Finding out that the Discovery is larger than the Enterprise E is hilarious because even with all that size, Burnam still has to share a room with Tilly.

"U.S.S. Riker's Erection" _needs_ to be canon. NX-96069.

I’d like to know about Star Trek’s Star Bases

One detail that kind of stuck out to me is that pretty much all the Federation ships we saw in the first two seasons were some variation of a saucer-and-nacelles design, and the only ships in the show that had the secondary hull were the Crossfield and Constitution classes. So... you could make the assumption that the Crossfield is so big because it’s the Federation’s first attempt at making a ship with that design configuration and they just haven’t figured out how to minimise all the technology (which could also explain why the Crossfield’s design is so blocky and angular). And then they started work on the Constitution class where they were able to refine the concept and scale it down to a more efficient size and design.

The Shenzhou and Enterprise Bridges were actually separate sets. The Shenzhou bridge itself has been reused multiple times or redressed to make other ships. There was another Starfleet ship in a Season 1 episode, which was fighting Klingons, so they used it in that. For Season 2, it became the Section 31 ship bridge and then, most recently, it became the central section of Starfleet HQ in Season 3. The Enterprise Bridge has only ever been used for the Enterprise, both on Discovery, Short Treks and the upcoming spin-off "Strange New Worlds".

Adam, are you sure you're not a character on that holodeck? You are too awesome and funny to be real. "Computer, create a holodeck character to make Data laugh"

Thank you so much for giving credit to the XB-70 bomber. I'm so old I remember my father holding a TV Guide magazine and telling me about a new series called "Star Trek" that would soon premier on TV, and I recognized the design long time ago from the bomber itself and the early 70's series that never happened.

Your comedic delivery was absolutely on point in this video hahaha, I'd love to see some videoes about Earth Spacedock/Starbase 1

I'd love to see more about Book's ship the Nautilus and its capabilities.

One interesting bit that wasn’t in here, but revealed in Eaglemoss’s magazine that came with the XL Discovery was that the initial idea for Discovery’s defining feature wasn’t the Spore Drive, but a camouflage mode to infiltrate Klingon space: The outer ring of the saucer would detach, so the ship would be able to mimic the warp signature of a Klingon cruiser. Pretty cool idea. My personal headcanon about the segmented rings has been the ability to detach and or quarantine that segment because of all the science experiments that are on it.

The Enterprise bridge was a completely new build, even constructed on a separate soundstage on the Pinewood lot. Watch the behind the scenes featurettes on the Discovery Season 2 BluRay.

Despite my earnest desire to be a "good audience member" I cannot ignore that Starfleet put black boxes in every single ship for the express purpose of finding the cause is any catastrophic disaster to the ship. Then, when it happens on a vast scale (AKA "The Burn") it never occurred to the Entire Starfleet system to track down the black boxes until Burnham does it? That is stretching credulity, isn't it?

Up until the '80s, when it came to ship sets, they had the excuse that they were doing a teleplay, with everything that goes along with that. But since the '80s, we've been in a position where we could produce plausible sets. Paramount/CBS need to take the right lessons from Babylon 5: make your sets as flexible as possible, and have a good excuse for saminess.

Just saying I'd watch the deep dive on the video idea mentioned in #9

On the size, yeah it is long but it also appears to be much flatter than other ships so while it is longer than the Enterprise E the E looks to be 4 times thicker.

Actually Discovery's warp core is in Stamets' lab. It's an horizontal one like the Enterprise's from TOS. It's placed at the end of the of the room opposite to the entrence. If you google for images to 'USS Discovery warp core' it's the second search result. So one could argue, that the room with the spore chamber actually is engineering.

so there is actually a fantastic explanation for the design differences between TOS and DIS in beta canon and it predates discovery by a loooooong time and that is all of the ships, stations, and bases of TOS era trek were basicaly designed by 1 person and that person is captain robert april the founder of the "modern" starfleet corp of engineers and first captain of the ncc 1701 enterprise. before his rise to prominence starfleet didnt really have a standardized design template and they just sort of built whatever the disjointed engineers of starfleet could come up with but the Robert came along and changed everything and created uniform design principles for all starfleet ships from that point on. the bit of fluff was created to add an in universe explanation for gene roddenberrys strict design rules for TOS, TAS, and early TNG ships and its clear that the creators of discovery took this explanation and ran with it but that still means that starfleet entirely changed the designs of their ships, stations, and outposts in about a decade so there is still that inconsistency but ya win some ya lose some

petition for a top 10 spooky/ghost ships list

Adam - "What influenced the design of Discovery apart from Starfleet design?" Me - "Hypnodisc from Robot Wars?"

