it would make sense that talented ship engineers that have risen through the ranks, gained a reputation or contacts inside command would be asked to develop a new workhorse starship.
For starfleet any tool that performs the same function twice in a row has either upset engineering for not doing what they want or a weapons system that doesn't actually do any damage to the latest enemy
My head canon is that the California class was originally drawn up as the Miranda class type workhorse ship counterpart to the Ambassador class, but along the way the design went a bit wonky and was delayed until the pre-Galaxy class era of the Freedom & Cheyenne class. The Vancouver on the other hand, feels like it could legitimately be that same Miranda-esque workhorse counterpart, only for the Sovereign class. Only this time the design brief stayed truer to the Miranda concept.
@@3Rayfire it definitely feels like that was the intention for the Nebula, but to me it never quite sat right that the ship still has a full secondary hull and is just missing the neck bit. This also can be said about the Luna class, but YMMV as to whether the secondary hull in and of itself is an important distinction.
@@adamlytle2615this is actually exactly why the CGI Nebulas bothered me, since they reused the Galaxy secondary hull. Whereas the physical model made a brand new secondary hull, shaped to better maximise space tucked-in there. It just looks all wrong to me with the regular “eye shaped” Galaxy one.
The design of this class is superb. It is simple and elegant but still looks somewhat formidable with a wide variety of applications. Say what you will about Lower Decks, but they have given us some very interesting designs.
Except seeing windows in the pylons is a bit weird. Is there even space for rooms, and access ways there? For a structurally critical area, that makes no sense, design wise.
@@Mannwhich I wondered about those lights when he said the internal area in the struts was only a few meters wide. The only use I can see for the struts would be backup storage or small workspaces. (Even that is a bit of a stretch.)
@@earlware4322 Indeed, a $hit ton of ablative armor would be the obvious query. But even the old connie Enterprise had sketchy design shenanigans going on in the neck, so I shouldn't complain too much. 😅
I think there is a good argument for the Parliament class to have been in service for a while before 2380, with the two known ships of the class, the USS Vancouver and the USS Toronto, having hull registries of NCC-70492 and NCC-70494. That would make them more contemporary with the Defiant (NX-74205), Sovereign (USS Sovereign NCC-73811), and other post Wolf-359 vessels from the early 2370s than the newer Luna class ones (USS Luna NCC-80101)
I feel like the Parliament is a Super Miranda. It's strength is its flexibility and ability to get stuff done. I wouldn't be surprised if a future Parliament is the U.S.S. O''Brien, or if an O'Brien variant will be introduced in the future.
If anyone deserves a ship named after them, it's Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien. A hero of at least two wars, and uncountable skirmishes, served on both the flagship of the Federation and the most important space station in the Alpha Quadrant, and most importantly of all, the man responsible for popularising darts across the entire galaxy.
I think one thing I might tweak about the Parliament class design if I wanted to make it a true Super Miranda class, would be to put shuttle bays in where those massive impulse engines are now. Replace them with a central impulse engine on the saucer, and then also add nacelle strut mounted impulse engines like on Voyager.
@@adamlytle2615 How about this: There's the huge gap in-between the impulse engines, fill that area in with a bigger primary shuttle bay and use the one it has, now, as the secondary one or a modular work space. Then the whole saucer section would have an outline sorta like the ShiKar or Soyuz variants that STO has.
@@dernudel1615 oh yeah, for sure, lots of ways you could do it, and to my mind one big shuttle bay would be more flexible than two separate shuttle bays half the size. The dual shuttle bays would just provide a more direct homage to the Miranda class is all.
Love this ship design. Really one of the best to come out of Lower Decks. I do really like the Cerritos though it took a long to for me to warm up to it. Now that I have both of them in model form they are some of my favourites in my collection.
I just love the look of this ship! It just looks like a perfect fit for its era. Fast, battle ready in an emergency but an every day ship you can see getting in over its head, but pulling through and getting out of dodge fast.
It's probably a modular ship that could be focused into different specialities. Like, the Vancouver is explicitly an engineering ship, but other vessels of the class could be focused on other things (or maybe the success of the Vancouver made Starfleet phase out it's non-engineering versions).
I love when StarFleet ships have windows on decks so thin that it must not be wider than a hallway but lets pretend there are crew compartments with windows in there too.
