Innovations like the Chronoton Integrator make the slow ramp up to the Temporal Cold War more conceivable. The moment you normalize small changes in the flow of time for the purpose of convenience you start a slippery slope that leads to normalizing the idea of altering time to suit your needs if you have the capacity to do so.
Considering that we see quantum slipstream post-TCW, do you think they found a non-causality-violating alternative or that the Temporal Treaty had carve-outs?
@@GSBarlev If it was a computing issue that prevented the Nav systems from working fast enough to stay ahead of the drive, I think it's more likely there was a breakthrough in computer processing speed that just enabled faster navigational records access.
One of the ideas I came up with a shile ago is a computer you trap in its own temporal bubble. With a converter to give it all th einfo you can as fast as you can and then to translate what it says out of the temporal field. The computer could essentially move faster in time than the ship and give deeper analysis due to having days to analyze what other would have a few moments. That would super fit into your theory :D
@@ThunderLord1 The shenanigans that Voyager got up to over seven years in deep space probably gave Temporal Investigations the screaming willies. History might remember the Voyager incident as the first pebble rolling downhill that precipitated an avalanche.
Well done, really accurate! I'm blown away by the love for the Vesta in this comment section, I could never have imagined it would be around for so long. Small remark: The tubes below the deflector are in essence dedicated probe launchers. (I since then have unified Torpedo and Probe shapes, so perhaps in a refit... :P) Fun/sad fact: It was already in pre-visualisation for Picard, but due to time and actor budget constrains it was left out. I did deliver it to the VFX team and I have seen it in some pre-viz shots and in preliminary bridge LCARS tests. I'm reasonable sure that if Legacy will be made by the same group, the Vesta will get a cameo. :)
The Vesta was my Main on STO for a pretty long time. It looked awesome, had a hanger for extra fire power, and once I got the hang of R&D and the stats it was pretty formidable. I only moved on from it when T6 became a thing and I got the Pathfinder.
I could imagine that the vetsa is a connecting step in progressing QSD to larger ships. As it's possible that berfore Vesta and Odessey, the federation only managed to make the QSD work on a smaller scale and thus needing a prototytpe testbed for inplementing the technology to larger classes.
The Interceptor class is also said to contain a QSD and judging by it's structural profile, it looks designed to be able to handle slipstream velocity.
The Vesta/Aventine is close to my heart. I love Ezri Dax, and I love that she got command of that ship. Also, it's a beautiful continuation of the Voyager elongated design. Also, it's my ship in STO :)
As soon as I saw the Aventine/ Vesta in the ships of the line calendar I fell in love. Sufficiently different to show progress forward but still a federation starship.
The Vesta immediately became my favorite ST ship design the moment I laid eyes on it. My own headcannon for its role in STO is that only a few ships were produced before the UP attack, and then later when the Klingon War was starting to heat up they revived the line because A) The hull design meant for slipstream aeurodynamics also proved to be sturdy hull for conflict (in game stats be damned lol) but was still hesitant on pure warships, and 2)as it was meant to be a test bed for multiple experimental systems, everything internal was designed to be modular, making it very easy to upgrade and retrofit with new tech. Thank you for covering our blue beauty! Side note: there is still a small ember of hope in me that STO will give us some kind of Vesta II design someday. Palatine, Esquilline, and Brigid are ... okay, and Caelian is too Section 31ish for my tastes.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very informatively well explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the Vesta class starship design and the various functions, abilities, duties and mission parameters of this vessel!; A job very nicely well done indeed Sir...
It occurred to me sometime in the last year that they ought to be more starship classes that are inspired by nonhuman history. Like it seems like most of the starship classes are named after human myths. But there are so many more species in Starfleet in the Federation, you would think over the centuries that Moore ship classes would be named after non-human history.
isn't the explanation for the human history naming of ships due to the vast majority vessels being both designed & built in the Sol system, but the various technologies are built across the Federation, like at the beginning of the Federation, Earth/Mars had a scale of ship building unmatched by any other Federation world/s, so it benefitted everyone to have the Terrans build the ships & member world's would contribute their best specialisation to the designs.
@@rattelv426 Maybe that's the canon explanation, but it seems far fetched to me: - Nearly every other race in the Federation had warp travel before Earth - Their warp drives were far more advanced - The other races had several planets and even multiple star systems under their control for mining and construction - The Federation may have been instituted by Earth, but without the other worlds, there's no Federation It seems to me there would be way more ships with non-Terran names. Especially after 100-200 years or so. And even if Earth did build them, there's no way such an organization would be both largely crewed by humans or largely named with Earth names. Yes, the Mars construction is the in-universe explanation, I just don't buy that such an arrangement would ever happen. The other worlds would be richer, more advanced, and more proud than to defer to Earth for most of the ship names.
