Enterprise is vastly underrated. Too bad it got canceled. 🙁 Watching the Trek universe in the age of humans struggling to figure out the things that later become givens was immensely fun.
Agreed. It wasn't helped by the fact that most shows need a season or two to really get settled in to what they want to be, and there's a lot of people who see "prequel" and immediately translate that as "garbage". I mean, yeah, there are a lot of limits on what a prequel series can do before the fans decide to watch something else. The prequel can't interfere with the established storylines of the already-existing characters and entries; the benefits of more-advanced special effects can't always be used for in-universe tech, because they'd upstage the tech that was supposed to exist later; and the bigger the stories the prequels tell, the more the audience starts to wonder why no one mentioned them in the later in-universe stuff.
@@DJRonnieG Those movies were so OOC for the universe they had to change how time travel worked in said universe, going from a more Back to the future style to MCU style time travel. I'd love to read or watch something either fan-made ( Fanfiction, Fan series, Fan movie, etc.) or official work on how the future temporal star fleet (either the one's from Voyager or Enterprise.) tackle why they left it as is to develop separately. Or what measures would be taken to reverse it, whether that be through infiltration or more.... shall we say direct methods.
Everyone always dumps on the cheesy intro song, but Enterprise had my favorite intro sequence of all the trek shows. I loved seeing that brief history of human exploration as it really goes to the heart of the Star Trek franchise. Also, the best feature of any Enterprise will always be the plot armor.
The NX01 was designed by my long time friend, Doug Drexler. If you watch the ST:E episode: "Deadstop", I made the NOMAD desk model in Maywether's cabin. I visited the sets, and they were awesome. The engine room was huge!
"The SWEET SPOT, that supposedly, "all ships have one". A point in the ship, where the artificial gravity, "flips", and you can actually float up, and sit safely... on the ceiling. Travis, showed Tucker, and explained it to him...briefly.
@@jesusmora9379 I just reread my thing here, and..you're right. I blame my English writing teachers, insisting on so many commas in even the shortest sentences; it's, really, a huge, nusance.
Dates back to the Original Series, it was in one of the early scripts but got cut, the writer later wrote tie-in fiction and included it in (at least) one of their books.
@@berthulf That's an amazing bit of history far too few ever hear of. Thankfully someone saw fit to eventually get it in a show..before it was lost forever.
The phase cannons weren't fitted because the ship was rushed into leaving spacedock early, it's also why the targetting system wasn't up to scratch to begin with as there hadn't been the time to get everything completed.
It's been a long time since I saw the series, but didn't Archer not even want the torpedoes? I seem to remember him having wanted the NX-01 to be exploration and diplomacy only, and being pissed at being overruled.
The ship did not even have all the spare parts loaded. When an important machine part failed, one out of five, Archer had to negotiate with an easily offended alien species for a spare. The warp drive works with four, but not with three. If this happens out of communication range, nobody will ever find out what happened to the Enterprise. Archer then brought his dog do the negotiations and let it pee on a sacred tree. When they offered him the opportunity to apologize, he thought they should apologize to h i m , because the dog got sick from it.
NOTE: We used the TNG scale for warp speeds when figuring out the speed of warp 5 and warp 4. Warp 5 is still roughly double warp 4 in the TOS scale, but the exact number of times is wrong: warp 5 should be 125 x speed of light and warp 4 is 64. (we should have used the TOS scale, since this is before TOS)
If you used the TNG scale you would realize that warp speed is NOT light speed. Warp 10 is the speed of light. This is why you cannot go faster than the Warp 10. It would require infinite energy and you would be every where simultaneously. This is also why the ships Max speeds are always Warp 9.996 and Warp 9.998 and such.
@@jamesmarciel5237 no, that is not the case, in the TNG scale light speed is 1 cochrane, warp 1. Warp 10 is simultaneously being in every place of the universe at once.
And I almost thought i wouldn't understand the nice diagram too, but fortunately it was British Ben talking nonsense :P Assuming the solid green/yellowish, wich turns into a dotted line after warp 3.0 is the ship-speed, you can extrapolate this line to Warp 5.0 where it intersects the line that marks 125x speed of Light on the logarithmic scaled y-Axis. Btw, does anyone know what the red line means? Extrapolating the red line to Warp 5.0 we would end with something above 200x speed of light. Could this be the TNG-Warpscale?
@@derphysiker1062 the red line is supposed to be power usage. The idea being that it's hard to cross the boundary but then it gets easier again. Not fully supported by what we see on screen but that's what it's supposed to be as far as I know
Yea it looked cool Everything was minimalistic and functional No waste But the enterprise D is my favorite design That B.T.E Dan man who actually wants us to build a full size Enterprise Should start with the NX 01
Yeah should have replaced the catwalk with the transporter since it wasn't an intended feature. Catwalk was just a place they fled to and hoped it would protect them
Star Trek Enterprise is the most realistic out of all star trek show, some area of NX-01 have no gravity, the shuttle dock using docking clamp, and it’s electronic system is similar to today electronic system
And crappy 4:3 TFT monitors hanging everywhere like they did in the real-world early 2000's. I actually liked that a lot! It gave the NX-01 this sloppy improvised prototype vibe.
