Honestly, it would have been perfect for a Romulan themed spoof sponsorship. Something like idk..."Winged Defender - Anti Virus Suite(tm). Made by Tal Shiar cyber security experts. Your computer's cloaking device against galactic malware."
My head canon is that the Andorians took the human phase cannon design and combined the tech with their own (probably Nadion based) particle weapon design. Making a surprise improvement in power and versatility which quickly becomes the main weaponry of Andorian ships, before Starfleet adopts the Phaser design for their own ships.
A part two of this would be interesting. Some ideas would be: Tholians with their tractor beams; Dominion with their cloning tech; Borg with their cybernetic abilities; Voth with their transwarp; Ferengi with their commence; Orions with their persuasion; Andorians with their tactical abilities; Breen with their cryo-tech; Remens with their night-vision; etc.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 Catians make some fine ships. I mean seen their carriers? >.> Even though it looks like a big purple dildo....now I think about it *Facepalm*
The Dominion has all sorts of bioengineering advancements. Look at what they have done with Tetracell White. Talk about long term food supply replacement.
When you got to the Klingon section, I’m surprised you missed the obvious speciality of the species. From all that was mentioned about how they acquire their technology, the Klingons seem to be specialists in reverse engineering. Even when encountering tech far more advance then their own, the Klingons seem to easily be able to reverse engineer, understand, and recreate the technology whether it be their warp drives to Romulan cloaking technology and etc. Perhaps I’m looking too deeply into it but goes to show how the Klingons are unique in terms of innovation.
One of my favorite part about DS9 is that for once we see why the klingons are a fiersome speices to have in a conflict. while the moral of everyone is downing with the constant updating of the casualty list, you can see the klingon's moral going up as time goes. you see them coming back from battle chanting and cheering everyone happy that it was a blood bath with tons of great warriors entering sto-vo-kor.
I'd say the Klingons are highly adaptable to hardships; if that hardship happens to occur through battle, all the better. They can repurpose and adapt recovered tech. While humans are equally adaptable but more in line with problem solving and developing or modifying existing tech to get them out of a bind.
I think that is one of Klingons greatest strengths: tenacity and wisdom. They can literally be enslaved by a technologically more advanced species and in rebelling not only fling them off their planet and chase them to the stars but also make it as they are never heard from again in that sector of space. Kingpins are hardy and they take a beating and an old Klingon is often a wise Klingon because they can take the lumps and keep going. And theirs is a history of such individuals thousands of years old. They are unafraid to try and seize opportunities and that gives them an edge over more cautious (Vulcan) or fragile (humans) species .
I think that what you've basically done here is make a Trek version of the SSV Normandy from Mass Effect. Now that I mention it, a Mass Effect version of this vid would be a good idea too.
11:30 ; Okay, so now I expect you to actually design that ship and bridge crew in STO on an alt character. Most of your preferred design choices are actually possible options in that game. I would indeed be most fascinated to see how viable that idea actually is.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 ; El-Aurians are more so listeners than leaders. They are superb counselors, bartenders, and advice givers, but generally are do not prefer to be in the center light that is the captain chair.
Federation engineers and scientists are the theoretical sciences. Klingons reverse engineer and apply. They sort of go around and steal bits of other people's cultures and ideas they like for themselves
@@brodriguez11000 Data should be the natural next step allowing ai to evolve naturally could lead to errors or lack of morality instead creating learning androids like data allows the healthiest path to peace bewteen AI and organics by putting them on the same mental grounds in regards to morality making them nothing more then a more intelligent form of what ever nations people that made them and "raised" them. of course this would mean thered be war obbssed klingon ai cold and cruel romulan ai or peacefull yet apathetic ai like vulcans but at least then theyd still be better then AI vs organic mindset
Honestly, the Klingons are kind of crap at combat & war. They win wars sometimes sure, but it is always at way too high losses. They are supposedly naturally physically stronger, training all their life in martial arts and pain tolerance, yet Klingons armed with close combat weapons are regularly defeated by humans using only the palm of their hands and they don't fare much better in space either, even when they still had a serious technological advantage, and come up against enemies with supposedly far less combat optimised vessels. Ironically, when they use real subterfuge, their successes are far more genuine and surprising and their losses far more a last ditch efford barely succeeding by their opponents. Sure cheating can always even the odds, but I mean relatively to other galatic powers their military sucks in all but numbers and willingness to die in combat, but their intelligence work is surprisingly good.
Klingons consider dying in battle to be the greatest honor. But to paraphrase a real world general; A soldier doesn't die for his planet. He makes other soldiers die for theirs.
Something you forgot, which is also what makes the Klingons formidable as a galactic superpower: their devotion to their honor as individuals and a people, plus their ferocity of conviction and determination to their brothers and sisters in arms. That's a powerful combination, especially if you consider how harsh of an environment that Q'onoS really was back in the early periods of their evolution and society. In other words, it's an empire of barbarian ninja berserker brawler swordsmen duelists. Oh and they practice Klingon yoga. *drops the keyboard and walks away*
The Sheliak - good for treaty writing - making sure that there can be hardly any loopholes in a treaty. The Krenim - good for temporal timelines and tackling anything that may affect the timeline of even a single particle.