If the QSD on the Vesta could be made more stable for long duration use, days or weeks on end, then it might be a viable option for the first extra-galactic exploration. The Dauntless is a good ship, but it's small, not a ton of room for the amenities and aboard ship an exploration mission to the Magellanic Clouds would require. The Vesta has all that. The large shuttle bays that could send runabouts on survey missions while the base ship does things only it can do, the ample space aboard for labs, work spaces, and crew comforts would let the whole mission run longer, and it could get to the Large Magellanic Cloud within a month and the Small within 2 months. Plan it like the old 5 year missions and you have a job that the Vesta class is in a unique position to fill that role.
I love the Vesta Class - for a myriad of reasons. First and foremost, I love that it's based on the Roman Pantheon and the 7 hills. I've always been fascinated with Ancient Rome. And because Ezri Dax - my favorite Dax - was given her first Captaincy over that ship. Lastly, it's got a sleek, savvy design that I love. It's the perfect convergence of several things for me. Sadly, when I played STO, the Vesta had been released and I was saving up to buy one to use, but quit playing before I had the tokens.
the Vesta was my first ship i saved up by selling Dilithium and it always have a Special Place in my Hearth And i could see that the Vesta is fitting in the realm of QST Testbed in that it was an dead end development like the Motorjet that got surpassed by the Jet Engine since it was developed at roughly the same time
The problem with getting the design into canon is that it wasn't a commissioned fan design, like the Luna or the Odyssey. With those, the rights to use the design automatically went to the licence holder. With the Vesta, they'd have to make a deal with Mark Rademaker for every single show or game they would use it on. That's what Cryptic did.
I would say that in show canon, the Vesta class is undertaken at the same time as the Dauntless class, with the reason being that they already knew a fair amount about QSD, had a design which did work, but wanted something a bit more..., normal as well, something which looked like a Starfleet ship. On top of this, dual-production meant that if one ship failed, they had a backup. When the Dauntless was successful and in the wake of the attack on Utopia Planetia, the Vesta class was set aside to focus on getting more important ships underway. As such by the time they got back to it, the design is in a fair state of outdatedness, and required overhauling for its original purpose, which was now also somewhat secondary. Eventually the vesta class would settle in as that high-speed multi-role cruiser in a backbone state. It wasn't top of the line or able to keep up with more modern ships, but could pack a punch when required, was well-suited for many different tasks, and would make a perfect second-contact vessel. First contact undertaken with a flagship vessel in normal circumstances, and then you roll up with the nitromethane drag car to be like "And here's what else we can do, want to work together?"
Another potential thing might be that that Dauntless was an almost one for one replica of the schematics of the other Dauntless, and was built more to let them understand how it worked. The Vesta class being intended to be able to take the QS Drive designs as a starfleet designed ship that would use it, and designed to have the drives installed following tests while being able to work out other issues with the ship before then with the USS Vesta, and when it's recomissioned as the Aventine, that's with the drive installed following testing of the Dauntless. Because the original Dauntless was designed as a trap, having it in mass production might be an issue in and of itself, but a test vessel or two makes sense there just to figure out the technology. Then Janeway "borrows" the Dauntless for her mission to track down the Protostar because it seems like the design might be technically faster, but more of a long range point to point with less of everything else...which would make a lot of sense with the supposed backstory for the design that it was intended to be a rapid transport between Voyager in the Delta Quadrant and Federation space, letting them get people home (and, potentially, back) quickly and easily. And with the delay in standard production after a few ships would also mean that there would be a lot of upgrades and fixes to the design that would have come up over regular use by the existing ships that might make it a good, reliable design at that point with improvements compared to the top of the line designs.
I hate the fact that the Odyssey is canon in service mid-2380s now. We go from sub-700m ships with Galaxy, Sovereign, Vesta... to 1000+m Odyssey. We really ought to have some sort of 850m-ish design at that point, then Odyssey and Ent-F in ~2400. Fits the growth from Enterprise to Ent-E ship classes better than a 300-350m jump that we now have in canon. Vesta could remain as a QSD test bed. After all, developing a tech could result in multiple test beds as they progress and mature the tech. Dauntless might've been the original, with Vesta being designed potentially "for but not with" QSD with the intent of it providing more...vigorous field testing of the tech once the Dauntless test program completed. That aspect might have been shelved post-UP attack as they were more resource efficient than a 1km Odyssey as they were, though as the decades wore on, they might've gotten refit with QSD. That could even explain why they never showed up in PIC - they were all way off elsewhere getting up to hi-jinks while testing the limits of the QSD. That being said, I did grab the Eaglemoss USS Aventine and it's quite the unique design with Voyager and Titan on one side and all the STO designs on the other.
The Vesta's QSD can still fit into existing canon by setting it's design date just slightly before Voyager returns. The project could have been part of a peace time revitalization of Starfleet after the Dominion War, trying to reengage in the science and exploration goal after a bloody war. Even after Voyager's return, they couldn't figure out how to intergrade a proper QSD into the existing Vest design, so the ship was then rolled into production without it as a normally propelled starship. The Vesta design was already really strong, so why scrap the design because of one thing? The Dauntless 2 project was then started with proper working knowledge of functional QSD from Voyager's travel.
