The Ferengi might not have the most powerful holodecks, but they have the safest, considering you didn't hear about Holosuite accidents happening too often on DS9.
Vic is like I get to work in my dream job, I dress snazzy, I have zero obligations or responsibilities, and the real people who I see wants to see and be with me.
i think it was never the holosuites fault when there was a malfunction. one time sisco was zapped and gained visions. i don't count this because prophet magic was involved. also with Julians james bond program. there was a station wide emergency when that happened. you can't fault the holosuites for that. in fact, they were pretty much the only thing that was still running on the station during this time
@@tigersebel you just know Quark complained about how he never had these problems with the holosuites until Starfleet engineers started working on them.
"Tholians can spin party animals from their ships' asses." I was not expecting that... Also, Tholians being called "crazy salt lamps" - I want a tshirt like that.
Don’t forget, the Hirogen also have a COMICALLY advanced subspace array, which Voyager “borrowed” a couple times to communicate with the Alpha Quadrant. Y’know, until the Hirogen objected. With guns.
Let me get this straight: while trying to determine what technologies and skills make for the best ship and crew, the answer is "assimilate them all"? We started with the Borg's question and we came up with the Borg's answer
The Borg's main problem is that they are master assimilators while unable to innovate, kind of like a society-wide form of autism... they are master innovators in assimilation but cannot innovate any other way.
@@That80sGuy1972 some autistic people have been game changing innovators actually. They can study a field of interest for years of unparalleled fixation to derive something new. The Borg are more like that kid who cheats off everyone else’s work or some historical groups who pillaged sciences and engineering from lands conquered. A parasite of innovation rather then a developer of innovation in it of themselves.
@@wastelesslearning1245 "Some" always break from the norm. Some house cats live to the age of 40, that does not mean we can believe that it's anything less that far outside the norm, which is usually about half that age.
@@That80sGuy1972 Most Neural Typicals also do minimal things of note with their lives innovation wise (US population 0.2% are inventors). Einstein Brain was literally dissected and found it neurologically atypical in structure and himself couldn’t start speaking until 3 years old and couldn’t form sentences until 5 (a late talker). In case you don’t know autism/Aspergers by definition is a neurological structural born difference. This heavily implies if not confirms He was on the spectrum. “Diamond and her team found that Einstein's brain had more glial cells relative to neurons, especially (that is, statistically significant) in an area of the brain called the left inferior parietal area, a region responsible for synthesizing information from different areas of the brain.” When Autistic innovation it is a game changer. Though that cold be said about innovators of all stripes in general :P side note Einstein is not the only. Cambridge University seriously thinks Isaac Newton was also on the spectrum. I am not saying you should expect all autistics to be innovative Savants after all autism being defined different could swing different less to minimal to no advantage and different advantages. It is a spectrum but most likely no advantages like mutation in general. But when a difference does make a advantage in that individual and that person leans towards innovation, results have been quite fruitful. So inaccurate to define the Borg lack of innovation to be “autistic-like”. In fact Most normals don’t innovate either so any bio phenotype as a descriptor for lack of innovation would be a poor description.
@@wastelesslearning1245 I'm well aware that "normal" people do little more in life than be mere cogwheels in society and that their ambition tends to be focused on climbing the social ladder, rarely using an once of their potential to do literally anything else unless it's being "creative" by just remixing someone else's crap and claiming it's them being original. I'm on the spectrum (high functioning Asperger's, late diagnosed because I was born in 1972 and had other issues). I hide it because most people on the spectrum are ALSO just as rarely super-gifted... on average tend to be on the learning disabled side of "differently abled". Not all of us who speak up worship normal people as ironically being special, my friend. The Borg do behave in a form of autism, the repetitive non-social types that absorb new things and find ways to mix them into what they got in ways they work, not actually actively thinking in any way to push forward. Autism is a spectrum, not a starting point for being gifted, and it goes just as extreme into the learning disabled side too. So, we do line up in most ways... except how you don't see how the Borg are essentially a form of being autistic after their brains and minds are reformatted into being Borg.
Hirogen armor: The equivalent of hunting the "Big Five" while sitting comfortably within an M1 Abrams... not exactly sporting. And then they still get their asses kicked by turning off the holodeck safety protocols!
Now if you are combining tech from all these different species into a single ship, you would want a borg engineer who could seamlessly merge the technologies together. Remember how much trouble the UFP had with merging cardassian tech with UFP tech in DS9. For the crew you know need a species that specializes in trans species cooperation or diplomacy. A betazoid perhaps?
I know this sounds strange but I feel Klingons power is hubris. They killed their own gods . This is the highest definition of hubris. Also notice that anyone showing hubris just like the Klingons gets along with them as long as it is done in the Klingon way.
They are presented with poor medical and engineering skills but somehow they are evengly matched with other races and whats most unbelievable they are feudal based society ruled by archaic laws
The tholians reaction to alternate reality/dimensions could be related to their extra-dimensional origin theory, because if you come from a hell dimension you're first reaction to a tear in reality is to kill first investigate threat level later
Sweet I love the USS Optimus! What a cool ship. Borg and dolphin navigation maybe? Romulan cloaking. Klingon security and vorta diplomats betazoid councillor. EMH Vadian medical with denoblian vulcan science. Farengy funding recourse gathering and Jimhidar away team. Slip stream trill with binar data compiters. Krenum borg shields and torpedoes jainway defiant armour with a sec 31 fat alien from voyager cardi servalence. Hell even breen could EVA and tholian and zenkethi could be engineers. Andorians could mine tesources with telerites and the children of darmok could tell bedtime stories. Sweet ship! But not vulvan design oh no GI Koe style promethius with risen massages and bijorin counter terrism.
