(86)The NX Class
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- In today's episode of Truth OR Myth Beta, we're taking a look at the NX Class, Earth's first Warp 5 Starship Class, as seen in Star Trek: Enterprise! I hope you enjoy!
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Can you do a video where we explore the many horrible deaths that might have befell Enterprise's Doctor Phlox?
LOL Ima put it on my "to do" list just for you :P
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios cheers Brother! 😂❤
And cheers right back at you, you perfectly limey bastard :P
What?!? I love Dr. Phlox! He's hilarious. Neelix on the other hand... 💀☠☠
Someone hates Doctor Phlox. I wasn't a big fan of the character, but he wasn't like that horrible Neelix character in Voyager. They should have kept kes and get rid of Neelix.
I really wish we could have seen the NX refit on screen. Its such a great ship that connects the ship to the TOS era.
Me too 100%
It would be great, if TV show survived to 7th season and the last episode would be about that refit. That would be the ultimate connection to TOS.
And two years later, season 3 of Star Trek Piccard briefly shows a NX refit in the Fleet Museum.
The Phase Cannons were due to be installed on Tuesday.
Enterprise was such an underrated show. The ship, sets and props were amazingly designed with so many nods to the 1701 and the original Star Trek
Currently rewatching Enterprise and the NX will always be my favorite Enterprise!
The sick bay was something enterprise did really well i liked how it still had curtains
Me too! For me, it was those little details that sold it :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios my favourite was the blue ivac pump that was straight out of a NHS nightingale ward
always had a fondness for the NX-class it was part of the reason i choose to play star trek online
Someone who hasn't played STO yet, here. Why is that a reason you started playing? Do they give you an NX early on or smt?
I have seen a lot of people reference the game with various gripes about it (as well as tons of praise), but have not made up my mind about playing it yet...
I need to look into it more, I can not afford to get sucked into a moneypit of a game, no matter how cool the graphics are. 😒
@@nexy12 you get a default NX as your first escort (ship purely meant for fighting) early on and it's okish. Vary much a starter ship.
You can get the refit variant via lobo crystal store and if set up well is a beast that, while still pretty fragile, will readily stage dive Borg cubes and iconian Dreadnoughts. I love the one I have.
Oh my god the look on my face when the video starts with an "It's been a long road" joke
I did it just for you Michael ;) :P
I've always had a soft spot for Enterprise. It feels like Star Trek's version of The Right Stuff. There was an air of optimism and hope aboard the ship, and not just from Dr. Phlox. These were the true Starfleet pioneers! 🖖😎👍
🎼” It’s been a loooong way, gettin’ from here to there...”🎼😁
I LOVED the Mirror Universe episodes just because I didn’t have to hear that damn song!
P.S., Dr. Phlox was such a hippie! I loved his character.
I totally love the NX class a really beautiful looking Starship
I agree! It's a beauty! :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios it is
She may have basically been designed off the idea of a producer turning an Akira model over and saying; "We want that," but the simple details and real-world features show she was an extension of current technology instead of sci-fi "space wizardry" to conceal traits like the weapons. Her flaws gave her a character only the Defiant and Delta Flyer shared; small, versatile, robust but battered, and capable of more than she appeared able to handle.
Only the Delta Flyer could match her small and cramped but energetic and defiant personality, and they also were well-designed be artists who knew how to make their features stand out
I think the NX class is one of my favourite star ships after Constitution and Galaxy Class. Great narrative and thank you for explaining how the polarized hull plating works.
One tough little ship! (:
You are very welcome Darren :)
LOVE THESE Ship Breakdown vids!!! They are ALL really well done!!
Thanks for All your Amazing content!!!
You're very welcome Matt! Thank you for the support :)
Watching the NX fire torpedoes for fun like it had a voyager compliment always makes me smile. Season 3 episode The council....... Xmas
One thing I'd like to know, about the Enterprise in particular, is how many years were there between each vessel bearing the name when there wasn't one in active service? So, for example, how many years were there between the decommissioning of the NX-01 and the launching of the NCC 1701, and what did Starfleet do for flagships during those years? Obviously, we know that the crew of Kirk's Enterprise went their separate ways (for the most part) temporarily during the period between the end of TOS and TMP, most notably with Kirk becoming an admiral and subsequently taking over as captain of the Enterprise again during the events of TMP.
Well that's a question Star Trek hasn't answered yet... It would be interesting to find out... Was there another Enterprise in between the NX and Constitution Classes? There certainly IS enough time... Maybe one day we'll be told :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I hope it's one we get an answer to one day, I for one would certainly like to know.
