I had a Dodge Intrepid in high school. I remember watching Voyager on the UPN channel when it came out. My intrepid was white so I put the USS Voyager NCC 74656 and a starfleet insignia on the hood.

I would love to see a video breaking down the modifications made to voyager during it's mission

Whatever you may think of the show itself... Voyager was the best looking "Hero" ship in the franchise... just my opinion.

I love how the Intrepid's purpose clashes with Voyager's first mission to hunt Maquis in the badlands. They needed a coastal coastal gunboat so they sent an America's Cup yacht.

You've got to imagine that an intrepid class hoofing it across the whole galaxy was a huge feather in the class' cap.

It amazes me how much detailed, specific info there is on technology that doesn't even exist

The Intrepid class was an excellent design for its purpose.

I definitely like this high end, compact design. Although it really seems there’s nowhere to go on that ship besides the mess hall and holodecks! But I guess that’s why Tom and B’Elanna had to sneak off to Jeffries Tubes, while the Galaxy-class has dozens of small and large stargazing and canoodling lounges. One tiny nitpick, there was dialogue indicating the tricobalt warheads aren’t standard loadout. I also reckon Section 31 makes heavy use of this class, given the sensors and high speed. (Plus of course, that being the holodeck we’re shown when Bashir is abducted.) Being a favoured admiralty ship is good cover for that too.

The only ship that can get a cold indeed XD I just love the Doctors reaction to the whole situation, just another patient for the bio-bed. "Dont you worry my little friend!" and Belanna is looking at him like hes lost his mind

I love the Intrepid class design, it just looks very balanced and purposeful. The teaspoon shaped primary hull, and blending of primary and secondary hulls probably inspire the Enterprise-E design. Interesting to learn the degree to which it was designed around certain purposes for the plot of the series, as this probably helped keep the design grounded and realistic looking.

Absolutely love the Intrepid class! I've named the "hero" ship in my own sci-fi novel the Intrepid in its honour. It's also an exploration vessel, in its case, it's primary mission is to seek out the naturally-occurring wormholes that are the main method of getting from Point A to Point B in a space opera that *follows* relativity. Thank you, Star Trek, for the inspiration!

I like the Intrepid a lot, but special shout out to the Intrepid's successors in ST Online: The Pathfinder and Trailblazer classes. I adore those

This is my favourite ship design in all of ST, followed VERY closely by the NX-01 Enterprise. It has this little dog mentality, if you want a fight we'll being it, that I just love

The Intrepid and the Nova classes are my favorite ship designs. I love smaller ships designs.

It was also the first to come equipped with the newest generation of Industrial replicators for use in building new shuttles, worker bees, habitats for planets and asteroids, and just about anything else they need while on extended missions away from core federation space and supply routes. These new generation replicators had the added tech to process raw ore that they mined among other advantages from previous generations.

Have you done a video on the gel packs? I’m very interested in the development of the devices, both in-universe and IRL.

A very balanced design! Simple but refined. The only feature I never liked was the design of warp engines moving.

5:30 So for perspective, an Intrepid class is similar dimensionally to a Ford class aircraft carrier. Intrepid is longer and wider than USS Ford @ 337m x 78m flight deck, but more squat than 76m. But 7x the mass and 5 percent of the crew. This is relevant to me having served 4 years on a Nimitz class.

THe intrepid class ship is my fav ship. Loved the voyager show.

I remember with Voyager that the holodecks apparently ran on a different power source than the rest of the ship, and the power sources were not compatible somehow. Bizarre writing choices aside, I think it would be interesting to see some kind of cruise-space-ship where each cabin is a small holodeck. You could essentially have an entire mansion, castle, top-floor 1980's penthouse, pirate ship, etc, to yourself between stops. And the simulations would be stocked with nice gadgets and souvenirs you couldn't take out of the room, but could buy at the gift shop! By Gint's portfolio, I'll be ROLLING in latinum!

when it come to the voyager modification im surprised they didnt develop a cloaking device as that would be useful for avoiding hostile forces

Intrepid was designed for variety if mission parameters. - facilitate modern defense priorities even among non war capable starships. (Replace obsolete starships) - Mitigate manning requirements for strategic use ( ship of 150 vs 300 to 400) - testbed for higher efficiency Propulsion speeds - testbed for possible technologies (bio gel packs) to potentially introduce in new or upgraded starships or test long term viability in deep space conditions - investigation of possible colonization of future federation worlds (stake claim with fastest ship)