Vidians transporters so they can heal your injuries as you return to the ship, Hirogen hull armour plating and federation holodeck technology I always thought the Jem'Hadar were the species that were originally hunting down the changelings and become their protectors and slaves as a punishment.
The jemhadar are way too similar to the klingons for comfort. Seeing as the hurq are gamma natives, can the story of the klingons slaying their gods not be interpreted to say they were the originals bred for the dominion's military, but were too defiant and turned on their creators?
@@jimhenderson8450 the Klingon and Jem’Hadar both have a militaristic culture. However the Klingons have far more individual and artistic elements to their culture. A Klingon fights to bring glory to himself or his house( aka wealth, political control, and making their mark in history) A Jem’Hadar is all about service. They fight to serve the Founders and would throw away their lives without question. Basically victory is life sums them up perfectly.
If you want Borg Tech on the USS Optimus look no further than the Romulans, they're the only non-borg species capable of using and reverse engineering it, since they're the only species brave enough or crazy enough to use it on their ships, the only other option is the cooperative, so if you don't want to be assimilated these two are your best options.
While they're often derided as stupid, one cannot ignore the Pakled's propensity for repurposing other species' junk into something usable. If they were more willing to pay attention to maintenance, they'd be the galaxy's best recyclers.
Nice to see a part two of this. With Ric's designing of the USS Optimus, I wonder what the opposite would be with worst possible design make-up. I think such a ship should either be called the USS Megatronll or the USS Kamchatka.
If I recall, the Hirogen speaking about his said he tracked prey on the surface of a dead neutron star so it wouldn't be the heat he would have to worry about but yeah the gravity should have crushed him into a atom.
Yeah, Trek doesn't really understand the properties of neutronium - the densest substance possible in the universe, composed purely of neutrons, with such a sharp gravitational shear that anything coming within its gravity well becomes either more neutronium, or at best a smear of degenerate matter on its surface. Either the "dead star" in question was the iron core of a long-dead white dwarf, or the Hirogen in question was a lying braggart.
@@DeaconBlues117 White Dwarf has *crazy* surface gravity too, well more than enough to crush regular human under their own weight, multiple dozen hundred times over.
"It can defeat most hostile environments. I once tracked a silicon-based life form through neutronium mantle of a collapsed star." That's crazy. I'm not sure a ship could survive that. And what kind of super soldier serum was that crystal-zoan on?
Instead of assimilating the USS Optimus crew to prevent them turning on each other, simply install inhibitor chips to shock the $#!t out of someone getting too hostile. Or, give it just enough explosive charge to destroy the brain stem and terminate the aggressor, but leaves him/her presentable for an optional pre-funeral viewing. : )
@@timurkotulic3948 lol speaking of terrans, what was that device kirk had on the terran empire's enterprise that just wiped people from existence with the press of a button? That would be good, too.
The Borg feel like a dead end. They don't seem to do anything that isn't driven by some outside force. Being purely reactionary like that makes them ultimately their own worst enemy: once they've assimilated everything, then what? What is the point of the Borg at that point? Do they have a midlife crisis and buy a Ferrari? Or would that be too original for them and would they just collapse from sheer boredom?
🙋🏻♂️Rick, 🤔 I think a Trill Federation ambassador would also be great addition to your ship. The Trill’s wisdom from their many lives would be a VAST 🤚🏻 resource to the U.F.P. on the Optimus.
Transport: The Ansata rebels. They developed a device the size of a baseball that could allow them to teleport individuals considerable distances without need of a spacecraft. Yes, there was the downside that the tech degraded DNA of biological beings, but that would have a fairly easy fix. Imagine a spacesuit that incorporated miniaturized transporter tech and an Ansata teleportation device. The user teleports, then every now and then fixes their DNA by beaming into a pattern buffer with a template of their un-damaged DNA, which reconstitutes them in perfect health. This could also be scaled up to the ship level, so a ship could travel by instantaneous "jumps" rather than lumbering through space at warp. *Don't* hire the Ansata to be your tacticians though. They used this tech to teleport people to the Enterprise to plant bombs--and got caught--when they could have just teleported the _bombs_ and set them to detonate a millisecond after the teleport. Speaking of which, space-folding teleport bombs (just bolt a teleporter onto a photon torpedo warhead) would be an enormous force-multiplier.
Honestly, I think the tholian assembly could be the most powerful on this list, assuming the borg can't trump their tractor beams or exploration of parallel universes. After thinking about it, for starters they are on the opposite side of the galaxy from the borg, and they could just summon all the other tholians from other universes and have their fleet drag all the borg cubes into stars or black holes with their tractor beams. They could even convince their allies that if the borg assimilated them, they'd be coming to their universe next.
For holo technology I would say the race that Enterprise went to aid and also impregnated Trip would be great for holotechnology, they could create scenes crisp and clear, where in TNG they could only do environments? until later advancements - this of course before the simulators were introduced in Discovery, and holodecks or simulators were only seen on blueprints or in the Animated Series, but thats my thoughts on best species for holo technology. "Spin party animals from their ships arses" that has to be one of the most unexpected things to be said about the Tholian vessels thats for sure. The Ferengi, the Volus of the trek franchise, definitely brilliant for commerse and utilising a sort of neutral stance in war, peace and war are both good for business so either way its win for their species, if they have the lobes for it of course. I cannot wait to see your video on the Jem'Hadar genome. Keep up the great work, and try not to sabotage your own team in future trek quizzes too, lol.
