For me, the most ingenious design of the Protector is how the fore and aft engine sections (that glow blue) are in perfect alignment with each other. They're like the "flattened cigars" of TNG nacelles, but without the bulk of a middle portion. Watching the movie, I assumed the two blue-glowing pieces on each side would still form one side of a cohesive warp bubble, despite not being solid pieces. I guessed the main reactor's energies would invisibly stretch across the gaps on either side, the entire subspace pocket that allows for FTL travel would form around the ship, and BAM, off it would go. I'm very grateful to the designer for all his toil and sweat and dozens of rejected designs, until he hit upon just the right look, and it has become a classic starship design in its own right.
A tennis racket? I thought it was a backwards enterprise, the soccer section turned into the engine, and the engineering hull turned into the command section.
Ibushi Pretty sure that’s the fictional origin of the design of the in-universe show. It’s on the Galaxy Quest wiki’s _Protector_ page, but neither Frank Rose nor Geoff Walters are listed on the movie’s IMDb page. Not sure where the wiki got if from, though…
Didn't realize just how big UNSC ships are since a Charon class frigate is one of the smallest ships they have and it's bigger than an Excelsior class cruiser.
Oh, i loved this episode :D I'm with everyone on the size being surprising; judging from the windows and the one giant crew quarters room (plus the HUGE engines, now that i think about it) i would have expected her to be at most Constitution-sized. There's an awful lot of room in that hull; you could probably dot the hull with Galaxy-style luxurious quarters for every crewman and still have enough room for everything else inside. Quite interesting; i supposed the original show only had enough budget for cardboard, mirrors and a matte painting :D
I know this is really delayed, but I had kept forgetting to go back and watch this episode. Indeed, Galaxy Quest is one of my favorite all time movies. There were times I was the only one laughing in a pretty packed theater when I first saw it. If aliens came to earth to fin the crew of the Enterprise (Shatner and co.) then it would have probably happened almost exactly like this. One comment....do you think that the tennis racket story is a call back to the lore of how the Millennium Falcon was conceived? The story is that they were designing the Rebel Blockade Runner to be the Falcon only to have Lucas reject it for being too close to the Space 1999 ships. So, when brainstorming new ideas, supposedly Lucas took a bite out of his cheeseburger and flew it around saying something like, "what about this?" Great job, fellas!!
Loved Galaxy Quest. Never watched it when it came out as the trailer didn't look good, but seen it a couple of years later on TV and was surprised on just how good it actually was.
Maybe you can help me out. Until today I try to understand how the scratching scene in Galaxy Class worked. I mean the front of the ship scratched along the shipyard wall. But at that angle, wouldn't they have ripped off the left-hand side engines?
Yes they did play with the perspective there, if they scratched the narrow front of ship, as you said, then the rear part of the ship would have slammed completely into and not just scratch the paint of the space dock.
I just watched this episode and I wonder if the overall hugeness of the bridge was a poke at the incredibly spacious and luxurious bridge of the Enterprise D compared to TOS/TMP era.
I've always wondered that, too. My guess is that she rolled a bit to port and somehow the port engine slipped below the area where the Thermians were watching from the dock. Hard to say for sure, but that's the best I can visualize.
quick question for the Capt. and Commander about the engines on the Protector.... the grills on the front of the ship remind me of Bussard collectors which stay solid on this ship if I'm correct and the rear ones pulsing which propelled the ship?.. sound about right?
'Armor' is actually a better term then 'shield'. In TOS the 'shields' were not 'shields' as we think of them, exotic energy or particle barriers of some sort, but were actually linked to the matter transport system. An armor coating of the strongest material that could be replicated was layered over the hull. If you have strong enough containment, you could make very dense plasma 'armor.' Because of neutron decay, i'm not sure how plausible neutron armor could be.
I love QalaxyQuest was kinda poke fun of startrek little I love the Movie. My Fave Fan Film series HiddenFrontier used theme song as nod to QuestQuest like inside joke.