Where I thought you were going with that… The Sheliak: good for writing treaties and making sure there are no loopholes in a treaty. The Krenem: good for going back and making sure there never was a treaty, or a species to make one with in the first place.
This might only serve as a footnote (especially because of how intentionally mysterious they were designed to be in DS9) but *The Breen* were said to excel at cryogenic storage tech, seen best in their inscrutable 'interacting with other aliens' hazardous environmental suits.
_we look for things, things to make us go_ Well humans where famed for there technical skill and ingenuity, and where highly adaptable to new situations quickly overcoming problems presented to them
If I had to find a specific strength for Klingons, it would be that they're masters at not only reverse-engineering captured technologies, but improving upon them. They make better cloaks than Romulans; their ships, while ultimately based on stolen Hur'q technology, are tougher than anyone else's; their weapons are second to none. Their technology is designed to be usable with minimal training (well, except their melee weapons - bat'leths and mek'leths are almost as dangerous to the wielder as the opponent), and capable of standing up to extremely rough handling.
The AK47 of technological philosophies. Does it do the job and will it keep doing that job? If so, it's what we want, for the minimal resources required.
Oh, I really like this! Some species I'd like to see in a part two (most of them because there isn't much in canon to go on but I don't know the apocrypha): -Ferengi -Saurians -Caitians -Edosians -Andorians -Tellarites
@@nagash303 He's done videos on most of all of the species he talked about in this one, too. There's a difference between the cultural files and this series.
I would like to see more of this. Lot of other people have given their lists of races and their things you should cover next; but I'd like to add to the Klingons. I think you missed a thing that they are strangely good at, that has been shown a few times in the shows and in the apocrypha and that's that they are weirdly quite adept at genetic technology; creating a clone of Kahless, and hiding the Suliban intel in that dude's DNA, to cite a couple.
so this video did the alpha and beta quadrants. Part two should be about the Delta and Gamma quadrants. For example one very good species to do would be the Vidiians and they're extremely superior medical technology, which can be used both as a weapon and as a sophisticated tool for medical treatment. Another one would be the Voth, with their distaste for endotherm's and they're highly sophisticated personal cell technology which allowed them to observe Voyager at least for a while without being detected. The Vodwar might be another good delta species to cover.
Great video, the Cardassians are one of my favorite species and I always viewed them as equivalent to humans but decided to be conquers rather than friendly collaboraters and that more than anything limited their tech development leaving it a generation or so behind Starfleet in most respects. Probably about where humans would be in the Star Trek universe if they stuck to themselves and pursued development alone.
I think the Cardies are supposed to be a lot smarter than humans on average. From what we seen in canon, they would have eidetic memory. This is what made them formidable opponents.
Rick, there's only one thing missing from your hypothetical ship idea: an easily-used-and-maintained-by-anyone thalaron-based ultra-God-mode plasma cannon that vaporizes entire planets with one shot. Sort of a more efficient but more powerful version of the weapon from ST Nemesis. EDIT-- Forgot to mention that it's made by the Klingons. : )
i always wondered if the Ferengee after Rom got to be Nagus and the new way of life became the norm might have aided their considerable negotiation skills to the federation
I know in Beta canon that the Caitian are artists, but also big on carriers. There's actually a duty-officer chain that eventually nets you the ability to enlist Caitian flight deck crew members. Most likely this comes from the fact that caitian invented aircraft when some Caitian pushed several aircraft off the side of a cliff at random. (This is a joke, probably)
Apparently they're basically feline humans in the Beta Canon. Albiet with hints of a dark and troubled past. And in STO I'd call them effectively the Romulans of their species, given what comes through. Carriers, though? That's because they're feline. More windows for them
The Binars were great at creating immersive, purpose-built, holoprograms. The Ferengi are likely good accountants and property lawyers. It must be assumed Bolians have an innate talent for cosmetology. The Risians excel at terraforming and weather manipulation. Kelpians seem to enjoy aquaculture and crying so hard they break the galaxy, so that's a twofor.
I thought the Risians only got their environmental control tech from the Federation? If anything their distinguishing trait was probably that they used to be insanely hardy people to keep on trucking despite a low population carrying capacity on Risa and very unforgiving natural conditions, but "good times breed soft men" etc.
@@Ithirahad my memory isn't perfect, but am pretty sure the Enterprise NX-01 visited Risa pre-Federation. I can't recall if the weather systems were fully in place, but seem to remember even then Risa was a renowned vacation spot.
Be the Andorians and the Tellarites, be founding members of the federation, be not mentioned when talking about Starfleet and wait till part two, cry. Good video, can't wait for part two.
I'd love to see more non federation races, races that were less familiar with! As for the klingons, I would say their strength is their ability to reverse engineer tech!