I like to imagine those are fake windows, designed to conceal extra shield generators. That way, if the ship encounters an enemy that's especially vicious and aims there, thinking its a weak point, they end up hitting the part designed to take a beating.
I think count 6-8 visible torpedo tubes on the STO model you showed in the video. 4-6 forward (all on the underside of the saucer 4 just below the registry numbers and maybe 2 just below the name), and 2 aft on the deflector pod.
i truly love this design and one of the best one from modern trek series and i love to see it in a live action series the fact that we didnt see it in picard is strange since i belive it would be still in service special if you look at other ships that serve for 100+ years i cant remember how many years there is between lower deck and picard
As a Canadian, it's nice to have a class that (so far) takes its names from Canadian major cities: Vancouver and Toronto. I can easily imagine Parliament Class USS Edmonton, USS Yellowknife, or USS Charlottetown showing up some day.
let's not forget the USS Ottawa, since that's where the ship class gets its name from. Since the various Cali-class vessels are named after places in California, the Parliament would most likely do the same for Canada. so we'd also have the Montreal, the Calgary, the Winnipeg...
I've always been a huge fan of the Miranda class and the Parliament class is the first ship I would consider a worthy successor. I really like the design, in fact for me it's the first good ship design after VOY. I would serve on a ship like this as I would on a Miranda class 30 years ago.
Given the shape and proportions of the saucer-section, I reckon that the Parliament-class is rework/scale-down of the Sovereign-class in the same kind of way the Nebula and Galaxy-classes are
I'm surprised there aren't more comparisons to the Miranda class in this work-up. Strikes me as a modern upgrade of it, even more-so than the last upgrade. I mean, they basically just moved the Deflector dish under the saucer instead of where the Miranda put it. The rest of it is almost identical in profile, just updated.
It’s a beautiful design. I have a hard time seeing it serving the same function as a California-class, as it has the formidable appearance of a mainline capital ship.
Pretty much anything can be used as a weapon. A tractor beam is a great tool, and can easily be applied to aid in battle but it's actually a really good weapon too, grab an asteroid and sling it at your enemy, I'm frankly shocked they didn't do that on a semi-regular basis with the defiant...
I figure that this is one of the post-Dominion War ship classes, replacing many of the older ships destroyed in the war. It has similar mission profiles to the Luna, but is faster to produce and easier to crew. The combat capabilities are significant, that dorsal phaser is one of the mighty Galaxy style long arrays that can bore into planet's mantles and melt comets in seconds rather than the short arrays of many ships of the time. With this array of capabilities it falls into the middle of the range of ships of that era in capability and likely punches above its weight in both engineering feats and combat while being serviceable for scientific roles and an excellent diplomatic platform. Expect to see these ships in leading roles in the squadrons on the Gorn, Tzenkethi, or Tholian frontiers where a modern ship is needed for diplomatic purposes but there is no immediate threat of war or wherever a major astro-engineering project is taking place. Overall, a better design than anything from Picard or Discovery. And this is not even the series primary ship, this is the equivalent of the old kit-bashes!
This ship made me think of a concept of ships that could be connected and transformed into a repair dock for stranded damaged ships or that can be deployed close to war zones for repair support.
Have you ever done a video on Star Trek novels? Specifically one I remember reading in the early to mid 90s it was titled "Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men in Planet X". The crew of the Enterprise D are sent to a planet because the inhabitants of the world suddenly develop devastating Mutations exhibiting amazing Powers. At the same time The Uncanny X-Men are time hopping trying to get back home from a trip they recently took where they Met Kirk's Enterprise Crew (this was seen in a Star Trek/ X-Men Comic Book). If I recall correctly Q had something to do with the Mutations .
