Star Trek: Anti-Borg Starfleet Ships - Spacedock Short

[@Spacedock]

Hey everyone, Daniel here. Hope you enjoy this short. - Be sure to throw Alasdair some kudos for his first voice-over today, I was nowhere near this good in my first video lol, in that X-Wing vid I sound like i'm at the bottom of a well - gonna need to re-do it some day.

[@hawkstringfellow]

Spacedock love the briefings facts no opinion love it

[@tuscan9617]

What if your not Daniel and an imposter? Prove to us you're the real Daniel!

[@Revan41411]

Please do a video about the dreadnought class ship the one that basically the galaxy class but bigger and has an extra thing coming out the back she my favourite ship and every Star Trek game that has it I get as soon as possible so I would love to learn more about it

[@maikbarry9815]

what about the aegian class?

[@neoblackwolf69]

Spacedock none playable on star trek online?

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

Can you imagine being a small alien civilisation and listening to the Federation's designers? "We don't build warships. That would be wrong. Anyway, this is a Runabout, it's basically a taxi. It is warp capable, has shields, 4 phaser arrays, and fires photon torpedoes. We let cadets fly these things on their own".

[@rehdit2306]

When you realize how many dangers there are in StarTrek, it seems a just about right to arm your ships.

[@allennelson1987]

Japanese Constitution, Article 9, section 2: "In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as another war potential, will never be maintained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized."

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

@@rehdit2306 no, what I mean is that every Federation ship IS a warship. The UFP going around claiming they don't build warships is clearly nonsense, nothing more than a play on words.

[@rehdit2306]

, I agree with you. You can practically see the influence the Borg and the Dominion had on them. I don’t think that’s the case with all their ships and not all aliens might be too weak to oppose them, considering Voyager had to drudge through sectors with aliens that had several times their own firepower. That and until the Dominion War, Starfleet had a habit of reusing century old ships to supplement their fleet. All in all, power is relative and compared to the other major powers, they were behind by a huge margin. Starfleet is not only just some exploratory organization, they’re literally all the the Federation has for a navy and its about time they realized it, which they did as shown in the video.

[@pavarottiaardvark3431]

@@rehdit2306 I get your point, but the Xindi remark that they are surprised that Enterprise counts as an exploration vessel. And UFP science and exploration vessel frequently crush warships from Warrior Cultures

[@CCJJ160Channels]

Borg: “We will adapt.” Starfleet: ‘So will we.’

[@KaiEmblem]

Still the anti borg ships got slaughtered during the First Contact movie. Only with the interference of the sovereign class and the special ability of picard, were they able to defeat the cube. They shouldve used future voyagers weapons and armour technology to develop better warships.

[@rcschmidt668]

Some say the Borg left humanity to continue to develop advancements as the Borg could only assimilate. Could be?

[@robertfarrell4972]

@@KaiEmblem voyager was in the delta quadrant for 4 more than after first contact so they couldn’t

[@shdwfx40001]

Miranda Class: Am I joke to you? Borg:...affirmative. *fires*

[@Julian_Pepper]

@@KaiEmblem I don't think Voyager was back yet though.

[@Michaeljack81sk]

Man, when the Federation finally started making Warships they didn't mess around!

[@Yeager123123]

Michaeljack fact

[@Justaoldspacemarine]

They know what they need to do lol

[@curseofgladstone4981]

Mini Nubs when the entire federation is at risk they can no longer afford to play nice. The Enterprise E for instance has 16 mark 12 phaser. Those were previpusly only fitted on space stations because of power requirements. They took multiple attempts at designing a warp core that was powerful enough to run it and even then its debated whether its warp speed is limited to warp 8 because of this. It has ablative armour and a dedicated quantum torpedo launcher. It was only outmatched by the scimitar which from what im aware was build by the slave remans for the romulans as a super ship before it was stolen by the remans. It was likely extremely expensive to make however and could probobly only power itself because of the theyleron power supply which was likely rediculously hard to get.

[@1320crusier]

The Federation is basically Sgt Alvin York.

[@jimtilley1158]

Quark: Let me tell you something about Hew-mons, Nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people, as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working. But take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people... will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.

[@mr5yy]

The Akira and Sovereign classes are gorgeous. I love how they managed to keep their peace time look while being able to pack a punch.

[@D4RKBRU73]

1:08 "...to eliminate structural weaknesses." - *Puts the nacelles on side-arms thinner than a straw with an inbuild predetermined breakingpoint that snaps by just looking at it* Yeah, right...............

[@Navigator87110]

They don't need any viewports. They can can use sensor data to feed holo-displays on the inside of the ship.

[@miles2378]

I have bee wondering about that since i first watched first contact.

