Star Trek: Inside the Nova Class (Deck 1-8)

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This will be a complete breakdown of the Nova Class, Deck 1-8.
The Nova-class was a Federation starship designed for short-term planetary research missions. It was placed in service starting in the late 24th century.
At the time of its inception, it was being modeled as the next evolution of the explorer design of the Galaxy class. In 2370, some Nova-class starships were constructed in the Sol system
The final design of the Nova-class initially started out as a pathfinder for the proposed Defiant-class fast torpedo ship.
However, with the looming threat of the Borg, Starfleet Command radically altered the concept of the Defiant class, rendering the pathfinder design unsuitable.
Though Nova class vessels were considered science vessels, the ship carried many assortments of weaponry, allowing the vessel to handle many threats on its own.
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0:00 Introduction
0:53 Size
1:11 Brilliant
2:19 Exterior
4:16 Deck 1-8

[@privatename5788]

I like how on deck 3 there are quarters at the front of the ship that require whoever uses them to walk down a featureless hallway half the length of the deck. The person in there is the furthest person from anywhere else on the ship, except the escape pods. If you get assigned those quarters, the captain is trying to tell you something.

[@peaveyst7]

i would enjoy such a quarter... no other crewmembers bugging you... a quiet place...

[@NeonVisual]

The external model seems to be not a Nova class but the alternate future version of whatever Harry Kim's ship was (the Rhode Island) in Voyager's Endgame. The nova didn't have that dome above the bridge, and the secondary deflector on the front of the saucer section wasn't filled in, but rather was set back into the forward section with quite a big chunk taken out of the nose of the saucer. The deflector on the front of the saucer is the secondary, not primary. The primary is the bigger one where they usually are on fed ships. Those strips on the ventral of the saucer are phasers, not sensors, and the escape pod hatches on the exterior model are huge and don't line up with the interior locations you've highlighted. Other than that, good job!

[@02ujtb00626]

Also, where the impulse engine should be is a set of windows and instead are on the saucer like on a Sovereign. Odd take.

[@bradphippsnz]

Deck 5 is also shown as part of the saucer section, when the saucer only contains decks 1-4 (this is shown on the side view earlier in the video).

[@brandonochs1372]

Yeah seems to be some post dominion war version

[@brll5733]

I think the "ventral sensor array" is actually the ventral phaser bank, but other than that great video about one of Starfleet's prettiest ships!

[@SlyWolf5]

Oh good, someone else caught that as well lol. Yes, other than that, excellent video

[@keirfarnum6811]

3:58 I was just going to mention that. ST sensors don’t work on strips; that’s clearly a phaser strip.

[@LordAtrocities]

I have literally built a dozen version of this ship in minecraft. Full 1 to 1 scale with complete interiors. The ship is a fantastic ship for building in Minecraft. the size is perfect. Compare it to the Enterprise D and E that I also built in full 1 to 1 scale (Can be toured on both Minetrek and TrekCraft servers) the Nova was a breeze. I also enjoyed the Voyager. Building that in comparison to the Nova took twice as long. But Love the Nova. She was one of the first ships I built and I still think about building another. Great little ship.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

that sounds awesome! i made a VERY similar ship in a game called Empyrion Galactic Survival (i highly recommend it) its a voxel style, open 'universe' game where you can build Capital ships, small ships, hover vehicles, and bases / star bases (and or combine them to make technically difficult things easier, like turbolifts being small ships inside shafts of a Capital ship), the free-build mode lets you build with impunity, and the symmetry tools let you build federation ships (at least the hull) in half the time. It even has slice away features (by axis) so you can recreate HALFSCREEN deck by deck analysis, or cut the ship in half and enjoy a side video like on the LCARS screen. if you have steam, i highly recommend checking the game out, and checking out the workshop - where some truly amazing star trek content can be found.