I remember making the "Star Ghost" Star Bird class. TOS It was a DD but with a total of 3 nacelles instead of 1. It was called the "Star Ghost" cause it had a cloaking device that could fire it's weapons while cloaked plus we went through a hidden wormhole and popping up in parts of the Alpha sector. It was upgraded and we got zapped to the Next Generation era and even DS9 but by then we could use and make our own Wormhole cause of our travels. By this time it was just the "Star Ghost" and no others were made. We had journeyed to many sectors and 2 other galaxies. Until we stopped playing the RPG😅
greetings and salutations from Vallejo California my favorite part about the show lower decks is that the California class starships are all named after cities in California there's also a Vallejo class world war II era diesel submarine
With this ship configured how it is, I suspect it was capable of mine laying and producing the mines on ship using raw materials with the specialized systems you mentioned. That would explain the off axis torpedo launchers. It is also likely that the torpedo launchers were capable of volley fire and could take advantage of the internal cargo space to provide a sizable magazine for battle and deployment for patrol in support of larger vessels or guarding facilities it was stationed at. With the sensor systems it has for science, it would be good at detecting stealth and even possibly cloaked enemies, so escort and guarding duties with the ablity to send off a cluster of quantum torpedoes at a cloaked ship to area detonate on it to take it out makes it very useful in a war time configuration. Carrying cargo into hostile areas with the ablity to protect itself from small enemy patrols by belching torpedoes like they are root beer foam is another mission profile it has.
I feel like the Parliament Class is designed to be customisable to the mission profile with internal modules allowing for the creation of dedicated engineering ships, combat escorts or long range science ships as a sort of replacement for the Miranda.
everything in star trek is so closely tied to the warp core, so it would be hard to imagine a ship that was powerful in one way but not also powerful in other ways. Even without "weapons" you start being able to fry stuff with your sensors or crush ships (and moons) with the tractors. I always thought this was the answer to why Galaxy's were so empty: if you want certain performance, you need a physically big warp core and nacelles and once you make a warp bubble to fit that, you have all the space you could ever need.
Three different shipyards? Lots of space, lots of engineering-first purposes, a tiny profile, but still installing the full suite of Starfleet front-line tech? ...random headcanon: The Parliament class was "designed" not to be a front-line ship, but a ship that taught shipbuilding, somewhat like the Liberty class of American ships in WWII: It was a simple design that nonetheless involved all the aspects of bigger, more expensive ships, and it was forgivingly large to give crews leeway to gain the experience needed to build later, more complex frontline ships. But simple ships taught early also tend to be mastered quickly by the new upcoming generation of engineers and craftsmen, with modifications becoming common and well-understood, leading to this "engineering cargo scow" gaining a breadth of operational profile and a depth of operational service that would be hard to design intentionally.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very well informatively explained and in every way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the Parliament class starship's on its various functions and abilities and duties and mission requirements and that of its various weapons and shielding, And I myself find it to be a very wonderful spectacular design and I own the Eaglemoss model of it as well, And a very nicely well done job by you Sir indeed!👌.
I'm glad that the new Trek series don't do the MCU or Star Wars thing where you need to have watched them all to understand any of them, but I do wish that they had more coordination on things like designs. It would have been cool to see some Parliament or California-class starships on Picard (or even on Prodigy, which takes place just a few years after Lower Decks).
Its funny how they talk about streamlining ships like the Sovereign class because the Galaxy class with that saucer section was such a big target. Then you get to the Enterprise J..........
So this is how a Cali-class looks when is Soveraingned! but for real I can see the Parl-class as a somewhat descendent from the Miranda, as it a ship that can do a lot of things with fairly minimal modification, To be honest this is the kind of ship you would like to serve for yours first years on Starfleet.
I think the Parliament would have made a pretty solid replacement for the Excelsior as fleet work horse. But of course the admirals of the Excel-minati nipped that in the bud and put out the Excelsior II
It’s interesting that this class lacks a multi-mission module. Perhaps keeping that streamlined warp geometry was considered more important? I’m willing to bet it has a higher top speed than the Luna.
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Galactic Empire: "BEHOLD! This one-of-a-kind superweapon can destroy a planet, it is meant to bring this entire galaxy to heel!" UFP: "Oh, this little thing? It's a gravimetric array, its main purpose is to crush moons but we suppose it could be upscaled to deal with, say, a rogue planet threatening an inhabited system. What, superweapon? No, no, no, it's a basic tool in our toolbox. See, we have an entire line of mid-range cruisers equipped with them, so there's nothing to worry about."
the Parliament was my pick for the Grand "One Free Lootbox Ship" and love it and i hope it will get a BB brickbuild modell one day (and also the Cerritos but she's not the topic of the Topic of the Video) and the Console can be quite usefull to CC a group of smaller ships and let them destroy each other :3 Only she's my only ship i named not "serious" buuut ... "Fakelondon", so blame NJB and his Trip to Canada
The weirdest thing about the Parliament-class is why are there windows in the nacelle pylons? That area of the ship doesn't seem particularly inhabitable.