Iv got the legendary Vesta on STO best ship iv got I can do anything tank done dps done heal done it has hanger pets as well just wish it had a better cloak
I like the idea that the Vesta class is present as a test bed for the quantum slipstream drive as normal, but it's activities is heavily classified. The Dauntless we see in Prodigy would then be the first ship to adopt the quantum slipstream drive as an ongoing openly known technology, followed by the Odyssey class. This makes sense, with the Tel Shiar being a big deal post the Dominion War, trying to take advantage of the reputation the Romulan involvement in the war gave them. I even think Admiral Janeway being in charge of the Vesta development and also secret activities makes further sense. She has had 7 years dealing with far tougher circumstances. Defeating Tel Shiar agents snooping around secret technological development missions would be fun for her after that.
@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 The Vesta is essentially the Intrepid class 2.0, with a grand majority of this ship's systems that were either derived from Voyager's upgrades and discoveries or improved/helped along research that was going on at home.
It's interesting that the Vesta project was restarted at all. It reminds me of the pre-war projects restarted by France after WWII. Surprising to think they still had those old projects that they were still happy to continue, but there were.
minor correction USS Vesta & the USS Aventine are different ships. Vesta after repairs/rebuild ends up becoming the Flagship of the Full Circle Fleet as seen in that series of novels.
Has anyone actually counted how many "classes" of vessels Starfleet has now as they have become such a generic plot device there seem to be more classes of starship today than there are officers to staff them.
the Vesta/Rademaker class is my second favorite class of ship after the Odyssey, i would love a show featuring one; hell even the Aventine, have Nicole De Boer come back with Alexander Siddig. With how Janeway lead the development of it, having it return to the delta quadrant to establish a federation presence there, and also to deal with the fallout from the Voyager mission would be absolutely just perfect. Have it take Janeway on the path there to run a newly established Starfleet base starting by finding the Telaxians a new actual home.
I would like to see it on Lower Decks, after all, the development of the Slipstream Drive is around the same time as Lower Decks happens, and it would be cool to see the Lower Decks crew react to the ship and the new technology.
They can make the Vesta cannon without paying royalties. Just mention the ship in passing on the show without showing it. A little Easter egg without actually having to do all the legal stuff.
Before the Odyssey came, I always thought this could have been the class for the Enterprise F. Maybe its slightly bulkier and more engineering focused variant, the Rademaker class. The shielded landing bay was such a cool design feature and could be a very useful plot device.
Those dimensions make it maybe half as dense as water It's nice when authors check. Many stated ship mass values and dimensions imply they would float on air
I wonder if the vesta could dock an improved difiant type to its aft deck, allowing a utility similar to saucer seperation except without reducing either ship's capabilities?
They could always say it was the testbed for some more advanced QSD designs, or maybe the first time it was used at such a large scale, for long-term missions.
If the vesta ever gets to be cannon, I’d like to see it as the big “state ship” like the Enterprise’s back up or a 2nd to the flag ship. Doing mostly diplomatic missions and putting on a show to member worlds.
Starfleet's advantage over races like the Romulan's and Klingon's is the constant innovation; they don't just develop an all-singing, all-dancing ship and then just tweak it until it's obsolete, they constantly iterate. The Ambassador class is my typical go-to example; a class that was revolutionary compared to the previous TMP-Era designs but because Starfleet continued to develop the new technologies and came up with the Galaxy class and the numerous variants, the Ambassador type ships were side lined. They were still extremely modern and useful ships, just not the top-of-the-line ships, and I think the Vesta would probably go in that same category. The development described even mirrors the Ambassador; it was the class that came first, but was quickly overtaken by a more advanced design; in the Vesta's case it's the Odyssey class.
Really neat video and iove the Vesta as much as i love Ezri, but aren't we confusing verses here? I know in STO there is any ship playable that has ever been imagined, but: In the former "beta" timeline that has now been erased with the "Coda" there was no Odyssey Class because the Galaxy Class stayed in service well into the late 2380ys as was intended in her 100year lifecyclye. The Vesta ships fulfilled a whole new role as super-fast exploreres like the "Quirinal " did as a part of Janeways Delta Quadrant "Full Circle" fleet or as a fast responder like Ezris Aventine during the final borg invasion.
I really like this design… I wish Voyager had used a design similar to this, probably just smaller. the Intrepid-class ships are very front-heavy, and if it’s supposed to be such a fast ship you’d think the engineering fuselage and warp nacelles would be much larger.
This was an interesting design. It's cool that for books Ezri Dax is Captain of this particular class. I hope we eventually see that in a show...but it MIGHT not happen.