ENT was decent, might be the last good thing in ST Universe. Especially I like ships of that era, Andorian, Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, Xindi, and of course NX-o1, all look great to me
Check out Lower Decks. Yes, it's a comedy, but it has that heart that Discovery and Picard seemed to have lost, and it pays homage and respects the media that has come before it.
Give Lower Decks a shot. It's a comedy, but the best way to describe it is, it takes Star Trek Cannon and Lore VERY serious... But doesnt take itself serious.
picard is alright im binging it atm,its tone is dark with a "the federation is collapsing,im old etc" kinda vibe? but each star trek series has a vibe to it,IE voyager is literally about being lost and trying to get back home with hostile shit on the way...TNG is the federation at full power and ENT is humans being outmanned and outgunned and a small fish in a big pond but punching up etc
Yeah I wish they had concentrated more on the politics and the founding of the federation and not on the xindi storyline but I agree it was the last star trek as far as I am concerned.
One of the very few Star Trek ships I really, really like. The “early tech” look made the NX-01 more real and believable to me than most other ships in the Star Trek franchise.
Warp Speed is a Cube factor of the warp speed Warp 1 - Speed of light Warp 2 - 8 x Speed of light Warp 3 - 27 x Speed of light Warp 4 - 64 x Speed of light Warp 5 - 125 x Speed of light
At least it was in TOS which ENT uses. I. In the 24th century they use a different scale where 10 is infinite speed so warp 5 is 200x on that scale. They just used the wrong warp scale in the video
It would take days to get to a nearby star at 125x. They made all the way to the Klingon homeworld in a few days and they hadn't reached warp 5 at the time. If Vulcan is 16.5 LY from Earth and Qo'noS is 143 LY distant, NX should take weeks to get between homeworlds, not days.
there was also a cochrane coefficient so it was slightly more then that but that is the basic formula. they added the coefficient because even at warp 5 traveling a light year would take just under three days so a trip to Alpha Proxoma (4.26 LY) would take about 13 or 14 days. still later they added warp lanes that were where the space/subspace boundary was weaker due to repeated warp passages along the same route. the upshot is that a warp factor whatever ship could make trips faster than the formula would allow otherwise.
I really wish the nx got the refit sooner while the show was ongoing as it really makes it look more like a traditional star fleet ship. And ST Enterprise was criminally underrated
You used the TNG warp scale, which is meant to be used in eras AFTER the original cast movies. Unless the creators of Star Trek: Enterprise stated that they were using the TNG warp scale, Star Trek: Enterprise would have used the TOS warp scale, and in the TOS warp scale warp 5 isn't over 200 times the speed of light, but 125 times instead.
In ENT: "The Expanse" and "The Xindi" they used warp 5 with 200 times the speed of light (50 lightyears in 3 months)! They were not consistant with the warp scale in ent, or in any show. That's why things like subspace distortions, the Cochrane factor, and other neat in-universe explanations found their way into the scripts. It's very relative. And don't forget, it's not the ship that moves through space, it's the space that moves... Gives you a headache when you imagine a couple of hundreds of ships "traveling" at warp speed simultaniously - and it does not explain what it is on the sol scale... :D For me personally it is already hard to imagine the in comparison very simple relativity theory of Einstein in a mathmatically correct way. Let alone quantum mechanics.... Warp Drive would be something based on physics beyond quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity and in relation to a subspace that is unknown to today's physics. So I was always happy with the "inconsistencies" and trusted the writers to be as reasonable accurate as possible or needed.
I loved the theme song. The show was extremely well written. Well acted. And the clever episodes where they filled in the gaps. The defiant. The different looking Klingons. The tholians. The first meetings with the Andorians. That and the Vulcan was smoking hot second only to seven of nine.
@@virginiaconnor8350 No i liked the original cast as well but you know how hollywood politics go, and if the same writers were kept onboard it would still be similar
I was always under the impression that when they "polarized the hull plating" they weren't making the hull "harder", they were giving it some sort of charge that would dissipate various forms of incoming energy discharges, like weapons fire. That's why in the show we saw those blue waves coming off the hull when it was struck, it was acting like an electrical ground. Also, I dont think the catwalks were designed to protect the crew, from neutron storms or otherwise. From how they talked about it, they were probably more like Jeffies Tubes, just there so the crew could perform maintenance and repairs inside the nacelles.
Yes he makes it sound like the catwalks where design for people to go in in case of an emergency they were not they. In the episode thay had an emergency situation and they came up with the idea to go in the catwalk.
Yeah Catwalk primary role was that it was a service area for Warp nacelles. Since it was the only place that was shielded enough during the neutron storm it made for relatively safe, if cramped living space during such emergency. But the Warp drive had to be shut down IIRC, so there wouldn't be a radiation coming from nacelles.
Funny he posts the video today: right above my monitor is the Star Trek 2021 Ships of the Line Calendar and February has the NX-01 refit as it's feature ship. Great cutaway of the interior of the refitted ship which has warp 7 capabilities. Also full 360 degree views of the upgraded ship as well.