I love the rear of the nacelles with the blue part in the middle enclosed on both sides. But hate the front is terrible with that downward angled wedge. Ugh
0:50 Love the Cerritos's crew, but the design? You could EASILY get rid of the engineering segment of the ship by severing its connectors. Sure, you can do that with the ship naccels, too, but, I don't know. Putting engineering on a whole other segment of the ship may not be the best idea.
Given that both Parliament-class vessels seen on screen are named after Canadian cities, a USS O'Brien leads me to two, wonderful head-canon conclusions: 1) The Parlies, are actually named after old Earth Commonwealth nations' cities, and 2) Miles O'Brien had a city named after him, presumably in Ireland. I somehow doubt that 24th-century Earth would be establishing new cities, so I guess they would probably have renamed a city named after a someone they discovered was a dirtbag.
O.M.P.F.: Overall Mass Pushing Force. Good to see Certifiably ingame use real-world measures for the engines.
I thought it was U.M.F.
Utilized Mass Force
The P could be for push or pull.
Its now my headcanon that this ship was O'Brien's brainchild and that makes me so happy.
Does that mean that it is easy to maintain and the transporter system is insanely capable?
@@KnightsWithoutATableOMG yes
it would make sense that talented ship engineers that have risen through the ranks, gained a reputation or contacts inside command would be asked to develop a new workhorse starship.
@@thanqualthehighseerindeed the Sovereign class design process was said to be headed by Scotty in some beta content
4:00 For starfleet, a weapon is just a tool with easy setup.
For starfleet any tool that performs the same function twice in a row has either upset engineering for not doing what they want or a weapons system that doesn't actually do any damage to the latest enemy
Quoting from Mass Effect: "the effectiveness of an engine as a weapon is directly related to its effectiveness as an engine."
Is this Chief O’brian the ship? 😂😂
Oh god. No. Imagine an entire starship crew regularly getting tortured, imprisoned, and Constantly having their life fall apart
If only Non-Comission Officers could command a ship of their own!!!
@@PandorasFolly No, the crew will be fine. But the ship can take a beating and a half without flinching.
I came here to basically make that comment. Have a cookie.
I bet the all the replicators still act up all the time and makes everyone’s Raktajino extremely hot and undrinkable.
It would be nice to see the Parliament class in live action.
My head canon is that the California class was originally drawn up as the Miranda class type workhorse ship counterpart to the Ambassador class, but along the way the design went a bit wonky and was delayed until the pre-Galaxy class era of the Freedom & Cheyenne class.
The Vancouver on the other hand, feels like it could legitimately be that same Miranda-esque workhorse counterpart, only for the Sovereign class. Only this time the design brief stayed truer to the Miranda concept.
You know I always thought of the Nebula as the Miranda for the Galaxy and the Luna as the Miranda for the Sovereign. No neck with a pod, y'know?
@@3Rayfire it definitely feels like that was the intention for the Nebula, but to me it never quite sat right that the ship still has a full secondary hull and is just missing the neck bit. This also can be said about the Luna class, but YMMV as to whether the secondary hull in and of itself is an important distinction.
@@adamlytle2615 I can see it both ways. It always feels weirder to me when the ship doesn't have a Star drive section.
@@adamlytle2615this is actually exactly why the CGI Nebulas bothered me, since they reused the Galaxy secondary hull. Whereas the physical model made a brand new secondary hull, shaped to better maximise space tucked-in there. It just looks all wrong to me with the regular “eye shaped” Galaxy one.
Given the size it makes more sense to be the Odyssey's Miranda counterpart.
I love the Parliament Class
A shame the line doesn't have names like the George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, and its lead ship, the Funkadelic.
The design of this class is superb. It is simple and elegant but still looks somewhat formidable with a wide variety of applications.
Say what you will about Lower Decks, but they have given us some very interesting designs.
Except seeing windows in the pylons is a bit weird. Is there even space for rooms, and access ways there? For a structurally critical area, that makes no sense, design wise.
@@Mannwhich True, that is very odd and makes no sense. But other than that it's a good design.
@@MagnanimousEntropy Yea agreed!
@@Mannwhich I wondered about those lights when he said the internal area in the struts was only a few meters wide. The only use I can see for the struts would be backup storage or small workspaces. (Even that is a bit of a stretch.)