My favourite Federation Starship design (to be honest, i have 2 No1s. My other favourite is the Achilles Class from ST:DS9 Dominion Wars). I think it's time to read the Destiny Trilogy again.
We should also consider that the vesta is likely less resource intensive than the Odyssey but still extremely capable. So it is not out of the realm of possibility that it would be brought back if that function is still needed but resources would be more efficiently spent on more ' really good but not the best' vessels.
love this class but have also thought about what it would look like if it was more sovereign, akira & achillis along with inquiry, avenger & arbiter in its design
Given that Odyssey class is canonically now older than its STO launch. I think the relationship should be inverted with Vesta class being the new 2405 era ship.
I want to believe that, like Ezri wanted, the Aventine became the first Starfleet Ship exploring the Andromeda Galaxy, that is why we don't see it in Canon
I think there is still room for it to be a planned Slipstream testbed. Starfleet wanted a slipstream ship so they started to develop one, the Vesta, however, during the development some people studying the designs of the Dauntless started to voice doubts, they had noticed things that had been overlooked that suggested that their understanding was not quite as complete as they had thought and the Vesta was doomed to fail. Eventually these naysayers would win over enough support for their theories and Starfleet would relent and start designing the new Dauntless, as close to the original as possible to minimise the chance of them missing something important that they hadn't noticed. By this stage the Vestas development had gone so far that it wasn't worth cancelling, so it was completed, and launched and, as predicted,the slipstream didn't work as hoped proving that the Dauntless design was necessary for a complete understanding of how Slipstream works.
i could still see them add this ship as part of the slipstream test program as a early prototype vessel perhaps it failed or something and then starfleet moved over to the dauntless
Interesting ship and origin story. Have to admit the design is a bit of a miss for me - it feels way too busy for something that's supposed to look sleek. It's like the design was originally slippery and fast, but then STO slapped the hyper-detailed skin look on it and it kinda lost the plot. I think if they dialed back the greebling and detail, it would look a lot more cohesive. I think the Odyssey class design did a better job balancing the slick and detailed angles.
Innovations like the Chronoton Integrator make the slow ramp up to the Temporal Cold War more conceivable. The moment you normalize small changes in the flow of time for the purpose of convenience you start a slippery slope that leads to normalizing the idea of altering time to suit your needs if you have the capacity to do so.
Considering that we see quantum slipstream post-TCW, do you think they found a non-causality-violating alternative or that the Temporal Treaty had carve-outs?
@@GSBarlev If it was a computing issue that prevented the Nav systems from working fast enough to stay ahead of the drive, I think it's more likely there was a breakthrough in computer processing speed that just enabled faster navigational records access.
One of the ideas I came up with a shile ago is a computer you trap in its own temporal bubble. With a converter to give it all th einfo you can as fast as you can and then to translate what it says out of the temporal field. The computer could essentially move faster in time than the ship and give deeper analysis due to having days to analyze what other would have a few moments. That would super fit into your theory :D
You mean... The way Janeway did ?
@@ThunderLord1 The shenanigans that Voyager got up to over seven years in deep space probably gave Temporal Investigations the screaming willies. History might remember the Voyager incident as the first pebble rolling downhill that precipitated an avalanche.
Well done, really accurate! I'm blown away by the love for the Vesta in this comment section, I could never have imagined it would be around for so long. Small remark: The tubes below the deflector are in essence dedicated probe launchers. (I since then have unified Torpedo and Probe shapes, so perhaps in a refit... :P)
Fun/sad fact: It was already in pre-visualisation for Picard, but due to time and actor budget constrains it was left out. I did deliver it to the VFX team and I have seen it in some pre-viz shots and in preliminary bridge LCARS tests. I'm reasonable sure that if Legacy will be made by the same group, the Vesta will get a cameo. :)
You made a beautiful design, and I think if they keep making 25th century stuff it will have its place at some point.
I wish Aventine made an appearance and mention in Prodigy. As it's beta canon launch date is a few years prior to the show.
Flew the Vesta for several years, still visit it now and again. Love that ship.
The Vesta was my Main on STO for a pretty long time. It looked awesome, had a hanger for extra fire power, and once I got the hang of R&D and the stats it was pretty formidable. I only moved on from it when T6 became a thing and I got the Pathfinder.
Honestly, I see the Vesta as a Voyager 2.0, or “how we’d have designed the Intrepid-class after everything Voyager went through.”
I could imagine that the vetsa is a connecting step in progressing QSD to larger ships.
As it's possible that berfore Vesta and Odessey, the federation only managed to make the QSD work on a smaller scale and thus needing a prototytpe testbed for inplementing
the technology to larger classes.
The Interceptor class is also said to contain a QSD and judging by it's structural profile, it looks designed to be able to handle slipstream velocity.
9:25 - Whew, I was getting worried about the lack of typos, and then along come "AUXILARY" AND "DANUBLE". I have to admire the consistency.
