The Expert's Guide to Civilian Ships of Trek - Star Trek Ship Breakdown

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[@slickstretch6391]

I've been on a Navy submarine. The J-class bridge by comparison is downright spacious.

[@Andrewcranky]

@SpaceAce100 : Not really. You ajust pretty quickly. You're locked in, so you just have to exsept it.

[@Rhron]

There are at least one more civi ship being used by several factions in Federation space and allies. There's one in ST 3 Search for Spock, that got dwarfed by a Klingon Bird of Prey and later destroyed, and that same ship design has been used by other powers. Don't know the name of the design.

[@markbernero9302]

It's referred to as the "Merchantman" by fans and by Hero Collector/Eaglemoss.

[@jamescooper7878]

you also have the Talarian vessels showing up a lot in the TNG era... but my head canon is that the Talarian build and sold a lot of ships to other smaller powers

[@jamescooper7878]

@@peoplesrepublicofninj3418 hm? Perhaps it was the tellarites i meant

[@Endquire]

You are kind of a maniac and quite enjoyably irreverent. You make Trek Central my favorite channel for this content.

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

The J Class looks like you wouldn’t have privacy, so how would you do the deed to make offspring.

[@DrewLSsix]

Just.... do it.

[@dougsmith6262]

If it's been long enough, privacy and subtlety will matter less and less. Eventually you'd just gotta be like "Hey, the wife/husband and I are gonna go spend some quality time together. So y'all just put in some headphones or something for thirty minutes."

[@TheHeroRises]

@@dougsmith6262 be realistic- 23mins.

[@jasonmast7769]

@@TheHeroRises it depends on how well the hull seals in the air as to how much of a spacesuit you're going to have to put back on

[@tomaskops7119]

YOu can hide in some cargo module and lock it

[@brybish]

Was never into enterprise but will give it a look now,

[@danboyle7165]

You left out of the Antares-Class cargos Ultra-Explosive Exploding Explodium, which is frequently used in the construction of Starfleet computer control panels.

[@thetruth45678]

Bolloxite is also a key component of plot armor.

[@jimmysmith2249]

Borg texturing? Or robot puke?

[@markdejager4798]

Khosa, written Xhosa not shosa

[@kurtsnyder4752]

Lucarno?, heck no, Tom Paris.

[@kellysavage7073]

hey its Frazier Crane lol

[@aiosquadron]

Canon? Frak it. Send it out the airlock. Let's talk headcanons and theories

[@tomlichnofsky.7048]

🖖😊🖖🍁♈

[@PopeMetallicus]

Welcome to 2020s Trek, where Orange Man Bad is the primary design consideration for the series...I wonder why no one's watching anymore....

[@pknuttarlott4934]

16:38 Chronologically the first human assimilation happened years ago when the phoenix made warp. The Enterprise-E I believe a male engineer followed by a female engineer.

[@CrashHeadroom]

I can go more nerdy than thaat about them. Those actors were originally in the game "BORG", and due to all those things being filmed around the same time it landed them a small little roll in First Contact being borged lol.

[@stevencorrell6473]

It depends on which way you chose to look at it the engineers were the first on the Enterprise but the researchers were the first on earth

[@farshnuke]

@@stevencorrell6473but that episode is a sequel to First Contact and part of that chain of events.

[@shanenolan5625]

Cheers Adam. I really liked the j class in enterprise

[@brentbarr498]

18:00 Why do I hear Kelsey Grammer when I listen to you? Are you a student of his? Did you take acting lessons from him? Are you his evil clone?!? ;)

[@reddyredwolf3931]

There is the Merchant Ship in Star Trek III which was heavily reused for other ships.

[@spacerconrad]

The Monarch class. Yeah, that would have been a good one to cover.

[@shanenolan5625]

Nice sponsorship voice

[@turbopokey]

22:50 Wait, what about “explodium”, that primary component of Oberth class hulls?

[@tomaskops7119]

And every console

[@jmslls]

Well, we don't need exploding anymore, we used it up at wolf 359

[@aaronatherton7431]

Why do we all name our alien generals Biscuit?!! Now, now Q...you are new to the game. It's just, it's confusing Q! They might start asking questions, if, they all had the same name. R! This one is starting to ask too many questions! Go clean your room R, you come back to your RLG later!

[@TrentonBennett]

I think doing a video on all fhe Wolf 359 kitbash ships would be great. This was a good video.

