Trekyards EP18 - DS9 Design with Rick Sternbach

[@darth5ava63]

Wow, this is awesome. You get Jim Martin to talk about the Defiant and my head might explode with pure joy.

[@jeffreyjacobs3663]

Great episode!! Thanks for having Rick on!!!

[@warrenripley973]

Recently discovered your channel. Rick Sternbach! Amazing. I'll probably watch every episode tonight. Cool you build the models. Just started building my U.S.S. Ares kit. Awesome that you did that Axanar interview. Great guests. Keep it up. I'll throw a donation your way in the next few days. Again, love the show!

[@jamesmagill5433]

Fascinating behind the scenes stories this episode

[@valentijn9]

Terok Nor is beautiful! Great design !

[@simonriddick]

yeah great channel. I love hearing all the design changes and ideas. been going through all the videos and so far they are all very interesting. even enterprise j :P.

[@Trekyardswebseries]

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[@Ryeguy123a]

DS9 is gorgeous -- one of the designs that works better than any other ship/structure that's the basis of a show.

[@callumwearne7870]

They should get the game developers from Alien Isolation to work on a game based on DS9 space station with a borg incursion coming straight for it, a few establishing shots of the ships and shuttles attempting to flee and evacuate the station and the point being your a first person character who has to escape borg drones that are rapidly spreading all over the station without being seen, now that would be something. plus the ability to use turbo lifts and shuttles to get from one side of the station to the other (maybe include species 8472 in there too for some horrific gore

[@cathyvickers9063]

Watching the video reminded me of something I read in Starlog back when the series was in production. Maybe someone can remind me what earthquake I'm talking about. The promenade set for the show was so well-built that there was only cosmetic damage.

[@highlyunlikely2349]

Even Quarks Dabo wheel looked somewhat like the station.

[@michaelsanders5815]

Would have liked his reflections on how the pylons look like snakes about to strike. And that they flare at the bottom looking like a Cardassian neck at the base. Also the plating on the station and hand weapons look stylistically like scales.

[@seanoneill9606]

This episode just seems to end. There isn't the usual round up at the end nor a lead into a second part. What's going on?

[@MrMartechi]

Terok Nor. I absolutly love this design although I think a more industrial oilrig design could have worked out pretty well, too. One question I have: In the later seasons of DS9, there is an episode with sisko in the role of an author who writes Deep Space Nine as a short story for a sci fi magazine on earth in an earlier time. In this Episode, called "far beyond the stars", there is a cover-art shown of how the people in this alternate time imagine deep space nine from the describtion given in the story. Is there a story behind this picture? It always was one of my favorite details in the whole show!°

[@DrewLSsix]

DS9 via the Art Deco era👍

[@majorkilljoy8289]

The interior had kinda a steam punk style look to it and it works

[@EQINOX187]

I always thought that DS9 was just to small for what it was supposed to be and I don't understand why he thought 1 mile would be to big and wouldn't work and would make the detail to small because look back at Babylon 5 that station was 5 miles long and although the detail was early CG it can clearly be seen as can the bridge/OPs and when seen along side ships that are meant to be huge it just makes the ships look small as it should but in DS9 it looks small and placed next to ships that are huge the station ends up looking small.

[@DrewLSsix]

Actually I always thought the B5 stations and ships had serious scale issues. Same as the Andromeda Ascendant and the Enterprise J.

[@RetroBerner]

Great show, ended kinda abruptly though. More input!

[@jeffreyjacobs3663]

Any chance of getting an answer to the questions of.. how the Defiant docks and where exactly is the airlock in the front of Defiant?

[@cathyvickers9063]

Jeff Jacobs As I recall, the Defiant nosed up to one of the larger docking notches in the docking ring. Where the docking pylons met the ring, I think. And there is an episode on Defiant.

[@mulletboater]

DS9 is a fine and good model. I have absolutely no issue with the look of the station itself. What chafes my nuts is: the Cardassian station look dosen't match up with the ship look. The station is black and pointy, but, the ships belonging to the same empire are brown and boxy.

[@DrewLSsix]

I take it as the two come from different eras in Cardasian history. The station is an example of peak technology and power while tha Galor ships are (as established in canon) cobbled together hulks that are symptomatic of the Cardasian decline. Also I have always had a problem with the way Federation ships and stations have similar overall shapes. If the saucer shape is determined by the needs of the warp drive they use why do the non warp driven stations all seem to use saucers? Would you expect a sea born naval ship and the facility it docks at to have the same shape? Lastly, the Galor was up to that point the only piece of design seen from the Cardasians, the design of the station was heavily reflected in everything we have seen since, like the cities in the show.

[@louisvarre2197]

The Cardassian ship ‘appears’ to violate Gene’s starship designs, similar to the Defiant. Or even the Ferengi’s.

[@majorkilljoy8289]

with a lot of species in Star Trek the styling works Klingon looks junky rusty type Junkers Ds9 has a steam punk look Federation was a "clean" looking american canadian style look to it

[@cornerofthemoon]

DS9 looks cool but the scale is all wrong. When one looks at the size of the windows and decks compared with the docked starships. The people residing on the station must be 100 feet tall.

[@MrRandomcommentguy]

My main criticism of DS9 is that it was waaaaaaay too small. It should have been at least 3 times bigger.

[@i2aiden]

very cool just wish he didn't say "you know" so much lol

[@erkyss3]

+Azraiel OK

[@highlyunlikely2349]

Yea, we would like, for him, like, to like, use the word like instead, you know?

[@Capronice]

Rick Sternbach uses a lot of umm, ah, you knows, and dums when he speaks. It really is a bad habit. He probably does not even hear how much he does that. I have a hard time remembering names of things so I tend to say umm umm umm, before I can remember it or hope the person I am talking to will guess the word for me.

[@bloodfoxtriberc]

holy shoot no i dont freaking kNoW ...

[@kitbashbob6426]

Commander! You're too soft spoken. I can barely hear you. Speak up!

[@kaseybrown7664]

This guy is not the greatest speaker. This was almost a pain to listen to, as he pauses so much, with "you know" over and over.

[@DrewLSsix]

He's a designer not a speaker, would you rather listen to a professional speaker who knew nothing about this design process?

[@highlyunlikely2349]

Would you prefer him to say, "like," every other word which by the way is the most overused word today in age groups 13-24? Like you know!