I don't think anyone trusts a species of hunters not to exaggerate. Their armor lets them walk on a neutron star, and they once caught a fish thiiiiiiis big!
I would enjoy seeing more out of the Tholians in the future. Such an interesting and different race compared to many we see in the shows. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
This! Also given how Ferengi have their fingers inbasically all markets of the alpha and partialybeta quadrant (and for a time gamma) their data processing must be extreme given they have central stock markets chances are they know better what every faction needs at what time and place then the respective logistics corps
@@VicTheVicar When The Doctor was sent to give Dr Zimmerman a house call, he said that his treatment for Zimmerman's degenerative disease was based on using modified Borg nanoprobes to treat the Phage.
A point that doesn't get much attention about the Ferengi, somehow between season 1 TNG and season 1 DS9 they apparently convert their monetary base from gold to latinum.
It’s just a retcon that “gold” meant GPL. Even in season one of DS9 there’s early episodes where people say “we brought your gold” and then later say “gold pressed latinum” in full, which I took to be deliberately saying they were referring to the same thing
8:33 - The _Year of Hell 1/2_ nullified the Krenim's temporal mastery, but that last dramatic shot after Annorax left to have lunch with his wife intentionally panned down to show that he was working on temporal mechanics just like he had in the pre-Voyager timeline, so ostensibly, it's just a matter of time until they regain the abilities (though without the loss of his wife to motivate him, he might not reach the point he had previously. 🤔 The Malon are… um, good sanitation-engineers, I suppose. 🤔 (If by good, you mean terrible at their jobs. 🤷) What are the Kazon and Ocampa good at? 🤔 I never really liked either species, both seemed pretty low-budget.
The Optimus ship can't exist cus of simple thing in each and every single fiction....It would be FAR TOO OP as its voyages would completely eliminate any serious challenge (and thrill) down the road. That been said, I can imagine it's captain to be Human of the likes of Cmd. Riker (or Chakotay), who are stable and level headed even under extreme duress, are very comfortable dealing with Hirogen and Klingons, but also have no problem slapping (or even beating to the ground) anyone who steps out of his line (again plus when dealing with warrior races, Klingons especially who apparently love this kind of treatment), while still having healthy sense of compromise and pragmatism. Also I can imagine Optimus having a special Heavy Assault company made out of Remans and Klingons with Andorians serving as auxiliaries and Jem'hadar filling role of Platoon Commander for those "less hopeful" situations when diplomacy collectively fails and necessity calls out for heavyhanded tactics, for example when dealing with Borg (for most of these species are well known to preffer melee style combat with ranged weps being only secondary option, thereby completely negating Borg advantage in adaptation against energy weapons and where Andorians can easily undertake sabotaging tasks like planting tactical explosives or fire support from vantage points as they are equally eager to shoot first and ask questions never) And at last I'd prolly supplement diplomatic core of the ship with Vorta as adjutant, who can in addition very effectively fulfill the role of ship's quartermaster. And as a last note, I'd prolly also supplement spy core with Carsassians...for obvious reasons.
If the Borg are a dark side of the UFP in adaptation then the Q are a dark side of Humans being annoying and having a god complex. 😂🤣 Also the ferengi would make good lawers i bet because they are meticulous with their contracts and finding loop holes in regulations. Changelings would obviously be the best at infiltration I guess as well. Or? And my loves, the Hirogens just look cool and kill things. 😂🤣
He says it's been "a while" since the first video, yet it's only a barely 3 week spread. I feel like most wouldn't consider that a "while". I know it's nitpicky, but I'm high and literally just watched the first video before coming here. At this point in their history they're both listed as "5 months" old by RUclips on mobile before you click through to the description. That made me sus when Ric opened by calling it a "while" since the last one. Edit: not even 3 weeks, it was literally 14 days from the first one to this one! I did the math! It took far too long thanks to this excellent strain but I did it!
I never understood why Starfleet security officers didn't use shields like that guy from "The Most Toys" had on when they kidnapped data. the proximity-actuated field that Fajo Even if it didn't block phaser fire, it would eliminate the hand to hand weakness Humans had against many other species
Dave Cullen (you know, RUclips guy, lives on the other side of the Irish Sea) did a review of Voyager episode "Timeless" ... I'm interested on your take on that episode.
The Ironic thing is. The Ferrenghi are the Brits of space. We have a huge financial industry and have Regulatory body called the Financial Conduct Authority!!! The FCA
I would what Halos Covenant would be best at ( Religious stuff not standing ) maybe their Personal Shield tech or their Plasma based energy weapons. Respect and keep up the epic work.
I wonder how the Fabrini measure up to the Vidians. The vast bulk of Vidian medical research has been centered on the treating of the symptoms and organ degradation caused by the Phage. Fabrini medical knowledge was well ahead of the Federation, according to McCoy, when contact was established in the 23rd century, so I'd like to think they may have some innovations that would be worth consideration. Too bad they never popped up again in canon.
"Betty, did you set the microwave to assimilate again? That's the third dog in 6 months that's turned Borg. I'm afraid we'll have to put you into a maturation chamber until you're 18."
The Borg don’t have the only transwarp game in town, but they have the most efficient use of it, especially with the transwarp network set up throughout the galaxy. Also, it’s pretty impressive that the Binars made Riker fall in love with a hologram.