Not gonna lie, the NX class and the Venator are my two favorite ships in all of fiction. When i played Star Trek Online years ago, i gladly purchased the pack and used the NX class in-game, no matter how bad it was, it was fun to play with. Really wish it would get more love and not be hated on so much :(
The NX-01 refit is in the Rise of the Federation books, as the Columbia-class. It makes a lot of sense, and it would have been nice to have been seen on-screen. They also missed out Chef; *clearly* the best feature of the NX-01 was the running gag(s) of a) the audience never seeing Chef's face, and b) being the only person on the Enterprise to be referred to by their title only. Everyone always criticises the last episode where Riker plays the part of Chef, but I think it was a nice nod to the running joke.
Thank you for sharing your interesting TOP 10, I am sad that some narrow mind people cut the series short and I agree the refit would have been great as the connecting factor to the constitution class
One feature that is often over looked was that it started off with Plasma cannons. They used them like twice before replacing them with the Phase cannons which is good cause the plasma cannons were pretty pitiful. They were used when tracking the suliban to their helix.
I love the nx-01 enterprise!!!! Just always felt closer to how space travel would be if we did have vessels for long distance....deep space exploration....no food replicators....instead they had chefs...the bridge was much smaller....no super shields...polarized hull playing instead....it isnt my fav star trek ship...that goes to DS9s defiant...but its def in my top 5...
It also had a firepole, connecting the bridge to engineering. We never see it and there is no dialogue relating to it but Doug Drexler has recently mentioned it on another youtubers channel. That is probably the least known detail about this particular class of ship
My favourite thing about the NX-01 was allways how the starfleet was just like "so we didn't actually put guns on the ship, so you just have to go on your long and dangerous mission without them. But here is a small number of crappy torpedos. You better hope you don't use them all." But to be real, i really liked the Upgrade the Enterprise got at the end of S2. The Show was great at showing progression in the Starfleet and it's technologie.
Well, Osmium is the most dense metal that we currently know of, so it would be surely a viable protection against any kind of radiation. Problem is, it is ultra-expensive and super rare on Earth, so you'd have to mine it from metal asteroids, which would make it even more expensive. So it kinda makes sense that only the catwalk of the NX Enterprise was coated in that metal.
A lot of warplanes and tanks couldn't reach their design speeds in their initial outing. Tweaks modifications and sometimes outright redesigns have to be made in order for the vehicle to meet it's design specifications. I like the fact did the Enterprise couldn't quite reach warp 5 at first. They were rushed out of space dock without the ship being fully ready so it made sense for it not to be fully capable.
*Watching the movie. Spirit of Saint Louis with James Stewart it dawned on me the plane's tail number, N-X-211, (for "experimental") now I know where the inspiration arrived from on naming the Enterprise!* 🧐🖖
@Chris George There's a Lobi weapons set, I'm missing the spacial torpedoes and console. I'm loving the phase cannons. There's also a warhead console on it, not a bad one at that
I have the Ships of the Line calendar, and before catching this video, had to do a bit of research to discover where the design had come from. For this reason alone, I wish the show had gotten that 5th season. I would REALLY have loved to see them tie this design more directly in line with the Constitution class it's supposed to be the precursor of.
you know, I actually like the cheezy theme song. it's cheezy, but by the end of the show, the lyrics actually get pretty on-point with the context of everything else, and it even nails the atmosphere, I would say, the "now or never, and even if they win archer might still die.
I initally hated the show, but after a decade I decided to rewatch it, it was love. I really adore the series now and IMHO it is the best show Star Trek had (and has the best ship):
Rip trip. Wanted to see him and topol to be together but instead they killed him off. Spent so much time watching this and caring for the crew. It shocked me and it still does cause it took me a while to process it.
At least they waited until the end to kill him off, seen to many shows that you meet a new character, get to see their backstory, and are then killed in an average of about 4 episodes.
If I remember my Trek lore correctly, the warp factor is equal to the cube root of your relative speed to light; ie wf2=8c (2×2×2), wf3=27c (3×3×3), wf4=64c (4×4×4), ect; so warp 5 would be 125 times the speed of light. At least it would if TNG hadn't messed with the formula (now it's relative speed of light equals X to the power of ten 1/3ds or something like that) and capped wf10 as being infinite speed.
I liked the NX-01 -- it's one of my favorite ships stylistically. The refit also looks cool, though I wonder why the deflector on the saucer stayed when they added one on the engineering hull....
Drexler's NX-01 refit actually appeared on screen in the 2nd season of Star Trek: Picard; young Jean-Luc was playing with an Eaglemoss model in a flashback scene
I would have loved to have seen the NX-01 Refit in action.... All we get is a small snippet of it in Picard, Season 3. At least I have a physical model of it from Eaglemoss. That was a must-buy.
There was also the refit where the technology from the captured *Suliban Cell ship* was retrofitted to the NX, giving it a internally mounted warp drive, advanced shielding weapons and sensors, compact life support and a host of other systems that were rugged and low maintenance (as they were used by a small mobile rebel group that didn't have large maintenance facilities). Starfleet engineering reverse engineered all that tech early on when the captured Suliban Cell ship was taken straight back to Earth, instead of being left in the shuttle bay for off hours tinkering till it was lost. … … … _oh_ Still at least they had the upgrades from that captured Ferengi ship, including its extensive data base on regions even unknown to the Vulcans.