[@TrekCentral]

Funny you should say that… - Jack

[@chrissonofpear1384]

Nice! I'm finally getting my USS Princeton model too, I hear.

[@infomissiles9188]

ROFL. All this complaint about too cramped and small to function. Someone never saw a submarine!

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

ECS (Earth Cargo Ship) I get it now.

[@lezking5060]

Loved the video - including the "bloops" :-) Thanks for the info!

[@dennisud]

Neat video and your Unique voice make it more entertaining! Also, I love your list of "idiums! ;-)

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

How about COFS (Name of ship) COFS standing for Civilian Owned Federation Ship Or COSS (Name of ship) COSS standing for Civilian Owned Starfleet Ship

[@That80sGuy1972]

Beginning with the Star Trek movies, it seems that consoles have used a lot of Explodium in standard starship production. Did the Antares-class haul that? I mean, that would be nerve-wracking, like any of us transporting nitro-glycerine in large quantities.

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍very well done indeed 👌

[@stevengalloway8052]

"Ship! With a P!" THIS! 😆

[@techsaverscomputerrepairca2127]

I wish that you could do every Trek Central's videos. Brilliant and freaking fun to listen to.

[@TrekCentral]

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[@cliffcorson4000]

I like the element "bullshittium" needed to make plot armor

[@TCTurner]

Had a laugh writing that one, glad it made the cut 😁

[@dougsmith6262]

Love the Mudd pun. Top level dad joke.

[@briansabolewski6756]

Now is it just me that it looks like the ship from Jason x just the bridge area if different

[@pknuttarlott4934]

Good video I enjoyed your list of future alloys.

[@emperorofscelnar8443]

Perhaps time is like a tree branching out with multiple time lines that is probably how you get alternate realities.

[@Slenkamure]

raid shadow legends! - the game that crashes every 5 minutes, and bombards you with advertisements for ingame purchase items every single time you change screens in the game.

[@Xalorr]

The Y class Freighters has not the High End Phase Canons, they use odinary Plasma Turrets, they are in most Battle agains Pirats absolute useless. Only the ECS - Horizon has her Weapons linked to the impulse Relays for more firepower. Travis has make this modifications in good will but without permission from his Mother or brother. But the result was impressive for such kind of ship. [S2 EP20 Horizon] Humans play evertime with dangerous Things, and they become mostly many problems. XD I have no understand, why Starfleet has send a ship with warp cability to observe a excavation areal. The assimilated Arctic version was a interessing Idea. Maybe that the Scoutships was 'borgified' smaler vessels at all. Only the huge Cubes was possible was a complete build up. The Yacht was realy a odd desing. The Pimary hull looks like the excelsior class engine section. XD And the absurde nacells yelling "I have the bigger balls" Of course the owner of such kind of vessels the haven't. At all...a ship to forgott. The Antares Class was the earthship with tha most modification cability. Only the triangle shape freighter like the Mondor from the Pakleds was older and become much more modifications. Starfleets first contact with it was the crashed one on a unkown planet. [sorry i have forgot the Name of this Episode. It was too boring. 😋] Funny is that both shiptypes you can see overall in the entire galaxis. XD It would a interessing project to find a plausible inverse explain for this paradox. 🤭

[@haroldjedrzejczyk9449]

Dude

[@DTSephiroth]

Raid: Shadow Legends. Can your House even handle this much glory?

[@onetruekeeper]

Private ownership of warp capable ships seem rare in the Federation. Perhaps they are too expensive for most people except for the wealthy few.

[@_Omega_Weapon]

Since the Federation doesn't use money.. exactly, but "credits", people probably use them for holodeck time and transporter access. I suppose a lot of civilians do in fact own small ships and shuttle craft , but they're just not shown on screen due to time and/or budget constraints.

[@Legoman547joes]

Plotarmor - 99.9 % bullshitium and 0.1 % luck

[@canis2020]

Love the Tardis chanel shout out. Very natural

[@SuperGamefreak18]

the arctic explorer, probably the biggest laugh Q ever had at the bootstrap paradox that happened.

[@PCPSolutions]

I always thought the freighters in Enterprise should have ben much larger. Massive compared to the NX class. I mean if you are going to run cargo over 5 years, make it count.

[@_Omega_Weapon]

I'd imagine that too and in my head canon they are lol. They probably couldn't make them huge due to budget constraints.