@@earlware4322 Indeed, a $hit ton of ablative armor would be the obvious query. But even the old connie Enterprise had sketchy design shenanigans going on in the neck, so I shouldn't complain too much. 😅
I think there is a good argument for the Parliament class to have been in service for a while before 2380, with the two known ships of the class, the USS Vancouver and the USS Toronto, having hull registries of NCC-70492 and NCC-70494. That would make them more contemporary with the Defiant (NX-74205), Sovereign (USS Sovereign NCC-73811), and other post Wolf-359 vessels from the early 2370s than the newer Luna class ones (USS Luna NCC-80101)
I feel like the Parliament is a Super Miranda. It's strength is its flexibility and ability to get stuff done. I wouldn't be surprised if a future Parliament is the U.S.S. O''Brien, or if an O'Brien variant will be introduced in the future.
If anyone deserves a ship named after them, it's Senior Chief Petty Officer Miles O'Brien. A hero of at least two wars, and uncountable skirmishes, served on both the flagship of the Federation and the most important space station in the Alpha Quadrant, and most importantly of all, the man responsible for popularising darts across the entire galaxy.
I thought the same when they did the first overhead schematic shot.
I think one thing I might tweak about the Parliament class design if I wanted to make it a true Super Miranda class, would be to put shuttle bays in where those massive impulse engines are now. Replace them with a central impulse engine on the saucer, and then also add nacelle strut mounted impulse engines like on Voyager.
@@adamlytle2615 How about this: There's the huge gap in-between the impulse engines, fill that area in with a bigger primary shuttle bay and use the one it has, now, as the secondary one or a modular work space. Then the whole saucer section would have an outline sorta like the ShiKar or Soyuz variants that STO has.
@@dernudel1615 oh yeah, for sure, lots of ways you could do it, and to my mind one big shuttle bay would be more flexible than two separate shuttle bays half the size. The dual shuttle bays would just provide a more direct homage to the Miranda class is all.
Love this ship design. Really one of the best to come out of Lower Decks. I do really like the Cerritos though it took a long to for me to warm up to it. Now that I have both of them in model form they are some of my favourites in my collection.
Cerritos should have been a Yeager though.
I just love these. They are also an homage to the fact recent trek filming has been in Canada. I thought that was a nice touch.
"Course plotted and laid in, Captain. Ready for warp on your command."
"Thank you Ensign. All right people... _Give Up the Funk!_
I had a Parliament-class on one STO character named USS _Funkadelic._
I just love the look of this ship! It just looks like a perfect fit for its era. Fast, battle ready in an emergency but an every day ship you can see getting in over its head, but pulling through and getting out of dodge fast.
Looks like an updated take on a Miranda minus the pod on top and put the pod underneath
It's probably a modular ship that could be focused into different specialities. Like, the Vancouver is explicitly an engineering ship, but other vessels of the class could be focused on other things (or maybe the success of the Vancouver made Starfleet phase out it's non-engineering versions).
Wow, that is a TON of escape pods on that thing. Those impulse engines are so over the top HUGE it looks like they could incinerate the nacelles
I love when StarFleet ships have windows on decks so thin that it must not be wider than a hallway but lets pretend there are crew compartments with windows in there too.
Just like the neck on the Connie 😊
I like to imagine those are fake windows, designed to conceal extra shield generators. That way, if the ship encounters an enemy that's especially vicious and aims there, thinking its a weak point, they end up hitting the part designed to take a beating.
I think count 6-8 visible torpedo tubes on the STO model you showed in the video. 4-6 forward (all on the underside of the saucer 4 just below the registry numbers and maybe 2 just below the name), and 2 aft on the deflector pod.
i truly love this design and one of the best one from modern trek series and i love to see it in a live action series the fact that we didnt see it in picard is strange since i belive it would be still in service special if you look at other ships that serve for 100+ years i cant remember how many years there is between lower deck and picard
As a Canadian, it's nice to have a class that (so far) takes its names from Canadian major cities: Vancouver and Toronto. I can easily imagine Parliament Class USS Edmonton, USS Yellowknife, or USS Charlottetown showing up some day.
let's not forget the USS Ottawa, since that's where the ship class gets its name from. Since the various Cali-class vessels are named after places in California, the Parliament would most likely do the same for Canada. so we'd also have the Montreal, the Calgary, the Winnipeg...
