Of course starships are based on warships. Can you imagine this situation: Captain: Attention romulans. This is the captain of the USS Titanic. We order you to surr.... *Romulans throw some ice Camptain: Ha! Did you really think that just some ice would possibly... Random bridge officer: SIR we're sinking Captain: What? We're in space Ship: sinks anyways Captain: ugh... fine abandon ship Random bridge officer: sir we do not have enough escape pods for everyone Captain: why? Random bridge officer: name tradition sir Band: starts playing dramatically as ship fills with water Captain:..... Captain:..... Captain:..... Q:..... Captain:.....
True, the USN aircraft attacked it from both sides having the unintentional effect of counterflooding the ship so she settled slowly level in the ocean. When they attacked Yamato they made sure to attack from one side only causing the ship to sink more quickly from capsizing. In a purely historical sense its a shame one of these vessels didn't survive WW2 as they were the largest battleships ever built eclipsing the US Iowa class by about 20,000 tonnes.
@paquitos hammer That was true before the war but the escalator clause built in to the London treaty of 1930 allowed for the Americans (and the British) to re arm and redesign their battleships with the previously outlawed 16" guns in response to German and Japanese plans. Despite the tonnage limit being 35,000 the Bismark, the Iowa and the Yamato all exceeded that restriction though admittedly the Yamato was the largest at some 70,000 tonnes.
@-RINZLER- that's because a lot of carriers were present at the battle and the USN weren't taking any risks. A single fleet carrier like the Enterprise would have been able to sink the Yamato.
We're off, through outer space, we're leaving Mother Earth, to save, the human race.... Our Starblazers! :) (Also I think obviously any huge guns are a shoutout to the Wave Motion Cannon. :) )
Meanwhile in an alternate universe: Yamato is a Space Battleship that looks like the original sea ship. But with atmospheric wings, Wave motion technology, and Is capable of landing in water.
@ArulVon Fadhilah Apparently the saucer section seperation and crash-landing of the Galaxy class is possible in water, too. I saw an article once. I also saw that when they crashed into a forest in the movie, a window smashed. What if they land in deep water with 20 bar of pressure outside?
Not being quite as deeply knowledgeable of Trek lore as other people, I've only just now realized that Space Battleship Yamato 2202 has what might well be a reference to this ship. The Ginga, sister ship to the titular Yamato herself. Refit to emphasize it's interstellar exploratory capabilities, and replacing the surface-navy-style bridge tower with a very Starfleet-esque saucer section. To top it off, "Ginga" translates to "Galaxy".
Yamato is a reference to that ship? Oh no, darling, the Federation ship is the homage to the Yamato. Because the original anime came out in like 1974. :)
@@aleksandramakari You have COMPLETELY misread my comment. I wasn't talking about the original anime, but its remake that came out a few years ago. I wasn't even talking about the Yamato!
Let it be Known. Yamato is a warship pure and simple. She cannot be a exploration vessel like Enterprise until she has her time to shine as a proper warship and thus have her name fulfill its destiny.
The End of the Yamato Prototype: Captain: Fire the wave motion gun! Ensign: But sir that will short out everything but the Holodeck which is on a different grid for reasons. Captain: We have a really big gun and I want to fire it! Ensign: Firing! ...And we missed, all systems except the holodeck are down and we are a sitting duck. Captain: Crap.
there is also a version which traveled in 2199 from Earth to Iscandar in Order to save Humanity from planet bombardment caused by the Gamilas Empire :P
@@steveblissett654 I prefer tank build for my Yamato: Trilithium phaser set, prolonged engagement set (phaser first and foremost, cus, tanks last long time), and all manner of resistance buffs and shield buffs, along with saucer separation.
@@steveblissett654 a win 95 emulator should do it.. you'll need the patch though. I'm hoping whoever bought the other 2 games (25th and i forget which other) buys KA and then we could just play it straight up. The space terrain was the best!
Wave Motion Engine, which powers the Wave Motion Cannon/Gun, and Shock Cannons, and Black Tiger fighters and competent crew and they're one hell of an adversary to any invaders. :) Uchuu Senkan Yamato!
My love for the Yamato CLASS comes from the game Star Trek: Klingon Academy, in which it is one of the ships you can mess around with in Skirmish mode (you can play as pretty much ANY ship in the game in that mode, including multiple factions that don't actually appear during the campaign, and multiple starfleet classes that don't appear during it). Honestly, it is one of the best Star Trek games ever, to be frank. It had a remarkably diverse set of crew commands, system management, and outright general ability to do weird things (like being able to fly through part of a gas giant if you went slowly enough and were constantly micromanaging your shields and damage control systems). The skirmish/free play mode allowing you to just warp wherever the hell you wanted was cool too (in system or out, and yes, you COULD just destroy yourself if you wanted by warping into a planet at warp speed 1-ish or whatever the lowest warp was, because that was the speed you warped around systems at, and only went higher when on the travel map). The game itself had remarkably good vessel damage and destruction mechanics for its time too. I mean, this is a game released in the year 2000, so bear that in mind. Oh, and of course, you may guess from the name, but for the campaign, you play as a KLINGON starship commander. Naturally, progressively getting promoted to captain larger and larger ships throughout. ...But yeah, the Yamato in that game had two of the super-phaser weapons that were present in its time. The absolute strongest Klingon ship in the game had one. And it also looked cool. So yeah. I kinda like the Yamato class. Oh, and of course, it was NOT a constitution class. It was the strongest class of federation ship in the game. And yes, the Yamato I like is the one that is mentioned as the "sitting duck after firing" one, despite it not actually doing this in Klingon Academy (those super phasers did have a nice cooldown though).
@@gunslinger1824 That would be an over powered phase cannon that, at the very least, has the same ship crippling power requirements as a Wave Motion Gun.* (*See: Space Battleship Yamato a.k.a Star Blazers.)
@@christopherdalan8124 The assault phasers were not all that fragile.. they did break.. but you're more likely to break the hull doing emergency maneuvers.. the really tragedy is Missouri lost her assault phaser before production.
I have to agree with you. It makes sense that the USS Yamato would be the really big beatstick Starfleet brings out when diplomacy fails and war is inevitable. I mean, if you're forced to fight, you might as well get it over with as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Therefore, it's the one ship that had a note attached to it's files saying "Under absolutely NO circumstances is Sisko to know of this ships existence."
