Ready-made bunkers or tiny houses too

I could see them being sold or given to colonists too

You do realize we’re talking about RVs. Motorhomes in the 20th & 21st century, and now the new improved RVs in the future.

Don't forget the little old ladies knitting seat covers for them. Lol

Fredo class Pakled escape pod

They're to a Starship as sweets to a pinata. Hit a starship enough and all the little ones fall out.

ringing sound for each pod hit.

If just a mercy kill. :-o

'All those escape pods... so small, so vulnerable, I'll order their destruction immediately."

It's a war crime to target escape pods.

I Should have clarified, when I mentioned energy, I looked into replicators a while ago and came to the conclusion that they do indeed convert matter at an atomic level into new forms via a similar matter>energy>new matter process as a transporter. The energy requirement I was referring to in this video is just the power needed to run such as system.

@@CertifiablyIngame wouldn't that also explain how one could have lunch in a cafe generated in the holo-suite?

The survivors are storing the raw material for replicators, in their colons...

What about when it replicates a glass, mug or plate?

@@callumdonington2227 It's amazing what materials can be made with just hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon. Add a bit of silicates for that glassy coating, and it should pass basic inspection as a ceramic.

Parabuteo not to mention the sheer size of some ships

Probably correct. Also I suspect that is why there is a variable capacity, so if a lifepod is damaged its assigned crew can enter another pod if necessary.

They could perhaps be emergency beamed site to site straight to their escape pods. Site to site transport without a transporter at either the origin or destination is common in trek.

memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Site-to-site_transport

@@andromidius Or if it is simply unreachable to some of it's assigned occupants as they were away from their assigned station for some reason at the time the order was given and the path blocked by failed turbolifts or corridors being blocked by emergency forcefields due to intermediate sections being exposed to vacuum.

Meh, I'd just fit a small transporter to beam the poop straight out of the butt and then just never reassemble it, ST tech is criminally under used by the writers in many situations, lifeboats would be totally different after it was discovered how long Scotty had survived in a pattern buffer.

What gaggle mode? I didn't hear that word in the video

@@greatsayain It's mentioned at 4:55 in the video, and the phrase itself appears on screen at 5:01

@@plucas1 oh, I thought he said gather.

there would not be any unpleasant order as you can put matter into the replicators and "recycle" it into energy to be used to make something else source: star trek Voyager year of hell that is probably also how they can function for 8 months

Alternative use in an alternative timeline

Or helping a Chief Engineer get away with a princess?

That sequence really screwed up thier "Revised scaling" for the JJprise. The Kelvin Connie measures around 700 metres making it comparable to a Sovereign. That shot of the pod has the singular pod has it take up about 2-3 decks worth of area. Meaning they ejected him in a pod about the size of a shuttlecraft. Heck a runabout But on 3 toed sloth, ice planet hoth it's teeeny. Nerd nitpicking (addendum) now during the making of 09 Trek, there was a back and forth between VFX folk about the rescaling, I think it had to do with some saying the realistic proportions for a ship like that ultimately had to be larger, the classic Trekkers on staff wanted to keep it proportional, but of course it's a movie, no one really cares or notices and the plot comes first. The escaped pod HAD to be in the plot to enable the players to be in the right place etc. But it was before the ultimate call the Kelvinverse ship is larger, so it goes by old scaling. It's quite interesting ( To me anyway) How productions are fluid right up till release

Well Voyager had a ton of free space aboard as they weren't even at 75% crew capacity. Also its a exploration ship so likely a lot of cargo room. I'm guessing that they converted part of the ship to extra storage and shuttle craft construction.

