ESD was never the “sole” location for starship contraction and maintenance. It was a docking and resupply facility capable for light maintenance and repair. Construction and major repairs and refits took place in fleet yards and dry docks.
I have been a passive fan of Star Trek since the late '60's. It struck me though.watching this, that real dedicated fans must have a far more sophisticated knowledge of the ST universe and its "history" than I could even begin to grasp. Having been on our screens for nearly sixty years, I hope that it is still around in some form by the 100yr mark. I will be long gone I fear, but what an amazing phenomena it is.
Spacedock is just awesome. It still has to be one of the most iconic and striking technical marvels in space sci fi cinema. I'd even argue its more iconic to Star Trek than many of the ships. I've always wanted to see more of the floating city that you've always known is in there somewhere even at first glance, so this video's been great to know whats up there.
ST III was when the world-building designs went into overdrive. The Producers of the film shrewdly let ILM design everything (with input from Leonard Nimoy). ILM just happened to be coming off of Return of the Jedi, and were at the top of their game. They knocked it out of the park too, with the Oberth Class (the Grissom), the Excelsior, the Spacedock and the Bird of Prey - all designs used for decades, literally.
Wow, you really outdid yourself here. It always irked me how little details about the starbases interior ever were and Cygnus' layouts were a great marvel. But seeing them in 3D gives the whole size an entirely new feel and really shows the size better.
Earth Space Dock is one of, if not THE best space station in all Sci-Fi to have ever had the pleasure of existing. Both on and off screen it is magnificent, inviting and outright incredible. Whenever you approach it, you know you are safe here and welcome by the United Federation of Planets. It's also a visitable hub in Star Trek Online, and is my favorite place to hang out at ingame. I personally hope Humanity is able to build something similar to this eventually, in size, scale, and design. Here's to hoping cause I think it would make an excellent fit to a command and control station for the solar system and further space exploration, once we have the technology and resources to do so. Optimistic thinking, sure, but it would truly be awesome.
Even as kid (this was in the mid-80's), I marveled at the required sciences needed to make a construction of that size and complexity! Consider the logistics, material, manpower required, too! Is it impractical? Probably. But dang, this station still looks so cool. (Well, right until we got to see Babylon 5 and DS9. LOL)
It could, like the ISS, have evolved over time or been built in modular form, becoming permanent later. Same with Mir and Skylab. No need to build the whole thing from scratch, or build it on Earth and somehow transfer it to Earth orbit
We don’t talk enough about starbases and space dock operations and massive power and contributions to the Starfleet mission they embody. Soacesock, and the starbases like her, are massive, and dwarf they starships they support. One day they should get some respect for the massive technical and scientific contributions they make to the fleet.
I was curious about this Spaceport last month and searched RUclips for a video like this. I must admit out of all the ones I watched this one is the best so far, it had exactly what I want on it. Thanks.
I seen the search for Spock FOR THE FIRST TIME when I WAS about 12 in 1985, when the Enterprise was headed to SD1, I I KNEW that the Enterprise was on the way to something very big.
Nice video! Earth Space Dock was a big reason why I never really could accept the Breen attack in DS9 as a good story element. Between it, and orbital defenses, assaulting that planet would be suicide unless you brought so much force to bear, everyone would know you're coming for weeks before.
ESD wasn't typically armed and only a relatively small defense fleet was stationed in the Sol system, additionally the Breen had their energy system disruption weapon that essentially made any defense systems ESD had in place useless.
@@lvirag8401 I wouldn't go that far. LOL There were times though; where progressing the plot, and considering the bigger picture, did not go hand in hand.
@@spiritofthewolf15x I realize they have reasoning for it in story, but those points don't help me resolve my issues with it. 🙂The capital of a giant interstellar alliance, at war with another culture that poses an existential threat, and they don't have built up defenses or their primary system port armed? If nothing else; there would have been huge fleets of ships constantly entering and leaving the system for the dockyards orbiting Earth and Mars. I realize they wanted a Pearl Harbour vibe; but that wouldn't have happened if the U.S. had already been at war for a couple years....