@@233Deadman Considering the circumstances and this vessel's capabilities, I wonder if that would have actually been a good idea or not. Some refit Yamatos could have made a joke out of the Jem'Hadar ships during the Dominion War.
whenever i played sfc2 i always fought hard and saved up to get my hands on the yamato-class battleship. the thin was nuts in game and a beat against small ships. the sight of launching 12 missiles at a target to weaken it sheilds only then to be pelted to death by phasers was a beautiful sight.
No, the Yamato in KA was the best.. SFC and SFC2 stunk.. I hated the 2d maneuvering.. turn based wasn't terrible. but 2d space sucked.. now i got pretty much 2d maneuvering in STO blah!
Love this ship in Starfleet Command. Looks amazing and was a true beast. A shame it had the Gatling phasers instead of the star base phasers in that one.
IJN Yamato had "the biggest warship cannons of the time" ??? Those 18.1-inch cannons are TO THIS DAY the largest guns ever mounted on a ship. Even the mighty American Iowa-class battleships (of the same time-period) only had 16-inch main guns.
Yamato sounds just fitting for a warbird ;) Also, that dual excelsior design looks cool on blueprint, but it would create a huge target if ever presented in battle.
The USS Yamato Battleship from Klingon Academy: Armed with two massive Assault phasers, each capable of cracking the shields of a Starbase or Battlestation, this is the most heavily armed, and powered, Federation ship ever constructed. During initial testing of the assault phasers, it was recommended that the Yamato class receive a second warp core to power the assault phasers only. This recommendation was put into effect and, as of June 2391, the Yamato class Experimental battleships have two warp cores. The Yamato class is also one of the more interesting designs present in the Federation fleet. She has a titanic saucer and two (comparatively) diminutive secondary hulls which are attached to the underside of the saucer. Suspended between these two secondary hulls is the assault phaser mount. One of the breakthroughs concerning this assault phaser design is that it is connected to both warp cores, allowing the single phaser to act like two and fire a second time using the second core's power output. The assault phaser is cooled by exposing some of the critical parts to the vacuum of space. Thus, while allowing for extremely fast cooling of the phaser after firing, the assault phaser is easily damaged once her shields have been breached. But, with shields comparable to small bases, most captains have nothing really to worry about. This design does have its share of failings though. The few captains lucky enough to command these ships have complained how, during simulations, marauding Klingon ships have easily dodged the main fore weapons arrays and concentrated their fire on the port and starboard arcs, rarely straying into the aft arc, and never passing in front of this formidable behemoth’s main weapons systems, thus making her assault phaser nearly useless against smaller ships. Larger ships, however, should be warned not to stray into this formidable battleship's forward arc because of that very phaser. While it is very inaccurate, it still can hit a target of cruiser size or above if it has a good shot. To remedy this problem, Starfleet's design bureau has petitioned for a QCB projector to be added to her standard weaponry. Unfortunately, this petition has not met with results and is still being considered.
not a Trek fan but played Klingon Academy and liked the way the Yamato looked. i used to get all the Micro Machine SpaceShips Star Wars ,Babylon5, Star Trek, Aliens , Terminator, even the Generic Space Galaxy ones and made the Yamato from from pulling apart quite a Micro Machine Few Toys.
Yeah, I did think it looked familiar. The F-BB was a ridiculous piece of engineering that was simply too expensive (in part due to having two secondary hulls), but I suppose they did need something to prowl along the Federation side of the Klingon Neutral Zone and look mean. Fun fact - if you have lots of spare power, ramp it straight up to 31 from 0 and watch it out-accelerate anything off the mark.
All Hail the old F-BB. I think there were 3 of them: Yamato, Kali, and Mars but the later two were never officially finished. I wish we had a high res model of this unique ship.
One of the things I dislike about Starfleet is their policy on weapons. There is no such thing as an "unnecessarily overpowered weapon". If a weapon is so powerful that it can cause overloads and sub system failures when used at its maximum setting, simply use it at a lower setting until such a time as sub systems can be buffered against overloads. It may seem contradictory, but a ship that is as heavily armed as is technologically possible possesses more diplomatic options as it is afforded a far stronger negotiation position. The peaceful intentions of a person are far more apparent when they elect the diplomatic option even though they could easily win in a fight.
@@syaondri Very true. The ideology of the Federation is often idiotically pacifistic considering the fact that they share borders with three military powers.
@@syaondri I kind of liked the number because it denoted the fact that a species that is unified by a collective consciousness that is the Apex of its universe word have no need of a name.
Seen that prototype ship made me wish that you would do an entire episode on Starfleet prototypes. You could also explain this out to Klingon and romulan and even other species prototype ships. I love the videos keep it up!
The Yamato (NCX 5626) was always one of my favorite designs. I played that ship in a starfleet PC game and loved the pure warship aspect of this vessel. I always wanted to see it on the big screen. But to be honest the Terran Empire would've built it outright. Starfleet was to pasifistic to ever build this. Even if it was needed for gunboat diplomacy when dealing with the klingons and romulans.
@@jts1702a Interplay used the same assets in all the games... but Klingon Academy is still superior to these others... You have the 2nd best Star Trek villain ever, in a starring role, and you get to see how it came to be that Gorkon became Chancellor. and you get to kill Kirk and Sulu( in simulation)
@@talis84, as an old salt, I'm also really happy, and quite surprised actually, that I'm seeing so many references to Star Blazers and Space Battleship Yamato! :)
@Wes Prang Of the original series that came out in the late 70's early 80's. Season 1 was Quest for Iscandar Season 2 was Comet Empire Season 3 was The Bolar Wars They're on kissanime. no idea if they plan do a season 3 Yamato 2205.
Season three. Totally not space Russian my freind says. But the plot is much different with a different for. Apparently ppl didn't like it even though it was epic
People didn’t like it as much because either. 1: People are weird and Season 1 also had its planned episode count reduced because of low ratings. 2: The change of the English voice cast / dumbing down of dialog. But, there appears to be quite a few season 3 references in 2199 and 2202.... So hopefully we haven’t seen the last of “The Bolar Wars.”
I am now having an AU Head-Canon of a NCX-5626-V shaped ship using Odyssey-class parts. Keeping true to both the Trek-verse and yet another Universe's use of the name, this version of the Yamato class has a sister ship named the Argo.