Well, similar bridges make sense in the real world too. You would have to expect some standardization in building a massive fleet. I imagine the bridges of many naval vessels look alike.

I rather enjoyed watching Disco's design evolve from 2016 through 2017 and it's still evolving along with each season. 🖖

Disco-“A” got a repaint, and those floating nacelle things, and lots more glowing blue lines.

At the end, it doesn't matter what the ship looks like, there will always be those who dislike and are critical of it. It happens on every show.

The Discovery Bridge Set and Shensu Bridge Sets were different sets all together. The Shensu Bridge set was redressed to become the Bridge Set for the Section 31 Ship in Season 2. Their is a time lapse video of how they opened up the middle to make the downstairs area. * Remember, they had that Netflix money for season 1.

The noises and gestures Adam uses to indicate the spore drive are hysterical!

You could tell this was filmed midway through season three since we ended up seeing the engine room by the end LOL.

I think we need to have at least like 1 “lower decks” esque episode per season about the experiments that aren’t front and center. And the first can be Linus.

Miracle any work ever gets done on the Discovery. With such a small crew, a high percentage are always seen in the corridors walking around!

Umm, I’m pretty sure there are three different bridge sets on Discovery: The Discovery itself, which was also used for the Zheng He (sp?) in Star Trek Picard. The Shenzhou set, which was reused for the Mirror Shenzhou obviously as well as the Section 31 ship in season two as well as the new Federation HQ in season 3. And the Discoprise set, which they put a lot of effort in knowing they could reuse it for Strange New Worlds.

Love your perspective on this by the way guys. Doing a fantastic job :)

Riker's ship? No no, that was the "USS Copy and Paste"

FINALLY, Back on Talking about Trek I see! Good bits to know BTW!

8m so in love with discovery, I think the ship is so perfect. I love the design and color and everything.

🖖😎👍Very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed in every way and detail indeed 👌.

I do love Clearys voice, his animated hand movements and the energy when he talks. My fave youtuber :)

Adam is hilarious and I love him ❤

first contact stated the enteprise E was over 800 meters long though :S

8:56 😂 good video btw !

So good. Just watching you is entertaining even when you’ve lost me in Trekkie nerdiness. How do you do all that word perfect with no prompt! Brilliant

I would like S4 of Discovery to be kinda like TNG, where they go around helping and exploring planets affected by the Burn.

Well done.

Wish we had the 2016 teaser and Ralph Macquarie design as alternate hulls in STO.

Another great and well researched video... please, please, please do Terok Nor / Deep Space Nine. And please make that Phase II video, this is the second time you’ve dangled that carrot I think. The long the duration the better. WANT. xx

Think about all the things we don’t know about the Ferengi marauder class!

If you complain that the design is at odds with the designs of the time, you would have to say the same about the Defiant, only much moreso.

Your theory about Burnham and the burn sounds way better than what we got

Love to see the some of the Phase two concepts.

Welcome back Adam

Interested! 😝👍🏻

Love your video! A lot of things I didn’t know, some I disagree with or ignore because I don’t like them (haha!) but altogether very entertaining! Plus your jokes are hilarious!

You know how the saucer section spins around when they use the spore drive? I wonder if crew in that area get flung around. Or what happens if you’re in the junction between the saucer section and the neck. Do those people get disoriented?

Can you continue this with the upgrade they did for the 30th century

About the size of the ship, remember, we can postulate that the flat bits of the nacel pylons mostly contain the mushroom blooms for the new propulsion.

The Ships I realy want to know more about, are the JJ Enterprise Ships. You do a great Job, thank you...

The fact that so much of Discovery's technology was so advanced, even by Next Generation standards, PADDs, Free-floating holographic displays, children's toys that made hard light objects, etc and that they had such a culturally diverse crew including a cyborg, people with implementations and multiple alien races made it very hard for me to get into the first season of Discovery as an in cannon pre-Kirk and Spock show. Good writing finally won out but most of that first season was me scoffing at "Well, they wouldn't have had that, or that or that..."

The spore drive is cool.. but we need the eng room

Holodeck Clery! I knew it! This is his EPH: Emergency Presenter Hologram. Because he's still kidnapped from the Wrestling channel. (Please find him.)

WhatCulture Holodeck. Love it!

I thought that red-light area (hah) at the far end of "Stamet's Lab" was the warp core? I think the original series had cores like that.

Honestly I have watched Star Trek since I was 6 (I'm 56 now) and I love the Discovery

YES DO A VIDEO OF THAT STORY

USS Lantree will be number 1 on spookiest SF-ships on my list. Here a few more. Please feel free to add ;) - crashed USS Voyager - USS Pegasus - USS Stargazer - USS Yosemite - USS Constellation

The Akira or Steamrunner class would be interesting.