[@toastedjawa3620]

@@Navigator87110 they were commenting on the weak nacelle pylons...

[@99bulldog]

My god that Akira class heavy cruiser is absolutely beautiful. Imho it's one of the best looking ships I've seen in any sci-fi universe.

[@nick5661]

I wish we would see a series based on one it’s a wonderful class ship.

[@Oyamada13]

I also love the Akira class. Not only due to the sleek design but also the weapon complement. :D

[@tomastomasi975]

Love it too. 15 torpedo tubes! Depending on torpedo class, your talking nearly a gigaton worth of damage, if they all hit.

[@Sorestlor]

Well Considering each tube could toss out a photon torpedo 6 times more powerful than is required to blow up a small planet that ship has alot of power.

[@joshuaplotkin8826]

99bulldog they got blown up a lot during the Dominion war. a lot.

[@johnmichaelarnaud]

I'd love it if Trek would stop going back into the past long enough to explore some of these cutting-edge designs. Enough backtracking!

[@racer927]

Agreed. I wanna see more post-First Contact works because I have nostalgia with the Activision games set in that era.

[@jameslyddall]

John Michael Arnaud agree Id love the series to explore that era of norway, steamrunner class ships" Really cool and you could so much with them as well.

[@casbot71]

Well now we will, with the new *Picard series* set after the destruction of Romulus. J. J's plot device is now _canon on that happening in the prime universe,_ but at least the rest of his stuff is in a separate timeline [unlike the new Star Wars trilogy…]. With Patrick Stewart involved hopefully it'll be good (he would be concerned about the fans) and the destruction of Romulus is a interesting plot idea as it throws the entire Alpha quadrant balance on its head. My wish is for it to completely ignore _Star Trek Online,_ including its ship designs that are mostly derivative, jazzed up versions of old ships. Instead use the new *paradigm* of blended nacelles into primary hulls, internal bridges, and basically tougher more pragmatic ships that the Defiant spearheaded. And have as a major plot point Starfleet getting the right to use cloaking technology (Admiral Pressman was right…Pegasus) and shenanigans by *Section 31.* Starfleet Cloaking could finally shut up the Wookie fundamentalists in versus match ups.

[@fleetadmiraldiaz3588]

STO is the epitome of fanservice while also expertly tying up all sorts of loose ends from every era of Trek. The only reason it is likely to be ignored is because CBS likes keeping their licensed works distinct from what's currently airing or may air in the future. Even the Discovery crap they just had to slap on there goes into background or ancilliary material rather than outright blending it into the ongoing episode structure. That being said, the material apart from Discovery has mostly been excellent, especially "Victory is Life" as a continuation of the DS9 story. As to ship designs simply being "jazzed up" or derivative, that's quite a load of bull. The sheer diversity of ship designs and variants is staggering. Naturally they are going to be reminiscent of older vessels, or they would hardly be recognizable. Picard looks as if it's going to be a Firefly/Renegades knockoff where its title character is relegated to backseat driving a crew of scrappy young rogues on some mission that centers around yet another "bestest most important chick EVAR" type character. If it turns out not to be, then I'll be happy to be proven wrong. But given the so-called entertainment industry's obsession with this sort of dynamic, I don't think I am.

[@justinthompson6364]

@@casbot71 "Wookie fundamentalists"... do you mean Star Wars fans? Do people actually believe SW ships can actually take on Trek vessels?

[@michaellewis1545]

Would some please make a show with these ships in it. I want a Star Trek show set after DS9

[@beep5514]

So much yes.

[@Thatslifebro_]

With the direction Star Trek is going right now that looks increasingly impossible.

[@SPACETVnet]

Watch Babylon 5 instead.

[@michaellewis1545]

SPACETV I do watch B5. I also want a post DS9 Startreck.

[@Distress.]

At this rate we'e going to be back on Earth fighting World War 3.

[@Thatslifebro_]

You did a good job for your first time doing voiceover.

[@ThePandorads9]

This is one of the best dominion area ships vids ever, very clear and concise and not full of pointless natter, great work

[@Leadcolt]

"We are the Borg. Your biological and technological distinctiveness will be added to our own. Your voice overs will be added to our own. Resistance is futile."

Starfleet: "Nuts."

[@professormccoyspopculturer8345]

This is Captain Jonathan Henry McCoy of the U.S.S. Phantom.... We don't know surrender, for we have yet begun to fight... Mr Collins give these bastards taste of our torpedoes... Ms Stonewall inform the fleet that the phantom has engage the borg... all ships to the Vegas 349

[@ellisdmenace4387]

Assimilate this!

[@tomwright7308]

@ Is that not what that one general said in ww2

[@PoliticoCA]

"That'll be the day!"