[@shanepye7078]

Should give them a go in Space Engineers. Many Star Trek mods and can build a more rounded hull

[@thesnoopy1009]

Can you do a rough floor plan of the blackbird class that would be brilliant, the nova class and defiant class deck plans may help for easier ideas of a starfleet vessel

[@Radekpruzina]

I love your mc designs of this beautiful ship. I already built it like 4 times on different mc survival servers, including one where Markiplier and Wade used to play when they had less than 10k subscribers :-D. I also finished outer hull in a game called ECO, which is quite hard do because of detailed and hard crafting/resource management there. If you want, send me your email and I can send you screenshots. Sadly server is wiped now, but it was promised to me to get the map. :)

[@Radekpruzina]

@@iloverecumbents2956 Do the links work for you?

[@skyserf]

2:28 That perplexed me for a moment. The Sovereign is 3x longer than the Nova Class. Love the videos.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

that's a good point, I've noticed on several videos the ships don't exactly match up in size to their models (the defiant being an example, or as you pointed out the Sovereign being only marginally larger then the Nova in this vidoe) however, i think a lot of that has something to do with poor canonical writing and design, and multiple 'official' schematics that contradict each other. that being said, a lot of work goes into making these videos, and i'll gladly take the occasional mistakes over no content at all.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

Actually it is more than 4 times.

[@ejcohen5299]

A Nova Class Starship also has 11 Type-Xb phaser arrays, and 2 standard forward torpedo tubes, left over from her original design as a warship. We usually fire science probes from the launch tubes (a photon torpedo is just a probe with a warhead attached) but, we were forced to enter combat zones during the Dominion War. Deck 2 of our ship has been turned over to the Medical Department, which gives us the "Advanced Sickbay Advantage" in-game, and is the reason why we were assigned to pick up any survivors in escape pods during the war. Our usual mission profile is First Response for medical disasters, as well as scientific surveys. Our engines have just been upgraded to a "10" which means we can now make Warp 9.6 for 12 hours.

[@Sage2000]

I dont think it would make sense to just magically upgrade engines to a copletely different ship class

[@chuchulainn9275]

I LOVE the Nova-class starship. It's design is just beautiful.

[@timothyforce1949]

The "Rhode Island" version of the Nova Class is probably my favorite ship design (or maybe tied with the Sovereign Class). Simple little ship, but looks more solid than ships with skinny little connections between main and secondary hulls, as well as hulls to nassels.

[@traviswatts9082]

The Nova class’s angular edges give it an aggressive look. This design seems better suited as an anti-cloak patrol/ scout ship from a fan perspective. I love the look and hate that it was used as a Oberth replacement. It should be a Defiant complement sacrificing arms and armor for highly effective sensors, deployment time and speed.

[@ejcohen5299]

Thank you for using one of the shots of my ship, USS Twilight, in your video (even if you got the length wrong! She's 221.74 or 222 meters overall, NOT just 165! Rick Sternbach her designer said as much in the Eaglemoss Magazine No. 15.)

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the info!

[@niagarawarrior9623]

Once again, another great video As a kid in the mid 90's i absolutely loved the technical manuals, i had the TOS, TNG, and DS9 books, and often used them for inspiration and their design styles to draw up my own deck designs, these videos, though notably higher quality in deck by deck explanations, sure do bring back a nostalgia factor.

[@Halfscreen]

Having done 3D modeling and animation for more than a decade, I have to come to appreciate these technical manuals more and more due to the creativity and thought made to each ship. These designers have put a lot time and thought to these schematic.

[@vortega472]

Good one, I've always viewed this as the replacement for the Oberth class, with less explodium as part of the construction material.

[@mattsiede443]

I ABSOLUTELY love the Nova Class design!!! With upgraded weapons, an active cloaking device, ablative hull armor, and a MUCH more powerful warp engine, I believe that the Nova could have been a Game Changer!!! It's such a beautiful design. It could have been a ship for spying and "Special Forces" infiltration, exfiltration, seek and destroy, and intelligence gathering. I would also put in holographic emitters on every deck, making it easy to fill the crew with holographic personal.

