🤓🖖✨ The Klingon Bird Of Prey ...from a Submariner's Perspective

[@BirdOPrey5]

Wow... Thank you. Qapla' Darin.

[@LifeWithMatthew]

16:34 - Hey I recognize that Helmsman!

[@professorbrainyspecs7366]

I knew it! You are an evil-mirror universe villain in league with Jonathan aka Future Guy aka... !

[@springtime1838]

Considering the your old boat was of a Older Class but with up to date systems and weapons you should do a video on Starfleet's use of Older Starships like the Miranda and subclasses and Excelsior and Constellation as few Warships are only a few years old most are more than a few years old if not older

[@toddtburgscifitech]

Awesome video Darin. The Salt-Vampire remark is now gold standard for Anti-Pepper :)

[@royroblox]

That sounds like a f"ing blast, showing a bunch of other sailors/veterans (and Trek-newcomers) some episodes in 1997. Thank you for sharing your experience. I've always critiqued the BOP vs Galaxy in Generations myself but it's cool to see your take -- I see it as a Battleship vs surfaced Sub or Frigate. Yes, the smaller ship can get 1-2 good surprise hits off, but once they're vulnerable, it's over. I wish they wrote or filmed that Generations scene differently for that reason ... once that BOP is visible, the Ent-D's phasers and photons should be able to cut through it like 12"-16" would against any lightly armored ship. The Undiscovered Country made sense because they couldn't land a solid hit til the very end.

[@illegalclown]

I love this series of videos. I really think you should watch Lower Decks. I swear almost every episode would have good Submariner's Perspective fodder. I especially would like to see your perspective on all the boring mundane jobs the characters have to perform. Of course my biggest complain is seeing O-1 officers doing what I would describe as E-3 work.

[@Brotund26]

He definitely needs to watch lower decks!

[@neutrino78x]

I was a submariner! thing is, star trek is inconsistent about enlisted members. TOS would occasionally refer to people as "crewmen" which sounds enlisted, although in the Navy we call them "seamen". You're a seaman until you make E-4, when you're a "third class petty officer" (E-4 through E-6 are addressed as "petty officer", although on a submarine, usually just their last name lol.) But in TNG you hear crewmen even less....I think Chief O'Brien is the only one....and that's not even clear. I always thought they meant "chief" as in "chief of the transporter officers", not "chief petty officer". But he's a Chief as in Chief Petty Officer, where are the other chiefs?? So anyway, yeah, you sort of have the impression that everybody's an officer on TNG and later, so of course an O-1 is going to do hard work. 🙂

[@nsr-ints]

"Disengage overload suppressors." "Ah. They're brining out World War eras supercharger.™"

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Great perspectives. I especially like the notion of releasing the energy suppressors on weapons!

[@Brotund26]

Most excellent video I've ever seen!

[@dennisswaim8210]

I find the idea of a US Navy submarine crew finding inspiration from a Star Trek show amusing and cool as hell at the same time! Let alone a Klingon crew. Good story, I guess you take good leadership lessons where you find them.

[@TheMultiGunMan]

Keep up the great job Darin!

[@resolutegerm]

a very accurate depiction of salty

[@krisvires]

Fun Trivia. The Bird of Prey was orignally supposed to be a Romulan ship, stolen by Commander Krug and his Klingons in Star Trek 3. Thats why it was green and had a large bird painted on the bottom- like the Romulan ship in "Balance of Terror" When you told the story about your sub Captain qouting Martok, I had a crazy mental image of a bunch of sailors singing in Klingon and one very confused Russian sonar guy. 😂

[@arnthorsnaer]

Speaking of the great big hole on the front of the ship. They also seem to exit from it when the ship docks at DS9

[@DarinRWagner]

Well, we don't know that. Just like we never saw where exactly people egress from the Defiant. I think the station uses the docking clamps and then there's a transporter that beams people on and off the ship just past the big cog wheels that we never saw.

[@stevewright9779]

Gotta be honest, the dumbest thing the old school ST producers did was not also updating and using the OG Romulan Bird Of Prey... the first ship to go up against an Enterprise in Submarine warfare style in TOS classic ep The Balance of Terror.

[@DIEGhostfish]

The OG was non-union and not allowed to make a return because of propmaker rules.

[@Aleksandrgrc]

There's a whole new BOP now, woot. Last episode of lower decks season 5.

[@misterlau5246]

I remember when I saw it had a periscope, more submarinie than any other ship

[@X-Posed23]

of course you realize this means war... - Bugs Bunny

[@popculturebreakdown9544]

Great job brother! Hail Darin!

[@thegrayshaws]

Memento Mori the latest ep of SNW has a submarine feel to it.

[@professorbrainyspecs7366]

Great video, Darin! You need to ditch that guy on the left at kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5yzmmislryYqLc. He is evil! Also, you are awesome for calling attention to the Carogan god-emperor. BirdOPrey5 does awesome work on his channel.

[@bjornmichaud8592]

What's the deal with "the Salt-Vampire"? All in good fun or legit falling out? What happened with his channel? I clearly missed something a while back; he deleted a ton of videos and his views seemed to have fallen off the map.

[@ImmortalTreknique]

😁👍👊💪🖖

[@APerson-ni1gb]

Bro you Barely if at All covered ST3 or 4 where it Debuted !? And where it wasn’t instantly portrayed as something that needed to be killed off, it went from being the Antagonist To the Protagonist In One Film And continued In the next film ! Still its pretty Lame how it was Still a BoP that took out the Hero Ship Instead of a Rarely shown Neg’Var or even the Vor’cha imo

[@TheMultiGunMan]

FIRST

[@bloodyirishman5758]

In regards to the engagement at the end of Generations with the Enterprise and the bird of prey I would simply point out the absolute laziness of the writers and director. Yes, the Duras sisters used the ability to view the, and this is important, current shield frequency at that time of initial engagement. However, ever since "The Best of Both Worlds" Federation tactics employed rotation of shield frequencies, referred to as shield nutation, when the current frequency is inadequate or compromised. This has gone as far as shield systems that automatically rotate frequencies. While the first Salvo definitely would have caught the Enterprise by surprise, once Worf realized the current frequency setting was compromised he simply would have started randomly selecting new ones. During a combat situation there is no way Geordi would have been staring at the display screen constantly so as to transmit the new frequency being utilized. Not to mention the obvious lag time there would be even if this was the case for the bird of prey to reattune their weapons to the new frequency all the while facing the tremendous offensive capability of a Galaxy class vessel. And it is clear that the bird of prey was having to land multiple disruptor hit over an extended period of time to have any effect to a unshielded Galaxy class vessel. Simply put, that bird of prey would have gone down faster than a hooker with half-off coupons on spring break...

[@DarinRWagner]

I think it had less to do with "laziness" and more to do with budget constraints. They had to reuse footage from the other films and they had to destroy the D to make way for the E. I have no problem with the BoP destroying the D, especially since the BoP was destroyed first before the D succumbed to her injuries.