Thanks for the Video, and well who could forget the Phlox's Menagerie of Wierd Alien-Medical Equipment and the all too favorite decontamination booth where they scrubbed their backs to clean away any....strange alien bug
I always liked the nx-01 design. Its like the steampunk relative of the future federation star ships. It had that “futuristic” look of a sleek starship by not having the “neck” that connects the saucer section to the nacelles/deflector dish, yet it still had elements that would be integral to the designs that would come after.
The NX retrofit he mentioned at the end is available as a playable endgame ship in Star Trek Online. You have to buy it through the Lobi store by earning lobi crystals through the in game lottery system.
There's the full galley, the medical lab, the infamous decontamination chamber, and the "Sweet Spot", that spot halfway between the bow plate and artificial gravity generator where the gravity field is inverted, leading to a reversal of vertical orientation relative to the rest of the ship. Ensign Mayweather shows it in the first episode, if I recall correctly.
Malcolm's little speech reminds me of D84's about a lazerson probe. "It can punch a fist sized hole in six inch armour plate, or lift the crystals from a snowflake, one by one." (Dr Who, Robots of Death)
True story, my high school's library (which was renovated in 2002) was designed to look like the inside of the NX-01's warp nacelle. I have no idea why. During the opening tour, the librarian actually said it was based on the Enterprise, so this wasn't just a coincidental thing.
.......Enterprise and TOS era warp scale is linear Warp 5 is 5 times the speed of light, it wasn until TNG when the scale became exponential with 10 representing infinite velocity.
Enterprise is vastly underrated. Too bad it got canceled. 🙁
Watching the Trek universe in the age of humans struggling to figure out the things that later become givens was immensely fun.
Agreed. It wasn't helped by the fact that most shows need a season or two to really get settled in to what they want to be, and there's a lot of people who see "prequel" and immediately translate that as "garbage".
I mean, yeah, there are a lot of limits on what a prequel series can do before the fans decide to watch something else. The prequel can't interfere with the established storylines of the already-existing characters and entries; the benefits of more-advanced special effects can't always be used for in-universe tech, because they'd upstage the tech that was supposed to exist later; and the bigger the stories the prequels tell, the more the audience starts to wonder why no one mentioned them in the later in-universe stuff.
Too bad faux trek got green lighted...
Yeah, I actually enjoyed the first season because of that "getting on our feet vibe." It could get mundane but it worked.
@@tba113 It definitely threw a wrench into established Cannon but it was comparatively forgivable when considering the 2009 movies.
@@DJRonnieG Those movies were so OOC for the universe they had to change how time travel worked in said universe, going from a more Back to the future style to MCU style time travel.
I'd love to read or watch something either fan-made ( Fanfiction, Fan series, Fan movie, etc.) or official work on how the future temporal star fleet (either the one's from Voyager or Enterprise.) tackle why they left it as is to develop separately. Or what measures would be taken to reverse it, whether that be through infiltration or more.... shall we say direct methods.
Everyone always dumps on the cheesy intro song, but Enterprise had my favorite intro sequence of all the trek shows. I loved seeing that brief history of human exploration as it really goes to the heart of the Star Trek franchise. Also, the best feature of any Enterprise will always be the plot armor.
I love the theme song.
I can’t think of a trek series with a bad theme song, at least the ones that I’ve watched. And that’d be up to this series.
Let's be fair, the song and music, was beautiful, but, didn't really fit.
As for the plot armor... it's vital, for all movies/TV franchisees.
Ah, you have Faith brother!
Yep
Best feature was the kitchen with an actual chef in it.
I thought it was the sick bay with Phlox and his eternal optimism, and his menagerie of animals.
Like voyager?
@@andrelandry548 I give you the chef part but it was only an improvised kitchen.
@@andrelandry548 You call Neelix an actual chef?
Voyager and A both had kitchens with Chefs.
The NX01 was designed by my long time friend, Doug Drexler. If you watch the ST:E episode: "Deadstop", I made the NOMAD desk model in Maywether's cabin. I visited the sets, and they were awesome. The engine room was huge!
The intro to enterprise is not cheesy it is uplifting and encouraging.
I liked it too. I used to sing along to it.
The first one was ok, the "remix" eh......
@@mementomori7825 the remix was a bit rough. It actually reminded me of Quantum Leap though.
Truth.
then the Mirror universe alt opening that was just amazing.
"The SWEET SPOT, that supposedly, "all ships have one". A point in the ship, where the artificial gravity, "flips", and you can actually float up, and sit safely... on the ceiling. Travis, showed Tucker, and explained it to him...briefly.
you sound like william shatner
@@jesusmora9379 I just reread my thing here, and..you're right. I blame my English writing teachers, insisting on so many commas in even the shortest sentences; it's, really, a huge, nusance.
Dates back to the Original Series, it was in one of the early scripts but got cut, the writer later wrote tie-in fiction and included it in (at least) one of their books.
@@berthulf That's an amazing bit of history far too few ever hear of. Thankfully someone saw fit to eventually get it in a show..before it was lost forever.
The effects on that grappler shot between the 2 ships was done so well I get vertigo watching that scene.
I miss Enterprise so much! Sometimes I dream about seeing a unaired episode and it's the best feeling ever.
The phase cannons weren't fitted because the ship was rushed into leaving spacedock early, it's also why the targetting system wasn't up to scratch to begin with as there hadn't been the time to get everything completed.