Uhhhhh, Victoria is the capital of BC…. Someone wasn’t paying attention in social studies class. :)
@@Evil.Totoro Whoops! Deduct 400 pts from my Tim's app
It is a really pretty ship.
I love the design. Nice and sleek that has a little attitude to it.
I like this design. Has thus workhorse professional look about it. Like Excelsior. Or Akira. You see them, you know they are wherever needed.
The Parliament class is the most beautiful ship since the Akira, it's crazy to think it was from Lower Decks (which I love)
I've always been a huge fan of the Miranda class and the Parliament class is the first ship I would consider a worthy successor. I really like the design, in fact for me it's the first good ship design after VOY. I would serve on a ship like this as I would on a Miranda class 30 years ago.
Love the design of the ship, my only complaint about are the windows on the nacelle pylons.
the intrepid touches of the boson collections was appreciated by me.
Given the shape and proportions of the saucer-section, I reckon that the Parliament-class is rework/scale-down of the Sovereign-class in the same kind of way the Nebula and Galaxy-classes are
I wss lucky enough to find an Eaglemoss model at a reasonable proce and it's an Awesome display!
I'm surprised there aren't more comparisons to the Miranda class in this work-up. Strikes me as a modern upgrade of it, even more-so than the last upgrade. I mean, they basically just moved the Deflector dish under the saucer instead of where the Miranda put it. The rest of it is almost identical in profile, just updated.
It’s a beautiful design. I have a hard time seeing it serving the same function as a California-class, as it has the formidable appearance of a mainline capital ship.
The Parliament class is a truly stunning starship whose simplicity of outward design belies its true hidden strengths.
That O`Brien The starship remark had me in stitches my man XD
I always found it a bit of a stretch that STO would put this ship in the battle of Wolf 359. It clearly appears to be developed after that point.
Very nice breakdown on this one. Well done
Pretty much anything can be used as a weapon. A tractor beam is a great tool, and can easily be applied to aid in battle but it's actually a really good weapon too, grab an asteroid and sling it at your enemy, I'm frankly shocked they didn't do that on a semi-regular basis with the defiant...
congrats sir another great video i love this ship design amaizing !
I figure that this is one of the post-Dominion War ship classes, replacing many of the older ships destroyed in the war. It has similar mission profiles to the Luna, but is faster to produce and easier to crew. The combat capabilities are significant, that dorsal phaser is one of the mighty Galaxy style long arrays that can bore into planet's mantles and melt comets in seconds rather than the short arrays of many ships of the time. With this array of capabilities it falls into the middle of the range of ships of that era in capability and likely punches above its weight in both engineering feats and combat while being serviceable for scientific roles and an excellent diplomatic platform. Expect to see these ships in leading roles in the squadrons on the Gorn, Tzenkethi, or Tholian frontiers where a modern ship is needed for diplomatic purposes but there is no immediate threat of war or wherever a major astro-engineering project is taking place.
Overall, a better design than anything from Picard or Discovery. And this is not even the series primary ship, this is the equivalent of the old kit-bashes!
It's got a simple yet attractive & well thought out design.
I quite like it and wouldn't mind flying one in STO.
Concerning it's role, I've always heard that it's a "Miranda" version of the Sovereign Class
Old Miles done built himself the Cadillac of starships!
Chief O'Brien the ship LOL
This ship made me think of a concept of ships that could be connected and transformed into a repair dock for stranded damaged ships or that can be deployed close to war zones for repair support.
Do the Parliament Funkadelic class next.
We do not need a hippy style starship or starship paint job
Can you do something on the Atlas Class Prototype Dreadnought please?
Have you ever done a video on Star Trek novels? Specifically one I remember reading in the early to mid 90s it was titled "Star Trek: The Next Generation and X-Men in Planet X". The crew of the Enterprise D are sent to a planet because the inhabitants of the world suddenly develop devastating Mutations exhibiting amazing Powers. At the same time The Uncanny X-Men are time hopping trying to get back home from a trip they recently took where they Met Kirk's Enterprise Crew (this was seen in a Star Trek/ X-Men Comic Book). If I recall correctly Q had something to do with the Mutations .
I remember making the "Star Ghost" Star Bird class. TOS It was a DD but with a total of 3 nacelles instead of 1.
