The Battle of Betazed Q&A

[@smh4683]

Actually, there was a small distinction to Betazoids. They all have black irises.

[@billeth0]

I came here to comment this. It's clearly noticeable in all the shots of Betaziods he shows.

[@bobbobbing4220]

yep, spot on. that

[@lynngreen7978]

Marina and Majel (and the few others we see) wore contacts.

[@coreyperez8817]

Yep, and their irises tend to be larger than humans usually.

[@TheHeroRises]

Word.

[@jeremycaufield8605]

There will almost always be units that continue to fight after peace is declared, whether through lack of communication or hardliners refusing to surrender.

[@shanenolan5625]

Cheers. Get well soon .. no apologies necessary

[@ShannonCarter55]

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for answering my question :) I'm so grateful. And to hear my name being said online :D Just whoa, I will be beaming all day :) Get well soon :D

[@shanenolan5625]

In season 7 ( early) said the 7th fleet was back up to 50 percent strength. , but you could pull ships from other fleets or different theatres , plus new ships, I suspect federation shipyard production was never higher. Utopia fleet yard , had 75 space docks. They produced a dozen defiant class ships a year. The federation had dozens of shipyards and were building new ones or rebuilding wartime space docks. By the third year of a war, you would probably see more ship's than the first two combined. And Sabre class, for example, was very quick to build

[@nekophht]

I had long thought that 7th Fleet had been destroyed, but then I considered Operation Return. 300+ ships each from two fleets and doesn't sound like that was a large part of the fleets, much less the whole fleet. 7th Fleet might have sent off a Task Force to Tyra that got decimated, but I don't think it was a significant chunk of it. I end up figuring a single fleet was 1000-3000 ships (so contributing 10-30% of each fleet for Operation Return), which would put total ship numbers at 10-30,000 ships and that seems decent when accounting for the registry numbers increase between movie era and TNG.

[@That80sGuy1972]

Telepathic Jem-Hadar would actually be very useful to the Dominion. They'd only use that power relative to how they are ordered to use it, just like their shrouds. It would primarily be a weapon (mental attacks), detector, and tactical decider. They would also immediately just kill potentially rogue Jem-Hadars and know who are immune to the White, and kill those too. Studying Betazoids to give Changelings telepathy is like studying a vacuum-tube television to figure out how to make a smartphone use beta-rays light up its screen as its display... not compatible basic make-up. In theory, given the fact that Changelings could alter their body down to even being vapor and flame, they could take on a telepathic form if they so had the practice.

[@elcowabungahe-man6156]

I am glad your feeling better can't wait you do a full battle of cardassia

[@fightingfalcon777]

I had a feeling Mengele was the inspiration for Mosset’s experiments, but I was very intrigued by the inspiration for him looking into the Betazoids specifically, so that is an excellently frightening concept (telepathic Changelings)

[@merafirewing6591]

And also it's very telling that obviously he is scared of the idea of telepathic changlings and is glad that the people of Betazed aren't like that and just only telepathic.

[@conansmight1703]

OMG your answer to the 7th fleet question! Please, please, please do a future video where you discuss and go through the behind the scenes infrastructure, and administration of a fleet during the Dominion War era. Especially any none front line utility ships. Such a video would be EPIC. Let's see the pole of the broom... I'm also sure there's enough of your fans that would love such a reading between the lines episode.

[@alexandercaires5921]

Having a video series about how the Feds, KDF, and Romulans each supply their fleets would be something unheard of (maybe a certain Drach can help?)

[@frankowalker4662]

Great ! Take care and get well soon.

[@OllamhDrab]

(Actually, Betazoids have those really dark, nearly black irises. So they do use contacts for that.) (Also I agree on the timeline, I think the calendar years usually cited probably don't actually add up to even as much time as the shows referred to passing during and between episodes, even. Certainly there'd be no sense lopping additional months off. )

[@cliffwahl7769]

Wow, Covid, glad you're doing better

[@bloodysimile4893]

Weather play important factors in planning for a war with moving troops. January is normally cold and wet with all the snow during the war season. Many military operation take place during the late spring and summer because the weather is more fravorable with clear sky, growing food, dry gound, and troops aren't freezing to death. The season changing wheater truma like hurricane and tornados is very low. In space, you have spaceships with a control climate. Countless worlds with clmiate control device for agriculture, industry, etc. If space have somesort of weather patterns that make operation diffcult, wars could start any time. So, I don't see how it is unrealistic for Dominion to start in January.

[@TerranCaptain]

Great video like always

[@bsmnt23]

Here's an idea; replace the entire 7th fleet with an entire fleet of Oberths. Stay with me. Whole fleet of Oberths, right? Then you just ram them each individually into the enemy fleet until there's no more fleet. Each Oberth is made out of highly refined explodium, so they'd each act like a giant ship-sized photon torpedo. As we've seen recently in Picard, just tossing a ship at another ship is actually pretty effective. Boom; Dominion War solved.