@@lvirag8401 Consider; if the attack had been against Risa or Casperia Prime instead. Behind the lines, low relative strategic value, likely minimal defenses as it's not a primary industry target like the core worlds. Just 10s of millions of officers and crew on shore leave away from the front. Bombed from orbit without any capability to fight back, just to prove they can do it. The emotional impact would have been just as strong, if not more so, and wouldn't interfere with the logic of their world building.
7:53 "Each section has several restaurants, merchant shops..." Why would either one be needed? They have REPLICATORS which could supply literally ANY need.
I am always continually impressed with your explanations and videos of these topics. They bring the designs to life, a topic I think should have been better illustrated during the shows but wasn't. Thank-You for bringing these videos to us!
9:10 The main viewscreen is in the back not the front unless the stations and command chair are backwards. Then you would expect the staions in the middle would face the middle or the viewscreen but the command chair should face the viewscreen.
Not really.. the scales in Star trek are waaaaaaaaay off. Something the size of s74 at 8km in diameter can house an absurd number of people per deck compared to the numbers generated by canon. Good looking design but the decks need major reimagining for efficiency.
This has always been an interesting design ever since I saw her when I first watched Star Trek III on VHS when I was a young lad (born in 1981). For the presentation I say you did a phenomenal job on this. :)
I'd like to see uploads of every diffrent type and species type of star trek stations. Be cool to see breakdowns of the original series to the latest startrek episodes. It would also be cool to see diffrent species designs like romulan,klingon,borg all the way up to dominion,bree and even cardasium.
I have a hard time believing 1/3 of the space station is a giant open area for lakes and soccer fields. I would imagine if people needed fresh air or needed to enjoy those type of activities they simply beam down to earth.
That was pretty cool. Thanks for fleshing out that design. You know, it would be even more cool if you could break down Starbase Yorktown from ST Beyond, of the Kelvin Universe.
Great video but some minor clarifications. The Base can dock more than eight starships. It would be a huge waste of space and resources if that was the case.
At some point they must have built a completely new space dock in orbit of Earth which looked exactly like the old one, but 50% bigger so the huge Enterprise D could fit through the doors. Either that or they just used stock footage and hoped no one would notice.
@@NeonVisual They prety much Just reused search for spock Footage though its emplied that ESD has a much larger space door that is larger than the one used by the Enterprise in Search For Spock.
@BeamerMT79 I think you'd have to, or stack the ships vertically or more densely around each pylon. I mean, each one is many times the volume of a starship. For every pinprick-sized window you can see, there must be thousands and thousands more rooms inside with no window. Having solid volumes like that is a huge size multiplier - imagine each deck in one of those pylons laid flat, side-by-side, and you're probably looking at the area of Manhatten or something :D
i'm trying to recreate a 1:20 scale version of this in minecraft, so the 3d models were super handy for me to get a better idea of how it looks outside and inside. funnily enough, i found those same schematics you did on cygnus-x1 lol
Hi Half, Great video 📹 as always. I didn't realize they had all that recreational space down there you can fit at least 9 birds of prey in there. Spoiled HU-MONS,lol
I'd like to see this applied to the station in the original tech manual. This one is the Movies, basically. Could do another on the evolution of the space dock.
Does anyone know how many starships the station can house at once? It seems to me like each of the four docking ports can serve four capitalships. That leaves space enough for another four betwen the ports. Then theres space for plenty of others along the perimeter, below and above the protruding ports.
Great video my friend I think they're going to be making that type of stuff in the late late in the future I won't be around it happens I figure another thousand years from now that we will build one or something like it but not in my lifetime I'll never see that
@@Halfscreen so true my friend so true we're starting to go into back to space they want to go to the Moon that's a start so you know if they're going to go to other planets they have to terraform it and take years and years and years for that to happen so I forget if we have a space station like that I'm looking at 10,000 years from now easy what do you think..