It was called the "Star Ghost" cause it had a cloaking device that could fire it's weapons while cloaked plus we went through a hidden wormhole and popping up in parts of the Alpha sector. It was upgraded and we got zapped to the Next Generation era and even DS9 but by then we could use and make our own Wormhole cause of our travels. By this time it was just the "Star Ghost" and no others were made. We had journeyed to many sectors and 2 other galaxies.
Until we stopped playing the RPG😅
Definitely one of the best new additions.
greetings and salutations from Vallejo California my favorite part about the show lower decks is that the California class starships are all named after cities in California there's also a Vallejo class world war II era diesel submarine
With this ship configured how it is, I suspect it was capable of mine laying and producing the mines on ship using raw materials with the specialized systems you mentioned. That would explain the off axis torpedo launchers. It is also likely that the torpedo launchers were capable of volley fire and could take advantage of the internal cargo space to provide a sizable magazine for battle and deployment for patrol in support of larger vessels or guarding facilities it was stationed at. With the sensor systems it has for science, it would be good at detecting stealth and even possibly cloaked enemies, so escort and guarding duties with the ablity to send off a cluster of quantum torpedoes at a cloaked ship to area detonate on it to take it out makes it very useful in a war time configuration. Carrying cargo into hostile areas with the ablity to protect itself from small enemy patrols by belching torpedoes like they are root beer foam is another mission profile it has.
Got a soft spot for the Sabre, specifically the DaVinci and S.C.E.
Reminds me a little of that
I always saw the Parliament class as the sovereign design eras version of the California class when it comes to types of missions.
And here comes Star Trek Online throwing a wrench into this ship's lore by including one as a destroyed ship from the Battle of Wolf 359 lol
I love these Miranda-style ships. Maybe I'm just hung up on the Reliant, but something about the underslung nacelles appeals to me. 🙂🖖
Same here! Whenever I see a new starship design one of the first things I do is ask myself "What would the Miranda version look like?"
Nice. Another horizontal core example.
I feel like the Parliament Class is designed to be customisable to the mission profile with internal modules allowing for the creation of dedicated engineering ships, combat escorts or long range science ships as a sort of replacement for the Miranda.
Fantastic looking ship, give it QSD!
It should’ve been called “the O’Brien Class!”
Right off the bat, a ship made for the lowerdecks show.
"ROOSERVELT", "GRAVAMETRIC", and "AUXILLARY" - misspelling quota met.
Slick looking ship. I wonder if there are any models of it.
everything in star trek is so closely tied to the warp core, so it would be hard to imagine a ship that was powerful in one way but not also powerful in other ways. Even without "weapons" you start being able to fry stuff with your sensors or crush ships (and moons) with the tractors.
I always thought this was the answer to why Galaxy's were so empty: if you want certain performance, you need a physically big warp core and nacelles and once you make a warp bubble to fit that, you have all the space you could ever need.
Three different shipyards? Lots of space, lots of engineering-first purposes, a tiny profile, but still installing the full suite of Starfleet front-line tech?
...random headcanon: The Parliament class was "designed" not to be a front-line ship, but a ship that taught shipbuilding, somewhat like the Liberty class of American ships in WWII: It was a simple design that nonetheless involved all the aspects of bigger, more expensive ships, and it was forgivingly large to give crews leeway to gain the experience needed to build later, more complex frontline ships. But simple ships taught early also tend to be mastered quickly by the new upcoming generation of engineers and craftsmen, with modifications becoming common and well-understood, leading to this "engineering cargo scow" gaining a breadth of operational profile and a depth of operational service that would be hard to design intentionally.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and executed and very well informatively explained and in every way shape and form provided on this format and subject matter on the Parliament class starship's on its various functions and abilities and duties and mission requirements and that of its various weapons and shielding, And I myself find it to be a very wonderful spectacular design and I own the Eaglemoss model of it as well, And a very nicely well done job by you Sir indeed!👌.
It's a beautiful ship.
Other then the windows in the pylons, I really like this ship a lot. I'm a huge fan of under slung warp nacelle designs.
quite right Rick, a "omft" is a technical term. regaring your comment at the end, am thinking this ship would have a lot of NCO's.
I'm glad that the new Trek series don't do the MCU or Star Wars thing where you need to have watched them all to understand any of them, but I do wish that they had more coordination on things like designs. It would have been cool to see some Parliament or California-class starships on Picard (or even on Prodigy, which takes place just a few years after Lower Decks).