@@jacara1981 It's also a tv show and not real, so

This was pre-battlestar reboot. Before then, there's the TV land elastic-reality where lets face it - no one cares how many shuttle craft there are as long as the story is gripping. Battlestar prooved that you could put the effort into counting craft. The minutae matters on this knife edge drama. Again, hindsight post BSG2 we point at Voyager and go ohh they could have done X. But before BSG2, no. Trek had rules sure. It had people like Mike Okuda, but it was Diagnosis Murder Trek. TV that had a-b-c formulae and reset. Ds9 pushed the envelope, but it wasn't successful at the time. Trust me, it was TNG, Voyager. DS9 was the redhead stepchild. NOW we appreciate it. Then? I cut Voyager slack, it was mandated to push the reset each episode because that sold in the 90's

TV has changed somewhat, plot arching drama was the domain of soap operas wherin you followed the characters on an arc. Other TV was one and done like I mentioned, Diagnosis Murder or Murder she Wrote. The X Files tried to push the envelope as far as an arch in sci fi and it succeeded garnering a huge cult following. If you want syndication in the 90's, your plots needed dip in and out stories. A hook that pulled in viewers but not investment. Execs learned from shows like battlestar and even as far back as Twin Peaks that resolution in an episode doesn't cut it anymore. People wanted to know who killed Laura Palmer and move on. Voyager was a response to DS9's slow burn plot 1 and done. Easy premise. So the shuttlecraft was a Gremlins affair to ensure the viewer just could dip in and out. They didn't need to watch episode X of Series Y to get they depleted thier reserves of type 9 shuttles. You'll notice midway through Voyager's run that it did improve and add concequences. But the internet was in infancy and feedback was only by people who were Manson like in cult devotion writing pieces or just viewing figures. Today everyone constantly critiques online, so we are seeing that reflected in new shows. Each successive season or movie in Star Wars case responds to "Engagement" There's a middle ground set in the tone I feel. You can do a post TNG series and respect canon and the minutae of trek as well as tell a new and exciting modern take. Just call New Trek: Pathfinder and retrace Voyager's route into the Delta Quadrant. Set up a new diverse crew of young, but capable crew of Starfleet with additional variables of a Vorta, who's the Dominion representative and serves as the Mr Spock and Worf of this show. A Romulan again serves as the other, connects with the Vorta and the bridge between the crew. . . Add some concequences that tie to an arc. It's DS9, meets Voyager in the middle. How does Federation ideology hold up on the frontier? Is a Vorta's faith challanged when a sporacistian lifeform informs them they were the solid that hunted changlings to near exctinction until they were "Domesticated"?

Actually... When Voyager started trading resources Etc with other races in the quadrant ( I grudgingly compliment & acknowledge neelix for that) and started seeking out and adapting the ship for alternate energy sources and new tech to extend their main power sources...it would be an easy thing to use the replicators for parts for Voyager rebuilding shuttlecraft the Delta Flyer and anything they needed or wanted. Thats how they go from replicating rations and emergency items to literally wine and roses. I mean they are not just on a mission like TOS,the ship is their home and all they really have or can count on is right there with them. And its a bit more..... Plausible...or what ever than TNG. Where the Enterprise D was always right around the corner from a Starbase...which they hurried to for repairs anytime the hull got scratched. You would think a ship like the Galaxy class with its guaranteed power supply replicators and a full engineering crew could have repaired or rebuilt anything on the ship.

Heh, forgot about them. I thought of the (potentially non-canon) Borg connecting smaller cubes to form larger cubes. I've read enough books, it's hard to keep canon straight sometimes, lol.

Would be ideal if pods from different ships of different classes or production dates could link together especially after a big battle.. eventually making like a Dyson's sphere. Or space station of sorts.

I wouldn't be surprised if the Suliban pods were an inspiration to Starfleet engineers.

Hey, you see a good idea, you don't care who had it, you use it.

@@twistedxknights a dysonsphere would require a very large battle indeed.

By the way, what happened to those escape pods the Enterprise E shot off to Earth on First contact ?. Are a lot of Picard.s.crew stuck.in the 21st.century?.

Crash on Delta-Vega " even the ore ships call once every twenty years " TOS. Pilot 2. " where no man has gone before".

Hungry now too!

@John Bockelie, could have used transports to return them to the ship, used shuttles to tractor them back or beamed up crew members and then destroyed the escape pods.