Very interesting idea that the lower dome is just filled with air, grass, lakes etc. I do think the main residence section's map makes no sense. That ring is at least a kilometer wide, probably more. That's totally not on scale with the map, or those rooms (and the people in it) are gigantic.
I never really knew how huge these were. Depending on distance of orbit there is a good chance that something that massive would effect tidal forces on earth.
200.000 inhabitants is nothing to scoff at! Plus a pretty big park area, industrial area and a massive enclosed space port. It's not a metropolis, but a decent medium sized city. IN SPAAAACE!
If you're talking about Star Trek, then "war production" is a phrase that only be used specifically in reference to a war. Spacedock's production for 99% of its functioning time has been peacetime exploration ship construction and maintenance.
Strikes me that the interior space for the habitat and open field bit, seems too big and still maintain structural integrity. Would have thought that the space would have been half the height and the top half being living areas and storage.
I always liked this design, but I feel like Star Trek's writers frequently forgot it existed. It's much larger and presumably more powerful than any Fed starship but doesn't factor at all into First Contact or the Dominion War planet-wide power outtage. Would have been great to see more of it onscreen. A lot of folks complain about the FX shots of the Galaxy-class leaving through the same door as the much smaller Constitution, but you could assume it just has bigger doors on other sides.
Very nice video. But you got the scale massively wrong with the crew quarters. The column would be about 2 kilometers thick, and would house hundrets of rings of apartments in the described size. One could easily hide DS9 in its diameter. Space dock is gigantic.
I think that was a quality presentation as usual. I also think the upper mushroom section would have been more space efficient if it had simply a cylindrical shape. Could have practially almost doubled its interior space with little more additional material effort.
The whole design is 'rule of cool'. A much more practical station would have the ships dock on the outside. It's awful big for a facility that can only dock 8 ships at a time.
It probably can dock ships on the outside. We probably just don’t see it because of budgetary reasons; we only see this type of space station in the movies and early TNG, but had they kept using this model in DS9, we might have seen more models (practical and CG) docked on the outside (or floating close by).
The space dock looks amazing. I love it, but it had two major conceptual flaws when it was built. One, was that it was poorly equipped to deal with threats (note every time earth's been attacked and they needed to scramble much MUCH smaller ships to defend the earth and/or itself... Though I understand that it would have been pretty boring plot-wise if it WAS capable of fulfilling that role) Two, it was placing ALL of its eggs in one basket. It's a bloody miracle it wasn't attacked/destroyed sooner. That would have crippled Starfleet. Of course, this was remedied later when Starfleet would host shipyards throughout the solar system.
ESD was never the “sole” location for starship contraction and maintenance. It was a docking and resupply facility capable for light maintenance and repair. Construction and major repairs and refits took place in fleet yards and dry docks.
Exactly.
I have been a passive fan of Star Trek since the late '60's. It struck me though.watching this, that real dedicated fans must have a far more sophisticated knowledge of the ST universe and its "history" than I could even begin to grasp. Having been on our screens for nearly sixty years, I hope that it is still around in some form by the 100yr mark. I will be long gone I fear, but what an amazing phenomena it is.
That would truly be awesome.
Awesome.
I will be there when i am 65 and i will think of you.
Spacedock is just awesome. It still has to be one of the most iconic and striking technical marvels in space sci fi cinema. I'd even argue its more iconic to Star Trek than many of the ships.
I've always wanted to see more of the floating city that you've always known is in there somewhere even at first glance, so this video's been great to know whats up there.
ST III was when the world-building designs went into overdrive. The Producers of the film shrewdly let ILM design everything (with input from Leonard Nimoy). ILM just happened to be coming off of Return of the Jedi, and were at the top of their game. They knocked it out of the park too, with the Oberth Class (the Grissom), the Excelsior, the Spacedock and the Bird of Prey - all designs used for decades, literally.
Wow, you really outdid yourself here. It always irked me how little details about the starbases interior ever were and Cygnus' layouts were a great marvel. But seeing them in 3D gives the whole size an entirely new feel and really shows the size better.
