The BUDGET VOYAGER? - Nova-class - Star Trek Starships Explained
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- Exploration Starships are the bread and butter of Starfleet. These versatile ships can range from the nimble Jam Sandwich of the Intrepid class right up to the mighty Six-course Feast of a Galaxy class that is the USS Enterprise-D. However, some of these ships are rather costly to build in terms of resources. So, what if Starfleet and the Federation wanted a new starship to explore the galaxy but were a bit more cost-efficient at the same time, a Butterfinger, if you will? Well, this is where the Nova class comes into the equation, and the Food jokes stop because now I’ve made myself hungry, and it’s your fault.
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Chapters:
00:00 - Exploration Starships
01:14 - Technical Information
04:27 - Lore of The Nova-class
09:00 - Behind The Scenes
Video Credits:
Written by Zach Roberts
Presented by Adam Watson
Edited by Troy Courtney-Hart
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Title: The BUDGET VOYAGER? - Nova-class - Star Trek Starships Explained
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Nova class: When Starfleet orders an Intrepid class off Wish
Temu's Intrepid (lack of) class.
Mall ninja class?
Hey, that's my favorite ship.
Perfect 😂
I will not stand for this Nova slander!
Honestly, the Nova class is how starships should be. Small and low crew complement but gets the job done. If they had a better warp drive in place then the ship would be the complete package.
That's why I think the Nova class would be good for training cadets by giving them 1st hand Starship experience, kinda like an on hands portion to the Academy books training they get at Starfleet academy, where they would be led by senior officers, and train at different positions on board, and perform mostly planetary survey, cargo runs, and studying stellar phenomenon. The Nova Class is the right size for such a crew.
Adam's delivery is probably my favorite of any sci-fi youtube channel. He's VERY funny and his delivery is reminiscent of George Carlin or Monty Python. Pointedly dry at times yet seething with humor and emotion. Our staff loves listening to his episodes!
Thank you!! 🥹😳
To be honest if I click on a video and it isn't him doing It I just switch it off.
In STO I tend towards the science vessels, and I admit I always liked the Nova Class. It's not my favorite, by any means, but I always found it's tight compact design to feel very much worthwhile in universe as a more utilitarian style ship, compared to the 'hero' ships we usually see. But then, I freely Admit I'm a fan of the Miranda/Reliant class starships too, so those compact workhorses are totally my thing.
The Miranda class and her sisters are my favourite Star Trek ships. I like their shape a lot more than the typical Federation vessels. I have one Enterprise-E in my collection, one NX-01, a Nova, and three varieties of Miranda.
Same here bro, my top 3 favourite ships are the Einstein class (uss Kelvin) from the alt timeline, the miranda class, and either the akira class or the nova class
The Nova class looks like it would make a good academy training ship where cadets could learn first hand about Starship missions and operations, where they do mostly basic planet surveys, cargo runs, and studying natural stellar phenomenon.
I ran a Star Trek ttrpg and the hero vessel was a Nova Class - USS Quasar. Good lot of fun was had.
I was thinking of doing something similar. What kind of missions did you go for? What was your campaign’s theme?
One of my favorite ship! So much potential and can be adjusted for on demand purposes. My personal flagship in Star Trek Online
The Nova class is a favorite of mine. Appeals to my engineer education. Getting more out of a smaller ship is always more impressive than getting more out of a larger ship because compromises need to be made.
The antithesis of this is the Intrepid class of ships. They are basically pocket battleships which are faster than destroyers. No compromise was made, so it’s unrealistic. Nova class shows a much more grounded, thoughtful, balanced, and realistic design.
Other than not carrying as many civilians, the Intrepid class is in every way superior to the Galaxy class.
Intrepid class ships are smaller, faster, more maneuverable, can land in planets, have more advanced sensors and computers, and have more and better weapons and shields.