[@MrPeanut624]

Imagine the crew's thoughts on being selected to serve on an anti-borg ship. They'd definitely have motivation to do their absolute best.

[@TheTheDarkWolf86]

WorldsWithin Their resistance to doing their best would be futile....

[@charlesf6247]

Captain worf in command watch out oh wait he nearly destroyed the defiant

[@tylermills79]

I could see the reaction...I’ve been assigned to the uss essess steamrunner class...looks around realizing the entire crew is red shirts.. raises fist “dam my recruiter”!!!

[@JFrazer4303]

Nobody would ever surrender or stop fighting. Every ship needs an old-fashioned nuke that's not connected t any network, with a person sitting next to it ready to fire it by hand. The borg take your ship, you destroy their cube.

[@The_Viscount]

The militarization if starlet in response to the Borg and Dominion is fascinating to me. It's also very sad as it feels like the beginnings of a potential slide for the UFP like the fall of the Roman Republic and the rise of the Roman Empire.

[@Agamembar]

some great ship designs, menacing enough to live up to their warship roles but don't completely abandon the Star fleet peace time styling, huge fan of the Sovereign and Akira class myself.

[@SonicHalo9107]

Most of my favorite Starfleet ships came from this bunch, especially the Akira as my most favorite of the bunch.

[@gerardmontgomery280]

It's what I loved about later seasons of DS9, The Federation being pushed and it's ideals tasted. I remember The Defiant being introduced for the first time. Escort vessel my arse, that's a frigate.

[@Debbiebabe69]

@@gerardmontgomery280 I remember when I got bored of DS9 and stopped watching it, was the early series where the Defiant was basically used as a runabout. Only years later when I eventually got round to watching the later series I realised how much bite that 'runabout' really had.....

[@SPACETVnet]

They need to make a Troy class ship, which is virtually useless but looks great and has a crystal-ball-style sensor array.

[@VincentVisee]

troi* but yeah you are right that would be sick

[@CaptPatrick01]

Funny story actually... Star Trek Online has a little thing called the "Horizon Class", just so you know.

[@andrewthorne3570]

And it keeps crashing into things :-)

[@00chla50]

And those sensors can't give any definite info half the time because reasons. Seriously, her ability to sense feelings only worked half the time throughout the whole show. xD

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

"I sense that the Romulans are lying captain." No shit Troi, Romulans never do that.

[@noahb-x6j]

This wave of ships really proved that manoeuvrability is the most important feature on a ship.

[@Greg_Rix]

They should have called it the 'resistance' rather than defiant :P Borg: "resistance is ... oh....'

[@nopenoperson9118]

I just have to say, I love the use of the Battlezone 2 "isdf_2" track's intro as your opening splash jingle. First time I heard it was an instant subscription.

[@prosyndication21]

Your voice suits this so well. I can picture you explaining just about any ship or engineering feat ^^

[@kathic6402]

I love this series of ships.

[@Skringly]

Wooh Alasdair. Well done on your first spacedock voice-over.

[@hallofo8107]

Nicely done! Normally i'd be critical of a new voice in one of my favorite channels, but you're very well suited for this.

[@WasNotWas999]

Another great spacedock short.. many thanks guys for supplying the information in such a technical and informative way..

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

Starfleet port-borg: Building a warship, even to fight the borg, makes us feel very uneasy. Starfleet post-Kurtzman: Here's an entire fleet of mass-produced battlecruisers for you to go scare some Romulans.

[@a.hollins8691]

We don't talk about post-Kurtzman "Star Trek"

[@startreker20]

I think you mean "pre-borg" not "port-borg"

[@cheersfan4328]

Akira class is my all time favourite Startrek ship.

[@Edd25164605]

Barkeepers : Mine as well !

[@sabothbrainiac5844]

i love the sleek design

[@stardude2006]

Barkeepers I like the Akira too

[@AndrewPonti]

Agreed. The Akira class was always my favorite too, beyond Galaxy and Sovereign. It's design is versatile yet still sticks to classic starship design. And all those torpedo tubes and the fighter compliment don't hurt either!

[@SomeBritishDud1]

My only issue is with the "15 torpedo launchers" which as far as I am aware comes from fans wanting the Akira to be as powerful as a Dominion War-era Galaxy class. It had probably 6 - 4 forward, 2 aft.

[@Great_America]

Ah-Blaa-tiv armor - damn dude And yes, the Federation desperately needs a dreadnought class starship.

[@Omniseed]

ay bloh toyve

[@NerdManDan]

Always been in love with those ships each has a very interesting role in the fleet, wish we could of seen more of them.

[@SWPerspectives]

This makes me want to play Star Trek Online again.

[@akiramasashi9317]

Just do what I do. Remember how shit it is in all other regards.