Thanks. Yes, the space dock is actually quite large.
As I’ve said many times before, this channel is so underrated. Live Long & Prosper. 🖖🏻
A small city, this thing is enormous!
Couldn't agree more!
Earth Space Dock is one of, if not THE best space station in all Sci-Fi to have ever had the pleasure of existing. Both on and off screen it is magnificent, inviting and outright incredible. Whenever you approach it, you know you are safe here and welcome by the United Federation of Planets. It's also a visitable hub in Star Trek Online, and is my favorite place to hang out at ingame.
I personally hope Humanity is able to build something similar to this eventually, in size, scale, and design. Here's to hoping cause I think it would make an excellent fit to a command and control station for the solar system and further space exploration, once we have the technology and resources to do so. Optimistic thinking, sure, but it would truly be awesome.
Even as kid (this was in the mid-80's), I marveled at the required sciences needed to make a construction of that size and complexity! Consider the logistics, material, manpower required, too! Is it impractical? Probably. But dang, this station still looks so cool. (Well, right until we got to see Babylon 5 and DS9. LOL)
It could, like the ISS, have evolved over time or been built in modular form, becoming permanent later. Same with Mir and Skylab.
No need to build the whole thing from scratch, or build it on Earth and somehow transfer it to Earth orbit
@@Neil070 Im sure they have transporters for that
@@giantclam1822 Good point! 🤔👍👏🏼
We don’t talk enough about starbases and space dock operations and massive power and contributions to the Starfleet mission they embody. Soacesock, and the starbases like her, are massive, and dwarf they starships they support. One day they should get some respect for the massive technical and scientific contributions they make to the fleet.
I was curious about this Spaceport last month and searched RUclips for a video like this. I must admit out of all the ones I watched this one is the best so far, it had exactly what I want on it. Thanks.
thanks for the watching.
I seen the search for Spock FOR THE FIRST TIME when I WAS about 12 in 1985, when the Enterprise was headed to SD1, I I KNEW that the Enterprise was on the way to something very big.
Really enjoyed seeing some of the other areas of the space dock besides the main hanger.
truly outstanding dude i always knew that those spacedocks were huge but never really seen too much of them
My favorite space station in Science fiction, in a WALK! I adore Spacedock and thanks for doing a video and cutaway of her.
Our pleasure!
I think it is gigantic. A great value to the federation. It must have taken a long time to build, and it is well worth it.
Nice video!
Earth Space Dock was a big reason why I never really could accept the Breen attack in DS9 as a good story element. Between it, and orbital defenses, assaulting that planet would be suicide unless you brought so much force to bear, everyone would know you're coming for weeks before.
ESD wasn't typically armed and only a relatively small defense fleet was stationed in the Sol system, additionally the Breen had their energy system disruption weapon that essentially made any defense systems ESD had in place useless.
yes, much of trek suffered from dum dums running the show and just the worst writing. sad.
@@lvirag8401 I wouldn't go that far. LOL There were times though; where progressing the plot, and considering the bigger picture, did not go hand in hand.
@@spiritofthewolf15x I realize they have reasoning for it in story, but those points don't help me resolve my issues with it. 🙂The capital of a giant interstellar alliance, at war with another culture that poses an existential threat, and they don't have built up defenses or their primary system port armed? If nothing else; there would have been huge fleets of ships constantly entering and leaving the system for the dockyards orbiting Earth and Mars. I realize they wanted a Pearl Harbour vibe; but that wouldn't have happened if the U.S. had already been at war for a couple years....
@@lvirag8401 Consider; if the attack had been against Risa or Casperia Prime instead. Behind the lines, low relative strategic value, likely minimal defenses as it's not a primary industry target like the core worlds. Just 10s of millions of officers and crew on shore leave away from the front. Bombed from orbit without any capability to fight back, just to prove they can do it. The emotional impact would have been just as strong, if not more so, and wouldn't interfere with the logic of their world building.
HT, I watch your videos as soon as you upload them. Sir, you do fantastic work in every respect.