[@xtraordinarypeople6969]

mattsiede I like your thinking.

[@Sage2000]

So.... a completely diffetent starship design

[@gd.ritter]

@4:10 you you talk about the main navigational deflector on the secondary hull (engineering section), but your graphic highlights the smaller, secondary deflector array at the front of the primary hull (saucer section)

[@BrettOPediaTV]

This is probably my favorite class of starship; it’s small, comfortable, fast, versatile, but nothing to balk at thanks to it’s combat capabilities.

[@lumizo]

But a "regular" maximum speed of warp 8 is not very fast at their time line

[@Broockle]

and no holo deck

[@Sheilawisz]

@@BroockleWith all the crazy stuff that happens thanks to holodeck, it’s better not to have one!

[@Broockle]

@@Sheilawisz gotta disagree there. Holodeck would be sick af to have 😀 Worth every risk to me 😆

[@Sheilawisz]

@@Broockle What would you do in the holodeck?

[@MrWhipple42]

"So, where are your quarters?" "Me? I'm on deck 6, near the waste recycling compartment." "Wow, bummer."

[@skyserf]

7:06 Never realized the Nova Class had an Aero Shuttle. Neat.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

It is no Aero Shuttle, it is a Waverider.

[@skyserf]

@@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823 There’s not much difference between the two concepts. All Aeroshuttles have warp capabilities. Waveriders could be modified with capabilities including warp. Both designs were intended to provide support capabilities to a he parent vessel with enhanced atmospheric endurance.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

@@skyserf And?

[@skyserf]

@@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823 No and.

[@xkm-thebasetecchannel3823]

@@skyserf Your comments are without any sense.

[@Voltaic_Fire]

Such a neat little ship, I really wish it could have stuck with Voyager on its trip home.

[@DouglasEdward84]

Always a delight to get a notification for one of your videos, I'm watching Voyager again and this ships episodes are about a season away for me.

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you like my videos and thanks for watching.

[@WhiteScarsEmo]

This is beautiful work! You should be proud of this! To me, the Nova-and_Intrepid Classes made a lot more sense as science/exploration vessels then a Galaxy-and-Nebula classes. More sense in regards for cost of material and construction. I can actually see a few of them working in-tandem, quickly exploring unexplored sectors as small teams. And the ability of a science vessel being able to land on new planets, turning it into land-bound lab, had to be a considerable bonus. (The Intrepid-class was also cool.)

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the compliment!

[@themainSign]

I love your breakdowns of these ships! I would love to see an Oberth cutaway in the future!

[@captainspire9094]

I'm glad you're here. You're the channel I wanted Trekyards to be but apparently, doing stuff like this is below them.

[@Halfscreen]

Welcome aboard! I really enjoy creating these 3D models and animations.

[@FaerieFire]

What are you on about? Trekyards has almost always been an commentary and analysis channel, and not about lore.

[@captainspire9094]

@@FaerieFire You and I must be watching different channels then.

[@jolan_tru]

I don't think it's fair to say that this content is "beneath" them, stuff like this isn't easy to make. I'm perfectly happy to have both channels coexisting in my subscriptions.

[@jolan_tru]

@@FaerieFire Agreed, these are two very different types of channel.

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Wow, those interiors really pop! Fantastic detail. It's surprising how small a ship it really is.

[@Halfscreen]

Yeah, overall, it's rather small where compare to other Federation ship.

[@Sage2000]

3:00 24 escape pods? I think its more like 8. Loved the video and I would love to see a tv show about a ship like this.

[@maestro-zq8gu]

One thing I really like about this ship is it's a kind of "what if" if the Federation kept advancing technology but not ship sizes.

[@xanderguldie]

It's actually amazing how practical and logical this ship looks

[@jhmcd2]

That was always the good thing about Trek, they knew how to make ships that made since...at least with the Starfleet vessels.

[@damiansweeney8537]

Another great video thats very detailed and shows every detail of everything you work on I really look forward to every video you bring out

[@Halfscreen]

Awesome, thank you!