If I had to guess, it would go something like this for the rest of the races in Star Trek: Borg: Cybernetics Species 8472: Bio-manipulation Tholians: Multi-dimensional tech/awareness Krenim: Time travel Nausicaans: Mercenary work Orions: Any and all criminal activities Hirogen: Hunting
Star trek birth of the federation video game focuses on this aspect in the game, every race that enters the federation brings in a specific utility. Such as the vulcan science academy increases research 35% the trill symbiosis commission increases research 30% and etc. If you need ss, let me know and I can send em to ya there are about 40 races in the game
About halfway through, this video falls apart. You keep referring to Betazoids as "empaths". While that term applies to half-Betazoids, like Deanna Troi, full-blooded members of the species are much more than that. The full scope of their abilities makes them almost invaluable in any diplomatic setting, and the cultural code which governs their use of those abilities makes them extremely reliable in any negotiations.
If the Klingons acquired their technology in battle, then they must be very good at reverse engineering: figuring out how something works and replicating it without training or instruction manuals. Have some Klingon engineers on your fancy Cardassian built ship. They, like Soviet engineers here on Earth, can probably fix anything with a coat hanger, duct tape and WD 40 and, if SHTF, they are very handy in a fight.
I feel like Romulans should of developed the best censors. They spend most of their history developing tech to avoid detection and encryption which would incentivise the opposite: code breaking and detection. It would be a circular evolution within their own society. Ergo they SHOULD have by far the best sensors.
I want more of this. Might I suggest ferrangi are honestly good at diplomacy (when they aren't being pirates) and exploration? They have to find suitable markets and make sales with the people of those markets. Also supposedly holodeck technology came from them in some roundabout way? Ditto synthahol? But beyond greedy money grubbers ferrangi are honestly great for diplomacy and inter species trade. Plus their bilogy is diffrent enough from galactic norms that empsths and telepaths typically find it hard to rad them.
Honestly the klingons would likely produce very good mercenaries, it'd be one of the few ways klingons could have 'honorable' combat in times of peace. I.e. if there aren't any wars at the time klingon officers could be rented out by the KDF to keep their talents sharp.
I see the klingons as a people who excel in their martial ability (waaaagh!), their engineering prowess (ship classes that last 100's of years with only the innards being updated), and as mariners (to go so far and so boldly without much of the safety tech that everyone else uses, leaning on their viking inspiration here.) Of course their conquered vassals and slaves, which I feel never really gets addressed in trek, filling in their weakspots wherever a weaker klingon houses, or house-less klingons cannot be used to do it. (Bat'leth make poor ploughs.)
I think encryption by that time would just be use of one time pads for everything of any importance. It’s probably unbreakable, which makes anything else very silly to use.
I thought betazoids were telepaths and Deana troi was only am empath because she was half human. Therefore, she could telepathically speak with other telepaths but couldn't with non telepaths because her abilities were limited by being half human.
I would definitely like to see more. Species like Vidians (they were good with medicine if I remember correctly), Voth,Gorn,Breen, maybe some Gamma quadrant species as well
From a human standpoint, of course we look like the all rounders. What if, in real life, one alien race is in the middle and we are an extreme. We could be extremely backwards techwise. We could be too homogeneous, or not homogeneous enough if the aliens are equals with each other. We could be too warlike, not warlike enough, too religious, too secular...
A video that I would like to see is one that shows what happens to the other races that have been conquered by the militarist based races such as the Kligons and Romulions. We never really here anything regarding the peoples of the conquered worlds.
I think for the benefit of the community it would be awesome to have a video that focuses on what the Federation Founding Races brought to the organization. You managed to focus on many of the UFP races we see in the Generation Era, but not so much the TOS/ENT era. I almost think species like the Trill and Betazoids may have been better featured in Part 2 with the "Terrans", Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites the focus of the first part. Meh, perhaps it would be an interesting idea to have a small video series that explains the hallmarks of what each Federation race brought to the table.
really should've touched on that species in the delta quadrant that had the best transporter in the galaxy, they can practically transport people and objects into an entirely different quadrant.
Absolutely a part 2 would be fantastic. The pre-federation Andorians had exceptional sensor systems, The Krenim are experts in temporal mechanics, Borg nanotechnology is powerful and incredibly versatile, The Ferengi in general are excellent at market analytics and logistics, Breen have high performance weapons and cryonics. The list can go on
6:20 "plethora" should only be used when it's about "too much" of something (eg. a bad thing). Most people can't have a plethora of money, or talent, but you can have a plethora of choices or a plethora of children. I think the word you want here is "abundance"
American English isn't necessarily assumed to be articulate like academic rhetoric. Cockny, Jive, Funk... Those have become, basically urban dialects. Until you speak eloquently enough, most people unconsciously think (Americans... Geesh!) Until you transcribe meaning relevantly in an intrinsic fashion, and by any means regardless of didactic, then you are stuck with "how the world views Americans."