I get the impression the Flagship isn't always necessarily called Enterprise. Heck, its arguable whether the NCC 1701 was the flagship during TOS. In fact the only ship that we know 100% was the Flagship was the D - its not mentioned on the status of the others.
A 'hero ship' for sure, with a long legacy. But the Constitution Enterprise was just one of a series of deep space explorers which only in-universe became famous after the five year mission - and by that point it was an old ship rapidly approaching retirement. Perhaps it was considered 'a' flagship, which makes a bit more sense considering how huge Starfleet is and how many vessels they have (thousands of 'larger' vessels, minimum).
Thank you very much for this OR Myth BETA- The NX Class
You're very welcome :)
Let make sure history never forgets the name enterprise
:) I dont think it ever could :)
I like the NX class it's one of my favorite
Next to the Constitution class the NX-01 is my top two favorite ships.
Great Great video. Thank you so much for the awesome content you give us all the time.
You're very welcome, and thank you so much for your continued support Bill :)
I actually like the ship class's grey hull color and the ship's impressive manuver ability in a combat situation is quite awesome
I am enjoying all those types of videos! Please continue!
Glad you like them Doug :) Thank you :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I love the creativity and enjoyment!
Another fantastic video!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Jason!
I would have loved to be her captain. What an exciting time for Enterprise's crew and Earth.
ST Enterprise gets too much hate in my opinion. The first season was a little boring but the show kept getting better over the years. There was so much potential with the Earth-Romulan War story line.
Ive noticed, in more recent years, that the hate is getting less and less, which Im glad about. I think the show had a LOT of redeeming qualities, it's just unfortunate Berman, who had been long played out by that point, was still in charge of Trek... If he hadnt of been, I think the show would have been much better from the get go, and might have made the franchise fresh again!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I think the issues with ST Discovery helped people appreciate Enterprise more. LOL.
I dont think that's it at all, as the love started long before DSC showed up! :P
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Indeed; I'm near through a rewatch, and (still) really enjoy it. Shame that final episode was lost along with the Soprano's last few minutes...
The ONLY thing I hated about that show was the theme music. I was soooooo happy when they switched the music for the alternate universe episodes. The show was pretty good otherwise.
very good video, as always :)
Thank you! Cheers! :)
I really wish we got to see the NX refit onscreen as it really does look like a precursor to the Constitution class
I had a model of the NX-01 that I LOVED, used to watch the show with it and everything. Wish I could find another one like it
I really love this video.
Im glad Greg :) Thank you for the support :)
The Earth Romulan War arc would've made for a great mini-series that can be explored one of these days.
I was waiting for this video. Actually I was watching Enterprise just yesterday. I love that ship, because it's much more closer to the technology, we have today. I can easily believe, it was ship from before Kirk's time, because it looks modern, yet so archaic compared to 1701. I think that designers did great job. I mean, small 4:3 LCD screens bolted on the steel walls, most of them not event touchscreens. Almost no carpets, no warm colors, no build in screens (maybe except viewscreen). Mechanical button panels and keyboards, literal joystick used for piloting. Everything was practical, spartan, just like a ship or submarine. And yet, that was the flagship back then, so I can only imagine, how the Intrepid looked on the inside. Or Delta.
I also loved several facts about the NX class. Her imunity to the Romulan virus, because it has been made by humans without help from Vulcans, so it was so different to everything in the Alpha quadrant. Grapler, that is maybe more primitive, than the tractor beam, but also more pratical. It's mechanical, so it probably consumes less power than tractor beam and is as strong as the rope used. Enterprise crew used it to send some kind of electrical overload to different ship. It was usable even in the unstable parts of space, where tractor beam could be negatively effected, maybe even unusable. Not to mention that nice stunt from Trip, where he literally climbed from Columbia to Enterprise in the open space DURING the Warp.
And I loved Phlox and his methods. All the fancy stuff that Doctor Bashir, or Cruser or even McCoy had? No such things in 22nd century. But he had Altarian marsupial, immunocytic gel worm, Edosian slug, osmotic eel, Regulan bloodworms, tribbles, a Lyssarian Desert Larvae, a Calrissian chameleon and many more. Xenobilogy must have been much more harder back then.
I loved spatial torpedoes, that were so useless against the first real enemy the crew faced. They were even less powerful that phase canons.
