My personal headcanon for why Dominion Battle Cruisers and Battleships looks less like an insect when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter is because the Jem'hadar fighter was the Dominion navy's primary tool for "keeping the peace" in their empire. Thus the Jem'hadar fighter was built just as much to intimidate as it was to be efficient, and the insect like appearance was meant to evoke the same fear and dread as seeing an unstoppable swarm of killer insects. It's conveys a sense of "You cannot stop us, for we are infinite and relentless. Rebel against us and we will lay waste to all you hold dear" to the Dominion's subject worlds. A visual design that helps furthers the Dominion's policy of "Order through fear." The battle cruiser and the battleship meanwhile is for when the Dominion is facing an enemy that needs more serious muscle. And thus the Dominion springs for simple and brutal efficiency rather aesthetic meant to intimidate. The Jem'hedar fighter still provides the needed intimidation factor, of course. But the BS and BC are for when the Dominion is ready to take off their kid gloves and get serious. Thus why when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter they have a slightly more utilitarian design. These are not Dominion "peacekeeping" ships. These are purely warships by design. Again though, that's just my personal headcanon.
Hey, it may be your head cannon, but it is well thought out and logical. It works for me, so if you dont mind, im gonna take your input and run with it, lol
@@hfar_in_the_sky thanks. Your reasoning will play really nice in my Star Trek RPG my and my friends are currently running. I'm not the greatest GM, and you just helped a lot, lol
I completely agree, once you encounter a species advanced or large enough that "many scary ships with fancy tech" no longer works as an intimidation tactic of 'gunboat diplomacy' there is no need to pretend anymore, and simple intimidation of "fuck that's a big heavily armed battlecruiser" is enough dread to any advanced species.
I really appreciate you doing these videos on various Star Trek ships. it's tough to find to find alpha cannon information about these ships and the wiki sites and tech manuals are not always forthcoming. Since you are doing videoes on Dominion ships, please do some on the Breen and Cardassian ships as well. Thanks.
I have been very impressed by this warship since it first appeared! In fact, it's my absolute favorite ship in the Star Trek franchise. In DS9 you didn't even see it drifting or in a defeated state.
That is true. You do tend to not see these getting destroyed as much as the Fighters and the Cardassian ships. I figured the Dominion was using the tried-and-true method of using the Cardassians as frontline cannon fodder.
Give me the vibes of ISD from Star wars, they are designed to work singularly or in small groups to occupy systems distant from support groups. It's a smart design
To be fair, a battle cruiser and a battleship are completely different things. And generally the battleship is bigger. Now we can start every Navy historian trying to explain exactly what a battle cruiser is.😂
And then they'll say in the end : Depending on the navy a battlecruiser might be a battleship and a battleship might be a battlecruiser but in science fiction the biggest ships are iron clad era ship naming conventions such as the almighty dreadnaught.
I thought generally battle cruisers were the same sort of size as a battleship and had similar armament but traded armour for speed, their theoretical role being they could chase down and destroy smaller ships like cruisers that could outrun a battleship. In practice they sometimes ended up in the same role as a battleship and did poorly as they couldn't go toe to toe with enemy battleships.
It is my personal headcanon that Shinzon captured one of these in the war & used it as the frame for the Scimitar. It definitely makes more sense that the Remans building an entire dreadnought from scratch.
Up to this day, i have a hard time believing how little on-screen presence we got from these ships, or seen them in direct action. And they just happened to be my favorite Dominion ship!!!
I really wish with the Dominion ship designs we got something different and more interesting. Instead of yet another derivative of the basic Klingon bird of prey body and wing layout. I always thought it would’ve been cool if they were less elegant and swooping and more brutalist and monolithic. To better reflect how ancient the Dominion is as well as their repressive caste system hierarchy. Visually similar to something out of a Denis Villeneuve film.
I didn't watch much DS9 when I was a kid, just whenever Dad had it on. Therefore, I was unfamiliar with The Dominion when I began to collect and play Star Trek Attack Wing as a member of a strategy gaming club. While I primarily played Romulan, I did collect some Federation, Klingon, and Dominion ships. My Jem'Hadar Fighters, Battlecruisers, and Battleships proved to be rather formidable adversaries for my clubmates. I love the design of these ships, they really scream out 'warship', which was part of the reason I preferred Attack Wing to X-Wing despite being a bigger Star Wars fan than Trekkie. There's just something about capital ship engagements that excites me more than dogfighting.
