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There have been ten hero ships throughout Star Trek, but let's see which left the biggest impact.
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00:00i want to open this list by saying that over at triculture we are blessed to have a lot of
00:05wonderful voices contributing to all of our articles all of our videos all of our thoughts
00:12the thing is we are not always going to agree on everything sometimes we sit down in a room
00:18and we can all go yep this is exactly how things should be and everything is fine and other times
00:23somebody will make a suggestion and they will be laughed into oblivion as the prophets willed it
00:29this article was originally written by marcus fry who is a wonderful wonderful person and because
00:34i'm going to disagree with almost every one of their points i think what you should do is head
00:39over to our website whatculture.com and check out the original article so that you can see what marcus
00:45thought compare it to what i thought and then we can have some sort of jousting competition with that
00:51big lovely intro out of the way let's get down to it here is every hero ship ranked worst to best
00:58number 10. la sirena before y'all think i'm a hater bear with me the ss la sirena is an unregistered
01:07kaplan f-17 freighter that cristobal rios acquired after leaving starfleet now in picard jean-luc needed
01:14a fast dependable ship to get to where he was going and thanks to raffi knowing rios that was perfect they
01:22sorted him out with la sirena the reason la sirena scores so low on this list is that not because
01:29there's anything particularly wrong with the ship although the irish hologram does have me asking
01:35questions it's because when compared to the others on this list it just doesn't really stack up it
01:41definitely does the job and it definitely is agile it's got some fairly nifty weaponry i love their
01:48transporter and the fact that it's the size of half a cargo bay but for me it just doesn't hold
01:56up next to ships like defiant like the enterprise pecan enterprise or like some of the newer ships as
02:03well so for me it's a lovely lovely freighter it's quick it's cool i really do despite what i just said
02:10about the irish hologram enjoy the ship wide hollow emitters but it has to kick off our list today number
02:17nine the enterprise nx01 now i can hear our happy working relationship with dog drexler just vanishing
02:26into the distance but my reason for putting the nx01 so low is it's nothing to do with aesthetics it's
02:34nothing to do with well we love enterprise here so it's certainly nothing to do with that it's that
02:40when compared to the other ships on this list this one was a wonderful prototype sure and this one was
02:47a great one for getting the ball rolling but again it just doesn't stack up so much next to the rest so
02:54let me go through it so being set the 22nd century gave the writers of enterprise a unique opportunity
03:00to explore the origins of starfleet the federation as well as their tech the enterprise nx01 was great in
03:05this regard we got to see earlier forms of many of the iconic devices used aboard every starfleet
03:10ship in the original series and beyond instead of tractor beams they used physical grappling hooks
03:14instead of shields they polarized hole plating instead of photon torpedoes they just chucked rocks out
03:20the window all right not quite they were equipped with spatial torpedoes which have a lower explosive
03:24yield and range additionally the transporter was a new invention and you get to see that develop
03:30over the four seasons now all together the nx01 gave us great insight into the evolution of starfleet
03:36tech but for us it's hampered by its very purpose its purpose was to be an earlier version of starfleet
03:46and for that it does an absolutely brilliant job but again when you compare it to us on this list we
03:53love it enterprise we love you doug in the words of uh paramount to garrett wong someone's got to be the ensign
04:01number eight the uss enterprise 1701 now if anyone's still listening to this list i i i appreciate you
04:09and thank you very much the enterprise 1701 is the pinnacle of starship design in the 1960s
04:15it was crucial for introducing a new aesthetic a new sleek a new mature if you like version of space
04:24travel when it comes to at the time relatively mid-budget sci-fi now while star trek was never
04:32invented as a b-movie you know bug-eyed monster of the week sort of show it was beautifully steeped in
04:39that kind of history while still forging ahead with its own the way the nacelles sit behind the saucer
04:45section and the star drive section below is now one of the most recognizable designs in all of
04:50literature matt jeffries did a wonderful wonderful ship design for this new series now the only reason
05:00it scores as lowly as this is because amazing as it is it set the template for things to come afterwards
05:07so it was when you are given a wonderful prototype you have only to build and improve
05:14there is no denying whatsoever that the original enterprise is a beautiful ship and for me
05:21personally aesthetically my favorite enterprise is the refit 1701 and 1701a from the movies so it is not
05:31that i personally think this one doesn't look great because it does it is the forebear for everything
05:37that came after it is a fantastic design and it is a very loved eighth entry on this list number seven
05:46uss discovery the crossfield class uss discovery was based on the original designs for what would become
05:53the refit 1701 for the motion picture you can see that in the nacelles that jut out from the triangular
06:00star drive section with that smaller circular saucer section sitting above it the discovery raised some
06:07eyebrows when it was first seen in the teaser trailer for starter discovery the nacelles at the time
06:12were much shorter and it much more closely resembled that original design when it was finally revealed
06:19in episode three of starter discovery's first season those nacelles had taken rather a lot of viagra
06:25and had become about half a football field long and yet any issues that were presented in the initial