I appreciate that!
These kind of space stations would be very luxurious if they were real
A correction;
Typically, ESD was unarmed, but phaser and torpedo turrets could easily be mounted in case of emergencies.
Wow great video! This is the best and most in-depth video I've seen on this awesome Orbital Facility. Nicely Done!
Glad it was helpful!
7:53 "Each section has several restaurants, merchant shops..." Why would either one be needed? They have REPLICATORS which could supply literally ANY need.
This guys is getting better and better!! wow.. great job buddy!!
Thanks for watching.
I am always continually impressed with your explanations and videos of these topics. They bring the designs to life, a topic I think should have been better illustrated during the shows but wasn't. Thank-You for bringing these videos to us!
Thanks for the compliments!
This was excellent. I'm glad it popped up in my suggestions list. Have now subbed. o7
Welcome aboard!
Great video your videos just keep getting better and better thanks for the hard work
I appreciate it! I have been out of the country for awhile, hope to get back to my normal schedule when I head back.
This is really cool stuff, thanks man.
Wow amazing!!
Would love to see a video on the Space 1999 Eagle ?
Very cool. This is what people have to look forward to in the future.
Great visuals, really sells the huge size of the Spacedock
Thanks!
Thanks for the links.
Awesome retcon!
No problem!
40 phaser belts and 10 km big (over three times bigger than a Borg Cube). Damn, I would love to see a battle between these two.
Very interesting video love the detail I had no idea that there was a huge recreation area with lakes and a soccer field.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is amazing work as usual.
Glad you think so!
GREAT JOB!!! Thanks for the share
Thanks for watching!
Another awesome video thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
This is a very good Spacedock Video. I like it 😀
Thanks! 😄
9:10 The main viewscreen is in the back not the front unless the stations and command chair are backwards. Then you would expect the staions in the middle would face the middle or the viewscreen but the command chair should face the viewscreen.
Absolutely Brilliant, My Friend!!! Thank You……..🤙
Glad you enjoyed it
Great job! Most detailed depiction I've seen for Spacedock. Thanks for sharing!
Glad it was helpful!
That is an amazing look. A practical blueprint for when we want to build a 6.6 mile long space station. 😉
Not really.. the scales in Star trek are waaaaaaaaay off. Something the size of s74 at 8km in diameter can house an absurd number of people per deck compared to the numbers generated by canon. Good looking design but the decks need major reimagining for efficiency.
Love this video! Thank you! 🤗
Glad you enjoyed it!
I am really enjoying your videos!
Awesome, thank you!
I would jump into my Eagle 1 from Spce 1999 and live there forever
Love SPACEDOCK about to watch!👍🏾
Interesting information.Thanks...
My pleasure
What a wonderful and futuristic design. Just beautiful 🤩
This has always been an interesting design ever since I saw her when I first watched Star Trek III on VHS when I was a young lad (born in 1981).
For the presentation I say you did a phenomenal job on this. :)
Thanks. I have to give some credit to Alex for the fantastic 3D model.
I'd like to see uploads of every diffrent type and species type of star trek stations. Be cool to see breakdowns of the original series to the latest startrek episodes. It would also be cool to see diffrent species designs like romulan,klingon,borg all the way up to dominion,bree and even cardasium.
I probably will look into the Borg and Dominion design down the road.
Great work 🥳 Thank yooooou 💜
You’re welcome 😊
Thanks for the tour & explanations! I always wondered what was it like inside this "space city"
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Halfscreen it only took 30+ years to find out. 😊
@@Halfscreen always enjoy your videos
@@overbank56 Damn, that is a long time. 😁
@@overbank56 Thanks.
Wow cool video
I have a hard time believing 1/3 of the space station is a giant open area for lakes and soccer fields. I would imagine if people needed fresh air or needed to enjoy those type of activities they simply beam down to earth.
That was pretty cool. Thanks for fleshing out that design. You know, it would be even more cool if you could break down Starbase Yorktown from ST Beyond, of the Kelvin Universe.