It's been a long time since I saw the series, but didn't Archer not even want the torpedoes? I seem to remember him having wanted the NX-01 to be exploration and diplomacy only, and being pissed at being overruled.
@@tba113 yeah, more of a pacifist than an explorer even. Bad optics due to Vulcan misinformation at the time.
YOU LEFT SPACE DOCK WITHOUT A TRACTOR BEAM, PHOTON TORPEDOES, TARGETING SYSTEMS OR PHASERS?!?!?
The ship did not even have all the spare parts loaded. When an important machine part failed, one out of five, Archer had to negotiate with an easily offended alien species for a spare. The warp drive works with four, but not with three. If this happens out of communication range, nobody will ever find out what happened to the Enterprise.
Archer then brought his dog do the negotiations and let it pee on a sacred tree.
When they offered him the opportunity to apologize, he thought they should apologize to h i m , because the dog got sick from it.
@@IronWarhorsesFun they were going to be installed tuesday
NOTE: We used the TNG scale for warp speeds when figuring out the speed of warp 5 and warp 4. Warp 5 is still roughly double warp 4 in the TOS scale, but the exact number of times is wrong: warp 5 should be 125 x speed of light and warp 4 is 64. (we should have used the TOS scale, since this is before TOS)
You forgot the first organic matter Transporter. Shouldve been no 2 after the engine. Probably the second most advanced technology on that ship
If you used the TNG scale you would realize that warp speed is NOT light speed. Warp 10 is the speed of light. This is why you cannot go faster than the Warp 10. It would require infinite energy and you would be every where simultaneously. This is also why the ships Max speeds are always Warp 9.996 and Warp 9.998 and such.
@@jamesmarciel5237 no, that is not the case, in the TNG scale light speed is 1 cochrane, warp 1. Warp 10 is simultaneously being in every place of the universe at once.
And I almost thought i wouldn't understand the nice diagram too, but fortunately it was British Ben talking nonsense :P
Assuming the solid green/yellowish, wich turns into a dotted line after warp 3.0 is the ship-speed, you can extrapolate this line to Warp 5.0 where it intersects the line that marks 125x speed of Light on the logarithmic scaled y-Axis.
Btw, does anyone know what the red line means? Extrapolating the red line to Warp 5.0 we would end with something above 200x speed of light. Could this be the TNG-Warpscale?
@@derphysiker1062 the red line is supposed to be power usage. The idea being that it's hard to cross the boundary but then it gets easier again. Not fully supported by what we see on screen but that's what it's supposed to be as far as I know
Enterprise is my favorite star trek series
Mostly because I thought that the whole naval aesthetic was really cool
Same
I think they nailed the visuals pretty good on the ship and in the show in general. It was a bit slow to build up but I liked it.
Yea it looked cool
Everything was minimalistic and functional
No waste
But the enterprise D is my favorite design
That B.T.E Dan man who actually wants us to build a full size Enterprise
Should start with the NX 01
You forgot the early transporter that nobody liked using.
Yeah should have replaced the catwalk with the transporter since it wasn't an intended feature. Catwalk was just a place they fled to and hoped it would protect them
Especially after what happened to crew mate Jeff Goldblum
@@skyranger1366 and Ensign Musca Domestica?
I quite liked the idea of chef and his galley!
Star Trek Enterprise is the most realistic out of all star trek show, some area of NX-01 have no gravity, the shuttle dock using docking clamp, and it’s electronic system is similar to today electronic system
And crappy 4:3 TFT monitors hanging everywhere like they did in the real-world early 2000's. I actually liked that a lot! It gave the NX-01 this sloppy improvised prototype vibe.
@@andreasklindt7144 Well....it IS a kinda rushed Prototype.
I watched an interview from the designer of the ship and he mentioned there was also a firepole leading from the bridge area straight to engineering.
ENT was decent, might be the last good thing in ST Universe. Especially I like ships of that era, Andorian, Vulcan, Klingon, Romulan, Xindi, and of course NX-o1, all look great to me
Check out Lower Decks. Yes, it's a comedy, but it has that heart that Discovery and Picard seemed to have lost, and it pays homage and respects the media that has come before it.
@@tsnap4 its just a referance machine, i dont get why ppl say LW decks is a return to old trek.
Give Lower Decks a shot. It's a comedy, but the best way to describe it is, it takes Star Trek Cannon and Lore VERY serious... But doesnt take itself serious.
picard is alright im binging it atm,its tone is dark with a "the federation is collapsing,im old etc" kinda vibe?
but each star trek series has a vibe to it,IE voyager is literally about being lost and trying to get back home with hostile shit on the way...TNG is the federation at full power and ENT is humans being outmanned and outgunned and a small fish in a big pond but punching up etc
Yeah I wish they had concentrated more on the politics and the founding of the federation and not on the xindi storyline but I agree it was the last star trek as far as I am concerned.
No such thing as coincidences, I started re-watching Enterprise yesterday :)
One of the very few Star Trek ships I really, really like. The “early tech” look made the NX-01 more real and believable to me than most other ships in the Star Trek franchise.
My favorite Enterprise ever, my favorite Captain and my favorite Star Trek uniform.