[@captianjessie1]

In star trek online the akira class really should be a cruiser type not amd escort type

[@SWPerspectives]

HenryManson might have to give it another go.

[@wangchung2157]

I recently started another Klingon playthrough I still enjoy the game

[@bulletcat139]

..Heh, STO is still a good game, just Perfect World screwed cryptic over.. and a few other things with it, it still held enough.

[@Brewer420]

Keep up the good work brother. Live Long and Prosper

[@leexgx]

The sovereign class ship was one of the first ships that had multi vector shielding it had individual Shields sections which protected multiple parts of the ship instead of a bubble like shield which typically only had 4 to 6 sections (I believe Voyager had more independent shield grids but it was still a bubble)

[@alduintheanti-dragonborn]

3 borg disliked this.

[@michaelschultz342]

Alduin the Anti-Dragonborn 4 Borg.

[@builder396]

But theyre a hive mind collective? How can there be 4 borg?

[@dreammirrorbrony1240]

Your likes are irrelevant. Resistance is futile . Lower your adblockers/firewalls & prepare to be assimilated.

[@builder396]

Your content and creativity will be added to our own. Your channel will service us.

[@KitchenSinkSoup]

They've assimilated even more viewers! Quickly deploy the Defiant!

[@somesinger1575]

Voyager's premise was the best and one of my favorites :)

[@sonicguyver7445]

Very cool. I never knew ships other then the defiant class were designed as Anti-Borg warships. The Saber class design reminds me of the Interceptor from the tragically short lived Green Lantern series. And the Sovern class is probably one of the coolest ones there is.

[@Legiion513]

It's too bad that we'll likely never see these ships in action again, if the current "creative" direction for Star Trek is any indication.

[@colleenjin8794]

palerider78 you know maybe sometimes in the future they’ll make a show on what happened after Nemesis

[@vollelektrolysierer5773]

All these designs were made for Star Trek: First Contact, where they can be seen fighting the Borg at Sector 001.

[@CipherRhodeShow]

Check out Star Trek Online. They have plenty more designs there that are not only useful, but also sensible and actually purpose-built. There is no one ship that does everything like they have the Enterprise, Excelsior, or Voyager. SPOILER ALERT: You might like the storyline that STO runs on. It is in the Prime Universe. However, STO starts off after the Hobus Supernova that destroyed Romulus. The entire galaxy went to hell and Starfleet was ill-prepared for the clusterfuck to follow afterwards. You will get a Miranda Class ship to start off with, pulled out of mothballs. The situation is that bad! Good luck! 😅🤣😂

[@broud01]

yes it's true and its a shame. This video made me want to watch the FIRST CONTACT BORG battle

[@jacobbrown1690]

they are too busy with SJW bs......

[@TheBamaChad-W4CHD]

Great video! Awesome info and very detailed. Thanks for your time and effort.

[@NoJusticeNoPeace]

The real problem is that Star Trek has _so much_ lore that the Borg shouldn't be even a minor threat. We see all kinds of wildly powerful potential allies, for example, ranging from the Excalbians to the Organians, any of whom could stop the Borg in their tracks if asked nicely by the Federation. Likewise, you've got technologies like isolytic subspace weapons, Wesley's sentient nanites, Kelvan field projector belts, Mirror-Kirk's Tantalus Device, and many, many more. Hell, you could just have nanites turn a whole solar system into billions of starships with Von Neumann machines and "crew" them all with M5 units. And that's just scratching the surface.

[@Retrohertz]

NoJusticeNoPeace Try not to ask too many logical questions. It will ruin your enjoyment of the show. ;-)

[@osmium7738]

not to mention they discovered time travel, (first contact) and eternal youth. (little rascals)

[@casbot71]

@@osmium7738 And Trancendence at least three times : TNG the schizoid man. Uploading into Data's body TNG Inheritance. Android body with human upload that thinks she's real. Voy Lifesigns. Vidiian woman gets mind uploaded into Holodeck. Plus TNG the nth degree. Hyper Barkley's neural link and upload into enterprises main computer, except that was one off super alien tech. And seriously, while Barkley was super intelligent, no one thought to ask him if he could solve what when wrong with Data's daughter and how to make more Soong type androids, instead of learning to give violin master classes from scratch And never mind they can change your adult genetics, you could become a super augment (without the hyper aggression) or just a Julian Bashir style upgrade whenever you wanted.

[@hellomcflyy]

@xc5647321 xc5647321 isn't there some novel where its Wesley's nanites who end up going back in time and causing the Borg to begin with....heh

[@epiendless1128]

The nanites were a plausible defense to start with, but once the Borg were retconned to use weaponised nanites for assimilation, it seems unlikely that Wesley's first-generation nanites could compete. Good points, nevertheless. :-)

[@manofbeard]

Some of these designs are spectacular. Would be amazing to see them on the big screen.