I don't think the Intrepid is OP compared to contemporary Federation ships, but because most of the Delta Quadrant is less advanced Voyager had a tech advantage. A Galaxy could stomp an Intrepid, her only chance would be to run away because faster. A Sovereign could stomp an Intrepid even faster, and is faster as well, as they are contemporaries with the same tech advantages but the Sovereign is bigger with a bigger warp core. A Defiant could stomp an Intrepid, but I'm betting the Intrepid could escape because faster at high warp and likely capable of keeping a high warp speed longer.
The Nova is the Oberth's replacement as many have said, and isn't designed to stomp anybody, and is also slower than dirt. But her job is to go to a place, hang out and do research for a while, then come back. Short-term missions (less than a year), not long-term missions. According to the Voyager's writer's bible, Intrepid Class ships were meant to operate without resupply for 3 years at a time, so 3 years of antimatter, deuterium, and replicator stocks. I'd guess the Nova carried consumables for a year or so.
I think the Intrepid is the sweet-spot of bang for buck in its era. I would expect Starfleet to build lots of them, since they can do much with a modest crew and I think that personnel is Starfleet's tightest resource. It's definitely the "cheapest" ship we've seen that can go as fast it can so I'm betting Admirals would love to use them as their personal ships for running around the Federation and taking care of business.
The Galaxy class saucer section CAN land on a planet. However, taking off again is not likely. If you've read the Star Trek book "Rogue Saucer", they test a prototype Galaxy class saucer section that's upgraded to be able to better land on planets. The Galaxy class does have some advantages over the Intrepid class. Being able to transport large amounts of cargo and passengers is useful for humanitarian aid missions. An Intrepid class would have to make many more trips compared to a Galaxy class. Not to mention a Galaxy class likely has much better endurance for long missions.
@@TianarTruegard The saucer of the Galaxy has no antimatter, so that thing making planetfall makes a lot more sense than a whole starship landing.
@@Z1gguratVert1go it has fusion reactors for the saucer impulse drives as well as auxiliary power. But yah, not having as much antimatter in the saucer is good for landings. Some of the shuttles in the main shuttle bays will have antimatter for their warp drives. I think the star drive section has all the torpedo launchers though, so no photon torpedos with antimatter in them.
@@TianarTruegard Only DS9 era Runabouts and Voyager era Type 9 and Type 8 shuttles have antimatter. Those could be kept in shuttle bays 2 and 3 rather than shuttlebay 1.
In my Star Trek game I'll never get to play, my captain prefers to only operate Type 9A cargo shuttles and Type 7 shuttles because they are only fusion powered. No antimatter.
As more of a Star Wars person, I find Nova to be one of my favorites. It's small, tough and keeps on going.
Like a pile of junk hold by wishes and bailing wire.
I thought the Rhode Island variant to be a very smart looking little ship, but the Sabre class will likely always be my favorite small ship class.
I'm partial to the Norway Class myself; Doesn't get enough love. With the Sabre a close second.
Sabre and Norway are good but Rhode Island wins for me.
Ive always loved the Nova class... WITH some upgrades it wold be a POWERHOUSE...
1. Better warp core
2. Major weapons upgrade, including phasers, and torpedoes.
3. Better ablative hull armor, and better shields.
4. Holo emitters on every level
Do all that and you have a Fast, Powerful, and maneuverable ship. That would be far cheaper option than designing a new ship.
GO NOVA GO!!!!
If you look at the Equinox you’ll notice it has no impulse engine. This was an accident by the cgi model designers as where the top shuttle bay was on the model was where the impulse engine was supposed to be located. Somehow there was a miscommunication & nobody noticed until after everything had been filmed.
If anything the Rhode Island class is the Capital Ship Version of the Nova. Starfleet was so impressed by its performance that they commissioned a beefed up version to replace the Nebula Class being phased out with the Galaxy Class. This way Harry gets a proper ship to command.
Let's be honest, the tiny Rhode Island class was obviously developed so they could give Harry Kim a ship to command without giving him a promotion.
I think the Nova-class was intended to be akin to be Starfleet equivalent to a littoral ship. It ain't meant to be a long range ship like the Intrepid-class but the design is so flexible Starfleet could make a variant that's slightly bigger, heavily armed for its size, and have it specifically made for intelligence gathering and long range operations where a regular Nova-class ship couldn't operate. It's really a sound design and a worthy replacement of the old war canoe.