My crew would have a Ferengi trade advisor aboard, nobody is better a scrounging for needed parts, or getting them at a good price, just ask O’Brian how well having Rom on his staff worked out.
Hmmm, maybe your dream ship could have a Bajoran cook? All that foodstuff they produce may theoretically lead to good cooks from citizens that dared to learn cooking with all the many foods grown on the planet.
You made a joke of assimilation, but if you think about it, that's not a bad idea. I'm thinking more in terms of using neural links to the technology. Reaction times would be faster and controls more precise. Also, facilitates cooperation among the crew.
How to get the crew of the Optimus not to kill each other? Easy. The captain needs to be of a species that is known for cultivating cooperation. Human. Derp.
How come the borg never assimilated how to lie? Why say "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated." why not offer or imply mercy and then betray their word. That should capture foes easier than announce their plan ahead of time at the start of every attack.
so this might be seen as a joke but I think an argument can be made for the Packleds being masters of integrating systems from other techbases. While the Federation might be able to integrate a few systems that dont come from their own techbase (see defiant cloacking device) and builds its ships to allow for "after market upgrades" their ships still remain mostly the same with a few bips and bops added. The other contender would be the Borg but they dont only add to their cubes they basically take over the technology and repurpose it. The Packleds on the other hand seem to more or less build their ships out of systems they find and somehow make them work together indipendent of where they come from, thats a lot more impressive then it seems. Granted they might need an engineer to make the system or make it work the first time, if the system is advanced enough, but that still means their base technology is capable of supporting such an integration and modification.
The Orions were better businessmen than the Ferengi. They even established an empire. After that collapsed, they were able to continue by embracing other species into a interstellar mafia called the Orion Syndicate.
Why not engineer the bio circuitry to make the ship itself the telepath ? Between that and Borg implants one or two people should be able to run every operation of a Galaxy class .
Borg are masters of scale. A single Cube probably has as many bodies in it as half the Federation fleet, and nobody else can match either the breadth of physical space or the range of capabilities that they have.
how about a video what the parties *cant* do? like, they try time and time again but it jus doesnt i dont have any examoles tho i dont know if itd really make for an interesting video
Borg: Aggressively Compatible.
🤣😂😂
Great now my toaster has assimilated my hamster.
That is true. 😂😂
Heck ya they could assimilate my gaming computer and it would be able to handle anything.
Favourite song of collective cold as ice
The Ferengi might not have the most powerful holodecks, but they have the safest, considering you didn't hear about Holosuite accidents happening too often on DS9.
Is that because of the Ferengi or just because Rom is a genius mechanic?
Right? AND Vic Fontaine was essentially sentient...he was just happy with his position in life
Vic is like I get to work in my dream job, I dress snazzy, I have zero obligations or responsibilities, and the real people who I see wants to see and be with me.
i think it was never the holosuites fault when there was a malfunction. one time sisco was zapped and gained visions. i don't count this because prophet magic was involved. also with Julians james bond program. there was a station wide emergency when that happened. you can't fault the holosuites for that. in fact, they were pretty much the only thing that was still running on the station during this time
@@tigersebel you just know Quark complained about how he never had these problems with the holosuites until Starfleet engineers started working on them.
"Tholians can spin party animals from their ships' asses."
I was not expecting that...
Also, Tholians being called "crazy salt lamps" - I want a tshirt like that.
I want a version of that “girls pointing and laughing” meme where it’s shows federation androids compared to data
gotta be the suggestive smirk data for sure
Don’t forget, the Hirogen also have a COMICALLY advanced subspace array, which Voyager “borrowed” a couple times to communicate with the Alpha Quadrant. Y’know, until the Hirogen objected. With guns.
If tholians weren’t neutral during the dominion war, they could’ve also blocked the wormhole by just caging it, followed by Roma’s mines
@@alexanderhay7358 Afaik Tholians re not members of UFP. In fact they're quite Xenophobic and destroy anyone goes near their space.
@@duke4366 Which is also why the Dominion didn't bother them.
True, but Tholian webs tend to collapse inward after a bit (shattering what is within them). So, it's not really a permanent barrier.
I don't buy that shit about Hirogen armor. They can walk on a star yet get killed by hand weapons?? Nah, I don't think so.
Let me get this straight: while trying to determine what technologies and skills make for the best ship and crew, the answer is "assimilate them all"?
We started with the Borg's question and we came up with the Borg's answer
The Borg's main problem is that they are master assimilators while unable to innovate, kind of like a society-wide form of autism... they are master innovators in assimilation but cannot innovate any other way.
@@That80sGuy1972 some autistic people have been game changing innovators actually. They can study a field of interest for years of unparalleled fixation to derive something new. The Borg are more like that kid who cheats off everyone else’s work or some historical groups who pillaged sciences and engineering from lands conquered. A parasite of innovation rather then a developer of innovation in it of themselves.
@@wastelesslearning1245 "Some" always break from the norm. Some house cats live to the age of 40, that does not mean we can believe that it's anything less that far outside the norm, which is usually about half that age.
