The pod mounted away, underneath the ship was designed like a lightning rod to attract energy weapons fire. Ships of the Star Fleet, printed 1988, reprint 1991.
I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed by this episode. There was a lack of detailed knowledge on the Akyazi and her sister ships (Arbiter and Akula). Then again, this is my favorite fan ship of all time, from my favorite set of tech manuals of all time (Ships of the Star Fleet, Vol. 1 & 2 by Todd Allen Guenther), so my expectations were rather high. Also, Capt Foley did mentioned there wasn't a lot of time for research for this episode. If you guys ever revisit this, I'd be happy to help. I know these ships in and out.
I remember buying the Starfleet Technical Manual of this ship back in the early 90s, as Barns and Nobles. So it has been awhile on the convention book circles. The bottom of the drop down pylons was a Bia deflector pod. There was also a Phaser mount on the pod too. The drop down pylon also had a deflector dissipation veins? Not sure what that means. Now the Variant was named the USS Akula. (Not the Akula-class from Starfleet Command). There are fantastic blue prints for this ship and variants at www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/gilso.php.
The deflector cutout seems oddly deep to me, to the point that it’s like a huge waste of internal volume in a saucer that already limited by the back half being removed. A tiny NX style cutout would make more sense, just enough to keep the deflector within the outer circumference of the saucer. But I suppose you could come up with a functional reason, pieces in the cutout focusing the deflector field or some such. But no other design, except maybe the Nova, has found it necessary to adopt such a wasteful design.
This could be the Starship equivalent of current-day frigate warships give these a couple of weapons have a lot of them where they could be a part of a large battle group where if you want to you can have them screen the perimeter of the battle group or send them out on scout missions. By themselves they would be no match for a heavy unit but a few of them might make a major Klingon or romulan warship think twice about pulling something
I am liking this even before I look at the design simply because there need to be far more ships and crew representing different countries and nations of Earth with names and characters.
I would be very pleased with some ships named after famous British ships, or why not a USS King George? We have had ships named after American presidents and Japanese enemy World War II aircraft carriers... I don't think they've done enough to incorporate North American and British Naval History in their names. USS London anyone?
@Gareth Fairclough Maybe they figured they could swap the name of one deity for another (Hermes to Apollo), as the Apollo in Legacy is a single nacelle design just as the Hermes/Saladin (if I am recalling correctly). And then they're left with two names that start with AK and they assigned it to the Akyazi
@Gareth Fairclough I did not know that. It's a shame that they couldn't put more effort (i say that cautiously, because i certainly don't know what it takes to make a game). The way you describe it makes it sound like it was to make a quick buck, and it may very well have been. It is a buggy game, even on XBOX 360, but my real gripe with it is that there aren't enough ships or missions. The TNG years could have been much larger
I don't normally "tune in" to your discussions of non-canon ships (the one exception was Axanar), but this one was interesting to me. Great job guys! This ship reminds me a little bit of the Intrepid from ST: ENT.
It's a very interesting ship, but I've never liked the idea of the sloping curved nacelle pylons. I know they are probably more efficient than sharp degree turns, but they just always look 'off' for some reason to me.
The 90-degree turn on the Galaxy class doesn't make sense either, I would love to see it with pylons that goes straight out which is the most efficient design, what possibly could be the reason for sending more plasma horizontally and then curving it vertically? And I think it would help the controversial looks of the ship frankly.
13:26 Nope, no shuttlebays. All of the variants do have a pair of bays holding one worker bee each (for EVA repairs), but most Akyazis didn't even have a shuttle. Some did (the style we see in TMP that conveyed Spock to the Enterprise, minus the warp sled), and they were just externally docked between the two pylons leading to the engineering pod. But only on the Akyazi (the original version) and the Akula (the variant with the drop-down deflector pod). The Arbiter variant had a "stealth suite" (not quite a cloaking device) in between its pylons, which would get in the way. Shuttles would still be able to dock in the back of the bridge (like in TMP) or on the sides of the saucer, but they wouldn't be able to stay there in normal flight.