Star Trek Online has delved a bit into making a few updated Dominion designs that can be kitbashed with the canon models. I believe the Attack Ship and Dreadnought (aka battleship) are the two primary with customization options. The Battle Cruiser is in game as well and playable, but far as I know no customization options.
No ships that are designed to get into fights should have windows. You won't see anything even in a fight it's too far away and it's a big structural weakness. I guess in Trek it's all shields and integrity fields and if those go the ship designers figure you are dead anyway, except for the Defiant
Big fan of you, Rick, as well as Lt. Cmr. Adam and Venom Geek. 3 different styles of storytelling and all with your own interpretations of the lore. But always entertaining. Keep up the good work.
I have one of these in STO, I use it as a mass bombardment weapon. Not particularly maneuverable, but I line up all of the heaviest weapons I could get on it's forward mounts to aim at the target. That many energy weapons rapid firing is usually enough to severely weaken shields and then I unleash tons of Console mounted torpedoes/ordnance all at once. Typically rips Borg Cubes apart in short order.
i personally suspect that the visual differences within the class are due to how the dominion builds its stuff. we know that members like the karemma get contracts to build the weapons and ships of the dominion, and i suspect that there are 2-3 other groups within the Dominion that also do such things, given the Karemma represenative that talks about the contracts refers to them having won the bidding to fulfill them. so i'd guess that the different visual sub-versions represent ships built at different member world shipyards. all working off mostly the same plan and specs, but each with slight differences to accommodate the construction techniques and manufacturing of each member world involved.
The "Jem'Hadar Light Battlecruiser" is sadly only a luckbox ship in STO, I am using it on one character only (Eris, a Vorta FED TAC female). I hope it will go Legendary some day, ideally with the Keldon / Galor and the Leg'var in a bundle this year.
Apparently, it DOES ferry "dignitaries", but it seems it would have to be the very highest level of dignitaries (like an actual FOUNDER) to merit THIS vessel as its means of conveyance! I do like the harsher, sharper & more angular style of this ship. It does convey a more "aggressive" mindset. (Somewhat similar to Klingons, but , but unlike the Federation with its more rounded styling.)
Your channel is so much better than Trek yards.Your channel along with Vemom Geek Media and TriAng are my favorites. I'm not very fond of Lore Reloaded either.
I think the bigger the ship, the easier it would be to repair in the field. Since seemingly all star trek races have fusion power and all they need is the most abundant resource in the universe to power it, and replicators, it would be easy to replicate materials to repair ships. Voyager should have looked like galactica with damage from every battle accumulating over time but it was repaired repeatedly. A smaller ship with a smaller crew like a bird of prey, defiant, or jem hadsr attack ship would seem to be more difficult to repair while deployed because of the lack of personnel, and lack of space to move people to while sections of the ship are inoperable.
I think that Star Trek does a great job creating designs and design languages for the major powers. Although I don't Play STO, it is a great source for other designs. There are great designs from other games and Fan art too. The Jem-Hadar ships have blade-like qualities.
I wonder, did the Dominion use some form of stasis when transporting their troops on these ships? It seems to me that it would be a great way to preserve their supply of white, until the troops are ready to begin landing.
This looks cool but somehow lacks character. The Dominion ship with the insect abdomen-like back section looks way more distinctive. As for naming conventions - maybe the Founders just have no imagination. :)
One of my few complaints with DS9 is how it simplified starship combat, and that simplification (along with executive bullshit that I won't blame DS9 for) meaning that we never got a lore-accurate slugfest between a Battlecruiser and a Galaxy, or even better a Battlecruiser (or Battleship) and a Sovereign.
1:33 What a great idea to store your antimater on exposed pods on the tips of your wings. Very smart. The realities of that would be a torpedo, plasma, or phaser fire on an ANTIMATER STORAGE TANK to be inherently DANGEROUS! *insert eye roll here*
Id go with the tanks being stored internally, with mis/dis information pertaining to them being on the wingtips for inaccurate targeting purposes. Perhaps those areas being equipt with energy dampners allowing them to soak up enemy fire... Ill go w/ that. They did get wrong targeting on the "RED SQUAD" episode which goes with what i just said. I DEEM IT CANNON!