@@That80sGuy1972 Most Neural Typicals also do minimal things of note with their lives innovation wise (US population 0.2% are inventors). Einstein Brain was literally dissected and found it neurologically atypical in structure and himself couldn’t start speaking until 3 years old and couldn’t form sentences until 5 (a late talker). In case you don’t know autism/Aspergers by definition is a neurological structural born difference. This heavily implies if not confirms He was on the spectrum. “Diamond and her team found that Einstein's brain had more glial cells relative to neurons, especially (that is, statistically significant) in an area of the brain called the left inferior parietal area, a region responsible for synthesizing information from different areas of the brain.” When Autistic innovation it is a game changer. Though that cold be said about innovators of all stripes in general :P side note Einstein is not the only. Cambridge University seriously thinks Isaac Newton was also on the spectrum. I am not saying you should expect all autistics to be innovative Savants after all autism being defined different could swing different less to minimal to no advantage and different advantages. It is a spectrum but most likely no advantages like mutation in general. But when a difference does make a advantage in that individual and that person leans towards innovation, results have been quite fruitful. So inaccurate to define the Borg lack of innovation to be “autistic-like”. In fact Most normals don’t innovate either so any bio phenotype as a descriptor for lack of innovation would be a poor description.
@@wastelesslearning1245 I'm well aware that "normal" people do little more in life than be mere cogwheels in society and that their ambition tends to be focused on climbing the social ladder, rarely using an once of their potential to do literally anything else unless it's being "creative" by just remixing someone else's crap and claiming it's them being original. I'm on the spectrum (high functioning Asperger's, late diagnosed because I was born in 1972 and had other issues). I hide it because most people on the spectrum are ALSO just as rarely super-gifted... on average tend to be on the learning disabled side of "differently abled". Not all of us who speak up worship normal people as ironically being special, my friend. The Borg do behave in a form of autism, the repetitive non-social types that absorb new things and find ways to mix them into what they got in ways they work, not actually actively thinking in any way to push forward. Autism is a spectrum, not a starting point for being gifted, and it goes just as extreme into the learning disabled side too. So, we do line up in most ways... except how you don't see how the Borg are essentially a form of being autistic after their brains and minds are reformatted into being Borg.
Hirogen armor: The equivalent of hunting the "Big Five" while sitting comfortably within an M1 Abrams... not exactly sporting. And then they still get their asses kicked by turning off the holodeck safety protocols!
Hirogen are clumsy second cousin twice removed from predator species
Now if you are combining tech from all these different species into a single ship, you would want a borg engineer who could seamlessly merge the technologies together. Remember how much trouble the UFP had with merging cardassian tech with UFP tech in DS9.
For the crew you know need a species that specializes in trans species cooperation or diplomacy. A betazoid perhaps?
There's already a Betazoid diplomatic officer.
Nice
Deltan Counselor
O'Brien won't assimulate you though
@@richardarriaga6271 could be a liberated drone, remember some of the technical upgrades seven was able to give the voyager.
“Assimilate the crew. Wait don’t!”
I nervously fidget. “To late. I pressed the button.”
"You do you, crazy salt lamps" never have the Tholians felt understood on a deeper level. The queen thanks you.
Not a massive thing but I noticed your thumbnail has "MDEICAL" instead of "MEDICAL".
I know this sounds strange but I feel Klingons power is hubris. They killed their own gods . This is the highest definition of hubris. Also notice that anyone showing hubris just like the Klingons gets along with them as long as it is done in the Klingon way.
Ohh no, now you've reminded me of that horrid "sheer fuckin hubris" line .
They are presented with poor medical and engineering skills but somehow they are evengly matched with other races and whats most unbelievable they are feudal based society ruled by archaic laws
USS Optimus, that's just prime.
Better than the USS Waspinator....may as well just draw a giant bullseye on it at that point.
Nobody requests an assignment on the USS Wheelie.
USS Megatron
to avoid infighting add an Orion counselor to keep everyone enthralled and compliant?
The tholians reaction to alternate reality/dimensions could be related to their extra-dimensional origin theory, because if you come from a hell dimension you're first reaction to a tear in reality is to kill first investigate threat level later
Sweet I love the USS Optimus! What a cool ship. Borg and dolphin navigation maybe? Romulan cloaking. Klingon security and vorta diplomats betazoid councillor. EMH Vadian medical with denoblian vulcan science. Farengy funding recourse gathering and Jimhidar away team. Slip stream trill with binar data compiters. Krenum borg shields and torpedoes jainway defiant armour with a sec 31 fat alien from voyager cardi servalence. Hell even breen could EVA and tholian and zenkethi could be engineers. Andorians could mine tesources with telerites and the children of darmok could tell bedtime stories. Sweet ship! But not vulvan design oh no GI Koe style promethius with risen massages and bijorin counter terrism.
Vidians transporters so they can heal your injuries as you return to the ship, Hirogen hull armour plating and federation holodeck technology
I always thought the Jem'Hadar were the species that were originally hunting down the changelings and become their protectors and slaves as a punishment.
The jemhadar are way too similar to the klingons for comfort. Seeing as the hurq are gamma natives, can the story of the klingons slaying their gods not be interpreted to say they were the originals bred for the dominion's military, but were too defiant and turned on their creators?
@@jimhenderson8450 the Klingon and Jem’Hadar both have a militaristic culture. However the Klingons have far more individual and artistic elements to their culture. A Klingon fights to bring glory to himself or his house( aka wealth, political control, and making their mark in history)
A Jem’Hadar is all about service. They fight to serve the Founders and would throw away their lives without question. Basically victory is life sums them up perfectly.
If you want Borg Tech on the USS Optimus look no further than the Romulans, they're the only non-borg species capable of using and reverse engineering it, since they're the only species brave enough or crazy enough to use it on their ships, the only other option is the cooperative, so if you don't want to be assimilated these two are your best options.
Is medical misspelled on the thumbnail?
While they're often derided as stupid, one cannot ignore the Pakled's propensity for repurposing other species' junk into something usable. If they were more willing to pay attention to maintenance, they'd be the galaxy's best recyclers.