Yay, I have beans and hot dogs. Escape pod-themed meal, get in mah belly! 😋

Or at least reading material for the on-board toilet.

I wonder if they would have primary, secondary and tertiary pod assignments though, we see on a fairly regular basis in the show that decks are cut off from each other and so on, so surely there has to be some kind of plan for when you can't reach your designated escape pod aside from dying on the ship?

@@fisk0 perhaps site to site transporters would be used to increase the chance of evacuation.

It also makes it easier to know that everyone has actually made it to an escape pod. Part of emergency drills is having a designated mustering area, so they can make sure no one is missing, or at least know who is missing.

That’s precisely what they do on cruse ships: Have a lifeboat drill so you know where to go. This happens before you leave dock.

And theoretically, you could use some of the escape pods as improvised drop pods.

Larger isn't always better. Small, fast, tough, and able to cloak; seems like the perfect ship for a stealth insertion behind enemy lines.

They need a Defiant variant specifically for troops or maybe repurpose the Saber class for that job. No quarters just seats to sit and area to prepare and a sickbay. Small bridge. The underside of the ship can be layered with drip pods and tractor beams. The ship would have the ability to do mass high speed transport with transporters. Then the ship stays near to provide 24th century CAS.

I like this theory. Also just thought, perhaps the extra pods are in-case many get destroyed in battle as it's far more likely to be in combat?

@@CertifiablyIngame Or for misdirection. The Borg are likely to try to capture escape pods, and the Dominion aren't above sinking the lifeboats.

Surely, there would be ration packs in a shuttlepod. There would be a crew responsible for keeping the pods cleaned and supplied.

@@virginiaconnor8350some of those delicious federation field rations. One pack lasts days, much loved by engineers!

They also don't wear any type of body armour when they know they're going to be in a battle. Even when they're on a planet, or expecting to be boarded. Pretty poor for a military force.

One thing I did really like from the JJ movies on this subject, safety belts to keep you in your seat.

@@unknown9126 that was also a thing in Picard 😊

Problem with Trek is that, we spend most of the time in the 23rd and 24th century. The Federation of those time periods was far more technology dependent, so its always assumed that something within the ship will keep you alive...until it doesn't. But it would make since that the pods had some sort of space suit or breathing apparatus installed. We do know that shuttles have these and often use them for evacuation as we saw in Voyager at least once. As for that whole going into battle, oddly enough Trek does have personal force fields. They are mentioned in DS9 episode Paradise Lost. We also know that Starfleet, or at least the Federation does have a separate Marine division as the Defiant needs to go and escort one in a seven seven episode, so its likely they have better weapons than what Starfleet uses...however, yeah, we've never actually seen any of that on screen. Of course at the end of the day, up until recently, Trek has never had the best budgets. So that is pretty much the real problem.

@@ClarinoI what type of body armor would stop a shot from something that can vaporize a person

Maybe in a future video.

You are right, they say it's to keep the main population safe but it normally means something went very wrong.

@@DannyHeywood and to quote Data, "Oh shit!"

Life pod is for (potential) total lost of ship. Saucer separation is more for evacuation. Life warp core breach, Or using the aft section to distract enemy. Like the lizard dropping its tail.

Remember, there's absolutely nothing in Canon suggesting such a thing was ever intended. It first made it into the franchise on a conceptual leven during the production of TMP, based entirely on fan theories about the TOS ship. In TOS the only similar concept was the ejection of the nacelles / engine pods with the rest of the shop intact.

You would definitely like empyrion galactic survival for the survival aspect or stationeers for the station building aspect of it but I also wish there was a star trek themed survival game set in late 23rd to early 24th century. And having it in vr would be amazing.

Think about how far a habitable planet or moon where we would not need an artificial habitat is from us right now. Obviously anyone who made it to a life pod would just be floating in space till life support ran out hoping to be rescued, not actually descending to the surface of a habitable planet or moon especially if they did not have warp drive. I believe the life pods on say Voyager had minimal warp capability, likely warp 2 and likely on stored warp plasma rather than warp plasma generated in a engine core by antimatter reaction but the only other alternative would be suspended animation which we only saw on Calypso and that would likely not have been a Star Fleet life pod.