I think there were a few times in Starfleet, Cannon, history where there were threats to the federation great enough where Starfleet developed warships. The Borg with the Defiant class ships and the Dominion War where in a few episodes of DS9 there were glimpses of a completely different type of ship in the background during the fleet battles. It clearly wasn't a Defiant class ship, but it did look like they just took the body of a Defiant class and add a saucer section and extra stuff to the outside, as the ship was the same size with a small half saucer section and fired cannons (Star Trek did this a lot when making background ships for episodes, they just took existing ship designs and just added stuff to it to look "different"). I am actually surprised that STO didn't make a ship class out of this, but as the ship in question is difficult to see in the background of the one or two episodes I remember it being in, I don't blame them. Then there was the Prometheus, which was another warship created to fight in the Dominion war. In STO there was also several classes of ship specifically created to fight different enemies, like The Borg, The Hurq, The Iconians, The Elachi, The Tzencethi etc., but I know they just did this to add ships to the Zen store, Their lockboxes and the Lobi store. So in my own "Head cannon" Starfleet only builds warships to defend itself in times of peril, the rest of the time they build science and exploration ships.
There must've been a mistake in the Yamato's registry number because they say it is NCC-71807 but in one episode Riker said the ship's registry NCC-71807-E and it was that episode where they encountered an alien that started conducting experiments on the crew to see different ways humans die.
The background on the Yamato you forgot the cartoon series that ran in the 80s and 90s you also forgot the movie that they made in Japan about the motto star battleship it went out and fought Alien Invaders granted this Yamato movie and TV show both utilize raising the original battleship Yamato to fight the aliens and transform and a World War II battleship into a space platform with the wave motion gun which is kind of what Star Trek did here
It was a simple continuity error. The writers for "Contagion" were unaware that the Yamato's registry number had already been mentioned in the dialogue of a previous episode ("Where Silence Has Lease"), but no one caught the error before the episode was aired. The best in-universe explanation that I've heard was that the Yamato's registry was changed by Starfleet for some logistical reason. 🖖😎👍
The Walking Forest and Wesley crusher will be aboard after a tragic accident where his larynx was permanently damaged in a subspace bubble rendering him Unable To Speak...
Yes the dreadnought version of the Yamato was build for the war with the borg. In next generation. Enterprise D sister ship was destroyed, but then they built dreadnought version. Came into action when the borg attacked earth. When captain Packard got captured. They where going to put the same spiral lance on the enterprise, but decided they wouldn't have enough time. So they modified the main deflector to do the damage the spiral Lance would do. But it came at a major cost to the enterprise. They originally where going to upgrade the D to the E with a 3rd nacelle and do the same improvements to enterprise.
Something about classified testbed roles, I guess. NCC is sometimes theorised as Naval Construction Code. NX is Naval Experimental. NCX could be a placeholder.
Tadeo "Rekkert" D'Oria on Artstation has done some amazingly realistic renders of the Yamato's bridge, what it might've looked like with the green detailing. He's also made bridges for other Galaxy-class ships, including the Odyssey. 🖖😎👍
I'm always very wary of watching videos like this since most of them contradict each other in some form and a lot of the people making them like to take the subject matter too seriously. Although as a trekkie I'm always drawn to them just out of curiosity. This video just popped up this morning as a suggestion. I like the fact that in your video you point out what is cannon, what is not and where the discrepancies exist... even going as far to say that something is "head-canon" to you. Well done! I'm interested in seeing more.
Fun Fact: In Star Trek Online, the developers pay homage to Space Battleship Yamato by first: having Starfleets strongest Battleship/Dreadnought be a Yamato... Second: having the Spinal Lance animation shot have a similar charge to the Wave-Motion gun... And Third and this is the OG one... The USS Yamato... has a registry number of NCC-92199... The same year from the show.
USS Yamato (NCC 71807) is an Enterprise-D (NCC 1701-D) Class. At least 3 times Capt. Picard stated that the Enterprise-D was the first of its type.The USS Iowa (BB 61) is an Iowa Class Battleship.
Farewell, Earth, the ship that is departing is The Space Battleship Yamato It departs now to Iskandar, at the end of the cosmos, bearing its fate. "We will come back, no matter what it takes" Answer with a smile to the waving people
I recently made an exhaustive list of all known registries from FASA, Jackill and the 90s video games. Plus several more. Naturally, the many contradictory numbers and names of Constitution class ships was a hair tearer...
Look up Space Battleship Yamato Wave Motion Gun. The anime came out in 1974, so this Starfleet ship is paying homage, and is using a similar giant beam.
@@mr6johnclark just because they put it back together doesn't mean it didn't suffer a poor fate. Most ships named Enterprise in Starfleet get destroyed in a dramatic manner. It seems only the Enterprise F survived to decomissioning and just barely....
That Galaxy “refit” you have two images of look like two separate variations of the Galaxy-X or Galaxy X class as seen in the final two parter of Star Trek TNG, used as Admiral Riker’s ship bearing a third warp nacel that now blocked the shuttle bay and had a phaser “lance” that ran down the middle of the bottom side of the saucer section starting near the main deflector (always wondered if this upgrade rendered the separation function a now impossible feat)
In Star Trek: Klingon Academy it was a ridiculous ship to go up against online. They'd just lob those crazy assault phaser shots at you from huge distances away. If you couldn't cloak you were toast. I miss that game
I always thought the Galaxy X variant was named for the other Yamato. Big ass main gun, exploratory vessel, carries a large crew for long voyages... Sounds like a Space Battleship to me.
Galaxy X ships are still converted exploration vessel hulls changed to battleships. So they would have more significant flaws although I would imagine this improves overtime. The yamato design herself is a warship pure and simple and likely was better suited for combat operations. Problem with Yamato is she isnt very well liked by most star trek purist due to being a dedicated warship and not a variant. Despite the fact that most ships in starfleet are technically all warships It would be awesome if sto managed to dust off and use the original Yamato design from Klingon academy. It's that one ship that everyone outside of federation space knew it existed but kept quiet due to the federation being all hush hush on ships that actually made klingons envious
The huge four engine design looks like the same ship design in Star Fleet Command: Orion Pirates. Originally, the game creators called this design "conjectural". Later they added the design and upgraded it to an almost Juggernaut status called the Battle Control Ship (I.E. super battle ship and super carrier combo).