[@thetrekwrightchannel4186]

I like the fighters in your thumbnail. They remind me of my own; I guess snub nosed stub was winged designs are the way to go. Great video. Keep up the good work!

[@venomgeekmedia9886]

The vanguard scoutship more of an up armoured runabout

[@NCC-72545A]

I away thought the war started either October or November of 2373 and ended September or October 2375 because of the 6 months between DS9 S05 finally and DS9 S06 premier

[@roberthilton5328]

As a short, some of the things you cut out like the Enterprise-E being saved by the Defiant would be great to see. Do you have any collection of these cuts from various Battlespace episodes that could be put up?

[@Relav1364]

Hope you feel better!

[@trekwars5400]

The 1st vorta they ran into the female had telekinesis powers. Is the ones that could nap Cisco and the crew

[@lynngreen7978]

It would make more sense for a Vorta with Telepathy, or turning Betazoids into a new servitor race.

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

Hm; I didn't know that was the case for the Stardate, and yeah spreading out those last dozen episodes does make sense. I however think you're an order of magnitude too small for number of ships however, given the episode *"When It Rains..."* . Also, on your thoughts on telepathic Changelings, yeah that'd be a terrifying notion, & it does make more sense than telepathic Jem'hadar or telepathic Vorta (mind you the Vorta already have telekinetic abilities) which might backfire on the Dominion by weaking their loyalty.

[@philly83]

Poor Tulmec can never catch a break

[@merafirewing6591]

He's scarred for life.

[@speciesto3065]

There's a story out there that Gene Roddenberry originally envisioned Troi (and all Betazoid women) as having four breasts but Majel talked him out of that, long before she was even cast as Lwaxana, simply telling him as he was creating the show that it would look stupid, but he had it in the very first drafts, almost until casting started.

[@aiosquadron]

Also... Would you mind posting a legend for the fleet marker colours? Like which fleet is which colour, etc.

[@loopslytle]

Excellent episode!

[@joeg1915]

Unrelated to this video, but Picard Season 3 is actually quite good. The Changeling angle is very interesting.

[@Shaden0040]

Bryszoids have dark brown eyes and Majel wore brown contsct lenses as did BBraad Dourif.

[@merafirewing6591]

Tulmec really got traumatized, I would to if I saw something unleast and I completely understand why he wants to get off that planet.

[@shanenolan5625]

Megala the angel of death. Evil monster. .

[@neganrex5693]

I was told I had Covid and it acted much like every flu I ever had and most likely what I really had. Anyway great video and get better.

[@trevynlane8094]

Actors playing Betazeds are wearing contacts. They have black pupils and irises. That is the only physical change.

[@captblueshadow682]

Hi there Venom, if you could I have a question you might be able to put in a video. What would you say is the better starship, the post dominion Galaxy class or the post dominion Sovereign class? I've heard many conflicting reports that say the Sovereign is a better all-around ship, one that says the Galaxy had better defensive systems, one where the Sovereign was just a smaller galaxy made exclusively for combat. Could you clear this up? (I have a personal Bias towards the Galaxy so I'm no good)

[@venomgeekmedia9886]

I'll cover it in a short. It's a good question

[@nekophht]

Possible add on to that - Is the Ross-class a post-Dominion "lessons learned" version of the Galaxy, and how do you think it compares to the other two?

[@captblueshadow682]

@@venomgeekmedia9886 Since you're the best guy for the job when it comes to Star Trek ships i figured i could trust you, thank you

[@callisto1556]

tk you good job

[@shanenolan5625]

War had seasons , historically. Summer was best , winter and spring were bad. .

[@occultatumquaestio5226]

I would not think that interstellar war involving hundreds of planets with different orbits and climates would have as much seasonal based warfare.

[@andrwblood9162]

I would think that if the Founders achieved telepathy, it would change the nature of the Great Link to which they wouldn't need to be a weird ocean on one planet. Instead, there be lakes and smaller seas of Founders scattered across a region in space (maybe solar system or more) and the Great Link would endure like it does physically. #TransChangelingism

[@simonkerr1899]

How have you not noticed the black eye colour?? The actors wear black contact lenses. Try and check things before you answer questions.

[@venomgeekmedia9886]

I can't say I noticed that on marina sirtis. Only the guest star in Tin man was it noticeable

[@pauld5265]

Deanna troy actress had to wear black contact lenses.

[@Exspatlivin]

Get to feeling better

[@Phil-D83]

Given the replicator tech, they should have been able to refit all the old ships with modern weapons, etc