If the dominion war did anything it got rid of starfleets dependence on all the old junk it was using as a fleet.even the borg couldnt teach them that lesson fully.that being said this class should've been reintroduced,it looked cheap to build,was fast and could've likely held off dominion fighters for a brief time.i would've liked to have seen them at betazed.
I had the book about this ship there's a couple of things you had wrong. All of them have the 1000 registration number with U.S.S Akyazi NCC 1000. 1 that isn't armor on in the naracells, has something to do with emergency cooling, theyre 4versions of those. 2. It has three variants, with five different Bridge models, and crew complement ranging from 77 to 89. Some have only 3 torpedo tubes to forward and two rear lost home have four to forward and two rear, they do not have a shuttle Bay they do have to underbelly worker bee storage rooms, I feel like I'm having a single shuttle pod between engineering and the main saucer half, 3. The version with the bow is not the Akyazi, but it's it's Akula subclass NCC 1090 and Atami subclass NCC 1095. The end of the "bow" holds a long-range tactical sensor suite with a type 7 phaser emitter on both sides, the rest of the ship has Type 6 phasers. Out of The 128 vessels built only 5 was lost, 1 went missing (Starfleet mystery). Most were stationed at the Romulan and Klingon neutral zone border. The warp core is miniaturised and laying down like in the NX-01. Since this came out before the Enterprise TV show they took a lot of NX-01 designs from this ship. The timeline for this ship, as you can see in the registration number, it was before Captain Christopher Pike and the Enterprise. yeah I noticed the problem with the maximum speed in battle maximum, apparently the Atami what's the fastest reaching battle maximum speed of warp 22. Clearly not well thought-out, since anywhere pass warp 10 is transwarp. well I noticed interesting about the layout on decks 3 and 4 there's roles of crew quarters (2Personnel to each quarter) and a shared bathroom between each to crew quarters. And at the very end of each crew quarter block, is a larger privacy room, which looks like it has a king size bed (only), dec.2 were commanding officers quarters, they have their own bathroom. there's also one insta layout about the bridge, I only seen this with the layout of Enterprise D owners manual, walk towards the view screen and go out the door on your right make another right in walk down the narrow hall, to get to the bridge restroom.
This kind of pointless speculation about a non-existent thing is a ridiculous waste of time. I love it!!!! This ship looks great. I think it is my flavourite design after the TOS and TMP enterprises. I would love to have seen ILM bring it to life with 1980's model work.
Someone probably pointed this out already, but for your full review I would recommend: www.amazon.com/Ships-Star-Fleet-Akyazi-Class-Perimeter/dp/0965601617. It has the full technical data on the ship (I'm not sure whether this is the publication that first introduced the design, but it's where I first saw it). Some interesting points from the book: - Due to its role as a patrol/fast attack vessel, the ship's hull is actually supposed to be made of special "stealth" composites which make it black rather than the white we are used to seeing from this era (although I personally prefer the white hulls that you showed in the pictures). Also, the ship is not supposed to have external viewports (except for a small viewing lounge on the back of the ship). - The vessel was inspired partially by the Orion attack ship from “Journey to Babel”. Like that ship, it was designed to use up almost all of its energy in a short burst, so it can achieve very high speeds and combat much larger vessels, but then it will probably need to be towed back to a starbase for repairs. - The bridge module can jettison and function as an emergency escape pod. Also, the two booms connecting the primary hull to the engineering section at the back can be cut with explosive bolts as a form of “saucer separation”; there are emergency impulse engines behind panels on the back of the primary hull for that purpose too. The two horizontal tubolifts which connect the primary hull to the engineering section would serve as lifeboats in that case. - The variant with the pylons below the hull is the "Akula" sub-class. The pylons support a deflector pod, which helps absorb incoming weapons fire and dissipate the energy far from the body of the ship. - Although there are no shuttlebays, a single shuttle can be carried on the outside, docked to a port in between the two booms (similar to how Spock’s shuttle docked in back of the bridge in The Motion Picture).