I agree what the Dominion call a fighter is just dumb, maybe thats a weird translation thing from Dominonese? Edit: any progress on the difference between horizontal and vertical warp drives?
What I don’t get is there must be more than one vorta on these kinds of ship? Are they the technicians engineers scientists? How many first are there as it seems units are groups of six or eight? Do the species they conquered serve in some capacity as can’t think they won’t when the provide weapons and technology?
The Dominion came really really close in defenting the federation if it wasn't for the worm hole alien's. The Dominion ship's to me were way cooler then the romulan warbirds like this ship right here.
Bare with me, but I think the Dominion ruined Trek. I think that people tuned in for the Dominion stuff more for the invested time and world building than the Dominion itself. So in that I think everything about the DS9 was great sci-fi writing but bat Trek writing. As a result you now have movie Trek as the standard which comes off as generic sci-fi but loses the audience that wanted for the boldly going of the series and alien to human complications therein.
Hmm, how would it fair against a Starfleet ship of the line from the Picard Series era? Say an Inquiry or Excelsior 2 class? Because the Dominion were pretty stagnant with their technology, they had existed for over 2000 years. You give Starfleet 2000 years and they're going to be building Tardises with the firepower of the Suncrusher.
Larger dominion ships always seemed rushed, lazy and low budget to me... and by that I mean the IRL designers obviously, not the Dominion 😂. They smack of Klingon Vorcha spliced with a few other classic spaceship with wings with warp engines on the tips... very dull and boring. Scale it up or down accordingly lazy sort of design.
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My personal headcanon for why Dominion Battle Cruisers and Battleships looks less like an insect when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter is because the Jem'hadar fighter was the Dominion navy's primary tool for "keeping the peace" in their empire. Thus the Jem'hadar fighter was built just as much to intimidate as it was to be efficient, and the insect like appearance was meant to evoke the same fear and dread as seeing an unstoppable swarm of killer insects. It's conveys a sense of "You cannot stop us, for we are infinite and relentless. Rebel against us and we will lay waste to all you hold dear" to the Dominion's subject worlds. A visual design that helps furthers the Dominion's policy of "Order through fear."
The battle cruiser and the battleship meanwhile is for when the Dominion is facing an enemy that needs more serious muscle. And thus the Dominion springs for simple and brutal efficiency rather aesthetic meant to intimidate. The Jem'hedar fighter still provides the needed intimidation factor, of course. But the BS and BC are for when the Dominion is ready to take off their kid gloves and get serious. Thus why when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter they have a slightly more utilitarian design. These are not Dominion "peacekeeping" ships. These are purely warships by design.
Again though, that's just my personal headcanon.
Hey, it may be your head cannon, but it is well thought out and logical. It works for me, so if you dont mind, im gonna take your input and run with it, lol
@@bull614 lol! Go for it! 👍
@@hfar_in_the_sky thanks. Your reasoning will play really nice in my Star Trek RPG my and my friends are currently running. I'm not the greatest GM, and you just helped a lot, lol
I completely agree, once you encounter a species advanced or large enough that "many scary ships with fancy tech" no longer works as an intimidation tactic of 'gunboat diplomacy' there is no need to pretend anymore, and simple intimidation of "fuck that's a big heavily armed battlecruiser" is enough dread to any advanced species.
I really appreciate you doing these videos on various Star Trek ships. it's tough to find to find alpha cannon information about these ships and the wiki sites and tech manuals are not always forthcoming. Since you are doing videoes on Dominion ships, please do some on the Breen and Cardassian ships as well. Thanks.
I have been very impressed by this warship since it first appeared! In fact, it's my absolute favorite ship in the Star Trek franchise. In DS9 you didn't even see it drifting or in a defeated state.
That is true. You do tend to not see these getting destroyed as much as the Fighters and the Cardassian ships. I figured the Dominion was using the tried-and-true method of using the Cardassians as frontline cannon fodder.
I find that ship SO GRACEFUL and Beautiful!
"Does it come with a coffee machine?" - Janeway
can it run crysis
No. Jem Hadar don't drink coffee and neither do Vorta or Founders.
No. It cannot run Crysis.
“Only weaklings require coffee. 😤”
_Quietly hides Ketracyl White behind back._
It'll be installed Wednesday
"There's coffee in that nebula!" - Capitan Insanway.... Probably
Nice shout-out for Venomgeek media.