A question I had never thought of before seeing this video, but is the ufp logo based on any actual constellation or star formation or is it just made up, anyone know? I don't often comment but another interesting video Rick, thanks.
I thought the UFP logo was the federation members with the 3 bright stars the founding members. could be wrong though. Trekkies! a little clarification!
@@zeroone871 There were for finding members, though? I found this on Memory Alpha: Okuda later recalled, "Someone asked me if the 3 stars big stars on the UFP logo represented the founding members. But when I designed the symbol, Trek had not yet established the founding members. I did think that the three stars might represent core values: perhaps equality, compassion, & knowledge."
It is weird that Romulans had the best AI and automated systems, nested self learning security systems, adaptive listening programs, even self guided vessels. And yet they were 100% anti-automation and against any AI of any kind whatsoever?
Klingons are also master shipbuilders as their vessels were almost immune to the Breen energy drain weapon that crippled the Federation and Romulan fleets.
We like Rick. Rick explain things. He help us get warp drive. Warp drive make us go.
Make us go fast!
@@josipbroztito6763 Dat eazy! Red 'uns go faster!
@@Hurmeri i thought clear made me "go faster" 🤣🤣🤣
But not Rick Berman
Be like Rick
When you started taking about "Romulan VPNs", I honestly thought you were going to segway into a promotion!
Honestly, it would have been perfect for a Romulan themed spoof sponsorship. Something like idk..."Winged Defender - Anti Virus Suite(tm). Made by Tal Shiar cyber security experts. Your computer's cloaking device against galactic malware."
We all know the obsidian order could hack it
*segue
Haha nice
“Romulan’s would marvel at the capability of Nord VPN…”
The Gorn - their rock throwing and rock defense technology is second to none. ;)
Yeah, they rock!
And they do it with *stone* cold temper.
Maybe not defense. Remember how Kirk killed that one Gorn.
I've always seen the UFP founders as Humans = Diplomats /Jack of all trades. Andorians = warfare/defence specialists. Vulcans = scientific prowess. Tellarites = Engineering/building prowess.
I second what you’ve posited here.
I was wondering about Andorians and Tellarites.
My head canon is that the Andorians took the human phase cannon design and combined the tech with their own (probably Nadion based) particle weapon design. Making a surprise improvement in power and versatility which quickly becomes the main weaponry of Andorian ships, before Starfleet adopts the Phaser design for their own ships.
@@originaluddite if you watch ENT youll see the militaristic culture of andorians
@@cosmosyn2514 and a certain commercial tendency for Tellarites.
A part two of this would be interesting.
Some ideas would be: Tholians with their tractor beams; Dominion with their cloning tech; Borg with their cybernetic abilities; Voth with their transwarp; Ferengi with their commence; Orions with their persuasion; Andorians with their tactical abilities; Breen with their cryo-tech; Remens with their night-vision; etc.
Catians because everyone loves cats... and they are made of fluff
@@chickadeestevenson5440 Catians make some fine ships. I mean seen their carriers? >.> Even though it looks like a big purple dildo....now I think about it *Facepalm*
The Voth Transwarp is neat but i really would put their ability to beam a whole freaking starship over their transwarp.
The Dominion has all sorts of bioengineering advancements. Look at what they have done with Tetracell White. Talk about long term food supply replacement.
Ey Greater Terran Union
And The Grand Nagus can just buy all of this stuff.
But, other species do! I remember Nog saying that the Ferengi ended up buying their first warp drive, instead of inventing their own.
@@GraceSerenityK and having warp technology was all it took to be able to join, giving them a seat at the table.
Not so fast. Brunt, F.C.A....
“Get me my snail juice.”
The Ferengi have cornered the tech support market.
Also the scam market.
A startrek tour of the culinary arts from the many different cultures would be an interesting video
@@Nick-Name-qf4nw Gagh makes the mouth water especially when its live and squirming
1: Get bug.
2: Dump into bowl.
3: Serve.
There's a cookbook that goes over recreating the various food props in the shows.
@@BlueSatoshi 😯 I have to find this!
@@BlueSatoshi I recently bought that book, it’s great!
When you got to the Klingon section, I’m surprised you missed the obvious speciality of the species. From all that was mentioned about how they acquire their technology, the Klingons seem to be specialists in reverse engineering. Even when encountering tech far more advance then their own, the Klingons seem to easily be able to reverse engineer, understand, and recreate the technology whether it be their warp drives to Romulan cloaking technology and etc.
Perhaps I’m looking too deeply into it but goes to show how the Klingons are unique in terms of innovation.
The USS Optimus. “Well that’s just Prime.”
Facts
That will be the Ship's Motto. And you clearly will know anyone who served on that ship rather quickly.
Crew, transform and roll out!🚑🚒🚓🚕🚛🏎🚜
Definitely have a prime directive now
It plays 'You Got the Touch' when jumping to Warp. and the 'Beast Wars Instrumental' when it's dropping out.