Warp Speed is a Cube factor of the warp speed
Warp 1 - Speed of light
Warp 2 - 8 x Speed of light
Warp 3 - 27 x Speed of light
Warp 4 - 64 x Speed of light
Warp 5 - 125 x Speed of light
Huh the more you know I guess thanks
Not true.
At least it was in TOS which ENT uses.
I.
In the 24th century they use a different scale where 10 is infinite speed so warp 5 is 200x on that scale.
They just used the wrong warp scale in the video
It would take days to get to a nearby star at 125x. They made all the way to the Klingon homeworld in a few days and they hadn't reached warp 5 at the time. If Vulcan is 16.5 LY from Earth and Qo'noS is 143 LY distant, NX should take weeks to get between homeworlds, not days.
there was also a cochrane coefficient so it was slightly more then that but that is the basic formula. they added the coefficient because even at warp 5 traveling a light year would take just under three days so a trip to Alpha Proxoma (4.26 LY) would take about 13 or 14 days. still later they added warp lanes that were where the space/subspace boundary was weaker due to repeated warp passages along the same route. the upshot is that a warp factor whatever ship could make trips faster than the formula would allow otherwise.
Loved the weapons progression in ST:E. Just like how in Stargate they worked up from railguns and Missiles to Directed Energy Beam Weapons
Ahh, the NX-01. Such a show I watched since they started when I also started in a new city.
I still listen to that song. When someone listens "I believe I can fly" I will say "i have my own variant" 😂 😂 😂
I really wish the nx got the refit sooner while the show was ongoing as it really makes it look more like a traditional star fleet ship. And ST Enterprise was criminally underrated
Rewatching Enterprise ATM, 👌 perfect timing
You used the TNG warp scale, which is meant to be used in eras AFTER the original cast movies. Unless the creators of Star Trek: Enterprise stated that they were using the TNG warp scale, Star Trek: Enterprise would have used the TOS warp scale, and in the TOS warp scale warp 5 isn't over 200 times the speed of light, but 125 times instead.
Great catch
@@GenerationFilms the scale is all over the place in Ent, depending on who wrote the episode, but mostly the episodes use the TNG scale.
@@GenerationFilms You also forgot that the NX Refit appears in Star Trek Online, and is playable.
Jeez tis such a nerd comment...
BUT I LOVE IT!
In ENT: "The Expanse" and "The Xindi" they used warp 5 with 200 times the speed of light (50 lightyears in 3 months)! They were not consistant with the warp scale in ent, or in any show. That's why things like subspace distortions, the Cochrane factor, and other neat in-universe explanations found their way into the scripts. It's very relative. And don't forget, it's not the ship that moves through space, it's the space that moves... Gives you a headache when you imagine a couple of hundreds of ships "traveling" at warp speed simultaniously - and it does not explain what it is on the sol scale... :D
For me personally it is already hard to imagine the in comparison very simple relativity theory of Einstein in a mathmatically correct way. Let alone quantum mechanics.... Warp Drive would be something based on physics beyond quantum mechanics and Einstein's relativity and in relation to a subspace that is unknown to today's physics. So I was always happy with the "inconsistencies" and trusted the writers to be as reasonable accurate as possible or needed.
I loved the theme song. The show was extremely well written. Well acted. And the clever episodes where they filled in the gaps. The defiant. The different looking Klingons. The tholians. The first meetings with the Andorians.
That and the Vulcan was smoking hot second only to seven of nine.
And how Vulcan Society changed slowly. Lets be honest, at the beginning of the show, most Vulcans were insufferable jerks.
Great video. Enterprise was definitely my favorite series and the NX-01 class ship is the one that actually feels like it could be a real ship.
I thought the Enterprise theme song was quite well placed and fit into the idea of Enterprise.
this is my favorite Star Trek series...fight me!
No, I don't want to fight you. It's my favorite too and was killed just when it finally found its legs.
I loved the NX-01 style of ship it was great and if they wanted to change the cast they could have no problem
@@RadarLeon No! Please don't change the cast! I like the ones there! Who knows who they'll kill off and replace!
@@Restilia_ch I really liked the origin story aspect of it.
@@virginiaconnor8350 No i liked the original cast as well but you know how hollywood politics go, and if the same writers were kept onboard it would still be similar
I was always under the impression that when they "polarized the hull plating" they weren't making the hull "harder", they were giving it some sort of charge that would dissipate various forms of incoming energy discharges, like weapons fire. That's why in the show we saw those blue waves coming off the hull when it was struck, it was acting like an electrical ground.
Also, I dont think the catwalks were designed to protect the crew, from neutron storms or otherwise. From how they talked about it, they were probably more like Jeffies Tubes, just there so the crew could perform maintenance and repairs inside the nacelles.
Yes he makes it sound like the catwalks where design for people to go in in case of an emergency they were not they. In the episode thay had an emergency situation and they came up with the idea to go in the catwalk.
Yeah Catwalk primary role was that it was a service area for Warp nacelles. Since it was the only place that was shielded enough during the neutron storm it made for relatively safe, if cramped living space during such emergency. But the Warp drive had to be shut down IIRC, so there wouldn't be a radiation coming from nacelles.
Didn't it also attract dust to the hull in an episode?
polarizing the hull exactly as you say, make it dissipate incoming energy, not hardier to penetrate.