One thing I hated about the episode that the Yamato was lost, is you have shown the Galaxy glass can saucer separate. WHY NOT DO THIS NOW, ok maybe Yamato didn't know it was this bad, but Enterprise KNEW it- at least add dialog that they tried, and found that computer wasn't working, and even escape pods are not responding. - that would have helped me out a bit lol
Wow, this video's thumbnail had me thrown off big time. I see "USS Yamato," and see the thumbnail displays the non canon 23rd century Battleship Yamato. The video opens saying the Yamato was a sister ship of the Enterprise, and still thinking of the battleship Yamato, in my head I'm thinking this guy doesn't understand what "Sister Ship" means. lol
The Yamato would be Federation's answer towards potential hostile species if diplomacy and peace fails She has a big main phaser with the ability to overload it, creating some sort of EMP burst . Also, a nice hotel for starfleet warfreak admirals
Am I the only one who's thinking of another name that would be just as fitting, or even better, for warships that are just massive artillery platforms? (coughcough) Bismarck
While beta canon, there is the Yamato-class subtype for Starfleet battlecruisers in the video game Star Trek Starfleet Command. (Which you mentioned and I didn't recognize.) And of course you mentioned the Yamato-class dreadnought from Star Trek Online, which contains a spinal phaser lance. (If that were made blue it would be a perfect Wave Motion Gun analogue.)
The Yamato also has the wave motion gun instead of a deflector dish.
and a habit of killing her captains
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Of course starships are based on warships. Can you imagine this situation:
Captain: Attention romulans. This is the captain of the USS Titanic. We order you to surr....
*Romulans throw some ice
Camptain: Ha! Did you really think that just some ice would possibly...
Random bridge officer: SIR we're sinking
Captain: What? We're in space
Ship: sinks anyways
Captain: ugh... fine abandon ship
Random bridge officer: sir we do not have enough escape pods for everyone
Captain: why?
Random bridge officer: name tradition sir
Band: starts playing dramatically as ship fills with water
Captain:.....
Captain:.....
Captain:.....
Q:.....
Captain:.....
Lol also mybe not water but taking on space
It wouldn't have been Captain Smith by any chance?
The titanic was not a war ship. So......
USS OHIO BB 12 BATTLESHIP
I like that as the name more then depressurisation.
Almost as poetic end as Land Titanic from Futurama. Also... I actually did name my Jupiter class ship U.S.S. Titanic...
Fun Fact: The Yamato's sister ship, The IJN Musashi took 19 torpedoes and 17 bomb hits to sink.
True, the USN aircraft attacked it from both sides having the unintentional effect of counterflooding the ship so she settled slowly level in the ocean. When they attacked Yamato they made sure to attack from one side only causing the ship to sink more quickly from capsizing. In a purely historical sense its a shame one of these vessels didn't survive WW2 as they were the largest battleships ever built eclipsing the US Iowa class by about 20,000 tonnes.
@paquitos hammer That was true before the war but the escalator clause built in to the London treaty of 1930 allowed for the Americans (and the British) to re arm and redesign their battleships with the previously outlawed 16" guns in response to German and Japanese plans. Despite the tonnage limit being 35,000 the Bismark, the Iowa and the Yamato all exceeded that restriction though admittedly the Yamato was the largest at some 70,000 tonnes.
The Yamato class was also the heaviest battleship ever built, and was one of the largest ships ever built at the time
@@Deevo037 maybe someday they'll be able to pull one out of the water
@-RINZLER- that's because a lot of carriers were present at the battle and the USN weren't taking any risks. A single fleet carrier like the Enterprise would have been able to sink the Yamato.
_Farewell, Earth,_
_the ship that is departing is_
_The Space Battleship... YAAA-MAAA-TOOO!_
-Opening Theme, _Space Battleship Yamato_ (translated)
Uchuu Senkan Yamato!!!!
Bah, Stargazers abandoned the Yamato name to try and play it safe with a western-centric name. "Argo".
We're off, through outer space, we're leaving Mother Earth, to save, the human race.... Our Starblazers! :) (Also I think obviously any huge guns are a shoutout to the Wave Motion Cannon. :) )
I prefer Starblazers 2199 to the original series. And yes i've seen both versions.
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Meanwhile in an alternate universe:
Yamato is a Space Battleship that looks like the original sea ship. But with atmospheric wings,
Wave motion technology, and Is capable of landing in water.
@ArulVon Fadhilah Apparently the saucer section seperation and crash-landing of the Galaxy class is possible in water, too. I saw an article once.
I also saw that when they crashed into a forest in the movie, a window smashed. What if they land in deep water with 20 bar of pressure outside?
The Federation BB (Yamato) slugging it out with D-7s and B-12s in SFC was a joy. One shot-ing a D-7 was nuts.
Not being quite as deeply knowledgeable of Trek lore as other people, I've only just now realized that Space Battleship Yamato 2202 has what might well be a reference to this ship.
The Ginga, sister ship to the titular Yamato herself. Refit to emphasize it's interstellar exploratory capabilities, and replacing the surface-navy-style bridge tower with a very Starfleet-esque saucer section. To top it off, "Ginga" translates to "Galaxy".
It's only fair. Star Trek's Yamato is as much a nod to Space Battleship Yamato as it is to the original IJN warship.
Yamato is a reference to that ship? Oh no, darling, the Federation ship is the homage to the Yamato. Because the original anime came out in like 1974. :)
@@aleksandramakari You have COMPLETELY misread my comment. I wasn't talking about the original anime, but its remake that came out a few years ago. I wasn't even talking about the Yamato!
No spoilers! NOOOOOO! !
Let it be Known. Yamato is a warship pure and simple. She cannot be a exploration vessel like Enterprise until she has her time to shine as a proper warship and thus have her name fulfill its destiny.
Indeed, it's got be overpowered too. Wave Motion forever!
Yamato Class Dreadnought STO!
No apologies, I am a big boomstick.
Best line ever
It truly is lol
All right, you primitive screw-heads, listen up! See this? This... is my BOOMSTICK!
Space Battleship Yamato in a nutshell be like
The End of the Yamato Prototype:
Captain: Fire the wave motion gun!
Ensign: But sir that will short out everything but the Holodeck which is on a different grid for reasons.
Captain: We have a really big gun and I want to fire it!
Ensign: Firing! ...And we missed, all systems except the holodeck are down and we are a sitting duck.
Captain: Crap.
All command staff report to the Emergency Battle Lounge. :)
Quack quack, you're all sitting ducks! Jokes aside, my crew and I'll provide cover fire.
At which point, Moriarty reappears and commences to solve the problem of the other ship using his brilliant mind.
Dammit, why didn't you tell me this would happen?
