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Probably some confused people if they looked away during the cold open with Ellie only to hear Seans opening line.

Protostar jumped right to the top of my favourite hero ships in Trek. In my head, she's a tiny little ship, but if you base it off how small Janeway is looking through the bridge window dome, then Protostar is a little bigger than Voyager.

Did y'all cover USS Prometheus yet, its been a favorite ship that never got more love on screen

I love the Protostar but those stairs are bit so-so in my book. I think I read somewhere that the Galaxy class had sloping floors between decks in places to encourage accessibility instead!

I can't wait to see what the Voyager-A looks like and it's interior along with the Bridge

The design of the Run Away reminds me of the Thunder Tank from the Thundercats cartoon

I really enjoyed Hologram Janeway. Also found it mildly hilarious that this wasn't the first holographic version of Janeway; previously seen in the VOY episode "The Thaw" where it was used to trick a mindspace demon of fear in the guise of a clown, and was somehow even more terrifying than it.

I love Seán, don't get me wrong, but whenever I click on these videos, hear Ellie's voice at the start, and then it turns out she's just here for the ad segment, I feel baited & switched. _Especially_ for a pro-PRO episode, I feel like she's the ideal host.

I really love the design of the vessel, it is something new, like when we saw the defiance. The whole series I must admit didnt appeal to me at the start, then I sat down and started to watch it. Its awesomely brilliant, and the ship is a big part of it! LLAP!

Sean, have you seen the amazing, enormous 1:25 scale build of the Enterprise and its interior, built by Mr. Trek (his KZfaq channel)? This thing is incredible. Mike needs some good fellow Trekkie love, as his project is still growing in popularity. Thanks, Sean! You’re great and I love you! Keep up the great work. Most sincerely, Jordan (aka Daddy Star Trek)

I did need to know that. Thank you.

The protostar reminds me of the Navigator from the movie "Flight of the navigator".

This is such a cool and good-looking little ship ❤

It's such a beautiful ship

Christmas Day, we get Prodigy back. I know what I will be doing, until Doctor Who comes on, that is L.E. Fontana is back! And ordering me to play Star Trek Online. Already on it, just not very good. After playing Borderlands and Destiny, I'm kinda used to being a walking Apocalypse. But I will continue to boldly go in my little Miranda class. Fun video, gang.

In Star Trek TOS, I thought of the Enterprise as a characters. In many ways I saw the Ship as Kirk did, or maybe closer to the way the Doctor sees the Tardis. I know this because when the Enterprise was sacrificed in Star Trek III, I was shocked at losing a beloved character. The others seem to have just a really trusted vessel, but not quite a character. Then came Prodigy, and the Protostar was a character in the show. When it was destroyed, I mourned two losses.

Thanks.

Really nice review of a grand lady who's not afraid of getting muddy. I've been on an 80s and 70s gun kick, thanks to GET TV. The A-Team got me on her sister the Lawman (fixed sights) and Hannibal's 39s, and Hunter has me excited about the P9S which you mentioned next. Gladly subbed to your channel.

I adore the Protostar! Such a beautiful little ship!

Woot 1 minute ago! YAY Prodigy !!

I standby my theory that an assistant hologram was to be standard on this class of ship, but that Chakotay went out of his way to have his resemble Janeway so he could keep his bestie around.

I'm not the biggest fan of Prodigy (I appreciate it but don't love it) but I really love the design of the Protostar. It is actually the #2 ship for me in the game of "If you could have a fictional ship, what would you want?" (My #1 is a Tardis)

Funny how some of my favorite ship designs just so happen to be the smallest and largest ships. Voyager and Protostar being on the smaller side with the Enterprise J and Vengeance being the largest.

I think once season 2 has aired, a part 2 of this list will be needed Live Long And Prosper fellow Trekkies! Make it So!

The problem with open stairways on a ship (or building, for that matter), is that they can't be easily sealed off. A hull puncture would allow all the air on the ship to escape, if the decks were connected by open stairways. Lift shafts can be sealed off easier. I know they have force fields that can seal off the hull, but a physical barrier really needs be available as a backup. There is also the fire safety issue - again, why tall buildings have stairways that are enclosed, to protect people during fires and allow for escape. Not to mention, an open top to bottom stairwell would act like a chimney for the smoke and fire - which is why you don't use elevators during a fire, the elevator shafts can do the same thing.

Stairs on a starship: the USS Orville.

It is interesting to learn these facts about Protostar, but the main attraction of this video is Ellie doing the game ad. Wow. Never seen her like this. She is a comic actor as well as a content presenter. Wow.

I think the idea of stairs is brilliant, if you only have say 3 decks, there is no real NEED for a turbolift and opens up some interesting looking designs, think Titanic grand staircase or imagine a staircase wrapped around the standard 3 bridge chairs, looking like the tactical display on the D. Definite options there.

OMG!!! Ellie!!! (ROTFL). Seriously, this is the first ad EVER on Trek Culture I did not skip past. So … yeah … awesome!

Loved this ship :c like an Voyager b or mini Voyager :3

Yay

The Protostar is dope AF. I hope either she survived, or her class gets a role in Federation/Starfleet activity.

To be clear, not all of Voyager's shuttles would have been left behind or unsalvageable. In a number of occasions, Voyager's crew would have absolutely been required to salvage the shuttles as best as they could to prevent violations of the Prime Directive(See Enterprise-D saucer for precedent). Not to mention that it's a fact that they built support craft when the need arose. Don't act like they couldn't build shuttles if they can build Delta Fliers. And let's also not forget that they have cargo transporters, meaning they can always beam scrap and stuff up to the ship. You probably wouldn't want to beam an active warp core onto your ship, though. That's likely why we never see shuttles beamed in their entirety or something like that, even though we do see lots of cargo get beamed all at once. You know, unless it's too volatile for the transporter.