I have to strongly disagree about the faster-than-light question. When they hit turbo you see stars start flying past it, and knowing the distance between Stars is so vast, to have them going by in a matter of seconds it's very clear they are going much faster than the speed of light. For instance the closest star to us is Alpha Centauri, and it's about 4 years away at going the speed of light. So to have a number of stars whipping by your in a matter of seconds you clearly are going many multiple times the speed of light just to have that many Star systems being passed at such a high rate of speed.
i still hold Galaxy quest pretty high in reguard. a one time gem. here is hoping that one upcoming TV (the seth green one, not directly based on this movie but clearly inspired) series goes well.
Was there a link through time, space and mind? After watching several episodes, i searched your channel for one of this ship and found none. But just two days after that, theres a new upload with exactly what i wanted! Big thanks, you guys do an awesome and interesting behind-the-scenes-job, especially the episodes featuring the designers are just wonderful! Qapla' from germany!
Larry... ahem.. Dr. TREK, Dude you need to put together a background set. I mean ...Something!..Foley's wall is pretty impressive, but even Caukings has a pretty cool ship poster behind him. Loose the boxes and office flotsome. Anything representing! Kids Crayon pictures of spaceships, something!
Not sure if this has come up yet, but from above the ship's silouette looks pretty much like the outline of a TNG communicator. That was the first thing I saw on the movie poster while getting tickets in the cinema back then... :)
The bottom of the NSEA Protector has identical markings to the TOS Enterprise. Yellow circle and red square on the belly. So, there's some similar markings.
the difference between the Protector and the TOS Enterprise is parts of the registry. NSEA protector with the letters NTE in its registry have been know to stand for Not The Enterprise. In a funny way NTE not the enterprise.
love your guy's show as always! could you do a Fleetyards Top 10 non ST starship designs? here's my 10 to get you inspired: 1. Whitestar from Babylon 5 2. Daedelus from Stargate 3. Tantive IV from Star Wars 4. Serenity from Firefly 5. Melinium Falcon from Star Wars 6. Battlestar Galactica(reimagined) 7. Moya from Farcape 8. Rodger Young from Star Ship Troopers 9. NSEA Protector 10. Liberator from Blake's 7
Really liked this episode wondering if you guys would ever do the gun star from the last starfighter one of my favorite sci-fi movies from my childhood
I always thought the design for the protector should have been a small single man fighter. Have the bridge area be the cockpit with windows and pilot seat.
YES! Galaxy Quest is much better Trek than Abrams! that was literally the first thing I said coming out of wasting my money on going to see Abrams Trek at the cinema! Galaxy Quest is a good-natured parody, while Abrams Trek is a mean-spirited parody.
You should see the bridges on real ships, even a freighter can have a bridge approaching that size and larger warships can have an air operations centre the same size again. Its Sci-Fi that has really small bridges usually due to the limitations of physical sets.
Are you going to do a revised scale of the Deadalus class ships since you found the Prometheus to be larger since they are comparable size? cuz that Deadalus looks small there. Watching out of order here. Also wasn't the reason the digital conveyor inverted and sploded the pig lizard because he had to relearn how to use it because they programmed the controls off the hand gestures he made while filming the show?
+federico estrella Next one X303 then Pegasus from BSG (2004) But after that maybe! Support us on Patreon to see more episodes made! www.patreon.com/Trekyards?ty=h
Ok, there are a few things related to the movie that i wanted to point out. First off, this whole "Mak'Tar Massacre" thing isn't official/canon, ok? The only mention i found was in a earlier draft of the script that didn't make it to the final cut. Second, i have seen the movie and right at the beginning of the movie (after the Protector appears) Laredo/Tommy says that the ship left something called a "Time Knot", and then, a few seconds later, multiple enemy ships leave the "Time Knots" to attack the Protector. Could the ship have a FTL drive that created "Time Knots" to achieve superluminal speeds? Plus, these facts have been ignored/overlooked by you two at Trekyards!