All system being fried after firing the big gun = better survivability against Iconian virus
History will never forget the name Enterprise, but it will always remember the name Yamato.
there is also a version which traveled in 2199 from Earth to Iscandar in Order to save Humanity from planet bombardment caused by the Gamilas Empire :P
U.S.S. Yamato Experimental Battleship
Length 854m
Crew 1200
Marines 90
Armaments:
Fore: 6 phasers, 4 photon Torps, 2 Assault Phasers
Aft: 6 phasers, 2 photon Torps
Port and Starboard: 4 phasers
this is from The Klingon Academy manual...
I loved that game. I still have it somewhere I think. No idea how to run it though 😂
ALlways felt the size was a BIT too large myself. So I kind of prefer to trim it to near 600 metres?
But I still really love the game.
@@steveblissett654 I prefer tank build for my Yamato: Trilithium phaser set, prolonged engagement set (phaser first and foremost, cus, tanks last long time), and all manner of resistance buffs and shield buffs, along with saucer separation.
@@steveblissett654 a win 95 emulator should do it.. you'll need the patch though. I'm hoping whoever bought the other 2 games (25th and i forget which other) buys KA and then we could just play it straight up. The space terrain was the best!
Wave Motion Engine, which powers the Wave Motion Cannon/Gun, and Shock Cannons, and Black Tiger fighters and competent crew and they're one hell of an adversary to any invaders. :) Uchuu Senkan Yamato!
My love for the Yamato CLASS comes from the game Star Trek: Klingon Academy, in which it is one of the ships you can mess around with in Skirmish mode (you can play as pretty much ANY ship in the game in that mode, including multiple factions that don't actually appear during the campaign, and multiple starfleet classes that don't appear during it). Honestly, it is one of the best Star Trek games ever, to be frank. It had a remarkably diverse set of crew commands, system management, and outright general ability to do weird things (like being able to fly through part of a gas giant if you went slowly enough and were constantly micromanaging your shields and damage control systems). The skirmish/free play mode allowing you to just warp wherever the hell you wanted was cool too (in system or out, and yes, you COULD just destroy yourself if you wanted by warping into a planet at warp speed 1-ish or whatever the lowest warp was, because that was the speed you warped around systems at, and only went higher when on the travel map). The game itself had remarkably good vessel damage and destruction mechanics for its time too. I mean, this is a game released in the year 2000, so bear that in mind.
Oh, and of course, you may guess from the name, but for the campaign, you play as a KLINGON starship commander. Naturally, progressively getting promoted to captain larger and larger ships throughout.
...But yeah, the Yamato in that game had two of the super-phaser weapons that were present in its time. The absolute strongest Klingon ship in the game had one. And it also looked cool. So yeah. I kinda like the Yamato class. Oh, and of course, it was NOT a constitution class. It was the strongest class of federation ship in the game. And yes, the Yamato I like is the one that is mentioned as the "sitting duck after firing" one, despite it not actually doing this in Klingon Academy (those super phasers did have a nice cooldown though).
That was an interesting game .
Q'uapla fellow klingon warrior !
I always think of Space Battleship Yamato... I really loved the live action movie.
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"No apologies, I'm a really big boom-stick."
This should have been on the ship's plaque.
No, it's simply should have been "Fire the Wave-Motion Gun!"
That made me laugh when he said that. That would be awesome on a ship's plaque lol!!!
Uchuu Senkan Yamato! Fire Shock Cannons!
on the bottom "Suck on this!"
The Battleship Yamato Fasa , Starfleet battles and STARFLEET command 1 2 and Orion pirates games give credit where credit due!
These games are freaking amazing, i was quite sad the races in it seem to be unique to those games
After firing it was left a sitting duck? Was the Federation working on wave motion phasers?
That's one heck of a reference.
Christopher Dalan what are wave motion phasers?
@@gunslinger1824 That would be an over powered phase cannon that, at the very least, has the same ship crippling power requirements as a Wave Motion Gun.*
(*See: Space Battleship Yamato a.k.a Star Blazers.)
In other words a variant of the deflector dish supergun attempted by Ent-D in "Worst of Both Worlds"
@@christopherdalan8124 The assault phasers were not all that fragile.. they did break.. but you're more likely to break the hull doing emergency maneuvers.. the really tragedy is Missouri lost her assault phaser before production.
I have to agree with you. It makes sense that the USS Yamato would be the really big beatstick Starfleet brings out when diplomacy fails and war is inevitable. I mean, if you're forced to fight, you might as well get it over with as quickly and efficiently as possible.
Therefore, it's the one ship that had a note attached to it's files saying "Under absolutely NO circumstances is Sisko to know of this ships existence."
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Considering the circumstances and this vessel's capabilities, I wonder if that would have actually been a good idea or not. Some refit Yamatos could have made a joke out of the Jem'Hadar ships during the Dominion War.
whenever i played sfc2 i always fought hard and saved up to get my hands on the yamato-class battleship. the thin was nuts in game and a beat against small ships. the sight of launching 12 missiles at a target to weaken it sheilds only then to be pelted to death by phasers was a beautiful sight.
No, the Yamato in KA was the best.. SFC and SFC2 stunk.. I hated the 2d maneuvering.. turn based wasn't terrible. but 2d space sucked.. now i got pretty much 2d maneuvering in STO blah!
Love this ship in Starfleet Command. Looks amazing and was a true beast. A shame it had the Gatling phasers instead of the star base phasers in that one.
IJN Yamato had "the biggest warship cannons of the time" ???
Those 18.1-inch cannons are TO THIS DAY the largest guns ever mounted on a ship.
Even the mighty American Iowa-class battleships (of the same time-period) only had 16-inch main guns.
Yamato sounds just fitting for a warbird ;)
Also, that dual excelsior design looks cool on blueprint, but it would create a huge target if ever presented in battle.
