BRAVO!

Bravo!

Why do you pronounce the dates like that? Is this yet more AI drek?

The Andorians had such a huge influence on the creation of Starfleet, yet they hardly ever mentioned in TNG or DS-9. Then maybe only once or twice in the original series.

The Dominion turned resource poor Cardassian space into the largest concentrated Industrial Base in the quadrant. And the Cardassians inherited most of it.

The Invasion of Cardassia turned into Gowron's _Spanish Ulcer._ Like Napoleon, Gowron got mired in a war he couldn't win. It was a terrible idea to begin with for a number of reasons. One has to look at this from a military perspective in terms of how wars are actually fought: 1) Order of Battle, 2) Logistics, 3) Operational Realities. Whereas Star Trek fans see war as an extension of games like Bridge Commander, that is tactical dimension only, individual ship performance is the least important aspect of war. By the way that War ended, we can discern a lot: The sneak attack caught the Cardassians in a bad position, but the Klingon advance stopped, Gowron picked a war with the Feds, it became a war of attrition. Due to several reasons, mostly favoring them, over 18 months the Cardassians recovered to the point that by the point Dukat returned with the first wave of Dominion ships, no more than 85, the Cardassians had planned, supported and were ready for a major offensive and *routed a large Klingon expeditionary force in less than 78 hours.* The Klingons had little hope for victory unless the were able to decapitate Cardassia right off the bat. Firstly, Klingon space is at the closest 80 light years from Cardassia, and through now hostile Federation territory, forcing their ships to either run the Starfleet gauntlet or take lengthy detours. Planning is not a Klingon strong-suit and neither is logistics and is not difficult to imagine that their support system was in shambles and unable to supply such a large force so far from home. Secondly, once Gowron attacked the Federation his goose was cooked. Undoubtedly he had to either deprive his forces in Cardassia of the replacements they needed, or even draw off forces. The relative stalemate during the rest of their War indicates that any advantages in concentration and numbers they had in the first days dissipated. Even at their low point, the Cardassians were using superior tactics and a Fabian strategy to wear down Klingon forces as mentioned in the episode *Soldiers of the Empire.* Aside from numbers, Klingon ships are not any more advanced than the Cardassians. BoPs are old, and Vorchas are thin on the ground. Cardassians already know how to detect cloaked ships. Unless the Klingons have a large advantage in numbers, they won't have an edge. Meanwhile, clearly the Cardassian Fleet recovered and was building ships quickly. The first months of the Dominion War were fought mostly with ships the Cardassians already had and it was a lot. Finally, Operationally the Klingons were not enjoying many advantages. The Cardassians were fighting in their own space, benefitting from immediate support zones, immediate re-supply and reinforcement, and able to use their fortified systems as pivot points from which to maneuver. Fortified systems also allow for an economy of force when on the defense. Attrition set in and due to his war with the Federation Gowron couldn't maintain a superiority in numbers while the Cardassians were rebuilding and gaining strength. By the time Dukat arrived with the Dominion fleet, which only had around 85 ships, the Cardassians already had an edge in numbers over the Klingons. That Dukat was able to eject the Klingons after only a few days, with relatively few Dominion ships, indicates the Cardassians had done the intel prep, logistics support and marshaled superior numbers and were ready to launch a massive offensive before the Dominion came through the wormhole. The balance must have been tenuous for Dukat to so quickly and decisively defeat the Klingons only using 80 Dominion ships as a spearhead. The rest of the force was Cardassian.

Holy shit. Geetsly is doing a star trek channel?!?!?!?! SUBBED

cool vid

Yes I'm enjoying this series very much and all other of your videos.

🤔 it's not really just about temperature, the tholians need a super high pressure environment, like Venus, they need high pressures to keep their crystaline structure from cracking, it's the same way a low pressure vacuum will boil our blood and fluids

Could have made this video to 4 minutes. Kind of ranted about other stuff and did not even say when Betazed was freed from occupation. For shame. Do better.

Telepaths vs the Dominion. Still confuses me on how to this day.

Thanks, really nice wrap-up. Wish we'd gotten more about Dominion Betazed occupation on screen. E.g. Deanna or Lwaxana's perpective.

Im enjoying this series of video👍😊🤩😎

3:52 Chandrila exists in Star trek?