That would be cool but I don't think there any schematic on the Starbase Yorktown.
@@Halfscreen you’re probably correct. Soooo….. I volunteer that you pour over every single frame of that sequence and make it up.
@@embott1 I have. 😁😁
You sound like chief engineer of the project design team.
Great video but some minor clarifications. The Base can dock more than eight starships. It would be a huge waste of space and resources if that was the case.
At some point they must have built a completely new space dock in orbit of Earth which looked exactly like the old one, but 50% bigger so the huge Enterprise D could fit through the doors.
Either that or they just used stock footage and hoped no one would notice.
@@NeonVisual They prety much Just reused search for spock Footage though its emplied that ESD has a much larger space door that is larger than the one used by the Enterprise in Search For Spock.
the Enterprise D visited Starbase 74 in orbit of Tarsas 3, not Earth Spacedock. it is a scaled up version of ESD
@BeamerMT79 I think you'd have to, or stack the ships vertically or more densely around each pylon. I mean, each one is many times the volume of a starship. For every pinprick-sized window you can see, there must be thousands and thousands more rooms inside with no window. Having solid volumes like that is a huge size multiplier - imagine each deck in one of those pylons laid flat, side-by-side, and you're probably looking at the area of Manhatten or something :D
Would have been cool to live on a station like that or ds9 😍
Space Doc would be my preferred assignment. Would have quarters on the Station and an apartment on Earth.
ALL STATIONS YELLOW ALERT........DANGER SPACE DOORS ARE CLOSED....the doors mr. scott..aye sir i'm working on it
Full impulse power
@@fekalistagrzybowory7619 warp speed
i’d like to see the space dock more often on tv
The top of the spacedock rotates.
I have seen this footage a thousand times and I just now noticed that.
I used to make a lot of drawings with ships entering and leaving this space dock when I was a kid.
I love space stations in sci-fi!!!
i'm trying to recreate a 1:20 scale version of this in minecraft, so the 3d models were super handy for me to get a better idea of how it looks outside and inside. funnily enough, i found those same schematics you did on cygnus-x1 lol
You may want to check out this site. It may help.
www.alex3d.at/
Hi Half, Great video 📹 as always. I didn't realize they had all that recreational space down there you can fit at least 9 birds of prey in there. Spoiled HU-MONS,lol
I'd like to see this applied to the station in the original tech manual. This one is the Movies, basically. Could do another on the evolution of the space dock.
It should hold way more than 8 ships. DS9 is a fraction of the size and can hold about 20 ships
I agree that I think it can hold more than 8 ships. However, I think 8 is the safety factor as handling traffic, entering and leaving the facility.
I have a idea of what ship you need to do next Star track lower Decks
they should ve done a show based in this alone. much better than DS9
Does anyone know how many starships the station can house at once? It seems to me like each of the four docking ports can serve four capitalships. That leaves space enough for another four betwen the ports. Then theres space for plenty of others along the perimeter, below and above the protruding ports.
Was really hoping for a 10-hour deck by deck breakdown LOL
Man, can't imagine modeling it fully. 😁
Me too lol
Where did you find the blueprints for the Command and Control Center and the living quarters area?
www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/starbase-79-blueprints.php
@@Halfscreen Thank you.
I always thought the towers on top were like an elaborate city.. like the downtown core of some metropolis. 🤷♂️
Great video my friend I think they're going to be making that type of stuff in the late late in the future I won't be around it happens I figure another thousand years from now that we will build one or something like it but not in my lifetime I'll never see that
Let hope so. It definitely would be interesting.
@@Halfscreen so true my friend so true we're starting to go into back to space they want to go to the Moon that's a start so you know if they're going to go to other planets they have to terraform it and take years and years and years for that to happen so I forget if we have a space station like that I'm looking at 10,000 years from now easy what do you think..
Very interesting idea that the lower dome is just filled with air, grass, lakes etc.