I woke up this morning wanting to find a very very specific type of video. This was exactly that video. Thank you

Honestly probably my single favorite design concept to come out of StarTrek, its a dedicated Science Vessel but is armed like a Galaxy class but around 1/3 the total size. The Luxury liner in space that was the Galaxy class. I also love they took the best design queues from Voyager and brought it forward with the the next generation of StarFleet vessels. The warp pylons on the Intrepid always looked a bit awkward and tacked on rather than an intention design feature, which I suppose lore wise actually makes sense. Anyhow looking forward to a review of the many upgrades Voyager got during its trip home as a piece of future content!

Love the intrepid-class, especially Voyager. It’s actually my favorite out of all the hero ships, Enterprise included.

I always loved the intrepids design. its both sleek and sturdy looking, and still completely star fleet.

Damn, there's a lot to love in those concept designs.

This is one of my favorite ships. Newer classes of starships were getting larger and larger, because they believed this was required for deep space exploration. This left a gap, so they made the Intrepid class anyway. This was after the disaster at Wolf 359, so they knew it had to be able to take care of itself. And this was before Seven of 9 became a member of Voyager, who then started upgrading Voyager with Borg technology for the remainder of its journey across the galaxy. So although it's not the Defiant or Prometheus, it's still a tough ship.

I love the intrepid design the shape, and sheer durability it really is just an amazing and well-rounded design.

I'd just like to take a moment to congratulate the artists in Star Trek Online for making the canon ships look freaking *amazing*

The Intrepid was one of the first ship designs that made me think someone got a bit of inspiration while eating a meal. "What should we base the design around?" "... I have this spoon," "..." "..." "..." "It's better than a fork." "Yes, Starfleet wouldn't go with a fork-ship." "Or a knife," "What about the Romulans?" "... a spoon is perfect."

Awesome video! Keep up the great work. Requesting to see a video about Voyager after it came back in end game. Let's hear all about the added technology episode by episode. Things that were added and potentially could have been added. Like the cannon they were looking to acquire b4 7 of 9 had the got oustead. There was another terrific episode where they were caught in a pocket of space and came across a ship with more advanced sensors. Janeway said to take the technology off of that ship to help them. No it wasnt season 1's caught in an annomoly episode. Lol. Thanks

WOOOOOOH! YEAH! INTREPID! WOOOOH! I like this ship. Definitely my favourite, canon ship. Its an excellent light explorer. Going out for only say two years instead of five. But possibly getting just as much done in that time. Something else cool about the Intrepid is that when compare side-by-side with the much longer excelsior they actually have comparable internal volume. That is to say the foundational space inside used to store equipment and crew it quite close.

You missed out that the plans for the Intrepid class show 2 warp cores. And dolphins.

I started listening to the other top Star Trek KZfaqrs... they're all excited and often frustrated about something.... I like your channel best. Also, would LOVE to see a video about the timeline of upgrades to the USS Voyager.

Not just awesome content from an info point of view but your beauty shots of the ship class from Star Trek Online rival the intro's to Trek. Amazing work Rick!

Rick I truly love your work you have a great narrative style you seem likeable some one who loves the franchise and who iv followed from the start thank you for the 100s of hours of wounder keep up the first rate work all the best mon ame

There are only 2 KZfaqrs I get excited for, when they post a new video. You and rSlash. I love your videos! Always learn something new!

Awesome video Rick! Loving your channel buddy. Love the joke at the end “it’s the only ship on star fleet that can catch a cold” Keep up the good work

That was great dude! Thanks!

I've always been curious about how Voyager ranked in terms of power/speed etc once it returned to Earth. Like I know it was pretty much vaulted and studied by Starfleet, but considering all it's upgrades and tech from the future, it must have been a formidable ship even if it was almost 7yrs old.

Great video on one of my favorite vessels! Having recently watched the entire Voyager series again, I was left frustrated by how concept-rich it was, but how it rarely pursued the potential of most of those concepts. And it short shrifted some of the regular and recurring crew members (ahem, Ensign Kim, ahem).

..indeed, the voyager deserves it's own vid discussion...please do come up with one..stay awesome!!

I would absolutely LOVE a video on all of Voyager's modifications!

As much as people dump on Voyager's writing, USS Voyager has to be one of the sexiest ships in all of trek.