One of my favorite part about DS9 is that for once we see why the klingons are a fiersome speices to have in a conflict. while the moral of everyone is downing with the constant updating of the casualty list, you can see the klingon's moral going up as time goes. you see them coming back from battle chanting and cheering everyone happy that it was a blood bath with tons of great warriors entering sto-vo-kor.
DS 9 did a great job at fleshing out the various different species and cultures of Trek, especially the Ferengi.
The Gorn are famous for their craft skills, such as knitting, crochet and making papier machet rocks.
I'd say the Klingons are highly adaptable to hardships; if that hardship happens to occur through battle, all the better. They can repurpose and adapt recovered tech. While humans are equally adaptable but more in line with problem solving and developing or modifying existing tech to get them out of a bind.
I think that is one of Klingons greatest strengths: tenacity and wisdom. They can literally be enslaved by a technologically more advanced species and in rebelling not only fling them off their planet and chase them to the stars but also make it as they are never heard from again in that sector of space. Kingpins are hardy and they take a beating and an old Klingon is often a wise Klingon because they can take the lumps and keep going. And theirs is a history of such individuals thousands of years old. They are unafraid to try and seize opportunities and that gives them an edge over more cautious (Vulcan) or fragile (humans) species .
Their greatest strength is obviously their opera.
Suggestions for Part II: Andorians, Ferengi, Denobulans, Gorns and Talaxians
Can I suggest Tholians too? Perhaps the most enigmatic of all ST races; they seem to be rather good at energy manipulation and reverse engineering.
I think that what you've basically done here is make a Trek version of the SSV Normandy from Mass Effect. Now that I mention it, a Mass Effect version of this vid would be a good idea too.
11:30 ; Okay, so now I expect you to actually design that ship and bridge crew in STO on an alt character. Most of your preferred design choices are actually possible options in that game. I would indeed be most fascinated to see how viable that idea actually is.
I would put a Human captain, not out of superiority complex but human captains have proven to be the more well-rounded command officers
@@luisdonoso6154 what about an Eluarian?
@@luisdonoso6154 ; Yeah, I would agree with that. Though in this scenario Rick, (who is human) is the Captain.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 ; El-Aurians are more so listeners than leaders. They are superb counselors, bartenders, and advice givers, but generally are do not prefer to be in the center light that is the captain chair.
Me to. Auggie shouldn't take all of the glory!
So the Klingons are basically the Pakleds without being simpletons.... lol
Well less tricking people and more picking fights. Though their warp came from someone being dumb enough to pick a fight... with them.
@@chickadeestevenson5440 Agreed
Federation engineers and scientists are the theoretical sciences. Klingons reverse engineer and apply. They sort of go around and steal bits of other people's cultures and ideas they like for themselves
I'd say something for Federation computer systems, they seem pretty consistently unequalled by anything else, especially in the field of AI.
They do have this tiny flaw of becoming sentient once in awhile :)
@@kingssman2 what is a flaw, but a diamond seeking some polish ;)
Federation culture created Data. Not many others did like.
@@brodriguez11000 Data should be the natural next step allowing ai to evolve naturally could lead to errors or lack of morality instead creating learning androids like data allows the healthiest path to peace bewteen AI and organics by putting them on the same mental grounds in regards to morality making them nothing more then a more intelligent form of what ever nations people that made them and "raised" them.
of course this would mean thered be war obbssed klingon ai cold and cruel romulan ai or peacefull yet apathetic ai like vulcans but at least then theyd still be better then AI vs organic mindset
@@wilmagregg3131
Probably a dumb question in these comments, but did you see “Picard” yet? Won’t spoil anything if you haven’t.
Honestly, the Klingons are kind of crap at combat & war. They win wars sometimes sure, but it is always at way too high losses. They are supposedly naturally physically stronger, training all their life in martial arts and pain tolerance, yet Klingons armed with close combat weapons are regularly defeated by humans using only the palm of their hands and they don't fare much better in space either, even when they still had a serious technological advantage, and come up against enemies with supposedly far less combat optimised vessels.
Ironically, when they use real subterfuge, their successes are far more genuine and surprising and their losses far more a last ditch efford barely succeeding by their opponents. Sure cheating can always even the odds, but I mean relatively to other galatic powers their military sucks in all but numbers and willingness to die in combat, but their intelligence work is surprisingly good.
Klingons consider dying in battle to be the greatest honor. But to paraphrase a real world general; A soldier doesn't die for his planet. He makes other soldiers die for theirs.
Something you forgot, which is also what makes the Klingons formidable as a galactic superpower: their devotion to their honor as individuals and a people, plus their ferocity of conviction and determination to their brothers and sisters in arms. That's a powerful combination, especially if you consider how harsh of an environment that Q'onoS really was back in the early periods of their evolution and society. In other words, it's an empire of barbarian ninja berserker brawler swordsmen duelists. Oh and they practice Klingon yoga.
*drops the keyboard and walks away*
The Sheliak - good for treaty writing - making sure that there can be hardly any loopholes in a treaty.