Fantastic points all around; especially the more specialized variants. When ships are huge, multipurpose, master of all, they get expensive and resource intensive. Takes a lot of time, money, and manpower to get a Galaxy going and maintained.
The smaller, simpler ships like Nova can be built much faster so each ship has more potential for specialization.
@@montithered4741 And the best part is, potential enemies and spies can't tell which Nova class vessel they're looking for given there's so many of them. This is a perfect vessel for Starfleet Intelligence if there's a variant specifically made for them and would utilize more stealth technologies (more advanced than most Starfleet ships but vastly inferior to any ship belonging to Section 31). If Starfleet has a border patrol service, even a larger and heavily armed Nova equipped with a modern set up of the intended design as a gunboat is a good deterrent, especially if you have it set up with either a pair of Sabre-class or Steamrunner-class escorts.
Hell, pair with 3 or 4 Defiants and what you have is an attack squadron of gunboats used to harass larger ships OR three heavy Novas with an Akira to serve as sledgehammers to punch through large enemy formations. I think it's logical you can have regular Novas serve as science and surveyor ships while having larger specialized Novas fulfill the intended purpose of the Defiant Pathfinder: a lean, mean, and compact torpedo boat.
The Nova class is _what it needed to be_ for those Equinox episodes, but it is not consistent in its design brief - it should have a *Holodeck* and be *fast.*
[Warning Essay]
[*TL:DR* A science ship _needs a Holodeck_ to conduct simulations and it's just _so damn useful in research,_ not just recreation.
And a small ship by itself exploring scientific phenomenon would find being able to _run away from trouble_ useful - besides also getting to examine a just discovered event (by a non science ship) fast, before it passes. Also it's supposed to also be a AWACS craft in a general war, detecting enemy ships. Speed would be useful then for strategic and tactical proposes.]
The Equinox needed to have no Holodeck for plot reasons, because that is a luxury that would keep the crew psychologically healthy. But a Holodeck is a *necessity for a science vessel.* Pretty well every scientific mystery episode featured analysis on the Holodeck, its the single most important analytical tool Starfleet ships have. And since it can work just like real equipment, it can be used as spare laboratories. Spare bespoke specialist laboratories that weren't included in the dozen or so labs that your ship already has (although standard labs are good enough to do illegal experiments on using sentients as nitro). And it can create artificial environments, simulations of phenomenon and provide AI experts (like Cardassian doctors and other experts, such as the ships designer, and hold on, you already have holosystems installed - the EMH!) and training from simulations of the best teachers and scientist, and…
The list goes on, it's just to useful not to include, except for plot purposes.
But they could have just stated that the Holodeck had been destroyed on the Equinox. Except that Voyager gets half it's interior reconfigured into Holodecks by Hirogen or three decks blown away and its back to normal next week - although maybe the Intrepid class has an experimental manufacturing facility that besides making shuttles and photon torpedoes could completely rebuild the ship in flight. A industrial replicator built on top of a transporter [and why don't small Federation ships have a combo holodeck/replicator/transporter built into one room to save space, they use the same technological principles? and it would make the Holodeck becoming sentient even more fun…].
Although the official explanation is that Voyager is constructed of *Weeklonium,* that _resets to its default condition_ every week.
One solution would have been to show the Equinox with part of the ship missing, say a corner of the saucer section, the Holodeck was there, and the main replicators are trashed as well so it can't be rebuilt.
But seriously, you could make a science vessel half holodeck with labs created on the fly, as long as it had a power surplus, and it would be a viable design.
Another main plot point of the Equinox was it was slow, so getting back home was even harder (as was avoiding combat by running away, something a non combat vessel, with eleven phasers(?), off by itself examining uninhabited planets away from immediate support in a big nasty galaxy should do), till it was modified to run on dolphin blood (a suggestion put forward by GENERATION TECH).