The PA class ships were designed in mind like the old PT Boats, hunter killer submarine, and the ablity to use air to air combat tactics to defeat the enemy. Smaller shp, highi power and the ability to dish out punishment, means less comfort and less room for bars and such. Just a fighting ship like the old Destroyers of wWII. so yes it looks odd, but then in combat do you actually need a wet bar?
I remember playing this ship on the Xbox 360 game star trek legacy, it's not a bad ship, that game had many cool ships from all the different eras, any star trek fan should get this game it has the voices of captain archer, captain kirk, captain picard, and many more
The Akila variant, ( the one with the undeslung phaserpod ) featured in the Star Trek Legacy game, where it was designated as a destroyer ( just to fit it in the classificationsystem within the game ), always liked using that ship. And recently i found a PDF of the original 'Ships of the Starfleet' book featuring these perimeter action ships. took me ages to find that one and for a long time Google was'nt really forthcoming to that. Very happy to have it now.
The movie era ships specifically, the TNG have way too much animated parts that make them look a bit cartoonish. That's what made the motion picture era ships looks so much better was the absence of the glowing swirly psychedelic stuff on the original ship that made it look so dated. The Enterprise from the motion picture actually looks like a real ship , a real space-faring machine built by humans that could travel and looks powerful. And then TNG had to go back and add animation that bled over onto the ships' hull and distracted from the design in my opinion.
On the last picture that you guys shared the deflector is there it's the single blue strip that's lit up above the torpedo tubes. Just thought I would point that out.
Hi guys, great video of one of my favorite movie era ships. I first saw that class and it’s variants in the Ships of the Starfleet (103rd edition) books printed back in 1992 ish. It is one of the more interesting designs that caught my eye as a kid. I can also take a picture of the book and post it, but someone already did you the Facebook page 🙂.
The Ships of the Fleet book explains that Starfleet was inspired by the Orion suicide attack on Kirk's ambassador mission in Journey To Babel. It's designed to do max damage to a group of enemy vessels to slow them down for larger ships/task force.
The ship in the second picture is an Akula class starship. It was featured in the game Star Trek Legacy. The pylons that point down are connected to an emitter for what I believe is a high-powered phaser. In game it was classed as a destroyer. I thought they were a fun little ship to play with but lacked the firepower of other destroyers.
This looks like the Intrepid from Enterprise evolved up to The Motion Picture, even including unecessary fins on the nacelles. Some of the "variants" are ugly as sin, especially the one with the stupid downswept fins/pods/whatever. I wish I knew how to use 3D modeling software, I'd really love to upgrade this design, bring it more into the post-Voyager era.
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In my opinion this is a Defiant Class precursor. Heavily armed, low profile, very good shielding, and very fast. The downward sweeping "wings" are warp sustainers. That variant is the Akula Class and it was literally a high speed patrol ship.
This has been around for a while indeed. I've had this in my ship database for at least 10 years and it's always been one of my favorite motion picture era designs. I really like how you guys cover these fan made ships, it really brings back memories of when I would spend hours just pouring through thousands of jpgs looking for cool ship designs. I was fascinated the amount of effort that went into the design and layouts of these concepts.
You did. As per 'Ships of the Star Fleet Vol. 2', it's the "Orissa cloaking generation and statis countermeasure system (Systems constractor: Prentice-Schafer Inc., Marsport, Mars)". It precedes the Treaty of Algeron (2311) by 26 years, so it's canonically possible.
Fantastic Reviews! I love it. A small request, I would love to see the U.S.S. Callister reviewed from Black Mirror. The ship reminded me of a cross between the classic enterprise and the Ship from galaxy quest.
I had this ship in Armada II, a ship someone made, and it was beautiful! This is a ship I wish was in STO! You guys have had a great lineup of ships on the channel and I've been really enjoying it all. Thank you very much for all the great content!