It does but with the right power settings it'll tank everything. You can use it in Klingon Academy
The USS Yamato Battleship from Klingon Academy:
Armed with two massive Assault phasers, each capable of cracking the shields of a Starbase or Battlestation, this is the most heavily armed, and powered, Federation ship ever constructed. During initial testing of the assault phasers, it was recommended that the Yamato class receive a second warp core to power the assault phasers only. This recommendation was put into effect and, as of June 2391, the Yamato class Experimental battleships have two warp cores. The Yamato class is also one of the more interesting designs present in the Federation fleet. She has a titanic saucer and two (comparatively) diminutive secondary hulls which are attached to the underside of the saucer. Suspended between these two secondary hulls is the assault phaser mount. One of the breakthroughs concerning this assault phaser design is that it is connected to both warp cores, allowing the single phaser to act like two and fire a second time using the second core's power output. The assault phaser is cooled by exposing some of the critical parts to the vacuum of space. Thus, while allowing for extremely fast cooling of the phaser after firing, the assault phaser is easily damaged once her shields have been breached. But, with shields comparable to small bases, most captains have nothing really to worry about. This design does have its share of failings though. The few captains lucky enough to command these ships have complained how, during simulations, marauding Klingon ships have easily dodged the main fore weapons arrays and concentrated their fire on the port and starboard arcs, rarely straying into the aft arc, and never passing in front of this formidable behemoth’s main weapons systems, thus making her assault phaser nearly useless against smaller ships. Larger ships, however, should be warned not to stray into this formidable battleship's forward arc because of that very phaser. While it is very inaccurate, it still can hit a target of cruiser size or above if it has a good shot. To remedy this problem, Starfleet's design bureau has petitioned for a QCB projector to be added to her standard weaponry. Unfortunately, this petition has not met with results and is still being considered.
not a Trek fan but played Klingon Academy and liked the way the Yamato looked.
i used to get all the Micro Machine SpaceShips Star Wars ,Babylon5, Star Trek, Aliens , Terminator, even the Generic Space Galaxy ones and made the Yamato from from pulling apart quite a Micro Machine Few Toys.
Ah, custom. I ordered a custom USS New orleans off Ebay like that...
Please do a video on the Space Battleship Yamato.
If Rick does do it, focus on the 2199/2202 series version.
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The USS Yamato NCX5626V was a dreadnought class ship in the game Starfleet Command put out by 14°East and Taldren I miss that game😂
Yeah, I did think it looked familiar. The F-BB was a ridiculous piece of engineering that was simply too expensive (in part due to having two secondary hulls), but I suppose they did need something to prowl along the Federation side of the Klingon Neutral Zone and look mean. Fun fact - if you have lots of spare power, ramp it straight up to 31 from 0 and watch it out-accelerate anything off the mark.
Excellent game, to bad a show was never made in the general war
All Hail the old F-BB. I think there were 3 of them: Yamato, Kali, and Mars but the later two were never officially finished. I wish we had a high res model of this unique ship.
Can this game still be played on modern OS❓
@@PolarasDominion In Starfleet Command, I only saw three, but they were the Kali, Mars and Ares. Unfortunately, I didn't encounter the Yamato...
One of the things I dislike about Starfleet is their policy on weapons. There is no such thing as an "unnecessarily overpowered weapon". If a weapon is so powerful that it can cause overloads and sub system failures when used at its maximum setting, simply use it at a lower setting until such a time as sub systems can be buffered against overloads. It may seem contradictory, but a ship that is as heavily armed as is technologically possible possesses more diplomatic options as it is afforded a far stronger negotiation position. The peaceful intentions of a person are far more apparent when they elect the diplomatic option even though they could easily win in a fight.
@@syaondri Very true. The ideology of the Federation is often idiotically pacifistic considering the fact that they share borders with three military powers.
@@syaondri True. There's also 8472.
@@syaondri Yep. I did however think that it was kind of odd to names such an extremely dangerous species after a mythical race of nymphs. LOL
@@syaondri I kind of liked the number because it denoted the fact that a species that is unified by a collective consciousness that is the Apex of its universe word have no need of a name.
Seen that prototype ship made me wish that you would do an entire episode on Starfleet prototypes. You could also explain this out to Klingon and romulan and even other species prototype ships. I love the videos keep it up!
I need to see more of the prototype Yamato!
Looks like the federation dreadnought on star trek: fleet command. It was a PC game based on the FASA board game.
It is. Also in Klingon Academy game.
You forgot to mention the Space Battleship Yamato, launched in the year 2199...
sir, this is Star Trek.
@@ethangavrilmoreno8479 UCHUU SENKAN YAAAAAAMAAAAAATOOOOOOOOO!!!!
I've always loved the Yamato class Battleship (NCX-5626-V)! I'm glad she got a mention.
And much of the SFC and Klingon Academy game ships too, IMO.
I always loved this ship in SFC too! It was a brilliant ship to command. Kick ass in a fight too.
The Yamato (NCX 5626) was always one of my favorite designs.
I played that ship in a starfleet PC game and loved the pure warship aspect of this vessel. I always wanted to see it on the big screen. But to be honest the Terran Empire would've built it outright.
Starfleet was to pasifistic to ever build this. Even if it was needed for gunboat diplomacy when dealing with the klingons and romulans.
"in some games"
You mean the best Star Trek game ever made: Klingon Academy
I concur with this opinion... I still have it, and play it from time to time.. I posted some of the specs in this comment section
Its first appearance was Interplay's Starfleet Command (1). SFC2, SFA, and KA came after that.
@@jts1702a Interplay used the same assets in all the games... but Klingon Academy is still superior to these others... You have the 2nd best Star Trek villain ever, in a starring role, and you get to see how it came to be that Gorkon became Chancellor. and you get to kill Kirk and Sulu( in simulation)
The thick wireboud Klingon Academy players manual was a long time bathroom read. Along with the Armada 2 and Bridge Commander manuals🤣🤣
@@djayk9692 Well thanks for reminding me of many a childhood bathtimes... (read SFC1 and ST:New Worlds manual there)
Hotel Yamato being resurrected as a Galaxy class starship. Makes sense to me.
We're off to outer space to space. We're leaving mother Earth to save the the human race . Our Star Blazers!
Glad I wasn't the only one to think this.
@@talis84, as an old salt, I'm also really happy, and quite surprised actually, that I'm seeing so many references to Star Blazers and Space Battleship Yamato! :)
The Yamato is my favourite Galaxy class starship. There's not reason for this, she just is.
英語から遠ざかること30年。
ほとんど聞き取れませんでした。
英語の字幕を活動的にしました。
しかし、読めませんでした。
英語の字幕が最初から付いていれば、
色々な言語に自動翻訳が起きると思います。
しかし、動画全体の雰囲気がとても良好です。
私はそれで満足です。
A ship so nice we blew it up twice.
Then again the Japanese did the same thing to the Arizona in season 3 of Space Battleship Yamato.
@Wes Prang Of the original series that came out in the late 70's early 80's.