Give me the vibes of ISD from Star wars, they are designed to work singularly or in small groups to occupy systems distant from support groups. It's a smart design
To be fair, a battle cruiser and a battleship are completely different things. And generally the battleship is bigger. Now we can start every Navy historian trying to explain exactly what a battle cruiser is.😂
And then they'll say in the end : Depending on the navy a battlecruiser might be a battleship and a battleship might be a battlecruiser but in science fiction the biggest ships are iron clad era ship naming conventions such as the almighty dreadnaught.
I know the differences, but battle cruiser just sounds cooler.
@@Bob6800a True that is why the biggest starship in star wars is a simple destroyer.
Imperial Star Destroyer.
I thought generally battle cruisers were the same sort of size as a battleship and had similar armament but traded armour for speed, their theoretical role being they could chase down and destroy smaller ships like cruisers that could outrun a battleship.
In practice they sometimes ended up in the same role as a battleship and did poorly as they couldn't go toe to toe with enemy battleships.
@@101Mant Ah yes the italian navy reports in.
How timely! I just got done watching the retaking of DS9 from the Dominion!
It is my personal headcanon that Shinzon captured one of these in the war & used it as the frame for the Scimitar.
It definitely makes more sense that the Remans building an entire dreadnought from scratch.
Up to this day, i have a hard time believing how little on-screen presence we got from these ships, or seen them in direct action. And they just happened to be my favorite Dominion ship!!!
I really wish with the Dominion ship designs we got something different and more interesting. Instead of yet another derivative of the basic Klingon bird of prey body and wing layout. I always thought it would’ve been cool if they were less elegant and swooping and more brutalist and monolithic. To better reflect how ancient the Dominion is as well as their repressive caste system hierarchy. Visually similar to something out of a Denis Villeneuve film.
Please do a video on the Jem'Hadar Battleship if possible! That girl is a BEAST and I loved her debut in DS9. 😆😁
I didn't watch much DS9 when I was a kid, just whenever Dad had it on. Therefore, I was unfamiliar with The Dominion when I began to collect and play Star Trek Attack Wing as a member of a strategy gaming club. While I primarily played Romulan, I did collect some Federation, Klingon, and Dominion ships. My Jem'Hadar Fighters, Battlecruisers, and Battleships proved to be rather formidable adversaries for my clubmates. I love the design of these ships, they really scream out 'warship', which was part of the reason I preferred Attack Wing to X-Wing despite being a bigger Star Wars fan than Trekkie. There's just something about capital ship engagements that excites me more than dogfighting.
I would really like to see a modern design take on the Dominion. What would their ships look like if they returned ?
Star Trek Online has delved a bit into making a few updated Dominion designs that can be kitbashed with the canon models. I believe the Attack Ship and Dreadnought (aka battleship) are the two primary with customization options. The Battle Cruiser is in game as well and playable, but far as I know no customization options.
@@chrisjohnson1146 Many STO designs are hideous though. ENT-F for example.
I still don't get why dominion ships need a Carnival Cruise amount of windows.
Makes up for the lack of view screen on the bridge
It's so the Jem'hadar can lean out and shoot their rifles at starships.
More windows so prisoners can look out and see their planets being bombarded.
No ships that are designed to get into fights should have windows. You won't see anything even in a fight it's too far away and it's a big structural weakness.
I guess in Trek it's all shields and integrity fields and if those go the ship designers figure you are dead anyway, except for the Defiant
@@101Mant Not like the windows are glass anyways, it's a transparent metal so it's as strong as the hull.
I’ve always wanted to see this ship in battle. I’d love to see it go up against a Galaxy or Sovereign!
Too bad we can't easily do duels in _STO_ . Well, there's another game that does vs, but I forget what it's called.
Big fan of you, Rick, as well as Lt. Cmr. Adam and Venom Geek. 3 different styles of storytelling and all with your own interpretations of the lore. But always entertaining. Keep up the good work.
Axiliary warpcores as it is a warship and needs to operate selfsuficiently
Battlecruiser and Battleship are pretty distinct terms. Anyone that has treated them as the same in real life has had a bad time.
Many doesn't live long enough to regret it, however.
That the Dominion to this day does not want to share technical data and design origins with SF is so rude!