But in the backstory of the Nova class it says that the original hull design was from the Defiant pathfinder when they were thinking of a *high warp torpedo attack boat,* instead of the close range maneuverable slugger they went with. It was capable of warp 9.982 (really, really fast) and was designed to do hit and run strikes. It states that the warp core was downgraded to increase service intervals, which is huh? If it's for long term missions then why no Holodecks? And if it's short range missions then service intervals are not a issue. Surely you just don't thrash it at full power to keep it running sweet. A nice big warp core that doesn't have to go above 50% power in normal use would run smoothly for years, a small warp core that you have to rev to get anywhere burns out quicker - it's running a warp core near 100%+ that requires intensive maintenance.
It does make strategic sense to have a fast science vessel, it can get to _time sensitive_ phenomenon quickly, it can run away from trouble if it encounters hostiles by itself instead of tying up other ships in rescuing or more likely avenging it. And it can waste less time in transit from one site to another.
And the big, big issue is it's listed as a dual purpose ship (triple, it's a explorer). It's also a *scout ship,* for use in general war (eleven phaser arrays and three torpedo launchers…). It has the best sensor array of any Starfleet vessel so it's job was to travel ahead of the fleet and scan for enemies, as well as go by itself on recon missions. But it can't do that if it's so slow it holds the fleet up and can't stay out of range when it detects enemy ships or even get to the designated search zone in a reasonable timeframe.
Quite simply this is not compatible with its three cylinder engine from a city car. It should have a big V6 at least or even a V8 and use cylinder deactivation when it's just puttering around on its daily commute, but be able to burn rubber when it's scouting for tanks in a hot zone.
The ship has contradictions in its concept. This inconsistencies could have been all solved if it had been stated that it originally had these features (Holodeck and high warp) but they, and the ability to repair them, had been destroyed when the captain decided to challenge an _entire alien armada_ with the authority of the Federation, which was approximately 70 plus years away travel time, in order to save a few weeks on that same journey.
Or maybe the Holodeck was to be installed on Tuesday?
Still one major improvement was that in instead of being constructed of *Explodium* like the Oberth, it's now built out of *Unrepairium.*
The Nova Class ships were smaller and more nimble for those discreet missions. A larger ship would draw too much unwanted attention. 😂
I think this ship would have made a great Defiant class. Looks tough if it was promoted that way. I guess I didn't care for the Defiant as much because it didn't look like a traditional starfleet ship.
Totally agree with you. The Defiant class is much more a short range, fast attack, glass cannon ship. One trick pony because the frame is TINY; hardly any room for modifications.
Novas are a more simple, known, and affordable alternative for any roll in a compact, but versatile platform.
Want more combat oriented? Get rid of science labs and exploration systems; add phaser arrays and shields.
@@montithered4741 I dunno about the Defiant being a 'glass cannon', thing is small but built like a brick. No flimsy necks or struts, and it had alcoved warp engines, and no wasted space.
Certainly a one-trick pony though.
That was kind of the point. It didn't look like a traditional Starfleet ship because it wasn't one. It's the A-10 of space; they built a ship around some phaser cannons and a warp drive.
I agree this would be a great defiant class
The Nova class is one of the few Star Trek ships I actually like. It’s a good size.
I prefer smaller sized ships, they come off as far more realistic to me. The Enterprise-D is taller than a 30 story building - think about the time, effort and resources it takes to build something that big. Not to mention maintaining it.
Galaxy class ships are meant to be majestic and huge. They're entirely self sufficient for extended periods of time without support. There also aren't that many of them. Ships like the Nova, Defiant, and Intrepid are much cheaper and faster to build and very likely outnumber big capital ships like the Galaxy and Sovereign class several times over.
@@AdmiralKarelia
Another reason that I prefer smaller vessels. One can have an entire fleet performing multiple missions for the resources that one Galaxy class takes.
But I agree that for extended, long term missions larger ships are better. Besides being able to carry more cargo, fuel and supplies, the sheer size of them makes them better able to absorb damage and give more space for the crew to wander around. Better for their psychological needs.
Thank you for properly pronouncing lieutenant, we need that more in the Star Trek universe
The Nova has and will always be my favorite. honestly the ship is underrated.
yeah, its not huge. but its an awesome little ship.