[@Cheeseitnow]

I wish they would do a new tv series based around these ships. The federation v Borg developments in the later startrek time line is so damn interesting.

[@sherryjohnson224]

Yes i think we could all use a little hope for the future snd star trek gives such hope snd lets us see the unlimited possibilities

[@martindaley7999]

Nicely done Daniel. Hope to hear more from you in the future.

[@PinkThorn242]

It's a shame we never actually saw the Norway-class again after First Contact (something about the CGI models getting corrupted when they were handed from ILM to whichever studio it was doing SFX for DS9). Think it's probably my favourite out of all of these designs.

[@stephengonzalez2530]

Considering how many wars where fought in the Federations history. It took them forever to have a committed war fighter class ships and crews. Even in the S.T universe conflict in unavoidable. Tyrants will be made manifest one way or another.

[@1320crusier]

"Hey guys, we're giong to design 95% of our ships to cantilever our engines out away from the hull and call it a combat ship!"

[@achtsekundenfurz7876]

Semi-agreed. There was some lore that the engines have to be separated from most of the ship mass, at least for heavy ships - Defiant and smaller can pretty much ignore the penalty, but anything bigger is affected badly. But that's no excuse to use only one pylon per warp engine. A ship with one pylon connecting to the forward end and one to the rear would be much more durable and look the part, too. The Romulan Warbird design, with an upper and a lower connecting structure, does it MUCH better than any cruiser-sized or bigger Starfleet design. The _Norway_ class gets the worst of both worlds. The pylons themselves are pretty strong, but that doesn't improve anything because the roots, where they connect to the main hull are ridiculously thin, AND the warp plasma conduits (from warp core to engines) are unnecessarily long.

[@TeraQuad]

Awesome. I have always like the saber and steamrunner class design.

[@DaytonaRoadster]

The good federation ships

[@YootoobSteve123]

Very well done video. Concise, informative and fun. Nice work on the V.O!

[@nordicberserk]

Norway! If I were a Starfleet Captain, I would want to be assigned to a Norway class, because patriotism.

[@GrandSupremeDaddyo]

Man I love every one of these designs. I loved Star Trek Online for collecting standout designs and models. It really burns me up that the endgame turned into little more than a resource clicker, because fitting ships like these out and seeing what they were capable of was an utter delight.

[@heroofcanton101]

If the Sovereign has that many torpedo tubes, why in the hell does it always display such a pitiful rate of fire? If memory serves, those lauchers could fire a 12 shot spread, each. Now obviously you aren't going to vomit out 120 Quantum Torpedoes every time you pull the trigger, but when you are up against a Borg Cube or something like the Scimitar, you are going to throw as much damage is humanly possible against it before they managed to adapt or get shields back or whatever. That is one thing that always bugged me. Yes, the Federation is about diplomatic solutions, but they build ships that can depopulate entire worlds with minimal effort and yet when they really go to war, they are still taking potshots like they are feeling them out.

[@Low_commotion]

You know, given how the Borg adapt to weapons, the best option seems to be that you _should_ just dump an overkill-amount of ordinance at a Cube right off the bat (maybe in the middle of their spiel about resistance). Can't adapt if the first salvo annihilates you. Not cost effective, but I would assume if Borg have showed up in Federation space resource efficiency isn't much of a concern.

[@seraphina985]

+sole21000 Well considering that it's either kill the damn cube or donate your vessel and all it's materiel and it's crew as soldiers for the enemy then yeah don't really think cost efficiency should be a concern anymore. When you are dealing with an enemy that can turn everything you have even your own people against you as weapons there is no sense holding back.

[@Low_commotion]

Seraphina S My thoughts exactly

[@Maxvla]

The same principle was explored in the Honor Harrington book series by David Weber. Initially ships of the wall (the largest and strongest) were mostly close quarters brawlers using beam weapons. As the series grew and technology became more and more miniaturized missiles became more and more relevant. Towards the end of the series, the ships were redesigned to carry pods of missiles, giant salvos of thousands of missiles would be fired in order to overwhelm point defense and electronic warfare. It was argued that the loss of the missile material, due to the inefficiency of the strategy, was much better than losing entire ships which cost magnitudes higher, as well as the cost of life, particularly experienced crews. A shotgun style starfleet ship could totally work, and possibly be devastating.