Great video! When you're watching DS9 it is a little hard to quickly tell the war cruiser and war ship apart 😆
I have one of these in STO, I use it as a mass bombardment weapon. Not particularly maneuverable, but I line up all of the heaviest weapons I could get on it's forward mounts to aim at the target. That many energy weapons rapid firing is usually enough to severely weaken shields and then I unleash tons of Console mounted torpedoes/ordnance all at once. Typically rips Borg Cubes apart in short order.
How can you not see the inspiration? The moment you said that it jumped out at me. The design language, the flow of the lines is identical.
One of the most beautiful ships next to a borg cube
I wonder if this ship gave some inspiration for the design of the Scimitar
We really needed more combat with these guys. Most combat was fleet style or bugs not 1v1 or regular ship to ship with these guys
Right off the bat, a vessel drifting among the yellow and blue cosmos.
In some ways it also reminds me of the Reman Schimitar ship as well.
I do love this channel's fake UI elements. Reflavouring them for each civ you cover is so cool.
This ship is *my* favourite ship design across all of Star Trek, the Dominion Battleship (I don't mistake the two) comes in second.
i personally suspect that the visual differences within the class are due to how the dominion builds its stuff. we know that members like the karemma get contracts to build the weapons and ships of the dominion, and i suspect that there are 2-3 other groups within the Dominion that also do such things, given the Karemma represenative that talks about the contracts refers to them having won the bidding to fulfill them. so i'd guess that the different visual sub-versions represent ships built at different member world shipyards. all working off mostly the same plan and specs, but each with slight differences to accommodate the construction techniques and manufacturing of each member world involved.
That is a gorgeous ship.
Hey Rick did you ever do an explained video about those odd aliens that the Packleds were poisoning. In the Voyager ep. The Void? 😅 Just wondering.
These are the Star Destroyers of the Dominion.
The "Jem'Hadar Light Battlecruiser" is sadly only a luckbox ship in STO, I am using it on one character only (Eris, a Vorta FED TAC female). I hope it will go Legendary some day, ideally with the Keldon / Galor and the Leg'var in a bundle this year.
Not enough food for your population? Then adjust the population level for the amount of available food. AKA the Thanos solution.
Apparently, it DOES ferry "dignitaries", but it seems it would have to be the very highest level of dignitaries (like an actual FOUNDER) to merit THIS vessel as its means of conveyance!
I do like the harsher, sharper & more angular style of this ship. It does convey a more "aggressive" mindset. (Somewhat similar to Klingons, but , but unlike the Federation with its more rounded styling.)
Your channel is so much better than Trek yards.Your channel along with Vemom Geek Media and TriAng are my favorites. I'm not very fond of Lore Reloaded either.
What is triang?
But how many chairs are on board?
I think its one per view-screen.
@@afoolandhismoneychannel 1 per window, so each Jem’Hadar can be inspired to write fan fic about dying for the founders.
Chairs aside does it come with a free gift from Temu...
I think the bigger the ship, the easier it would be to repair in the field. Since seemingly all star trek races have fusion power and all they need is the most abundant resource in the universe to power it, and replicators, it would be easy to replicate materials to repair ships. Voyager should have looked like galactica with damage from every battle accumulating over time but it was repaired repeatedly. A smaller ship with a smaller crew like a bird of prey, defiant, or jem hadsr attack ship would seem to be more difficult to repair while deployed because of the lack of personnel, and lack of space to move people to while sections of the ship are inoperable.
Trek Central May of gotten it out sooner But I prefer this channel ;) even if your a disco fan Xp
I think that Star Trek does a great job creating designs and design languages for the major powers. Although I don't Play STO, it is a great source for other designs. There are great designs from other games and Fan art too. The Jem-Hadar ships have blade-like qualities.
Honestly my favorite Star Trek ship design
Obedience means victory.
And victory IS LIFE
I see they put windows on there though, unlike the smaller attack ship which could only use the headset to see outside.
Please do an episode on The kar'takinof the Jem'Hadar, & The Klingon Bat'leth. 🙏
It started out with pointed down wings, but they became more horizontal.
It might have been a later model A-4 with the Avionics failings on the back above the wings.
Why the fuck was I unsubscribed from this channel?! I never did that, I just had to re-subscribe. I haven't seen a video from you for MONTHS!!
I wonder, did the Dominion use some form of stasis when transporting their troops on these ships? It seems to me that it would be a great way to preserve their supply of white, until the troops are ready to begin landing.