The Vesta/Aventine is close to my heart. I love Ezri Dax, and I love that she got command of that ship. Also, it's a beautiful continuation of the Voyager elongated design. Also, it's my ship in STO :)
How is sto?
I haven't played in years because of health
Vesta is Besta! I love my Vesta Class.
I get a very strong SeqQuest DSV vibe from the ship. Really dig it.
This is also one of my top three favorite ship designes. It's the one I always go back to in STO
I LOVE the Vesta class. The fact that Dax commands one makes it even cooler. I wish that Eagle Moss had...
They did make the Aventine.
I have it
@@Craig100hockey I meant to say an XL version. I have one too but it's painfully small. Almost Micro Machine size.
This has always been my favorite ship aesthtically in STO. Love my Vesta!
Will always be one of my favorite STO ships
Absolutely worth buying the three ship bundle
I loved the Vesta. It was my first t5 ship in STO back in 2012.
As soon as I saw the Aventine/ Vesta in the ships of the line calendar I fell in love. Sufficiently different to show progress forward but still a federation starship.
Since I´ve seen the Vesta Class for the first time, it ist my personal favorite when it comes to design! Thank You for this video!
I loved the Vesta class ships in STO... they were a magical combination of crazy science abilities in space
At first, I wasn't that hot on this design but you've made me like it more than I thought. Those blue accent lines on the nacelles look great!
That’s one of the best looking ship designs I’ve seen in a while. Really strong profile and good lines.
The Vesta immediately became my favorite ST ship design the moment I laid eyes on it. My own headcannon for its role in STO is that only a few ships were produced before the UP attack, and then later when the Klingon War was starting to heat up they revived the line because A) The hull design meant for slipstream aeurodynamics also proved to be sturdy hull for conflict (in game stats be damned lol) but was still hesitant on pure warships, and 2)as it was meant to be a test bed for multiple experimental systems, everything internal was designed to be modular, making it very easy to upgrade and retrofit with new tech. Thank you for covering our blue beauty!
Side note: there is still a small ember of hope in me that STO will give us some kind of Vesta II design someday. Palatine, Esquilline, and Brigid are ... okay, and Caelian is too Section 31ish for my tastes.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very informatively well explained in every detail way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the Vesta class starship design and the various functions, abilities, duties and mission parameters of this vessel!; A job very nicely well done indeed Sir...
Mars Attacks reference!!! 🤣🤣🤣
I am totally here for anytime Sir Patrick is being utterly insane.
Such a beautiful design. I hope it does wind up on screen at some point.
It occurred to me sometime in the last year that they ought to be more starship classes that are inspired by nonhuman history. Like it seems like most of the starship classes are named after human myths. But there are so many more species in Starfleet in the Federation, you would think over the centuries that Moore ship classes would be named after non-human history.
isn't the explanation for the human history naming of ships due to the vast majority vessels being both designed & built in the Sol system, but the various technologies are built across the Federation, like at the beginning of the Federation, Earth/Mars had a scale of ship building unmatched by any other Federation world/s, so it benefitted everyone to have the Terrans build the ships & member world's would contribute their best specialisation to the designs.
@@rattelv426 Maybe that's the canon explanation, but it seems far fetched to me:
- Nearly every other race in the Federation had warp travel before Earth
- Their warp drives were far more advanced
- The other races had several planets and even multiple star systems under their control for mining and construction
- The Federation may have been instituted by Earth, but without the other worlds, there's no Federation
It seems to me there would be way more ships with non-Terran names. Especially after 100-200 years or so. And even if Earth did build them, there's no way such an organization would be both largely crewed by humans or largely named with Earth names.
Yes, the Mars construction is the in-universe explanation, I just don't buy that such an arrangement would ever happen. The other worlds would be richer, more advanced, and more proud than to defer to Earth for most of the ship names.
congrats sir amaizing video 750 crew so cool i am downloading st online in my ps4 to enjoy having those ships
The Vesta is probably my favorite "new age" trek vessel. Just need one named the USS Hesatia.
Sorry that is taken by the Hestia class Prometheus successor.
@@barrybend7189 Vesta class right now is in a different continuity than that actual show. thus the Hestia can exist for both versions.
If the QSD on the Vesta could be made more stable for long duration use, days or weeks on end, then it might be a viable option for the first extra-galactic exploration. The Dauntless is a good ship, but it's small, not a ton of room for the amenities and aboard ship an exploration mission to the Magellanic Clouds would require. The Vesta has all that. The large shuttle bays that could send runabouts on survey missions while the base ship does things only it can do, the ample space aboard for labs, work spaces, and crew comforts would let the whole mission run longer, and it could get to the Large Magellanic Cloud within a month and the Small within 2 months. Plan it like the old 5 year missions and you have a job that the Vesta class is in a unique position to fill that role.