[@thetruth45678]

Are you kidding me? An arctic space ship? OMG. Writers really have fallen off. Tell me, do you know how cold interstellar space is? It doesn't matter how much ice is on your arctic planet, it's still going to be warmer than the vacuum of space. Can we get writers with working gray matter, please?

[@merafirewing6591]

Honestly, I like the super yacht in Star Trek Discovery because I like an over the top design.

[@leondillon8723]

4:59)Seems better to have put the docking port on the top. 6:07)In one after series book, it was I.M. Pulse engines. 12:54)Para meters. Para:at, near or close. Meter: Distance or length. 14:08)Maybe the military would have taken them to Area 51. 16:47)Their beaming aboard is dramatic. The explosives could have been sent with a 3 second fuse. Same for when trapped by a tractor beam. Put a torpedo warhead into the beam.

[@christopherbrentbrown8840]

I don’t think this breaks cannon at all. The signal they sent would allegedly reach the Delta quadrant by the 24th century. Assuming the Borg received it they would have dispatched a cube heading towards the alpha quadrant. Who is to say that the cube that Q threw the Enterprise-D in-front of in sector J-25 wasn't a cube enroute already to the Alpha quadrant? i agree with Picard that Q actually dis them a favour. Also, Admiral Hansen admitted they didn't expect them so soon. i think it was clever how they tied it in so neatly to the timeline.

[@mattnoble2100]

the Y-class freighter was NOT armed with Phase cannons. They were armed with a single Plasma-cannon, CADET, please report back to your Fleet historical class for remedial training at once : Signed: Commodore Daul Shurin Star Fleet Command sector 7 Intelligence

[@vinnyjhawer7847]

Talk about adding too much cheese to the script. You're trying too hard to be funny. It's actually a little cringing. Please, for the love of God, dial it back a little. Or perhaps a lot, OH! and that voice you used during the sponsorship plug, please don't do that again for your own sake. I almost ended the stream then & there. Forgive my candour, but I just had to say it this time. Hopefully no hard feelings 😐

[@realhorrorshow8547]

What puzzles me is the question: How valuable were the cargoes they're hauling? If they're worth risking human lives for give those humans a fighting chance. If they're not, use drone ships. This seems like a policy for generating drama than how actual transportation has worked historically.

[@McAster99]

So many of these ships I just forget about, which is a shame, as they are interesting for numerous reasons. I still wish Star Trek's novel line was as expansive as Star Wars, just so we could get more on the civilian side. Something like Corps of Engineers, but for the civilian ships, unaligned human colonies not part of the federation or too far away, etc would be great.

[@tarync6539]

This is supposed to be about Star Trek not American politics. That was really cheap what you did and totally unnecessary and I'm not even an American. Stay clear of politics

[@julius-stark]

19:53 and I am reminded why I gave up on that show. Compare that ugly ship to the Guanshiyin on The Expanse. You can make a ship owned by a rich jerk without it being butt ugly.

[@vincentpuccio3689]

Hey how about the Antares from TOS episode Charlie X. And the cargo ship destroyed by the Klingon in The search for Spock

[@erikjs]

I like how the narrator specifies that he is saying “Ship” for the KZbin censors, but then goes on to list several elements including “Bullshitinium”

[@thetruth45678]

I would assume that the cargo crews were called boomers because, in nautical terms, a boom is often used to load and unload cargo from ships' holds.

[@sternencolonel7328]

Aside from the dish at the front, arctic one looks like being build by non humans, maybe a ship bought from a friendly race ?

[@thetruth45678]

"...a bit more muddy..." Yeah, we get it. You could have also said they were a bit more Harry.

[@deathgnomes]

I'm honestly surprised that yacht hasn't been featured in STO's summer event as the prize ship.

[@paulnicholson5997]

You missed the Merchant Ship that delivers the Genesis plans to the Klingon Bird of Prey in Star Trek 3.

[@Grey_Shard]

But how can they have merchants or freighters when there is no money or other forms of trade/currency/commerce other than purely "for the experience" deals like Sisko's restaurant?

[@stumpDD978]

Getting a bit timey wimey?

[@kargandarr]

I beg to differ. Star Trek Online has become somewhat canon and in it Quark is so wealthy that he finally bought a moon to live on.

[@garyheighway7635]

Bullshitium 😂😂😂😂

[@neilhaas]

I missed the Fan Expo thought I liked all the collectibles stuff. I like autographs I missed all that.