[@JayDeeMC]

I'm loving these videos. I always enjoy seeing what's inside the ships, as I've often bought Star Trek technical manuals. I think I may need some more!

[@Halfscreen]

Glad you like them and as always, thanks for watching!

[@theodoremccarthy4438]

I like that you used the Sovereign style refit for the exterior shots 👍🏻

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks! 👍

[@michaelSlick50]

Nice work, as always. I'd love to see some detailed looks at ships in Farscape. I'd imagine that detailed info about those ships would be in short supply, but they are amazing, particularly in the 2 part movie.

[@Halfscreen]

Noted!

[@ralfhtg1056]

2:29 into the video the size comparison with the Sovereign is off scale. The Nova is depicted way too large here. It appears more like 350 to 400 m in this depiction. 3:53 into the video: these are not the Torpedo launchers. THe front torpedo launchers are actually on the top side of the saucer, right next to the auxillary deflector in the saucer. Just as you show when coming to the interior of Deck 4. Other than that, a really great video. BTW: did I ever tell you, how much I love this kind of videos?

[@Halfscreen]

I have to admit, I'm currently working oversea and not really using some of my standard computer equipment, hence why i didn't have enough time to reanalysis my measurement or did enough research during my time traveling, but appreciated further insight.

[@roadrunnerj]

Videos on here are awesome lots of patience took time to do research just waiting for more new content........

[@Halfscreen]

Definitely

[@ejcohen5299]

By the way, according to her designer, Rick Sternbach from many Star Trek series, a Nova Class is actually 221.74 meters long.

[@l33790053]

Love flying this ship in star trek online! Ty for the video dude

[@lawrencekramer7331]

Cool little ship. Small and compact, a little stubby. Pretty cool. Kinda resembles the F-35 Lightning II.

[@mattdanw]

thank you so much for dping the nova!

[@aaronthorpe]

I love your videos, particularly your Star Trek ones. Thank you so much!

[@Halfscreen]

My pleasure!

[@BBDoesTheThing]

Its so tiny! Yet so big compared to what we have today!

[@ServantOfOdin]

Wow.. Me sitting here, geeking out of these details, I wonder about the bigger ships, like the Ambassador, Galaxy and Sovereign Classes being broken down to their decks...

[@UserAndiM]

Thank you! Amazing as always! 🥰 Will you ever do a video of the Akira Class?

[@Halfscreen]

Eventually

[@UserAndiM]

@@Halfscreen 😏😍

[@twiff3rino28]

@@Halfscreen What about the Reliant or Enterprise E?

[@Halfscreen]

@@twiff3rino28 I will definitely do the Enterprise E in the near future.

[@TheEddieguy82]

great vid are you planing on doing the Prometheus Class?

[@BritishRacingGreen]

Another great video. Thanks. 👍🏻 Will there ever be a video on the California Class?

[@Halfscreen]

If so, it would be only a profile views since I don't see a deck to deck comparison.

[@BritishRacingGreen]

@@Halfscreen No rush my friend. There doesn't seem to be much info on them. But would be awesome. Have a nice day.

[@AdventuresonTour]

Another outstanding video 😎

[@irregularassassin6380]

Unless I'm crazy, I only counted 30-someting beds across all decks. Even if several were bunk beds, I think this ship would struggle to hold it's grew compliment of roughly 85 officers and enlisted. Am I missing something here?

[@chrisaguilera1564]

I would love to see the inside of the Cerritos for breakdown of the California classes.

[@trayolphia5756]

10:47 ahhh, finally, an answer to a question they never actually addressed in voyager That being a ramp… Anytime we see voyager land, we never actually see the process of getting on or off the ship…doesn’t seem right that they would rely on mass transport to get off the ship after landing for example…

[@jdagreek]

Do you know is there any type of program that would display all the blue prints

[@Halfscreen]

I'm not sure.

[@MadBeausuff]

Can you find any deck plans for the Kobayashi Maru-class Freighter?