[@bsmith363]

It was a nice rate of fire in stg nemesis

[@deadlypandaghost]

I love how these make it apparent that their prior ships weren't designed for war despite kicking most everyone's butts

[@Land967]

Kinda wish we had a series based on a smaller ship like the Norway, Saber, Nova or Steamrunner. I know we got Voyager but that was still clearly a large ship full of creature comforts IE holodecks

[@alexsch2514]

Watch Lower decks

[@Land967]

@@alexsch2514 I do. I enjoy it. But I meant live action

[@bajankurt]

Dude, awesome video!

[@BoisegangGaming]

"Hey, let's build our fleet of ships that are supposed to go up against an adaptive enemy by having them all have the same type of weapon." It's a miracle Starfleet survived as long as they did against anything with that type of inflexibility in weapon loadouts. Why not mix it up with Lasers, Phasers, Plasma, Kinetic Weapons, Nuclear/Anitmatter Missiles, and a bunch of other stuff?

[@toomanyaccounts]

you mean stuff the borg would already have defenses against just like federation ships have defenses against? lasers wouldn't even pierce a fed ship hull. kinetic weapons would bounce off standard shields.

[@lordteapot9740]

it's been shown that borg adaption doesn't apply to kinetic weapons in both canon and the novels.

[@toomanyaccounts]

those were short not prolonged engagements with cultures that would have been using them. all the borg would have to do is modify their deflector shields to not allow projectiles to pass through.

[@badbeardbill9956]

The Borg literally cut a slice through the Enterprise with a laser during first contact, bypassing shields... I'd say the best option is to build asteroids warships. Just mount as many guns, lasers, phasers, or whatever to it and put the largest reactor you can in it, maybe actually quite a few of them, and wait for the Borg to come to you. Either that or just launch asteroids at them.

[@giusepped3934]

The main reason is because, of all the things you named, lasers, plasma, nuclear, kynetic and antimatter weapons are things of the past. They are quite less effective than phasers and torpedoes used by that time. In one episode of TNG they meet another civilization, armed with lasers and nuclear weapons, and feel quite strange about it; the exact reaction is a sentence like "They wouldn't even get past the navigational deflector". Which is the shield that protects a starship against high-speed impact with interstellar small object, too small to be detected by sensors. At high speed they can be fearsome projectile, like it has been stated numerous times by real life astronauts of modern era. If something can be avoided just using the navigational deflector of a Galaxy-class ship, i seriously doubt it could damage a Borg cube.

[@Edd25164605]

Akira class is my all time favourite

[@wayneralph4712]

How about Peter David's vendetta, og Trek's doomsday machine was actually an anti Borg weapon.

[@WozWozEre]

I was one of your very first subs, it's awesome to see your channel grow so well and so quickly. Keep it up!

[@beep5514]

In the first half a second I thought that Daniel had mic malfunction or was super sore. ^^ But props to your narration, was really good and nice to listen to, well done. :)

[@darwinxavier3516]

I thought he got a new mic as well.

[@SalvaGer-bs4zw]

Lovely! Hope you'll have time for a video with explanations about the photon torpedoes, phasers and other weapons. Something like "how to realistically use them in space". Great vid!

[@reminder9146]

For future reference "Corps" is pronounced 'core' with a silent "p". I.e. "engineering core" rather than corp.

[@morlokvestai-kurak9680]

The British think they know how to pronounce words properly. They don't. I still love the way they speak. Write out the word Tequila or quesadilla and have them pronounce it. It's hilarious. 🇬🇧👍🇬🇧🇺🇸👍🇺🇸

[@skazkatzroy3444]

Fuck off

[@reminder9146]

@@skazkatzroy3444 Quite rude.

[@RainLight1991]

@@morlokvestai-kurak9680 not all of us are like that u myself say corps with the p

[@billjenkins687]

Thanks. Very enjoyable!

[@diegoviniciomejiaquesada4754]

Nice voice! Perfect for narration

[@swankfiber5278]

Diego Vinicio Mejía Quesada had to thumbs down your comment got to give props to the original lol

[@elvispresley2214]

Diego Vinicio Mejía Quesada is this the same guy that does the Mr. H horror videos

[@alancarter3142]

Nicely done!👍

[@Thatslifebro_]

Hey Spacedock, do you just do Ground and Space Vehicles or would you be ready to make videos about Ground Infantry. Because i would love to see a video about United Earths M.A.C.O.´s for example.

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

Well jeez, they have mall cops with phaser rifles, who wear ketracel white tube necklaces, lol.

[@tessierashpoolmg7776]

Thatslifebro Luv those Klingon - Jem Hadar fights tho........

[@MahmoudMaguid]

I enjoyed this video. Thanks Alistair

[@02ujtb00626]

The Intrepid class should have been mentioned here. That class was the forefront in creating an advanced combat/science capable ship in a smaller package, able to complete research missions and combat missions. It was basically a more advanced galaxy class on a smaller package, with basically the same abilities.