It’s a fantastic theme song!!!!
It's a shame this show gor canceled after Season 4. It was just getting really good.
It did go past season 4...in a parallel universe.
Funny he posts the video today: right above my monitor is the Star Trek 2021 Ships of the Line Calendar and February has the NX-01 refit as it's feature ship. Great cutaway of the interior of the refitted ship which has warp 7 capabilities. Also full 360 degree views of the upgraded ship as well.
Not gonna lie, the NX class and the Venator are my two favorite ships in all of fiction.
When i played Star Trek Online years ago, i gladly purchased the pack and used the NX class in-game, no matter how bad it was, it was fun to play with.
Really wish it would get more love and not be hated on so much :(
The NX-01 refit is in the Rise of the Federation books, as the Columbia-class. It makes a lot of sense, and it would have been nice to have been seen on-screen.
They also missed out Chef; *clearly* the best feature of the NX-01 was the running gag(s) of a) the audience never seeing Chef's face, and b) being the only person on the Enterprise to be referred to by their title only. Everyone always criticises the last episode where Riker plays the part of Chef, but I think it was a nice nod to the running joke.
The phase cannons were not installed because the ship was launched ahead of schedule. You should know that, after watching season 1 episode 1.
they had a fireman's pole leading from the bridge to the engineering deck
Dammit! We need more firepoles in space ships.
Lol
@@daverage4729 Leading to the bat cave
Thank you for sharing your interesting TOP 10, I am sad that some narrow mind people cut the series short and I agree the refit would have been great as the connecting factor to the constitution class
One feature that is often over looked was that it started off with Plasma cannons. They used them like twice before replacing them with the Phase cannons which is good cause the plasma cannons were pretty pitiful. They were used when tracking the suliban to their helix.
Good video for any non-Treker. Otherwise, common knowledge for a true fan.
I love the nx-01 enterprise!!!! Just always felt closer to how space travel would be if we did have vessels for long distance....deep space exploration....no food replicators....instead they had chefs...the bridge was much smaller....no super shields...polarized hull playing instead....it isnt my fav star trek ship...that goes to DS9s defiant...but its def in my top 5...
FEATURE 11:
spycams in T'Pol's quarters and bathroom
*giggity*
It also had a firepole, connecting the bridge to engineering. We never see it and there is no dialogue relating to it but Doug Drexler has recently mentioned it on another youtubers channel. That is probably the least known detail about this particular class of ship
My favorite Enterprise! The NX class was a beautiful design and always looked great in flight. Thanks for the entertaining vid. Cheers!
Additional fun fact, there was another kind of torpedo: Spatial Torpedo warheads could be swapped out for nukes for when shit really got real.
Happy Sheridan noises
My favourite thing about the NX-01 was allways how the starfleet was just like "so we didn't actually put guns on the ship, so you just have to go on your long and dangerous mission without them. But here is a small number of crappy torpedos. You better hope you don't use them all."
But to be real, i really liked the Upgrade the Enterprise got at the end of S2. The Show was great at showing progression in the Starfleet and it's technologie.
This was arguably one the best star treks
The way those photonic torpedoes are loaded is just satisfying
Ha I got that calendar for Christmas and I was wondering where that refit came from!
Well, Osmium is the most dense metal that we currently know of, so it would be surely a viable protection against any kind of radiation. Problem is, it is ultra-expensive and super rare on Earth, so you'd have to mine it from metal asteroids, which would make it even more expensive. So it kinda makes sense that only the catwalk of the NX Enterprise was coated in that metal.
Thanks for the explaination
Wow!
Those were some great features!
And that is just the beginning!
These are great. Keep it up!
you forgot Vulcan massages with a happy ending
Coolest design for a space ship.
Enterprise was and is still my favourite series.
LOVED THAT THEME SONG!
Who needs a fashion show when you have the decon room.
Yes! And scented decontamination gels....
Damn it now I have to watch enterprise
A lot of warplanes and tanks couldn't reach their design speeds in their initial outing. Tweaks modifications and sometimes outright redesigns have to be made in order for the vehicle to meet it's design specifications. I like the fact did the Enterprise couldn't quite reach warp 5 at first. They were rushed out of space dock without the ship being fully ready so it made sense for it not to be fully capable.
🖖😎👍Very well done and informative indeed...
best of star trek series
Personally I find the intro song charming
Me too
maybe it's because this was the Star Trek show I grew up with, but for me it's up there as one of my favourites.
Would have loved to have seen the refitted version in action.
Cool. I wish that the refit was shown. It was great seeing you again.
Macfarland actually made two cameos during the series, one in season 3 and one in season 4
Great Vid. I enjoyed the series.
The NX-01 Refit is such a beautiful design. I feel lucky to have the Eaglemoss die-cast model of it
I'd like to give a second like for your interpretation of Faith of Heart. Damn you RUclips for not letting me support artists for their expressions!
Great video
Thank you for the Great video
*Watching the movie. Spirit of Saint Louis with James Stewart it dawned on me the plane's tail number, N-X-211, (for "experimental") now I know where the inspiration arrived from on naming the Enterprise!* 🧐🖖
I fly the NX refit on STO, great little ship
@Chris George Lobi store or the exchange
@Chris George There's a Lobi weapons set, I'm missing the spacial torpedoes and console.