[@Halfscreen]

Nope.

[@tratzum]

Great video but I feel your side by side comparison made the scale of ship bigger then it is.

[@Rockstone1969]

Very detailed, nice. But how do you get from one deck to the other? I see no stairways or shafts for a turbolift.

[@Halfscreen]

there should be a turboshaft at the midsection of each deck.

[@LHGII]

Who's going to watch star trek voyager episode equinox after watching this

[@Nyst2]

For a second I thought at 2:30 the ships were to scale. At 3:56 the ventral sensor array; are you sure it's not pointing at a phaser strip? The video cuts off rather abruptly at the end. It kind of feels like you're trying to rush these videos?

[@richie1121]

Software using?

[@LancetFencing]

the ventral sensor array was a phaser bank no?

[@endelight]

As a Lufthansa employee I really enjoyed the size comparison 😍

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

Looking at the bridge of the Nova Class looks similar to that of the main bridge of the Defiant Class and I also find it really funny that Starfleet's science vessels are always smaller than other ships take the Nova Class for example I saw this video on the size comparison of Starfleet ships and the Nova Class is so small it looks like a toy compared to the larger Galaxy Class.

[@Halfscreen]

Its a very small ship, similar to the NX-01.

[@nicholasmorsovillo2752]

@@Halfscreen Actually the NX Class would be bigger than the Nova Class as it was said the NX Class was over 260 meters long while it said that the Nova Class was close to 180 meters in length.

[@Halfscreen]

@@nicholasmorsovillo2752 Yes, the NX is bigger based on the scale of 260 m.

[@13thravenpurple94]

Great work thank yoU

[@Halfscreen]

Our pleasure!

[@m255]

Do the Prometheus class next please

[@poubelle_blanche]

At 3:56 you called the lower phaser array a sensor array.

[@davidradich9342]

I love the name on the ship. USS James Burke!

[@JohnnyUtah8011]

Can anyone point out where the bathrooms are?

[@petertyson4022]

Nice graphics. 👍😊

[@Halfscreen]

Thanks for the visit

[@Sage2000]

MY friend, you ointed at the phaser arrays instead of lateral sensors and to the long range sensors instead of the navigational deflector (its in the belly)

[@Nodux359]

I just love the Nova! I´d actually wished for it to be the hero ship of Voyager rather than the "duck -like" looking Intrepid class.

[@whitewolf3051]

Wait, it's smaller than a constitution class (original or refit) star ship? I didn't think there were star ships, besides the defiant and its sister ships, canonically that small. Maybe the Orberth, but even those *may* have been larger than these.

[@jamelrolle1356]

Can you do an analysis on the Sojourner Odyssey Class Spaceship?

[@Halfscreen]

I will look into it.

[@wargodsix]

I like your ship render you should upload the ship on shapeways

[@tredausmaxima]

Could you do inside the Normandy SR1 and 2

[@Halfscreen]

I will look into it.

[@philipp9481]

Deep Space 9 would be really interesting

[@thesnoopy1009]

As the nova class is smaller than the intrepid class so there is a blackbird class as small to the nova as it is with an intrepid. But the blackbird is more original enterprise shape and compact as nova class, can you do a review please of a blackbird class vessel or even a captains yacht type vessel. Thanks

[@Halfscreen]

I will look into it.

[@themeta9631]

Can you do the USG Ishimura

[@damongraham1398]

How would you design a dolphin crew focused Star Fleet starship?

[@notch8891]

So where are the turbo lift shafts below deck 1?

[@Halfscreen]

Between the two transporter pad.

[@adamcarrell]

These are two different ships. The externals are of the refit version and the internals are of the original. For example, the refit doesn't have a rear hatch for cargo on deck 3. Just FYI.

[@darthdragonborn1076]

While the interior look was interesting, the outter hull had alot of inaccurate information. For a start the torpedo launchers were not located under the saucer section rather on each side of the secondary deflector dish. If you disagree go look at the actual model of the nova class and its refit

[@Halfscreen]

3D animations are purely based on the schematic on the description box.