[@raghuvarv]

I liked Alasdair's voice just as much as Daniel's. Good job.

[@jw9737]

I never understood why they didn't use the defiant style pulse phasers on more ships. It seems like it was a highly effective weapon.

[@attila535]

Phaser cannons have a narrow firing arc, which is not ideal outside of quick strafing runs.

[@johnlavery3433]

No one may surpass the sisko

[@plink4861]

Attila then couldent you just mount a massave one on the front

[@trevorperry3081]

I agree with this. It should have been fairly easy for them to mount these in turrets if directional fire was an issue. Something I'm a bit more annoyed with is the lack of purpose built carriers, and a lack of proper fleet formations designed with mutual support in mind with specialised roles... seriously, did humanity just flush all military knowledge down the drain after they met the vulcans?

[@seraphina985]

+Trevor Perry Indeed though the same could be said for some of the warlike races that keep showing up with single ships or on the odd times they send a group they are regularly homogeneous fleets of the same basic ship. Though that said being able to play fast and loose with the laws of physics does allow you to break some of the causes of why that's necessary like the fact that being big and heavy in real life is helpful for accommodating the sort of weaponry which is extremely effective at dealing out the hurt but makes you considerably less manoeuvrable due to your massive inertia which is not so good against a swarm of smaller vessels unless you have escort ships to keep them busy while your capital ships get a firing solution on them.

[@thilotherz9300]

A few days ago I installed battle zone 2 again. Your intro music fits perfectly. Greetings from Germany.

[@therevyfilms246]

Could you make a video about a Wraith Hiveship?

[@Firestormxe]

TheRevyFilms, i believe they have

[@Mavranel]

Naw just one about the dart. There does exist a battle analysis involving wraith hive ships.

[@kamenwaticlients]

Great Job. I like your narration. I felt like I was in an engineering briefing. Very cool. It's interesting that once Voyager came home all these ships technically became obsolete.

[@CountKibblesNBits]

So most of these anti-borg ships are designed with the concept of MORE DAKKA in mind to destroy the borg quickly enough before they have time to adapt?

[@ptonpc]

If I remember correctly.. Yep. Steamrunners were supposed to stay back and basically rain hot photon or quantum torpedo death on the Borg cube while the other ships were designed to get closer and hit specific nodes if possible, otherwise, just blast the cr*p out of everything they see.

[@Sorain1]

Well, the Borg had shown a preference for singular huge vessels with limited offensive targeting. (However devastating on the target.) Since even the most advanced shielding was of limited use against the Borg, the idea of swarming an enemy with eggshells carrying sledgehammers appealed to them.

[@Militaryman64]

Well done

[@JHM117]

Even with energy weapons, kinetic energy (projectile weapons) could still hold their own against Borg

[@dainironfoot5198]

I am LIKING this new voice!

[@davidvavra9113]

Amazing how the word flagship is never paired with a flag officer in Star Trek.

[@CharlesUrban]

The Andorians said it best--you don't push the pink-skins to the thin ice. Otherwise, you get ships with FIFTEEN TORPEDO LAUNCHERS coming after you.

[@DavidWatersJames]

Type-12 Phasers ? Didn't know they even existed. I'd thought even Type-10's were for mostly Starbases.

[@watcherzero5256]

Type 10's are the omnidirectional phaser strips that you see most TNG era ships have like the Galaxy and Intrepid classes. Type 12 (also called 10+) are essentially the same weapon but with a higher output, they were indeed originally on starbases but also now feature on more modern ships like the Sovereign, Prometheus and Akira classes.

[@thuzan117]

takes me back to my days on star trek online. I miss my old Sovereign class sometimes...

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

what about the Prometheus-class? I thought it was developed as a response to the Borg?

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

NightRaven 1901 Still, that was a pure bread warship.

[@angelphoenix7784]

I agree, I however, think the Prometheus could be thought of as the 2nd generation of defense ships. It had more to do with the Dominion then the Borg.

[@avragetrinidadian3787]

Angel Phoenix77 well that makes sense

[@darwinxavier3516]

The 3 in 1 trick is meant for hitting a target from "multi vectors" to exploit any weakening parts of their shields or defenses. Its actually pretty unclear if shields draw directly from the ships total power supply or if they need to be charged. If they draw directly from the total power output then I guess the shields are given only a certain partition of the available power to not accidentally hinder other systems. Hence the whole auxiliary, secondary, and emergency power designations. The drain of the shield partition would leave some parts of the shield bubble weaker than others since they come from multiple emitters. Perhaps a few seconds to divert power from one section to another is too long to keep the strongest part of the shields facing the attacker.

[@viralshadow]

The Prometheus was built for the Dominion War, not the Borg. And if I remember my Trek, it was never mass produced on a large scale.