You mentioned nacelle fins and the view At minute mark 6:31 gives me the impression of something combining NX class and Intrepid Type elements of the 22nd century and making them work for the 23rd century. Very nice
I would appreciate a full episode. Comes from a publication of ships of the starfleet. As you can probably tell if you notice that my only comments on your channel were asking for you to do this ship, I greatly appreciate it. Big fan of this channel and this ship. Please read the technical manual for this class and the variants. Mention the "cameo" in JJ Star Trek 3. Yes, there are several reimaginings rendering the ship with different iterations. I think the McCook is pretty faithful, hopefully you can get in touch with that modeler. The main stinger is a weapon, the small stingers under the warp nacelles are the answer to deflector, its supposed to be torpedo launchers in the cutout and yes, there are workbees but no shuttle bay, it is designed to have a shuttle pod (ala the warp sled shuttle) docked externally so it is in the warp bubble and protected by the struts (pontoons as you called them) to be semi perminent I imagined. Lets see a full episode.
Did you guys read the cutaway/orthographic legend and descriptions? The plates along the nacelles are "warp field reflectors", this has a cloaking device, there's a thing in the middle called a "defensive system generator" that I don't think refers to a normal shield system, and the front and back halves of this ship are connected with explosive bolts! There seems to be lot about this design you guys didn't touch!
Yes the commander called out the warp Shield reflectors. At first glance to me they looked like shutters too quickly release more plasma or they can be closed to conceal the warp signature. But it definitely was mentioned, but not necessarily their purpose since it is not a canon ship.
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The pod mounted away, underneath the ship was designed like a lightning rod to attract energy weapons fire.
Ships of the Star Fleet, printed 1988, reprint 1991.
Think it was a bia Deflector pod
@@richardlockwitch6915 this ships features in the old game Star Trek legacy the pod down below is meant to be a megaphaser
I have to admit, I'm a bit disappointed by this episode. There was a lack of detailed knowledge on the Akyazi and her sister ships (Arbiter and Akula). Then again, this is my favorite fan ship of all time, from my favorite set of tech manuals of all time (Ships of the Star Fleet, Vol. 1 & 2 by Todd Allen Guenther), so my expectations were rather high. Also, Capt Foley did mentioned there wasn't a lot of time for research for this episode. If you guys ever revisit this, I'd be happy to help. I know these ships in and out.
I was hoping to hear more about the 'Orissa' cloaking device.
My response as well.
Agreed
This is one of my favorite classes! I still have the tech manual for this design in my library. There are three subclasses by the way.
If you guys had consulted the Ships of Starfleet Vol. 2 book as people noted in comments below you would have had tons of material to talk about.
I have the original published technical manual for this ship.
it's like if a nova and an NX had a baby and it grew up to be a refit-era hipster.
does have a vibe of a defiant precursor though
ships of starfleet, not Fasa, those large black color paperback books with internal charts etc.
Yeah , my uncle has those along with, among others the first Jackill's Starfleet reference manual. I managed to find all them as PDF's.
Seems like a Norway-class predecessor. At least from the feel I get from it...
I like this one. Very unconventional.
Loved the ship and I've got the "Ships of the Star Fleet" "Akyazi - Class Perimeter Action Ships" book. The first edition was December 1992
I have the deck plans for this one, printed in 92.
Its is from a fan made tech manual
A samurai armour inspired ship! Looks like the kabuto (helmet).
I remember buying the Starfleet Technical Manual of this ship back in the early 90s, as Barns and Nobles. So it has been awhile on the convention book circles. The bottom of the drop down pylons was a Bia deflector pod. There was also a Phaser mount on the pod too. The drop down pylon also had a deflector dissipation veins? Not sure what that means. Now the Variant was named the USS Akula. (Not the Akula-class from Starfleet Command). There are fantastic blue prints for this ship and variants at www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/gilso.php.
My favorite non canon ship
It is a canon, pre TOS, it's in Starfleet technical manual, and in the Akyazi class owner's manual
I own a book about this ship. Ships of the Star Fleet: Akyazi Class Perimeter Action Ships Volume 2 Number 1. By Calon Riel
The side view is a bit odd. But overall, I like it. It goes a bit in the Franklin direction.