I love the Vesta Class - for a myriad of reasons. First and foremost, I love that it's based on the Roman Pantheon and the 7 hills. I've always been fascinated with Ancient Rome. And because Ezri Dax - my favorite Dax - was given her first Captaincy over that ship. Lastly, it's got a sleek, savvy design that I love. It's the perfect convergence of several things for me. Sadly, when I played STO, the Vesta had been released and I was saving up to buy one to use, but quit playing before I had the tokens.
the Vesta was my first ship i saved up by selling Dilithium and it always have a Special Place in my Hearth
And i could see that the Vesta is fitting in the realm of QST Testbed in that it was an dead end development like the Motorjet that got surpassed by the Jet Engine since it was developed at roughly the same time
That's one of the best looking Federation ships so far!
DS9 spin off would be great to see this class. Really enjoyed this ship.. Be cool to see Dax fix slipstream on it.
The problem with getting the design into canon is that it wasn't a commissioned fan design, like the Luna or the Odyssey. With those, the rights to use the design automatically went to the licence holder. With the Vesta, they'd have to make a deal with Mark Rademaker for every single show or game they would use it on. That's what Cryptic did.
I would say that in show canon, the Vesta class is undertaken at the same time as the Dauntless class, with the reason being that they already knew a fair amount about QSD, had a design which did work, but wanted something a bit more..., normal as well, something which looked like a Starfleet ship. On top of this, dual-production meant that if one ship failed, they had a backup. When the Dauntless was successful and in the wake of the attack on Utopia Planetia, the Vesta class was set aside to focus on getting more important ships underway. As such by the time they got back to it, the design is in a fair state of outdatedness, and required overhauling for its original purpose, which was now also somewhat secondary. Eventually the vesta class would settle in as that high-speed multi-role cruiser in a backbone state. It wasn't top of the line or able to keep up with more modern ships, but could pack a punch when required, was well-suited for many different tasks, and would make a perfect second-contact vessel. First contact undertaken with a flagship vessel in normal circumstances, and then you roll up with the nitromethane drag car to be like "And here's what else we can do, want to work together?"
Another potential thing might be that that Dauntless was an almost one for one replica of the schematics of the other Dauntless, and was built more to let them understand how it worked. The Vesta class being intended to be able to take the QS Drive designs as a starfleet designed ship that would use it, and designed to have the drives installed following tests while being able to work out other issues with the ship before then with the USS Vesta, and when it's recomissioned as the Aventine, that's with the drive installed following testing of the Dauntless.
Because the original Dauntless was designed as a trap, having it in mass production might be an issue in and of itself, but a test vessel or two makes sense there just to figure out the technology.
Then Janeway "borrows" the Dauntless for her mission to track down the Protostar because it seems like the design might be technically faster, but more of a long range point to point with less of everything else...which would make a lot of sense with the supposed backstory for the design that it was intended to be a rapid transport between Voyager in the Delta Quadrant and Federation space, letting them get people home (and, potentially, back) quickly and easily.
And with the delay in standard production after a few ships would also mean that there would be a lot of upgrades and fixes to the design that would have come up over regular use by the existing ships that might make it a good, reliable design at that point with improvements compared to the top of the line designs.
I hate the fact that the Odyssey is canon in service mid-2380s now. We go from sub-700m ships with Galaxy, Sovereign, Vesta... to 1000+m Odyssey. We really ought to have some sort of 850m-ish design at that point, then Odyssey and Ent-F in ~2400. Fits the growth from Enterprise to Ent-E ship classes better than a 300-350m jump that we now have in canon.
Vesta could remain as a QSD test bed. After all, developing a tech could result in multiple test beds as they progress and mature the tech. Dauntless might've been the original, with Vesta being designed potentially "for but not with" QSD with the intent of it providing more...vigorous field testing of the tech once the Dauntless test program completed. That aspect might have been shelved post-UP attack as they were more resource efficient than a 1km Odyssey as they were, though as the decades wore on, they might've gotten refit with QSD. That could even explain why they never showed up in PIC - they were all way off elsewhere getting up to hi-jinks while testing the limits of the QSD.
That being said, I did grab the Eaglemoss USS Aventine and it's quite the unique design with Voyager and Titan on one side and all the STO designs on the other.
VenomGeekMedia described this as "the new crossfire class" and I think that's very much accurate. One huge cruiser sized science ship.
The Vesta's QSD can still fit into existing canon by setting it's design date just slightly before Voyager returns. The project could have been part of a peace time revitalization of Starfleet after the Dominion War, trying to reengage in the science and exploration goal after a bloody war. Even after Voyager's return, they couldn't figure out how to intergrade a proper QSD into the existing Vest design, so the ship was then rolled into production without it as a normally propelled starship. The Vesta design was already really strong, so why scrap the design because of one thing? The Dauntless 2 project was then started with proper working knowledge of functional QSD from Voyager's travel.