[@dgerdi]

All this inventions and developments by a high professional society. And than a clone from Remus manage to secretly build a ship so powerful, that the Federations flagship looks like a beetle meeting a pair of boots.

[@Wearenegan2427]

To bad they never used much of the norway and steamrunnr ships on the shows

[@WeedWhacker2010]

I'm only 39 seconds in, and I love you already!!

[@Razlo5000]

Do a video on the G1 Decepticon warship: "Nemesis" References: Transformers G1 series: More Than Meets The Eye part 1-3 Transformers Beast Wars: The Nemesis part 1 and 2. "That is the most powerful decepticon warship in Cybertronian history, the ship that shot down the Arc itself, the Nemesis! The Nemesis."

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍A very well done and very informative indeed guys 👌...

[@Necromonger69]

Sad when you have to convince Starfleet to build warships even after losing thousands of lives and 40 ships at Wolf 359. "It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war" -John F Kennedy

[@asaenvolk]

The Saber and the Steamrunner are two of my favorite Star Trek designs.

[@EuroHybrid]

Wait. I have heard this voice before...

[@ryanruggero9957]

Nicely done.

[@mafbloggerdanny]

I always wonder why they design ships with 9-12 phaser arrays almost always only 2 torpedo tubes...4 at most. Are phasers so much better? They always seemed like pretty useless to me.

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

mafbloggerdanny They do not have 2 or 4 torpedo tubes, they have 2 or 4 torpedo bays with 5 torpedo tubes each. They have more phasers moslty because they are a direct weapon (meanwhile torpedos can engage without direct conctat) and because phasers are a multi-role weapon, capable of performing both as a main weapon or as point defense, meanwhile torpedos are just torpedos.

[@hotdogs1026]

Pretty sure it’s only because torpedoes come in a limited supply. The phaser banks are charged directly from the warp core.

[@briananthony4044]

The tubes on the Galaxy class hold 10 torps that can be fired as a salvo from each tube. The Sovereign had a rapid fire tube under the primary hull, as well as a number of fixed tubes, that can fire 5 torpedoes per second and can rotate to fire to the sides. One tube does not mean only one torpedo ready for firing.

[@TheDetailsMatter]

The Norway class appears to be a shoe tree with warp nacelles. But at least it's bridge is not identafiably surface-mounted and shaped like a "shoot me here to see the really BIG explosion" target, as most other Starfleet bridges seem to be.

[@Mayhemm007]

Would Intrepid-class vessels such as the USS Voyager also be considered anti-Borg?

[@Meerkat040]

No. It was designed and built for long-term exploration missions.

[@wulf7463]

yeah but it returned with more firepower and armour than anything starfleet had. Classifications can change.

[@Meerkat040]

True.

[@Low_commotion]

Right but that was one ship, rather than intrinsic to the ship _class._ Now, if all existing Intrepid-class ships were retrofitted with Voyager's scavenged & invented armaments, then yes it'd be a warship class.

[@wulf7463]

Yes, but Voyager was the only Intrepid to receive those upgrades so Voyager and only Voyager could still be considered an "anti-borg" ship.

[@organizationalcoaches7072]

Great job!

[@billc6762]

Meaningless. Voyager already brought back enough technology from the future to kill the entire borg collective.

[@marktsunokai5889]

I was thinking the same thing, when the Voyager came home. It make the Federation more of a deterrent against future Borg incursions in the Delta Quadrant.

[@JFrazer4303]

Voyager wrecked the entire collective's ability to move large amounts of stuff readily. Trashed a transwarp hub and brought back advanced 29th century tech. Neutered the borg across half the galaxy.

[@jamiegray6931]

The novel series star trek destiny shows just how much that statement is wrong. The federation is almost wiped out by a Borg collective ready to take out the alpha quadrant. I highly recommend the books.

[@CharlesUrban]

@@jamiegray6931 If only the books were canon. If only their writers wrote for the shows.

[@kelvo82able]

These are a great watch, would love to see some roughnecks (starship troopers animated show) ships.

[@miles2378]

Is "trator of mars" any good?

[@csxfan_]

"Highly important postings" Is put on some diplomatic mission in a some backwater.

[@weegar]

Thanks for the video

[@StefRush]

Could you sound a bit more British please? ;-)

[@JustTooDamnHonest]

The Sovereign Class is my favorite ship among them and I would pick that one over any other ship classes in Star Trek for SHE IS A BADASS BEAUTY!!!!!!

[@nefariousgremlin7554]

I love the Norway, the Akira, the Sabre and the Sovreign classes

[@benthompson2136]

The Saber Class shape makes sense, unlike the others. Norway Class looks like it was made with upgrades in mind.