Way to diss the California class there at the end... 😆
Its funny how they talk about streamlining ships like the Sovereign class because the Galaxy class with that saucer section was such a big target. Then you get to the Enterprise J..........
Captain's log: "Ow, we want the funk
Give up the funk
Ow, we need the funk
We gotta have that funk..."
I see what you did!😅😅😅
Huh
The most funkadelic ship, by far.
Capt. Clinton: "Mister Bootsie, all power to the bassline. We gonna tear the roof of this mutha."
I could see O'Brien captaining a Parliament class!
That is one good looking ship
So this is how a Cali-class looks when is Soveraingned!
but for real I can see the Parl-class as a somewhat descendent from the Miranda, as it a ship that can do a lot of things with fairly minimal modification, To be honest this is the kind of ship you would like to serve for yours first years on Starfleet.
It does have 3 variants science engineering and tactical so technically it is all 3 as you stated 😊
I waited for this one!
Bless those engineers giving full scale decks through the warp pylons. No more crawling through tubes to reach a nacelle conduit on short notice.
Dear rick, your amezing as is your channel
Keep up the amazing work
Federation version of the D7/K'Tinga Class looking at the top side and front lol
What about a Parliament-Funkadelic Class?
I think the Parliament would have made a pretty solid replacement for the Excelsior as fleet work horse. But of course the admirals of the Excel-minati nipped that in the bud and put out the Excelsior II
It is a wonderful marriage of form and function
"The overworked Utopia Planitia" seriously, it seems like *every* Starfleet ship is built there, it comes as a shock to find one that isn't...
and even though it was still a few years away, they were already at least preparing for the mass evac of the Romulans...
It’s interesting that this class lacks a multi-mission module. Perhaps keeping that streamlined warp geometry was considered more important? I’m willing to bet it has a higher top speed than the Luna.
Galactic Empire: "BEHOLD! This one-of-a-kind superweapon can destroy a planet, it is meant to bring this entire galaxy to heel!"
UFP: "Oh, this little thing? It's a gravimetric array, its main purpose is to crush moons but we suppose it could be upscaled to deal with, say, a rogue planet threatening an inhabited system. What, superweapon? No, no, no, it's a basic tool in our toolbox. See, we have an entire line of mid-range cruisers equipped with them, so there's nothing to worry about."
i suspect the Parliament is the Miranda of the Sovereign line to the Luna's Nebula.
the Parliament was my pick for the Grand "One Free Lootbox Ship" and love it and i hope it will get a BB brickbuild modell one day (and also the Cerritos but she's not the topic of the Topic of the Video) and the Console can be quite usefull to CC a group of smaller ships and let them destroy each other :3
Only she's my only ship i named not "serious" buuut ... "Fakelondon", so blame NJB and his Trip to Canada
It looks like a Luna, Akira, and Miranda. Just much more streamlined.
Funny how it's from the Luna class project when it looks Galaxy and Sovereign
the silica synaptic replication system sounds a lot like the self learning ability used by the Exocomps.
The weirdest thing about the Parliament-class is why are there windows in the nacelle pylons?
That area of the ship doesn't seem particularly inhabitable.
I love the rear of the nacelles with the blue part in the middle enclosed on both sides. But hate the front is terrible with that downward angled wedge. Ugh
0:50 Love the Cerritos's crew, but the design? You could EASILY get rid of the engineering segment of the ship by severing its connectors. Sure, you can do that with the ship naccels, too, but, I don't know. Putting engineering on a whole other segment of the ship may not be the best idea.
With the impulse engines being that long I bet the exhaust is so fast you could use it as a particle beam. Kzinti raiding vessels beware.
And STO gravely added it recently as part of the fleet against the Borg cube in Wolf359, because design fits the time period….😮😂
I have issues with ship showing up during Battle of Wolf 359 in Star Trek Online. This class should be one of much later era.
Given that both Parliament-class vessels seen on screen are named after Canadian cities, a USS O'Brien leads me to two, wonderful head-canon conclusions: 1) The Parlies, are actually named after old Earth Commonwealth nations' cities, and 2) Miles O'Brien had a city named after him, presumably in Ireland. I somehow doubt that 24th-century Earth would be establishing new cities, so I guess they would probably have renamed a city named after a someone they discovered was a dirtbag.
Currently named Parliament-class vessels are named after major Canadian cities.