06:33season of starter discovery have long since been rectified the discovery and indeed the discovery a
06:40have very much earned their position in the starfleet pantheon of beautiful ship designs unusual sure but
06:48beautiful the interior of the ship while sometimes a little bit cold has warmed over the four seasons
06:54particularly into the fourth season where we start to spend more time in crew quarters particularly
07:00saru and burnham the bridge is a fantastic design it was a somewhat interesting choice that they
07:06decided to add what was effectively the entire interior of space dock during the third season
07:11finale fight in the turbolift however that has since been addressed and fixed the design features of
07:17course the spore drive which caused headaches for fans in seasons one and two of started discovery
07:22but now that it's been flung into the far future is absolutely fine and it is now a very very cool
07:28piece of technology it allows discovery to visit anywhere they want in the galaxy you know i think
07:34it brings them up to about two light years before the galactic barrier almost like that was a plot
07:38point in season four a having earned its place in starfleet history at this stage discovery is a strong
07:46strong vessel one that took an absolute pounding against control and yet still manages to hold its own
07:52up against the 1701 hats off discovery kudos number six uss protostar now the protostar is an advanced
08:01strong fast little ship star trek prodigy is impressing younger and existing audiences of star trek by
08:08introducing the proto drive via this ship the ship itself is a beautifully sleek design that evokes both
08:15memories of the dauntless voyager and some of the kelvin universe vessels as well armed with finally a
08:23replicator for support ships which would explain so much of how voyager managed to hang on to all of those
08:29shuttles this ship has managed to hold its own against the diviner and against other ships around the delta
08:34quadrant it managed to help its crew escape to another quadrant while being chased although they did have to turn
08:39straight around after that and for further details watch prodigy the recent trailer that was released
08:44for prodigy's second part of its first season showed its size up against the new dauntless class which
08:50really hammered home that the protostar is generally a test vessel or support vessel as it's roughly the
08:57size of several runabouts placed back to back the dauntless dwarfs it now it's not about size it's about
09:04use and the protostar so far has proven a very effective very covetable ship and one that we are
09:12very very much enjoying watching its journey number five the uss defiant and the sao paulo the defiant
09:19class ship which was introduced in the beginning of ds9's third season was a complete departure from
09:24everything that we've seen before in terms of starfleet vessels it was equipped with a cloaking device
09:30thank you very much romulans and also featured a blockier stockier design it was starfleet's first
09:38warship now this went completely against what gene roddenberry wanted for star trek back in the 1960s
09:44and yet times had changed therefore the need for the ships in star trek changed with it you can almost
09:51hear the twitter users running to say not my star trek and gene would be spinning in his grave but think
09:58about how enduring the defiant was it survived so many battles with the dominion it survived a battle
10:05with the borg it survived many many tussles with the kardassians as well as other various ships looking
10:12at you klingon fleet it finally met its end in the second battle of chintaka in the seventh season of
10:19star 2d space 9 now although it went out firing it was disappointing and saddening to see that the
10:26breen's energy dissipating weapon was able to take down one of our favorite ships which of course
10:32was the point as a shot revealed all of the other ships behind it you see galaxy class vessels as
10:37well to go even if the enterprise d was there in that fight not like that would have done much better
10:42the defiant did fantastically for the three and a half years that it served before it was destroyed
10:46and the sao paulo although we didn't get very much to see seemed to do quite well in what you leave
10:52behind as well number four the uss enterprise ncc 1701 e introduced in star trek first contact the
11:00sovereign class uss enterprise e is easily one of the most beautiful ships on this list the sleek design
11:08accentuated by the fact the saucer section goes straight into the star drive section without a neck
11:14to target shows that the enterprise e is a follow-on in a way from the defiant with the enterprise d having
11:20been destroyed in orbit of iridian 3 in the previous film it was known that we needed an enterprise that
11:26could stand up to more of a direct assault and the enterprise e's design accentuates this john eves
11:33worked very very closely with the producers to come up with something that would show it was still a
11:39ship of exploration but one that had teeth now it was tested early in star trek first contact with
11:44the battle of sector zero zero one leading directly into the fight against the sphere and then it was
11:49almost completely assimilated over the course of the film and yet still bounced back for star trek
11:55insurrection and star trek nemesis in both of those films the ship took a pounding as well so the ship's
12:01strength is not in question the ship's comfort is also not in question as it was shown across all three
12:07films just how much there were creature comforts everywhere didn't you see the mentakin tapestry on the
12:13back of the cards chair god i love who watches the watches the enterprise e remains one of the most
12:19instantly recognizable ships in all of star trek as well as one of the most fist pumping arrivals in
12:25all of star trek it appears in what is for many one of the best star trek films and it also appears
12:31in what is for many one of the worst star trek films so i'm not going to name them you decide with