The Krenim - good for temporal timelines and tackling anything that may affect the timeline of even a single particle.
Where I thought you were going with that…
The Sheliak: good for writing treaties and making sure there are no loopholes in a treaty. The Krenem: good for going back and making sure there never was a treaty, or a species to make one with in the first place.
This might only serve as a footnote (especially because of how intentionally mysterious they were designed to be in DS9) but *The Breen* were said to excel at cryogenic storage tech, seen best in their inscrutable 'interacting with other aliens' hazardous environmental suits.
_we look for things, things to make us go_
Well humans where famed for there technical skill and ingenuity, and where highly adaptable to new situations quickly overcoming problems presented to them
If I had to find a specific strength for Klingons, it would be that they're masters at not only reverse-engineering captured technologies, but improving upon them. They make better cloaks than Romulans; their ships, while ultimately based on stolen Hur'q technology, are tougher than anyone else's; their weapons are second to none. Their technology is designed to be usable with minimal training (well, except their melee weapons - bat'leths and mek'leths are almost as dangerous to the wielder as the opponent), and capable of standing up to extremely rough handling.
The AK47 of technological philosophies. Does it do the job and will it keep doing that job? If so, it's what we want, for the minimal resources required.
Sounds almost like Russian engineering stereotypes.
@@Blasted2Oblivion I think in TOS the Klingons were kinda standins for the Soviet Union given the show was made at one of the heights of the cold war.
Oh, I really like this!
Some species I'd like to see in a part two (most of them because there isn't much in canon to go on but I don't know the apocrypha):
-Ferengi
-Saurians
-Caitians
-Edosians
-Andorians
-Tellarites
He recently did an Andorian video. Just search for it on TH-cam. channelname video.
@@nagash303 He's done videos on most of all of the species he talked about in this one, too. There's a difference between the cultural files and this series.
I would like to see more of this. Lot of other people have given their lists of races and their things you should cover next; but I'd like to add to the Klingons. I think you missed a thing that they are strangely good at, that has been shown a few times in the shows and in the apocrypha and that's that they are weirdly quite adept at genetic technology; creating a clone of Kahless, and hiding the Suliban intel in that dude's DNA, to cite a couple.
so this video did the alpha and beta quadrants. Part two should be about the Delta and Gamma quadrants. For example one very good species to do would be the Vidiians and they're extremely superior medical technology, which can be used both as a weapon and as a sophisticated tool for medical treatment. Another one would be the Voth, with their distaste for endotherm's and they're highly sophisticated personal cell technology which allowed them to observe Voyager at least for a while without being detected. The Vodwar might be another good delta species to cover.
- good observations
A video briefing us on ST Online species that dont show up in the shows. Idk any and would like to.
Great video, the Cardassians are one of my favorite species and I always viewed them as equivalent to humans but decided to be conquers rather than friendly collaboraters and that more than anything limited their tech development leaving it a generation or so behind Starfleet in most respects. Probably about where humans would be in the Star Trek universe if they stuck to themselves and pursued development alone.
I think the Cardies are supposed to be a lot smarter than humans on average. From what we seen in canon, they would have eidetic memory. This is what made them formidable opponents.
Now I'm imagining a Civ-type game where you play as all the various races/cultures in star trek and utilize their unique strengths/specializations
I like the ship idea, with the crew you pointed towards...
Rick, there's only one thing missing from your hypothetical ship idea: an easily-used-and-maintained-by-anyone thalaron-based ultra-God-mode plasma cannon that vaporizes entire planets with one shot. Sort of a more efficient but more powerful version of the weapon from ST Nemesis. EDIT-- Forgot to mention that it's made by the Klingons. : )
I guess the Bajoran’s really know how to dish it out
i always wondered if the Ferengee after Rom got to be Nagus and the new way of life became the norm might have aided their considerable negotiation skills to the federation
I know in Beta canon that the Caitian are artists, but also big on carriers. There's actually a duty-officer chain that eventually nets you the ability to enlist Caitian flight deck crew members.
Most likely this comes from the fact that caitian invented aircraft when some Caitian pushed several aircraft off the side of a cliff at random. (This is a joke, probably)
Apparently they're basically feline humans in the Beta Canon. Albiet with hints of a dark and troubled past. And in STO I'd call them effectively the Romulans of their species, given what comes through. Carriers, though? That's because they're feline. More windows for them
The Binars were great at creating immersive, purpose-built, holoprograms. The Ferengi are likely good accountants and property lawyers. It must be assumed Bolians have an innate talent for cosmetology. The Risians excel at terraforming and weather manipulation. Kelpians seem to enjoy aquaculture and crying so hard they break the galaxy, so that's a twofor.
I thought the Risians only got their environmental control tech from the Federation? If anything their distinguishing trait was probably that they used to be insanely hardy people to keep on trucking despite a low population carrying capacity on Risa and very unforgiving natural conditions, but "good times breed soft men" etc.