I do think the main residence section's map makes no sense. That ring is at least a kilometer wide, probably more. That's totally not on scale with the map, or those rooms (and the people in it) are gigantic.
Is the space dock in ST Picard new one, old modified, or the producers ignore canon?
Thanks
Thanks for the super thanks!😊
What is the music playing during the interior section?
Ascent - Michael Fk
I never really knew how huge these were. Depending on distance of orbit there is a good chance that something that massive would effect tidal forces on earth.
What diagram puts the power plant at the top?
That's not a small city, it's a pretty big one.
200.000 inhabitants is nothing to scoff at! Plus a pretty big park area, industrial area and a massive enclosed space port. It's not a metropolis, but a decent medium sized city. IN SPAAAACE!
I wonder about some of the choices, but O.K. It works for me.
Did you say the construction of the first of these began in 2342? How did it show up in the TOS films then?
Any chance you could do a video on the BSG-75 Galactica? The early 2000's version I love that damn ship battered bulkheads and all!!
I guess this needs an update because at some point the recreation deck was replaced by docking bay 12
Reminds me of Bespin Cloud City.
command and control center makes me think of Perry Rhodan
Am sure you incorrect about the esd being the only Dockyard
If you're talking about Star Trek, then "war production" is a phrase that only be used specifically in reference to a war. Spacedock's production for 99% of its functioning time has been peacetime exploration ship construction and maintenance.
That’s why this station is highly vulnerable in case of an enemy attack
Strikes me that the interior space for the habitat and open field bit, seems too big and still maintain structural integrity. Would have thought that the space would have been half the height and the top half being living areas and storage.
Would love to see mckinley station
I always liked this design, but I feel like Star Trek's writers frequently forgot it existed. It's much larger and presumably more powerful than any Fed starship but doesn't factor at all into First Contact or the Dominion War planet-wide power outtage. Would have been great to see more of it onscreen. A lot of folks complain about the FX shots of the Galaxy-class leaving through the same door as the much smaller Constitution, but you could assume it just has bigger doors on other sides.
Very nice video. But you got the scale massively wrong with the crew quarters. The column would be about 2 kilometers thick, and would house hundrets of rings of apartments in the described size. One could easily hide DS9 in its diameter. Space dock is gigantic.
Yeah, it's freaking massive, no doubt.
Borg cube "im am big" ... space dock " hold my beer"
@@mammutMK2 Borg cube: "I actually fly"
Space dock: "I guess it's a good thing I don't since I'm drinking beer"
@@mattrobson3603 space dock: "where are my mushrooms?"
I wonder how long it would take to go into every single room on the star base ?
Great video though I thought it could accommodate more starships given its size a crew compliment.
I heard around 18-20 starships.
I think that was a quality presentation as usual. I also think the upper mushroom section would have been more space efficient if it had simply a cylindrical shape. Could have practially almost doubled its interior space with little more additional material effort.
I totally agree!
The whole design is 'rule of cool'. A much more practical station would have the ships dock on the outside. It's awful big for a facility that can only dock 8 ships at a time.
It probably can dock ships on the outside. We probably just don’t see it because of budgetary reasons; we only see this type of space station in the movies and early TNG, but had they kept using this model in DS9, we might have seen more models (practical and CG) docked on the outside (or floating close by).
@@mattrobson3603 That's why there are dry docks around it.
do Starbase Yorktown
It would appear we have a new expanded Earth space dock with the reveal of Picard season 3's trailer.
I truly hope this is our future ..
What’s the song at 5:30?
The space dock looks amazing. I love it, but it had two major conceptual flaws when it was built.
One, was that it was poorly equipped to deal with threats (note every time earth's been attacked and they needed to scramble much MUCH smaller ships to defend the earth and/or itself... Though I understand that it would have been pretty boring plot-wise if it WAS capable of fulfilling that role)
Two, it was placing ALL of its eggs in one basket. It's a bloody miracle it wasn't attacked/destroyed sooner. That would have crippled Starfleet. Of course, this was remedied later when Starfleet would host shipyards throughout the solar system.