I'm loving the phase cannons.
There's also a warhead console on it, not a bad one at that
I have the Ships of the Line calendar, and before catching this video, had to do a bit of research to discover where the design had come from. For this reason alone, I wish the show had gotten that 5th season. I would REALLY have loved to see them tie this design more directly in line with the Constitution class it's supposed to be the precursor of.
you know, I actually like the cheezy theme song. it's cheezy, but by the end of the show, the lyrics actually get pretty on-point with the context of everything else, and it even nails the atmosphere, I would say, the "now or never, and even if they win archer might still die.
I initally hated the show, but after a decade I decided to rewatch it, it was love.
I really adore the series now and IMHO it is the best show Star Trek had (and has the best ship):
Rip trip. Wanted to see him and topol to be together but instead they killed him off. Spent so much time watching this and caring for the crew. It shocked me and it still does cause it took me a while to process it.
At least they waited until the end to kill him off, seen to many shows that you meet a new character, get to see their backstory, and are then killed in an average of about 4 episodes.
I liked this series so much I bought it. Hated that it was canceled. And as for the opening song...... It fit the show well.
If I remember my Trek lore correctly, the warp factor is equal to the cube root of your relative speed to light; ie wf2=8c (2×2×2), wf3=27c (3×3×3), wf4=64c (4×4×4), ect; so warp 5 would be 125 times the speed of light. At least it would if TNG hadn't messed with the formula (now it's relative speed of light equals X to the power of ten 1/3ds or something like that) and capped wf10 as being infinite speed.
Yeah so warp 5 was like 214 cochrane (1 cochrane = 1x speed of light) and warp 4 was 100 cochrane
I liked the NX-01 -- it's one of my favorite ships stylistically. The refit also looks cool, though I wonder why the deflector on the saucer stayed when they added one on the engineering hull....
Either as backup or it just worked in tandem with the new one.
Good job!
Would really like to see you do one about the valdor warbird
Drexler's NX-01 refit actually appeared on screen in the 2nd season of Star Trek: Picard; young Jean-Luc was playing with an Eaglemoss model in a flashback scene
Ah! the Intro song that made me watch something else. I remember.
Osmium is one of the densest metals there is, so an osmium alloy may be effective as a radiation shield.
I would have loved to have seen the NX-01 Refit in action.... All we get is a small snippet of it in Picard, Season 3. At least I have a physical model of it from Eaglemoss. That was a must-buy.
There was also the refit where the technology from the captured *Suliban Cell ship* was retrofitted to the NX, giving it a internally mounted warp drive, advanced shielding weapons and sensors, compact life support and a host of other systems that were rugged and low maintenance (as they were used by a small mobile rebel group that didn't have large maintenance facilities).
Starfleet engineering reverse engineered all that tech early on when the captured Suliban Cell ship was taken straight back to Earth, instead of being left in the shuttle bay for off hours tinkering till it was lost. … … … _oh_
Still at least they had the upgrades from that captured Ferengi ship, including its extensive data base on regions even unknown to the Vulcans.
No mention of the pole?
I love the design of the NX01. I am watching the series for the first time and it’s much better than the original and TNG
Thanks for the Video, and well who could forget the Phlox's Menagerie of Wierd Alien-Medical Equipment and the all too favorite decontamination booth where they scrubbed their backs to clean away any....strange alien bug
I always liked the nx-01 design. Its like the steampunk relative of the future federation star ships. It had that “futuristic” look of a sleek starship by not having the “neck” that connects the saucer section to the nacelles/deflector dish, yet it still had elements that would be integral to the designs that would come after.
The NX retrofit he mentioned at the end is available as a playable endgame ship in Star Trek Online. You have to buy it through the Lobi store by earning lobi crystals through the in game lottery system.
There's the full galley, the medical lab, the infamous decontamination chamber, and the "Sweet Spot", that spot halfway between the bow plate and artificial gravity generator where the gravity field is inverted, leading to a reversal of vertical orientation relative to the rest of the ship. Ensign Mayweather shows it in the first episode, if I recall correctly.
ah yeah i remember the sweet spot
Yay, British Ben! Cheers! 🍻
You forgot about it being the first Terran ship to have transporter technology.
HEY!!!!! I happened to *like* the theme song from "Star Trek: Enterprise"!!!!
It's a good song, but after all the previous theme songs had given me future sci-fi techno vibes, hearing this song just kinda made me go "wot?"
Malcolm's little speech reminds me of D84's about a lazerson probe. "It can punch a fist sized hole in six inch armour plate, or lift the crystals from a snowflake, one by one." (Dr Who, Robots of Death)
True story, my high school's library (which was renovated in 2002) was designed to look like the inside of the NX-01's warp nacelle. I have no idea why. During the opening tour, the librarian actually said it was based on the Enterprise, so this wasn't just a coincidental thing.
Any chance at some Orville videos? They got ships.
.......Enterprise and TOS era warp scale is linear Warp 5 is 5 times the speed of light, it wasn until TNG when the scale became exponential with 10 representing infinite velocity.
That would mean it takes the Enterprise almost 1 year just to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri.
Um...no.
Enterprise has 4 type-IV plasma banks too. They used them in Broken Bow episode.