Sounds like Subnautica, actually...

Empyrion was a decent game. It was limited in some aspects. But the survival was kinda neat.

@@johnwang9914 Star Trek distances have never been consistent in any way. Everyone is always right next to an exceptionally Earth like planet. The real milky way likely has no other planet you could survive on without a suit for more than a few minutes.

No pods for lone wolves. Then again, we wouldn't be in Starfleet in the first place, would we?😆

"You just ate our ambassador!" Alien fish peoples response to first contact with Starfleet.

It'd be like going into a forest and eating every mushroom you find. Unless you have a scanner of course.

@@MrHidethecheese Once you start invoking sane precautions into Trek, the whole thing collapses. It's action adventure in space, not hard sci fi.

@@MrHidethecheese Don't eat them all. We need to save some for the Spore Drive ;).

Voyager year from Hell, I think they used them in First Contact, Battle of Wolf 359 (Sisko) and several others I forget, but generally seeing as you have warp core breaches, venting into space and what not. Death is more likely.

Man, these reconstituted rations taste like crap.

@@setojurai The coffee tastes a bit "nutty" and not sure why I have sweetcorn floating in my hot chocolate, I am sure I asked for marshmallows.

@@anarchyantz1564 more to the point, you haven't seen anyone eat any sweetcorn either...

@@admiralsquatbar127 Ah....they may be space weevils. Kryten states they generally are corn fed.

No, Honorverse has sufficient lifeboats for the entire crew PLUS an additional third. Same as most every warship today.

Fine, then open the hatch and leave. Dibs on your rations.

Ugh, the smell...

I am trying to picture the training at Starfleet Command for such an eventuality. You think the pods have Nasal freezing agents, like T'Pol used?

Been there done that. Except it was tube filled with 150 guys. SSN veteran.

Urrr...Covid lockdown?

Better yet, include computer autostart and autopilot programs into the shuttle that automatically get activated as soon as an abandon ship is called. Or even have them all autostart and warm up whenever red alert is called. Then when they get jettisoned, they can be programmed to automatically seek out escape pods.

@@cympimpin20 The TNG Technical Manual indicates that all three shuttlebays are brought to launch readiness at Red Alert, two shuttles are brought to launch readiness. So somebody was thinking about it.

@@3Rayfire honestly if i was in charge of a ship i'd have all shuttles brought to readiness with quick preflights and flight crews whenever a red alert is sounded. just in case that an evacuation is called or the captain orders you out to recover, tractor, or even engage in battle.

@@glitterboy2098 I don't know if having 25 loaded and fueled shuttles on the deck ready to go is a safety hazard or not. A torpedo into the hangar bay would make that much bigger a boom. I'm dubious on the efficacy of shuttles in battle, it's not a runabout.

It's actually based on real science, as most things in Mass Effect are. Even just landing on another planet, the likelihood that air is the right concentration of oxygen, nitrogen and other gases to be breathable and usable to our bodies is very small. We were evolved to live and die on Earth, and nowhere else. The likelihood is that other aliens are under the same issues. Any common meeting is likely to take place entirely in spacesuits. We definitely won't be eating each other's food. Even Mass Effect is pretty lite on the realistic aspect of that, in order to make a good game. Real hard sci-fi would be pretty boring to watch or play as a game.

@@compmanio36 Not just Earth, but Earth of the present and recent past. For over a billion years life made do without any atmospheric oxygen, for example. At the end of the Permian age, the oxygen levels had dropped to around 12% compared to today's 21%, which would not be survivable to many people and still dangerous to the very fit.

If only because if you're on an Oberth, you aren't living long enough to actually reach the escape pods 😂🤣🤣

making planet fall would be best... because most planets are perfectly habitable in Star Trek. Do not try this IRL.