The Franklin came from this -1992 publication.
Looks like the Federation ran out of money when building this.
Eh i see it as the refit of an cheap design layout
The deflector cutout seems oddly deep to me, to the point that it’s like a huge waste of internal volume in a saucer that already limited by the back half being removed. A tiny NX style cutout would make more sense, just enough to keep the deflector within the outer circumference of the saucer. But I suppose you could come up with a functional reason, pieces in the cutout focusing the deflector field or some such. But no other design, except maybe the Nova, has found it necessary to adopt such a wasteful design.
This could be the Starship equivalent of current-day frigate warships give these a couple of weapons have a lot of them where they could be a part of a large battle group where if you want to you can have them screen the perimeter of the battle group or send them out on scout missions.
By themselves they would be no match for a heavy unit but a few of them might make a major Klingon or romulan warship think twice about pulling something
The cut-out is way too big imho, but it's nice ship! Really like the front profile.
Well then what day _will be_ the song and dance routine? I think that's long overdue!
Indeed! Wednesday is for ships, maybe Saturday night for a song-and-dance hoedown at the Trekyards barn?
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I am liking this even before I look at the design simply because there need to be far more ships and crew representing different countries and nations of Earth with names and characters.
I would be very pleased with some ships named after famous British ships, or why not a USS King George? We have had ships named after American presidents and Japanese enemy World War II aircraft carriers... I don't think they've done enough to incorporate North American and British Naval History in their names.
USS London anyone?
BladeRunner That’s because in World War III the British Isles were completely eradicated, sorry but🤷♂️
This the Akula class from the Star Trek: Legacy game.
My first thought too.
@Gareth Fairclough
Maybe they figured they could swap the name of one deity for another (Hermes to Apollo), as the Apollo in Legacy is a single nacelle design just as the Hermes/Saladin (if I am recalling correctly). And then they're left with two names that start with AK and they assigned it to the Akyazi
Gareth Fairclough
And the pre refit Apollo was really the Saladin.
@Gareth Fairclough
Could be.
But as minimum as it was, i still enjoyed, and still enjoy it.
@Gareth Fairclough
I did not know that. It's a shame that they couldn't put more effort (i say that cautiously, because i certainly don't know what it takes to make a game).
The way you describe it makes it sound like it was to make a quick buck, and it may very well have been.
It is a buggy game, even on XBOX 360, but my real gripe with it is that there aren't enough ships or missions. The TNG years could have been much larger
I don't normally "tune in" to your discussions of non-canon ships (the one exception was Axanar), but this one was interesting to me. Great job guys! This ship reminds me a little bit of the Intrepid from ST: ENT.
It is a canon ship, It's in 4 different Starfleet tactical manuals, one of the ships was mentioned in TOS TV show.
It's a very interesting ship, but I've never liked the idea of the sloping curved nacelle pylons.
I know they are probably more efficient than sharp degree turns, but they just always look 'off' for some reason to me.
The 90-degree turn on the Galaxy class doesn't make sense either, I would love to see it with pylons that goes straight out which is the most efficient design, what possibly could be the reason for sending more plasma horizontally and then curving it vertically? And I think it would help the controversial looks of the ship frankly.
13:26 Nope, no shuttlebays. All of the variants do have a pair of bays holding one worker bee each (for EVA repairs), but most Akyazis didn't even have a shuttle. Some did (the style we see in TMP that conveyed Spock to the Enterprise, minus the warp sled), and they were just externally docked between the two pylons leading to the engineering pod.
But only on the Akyazi (the original version) and the Akula (the variant with the drop-down deflector pod). The Arbiter variant had a "stealth suite" (not quite a cloaking device) in between its pylons, which would get in the way. Shuttles would still be able to dock in the back of the bridge (like in TMP) or on the sides of the saucer, but they wouldn't be able to stay there in normal flight.