Nice to see a part two of this. With Ric's designing of the USS Optimus, I wonder what the opposite would be with worst possible design make-up. I think such a ship should either be called the USS Megatronll or the USS Kamchatka.
No call it the USS Quintus Servilius Caepio
Or the USS Q.S.C. now that's funny the dude lost 3 Legions of Romans in the tuetiburg forest spelling.
Or the USS Haig he lost 400,000 men in WW1 more than anyother he was a British General considered the worse Genreal ever.
USS Kamchatka is a top tier historical reference
If I recall, the Hirogen speaking about his said he tracked prey on the surface of a dead neutron star so it wouldn't be the heat he would have to worry about but yeah the gravity should have crushed him into a atom.
Yeah, Trek doesn't really understand the properties of neutronium - the densest substance possible in the universe, composed purely of neutrons, with such a sharp gravitational shear that anything coming within its gravity well becomes either more neutronium, or at best a smear of degenerate matter on its surface.
Either the "dead star" in question was the iron core of a long-dead white dwarf, or the Hirogen in question was a lying braggart.
@@DeaconBlues117 Had to look up braggart. Thanks for the new word.
Dead stars are still extremely hot objects
Well you know what they say about hunters and their stories
@@DeaconBlues117 White Dwarf has *crazy* surface gravity too, well more than enough to crush regular human under their own weight, multiple dozen hundred times over.
HAHAHA! That guy playing Tetris! Love your channel!
"It can defeat most hostile environments. I once tracked a silicon-based life form through neutronium mantle of a collapsed star." That's crazy. I'm not sure a ship could survive that. And what kind of super soldier serum was that crystal-zoan on?
Starfleet is secretly run by A.I. change my mind.
The AI of a founding planet of the federation, PRIMUS, GOD OF CYBERTRON!
That is indeed what season 2 of Discovery said, using ideas from the Control novels.
Gen z snowflake comment
@@stevenyia2778 lol whats your problem
Skynet starfleet come on truth is out there
Thumbnail has a typo.
"You do you crazy salt lamps"
Mdecial? Must be the Vorta spelling
Fallout 5: Starfleet edition
Instead of assimilating the USS Optimus crew to prevent them turning on each other, simply install inhibitor chips to shock the $#!t out of someone getting too hostile. Or, give it just enough explosive charge to destroy the brain stem and terminate the aggressor, but leaves him/her presentable for an optional pre-funeral viewing. : )
Or have the Terrans install Agony Booths
@@timurkotulic3948 lol speaking of terrans, what was that device kirk had on the terran empire's enterprise that just wiped people from existence with the press of a button? That would be good, too.
@@destructimus The Tantalus field
@@timurkotulic3948 ah yes, thank you. Love that episode.
I'd call Borg technology "aggressively compatible"
"Tholians can spin party animals from their ship's asses" That...is a legendary phrase. Bravo.
Hey, been watching your vids awhile now and you have become one of favourite subscriptions. Thank you for you relaxing work, I appreciate your time.
The Borg feel like a dead end. They don't seem to do anything that isn't driven by some outside force. Being purely reactionary like that makes them ultimately their own worst enemy: once they've assimilated everything, then what? What is the point of the Borg at that point? Do they have a midlife crisis and buy a Ferrari? Or would that be too original for them and would they just collapse from sheer boredom?
Wow you live in borg like society and dont get it think about it compare some things you will see it
Heads up, typo in the thumbnail
🙋🏻♂️Rick, 🤔 I think a Trill Federation ambassador would also be great addition to your ship. The Trill’s wisdom from their many lives would be a VAST 🤚🏻 resource to the U.F.P. on the Optimus.
Transport: The Ansata rebels. They developed a device the size of a baseball that could allow them to teleport individuals considerable distances without need of a spacecraft. Yes, there was the downside that the tech degraded DNA of biological beings, but that would have a fairly easy fix. Imagine a spacesuit that incorporated miniaturized transporter tech and an Ansata teleportation device. The user teleports, then every now and then fixes their DNA by beaming into a pattern buffer with a template of their un-damaged DNA, which reconstitutes them in perfect health. This could also be scaled up to the ship level, so a ship could travel by instantaneous "jumps" rather than lumbering through space at warp.
*Don't* hire the Ansata to be your tacticians though. They used this tech to teleport people to the Enterprise to plant bombs--and got caught--when they could have just teleported the _bombs_ and set them to detonate a millisecond after the teleport. Speaking of which, space-folding teleport bombs (just bolt a teleporter onto a photon torpedo warhead) would be an enormous force-multiplier.
Honestly, I think the tholian assembly could be the most powerful on this list, assuming the borg can't trump their tractor beams or exploration of parallel universes. After thinking about it, for starters they are on the opposite side of the galaxy from the borg, and they could just summon all the other tholians from other universes and have their fleet drag all the borg cubes into stars or black holes with their tractor beams. They could even convince their allies that if the borg assimilated them, they'd be coming to their universe next.
The Verengi should acquire the raw material and processed goods, whilst the Cardassians manufacture the ship!
For holo technology I would say the race that Enterprise went to aid and also impregnated Trip would be great for holotechnology, they could create scenes crisp and clear, where in TNG they could only do environments? until later advancements - this of course before the simulators were introduced in Discovery, and holodecks or simulators were only seen on blueprints or in the Animated Series, but thats my thoughts on best species for holo technology.
"Spin party animals from their ships arses" that has to be one of the most unexpected things to be said about the Tholian vessels thats for sure.