Also escape pods were kind of pointless for TOS as they were going where no one had gone before and where no one would be able to follow up for years, perhaps decades. Even the Enterprise D didn't have escape pods although the refit TOS Enterprise did have escape pods. Really seems to be a movie thing. Movies really like to dumb down the setting.

@@gallendugall8913 Also, the manual even specifies that the ship is outfitted with escape pods. One feature of the Galaxy Class escape pods was that they could link together to form a larger survival vessel and allow the crew to share resources.

I have agree since shuttlecraft also have Warp engines. but I think speed limited Warp 2.

She was just telling them not to give up. If you were lost on the opposite side of the planet with no phone or money, I'm sure you'd start walking in the direction of home even if it were impossible to actually cross

@@topogigio7031, NO! I would walk in the direction of a city or of a similiar place where I could get shelter, food, resources, so I could find a realistic way to get a plain or a boat or a car to my home in the opposite side of the planet.

7:20 IIRC, to save energy the Replicator do have stored carbon as counter-mass to eleminate. Guess where that Carbon comes form^^ Stuff was different in TOS times.

The Constitution class saucer separation wasn’t like the Galaxy class and it would require a star base repair facility to reattach it to another vessel.

I don’t see them packing anything other than a warp sustainment drive (as seen on Photon-Torpedos, it does what it sounds like) into something as small as that and leave room for much else, maybe in a century or two with some more miniaturization, but in the 24th century it just wouldn’t fit.

The Sabre-class uses the intrepid style I think? Makes sense as it was made alongside the Defiant. I wonder why both have excessive pods.

Code "brown pants"

I assume prep time would mean making sure a shuttle had necessary supplies to act as a life pod. Most shuttles already had some sort of emergency kit (basic first aid, tricorder, phaser, and simple tools for field maintenance, maybe rations), but the standard emergency kit on a shuttle would probably pale in comparison to the standard loadout of a lifepod.

Perhaps a shuttle is kept 'warm' for emergencies. You'd think that'd mean there's crew nearby... ...but how many times has someone fled the ship through an unmanned transporter pad?

Theoretically your work area, quarters, and escape pod would all be within "were about to blow up" distance.

BA Hahahah!

@@thatrealba but still what about the bridge and engine room and people farther away from the outer hull

@@TreGaming04 the bridge and main engineering are specifically close to escape pods, as it would be important to maintain as many of the senior officers as possible. Recall that the only senior officers whom we have seen blow up with a ship were those who stayed on purpose to maintain heading or keep enemy attention for as long as possible. They "went down with the ship."

And DS9's "Changing Face of Evil". The Federation fleet was destroyed and the escape pods were allowed to "Return to the Federation"

also means that if there's time, you can nab or even transport some spare supplies and such in as well.

pretty sure it was "pod" singular.

@@michaelgreenwood3413 My mistake, but that doesn't invalidate my point.

Well, no one could trigger it quick enough when the ship's hull is about to collapse. I think the minimum hull integrity needed to be able to use it is 25%, but at that point the ship blows up before you can even use it.

There was a few times it helped on a respawn to get crew back up to speed faster, but then they did away with crew counts too, so it eliminated any purpose for the "abandon ship" ability to exist.

@@compmanio36 : If I remember correctly, they did away with the crew mechanics because it never worked properly.

One of my captains uses fighters. I try to not think too hard about that. (Or that on console they never implemented carrier commands properly, such as 'retrieve fighters'. Her littering fees are measured in HEAPS of gold-pressed latinum ... )

Simple solution, use a Galaxy class and when your hull reaches around 30% commence saucer separation. The saucer doesn't actually blow up with the hull.

I have always wondered how people on a galaxy class ship would get to the pods in time because those ships are huge

Crew quarters AS escape pods. Just go to your room, do the procedure aanndd you're gone.

@@seldonwright4345 That would have changed the ending of TNG's _The Child._ TROY: _"Ian! Hold tight!! We're going on an adventure..."_ (Also, Kes should have used the nearest pod, instead of trying to get to the shuttlebay.)

Decayed trees.

@@brodriguez11000 "decayed" as in "eaten and pooped out by countless animals and microbes"