12:36the close-up on the deflector dish the nacelles that got pushed back between starter first contact
12:41and star trek insurrection and the front of the saucer section which was completely schmuddled and then
12:46rebuilt at the end of nemesis this is a strong beautiful elegant ship that i'm kind of considering
12:53asking out on a date number three the uss seritos the california class seritos was a bit of an eyeful
13:00when it first appeared in that teaser poster a few years ago it was very clearly inspired by ships like
13:06the galaxy class and ambassador class with the circular saucer section and then their relative lack
13:12of star drive section was a bit like wait a minute i thought this was starfleet however it perfectly
13:18encapsulates the purpose of the ship which is the cali class ships are the workhorse of starfleet
13:25they get sent in to do the dirty work that the other ships don't want to do and in that respect
13:30it is perfectly fit for design now we've seen in recent episodes just how many mazes of wiring and
13:37jeffrey's tubes and hydroponic space and duploskeletons are sitting on the seritos it is
13:42quite a bit larger than perhaps we first thought when we first saw it and it does exactly what it
13:48says in the tin you go in and make first contact and make friends and everything's great and you
13:53warp off and then the seritos comes in to usually mop up the damage it had its entire outer hull stripped
13:58away at the end of the second season and was absolutely fine it saved much larger ships like the
14:04archimedes it has always been there to get the job done and has still managed to take a complete and
14:11utter kicking from the paclids on several occasions the seritos is to the cali class what the enterprise
14:18is to whatever class of ship the enterprise is that week it is truly one of the stars of starfleet now
14:25while it might not shine as bright as a galaxy or sovereign class it is still out there keeping the
14:31light going number two uss voyager the intrapid class voyager was introduced in caretaker the
14:37opening episode to this new series voyager featured a new design it was an oblong saucer section a star
14:44drive section that was attached directly to it and moving nacelles the nacelles would rise up when the
14:50ship was going to warp as this was shown to make a more effective warp drive the ship was able to land
14:57with the struts that were revealed in the 37s which became the first episode of season two of star trek
15:03voyager the one criticism that voyager often gets is that the premise for the show which was the
15:09conflict between the federation officers and the maquis officers and the fact that voyager was stuck so
15:14far away from a space dock is what keeps this from the top spot the ship was a little too clean so
15:21although it was fantastic and it lasted and it faced against the krenum and it faced against the borg and
15:27the kazon and and and and and it always looked like it had just been rolled off the showroom floor
15:34now that is a minor gripe on my part because i love this design the deflector dish the shuttle bay with
15:41the revolving door of shuttles that just never seemed to run out which we addressed in our protostar entry
15:47and the fact that when we know it got home it became a museum just goes to show how enduring
15:54voyager was now the design was used once on deep space 9 to stand in for the bellerophon although it
16:00would have been lovely to see it in some of the movies because it is such a well-designed ship the
16:05bioneural gel packs that became effectively the nervous system for the computer core were an interesting
16:10idea that were never really followed up on there were many ideas introduced in this ship that should
16:16have gone on to become mainstays across the board
16:30as well number one the uss enterprise ncc 1701 d 1987 saw the introduction of the galaxy class enterprise
16:38d designed by andrew probert this would feature a much larger design than the enterprise we had seen
16:44before because this was not only a ship of exploration but it was also effectively a ship of diplomacy a
16:50ship of colonization a ship of conferences it needed the space it was a chunker of a ship it was different
16:57from what came before in that the nace cells were much smaller when compared to the dimensions of the
17:03constitution class it was able to face off against ships like the borg cube it was able to face off against
17:10klingon klingon romulan vessels but all that time the enterprise d was never a ship of war it was
17:16always a ship of exploration the brightly lit corridors the slower pace of life on board and of course the
17:24large horseshoe tactical station that surrounded the command chairs on board the bridge all led to this
17:30being the most iconic design when it comes to starfleet vessels and it seems to be the one that newer ships
17:38tend to base their at least initial designs from the enterprise d went before her time over viridian 3
17:47she was a victim of the film industry rather than anything else because the sets were designed for television screens
17:54at a 4 3 ratio not the widescreen format of cinema the ship was shown in several versions throughout its run
18:02we had of course the version that we saw in yesterday's enterprise which showed a bridge that
18:06would serve as the inspiration for the bridge on star trek generations and also the three nacelled version
18:11that rocked up in all good things the enterprise d in the galaxy glass remains one of the most endearing
18:16designs ever shown in star trek it is a personal warmth when i see this ship as i know exactly
18:24that i'm home thank you very much everyone for listening to this list thank you very much to
18:28the wonderful wonderful marcus fry who is cursing my name and stabbing pins into my voodoo doll right
18:34now and that is absolutely fine i thoroughly recommend you go over to the website and read
18:38their article and then compare the points and tell me why i'm wrong thank you very much to the wonderful
18:44martin who had to turn my words into a moving picture video you're a good man if you agreed with this
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