MY FAVORITE CLASS OF SHIP!!!!!!! I have always LOVED the Nova class. My favorite is, of course, the Rhode Island variant.
It's all the best parts of a Sovereign and Intrepid in one.
@@AdmiralKarelia No it doesn't, lol. Not even close.
If anything it's simply an infant version.
@@axelfoley1406 How do you look at those nacelles and not think Sovereign? Or that engineering hull and not see the Intrepid?
Nova class starships are one of my favorite ships.
An Intrepid is a nimble jam sandwich...I love it. Oh and yes it was wonderful seeing Nova class ships again on Picard.
I'm a member of a Star Trek Roleplaying group. My character graduated from Starfleet Academy, top of her class and instead of entering service at the rank of Ensign, my character entered into service at the rank of Lt. JG, where she served aboard the USS Khitomer, a Nova class ship and an engineer. Eventually the chief engineer retired and my character replaced him as chief engineer for the USS Khitomer. Unfortunately the USS Khitomer was lost in combat and my character was reassigned to the USS Mystic, another Nova class ship where the was the Chief Engineer for sometime before finally being promoted to XO and finally captain. My character has since been reassigned to command the USS Gallman an Intrepid class ship who's patrol zone is near Cait. Interesting bit of side information, the USS Gallman is mainly a ship full of Caitians, my character, the ship's captain is the only human on the ship. The reason for the Caitians being the main crew on the Gallman is because of our patrol zone, it makes it more convenient for the crew to visit their families whenever we have to dock for repairs, resupplies, and/or upgrades.
As the ship class my first Star Trek character served on, and also the first ship class my character commanded, the Nova class has a special place in my heart. :)
For myself I've always preferred the Rhode Island variant for the Nova class. I remember the early artwork in the DS9 Tech manual which I need to get again. I've got two models of the Rhode Island, a 1/1400th version from Starcraft models and a larger version that is in scale to the old Revell Voyager model. The other one I scribed in the panel lines as they were completely absent. It wasn't my best work but I like how it came out.
I MIGHT get the Equinox model from Starcraft at some point...I'll have to think about it. I wouldn't mind serving or Captaining a Rhode Island variant of the Nova class.
i always considered the starship Protostar was inspired by the Rhode Island class, but without the double stacked shuttle bay doors, of course.
1:34 oh wow I haven't seen this drawing in 25+ years. I always liked the one on the bottom left.
I always saw the Nova Class as a direct means to an end for Equinox. They needed a ship that was roughly on par with Voyager so they couldn't haul out the big boys that we'd seen so often. Not only that but also classes like the Miranda and Oberth were really too old. I like that they made it smaller than the Intrepid Class, but still rather potent for it's small size.
Nova Class is an amazing vessel. It fills the role of a corvette or gunboat. Not sup fast, but well armoured and armed and able to operate in the coastal waters or even in a river - hence the ability for the Nova Class to operate in atmosphere.
We got to have an evil Doctor without even having to travel to the Terran Universe.
If we were to take the Ship of the Line calendar as canon, one could suggest that was the U.S.S. Nova, having been called into the battle during its initial shakedown, or possibly as we don't see the secondary hull a prototype of a different name that had been testing the same saucer section design, which then was redesigned into the Nova-class.
I would very much dislike serving on a Nova class, it is barely bigger than most private vessels though it was obviously better equipped. If they could add a deck or two so that they could add better personal quarters, holodecks, and a better medical bay. Or add one deck for secondary power generation and medical then turn all quarters into personal holodecks. Basically it was far too spartan and lacking in amenities to serve on for long, much like a real life submarine.
Love the Rhode island have an egale moss ship and thst would be my personal turning and burning ship 😊
Nova was my favorite ship in STO, so much so i dud everything i could to keep it relevant even when bigger and "better" ships became available. Not sure why, but i really connected with that ship, and having to leave it for some reason really hurt my enjoyment of the game.
Wouldn't mind being a captain on one of these definitely think star trek could have used these a lot more.