The Ferengi, the Volus of the trek franchise, definitely brilliant for commerse and utilising a sort of neutral stance in war, peace and war are both good for business so either way its win for their species, if they have the lobes for it of course.
I cannot wait to see your video on the Jem'Hadar genome.
Keep up the great work, and try not to sabotage your own team in future trek quizzes too, lol.
I don't think anyone trusts a species of hunters not to exaggerate. Their armor lets them walk on a neutron star, and they once caught a fish thiiiiiiis big!
Tactical officer? - Ferengi. Ship's counselor? - Romulan. Ship's Doctor? - Klingon. Moral Officer? - Jem'Hadar. Ship's Masseuse? - Tholian.
Captain one and only morn
I just realised I wanted a Star Trek version of Star Gate Universe where a crew made up of all this is sent to another Galaxy
I would enjoy seeing more out of the Tholians in the future. Such an interesting and different race compared to many we see in the shows.
Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)
With over 50 years and dozens of species across alpha & beta cannon. I wonder if their are still any vacant areas of specialization?
I feel like the Ferengi are probably also very good at logistics, streamlining a process until it works at optimal efficiency.
This! Also given how Ferengi have their fingers inbasically all markets of the alpha and partialybeta quadrant (and for a time gamma) their data processing must be extreme given they have central stock markets chances are they know better what every faction needs at what time and place then the respective logistics corps
What if the Borg were to assimilate a Vidian, would it pass on the Phage?
The Doctor on Voyager came up with a treatment for diseases like the Phage using modified Borg nanoprobes.
@@Janoha17 I thought that the Thinktank cured the Vidians?
@@VicTheVicar When The Doctor was sent to give Dr Zimmerman a house call, he said that his treatment for Zimmerman's degenerative disease was based on using modified Borg nanoprobes to treat the Phage.
@@Janoha17 @VicTheVicar you’re both correct
YES.
A point that doesn't get much attention about the Ferengi, somehow between season 1 TNG and season 1 DS9 they apparently convert their monetary base from gold to latinum.
It’s just a retcon that “gold” meant GPL. Even in season one of DS9 there’s early episodes where people say “we brought your gold” and then later say “gold pressed latinum” in full, which I took to be deliberately saying they were referring to the same thing
@@kaitlyn__L Like a vernacular or slang term
Well, the Gorn need some love. They do seem to have amazing plasma torpedoes and very sturdy ships (at least, in beta canon).
He said stonks. HE SAID THE THING
8:33 - The _Year of Hell 1/2_ nullified the Krenim's temporal mastery, but that last dramatic shot after Annorax left to have lunch with his wife intentionally panned down to show that he was working on temporal mechanics just like he had in the pre-Voyager timeline, so ostensibly, it's just a matter of time until they regain the abilities (though without the loss of his wife to motivate him, he might not reach the point he had previously. 🤔
The Malon are… um, good sanitation-engineers, I suppose. 🤔 (If by good, you mean terrible at their jobs. 🤷)
What are the Kazon and Ocampa good at? 🤔 I never really liked either species, both seemed pretty low-budget.
The Optimus ship can't exist cus of simple thing in each and every single fiction....It would be FAR TOO OP as its voyages would completely eliminate any serious challenge (and thrill) down the road.
That been said, I can imagine it's captain to be Human of the likes of Cmd. Riker (or Chakotay), who are stable and level headed even under extreme duress, are very comfortable dealing with Hirogen and Klingons, but also have no problem slapping (or even beating to the ground) anyone who steps out of his line (again plus when dealing with warrior races, Klingons especially who apparently love this kind of treatment), while still having healthy sense of compromise and pragmatism.
Also I can imagine Optimus having a special Heavy Assault company made out of Remans and Klingons with Andorians serving as auxiliaries and Jem'hadar filling role of Platoon Commander for those "less hopeful" situations when diplomacy collectively fails and necessity calls out for heavyhanded tactics, for example when dealing with Borg (for most of these species are well known to preffer melee style combat with ranged weps being only secondary option, thereby completely negating Borg advantage in adaptation against energy weapons and where Andorians can easily undertake sabotaging tasks like planting tactical explosives or fire support from vantage points as they are equally eager to shoot first and ask questions never)
And at last I'd prolly supplement diplomatic core of the ship with Vorta as adjutant, who can in addition very effectively fulfill the role of ship's quartermaster.
And as a last note, I'd prolly also supplement spy core with Carsassians...for obvious reasons.
If the Borg are a dark side of the UFP in adaptation then the Q are a dark side of Humans being annoying and having a god complex. 😂🤣
Also the ferengi would make good lawers i bet because they are meticulous with their contracts and finding loop holes in regulations.
Changelings would obviously be the best at infiltration I guess as well. Or?
And my loves, the Hirogens just look cool and kill things. 😂🤣
He says it's been "a while" since the first video, yet it's only a barely 3 week spread. I feel like most wouldn't consider that a "while". I know it's nitpicky, but I'm high and literally just watched the first video before coming here. At this point in their history they're both listed as "5 months" old by RUclips on mobile before you click through to the description. That made me sus when Ric opened by calling it a "while" since the last one.
Edit: not even 3 weeks, it was literally 14 days from the first one to this one! I did the math! It took far too long thanks to this excellent strain but I did it!