[@thedankatheist3466]

That’s the Nova class (refit) not the base design. Easily identified by the raised bridge module.

[@moonbaby6134]

Nice Rhode Island class

[@Galkac]

nice ship

[@ciebriel79]

I am just pointing out that there should be 2 holodecks somewhere on deck 3.

[@Kyrinson]

Everything seemed logically laid out right up till the Tractor beam emitter was placed right next to a pair of antimatter containment pods... it seems to be a bad idea to put a high stress system right next to something that stores something as explosive as antimatter.

[@gaming_for_sanity]

80 crew but only 36 beds? Were they hot swapping beds or something?

[@CragScrambler]

Always loved the Nova class like the federation version of the Klingon BOP

[@danielleleighelen1104]

can you please do inside the AT-ST next???

[@Halfscreen]

I will look into it.

[@danielleleighelen1104]

:)

[@jhmcd2]

The Nova Class: Hey were still larger and nicer than a Defiant.

[@m3w]

Would we old school Star Fleet Battles-types by right to think of this as an analog of a "destroyer" or a "light cruiser"? Frigate?

[@jeffa7292]

please do a video of deep space 9 and the shield hellicarrier

[@Halfscreen]

I will do DS 9 in the month of Nov.

[@niagarawarrior9623]

@@Halfscreen i couldnt imagine how long it would take you to make and complete DS9, granted a LOT of it doesn't show up on the technical details (or the show) but isnt that thing over 1.5KM wide and has 260 decks?

[@deathstrike]

This ship seems more of a replacement for the Oberth Class canoe....err ship. And a far better replacement it is. And although it seems suited for scientific missions, it's fairly straightforward layout seems to hint at a rather capable, and powerful gunboat. Also, it seems to have the potential to replace the Miranda Class as well. A very long and distinguished career as the Federation's "Jeep" or SUV of starships. A workhorse more for work, less for show. Although to its credit, the Nova Class has a pleasing aesthetic. But with considerable advances in Federation Weaponry, it would stand to show that the Nova could very well act as a heavy bruiser alongside the legendary Defiant Class. And with work, the Nova could become its own "Attack" starship complimenting the Defiant's "Fighter Assault" capability. Even a new, cloaked, faster, and more heavily armed Nova. How about the "Sparta" Attack Class Nova? And the first strike team ships would be: USS Rocky Balboa Defiant lead: USS Ivan Drago USS Apollo Creed 2nd Strike Team: USS Muhammed Ali Defiant 2nd Wing: USS Mike Tyson USS Evander Holyfield

[@1967Skorp]

For me the only mistake that was made with DS9. I would have much rather seen the Nova class as the Defiant.

[@gorantev]

Next ship to do: Oberth. So people will have the reference for fanfiction stories happening on that ship. For as fragile as it is, it deserves it's own moment under spotlight, or even as "Hero Ship" of it's own.

[@unpaintedleadsyndrome]

So, 2 turbolifts on deck 1 with nowhere to go on the other decks?

[@Halfscreen]

there is a turbolift at the midsection of each deck.

[@jeffpatton7682]

Got confused as to where the labs are on the science ship

[@GreenAppelPie]

Level 1, the port rear corner has zero access as drawn

[@1975Chinook]

There are 2 humans in Waverider parking bay; How did they get there? There's no visible door for access the Waverider parking bay. Nice design though.

[@mrV1et]

1st digital nomad upload ?!

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

Nova Class a mix of Sovereign Class and Intrepid Class in design.

[@jpaulc441]

Did it not have a holodeck?

[@Halfscreen]

There suppose to be one on deck 3, but wasn't part of the schematic.

[@spikedpsycho2383]

Those pods are exceptionally large. Nova us 221 meters.

[@lunatickgeo]

No holodeck?

[@tubsducke]

I always see it as a mini sovereign class

[@JoeKerr019]

When California Class?