Season 1 was Quest for Iscandar
Season 2 was Comet Empire
Season 3 was The Bolar Wars
They're on kissanime. no idea if they plan do a season 3 Yamato 2205.
Season three. Totally not space Russian my freind says. But the plot is much different with a different for. Apparently ppl didn't like it even though it was epic
People didn’t like it as much because either.
1: People are weird and Season 1 also had its planned episode count reduced because of low ratings.
2: The change of the English voice cast / dumbing down of dialog.
But, there appears to be quite a few season 3 references in 2199 and 2202.... So hopefully we haven’t seen the last of “The Bolar Wars.”
I am now having an AU Head-Canon of a NCX-5626-V shaped ship using Odyssey-class parts. Keeping true to both the Trek-verse and yet another Universe's use of the name, this version of the Yamato class has a sister ship named the Argo.
It almost exists in the fan made USS Thurgy. 4 Nacelled Odyssey Class.
klingon academy was an awesome game for its time.
I think there were a few times in Starfleet, Cannon, history where there were threats to the federation great enough where Starfleet developed warships. The Borg with the Defiant class ships and the Dominion War where in a few episodes of DS9 there were glimpses of a completely different type of ship in the background during the fleet battles. It clearly wasn't a Defiant class ship, but it did look like they just took the body of a Defiant class and add a saucer section and extra stuff to the outside, as the ship was the same size with a small half saucer section and fired cannons (Star Trek did this a lot when making background ships for episodes, they just took existing ship designs and just added stuff to it to look "different"). I am actually surprised that STO didn't make a ship class out of this, but as the ship in question is difficult to see in the background of the one or two episodes I remember it being in, I don't blame them. Then there was the Prometheus, which was another warship created to fight in the Dominion war.
In STO there was also several classes of ship specifically created to fight different enemies, like The Borg, The Hurq, The Iconians, The Elachi, The Tzencethi etc., but I know they just did this to add ships to the Zen store, Their lockboxes and the Lobi store. So in my own "Head cannon" Starfleet only builds warships to defend itself in times of peril, the rest of the time they build science and exploration ships.
There must've been a mistake in the Yamato's registry number because they say it is NCC-71807 but in one episode Riker said the ship's registry NCC-71807-E and it was that episode where they encountered an alien that started conducting experiments on the crew to see different ways humans die.
I would like to see the history of the USS Saratoga if you haven't done that one yet.
Loved the Devil My Cry reference! The rest of the video was great too.
Those Iconians, causing trouble already in 2365...
"I'm a Big Boomstick," would make a great name for a Culture "General Offensive Unit."
The background on the Yamato you forgot the cartoon series that ran in the 80s and 90s you also forgot the movie that they made in Japan about the motto star battleship it went out and fought Alien Invaders granted this Yamato movie and TV show both utilize raising the original battleship Yamato to fight the aliens and transform and a World War II battleship into a space platform with the wave motion gun which is kind of what Star Trek did here
According to the season 2 episode of TNG, “When Silence Has Lease”, the GALAXY class version of the Yamato had a registry of NCC - 1305 - E.
Hmmm…..that’s the same code number for accessing voicemails on my office Samsung VoIP phone - what a coincidence. 😳
It was a simple continuity error. The writers for "Contagion" were unaware that the Yamato's registry number had already been mentioned in the dialogue of a previous episode ("Where Silence Has Lease"), but no one caught the error before the episode was aired. The best in-universe explanation that I've heard was that the Yamato's registry was changed by Starfleet for some logistical reason. 🖖😎👍
I’m still waiting for the USS Boaty McBoatface to show up in cannon as it is actually a research vessel
The Walking Forest and Wesley crusher will be aboard after a tragic accident where his larynx was permanently damaged in a subspace bubble rendering him Unable To Speak...
In this case it would be Shippy McShipface.
Didn't they cuck out and name it after Stephen Hawking or somebody?
I have to imagine the super main cannon version is a nod to the anime space space battleship yamato and it's big main gun.
I have found that being a big badass in anything and everything gains fear and respect from everyone else. Nobody respects a door mat.
Yes the dreadnought version of the Yamato was build for the war with the borg. In next generation. Enterprise D sister ship was destroyed, but then they built dreadnought version. Came into action when the borg attacked earth. When captain Packard got captured. They where going to put the same spiral lance on the enterprise, but decided they wouldn't have enough time. So they modified the main deflector to do the damage the spiral Lance would do. But it came at a major cost to the enterprise. They originally where going to upgrade the D to the E with a 3rd nacelle and do the same improvements to enterprise.
NCX-5626-V, what an odd registry number, considering that Star Trek's registry numbers are usually much simpler though not consistent.
Something about classified testbed roles, I guess.
NCC is sometimes theorised as Naval Construction Code.
NX is Naval Experimental.
NCX could be a placeholder.
Tadeo "Rekkert" D'Oria on Artstation has done some amazingly realistic renders of the Yamato's bridge, what it might've looked like with the green detailing. He's also made bridges for other Galaxy-class ships, including the Odyssey. 🖖😎👍
In Star Trek online I named my ship Yamato in memory of this ship ( and now it's a dreadnaught Galaxy class)
Yup mine is 1305 F for registry
@@paulrasmussen8953 mine is ncc-1071-D
Star Blazers! Super cannon on the front of a Yamato...
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I'm always very wary of watching videos like this since most of them contradict each other in some form and a lot of the people making them like to take the subject matter too seriously. Although as a trekkie I'm always drawn to them just out of curiosity. This video just popped up this morning as a suggestion. I like the fact that in your video you point out what is cannon, what is not and where the discrepancies exist... even going as far to say that something is "head-canon" to you. Well done! I'm interested in seeing more.
Fun Fact: In Star Trek Online, the developers pay homage to Space Battleship Yamato by first: having Starfleets strongest Battleship/Dreadnought be a Yamato... Second: having the Spinal Lance animation shot have a similar charge to the Wave-Motion gun... And Third and this is the OG one... The USS Yamato... has a registry number of NCC-92199... The same year from the show.
THIS is the ship I wanted to see from the Federation!!
USS Yamato (NCC 71807) is an Enterprise-D (NCC 1701-D) Class. At least 3 times Capt. Picard stated that the Enterprise-D was the first of its type.The USS Iowa (BB 61) is an Iowa Class Battleship.
Farewell, Earth, the ship that is departing is
The Space Battleship Yamato
It departs now to Iskandar,
at the end of the cosmos, bearing its fate.