[@Charvale]

I was hoping to see the Merchantman which was used for Star Trek III as the light cargo freighter that was destroyed by Kruge's Bird-of-Prey after the Klingon on the ship transmitted the information about the Genesis torpedo, and its design was used later for several episodes of TNG as freighters, and once for an annoyingly "by the book" group of aliens that were annexing a planet where people were already colonizing and not wanting to leave.

[@haroldjedrzejczyk9449]

The Sheliak, you mean.

[@Charvale]

@@haroldjedrzejczyk9449 I think so. I couldn't remember, and was brain-fried that day. It does sound right.

[@Talltrees84]

Make a video of yachts and interstellar cruise ships, please. Thank you.

[@ssjtruncks90]

22:38 you forgot star trek favorite ore explodium. its what every console seems to be made out of, lol

[@neilhaas]

Other people say unfortunately I'm not a fan of star trek that's too bad. It's their decision.

[@Merennulli]

I can't help but see Red Dwarf's Starbug when I see Arctic 1.

[@Daman2287]

@TrekCentral you missed the line the cold never bothered the borg anyway

[@species138]

I just want to say that I am an archaeologist and if I come across anything like that I will shoot it and run.

[@scienceMicroguy77]

The history of the raven USS raven period please do that 1 period Adam only

[@dockaos924]

Not impressed with the muddy pun 🙄 loved the mudd character tho👍😊

[@DanBen07]

4:36 Actually armed with plasma cannons. Thay could be upgraded.

[@jimelfman1369]

Vulcan shuttle/warp sled from TMP

[@mathewhoffer4541]

which starfleet starship was run entirely on bullshitium ?

[@kathrynjaneway5346]

Way too long talk of sponser I stopped wanting to watch your content

[@mathewhoffer4541]

Why is it the UK armed forces always seem to promote the wrong guy to lieutenant? I mean they constantly refer to all of them as left Tenants ? and never the RIGHT Tenant? I guess what can you expect of a country continually trying to stuff their holiday suitcases in their boots instead of putting them in the trunk of their car like Americans do ? like how much luggage can fit in a pair of shoes ?

[@xedanis101]

*All of it.*

[@saliston]

Space freighters should be gigantic in size.

[@pathfinderdiscovery9395]

The horizon bridge looked like it was a redress of the defiant ,

[@Blackinterceptor999]

Excuse me? Quark owns an entire Moon...I'm not even really a "Trekie" and I know this....

[@_Omega_Weapon]

Nope, that was his cousin Gayla

[@thefallenshallrise3233]

Bullshitium hmmm?sounds very useful.

[@michaeld8280]

can we get a Enterprise ERA space trucker game??

[@UltrEgoVegeta]

It's just a big ball of timey wimey stuff

[@kiplingslastcat]

"Aproxamatly 29 crew."

[@austinm5630]

25:51 This isn't an Antares-class. It's an Amarie Class, also known as an Amarie Smuggler's Heavy Escort and/or a Smuggler's Combat Vessel. In both cases it is based on a very different hull shape and equipped with some of the heaviest weaponry of any civilian ship in all of Trek, in excess of many military vessels of its time. It's also not based on the Antares model, bur rather the Jovis model. In STO, the Amarie is equipped with standard phaser arrays and torpedoes, plus a cloaking device, twin side-mounted kinetic artillery cannons, a Slamshot Magnetic Artillery Cannon, and on top of all that, onboard NPCs that are otherwise exclusive to Ferengi and a handful of lower-tier ships. Also, despite STO classifying the ship as an "Escort" it has the Destroyer mastery package, probably due to the ridiculous number of guns.

[@Valor115B]

hull shape and engine details lead me to suspect that it is a redressed husnock warship

[@shawnbeckmann1847]

I don't get the muddy thing??

[@stevenkarmazenuk2540]

You can see Moore's background with the BSG reboot in that first freighter...it evokes Colonial One.

[@raymondsims537]

what about the raven

[@jasondunbar3592]

First contact

[@StephenYang]

I'm kind of surprised nothing about the Kobiyashi Maru.

[@ameliaraevert611]

I skip Raid Shadow legends ads.

[@TrekCentral]

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[@stuartkseels]

The Bong version of the civilian ship could have been Snowmobile Class...

[@XHunter442]

Ty for the video and your own starships for star trek sounds like a good idea to talk about!

[@jamescooper7878]

i would love to get the borgified Artic ship in STO, my borg drone need one

[@MrApplemat]

I always liked the design of the Arctic one

[@SimonPicard]

Where is the La Sirena? 😢