Very nice job guys! Great video and very nice ship 😊
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If the dominion war did anything it got rid of starfleets dependence on all the old junk it was using as a fleet.even the borg couldnt teach them that lesson fully.that being said this class should've been reintroduced,it looked cheap to build,was fast and could've likely held off dominion fighters for a brief time.i would've liked to have seen them at betazed.
I had the book about this ship there's a couple of things you had wrong. All of them have the 1000 registration number with U.S.S Akyazi NCC 1000. 1 that isn't armor on in the naracells, has something to do with emergency cooling, theyre 4versions of those. 2. It has three variants, with five different Bridge models, and crew complement ranging from 77 to 89. Some have only 3 torpedo tubes to forward and two rear lost home have four to forward and two rear, they do not have a shuttle Bay they do have to underbelly worker bee storage rooms, I feel like I'm having a single shuttle pod between engineering and the main saucer half, 3. The version with the bow is not the Akyazi, but it's it's Akula subclass NCC 1090 and Atami subclass NCC 1095. The end of the "bow" holds a long-range tactical sensor suite with a type 7 phaser emitter on both sides, the rest of the ship has Type 6 phasers. Out of The 128 vessels built only 5 was lost, 1 went missing (Starfleet mystery). Most were stationed at the Romulan and Klingon neutral zone border. The warp core is miniaturised and laying down like in the NX-01. Since this came out before the Enterprise TV show they took a lot of NX-01 designs from this ship. The timeline for this ship, as you can see in the registration number, it was before Captain Christopher Pike and the Enterprise. yeah I noticed the problem with the maximum speed in battle maximum, apparently the Atami what's the fastest reaching battle maximum speed of warp 22. Clearly not well thought-out, since anywhere pass warp 10 is transwarp. well I noticed interesting about the layout on decks 3 and 4 there's roles of crew quarters (2Personnel to each quarter) and a shared bathroom between each to crew quarters. And at the very end of each crew quarter block, is a larger privacy room, which looks like it has a king size bed (only), dec.2 were commanding officers quarters, they have their own bathroom. there's also one insta layout about the bridge, I only seen this with the layout of Enterprise D owners manual, walk towards the view screen and go out the door on your right make another right in walk down the narrow hall, to get to the bridge restroom.
This kind of pointless speculation about a non-existent thing is a ridiculous waste of time.
I love it!!!!
This ship looks great. I think it is my flavourite design after the TOS and TMP enterprises.
I would love to have seen ILM bring it to life with 1980's model work.
For anyone saying Akula Class take a look here memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Akula_class_(frigate)
Someone probably pointed this out already, but for your full review I would recommend: www.amazon.com/Ships-Star-Fleet-Akyazi-Class-Perimeter/dp/0965601617.
It has the full technical data on the ship (I'm not sure whether this is the publication that first introduced the design, but it's where I first saw it). Some interesting points from the book:
- Due to its role as a patrol/fast attack vessel, the ship's hull is actually supposed to be made of special "stealth" composites which make it black rather than the white we are used to seeing from this era (although I personally prefer the white hulls that you showed in the pictures). Also, the ship is not supposed to have external viewports (except for a small viewing lounge on the back of the ship).
- The vessel was inspired partially by the Orion attack ship from “Journey to Babel”. Like that ship, it was designed to use up almost all of its energy in a short burst, so it can achieve very high speeds and combat much larger vessels, but then it will probably need to be towed back to a starbase for repairs.
- The bridge module can jettison and function as an emergency escape pod. Also, the two booms connecting the primary hull to the engineering section at the back can be cut with explosive bolts as a form of “saucer separation”; there are emergency impulse engines behind panels on the back of the primary hull for that purpose too. The two horizontal tubolifts which connect the primary hull to the engineering section would serve as lifeboats in that case.
- The variant with the pylons below the hull is the "Akula" sub-class. The pylons support a deflector pod, which helps absorb incoming weapons fire and dissipate the energy far from the body of the ship.
- Although there are no shuttlebays, a single shuttle can be carried on the outside, docked to a port in between the two booms (similar to how Spock’s shuttle docked in back of the bridge in The Motion Picture).