Frankly I loved all the times when Enterprise was just weak little ship standing against much more powerful and technologically more advanced adversaries, so the crew had to use brains and/or diplomacy to get out of the situation alive. I loved all the times Archer made mistakes, because there was no Prime Directive to tell him what to do. I loved the fact, that this little, underpowered, underated ship was the one, that paved the way for Federation of Planets. Because for other races the aliance was novelty, but for humans it was necessity. If the earth would have more powerful ships and larger flotilla, the things could be different. But we had only NX-01 and crew, that wasn't really ready for what was waiting for them in the depths of the space. And that's why the Enterprise made all the difference in the quadrant.
Sorry for the long comment, I just fel in love with that series (although I love DS9 and TNG very much, Voyager and TOS also). It has many problems, it could be better on many occasions, but I love the design of the ship and all the things that made her unique. And this looks like great place to finally write it.
That's something that most Trek fans don't give the creators of Enterprise enough credit for. They had the daunting task of making something that seemed archaic compared to TOS but still felt futuristic compared to today which is hard given we have things today that were practically based on the TNG era (PADDs being a good example) and then managed to do it realistically and believably.
@@BlackHedgehog There is still one thing that helps. Star Trek universe was evolving differently, than ours since circa 1960s when TOS started. They had Eugenics wars that we didn't have so their technological advancement went differently. So there are many inconsistencies with our technology, that can be explained by this fact. There was no room for mobile phones or smartphones in post war society of 1990s in Star Trek universe. That's why theirs communicators look differently, why the NX-01 and Kirks ship had intercoms instead of mobile communicators like in TNG. Also, intercoms are porbably more pratical, harder to hack remotely (same as in Battlestar Galactica) that communicators, that work only in tandem with main computer. Intercom system was probably independent from the main computer.
And why there are almost no Personal Computers, instead just interfaces connected to mainframe (even the PADDS are connected to central computer almost constantly). So yes, we actually have in-universe explanation why Star Trek tech is so different to ours. But I agree that creators of the Etnerprise had really hard task of making something look futuristic and yet archaic, moreover compared to the TOS ships, that look archaic and retrofuturistic even to our standards. And I think they did it as best as they could. At least I was convinced of that when I saw the ship for the first time.
🎵”Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, A tale of a fateful trip.
That started from this earth side port
Aboard this tiny ship.
Captain Archer was a mighty sailing man, Commander Tucker was brave and sure.
Themselves and crew set sail that day for a warp five shakedown tour, a warp five shakedown tour…
The Sulaban started playing rough,
The tiny ship was tossed.
If not for the courage of the fearless crew,
The Enterprise would be lost, the Enterprise would be lost.
The ship soon found itself on the shore of a bizarre looking sphere,
With Captain Archer,
Commander Tucker too,
Dr. Phlox and Tpol,
Commander Reed,
And the rest!
Right on Star Trek Enterprise!“🎵
Excellent video as always. Have you considered making a beta video telling the history of the earth-romulan war? That would be good to see.
Thank you, and indeed I have, in Fact, Ive already written a couple of parts on it... BUT my CGI skills are not yet at the level it would require to bring it too life ;)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Get in touch with Samuel Cockings of Trekyards. He does that stuff really well!
Samuel is actually a friend of mine, Im actually doing Artwork for him for one of his upcoming Fan Films... He however, does not make 3D models for the program I use, or any I know how to use! And also, Stuart lives 45 mins away from me as well :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios AWESOME!
Are you are going to a beta canon video on the NX Class Refit?
Indeed I intend too! But probably not for a bit! :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Fair enough.
Yeah I'm sort of following a "Starfleet Starship Release" timeline with these new videos, but only very loosely...
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Ok, what is the next ship in your beta canon videos?
You know I NEVER give those secrets away :P
Still bugs me we never got our Earth-Romulan War but alas. Still love this class so much.
I wish we could have had it as well :(
I know Berman was pretty much going to ruin this show regardless of what they’d tried. However, I think if they’d led into the Romulus War early on and Then moved into the early days of the UFP instead of the dead end of the Temporal Cold War and Suliban nonsense, things might have turned out differently.
It's been a long road...
Wow changed her back to her original configuration. What a waste of fictional money. Jk
Great video and I always will love the NX-01
It's ALL in the interest of preservation, besides the Earth doesnt have money :P LOL
Thank you :)
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios that’s way I said fictional money.
Once again great video and love your channel
And THAT'S why I was teasing you about it :P
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios ohhhhhh very good. Your Clever.
I know, it comes with being a TH-camr :P
This video is a great Honor to the 20th Anniversary of a captivating yet final series of Paramount Trek series.
Doug Drexler’s work is simple yet realistic of what a Pre- UFP Starfleet vessel would look like.
King of wishful thinking: if Paramount only stayed patient on funding and keeping this series alive. Coto and company had so many creativity and surprises for us if the Series lasted another 3/4 season.