I can see It's QSD testbed idea for mass production use as opposed to the copy the Dauntless has.
Iv got the legendary Vesta on STO best ship iv got I can do anything tank done dps done heal done it has hanger pets as well just wish it had a better cloak
Vesta is a beautiful ship design.
My favorite ship and my STO daily driver, thank you for the breakdown!
Gorgeous ship...badass...just all around 🤌
I like the idea that the Vesta class is present as a test bed for the quantum slipstream drive as normal, but it's activities is heavily classified.
The Dauntless we see in Prodigy would then be the first ship to adopt the quantum slipstream drive as an ongoing openly known technology, followed by the Odyssey class.
This makes sense, with the Tel Shiar being a big deal post the Dominion War, trying to take advantage of the reputation the Romulan involvement in the war gave them.
I even think Admiral Janeway being in charge of the Vesta development and also secret activities makes further sense. She has had 7 years dealing with far tougher circumstances.
Defeating Tel Shiar agents snooping around secret technological development missions would be fun for her after that.
Finally you're doing one of my favorite sto ship!
I'd hoped that the Voyager-A was going to be a member of this class.
That would actually make sense.
@somestormchaseridjitwithwi2024 The Vesta is essentially the Intrepid class 2.0, with a grand majority of this ship's systems that were either derived from Voyager's upgrades and discoveries or improved/helped along research that was going on at home.
Why bother with the cut out for the bridge? Its not like view screen is a window.
I love the Destiny books so I grew very fond of the Aventine :) Fortunately, I got my hands on the Eaglemoss model back in the days.
This ship deserved time on tv or even it's own show.
It's interesting that the Vesta project was restarted at all. It reminds me of the pre-war projects restarted by France after WWII. Surprising to think they still had those old projects that they were still happy to continue, but there were.
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Just a small request from a long term subscriber. Could you do a video on the USS Altair 🤞🏼
Just a beautiful ship
minor correction USS Vesta & the USS Aventine are different ships. Vesta after repairs/rebuild ends up becoming the Flagship of the Full Circle Fleet as seen in that series of novels.
Has anyone actually counted how many "classes" of vessels Starfleet has now as they have become such a generic plot device there seem to be more classes of starship today than there are officers to staff them.
the Vesta/Rademaker class is my second favorite class of ship after the Odyssey, i would love a show featuring one; hell even the Aventine, have Nicole De Boer come back with Alexander Siddig. With how Janeway lead the development of it, having it return to the delta quadrant to establish a federation presence there, and also to deal with the fallout from the Voyager mission would be absolutely just perfect.
Have it take Janeway on the path there to run a newly established Starfleet base starting by finding the Telaxians a new actual home.
i love this ship great job brother😊
The Protostar looks very similar to a Vesta, just smaller, maybe the Vesta can be adapted as the next generation of Protostar drive vessels.
I would like to see it on Lower Decks, after all, the development of the Slipstream Drive is around the same time as Lower Decks happens, and it would be cool to see the Lower Decks crew react to the ship and the new technology.
They can make the Vesta cannon without paying royalties. Just mention the ship in passing on the show without showing it. A little Easter egg without actually having to do all the legal stuff.
I love the vesta class. I keep thinking Starfleet has so many ship classes is because their admirals keep changing
We almost saw it in ST: Picard Season 3... too bad Mark and producers couldn't get whatever was needed done on time.
Great video, for me i can't see why anyone would choose the oddysey over the vesta class, the latter one looks just so much cooler.
Before the Odyssey came, I always thought this could have been the class for the Enterprise F. Maybe its slightly bulkier and more engineering focused variant, the Rademaker class. The shielded landing bay was such a cool design feature and could be a very useful plot device.
I love the ship design here
This ship is pretty cool 😎
Those dimensions make it maybe half as dense as water
It's nice when authors check. Many stated ship mass values and dimensions imply they would float on air
Its a shame she hasnt shown up in live action. She's beautiful and probablty my favorite ship design
I wonder if the vesta could dock an improved difiant type to its aft deck, allowing a utility similar to saucer seperation except without reducing either ship's capabilities?
Would you ever consider doing the Grissom Class light science vessel(T6) from STO, please?
They could always say it was the testbed for some more advanced QSD designs, or maybe the first time it was used at such a large scale, for long-term missions.
I gotta ask, what wacky names do you see them using for ships? I could see the uss Ford, uss Mercedes, uss macgyver, etc etc
If the vesta ever gets to be cannon, I’d like to see it as the big “state ship” like the Enterprise’s back up or a 2nd to the flag ship. Doing mostly diplomatic missions and putting on a show to member worlds.
"Ack ack ack ack. ACK Ack!"
what would the mission profile of the USS ACK ACK be? and yes it will be made on Utopia Planitia.