P.S. I think that the Protector has 2 FTL drives, with the Primary Drive being the "Time Knot Drive" (mentioned in the comment above) and the Turbo Jump Drive being the Secondary/Backup Drive.
P.P.S. I believe that Dr. Lazarus's species is in the same situation as Vulcans and Romulans. This is due to Dr. Lazarus being a counterpart to Spock (a Vulcan) The script i mentioned is here: sfy.ru/?script=galaxy_quest
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the Paris Class Frigate, not the Charon Class I'm not sure if the Charon Class is ever shown in Halo, Halo 2 or Halo 3. I'm pretty sure it's a Extra Canon/Fanon ship, but hey I could be wrong. There's another Halo Frigate class called the Stalwart but I don't know how big that one is. The UNSC has a lot of Frigate class ships.
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For me, the most ingenious design of the Protector is how the fore and aft engine sections (that glow blue) are in perfect alignment with each other. They're like the "flattened cigars" of TNG nacelles, but without the bulk of a middle portion. Watching the movie, I assumed the two blue-glowing pieces on each side would still form one side of a cohesive warp bubble, despite not being solid pieces. I guessed the main reactor's energies would invisibly stretch across the gaps on either side, the entire subspace pocket that allows for FTL travel would form around the ship, and BAM, off it would go.
I'm very grateful to the designer for all his toil and sweat and dozens of rejected designs, until he hit upon just the right look, and it has become a classic starship design in its own right.
I'm still waiting for the NSEA Protector for Star Trek Online.
By Grabthar's Hammer this was an awesome episode!
The movie was a Star Trek parody! That's why so many Star Trek references are in the movie.
Thank you Tim Allen.
Damn, Sigourney Weaver looked good in this movie
so did tim allen going by that teleportation scene. damn!
A tennis racket? I thought it was a backwards enterprise, the soccer section turned into the engine, and the engineering hull turned into the command section.
Ibushi Pretty sure that’s the fictional origin of the design of the in-universe show. It’s on the Galaxy Quest wiki’s _Protector_ page, but neither Frank Rose nor Geoff Walters are listed on the movie’s IMDb page. Not sure where the wiki got if from, though…
Didn't realize just how big UNSC ships are since a Charon class frigate is one of the smallest ships they have and it's bigger than an Excelsior class cruiser.
HAHAHAHA.....I see the dislike Nazi is hard at work disliking absolutely every one of our episodes!!!! What an asshole! LOL ;-)
Trekyards have now own personal disliker... price of fame officers, price of fame!
+Trekyards Or perhaps, at least one person didn't like the episode. However, I enjoyed it except for the quip about the new movie series.
+Eldarion H No. Like I said he dislikes absolutely EVERY one of our videos. Someone with hard feelings no doubt.
+Trekyards Well, he's an idiot then because even dislikes help boost the video up in the YT ranking. So he's still helping you guys XD
+Trekyards Well, there are five dislikes, that is what I was REFERRING to.
GREAT episode!
I love this ship, nothing I don't like.
One of my all time favorite films. The ship is amazing...
🖖😎👍Very cool and very well executed and very nicely informatively explained on all details of the ship indeed guys👌.
Oh, i loved this episode :D I'm with everyone on the size being surprising; judging from the windows and the one giant crew quarters room (plus the HUGE engines, now that i think about it) i would have expected her to be at most Constitution-sized. There's an awful lot of room in that hull; you could probably dot the hull with Galaxy-style luxurious quarters for every crewman and still have enough room for everything else inside. Quite interesting; i supposed the original show only had enough budget for cardboard, mirrors and a matte painting :D
this is a really professionally done episode guys, you should be proud
I know this is really delayed, but I had kept forgetting to go back and watch this episode. Indeed, Galaxy Quest is one of my favorite all time movies. There were times I was the only one laughing in a pretty packed theater when I first saw it. If aliens came to earth to fin the crew of the Enterprise (Shatner and co.) then it would have probably happened almost exactly like this.