Please do Defiant class. I only saw 2 of them when watching DS9 and read a little in William Shatner books, but what I read interested me immensely. Something with enough firepower to take on a Borg cube and equipped with a cloak for extra stealth made it sound like an ultimate assassin ship 🙂
Ummmm, you do realise this dudes almost as Defiant obsessed as I. He's mentioned and covered it so much its a meme, go back a bit in his videos.....👍👌👍
@@EZ-D-FIANT Thank you! Watching it now 🙂
The Nova Being around in Picard is so down to them having the Model available.
As a lot of newer vessels had long since been retried including the Voyager's Replacement
So yeah I can laugh that the Nebula Class got the last laugh in that instant that is survived past 2 Voyagers.
One of my favorite ships.
The whole Warship Voyager thing... was more a Documentary than a fiction really.
It would be cool to see a Nova Class ship with a mission pod attached.
While I'm not opposed to a mission pod, where would it go?
Tbh I'm surprised the element of 'mission pods' isnt more of a thing with smaller Starfleet vessels or science vessels, much like the Danube Class.
Building a ship that can be adapted for multiple uses just seems more utilitarian and in keeping with the overall Starfleet ethos, whilst also being a full realised method of starship cintriscrion that echos current day space-craft design.
I realise the in-universe Starfleet isn't constrained by financial restrictions, but from a ergonomic standpoint, and because Starfleet builds ships for the Federation (civilian branch), the adaptability of a starship would also link into the fact that multiple species are members of the Federation, so civilian or scientific vessels could be quickly adapted for different species, as well as different roles, from science labs in mission pods, cargo container pods, loving quarter pods, rescue ships having additional shuttle hanger pods and so on.
I do enjoy the Nova as a small exploration/scout vessel. It's got a good rounded range of features - such that I'm going to be using the class for my PCs in a table-top Star Trek RPG I'm running.
You've made yourself hungry and it's... my fault? I'm going thaw out a pizza.
I really find that starships being able to land is horribly risky and pretty stupid. If their antimatter containment fails in space, it's really bad. And that's just radiation and bits of starships shrapnel coming at you at horrifying speeds. If a starship's antimatter containment fails on the ground in an atmosphere, that's media through which to convey a lot of heat and a nasty shockwave. It could be an extinction-level event.
Also in space, you can eject the warp core and the antimatter pods if you see the containment failure coming before it happens. On the ground? Forget it, ejecting those things either won't work because the ground is too close (the warp core is longer than the clearance under the starship's landing gear) or just as bad (the antimatter pods shoot out of the ship's ventral side, slamming into the ground that's just a couple meters away and blowing up anyway).
Plus if your ship can't land, it doesn't need landing gear. That's tons and tons of heavy metal equipment you don't need to be dragging all over the galaxy with you everywhere you go.
Also while on the ground, the starship would need to expend power to its structural integrity fields or the weight of the nacelles would cause them to be torn off the ship. These big machines are designed to float in weightlessness!
BUDGET VOYAGER? Sacrebleu!!! xD
The Nova could stand to be slightly bigger so it could have a holodeck or 2, bigger warp drive, more crew capacity and creature comforts but even without those I think it's a wonderful short range or training ship.
They're also small enough that you could easily send them out on temporary assignment to research outposts to collect data (although not big enough to handle the research of it)
Definitely my favorite "smol" ship class.
Oh please, resources in space are so unimaginably large, combined with advanced automation I'm sure would be around the 23rd century that these vessels would be the size of cities. And if you were traveling through space, you would want to live in a city ship instead of an overgrown submarine.
That's the way the Warhammer 40K universe did it. Literal cities in space, absolutely swamped with guns. Honestly I do believe Starfleet would have a heart attack at the sight of a Gloriana-class ship. Like voyager being beamed wholesale inside a Voth ship. 😅
OK according to the update, technical specs on the new class, there is not a secondary shot day toward the back of the ship that is an impulse drive. It’s the only place on the ship they couldn’t put an impulse drive, and even in Star Trek magazine, it is shown as having an impulse drive not a second shuttle day.