I wish Star Trek Insurrection would've been a Dominion War epic with Picard and his crew on the ground fighting to liberate Betazed, and the Enterprise battling Jem'Hadar ships in space.

After having been watching the series about the Dominion War for a while, I cannot helped but wondering that will the Star Trek's movies' trilogy will make movies about the Dominion War or not. And even if they can, should they make them?

Although there’s been some very good in depth Dominion War documentaries from other content creators like WW2 documentaries I enjoy them all . Keep it up.

I love these stories

Everyone here is wrong. The greatest threat to the Federation was those parasites from TNG: Conspiracy. They were so bad, they almost got the show cancelled. Close second place to those aliens who took Spock's Brain.

I love how u said “Kirk’s retirement” aka stuck in the nexus beloved to have perished 😢

Check out the Star Trek technical manual to the USS ENTERPRISE-D. It gives a very brief description of the “B”s history.

Fantastic work! Very informative. 😊

My only complaint about this channel is you're always showing the wrong pictures. 😂

Organic means carbon-based, so they're life forms, but non-organic

I know you based your video mostly on the memory alpha wiki page, but its too bad you didn't make any mention of the Star Trek Vanguard novel series information on the Tholians. Its really interesting as to how the Tholians were originally slaves that broke free of their masters, explaining some of their xeno behavior.

Why did you show a picture of the DS9 Defiant when mentioning the capture of the Constitution-class Defiant by the Tholians?

Brian Thompson would definitely be in Ferengi heaven if he was a Ferengi

Crew often claimed to have seen Kirk near deflector control. At first they think he’s another crew member working then they realize he’s wearing the rank of Captain before he vanishes.

You learn more in war than peace. Cause you have to. sad face emoji

Why do you keep saying were? As far as I know they aren't extinct in Cannon

I don't think it's canon, but I love the idea that they originated from outside our galaxy!!

The basis of his information came from some paramount source books but mostly from the Rihannsu series by Diane Duane and Morewood. Personally i found the material released by FASA to be better.

I liked how well the video was done. as for what else for the tholian? Id like to see better work on the sfx as they just look like they were out of avideo game than on set. One day. Technology advances and expensive detailed sfx gets cheaper every year.

É a parte mais mal explicada e idealista do mundo de star trek. Rodenberry nao entendia direito como funcionavam os princípios reais de uma economia e atribuiu ao sistema monetário a responsabilidade pela acumulacao, competição e escassez quando, em verdade, esta se dá por questões materiais e tecnológicas. O sistema monetário é apenas um meio de viabilizar as trocas, estas sao o objeto real da economia juntamente com o interesse e as necessidades dos agentes.

Also can't pronounce "wraith", calling it "wreeth" or "rath".

I know that voice. Cool cool.

Organic means very specifically carbon based, so Tholians are silicon based and decidedly NOT organic.

6:16 The Defiant was from the 23rd century (2268), not the 31st.

Talking a lot about the -A, with pictures all over the map! 🙄 But on the other hand, that building at 10:15 reminds me of the original hideout for the Power Rangers. 😂

One of the most interesting species in Star Trek. Excellent video.

The Tholian Assembly is 100% tired of your shit, all the time. It guides all their policy stances.

If they remembered a skirmish with the NX, that would explain why they got their hackles up when the Constitution Class Enterprise showed up, in the Original Series.

There is a series called starfleet battles that had a whole chapter on the tholians They apparently came from another galaxy they fully dominated untill a servent race they created to keep the other aliens at bay rebeled nearly wiping out the tholian race as a whole. Knowing they were on the edge of extinction most of their surviving members grabbed their homeworld and used subspace anomalies to reach our galaxy

So what did the Tholians eat and drink? Despite being silicon-based lifeforms, they needed to eat and drink as well. And of course, how did they sleep with such bodies?

This channel is fast becoming the best scifi channel both in content and production values. Excellent!

Boldly they rolled into the jaws of death into the mouth of hell road the six hundred

Would've been great to see more of this ship. Amd in some ways as much as i loved the A - now i kinda wish theyd flown around in the Excelsior in Trek 4 - 6 like the original idea - would've freshened the movies up with a new ship and a new name...love the Excelsior class - looks tough and different.

A literal Deus Ex Machina

I want revenge