Well it's always easy to say "stayed patient" when it's not your own money, in the millions, heading down the tubes... The truth was at the time, that No One was watching Enterprise... It's viewership numbers only reach half the heights that Voyager ever did... And they were on the same Network!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I cannot say the failed viewership is either from Changing demographic and fan base for Star Trek or both Berman and Braga was producing nonsensical boredom in script and episodes???
I was with the Program and support any which way possible even if it’s meh.
When Season 4 happened I prayed to the Lord is would survive but business is business and rerun/overseas and DVD/Blu Ray couldn’t help Paramount get their money back.
At least this series isn’t forgotten as Abrams Trek, DSC and possibly Strange New World will keep mentioning Enterprise.
Yes. Also when in beta cannon did the build the original star trek enterprise? That captain Kirk flew. Which is in the new upcoming star trek series.
2245 it was launched!
I know people hate the show a bit, but I love the fact the technology for some of the more mundane items such as the computer monitors and push button controls don't look that out of place considering. It also shows that they were somewhere between the phoenix in ship design and the Constitution class, and the refit version of the NX-01 clearly show cases this.... I personally would have loved to see an enterprise movie or additonal seasons with the Earth-Romulan war.
Archer & the NX Enterprise, are my actual favorite crew & ship of Trek. They're inferior at least tech-wise, in many ways to the others, but they did it first with no Prime Directive, & they literally wrote that book as they went. Itt why they're my favorite
I would like to see something about what happened in starship design between the Phoenix and the NX class
Well Ive made 2 videos already about that :P The NX Intrepid Class th-cam.com/video/s_Y2VjLOZcQ/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TriAngulumAudioStudios and the NX Freedom Class th-cam.com/video/jSv7xNWLgHw/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=TriAngulumAudioStudios There is still 1 more for me to do, but Im waiting on the CGI model for that one to be ready :)
I love th NX class
I like this video
Thank you so much! :)
Is there and was there even a story of the first ever Starship in service in between the First Contact Phoenix and NX Enterprise???
Yes there is, and I shall be covering that in future story! ;)
The NX class started it all... 😏😌
NX means No Xindi
get out of here Xindi
It would have been nice if they had the dual hull layout at the start of the series.
I actually love the idea that it didnt, and would have loved for it to be added later on! It's unfortunate the series didnt last long enough to at least see that :(
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios While it would have been neat to see it added in during the series, I don't think there was enough time in the story to explain the Enterprise being out of action that long.
I believe there was more then enough time, and completely justified... After the Xindi Incident, Starfleet would have it's engineers begin to construct the secondary hull while Enterprise did Season 4... Then in between Season 4 and 5, Enterprise would have the hull attached over the space of about 6 months... Season 5 picks up with them heading out again! Absolutely enough time, with enough story IE the Xindi made Starfleet think, to explain it all!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios Sorry, I meant to say "During the Xindi incident." Welp, there's my brayne werk guud moment for the day, lol.
Why do people hate this show...
It was good, yeah I was really annoyed they killed off tucker but it was a good show, a beautiful ship and great crew.
AND THE MAN HIMSELF
Jeffrey Combs as Shran.
Alright hear me out star trek: enterprise: the animated series
Id gladly hear you out! And Id gladly watch that... BUT tbh Star Trek needs to move forward, rather then back... We have enough shows already that cater to the fans nostalgia ;)
I meant this comment as a joke
Well try using "emotes" to denote your intent :P We can only go by what we read, we arent Betazoid, or even half Betazoid :P But my comment still stands ;)
Joke or not, I'd still take this. While it's true we have a lot of shows set in the past (if you include Strange New Worlds), the ENT era deserves more shows. Since we are also getting stuff set after Nemesis.
I think I'm in the minority on this point, but I'm not a fan of the Columbia Class. I think it's too early for a secondary hull. I like the idea that the Constitution Class is the first with one. This goes along with the Massacre at Tarsus IV if Kodos didn't know about the Constitution Class, and didn't think help would arrive in time because there were no ships that he knew of that could go fast enough. This comes from the book "Star Trek Federation: The First 150 Years".
Didn't the Vulcans have tractor beams in the 2150s?
Yes? But Starfleet didnt!
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios But why didn't the Vulcans give their tractor beams to Starfleet at the time?
Because, as the series itself explains, the Vulcans dont give technology to anyone... Its the basis for the future Prime Directive...
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios I thought is was because the Vulcans in this series were stubborn monsters.