@@Ithirahad my memory isn't perfect, but am pretty sure the Enterprise NX-01 visited Risa pre-Federation. I can't recall if the weather systems were fully in place, but seem to remember even then Risa was a renowned vacation spot.
Be the Andorians and the Tellarites, be founding members of the federation, be not mentioned when talking about Starfleet and wait till part two, cry. Good video, can't wait for part two.
I'd love to see more non federation races, races that were less familiar with! As for the klingons, I would say their strength is their ability to reverse engineer tech!
If I had to guess, it would go something like this for the rest of the races in Star Trek:
Borg: Cybernetics
Species 8472: Bio-manipulation
Tholians: Multi-dimensional tech/awareness
Krenim: Time travel
Nausicaans: Mercenary work
Orions: Any and all criminal activities
Hirogen: Hunting
Are the Ferengi particularly adept in holograms and translators canonically, or is that an idea that got stuck in my head somewhere on its own?
Star trek birth of the federation video game focuses on this aspect in the game, every race that enters the federation brings in a specific utility. Such as the vulcan science academy increases research 35% the trill symbiosis commission increases research 30% and etc.
If you need ss, let me know and I can send em to ya there are about 40 races in the game
About halfway through, this video falls apart. You keep referring to Betazoids as "empaths". While that term applies to half-Betazoids, like Deanna Troi, full-blooded members of the species are much more than that. The full scope of their abilities makes them almost invaluable in any diplomatic setting, and the cultural code which governs their use of those abilities makes them extremely reliable in any negotiations.
If the Klingons acquired their technology in battle, then they must be very good at reverse engineering: figuring out how something works and replicating it without training or instruction manuals. Have some Klingon engineers on your fancy Cardassian built ship. They, like Soviet engineers here on Earth, can probably fix anything with a coat hanger, duct tape and WD 40 and, if SHTF, they are very handy in a fight.
The Gorn would be interesting.
I feel like Romulans should of developed the best censors. They spend most of their history developing tech to avoid detection and encryption which would incentivise the opposite: code breaking and detection. It would be a circular evolution within their own society. Ergo they SHOULD have by far the best sensors.
I want more of this.
Might I suggest ferrangi are honestly good at diplomacy (when they aren't being pirates) and exploration? They have to find suitable markets and make sales with the people of those markets.
Also supposedly holodeck technology came from them in some roundabout way? Ditto synthahol?
But beyond greedy money grubbers ferrangi are honestly great for diplomacy and inter species trade. Plus their bilogy is diffrent enough from galactic norms that empsths and telepaths typically find it hard to rad them.
The Founders were masters of genetic engineering. I would guess that Hu-mons pioneered or were on the forefront of holographic technology.
Pureblood Betazoids are strong Telepaths. Belana was mostly limited to Empath due to her human father.
Honestly the klingons would likely produce very good mercenaries, it'd be one of the few ways klingons could have 'honorable' combat in times of peace.
I.e. if there aren't any wars at the time klingon officers could be rented out by the KDF to keep their talents sharp.
I see the klingons as a people who excel in their martial ability (waaaagh!), their engineering prowess (ship classes that last 100's of years with only the innards being updated), and as mariners (to go so far and so boldly without much of the safety tech that everyone else uses, leaning on their viking inspiration here.)
Of course their conquered vassals and slaves, which I feel never really gets addressed in trek, filling in their weakspots wherever a weaker klingon houses, or house-less klingons cannot be used to do it. (Bat'leth make poor ploughs.)
Warhammer orcs hehehe
Please do a part 2. The Ferengi, Andorians, Dominion, Hirogen, & Breen.
Part 3, The Borg.
Thank you Rick, Interesting topic, I would like to know more about the Delta Quadrant species. Have a great day.
I think encryption by that time would just be use of one time pads for everything of any importance. It’s probably unbreakable, which makes anything else very silly to use.
I'd like to see a part two. Maybe add a Horta planetary science officer, Tellarite engineer and a Hirogen MACO comando
Heard something about the Zackdorn having some expertise in warfare
I think the Romulans could steal Gallifreyan technology through subterfuge.
I thought betazoids were telepaths and Deana troi was only am empath because she was half human. Therefore, she could telepathically speak with other telepaths but couldn't with non telepaths because her abilities were limited by being half human.
I would definitely like to see more. Species like Vidians (they were good with medicine if I remember correctly), Voth,Gorn,Breen, maybe some Gamma quadrant species as well
I quite like the idea of a fantasy ship's crew (like fantasy football teams) video. Perhaps a ship design, as well?
I would like to see a second part. It can also be longer and more species would be great.
The Breen would be good at offensive weaponry, except in the case of Klingon ships that is.
From a human standpoint, of course we look like the all rounders. What if, in real life, one alien race is in the middle and we are an extreme. We could be extremely backwards techwise. We could be too homogeneous, or not homogeneous enough if the aliens are equals with each other. We could be too warlike, not warlike enough, too religious, too secular...