Sorry, Seann, but there were stairs on the original Enterprise, on the bridge, at least. Maybe elsewhere, but not seen on screen.

me: Oh, it's Ellie doing the intro advert today. -Sean's cold open me: Whoa whoa whoa that's not cool du; OOOOOOH, what? no you misunderstood. Stop looking at me like that!! Edit: Did not realise that KZfaq supported strikethrough, in text.

The Protostar-class appears in Star Trek Online as a prize in the Prodigy Lock Box under name "Protostar Temporal Science Spearhead".

Ellie is a great newsreader for Trek Culture

Certainly my favorite Federation ship ever. However, I still wonder how so many things can be jammed into such little engineering bay.

The Enterprise-D a ship that did nothing when it went to warp?? Erm, the nacelle glow, the charging warp coil sounds, the the release of energy as it went to warp, the visual stretching as it shoots off into the depths of space?? No? Pfft, the D was graceful, it didn't need to flap its' nacelles about like a space-birb... :P

In the first season of TNG there was a stairwell that would show up from time to time.

Hey! That's my birthday too!

He heard me yay

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14:04 that's actually less than half of the original enterprise, its just a little shorter than an oberth class

Now cover the I.K.S. Bortesque.

How convenient that i get this notification while going back through the Prodigy ups and downs. Also, first?

The protostar is just a larger version of Mando’s N1 Starfighter

5:07 this is what happens when you use unreal engine for everything and i love it

I never understood the type of landing gear the Protostar had. A massive single ski essentially. There is in no way that ship would be stable when landed, let alone the sort of crash landing scene you showed from one of the episodes. Also, the size of the landing ski plus the whole mechanism for it doesn't seem like it would fit in the bottom of the secondary hull since you already have the shuttle bay, engineering, the protostar nacelle, and whatever else there might be there.

I don't mean to piddle on anybody's parade here but seeing a design that "finally" includes stairs lauded, is (to me) an example of the inate ableism people seem to have. Stairs are a useful invention if one has two working legs. Those of us with disablities don't see those stairs as handy, we see them as an obsticle. No doubt my comment will be met with rolled eyes because the abled don't understand what it's like to live in a world that is built to accomidate everyone but you. Yes, there are turbo lifts in ships, we get it, but those "handy" stairs right there up front could just as easily have been a ramp that could've been used by people of all abilities and here's a thing - aliens who don't have two legs. Those stairs certainly wouldn't have been handy for Captain Christopher Pike once he was in his chair. Those stairs might've been a challenge for Lt. Arex or any Edosian. I realize no harm was meant by the comment but you need to understand that stairs are not a handy thing for all of us. It's estimated that %15 of the world's population is disabled. That's 1.1 billion people. So please realize that there are a lot of us who don't find stairs useful. Thanks.

i think the star trek people would benefit greatly if they hired you to write for them.

Fast little ship.

Discovery has a short staircase, as it were, accessing engineering.

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Now you got Ellie dressing up lol

fourth since the comment from the channel it's off doesn't really count.

Star Trek fleet command is technically free. But if you want to be at all competitive you've got to spend spend spend. Otherwise you get your ass kicked daily

Finally! Just so to forget the horrible USS Discovery. Love the design specially the Bridge...thats how is supposed to be a starship bridge. Like the canopy of a fighter plane

I think the ProtoStar Drive moves at WarpSpeed of 12 or higher compared to the standard Warp Engine Speed while the crew aren't affected by the effects of the Warp 10 Barrier

This is how stupid Discovery is. They say the burn destroyed most Dilethium so they couldnt use warp drive. Yet current Trek has slip stream, proto drive and Im sure transwarp soon. Not to mention whatever the relativity time ship uses. Discovery is a future that needs to be retconned.

Anyone who has ever been in a con at a hotel can say sometimes stairs are faster. Looking at you Gaylord during magfest

I think we are loosing the science in science fiction. Ani-mater is almost a 100% matter to energy conversation E=MC2. In Star Trek ships are powered by anti-mater.From what I remember from a history channel documentary a nuclear bomb is only a 1% matter energy conversation. How is the protostar's star drive faster than a warp core?

Wow a video on Thanksgiving! 😮

A man's journey... Often includes putting your needs on the back burner.. Forgiving betrayal and doing what's best...I know these are skits but... Fellas we all understand.. Can't stand to see a women in distress. 💖

Star Trek Fleet Command is a money pit

'Looking up her bum'? It's the PROTOSTAR, not the PROCTOSTAR!

Understand all the hype as new series coming on to Netflix but there won’t be a season 3 only reason there season 2 was it was all ready half finish when Paramount pulled it. Think you’ll realise this when see end of Season two

I wish lower decks could have been done in thus style, especially since most consider it yo be more cannon then this show.

Number one: It doesn't exist

I like the Protostar alot, the interior just looks a little bit SciFi generic.

Still disappointed you lack the capacity to think of both the Middle East and Ukraine

Star Trek fleet command sucks . At least timelines has something to look at besides two dots circling each other

what second season? hasnt prodigy been cancelled?

Stop with the bait an switch. I dont like sean as a host. Use the many other hosts you have Sean!

Not a fan of the Protostar. This seems like a weird criticism to make but I think it looks a little too sci-fi :( Feels like a 'spaceship' instead of a federation ship. Shut up... I know what I mean !!

*Isn't the biggest thing people need to know that this show is canceled?*

Non-Canon Trek.