Starfleet's advantage over races like the Romulan's and Klingon's is the constant innovation; they don't just develop an all-singing, all-dancing ship and then just tweak it until it's obsolete, they constantly iterate. The Ambassador class is my typical go-to example; a class that was revolutionary compared to the previous TMP-Era designs but because Starfleet continued to develop the new technologies and came up with the Galaxy class and the numerous variants, the Ambassador type ships were side lined. They were still extremely modern and useful ships, just not the top-of-the-line ships, and I think the Vesta would probably go in that same category.
The development described even mirrors the Ambassador; it was the class that came first, but was quickly overtaken by a more advanced design; in the Vesta's case it's the Odyssey class.
Really neat video and iove the Vesta as much as i love Ezri, but aren't we confusing verses here? I know in STO there is any ship playable that has ever been imagined, but: In the former "beta" timeline that has now been erased with the "Coda" there was no Odyssey Class because the Galaxy Class stayed in service well into the late 2380ys as was intended in her 100year lifecyclye. The Vesta ships fulfilled a whole new role as super-fast exploreres like the "Quirinal " did as a part of Janeways Delta Quadrant "Full Circle" fleet or as a fast responder like Ezris Aventine during the final borg invasion.
Vesta is definitely a sleek and beautiful ship.
I really like this design… I wish Voyager had used a design similar to this, probably just smaller. the Intrepid-class ships are very front-heavy, and if it’s supposed to be such a fast ship you’d think the engineering fuselage and warp nacelles would be much larger.
A beautiful ship!
This was an interesting design. It's cool that for books Ezri Dax is Captain of this particular class. I hope we eventually see that in a show...but it MIGHT not happen.
My favourite Federation Starship design (to be honest, i have 2 No1s. My other favourite is the Achilles Class from ST:DS9 Dominion Wars). I think it's time to read the Destiny Trilogy again.
We should also consider that the vesta is likely less resource intensive than the Odyssey but still extremely capable. So it is not out of the realm of possibility that it would be brought back if that function is still needed but resources would be more efficiently spent on more ' really good but not the best' vessels.
The Vesta is a very cool design I would like to see in cannon. Maybe one day.
The Sovereign is my favorite, but the Vesta and Odyssey are closely tied for 2nd. So sleek and Fast.
love this class but have also thought about what it would look like if it was more sovereign, akira & achillis along with inquiry, avenger & arbiter in its design
Surprised it didn't also have active ablative armour (looked like it had the option for them with the red strips for them on the outer hull)
My head-canon is that the Vesta does exist, but that all seven were on long-term deep-space assignments, which is why they've not shown up.
She’s a pretty ship, but I was honestly a bit underwhelmed by its performance in STO.
They played her dirty... In the books she's a beast of a ship.
@@danielsuarez3198 exactly! Thats why I was so disappointed.
More like every show MUST have its own Hero ship design. Just like every show MUST have its own uniform. Showrunner ego.
Given that Odyssey class is canonically now older than its STO launch. I think the relationship should be inverted with Vesta class being the new 2405 era ship.
I really like this ship in sto. I fly the legendary version very often.
Despite all the love this ship has in the comments, I see a disappointing lack of “Vesta is Besta” comments.
Vesta is the Great Experiment of the 24th century and imo the modern Excelsior.
I guess a Raven type might fit on the back flight deck, but not a Defiant (to big) maybe something like a Aeroshuttle or Waverunner.
I want to believe that, like Ezri wanted, the Aventine became the first Starfleet Ship exploring the Andromeda Galaxy, that is why we don't see it in Canon
My favorite ship
I think there is still room for it to be a planned Slipstream testbed.
Starfleet wanted a slipstream ship so they started to develop one, the Vesta, however, during the development some people studying the designs of the Dauntless started to voice doubts, they had noticed things that had been overlooked that suggested that their understanding was not quite as complete as they had thought and the Vesta was doomed to fail. Eventually these naysayers would win over enough support for their theories and Starfleet would relent and start designing the new Dauntless, as close to the original as possible to minimise the chance of them missing something important that they hadn't noticed.
By this stage the Vestas development had gone so far that it wasn't worth cancelling, so it was completed, and launched and, as predicted,the slipstream didn't work as hoped proving that the Dauntless design was necessary for a complete understanding of how Slipstream works.
And I'm still rocking the Hathaway. 😅
i could still see them add this ship as part of the slipstream test program as a early prototype vessel perhaps it failed or something and then starfleet moved over to the dauntless
What's the largest number of ships that served in Starfleet simultaneously? Not EVER existed, but like how big did the fleet get?
Interesting ship and origin story. Have to admit the design is a bit of a miss for me - it feels way too busy for something that's supposed to look sleek. It's like the design was originally slippery and fast, but then STO slapped the hyper-detailed skin look on it and it kinda lost the plot. I think if they dialed back the greebling and detail, it would look a lot more cohesive. I think the Odyssey class design did a better job balancing the slick and detailed angles.
Vesta did some really nice beef curries back in the day.