I'd like to see you do a video on the borg cube

So Adam, what you’re saying is the USS Discovery is so large because it is literally nothing more than a super advanced test bed for starfleet and the federation in the research and development for new technolgies?

I remember people complaining about the look of Star Trek Enterprise. Both shows have that modern look and then try and say the look in the original series is more " futuristic ". They had the same issues with the Star Wars prequels.

I it when you do these videos... Sorry to the other guys... But your humor and timing is just so spot on.... And yes, as an American, I very much want to hear a man with from the north talk... Cause any accent from the UK is sexy.

Now I’m intrigued? I want to see the spookiest ships list now

I'd love to see one on the K'T'inga class or the USS Reliant. Those are my favorite ships in the ST Universe.

So, why does the saucer spin? How do the passage ways work between the outside saucer and the inside saucer?

When Adam was talking about CBS started to talk about the ship jumping around and stuff. And then he discussed the Crossfield Class he might have slipped in that it was Timey Whimey

As for #6 7:10 the process of reusing and repurposing the same set pieces for different ships has been done in EVERY ST series and EVERY ST movie as well. To make new sets for every ship would make production costs so high that none of the shows could get made

The cancelled XB-70 Valkyrie was meant to go to Mach 3+. Too bad it was never actually deployed, but its nice to know it influenced the final design of the Discovery.

Love the videos! I believe they built a separate enterprise bridge set though .

do you cover all seasons of Discovery? I really like you commentary!

Need to do the enterprise nx01 why have you not done that ship yet????

iconic count; only one!

Right when he talked about James Bond underwater car I immediately turned around and looked at the model I have of it

I would like to see a video on the Klingon D7 class

you should do the sound effects for the Spore Drive!!

Somebody didn't do their research properly... it's only the corridors that are reused between different ships, the bridge sets for the Enterprise, Shenzou (used briefly for Gagarin) and Discovery (used for Riker cameo) are all completely different sets. The Shenzou bridge was rebuilt as the Section 31 bridge for season 2.

6:20 they were probably testing the waters with the fans for the design to see if it was a direction they wanted to go.

I'd like too see a video about the USS Archer

you forget.. the glenn was the most horrific ship because of its last "spinout" with its spore drive, everyone of the crew came back inside out which was AWFUL to see, should have been in your horrific moments episode, but I agree as a longtime starship modeler both cg and polystyrene your video was perfect to the details no one asks about! love the show keep up the good work

They do show a lot of empty space in the hull, with those robots buzzing around the turbo lift tubes.

Considering that federation ships are often modular having the bridge set modular is perfect

I'm interested

Could we get an episode that explains the appearance of the Klingons in Discovery? shouldn't all Klingons in the era still be under the affects of the retro virus? Also how about a vid recap of the Starfleet uniforms through the canon timeline. 💙 this channel, keep up the great content

Really want you guys to do a episode on the family relationships? The delta flyer (yes I know it's a runaround) How about bookers ship??? And why are the uniforms not being changed for the crew of the discovery?

Thank you. That helps. I still don't think I'd get into Dis, but I feel better about things. They did think about it. By the way, I DID really like the not-finished version. Maybe I have no taste.

Used bronze Lotus Esprit, as a 70’s colour palette, except “For your Eyes Only” came out in 1981 !

burn being short for burnam would have been so much better than the ending we got.

Speaking of reusing sets, has anyone noticed that the Enterprise D sick bay and the Enterprise D deck 1 conference room/lounge were the same set?

Have you done the Excelsior class or the Sulu Ship , the USS Excelsior

I would like to know more about the Dreadnought

I'd love to see 10 secrets of the delta flyer.

Do one on the Cerritos, obviously! You are actually quite good for comedy (an honest complement, not an insult) so why not do one for laughs?

I love Adam and his honesty. Even he can't really hide his contempt at this wafer thin topic. He makes it enjoyable nonetheless. Although what is ooomarrrg 🤣

Is there a video about the Delta Flyer? Or am I missing that?

Re: size, I figured that the wings (since there aren't pylons I guess) to the nacelles might be solid material. Who knows what kind of carbon nanotube structure is optimal for warp and spore drives. I also figured that since it has to be able to flip very quickly, in more than 4 dimensions, in 2 universes at a time, the simpler the geometry the better. So a lot of it might be either solid or just cavities/porous material that doesn't bend. Or acts as a kind of transwarp Faraday cage. Or whatnot.