The fact we never got Star Trek Armada 3 with the Dominion as a playable faction still disappoints me.
I really do like this ship.
This looks cool but somehow lacks character. The Dominion ship with the insect abdomen-like back section looks way more distinctive. As for naming conventions - maybe the Founders just have no imagination. :)
Any chance of covering the D'kora class Ferengi Marauder?
One of my few complaints with DS9 is how it simplified starship combat, and that simplification (along with executive bullshit that I won't blame DS9 for) meaning that we never got a lore-accurate slugfest between a Battlecruiser and a Galaxy, or even better a Battlecruiser (or Battleship) and a Sovereign.
The Control Borg Next?
1:33 What a great idea to store your antimater on exposed pods on the tips of your wings. Very smart. The realities of that would be a torpedo, plasma, or phaser fire on an ANTIMATER STORAGE TANK to be inherently DANGEROUS! *insert eye roll here*
Id go with the tanks being stored internally, with mis/dis information pertaining to them being on the wingtips for inaccurate targeting purposes. Perhaps those areas being equipt with energy dampners allowing them to soak up enemy fire... Ill go w/ that. They did get wrong targeting on the "RED SQUAD" episode which goes with what i just said. I DEEM IT CANNON!
Even the Vorta serves the Founders
The Dominion battle cruiser could be a 4 nacelle ship aswell
So it's basically a stardestroyer
Also I don't think you see the Skyhawk because you'd have to turn it upside down to see it.
So these beauties are the Dominion version of an Imperial Star Destroyer.
Why do they need 2000 if you're not counting troops?
I agree what the Dominion call a fighter is just dumb, maybe thats a weird translation thing from Dominonese?
Edit: any progress on the difference between horizontal and vertical warp drives?
How do you complain about the existence of both a battle cruiser and battleship? This are actual classifications of ships.
Many who confuses the two rarely ever live long enough to regret it.
What I don’t get is there must be more than one vorta on these kinds of ship? Are they the technicians engineers scientists? How many first are there as it seems units are groups of six or eight? Do the species they conquered serve in some capacity as can’t think they won’t when the provide weapons and technology?
Not too sure how well a salt ship can take shots.
Hi Rick 👋
The ship was also called a battleship in DS9 season 5
dominion does not have replicators?
O'Brien does it have a Bar 🍺🍺
I do like the fact that I feel like I am listening to national geographic for ships...
I don't know why but Dominion ships scream Egyptian style to me.
StarGate Lite
🖖
To be fair, isn't that ship a battleship in STO?
And the battleship itself is now a dreadnought?
Always thought the top of the ship looks like a fairy cake.
Some people are too dumb for the own good. There is no way anyone could confuse this ship with the Dominion Battleship.
SPACE!!!
The Dominion came really really close in defenting the federation if it wasn't for the worm hole alien's. The Dominion ship's to me were way cooler then the romulan warbirds like this ship right here.
The most dominion ship of all time.
My ST:O daily driver. Big beams and fighters. Turns like a Newsstand. Don't care.
Straight away, an American airplane.
It looks to much like a Klingon ship
Jem'hadar fighter springs to mind....
vanguard dreadnought and carrier comes to mind...
sup
Bare with me, but I think the Dominion ruined Trek.
I think that people tuned in for the Dominion stuff more for the invested time and world building than the Dominion itself. So in that I think everything about the DS9 was great sci-fi writing but bat Trek writing. As a result you now have movie Trek as the standard which comes off as generic sci-fi but loses the audience that wanted for the boldly going of the series and alien to human complications therein.
Hmm, how would it fair against a Starfleet ship of the line from the Picard Series era?
Say an Inquiry or Excelsior 2 class?
Because the Dominion were pretty stagnant with their technology, they had existed for over 2000 years. You give Starfleet 2000 years and they're going to be building Tardises with the firepower of the Suncrusher.
Larger dominion ships always seemed rushed, lazy and low budget to me... and by that I mean the IRL designers obviously, not the Dominion 😂.
They smack of Klingon Vorcha spliced with a few other classic spaceship with wings with warp engines on the tips... very dull and boring. Scale it up or down accordingly lazy sort of design.
So at this point you're just an STO ad. Copy that. It was a nice run.
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He just uses a lot of material from STO since they have a LOT of material he can use for videos. If STO doesn't have it, he'd find another source.
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