I never understood why Starfleet security officers didn't use shields
like that guy from "The Most Toys" had on
when they kidnapped data.
the proximity-actuated field that Fajo
Even if it didn't block phaser fire,
it would eliminate the hand to hand weakness Humans had against many other species
Dave Cullen (you know, RUclips guy, lives on the other side of the Irish Sea) did a review of Voyager episode "Timeless" ... I'm interested on your take on that episode.
That was fun.
I'm not convinced the Enterprise E wasn't in love with Geordi.
That explains a lot.
@@travcollier
I'd have thought so. Poor Geordi. He never stood a chance. :(
Love me some Dominion Mdeicine
The Ironic thing is. The Ferrenghi are the Brits of space. We have a huge financial industry and have Regulatory body called the Financial Conduct Authority!!! The FCA
I would what Halos Covenant would be best at ( Religious stuff not standing ) maybe their Personal Shield tech or their Plasma based energy weapons.
Respect and keep up the epic work.
I wonder how the Fabrini measure up to the Vidians. The vast bulk of Vidian medical research has been centered on the treating of the symptoms and organ degradation caused by the Phage. Fabrini medical knowledge was well ahead of the Federation, according to McCoy, when contact was established in the 23rd century, so I'd like to think they may have some innovations that would be worth consideration. Too bad they never popped up again in canon.
"Betty, did you set the microwave to assimilate again? That's the third dog in 6 months that's turned Borg. I'm afraid we'll have to put you into a maturation chamber until you're 18."
The Borg don’t have the only transwarp game in town, but they have the most efficient use of it, especially with the transwarp network set up throughout the galaxy.
Also, it’s pretty impressive that the Binars made Riker fall in love with a hologram.
My crew would have a Ferengi trade advisor aboard, nobody is better a scrounging for needed parts, or getting them at a good price, just ask O’Brian how well having Rom on his staff worked out.
Hmmm, maybe your dream ship could have a Bajoran cook? All that foodstuff they produce may theoretically lead to good cooks from citizens that dared to learn cooking with all the many foods grown on the planet.
I've really enjoyed this type of video. I'd love to see more like this :-)
You made a joke of assimilation, but if you think about it, that's not a bad idea. I'm thinking more in terms of using neural links to the technology. Reaction times would be faster and controls more precise. Also, facilitates cooperation among the crew.
The Dominion skilled in medical!? Are you sure? They were unable ( impotent) to treat founder's disease. At last the Dominion is skilled in genetics
How to get the crew of the Optimus not to kill each other? Easy. The captain needs to be of a species that is known for cultivating cooperation.
Human. Derp.
How come the borg never assimilated how to lie? Why say "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated." why not offer or imply mercy and then betray their word. That should capture foes easier than announce their plan ahead of time at the start of every attack.
Borg microwave assimilates family dog...
John Wick has entered the conversation..
so this might be seen as a joke but I think an argument can be made for the Packleds being masters of integrating systems from other techbases. While the Federation might be able to integrate a few systems that dont come from their own techbase (see defiant cloacking device) and builds its ships to allow for "after market upgrades" their ships still remain mostly the same with a few bips and bops added. The other contender would be the Borg but they dont only add to their cubes they basically take over the technology and repurpose it.
The Packleds on the other hand seem to more or less build their ships out of systems they find and somehow make them work together indipendent of where they come from, thats a lot more impressive then it seems. Granted they might need an engineer to make the system or make it work the first time, if the system is advanced enough, but that still means their base technology is capable of supporting such an integration and modification.
Obviously the borg ship that assimilated your ship would be one up on that...
Don't assimilate them all, just have them all be carefully-programmed Starfleet holograms.
The Orions were better businessmen than the Ferengi. They even established an empire. After that collapsed, they were able to continue by embracing other species into a interstellar mafia called the Orion Syndicate.
The Vulcans are kind of experts at psychic techniques and have even built unique psychic technology.
"mdeical"
dr. zoidberg?
Why not engineer the bio circuitry to make the ship itself the telepath ? Between that and Borg implants one or two people should be able to run every operation of a Galaxy class .
Borg are masters of scale. A single Cube probably has as many bodies in it as half the Federation fleet, and nobody else can match either the breadth of physical space or the range of capabilities that they have.
I always thought everyone's speciality was being progressive and prejudice at the same time.
You forgot the Mammarycoitulonians, whose specialty is...
Hey, for all we know, Ferengi holosuites are accidentally creating artificial life all the time and we just never hear about it.
Idk if it’s intentional, but the word “Medical” is misspelled in the thumbnail
why did it not occur to me earlier? Cloning Vorta, while they retain the memory, is not unlike cloning gholas in Dune.. hmm.
Diamond Lobes ... to the Moon .. HOLD THE LATINUM... I mean line
Awesome! Thanks Rick!
the ncc-getgood might be a sistership in the optimus class, but you already established the ncc-leethax as being the optimus
If the Ferengi are good at Commerce, the Klingons good at Warfare, then who are the best in the Medical Field?
If I wanted a 10,000 square foot house in Palm Beach can I get it in 24 the century
Im pretty sure they get hollow decks in Janeway, from the Delta quadrant.
MDEICAL? Apparently spelling isn't their specialty
how about a video what the parties *cant* do?
like, they try time and time again but it jus doesnt
i dont have any examoles tho i dont know if itd really make for an interesting video
In your Thumbnail stand Mdeical.
Greetings from Germany
While assimilating the crew would have advantages, a simple neural net would work too.
you misspelled a trait on the thumbnail. "MDEICAL"
"Made in Cardasia" A+ LoL
7:00 I would like to bring Dr. Bashir and his group to the table for further evidence
Androids: Being sus