One comment....do you think that the tennis racket story is a call back to the lore of how the Millennium Falcon was conceived? The story is that they were designing the Rebel Blockade Runner to be the Falcon only to have Lucas reject it for being too close to the Space 1999 ships. So, when brainstorming new ideas, supposedly Lucas took a bite out of his cheeseburger and flew it around saying something like, "what about this?"
Great job, fellas!!
Loved Galaxy Quest. Never watched it when it came out as the trailer didn't look good, but seen it a couple of years later on TV and was surprised on just how good it actually was.
Maybe you can help me out. Until today I try to understand how the scratching scene in Galaxy Class worked. I mean the front of the ship scratched along the shipyard wall. But at that angle, wouldn't they have ripped off the left-hand side engines?
Yes they did play with the perspective there, if they scratched the narrow front of ship, as you said, then the rear part of the ship would have slammed completely into and not just scratch the paint of the space dock.
I just watched this episode and I wonder if the overall hugeness of the bridge was a poke at the incredibly spacious and luxurious bridge of the Enterprise D compared to TOS/TMP era.
always liked the way the protector looked a very pretty ship
This movie is wery good and fun same time,allways loved!!! :)
Intro was great, loved the episode! :)
GREAT EPISODE GUYS! Thanx for the info about length.
NTE = Not The Enterprise...LMAO!
impressive ship
OK OK OK... but how did the protector NOT tear off an engine while scratching the paint leaving the base??
I've always wondered that, too. My guess is that she rolled a bit to port and somehow the port engine slipped below the area where the Thermians were watching from the dock. Hard to say for sure, but that's the best I can visualize.
quick question for the Capt. and Commander about the engines on the Protector.... the grills on the front of the ship remind me of Bussard collectors which stay solid on this ship if I'm correct and the rear ones pulsing which propelled the ship?..
sound about right?
The Protector is basically an inverted Enterprise. I liked it.
though the Protector's 3 letters in its registry agree that this is not the Enterprise.
NTE.
Behind every good Man watching Galaxy Quest,
there's a great Woman...
...rolling her eyes. 😂
The interstellar gell was actuallya reallly creative idea. I can't think of anythig similar in sci-fi.
AWESOME EPISODE guys. Had an idea for a title for the commander's q&a you were asking about. "Commanders Prerogative"
'Armor' is actually a better term then 'shield'. In TOS the 'shields' were not 'shields' as we think of them, exotic energy or particle barriers of some sort, but were actually linked to the matter transport system. An armor coating of the strongest material that could be replicated was layered over the hull. If you have strong enough containment, you could make very dense plasma 'armor.' Because of neutron decay, i'm not sure how plausible neutron armor could be.
I think the Andromeda Ascendant's bridge is about as big as the Protector's.
What an intro! :)
Awesome!! Shared this to my group!!
Intro was awesome!!!
That intro animation is outstanding! (Even though there's no Serenity...)
I love QalaxyQuest was kinda poke fun of startrek little I love the Movie. My Fave Fan Film series HiddenFrontier used theme song as nod to QuestQuest like inside joke.
Love the intro.
Hey. I'm curious as to where you sourced your information on the ship? I can't remember that many details being specified in the movie.
Scoured the Internet for any and all facts.
+Mark Atkinson Plus several deductions based on what we see in the movie!
Never give up...never surrender.
I have to strongly disagree about the faster-than-light question. When they hit turbo you see stars start flying past it, and knowing the distance between Stars is so vast, to have them going by in a matter of seconds it's very clear they are going much faster than the speed of light.