I love them tiny ships of the Federation like the Nova and Saber class, ships that manage to keep the design aesthetic of Federation Starships, rather than those overweight shuttles like the Defiant.
Missed you a bit Adam and Your boisterous commenting. Boo Boo to you too!
Did you know I ate BooBerry cereal when I was a kid! 😁
I like the smaller ships. Especially while playing Star Trek Online. If you have the right equipment the nova class can kick some butt.
Fantastic video !
Considering the introduction of the holopods in LDX, a Nova-class Mark II could have these pods installed.
I still love this class! It's got a sporty compact design.
Love your channel 😊
The lifeforms they exploited seemed to be able to follow them regardless of distance. If the Equinox managed to reach the Alpha Quadrant and Earth, would the creatures be still attacking them that far from their home?
I'm betting yes, since they were from another universe and relative distances in our universe don't really matter to them. I'd bet they were locking onto the individuals the Equinox had kidnapped so as to find where in our universe to pop into. Like maybe they needed a homing beacon or something. I think that if getting away from where they traditionally were entering our universe far enough was possible to evade them, the Equinox would have managed that by the time they met Voyager. They covered a huge distance by then.
I liked the look of the Nova class, those as a short-range vessel it didn't make sense for it to be anything but a combat ship intended for defensive actions.
I would have liked to see a whole season of Voyager with the Equinox in it. I think that would have been pretty awesome to have the ships work together to get back to Earth... I'm not saying that the Equinox should have been in the rest of the series, but one season would have been great...
If i get new cat i name it Nova lol 😊❤
Nova class starship is where you want a travel the universe without breaking your bank.
I'm an Akira Class captain. We go in harm's way. Allons-y! 👉🏻
actually the USS Enterprise d is not the only Galaxy class. and since Earth is a cashless society the biggest question is who's paying for it
Budget voyager ? How dare you sir ?
It really is
@jhallam2011 Well, she is smaller and slower buy arguably tougher, and because of the cost they produced a fleet of them , they served with destination as escorts in the dominion war.
And were one of only a couple of classes to remain 8n full production. Amd we see her refits in future abel to engage two klingon naghvar class vessels without breathing a sweat. .
I believe her engines were upgraded right after the war . Her Shields were used on the sovereign I believe. And they were still using them a hundred years later. .
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The Intrepid Class starship can land on any planets too. It has 3 landing struts.
Honestly, I think it's pretty undreated by folk, I like the changes to the saucer, and the fleshed out history just makes me want to see what other 'up gunned' designs there were out there, to see how other ships evolved.
I love this videos 🖖live long and prosper
I would want to be the Captaim of a Nebula Class.
And I would move the Bridge to the middle of Deck 10, because whoever decided on Deck 1 either has absolutely zero military/tactical sense, or was creating an obvious target zone intentionally.
It is a weird place to put the bridge. The original enterprise had an auxiliary control room which was cool. Otherwise the closest you'd get would be a ship like the Steamrunner or Akira classes which had superstructure elements that flanked the bridge, or the defiant which covered it with armor.
@@xedanis101 and I chose Deck 10 for a specific reason.
On Voyager, it would be Deck 7.
Those decks are the central Deck of the Saucer Section.
Nasty. Right in the deflector.
Awesome a bit more work and the basestar could be a really good Federation ship????
So what happened to the cut and paste starships from Picard season . Certainly you couldnt see them on season 3 finale.
I love listening to Adam, so dramatic lol
Probably the reason it was budget it because the production team need a readily available bridge set that doesn't required building a new bridge set.
I always imagined the Nova class to be about 200 meters long but longer. 165 meters seems too small, that's shorter than the Defiant.
This class basically replaced the Oberth class
Ugh. Hate that patrol-boat.
Though it was hilarious when the Admiralty gave one to alt-future Harry… 😁
It's replacing the Oberth, automatic win 🏆
Even though Nova was one of my favourite all time classes, I think it was ridiculously overpowered for a small science ship.