I liked the fact they mostly did away with the vulnerable neck area that never made any sense but something about the tail of it seems off

🖖😎👍Very nicely well executed and informatively explained in every way and detail possibly provided indeed, And I myself have always been a big fan of the Intrepid class👌.

The Intrepids are my favorite ship class hands down.

My big question is: are there OTHER Intrepid class ships that have been mentioned in Canon? I think it’s the most beautiful class…

I always thought a likely explanation for the aero shuttle was that it hadn't been installed by Voyagers initial mission to the badlands. Instead a plate was installed in the hull to block off the bay and this otherwise unused space would have been used for the hydroponics Bay or some other improvised use. Hell, it would have been an excellent launch/storage bay for the Delta Flyer eventually! Convert that plate into a set of drop bay doors and you have plenty of space to build and maintain the thing without crowding the main shuttle bay complex.

I had a few of the Playmates ships. The Duras bird of prey, the Enterprise E, and Voyager. All of them had lights and sound effects. Voyager also had motorized nacelles just like in the show. I really miss my toys/models. I bought them about 25 years ago 😊😊😊

Great video loved this ship in-game and on tv

I too really love Voyager's design. I always thought Rick Sternbach's early concept the model that was built was interesting. A while back I made a Voyager model and was able to get Rick Sternbach's permission to have it as the U.S.S. Sternbach in honor of him and the registry was his birth date which he allowed me to use. I ended up selling the model but I am getting another Voyager model from a friend soon and I'll probably build that as the U.S.S. Sternbach.

Built with the most powerful plot armor Starfleet has ever created, this class can take on borg cubes single handily where fleets before were destroyed.

This is one of my favorite youtube channels. You always generate well thought-out content while avoiding transphobic bullshit like some other Trek-tubers put out. Keep up the good work.

"Didn't want to risk losing the aeroshuttle because getting a replacement would be difficult." And then voyager made the mary sue shuttle, the delta flyer, with that inability to get another large shuttle, incorporating borg technology, as well as pioneering some as part of it's design, like a small shipyard, that couldn't replace a large shuttle that used standard, known technology. It was supposedly because of "budget". Which still doesn't make sense because the aeroshuttle in concept would use the runabout interior set, could be CG generated, etc. A small study for the aeroshuttle was in fact made, using the runabout set and some stage crew in costume as well as some middling effort CG as a proof of concept. The producers didn't do any more with it because of "production costs". Then they made the delta flyer set. And a CG model. And gave it tons of screen time. Etc. Yet another example of voyager's bizarre production at times. Maybe if pressed hard enough the producers will finally admit voyager has a secret, limitless, infinite energy replicator on board. That'd explain the torpedoes as well in addition to the fact voyager is nearly destroyed almost every fight but is miraculously repaired and brand new clean and tip top shape by next episode. That's the real absurd thing in terms of resources.

It had a 5th torpedo launcher in secondary hull under side of engineering near warp core ejection zone , tuvok used it to defend against 2 ships of the vidian peoples in the delta quadrant, not many people mention this but it’s there I saw it fire from that zone on that episode tuvok had B Elanna toras chief engineer at that time eject a contaminant pod of old duteriaum or use up antimatter , one of them any ways an fired torpedo towards it an blew it up an disabling those 2 vidian ships it was cools as hell

Nova class looks on enviously.

Honestly it is one of my favorite designs.

Dude you and your content are so awesome. You remind me of spacedock, are you sure you're not him as well?

I love this ship! I always thought it was way better looking than any of the enterprise offerings.

There's one other thing you don't go over and that's if Voyager is anything to go on *at all* Intrepids have exceptionally resilient hulls for their size and have very few critical weakpoints that could cause catastrophic damage. Their shields also seem to significantly over perform for their size when combined with the hull strength. We see Voyager even right out of the yard take repeated punishment to the hull with either no or very limited shields and it absorbs firepower that would typically be an episode-defining problem in TNG pretty regularly, to the point where at least to me it genuinely seems like an Interpid's hull is tougher than a Galaxy's by quite some margin. I'm sure this is exaggerated in the later Voyager seasons thanks to all the upgrades but even very early it's extremely tough

Oh yeah. I forgot about the last part. Thanks again Rick.

I would be interested to hear your thoughts in a video where other Starfleet ships from the 24th century would have to make the same 70,000 light year journey that Voyager did, to see how well you think they would do and if they would even complete the journey.