If you are motivated by self short term interests a Ferengi would make an excellent diplomat. Just make sure you can leave your customers in you wake.
A video that I would like to see is one that shows what happens to the other races that have been conquered by the militarist based races such as the Kligons and Romulions. We never really here anything regarding the peoples of the conquered worlds.
for the super ship you should throw in a former borg chief engineer, who brought along their subspace displacement fields and adaptive shielding.
I admire your guesswork on Trek lore and salute you sir lol.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
some more Star Trek worlds please Rick......we all want more planets info
I think for the benefit of the community it would be awesome to have a video that focuses on what the Federation Founding Races brought to the organization. You managed to focus on many of the UFP races we see in the Generation Era, but not so much the TOS/ENT era. I almost think species like the Trill and Betazoids may have been better featured in Part 2 with the "Terrans", Vulcans, Andorians and Tellarites the focus of the first part.
Meh, perhaps it would be an interesting idea to have a small video series that explains the hallmarks of what each Federation race brought to the table.
I invite my fellow Trekkers to enjoy a completely free novel. Just google Star Trek Lost Destiny race
really should've touched on that species in the delta quadrant that had the best transporter in the galaxy, they can practically transport people and objects into an entirely different quadrant.
Good content idea Rick, how about Changeling's and Andorian's.
thank you for this video . part two could be borg (horrsions) voyger dominion . keep up the good work i aways look out for your videos.
Absolutely a part 2 would be fantastic. The pre-federation Andorians had exceptional sensor systems, The Krenim are experts in temporal mechanics, Borg nanotechnology is powerful and incredibly versatile, The Ferengi in general are excellent at market analytics and logistics, Breen have high performance weapons and cryonics. The list can go on
Idea for a new buddy comedy:
A Tholian and Breen get an apartment together...
Your videos are always informative and interesting
Part 2? Yes please
6:20 "plethora" should only be used when it's about "too much" of something (eg. a bad thing). Most people can't have a plethora of money, or talent, but you can have a plethora of choices or a plethora of children. I think the word you want here is "abundance"
I suppose British English and American place different emphasis. I think he's stateside now though.
@@darinbauer8122 Plethora means the same thing in England as it does in the USA
In British and academic languages these two are more closely related.
By that I mean academic rhetoric.
American English isn't necessarily assumed to be articulate like academic rhetoric. Cockny, Jive, Funk... Those have become, basically urban dialects. Until you speak eloquently enough, most people unconsciously think (Americans... Geesh!) Until you transcribe meaning relevantly in an intrinsic fashion, and by any means regardless of didactic, then you are stuck with "how the world views Americans."
Starfleet has the best Sense-Ores.
Sense Oars?
What are these Sense Oars you speak of?
NCC - 733TH4X Leet-ha-x Nice callout to Chase Masterson.
Part 2, should consist of the species of the Delta Quadrant
Love the ship number for the Optomist, I gronk it. 😄
What do you mean betazoids are empaths? They're telepaths.
Andorians, Ferangi would be cool for part 2
You should do a video that's opposite in nature to this one. What you shouldn't go to various races for.
A question I had never thought of before seeing this video, but is the ufp logo based on any actual constellation or star formation or is it just made up, anyone know? I don't often comment but another interesting video Rick, thanks.
I thought the UFP logo was the federation members with the 3 bright stars the founding members. could be wrong though. Trekkies! a little clarification!
@@zeroone871 There were for finding members, though?
I found this on Memory Alpha:
Okuda later recalled, "Someone asked me if the 3 stars big stars on the UFP logo represented the founding members. But when I designed the symbol, Trek had not yet established the founding members. I did think that the three stars might represent core values: perhaps equality, compassion, & knowledge."
*Four founding, dangit autocorrect!
"733TH4X" - I see what you did there...
It. Igor be interesting to speculate about the post phage vidiians
11:21 And of course, this being Star Trek, a human captain.
This topic could make a great serise of videos.👍
Can you do a video on the process to become a UFP member?
It is weird that Romulans had the best AI and automated systems, nested self learning security systems, adaptive listening programs, even self guided vessels. And yet they were 100% anti-automation and against any AI of any kind whatsoever?
Maybe they're against sentient general AI's, but are fine with the kind of self-guiding algorithms we usually call AI in use today?
Make the ship please l whould like to see it in your story series of star trek online.
i would do Brien.. since they are so secretive
Can you possibly do spiecies 8472 please?
Focus on the borg the dominion for the next part
So what planet of hats they're from? Nvm
UFP are the Borg, just nice about it.
the krenin and their expertise at of not only making time travel possible but also their impresive simulation methods.
I really enjoyed this thank you
Klingons are also master shipbuilders as their vessels were almost immune to the Breen energy drain weapon that crippled the Federation and Romulan fleets.
Just one ship and just by fluke beause their engine was altered by mistake to be immune
Klingons make great bards.
Dont forget the klingons can make a mean coffee
I like the 0733TH4-NX.