The PA class ships were designed in mind like the old PT Boats, hunter killer submarine, and the ablity to use air to air combat tactics to defeat the enemy. Smaller shp, highi power and the ability to dish out punishment, means less comfort and less room for bars and such. Just a fighting ship like the old Destroyers of wWII. so yes it looks odd, but then in combat do you actually need a wet bar?
I remember playing this ship on the Xbox 360 game star trek legacy, it's not a bad ship, that game had many cool ships from all the different eras, any star trek fan should get this game it has the voices of captain archer, captain kirk, captain picard, and many more
Nice ship but I'd still fill in those gaps back and front with a shuttle pod bay and deflector, respectively.
I hope you guys revisit this design sooner than later. Keep up the great work.😊
The Akila variant, ( the one with the undeslung phaserpod ) featured in the Star Trek Legacy game, where it was designated as a destroyer ( just to fit it in the classificationsystem within the game ), always liked using that ship. And recently i found a PDF of the original 'Ships of the Starfleet' book featuring these perimeter action ships. took me ages to find that one and for a long time Google was'nt really forthcoming to that. Very happy to have it now.
I really miss the TOS and movie era ships...I think theyre more realistic and "human."
The movie era ships specifically, the TNG have way too much animated parts that make them look a bit cartoonish. That's what made the motion picture era ships looks so much better was the absence of the glowing swirly psychedelic stuff on the original ship that made it look so dated. The Enterprise from the motion picture actually looks like a real ship , a real space-faring machine built by humans that could travel and looks powerful.
And then TNG had to go back and add animation that bled over onto the ships' hull and distracted from the design in my opinion.
Oldie but goldie :). Really nice little ship.
Still my favorite, waiting for the full episode promised.
At 11:11 it resembles the Wasp. As always, please continue making it so.
On the last picture that you guys shared the deflector is there it's the single blue strip that's lit up above the torpedo tubes. Just thought I would point that out.
I wish they could go back to the source material, Ships of the Star Fleet.
Full episode on the Akayzi class Akula variant is when?
I don't like the swoopy doopy floopiness of the struts, but everything else I like.
Search Mateen Greenway, he and another guy did the mesh by 1997.
It looks like it's right between the Movie era and TNG.
We had those in star fleet battles back in the it's, my favorite class
Hi guys, great video of one of my favorite movie era ships. I first saw that class and it’s variants in the Ships of the Starfleet (103rd edition) books printed back in 1992 ish. It is one of the more interesting designs that caught my eye as a kid. I can also take a picture of the book and post it, but someone already did you the Facebook page 🙂.
The NX-01 and Franklin designs were ripped off from this.
Also, the flat design made it harder to detect and identify.
The Ships of the Fleet book explains that Starfleet was inspired by the Orion suicide attack on Kirk's ambassador mission in Journey To Babel. It's designed to do max damage to a group of enemy vessels to slow them down for larger ships/task force.
The JAKA phasers are designed to fire overloaded over and over.
The ship in the second picture is an Akula class starship. It was featured in the game Star Trek Legacy. The pylons that point down are connected to an emitter for what I believe is a high-powered phaser. In game it was classed as a destroyer. I thought they were a fun little ship to play with but lacked the firepower of other destroyers.
You can play it on Star Trek Legacy game.
Reminds me of the Akula class.
Pretty cool. I like the name too.
pretty sure Mr Krause used this as a basis for the Wasp
Want it! STO! Cool ship!
it's a deflector module
This looks like the Intrepid from Enterprise evolved up to The Motion Picture, even including unecessary fins on the nacelles. Some of the "variants" are ugly as sin, especially the one with the stupid downswept fins/pods/whatever.
I wish I knew how to use 3D modeling software, I'd really love to upgrade this design, bring it more into the post-Voyager era.
Have you tried gmax? It's free and really easy to use, took me 2 hours from installing the software to building my first tank (took a couple of months to make something that I'm proud of, but that's another story...)
In my opinion this is a Defiant Class precursor. Heavily armed, low profile, very good shielding, and very fast.