Love these videos

These videos really make me want an updated Bridge Commander game.

I like your emphasis on more videos of pointing out that lore services the story

Thank you Rick.

I enjoyed this. Thanks

awesome video sir congrats i wish eventually you could do a video of the ronin class ships thanks in advance sir!

My favourite fact is that most intrepid successors maintain the bio neural gel packs so like starfleet is one bioweapon away from having half of its fleet take a sick day

Intrepid is my fav ship of all time. Enterprise B and D runners up. Refit constellation honorary mention.

the intrepid class is one of my favourite because is good in everything... can pack a punch if needed the defence capability are insane... work as a science vessel long range... I think if change a little could work so well as very long range explorer... like the pathfinder class... you could add a vehicle replicator and a protostar drive

Interesting design question I have but I'm not sure where it fits. But is there ever a canon explanation as to why the film/early lost era ships had enclosed Bussard Collectors?

this has always been one of the best designed ships i would ask that you make a video about the yeger class that branches off of the intrepid cause I always found that class very interesting

The Path Finder is the sexy upgrade it needed

Hey Ric! Please, I need another video about the _progressive upgrade process_ of Voyager =D

I would say another reason they never used the captains yacht was because even if they would be able to replace it or close the gap in the hull with permanent duranium, that would have meant at least 2-3 months repairing at a random space base, which could make them an easy target for the kazons etc. and later the Borg or Hirogen. It would also have meant that they would have lost months of flying towards earth. So they sticked to those vessels whose lost don't mean a big gap in the hull (which is a huge security risk!)

We always think of her as a smaller vessels, but it's still larger and far more volume than the Constitution. They just really packed them in on those old ships.

I love the Intrepid class. One of the things you didn't mention is that it can conduct planetary operations and landings. Given that bad things have previously been shown to happen to starships that venture too far into an atmosphere, this is a big deal.

Hi Ric! Love your vids, always a pleasure to see a new one in my sub feed. Any chance you could make a video about the DEVORE IMPERIUM from Voyager? Always thought they were a great antagonist race and I'm sad they've never been revisited. Take Care!!

I'm glad you landed that pot-shot one Neelix's cooking at the end so I didn't have to.

Never tire of seeing this speed demon

The original reason for the variable geometry warp field wasn't high speed but not causing environmental damage to habitable planets. At some point the writers hoped everyone had just forgotten about it and never mentioned it again but there are several, fairly obscure references from Voyager and in early written material related to Voyager making it clear that was the reason for the folding nacelle pylons. Also, as anyone who has watched Voyager knows the Intrepid class has a highly variable number of shuttles and torpedoes which apparently rapidly increase and decrease for no known reason and follow no discernable pattern.

We do need a video on Janeway’s Frankenship. :)

Voyager was only equipped with the. Bio neural gel packs. They only attempted to switch and retrofit over to the isolinear chips when they were stranded in the Delta quadrant.

To me the Intrepid a return to the basics that made the Constitution class so great.

3:25 Lol, "modifications". Yeah, but very few were kept. Though the Borg modifications on that one tiny section were kept I suppose lol.

You missed a couple of 0s in the shuttle craft complement bit. :D

The Intrepid Starship is my No. 1 favorite design. Then Galaxy, Soverign, etc.

Cool, my SF Science toon flies a ship in the Intrepid family.

Thanks Rick (:

Definitely in the top 5 designs from starfleet. Intrepid was sleek and quick with it's bio neural circuitry , not as big as a galaxy but seems close to it's power . The fact it was equipped with a holographic doctor was also a bonus . I only felt the concept of the nacelles moving was unnecessary or flawed in it's design

I noticed alot of 3D rendering from STO, being a player for nearly 15 years, with Lifetime membership. I'd be interested in having you joing one of my fleets.

I always fancied the Intrepid class as being a potential replacement for the Excelsior class. A fast, deep space exploratory and utility ship that could handily double as a heavy cruiser.

Why do you use metric units for the height, length and width, but imperial for the weight?

Most beautiful ships in the fleet ❤️

It was one of the more interesting designs (a fast sleek spoon), but always thought the nacelle size relative to the rest of the ship's mass seemed off for a ship that could sustain high warp speeds.

Voyager is one of the best ships in Design, I think😊

How do you think voyagers journey through the delta quadrant would have gone, had it been a galaxy class? A longer journey but with less obstacles? Or would the galaxy class have been more easily captured