Star Trek
Really, Starfleet / the United Federation of Planets must have an AMAZING propaganda arm given how everyone treats them as the savior atop a white horse. The reality, of course, is radically different.
The video I forgot to link to: https://youtu.be/Lwx5uB0pyhQ My lacking enunciators aside from the equation, the D'deridex class of warships in Star Trek is a fascinating study of both how style can just plain run roughshod over substance, and how you can end up stacking good ideas on top of good ideas and end up with something that never should have been made in the first place. Competent warship? Yes. Good idea in total? ... probably not.
I can't even with this thing. I don't know where to start. I don't know where to go. And I don't know what the [deleted] that ridiculous thing even /is/. This is really one of the very few cases where making the ship organic would have improved the story/explanation significantly, although I guess having Borg tech integrated into it makes it semi-organic. Organic-ish. Organic like. [deleted] organics.
Wow. We actually made it to 200 subscribers. Did not see that coming. Anywise, the video is pretty self-explanatory. Star Trek is weird, Starfleet is weird, the whole saucer-type ships are weird, it's all weird. That's what you're here for, after all.
Speaking of sea shanties, here are some good ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEpAMm0-kVg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP-7GNoDJ5c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBjCPYgYrrg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V12FuCX9xJM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itl8bmEILPo But seriously though. I get having an appreciation for prehistoric technology, because everything starts from somewhere, after all. But what would possess you to reproduce that technology, and then TEST IT IN A REAL-LIFE KIND OF WAY? Y'all squishies be suicidal. Don't forget that the shipyards' Patreon can be found here: https://www.patreon.com/sacredcowshipyards
One of the traditions on the Defiant during the Dominion War was to literally stack up the burnt-out phaser emitters in the mess deck. Yeah, this thing was TOTALLY a military warship, and, honestly, it heralded in a new era for Starfleet where they FINALLY admitted that, yes, they should probably have some segment of them that /is/ proper-military, and capable of holding off Big Bads like the Dominion. Of course, then there's Section 31, which is a whole different ball of wax... In any case, yeah, the Defiant is massively overpowered in every possible way that word means, to the point where it was an absolutely naked deus ex machina. Still a hell of a ship.
And, no, I didn't even talk about its capabilities, because the entire Oberth class, with the exception of the title screen Pegasus, were all /painfully/ pedestrian ships. I think they had phasers. Definitely had shields. Neither did a whole lot of good. No photon torpedoes. Maybe a shuttlepod or two? About the only thing notable regarding them is that they had a nominal crew of 80 but could operate with just 5, and, I guess, if two of you hang out in engineering and the rest run the upper section, that would simplify the whole "going back and forth" thing.
Yeah, it's blocky. Yeah, it's slow. Yeah, it has no weapons. Yeah, it's... not really attractive at all. Yeah, it doesn't have a transporter. Yeah, it doesn't even have an airlock. ... wait, where was I going with this?
I love Star Trek and I am a life-long Trekkie, but even I have to admit that the Starbase Yorktown makes utterly no sense, at all, anywhere, at any point. Most photos, and the video clip, are naturally borrowed from Star Trek: Beyond.