Nope!
awesome video, as always. side note, though i enjoyed the Xindi arc overall, the lead in was.... dumb. WHY WHY WHY would you tip off your enemy by sending a smaller "test" weapon to your target? sorry. had to vent. Peace and long life, yall.
Ship that fits into the timeline.
@1:12
What you did there? I saw it.😉
;)
This gave me an interesting thought. With the existence of the collector community now well established in the ST universe, what classes of ships would be the most desirable to have?
Also, would there be a market for civilians to buy and trade ships like with classic cars today? I could see Tom and B'elanna starting a business restoring originals and building new ones.
I wish the people that made "Enterprise" the show understood that NX is not a Ship class... N X stands for NAVAL EXPEARIMENT
What I wish is that some in "fandom" would stop looking at things from today's terms. This is a SciFi Show set 100+ years in the future. Yet some people tend to place views, names, etc of today on the show, and that's not logical.
First, NX stands today for Naval Experiment, yes, but Starfleet isnt a Navy. Nor is it an out cropping of the Navy. The Navy is still around in the future, but Starfleet is no more Navy, then it is Airforce or Army....
Second, we name things today after things from the past. As a sort of homage.... Our wagons of today, bear little resemblance to wagon of 100 years ago or 1000 for that matter. Imagine if someone from 100 years ago came to you and said, "Car? I wish that YOU understood that it's not a car but a horseless carriage!" You'd probably give that person the same look I'm giving you now! So it's reasonable to assume that THAT is exactly what happened here, an homage to the Navy, as Earth's first True Exploratory Vessel! Which means, the people that made the show had a VERY good understanding of how humanity works, it's simply some in fandom that dont!
I love how they kept USS. United States Ship/Service = United Star Ship.
NX actually means Navel Experimental.
I adore the NX-01 but you’d be a sadist to serve in that ship. Cramped. Cold. Metallic corridors. Having to watch your head from whacking into bulkheads. Even the mess hall has a max occupancy of like 15 people
Are you making a video to celebrate Star Trek's 55th anniversary?
Nothing specific no!
IMO saying the sick bay had the "most advanced medical systems" is an overstatement. A full hospital or starbase would have more resources and equipment for treatment and research. Perhaps the NX Class sick bay had the resources to handle medical needs and emergencies under the supervision of qualified or even brilliant doctor.
It isnt, it's exactly as the statement says!
i always considered it the enterprise class
Well you shouldnt, as that would be incorrect! :P
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios well based on the fact that in the past , every first ship of new class had its name given to the class , i was correct to assume that it would be the same , but i guess i got tossed a curve
Well the premiere episode musta corrected you then though, as they call it the NX Class several times in that episode, and dozens of other episodes after that :P
@@TriAngulumAudioStudios a little detail i always missed
LOL :)
Personally I think that the nx refit should be a separate class like the Miranda to the constitution class and nebula to the galaxy class
I dont, as it's just adding to an already existing class, the very definition of refit ;)
I really liked Enterprise. I wish they'd do a reboot or maybe a movie. It couldn't be worse than what's come out lately.
Well Enterprise is STILL the lowest viewed of all Star Trek Series, and the Cast is MUCH older then what they were... Given that DSC, PIC and LD have revitalized the franchise and become the highest viewed series of the entire franchise, bringing in more new fans then any other ever did, yes, yes it COULD be far worse then whats come out lately...
The NX freedom from ST:beyond breaks continuity…..the USS Franklin was NX 326, built during the pre-federation days then brought into the federation(ST beyond story) which almost every source says pre-federation earth was not capable of building that many ships, if earth built that many ships(at least 326 ships) that would give the 22nd century Klingons a run for its money, which could beat the romulans by itself without the collation of planets support.
Sorry but a)What CANON source says "pre-federation earth was not capable of building that many ships?" b) You missed the possibility that when the Federation came to exist, it re-christened these ships to include it in their fleets in the Earth/ Romulan War... IE This decommissioned ship, was pulled out of mothballs, given a quick upgrade, and sent to the front lines with a NEW Registry number. And c) Registry numbers have NEVER been an accurate source of information to determine when a Starship was commissioned, See the USS Constellation 1017 as an off the top of my head example, though there are many others, such as the Grissom... So no, it doesnt break Continuity at all!
Registry number serves more like a code name than serial number. It wouldn't be tactical to give out information about number of your ships so easily.
Exactly, hence why you can never use them to determine the age of starship :)
Id settle for nx class to get off this planet
the NXclass is too ugly to live.
And yet, it keeps on living :P
@ClockworkAvatar, based on just your subscriptions alone I’d say your not very far off from what you just said