For instance the closest star to us is Alpha Centauri, and it's about 4 years away at going the speed of light. So to have a number of stars whipping by your in a matter of seconds you clearly are going many multiple times the speed of light just to have that many Star systems being passed at such a high rate of speed.
I forgot how hilarious Tony Shaloub's character was.
i still hold Galaxy quest pretty high in reguard. a one time gem.
here is hoping that one upcoming TV (the seth green one, not directly based on this movie but clearly inspired) series goes well.
Was there a link through time, space and mind? After watching several episodes, i searched your channel for one of this ship and found none. But just two days after that, theres a new upload with exactly what i wanted! Big thanks, you guys do an awesome and interesting behind-the-scenes-job, especially the episodes featuring the designers are just wonderful! Qapla' from germany!
Larry... ahem.. Dr. TREK, Dude you need to put together a background set. I mean ...Something!..Foley's wall is pretty impressive, but even Caukings has a pretty cool ship poster behind him.
Loose the boxes and office flotsome. Anything representing! Kids Crayon pictures of spaceships, something!
Not sure if this has come up yet, but from above the ship's silouette looks pretty much like the outline of a TNG communicator. That was the first thing I saw on the movie poster while getting tickets in the cinema back then... :)
By Grabthar's Hammer you shall be missed, Alan Rickman
Yes, I love the external lines of this ship but not so much the internal joke. :-)
At some point, Team Trekyards/Fleetyards, please do the USS Planet Express Ship from Futurama.
the digitizer wasn't tested until they "beamed" up the pig
Fleetyards next ship is maybe Space1999 Eagle,my favorite and realistic spaceship ..please that ship needs to prewiev fullfill !!!
The bottom of the NSEA Protector has identical markings to the TOS Enterprise. Yellow circle and red square on the belly. So, there's some similar markings.
the difference between the Protector and the TOS Enterprise is parts of the registry.
NSEA protector with the letters NTE in its registry have been know to stand for Not The Enterprise.
In a funny way NTE not the enterprise.
love your guy's show as always! could you do a Fleetyards Top 10 non ST starship designs? here's my 10 to get you inspired:
1. Whitestar from Babylon 5
2. Daedelus from Stargate
3. Tantive IV from Star Wars
4. Serenity from Firefly
5. Melinium Falcon from Star Wars
6. Battlestar Galactica(reimagined)
7. Moya from Farcape
8. Rodger Young from Star Ship Troopers
9. NSEA Protector
10. Liberator from Blake's 7
I think The Protector did have an "FTL" drive. In the show in the movie it was referred to as a "time-knot" which is an odd concept, but whatever.
Really liked this episode wondering if you guys would ever do the gun star from the last starfighter one of my favorite sci-fi movies from my childhood
I always thought the design for the protector should have been a small single man fighter. Have the bridge area be the cockpit with windows and pilot seat.
no one mentioned that it looks like a TOS hand phaser without the handle and wings attached!
YES! Galaxy Quest is much better Trek than Abrams! that was literally the first thing I said coming out of wasting my money on going to see Abrams Trek at the cinema! Galaxy Quest is a good-natured parody, while Abrams Trek is a mean-spirited parody.
I notice you also talk about other sci-fi series ships. Can you talk about Babylon 5 ships? Cheers.
No, the Protector is VERY REMINISCENT of the QUAKE LOGO! How could you guys miss that? And the bad guys are the Skarj from Unreal!
Dat intro
"To see if there's a pub."
the Andromeda ascendent from Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda was 1301 meters long with a draft of 325 and a beam of 976 meters. a lot larger ship.
+RLJ.251 If only it was 1701 meters long. :)
Hmmm... I wonder if there will be some love towards smaller ships/crafts in Fleetyards panel.
Of course. Episode 1 was the X-Wing a small one person fighter.
+Trekyards An X-wing!? That's not a fighter... that's a toy! I mean REAL fighter! Starfury's! :D
You should see the bridges on real ships, even a freighter can have a bridge approaching that size and larger warships can have an air operations centre the same size again. Its Sci-Fi that has really small bridges usually due to the limitations of physical sets.
