepid class just hacked off and some industrial waste glued on, not a good look, and of course they named it as such cos they could just use up the decals from the Voyager kit they used, but, the end product, it really was pretty bad, the Elkins was pretty eyesore-level too, but at least it wasn't Yeager bad... :S
I have a bit of a soft spot for the New Orleans class. Dunno why, just find something endearing about it.
Always been a fan of the Intrepid-class. Especially after Voyager which is still my favorite series.
As a Californian, I can confirm that the Surfshark ad is 100% genuine Surfer Dude!
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Loved the video but correct me if I’m wrong but I thought the triangle shaped attachment on the Nebula class is a weapons pod and the oval shaped one is the sensor pod.
I love these episodes about different classes of ships, but I really wish that you would just hold a picture on the screen for longer of the ship to get a good look at it. The editing is too jump cut quick.
Well, the models don‘t look as cheap as the „thing“ you were wearing, tbh. 😂👍🖖