"We will come back, no matter what it takes"
Answer with a smile to the waving people
Minor nitpick: The first pic you used for the Yamato Class in STO wasn't a Yamato. It was the Monarch Class dreadnought cruiser refit.
I love the view at 6:23. Nice adaption of the Galaxy class.
Ohh yes my first love is STAR TREK ships 🤘😃🤘
They truly are co-stars of the show. Each has her own personality.
I recently made an exhaustive list of all known registries from FASA, Jackill and the 90s video games.
Plus several more.
Naturally, the many contradictory numbers and names of Constitution class ships was a hair tearer...
Look up Space Battleship Yamato Wave Motion Gun. The anime came out in 1974, so this Starfleet ship is paying homage, and is using a similar giant beam.
I wish they brought back the dreadnought class back into STO or any other ST games. I know it anti Federation like, but it is a amazing ship design
"Many of the sister ships of the Enterprise suffer poor fates."
Enterprise's crashed saucer section: "Am I a joke to you?"
in 2years this comment is a product of it's time.
@@mr6johnclark just because they put it back together doesn't mean it didn't suffer a poor fate.
Most ships named Enterprise in Starfleet get destroyed in a dramatic manner. It seems only the Enterprise F survived to decomissioning and just barely....
@@magicstix0r D she now sleeps quietly awaiting for her next call to duty.
USS Yamato is but a shadow of the true Yamato: Space Battleship Yamato.
xdfudsigsaiguasghasg no thx lol
That Galaxy “refit” you have two images of look like two separate variations of the Galaxy-X or Galaxy X class as seen in the final two parter of Star Trek TNG, used as Admiral Riker’s ship bearing a third warp nacel that now blocked the shuttle bay and had a phaser “lance” that ran down the middle of the bottom side of the saucer section starting near the main deflector (always wondered if this upgrade rendered the separation function a now impossible feat)
The Non-Riker variation is the 'Yamato' class Gal-x ship in Startrek Online. it's more powerful than the Riker ship version in the game.
Once again, great information for the archive.
GOD SPEED!!!!
Where's the Wave Motion Gun?
Thanks Rick, as I enjoyed this video along with all the videos on your channel sir..
I'm glad he liked my "retrofit" of Starfoxes model of the Yamato Class Battleship (2:34) :D
In Star Trek: Klingon Academy it was a ridiculous ship to go up against online. They'd just lob those crazy assault phaser shots at you from huge distances away. If you couldn't cloak you were toast. I miss that game
I always thought the Galaxy X variant was named for the other Yamato. Big ass main gun, exploratory vessel, carries a large crew for long voyages...
Sounds like a Space Battleship to me.
Galaxy X ships are still converted exploration vessel hulls changed to battleships. So they would have more significant flaws although I would imagine this improves overtime. The yamato design herself is a warship pure and simple and likely was better suited for combat operations.
Problem with Yamato is she isnt very well liked by most star trek purist due to being a dedicated warship and not a variant.
Despite the fact that most ships in starfleet are technically all warships
It would be awesome if sto managed to dust off and use the original Yamato design from Klingon academy. It's that one ship that everyone outside of federation space knew it existed but kept quiet due to the federation being all hush hush on ships that actually made klingons envious
Love these. Thanks for uploading.
No wave motion gun?
The huge four engine design looks like the same ship design in Star Fleet Command: Orion Pirates. Originally, the game creators called this design "conjectural". Later they added the design and upgraded it to an almost Juggernaut status called the Battle Control Ship (I.E. super battle ship and super carrier combo).
One thing I hated about the episode that the Yamato was lost, is you have shown the Galaxy glass can saucer separate. WHY NOT DO THIS NOW, ok maybe Yamato didn't know it was this bad, but Enterprise KNEW it- at least add dialog that they tried, and found that computer wasn't working, and even escape pods are not responding. - that would have helped me out a bit lol
Who's a good boom stick? You are. Yes you are!
Wow, this video's thumbnail had me thrown off big time. I see "USS Yamato," and see the thumbnail displays the non canon 23rd century Battleship Yamato. The video opens saying the Yamato was a sister ship of the Enterprise, and still thinking of the battleship Yamato, in my head I'm thinking this guy doesn't understand what "Sister Ship" means. lol
I really do like the quad-nacelle version the best.
This was a great idea. Keep up the great vids!
would love a USS Hood Or Warspite
There is one on hood
@@phoenix55755 Yeah, Riker was serving as Hood's XO before being transferred to Enterprise if I remember correctly.
Correct. After the Potemkin and Pegasus.
Another Great video i really enjoy the videos about the legacy of Starfleet Starships
The Yamato would be Federation's answer towards potential hostile species if diplomacy and peace fails
She has a big main phaser with the ability to overload it, creating some sort of EMP burst .
Also, a nice hotel for starfleet warfreak admirals
The Yamato dreadnought is the definition of a glass canon
I've called my Galaxy Explorer Yamato. My character is also called Donald Varley. Great vid. Thanks
Thank you for pronouncing the name correctly most narrators mispronounce it.
Great Space Battleship Yamato. It's influence is a definitely worth inclusion.
That massive gun is a reference to the TV Trope Wave Motion Gun, from on Star Blazer's Yamato. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WaveMotionGun
Am I the only one who's thinking of another name that would be just as fitting, or even better, for warships that are just massive artillery platforms? (coughcough)
Bismarck
the original yamato was way bigger and morr heavily armed than bismarck
although the name bismarck is obviously more known
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Gotta say, was not aware of the ncx version. Now I just have to find a kit version of it.
Who would win?
A spanning empire from a micro galaxy with near numberless and powerful armadas.
VS
A grouped up ships.
Always wondered about the Hokulea class
the nx prototype Yamato was in Starfleet command 1 and 2 with normal weapons and Klingon academy notably with the assault phasers
In my sci fi universe there are many classes of ship! But the variants here are many!
Every yamoto class being super big boom sticks was based on the yamoto gun from star blazers aka Space Battleship Yamato.
While beta canon, there is the Yamato-class subtype for Starfleet battlecruisers in the video game Star Trek Starfleet Command. (Which you mentioned and I didn't recognize.)
And of course you mentioned the Yamato-class dreadnought from Star Trek Online, which contains a spinal phaser lance. (If that were made blue it would be a perfect Wave Motion Gun analogue.)
Yamato is also another name for Japan.For example, the American alias is Colombia.
very cool -- thank you