Is that a Gunstar from the Last Starfighter in the intro?!?
How about the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer?
I thought that it was Mach speed Mach 20 is 687,00 miles per hour and in space that's a good speed
thinking you should do a teaser for the spaceballs camper for April 1st.
Oh we have another April 1st idea.
+Trekyards :)
Are you going to do a revised scale of the Deadalus class ships since you found the Prometheus to be larger since they are comparable size? cuz that Deadalus looks small there.
Watching out of order here.
Also wasn't the reason the digital conveyor inverted and sploded the pig lizard because he had to relearn how to use it because they programmed the controls off the hand gestures he made while filming the show?
I wonder how you guys would grade a Salamis or Pegasus Class ship from Gundam. Granted, it runs on very different technology.
I wouldn't mind seeing Babylon 5's White Star
for fleetyards how about Crypto's Saucer from the Destroy all Humans series of games.
*pretend gasp* I didn't know about the N.T.E. registry! (see Mon Capitan, I kept my word. 😉)
the funniest thing is. N.T.E. stands for Not The Enterprise.
But did it have a pub?
and the Daedalus will clear the field..
I can't remember if this ship has weapons or was it a purely explorer ? *haven't seen the movie in a long time*
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Can you do episode about Normandy from Mass Effect
Next one, Battlestar Galactica----TOS
+federico estrella Next one X303 then Pegasus from BSG (2004) But after that maybe! Support us on Patreon to see more episodes made! www.patreon.com/Trekyards?ty=h
Abrams Star Trek looked more like Galaxy Quest than actual Star Trek lol
Ok, there are a few things related to the movie that i wanted to point out. First off, this whole "Mak'Tar Massacre" thing isn't official/canon, ok? The only mention i found was in a earlier draft of the script that didn't make it to the final cut. Second, i have seen the movie and right at the beginning of the movie (after the Protector appears) Laredo/Tommy says that the ship left something called a "Time Knot", and then, a few seconds later, multiple enemy ships leave the "Time Knots" to attack the Protector. Could the ship have a FTL drive that created "Time Knots" to achieve superluminal speeds? Plus, these facts have been ignored/overlooked by you two at Trekyards!
P.S. I think that the Protector has 2 FTL drives, with the Primary Drive being the "Time Knot Drive" (mentioned in the comment above) and the Turbo Jump Drive being the Secondary/Backup Drive.
P.P.S. I believe that Dr. Lazarus's species is in the same situation as Vulcans and Romulans. This is due to Dr. Lazarus being a counterpart to Spock (a Vulcan) The script i mentioned is here: sfy.ru/?script=galaxy_quest
whoa whoa whoa, the Halo Friget is not that big. You can actually walk around on top of one in Halo 2, and under one in Halo 3
I'm pretty sure you're thinking of the Paris Class Frigate, not the Charon Class I'm not sure if the Charon Class is ever shown in Halo, Halo 2 or Halo 3. I'm pretty sure it's a Extra Canon/Fanon ship, but hey I could be wrong. There's another Halo Frigate class called the Stalwart but I don't know how big that one is. The UNSC has a lot of Frigate class ships.
Do a Gorn starship review please.
A Gorn ship would be featured on Trekyards. Not Fleetyards. And yes of course we will do Gorn ships down the road. Absolutely.
awesome thanks :)
While are you talking like the pods are ship technology, when it's clearly the ALIENS'!!
How big is Andromeda?
+Robert Hayes Big! ^.^ Its on our short list of Fleetyard episodes!
It always looked big to me. Maybe not Red Dwarf big but big.
+power543 "short list"... a little joke here Commander? ;)
+power543 Don't forget the Siege Perilous class when you're at it XD
Th0ughtf0rce Balance of Judgment!