The downward sweeping "wings" are warp sustainers. That variant is the Akula Class and it was literally a high speed patrol ship.
Joseph White But..... the Defiant isn’t very fast at all🤭
Looks like a NX-01 design
It’s different I like it
yes Ido like it a great .
This is one of the few designs that make into all of my Bridge Commander installs.
Mine too! Have you gotten the Belknap to work in STBC?
This has been around for a while indeed. I've had this in my ship database for at least 10 years and it's always been one of my favorite motion picture era designs. I really like how you guys cover these fan made ships, it really brings back memories of when I would spend hours just pouring through thousands of jpgs looking for cool ship designs. I was fascinated the amount of effort that went into the design and layouts of these concepts.
Did i see "Cloaking" mentioned in the weapons menu ?
You did. As per 'Ships of the Star Fleet Vol. 2', it's the "Orissa cloaking generation and statis countermeasure system (Systems constractor: Prentice-Schafer Inc., Marsport, Mars)". It precedes the Treaty of Algeron (2311) by 26 years, so it's canonically possible.
What program is used to design these ships?
3d max , blender, lightwave, sketchup take your pic.
Fantastic Reviews! I love it. A small request, I would love to see the U.S.S. Callister reviewed from Black Mirror. The ship reminded me of a cross between the classic enterprise and the Ship from galaxy quest.
I like this design very much. Unique and Original while clearly classic Star Trek.
I had this ship in Armada II, a ship someone made, and it was beautiful! This is a ship I wish was in STO! You guys have had a great lineup of ships on the channel and I've been really enjoying it all. Thank you very much for all the great content!
11:11 It reminds me of the long-range sensor on FASA's Mosby-class.
You mentioned nacelle fins and the view At minute mark 6:31 gives me the impression of something combining NX class and Intrepid Type elements of the 22nd century and making them work for the 23rd century. Very nice
Wow really detailed mission briefing. Those nacelles look weird with the panels or fins sticking out though.
The name suggests it might be a Turkish Designer. Akyazı is a location within Turkey
The 2nd ship is a refit !
No, it is a later class.
Seems a mix of NX Intrepid & Defiant classes.
lol 454 views after one hour? Am I really so early or what?! jk
I like it. Needs a torpedo pod down below. But I like it. :)
Interesting design though a lot of negative space.
I've always liked the Akyazi class.
Hey, do the Akyazi class
Thanks.
I would appreciate a full episode. Comes from a publication of ships of the starfleet. As you can probably tell if you notice that my only comments on your channel were asking for you to do this ship, I greatly appreciate it. Big fan of this channel and this ship. Please read the technical manual for this class and the variants. Mention the "cameo" in JJ Star Trek 3. Yes, there are several reimaginings rendering the ship with different iterations. I think the McCook is pretty faithful, hopefully you can get in touch with that modeler. The main stinger is a weapon, the small stingers under the warp nacelles are the answer to deflector, its supposed to be torpedo launchers in the cutout and yes, there are workbees but no shuttle bay, it is designed to have a shuttle pod (ala the warp sled shuttle) docked externally so it is in the warp bubble and protected by the struts (pontoons as you called them) to be semi perminent I imagined. Lets see a full episode.
Did you guys read the cutaway/orthographic legend and descriptions? The plates along the nacelles are "warp field reflectors", this has a cloaking device, there's a thing in the middle called a "defensive system generator" that I don't think refers to a normal shield system, and the front and back halves of this ship are connected with explosive bolts! There seems to be lot about this design you guys didn't touch!
Yes the commander called out the warp Shield reflectors. At first glance to me they looked like shutters too quickly release more plasma or they can be closed to conceal the warp signature. But it definitely was mentioned, but not necessarily their purpose since it is not a canon ship.
What is hanging down are two Pulse Phasers. Captain Foley...
And a shield.
Really cool ship!
The things at the bottom were phaser banks I believe.
And a shield.
In space the Profile of a ship has no effect on the speed!! YOU guys should know that.