My favorite ship on Star Trek: Online. It's my ship thank you
I really wish they didn't go with such an incredibly goofy design (even in the 90s) for the aliens. It's harder to take the crisis seriously.
Wasn't Janeway serving on one of these before voyager in her autobiography?
2 shuttle bays is not a big deal. when you consider its what they CALL a shuttle bay. the "main" shuttle bay, could hold 1 shuttle on the deck and BEARLY store 2 shuttle under the deck in a maintance area. as long as they weren't to long.
The 2nd shuttle bay... was a lie. its actually the main cargo bay... with its doors opening to allow shuttles to land there. This could hold several shuttles BUT there wasn't a maintenance facility and any shuttle held there... was at the expense of cargo space. so if it was carrying a lot of cargo, say to set up a research base... then it couldn't carry any shuttles there.
It would have been soo much better if the Nova was tactically better than the intrepid. If you remember the conversation about who is incharge
Must be lots of drives floating around, match that up to small hull with a holo deck and food replicator and you got yourself a home in space. think there would be lots of "nomad" ships floating around, but it seems like space is pretty blood thirsty in star trek. So maybe not.
The Nova class was to replace the oberth class, the last time we saw the oberth class in the original continuity was in first contact. It was fighting the borg cube, we even saw it fire it's phasers. Then there is that scene you used from lower decks with an oberth in the background, nuTrek doesn't understand anything about star trek.
Just because Oberths kept showing up, and being pressed into service, doesn't mean they were fit for the frontline, anymore, @KerbalSpaceCommand .
Also, Starfleet keeps using many ships for decades. Could take years to retire every last Oberth.
@@chrissonofpear1384 In the garbage picard series nearly every class ship form the original continuity was gone.
Tell me you didn't watch the whole video without saying you didn't watch the whole video. 😂
@@xedanis101 I watched the whole video, tell me your an idiot without telling me your an idiot.
@KerbalSpaceCommand you've been telling me that without saying it since the first comment you left. 😂 If you wanna live in your little gatekeeper bubble, fine, I will happily leave you to it. Your posts are starting to sound more and more like pointless, desperate attempts at being contrary anyway. Have the day you deserve. 🖖🖖
Always been my favourite ship😬, I like little things that hit hard....😅
Edit, my name sake, the Defiant, came way before Novas every saw the screen, and yes its actually a handle I go by, I used it as an mc and now days most friends call me Dee....
I call my car (a tiny black and red mr2 with 600bhp, small but hits hard) Talyn, 5 points to anyone who knows what sci-fi series that's from (like anyone will reply 😂)?
Hey, I'm a farscape fan too 😊
@@xedanis101 👍👌👍
Anyone who isn't a fan deserves to get ko'd by a Tongue imo.....🤣
Here's ya points 👉👈👇👉👈
I thought the Nova class was designed to fight the Borg
its a damn shame what they did to the equinox. It would have been a great returning bad guy in the story line and for sure voyager could one day be saved by them in some battle.
7:33 All three ships? I heard Daugherty and Quinn, but who was the third Badmiral?
...Leftenant 'Frasier', you mean.
Like the Chevrolet NOVA, but in space.
Why do you think it was the Voy production crew having a gi at DS9s ?
When was it established on screen that the Nova class could land on a planet like an Intrepid class?
If I'm not mistaken you can see landing struts in the MSD.
You mentioned the Enterprise D and didn't say "Poor Stardrive" are you ok?
Ok I thought the narrator here was Kelsey Grammer.
The Nova Class happens when a Galaxy Class and a Intrepid Class love each other very much get married and 9 months later !
No, it is not a budget Intrepid.
It is the replacement for the Oberth.Because the Oberth, by TNG, would have been WELL over one hundred years old and no longer a valid option for Starfleet.
The Intrepid was designed for more extensively ranged exploration missions, the Nova was designed for short range surveys.
How the _fuck_ did you mistake one niche for another?
Federation Starship Voyager NCC-74656 A
Not enough room for a holo suite because it needs 2 shuttle bays.
The best ships are the small ones. No one is a number and the missions aren’t high stakes.
Nova class almost seems like the replacement Miranada....