Barry Bend I'm still waiting on that video of Hawk's fighter from Buck Rodgers.....

please do a video on the star trek deep space nine space station :)

Keep going, man, your stuff is brilliant!

Great pick. A Valkyrie entry would be awesome.

Deep Space Nine! Do Deep Space Nine!

Don't forget a gaming room and compact holo deck. Also, extra shield projectors.

The predecessor class was the one which The Raven belonged to and basically that is what Seven's folks did.

@Inareth Nah, a Winnebago's warp engines are mounted at the top. They also have sliding doors instead of a runabout's gull-wings and are controlled from a wheel in the cockpit or driver's seat.

Brendissimo1 for longer ranges you would have to hook up with a larger ship.

Matthew Robare “They’ve gone plaid!”

Main characters in a runabout don't even sweat when they see a Galaxy class starship taken down right in front of them.

The plot is strong with this one. Oh wait... whoops! Wrong sci-fi.

sparrowJLT hero characters give the ship +500% to shields and weapon damage. Seriously though, I always felt that DS9 should have had a couple specifically outfitted for defensive combat operations, with the extra room taken up by power generation, shields and weapon systems. Of course I’ve long wanted to see a real”fighter” being used by one race or another. Basically a shuttle sized vessel, but as above, outfit very utilitarian, basically room for the crew, life support, maybe a replicator for longer missions, but other than that, every ounce, and, inch of the ship used for power generation, engines, weapons and shields. Yes, I know Star fleet isn’t a military organization, but it’s constantly faced with hostile actions by other races, and has countless outposts and stations in very dangerous areas, so I’d expect them to have some sort of small ships designed specifically defend these locations, although I guess the lack of adequate defensive systems is why every outpost seems be be destroyed within seconds, often before even a distress call is finished being sent. When runabouts first appeared on DS9, I always felt the writers of TNG missed an opportunity, as they could have been introduced as part of a courier/transportation fleet. No need to pull a starship from it’s assigned duties to transport an admiral, or new crew members, to a patrolling starship, when they can often be transported by runabout. Of course the ones for admirals and diplomats would have pimped out, and luxurious versions, basically space limos, no need for a wet bar as they come standard with a replicator, but can they stretch runabouts.🤣

@@johnpatz8395 but in one TNG episode you see a runabout ;)

Brilliant.

WITH A PEGASUS CLOAKING DEVICE THE SHIP COULD HIDE ANYWHERE

A hot tub in the back would be good. Could sit in that thing while the ship autopilots at warp to your destination

They are annoying as hell to play in Star Trek: Online but .. they have their purpose. The Yellowstone variant that was mentioned at the end of this video, was never seen/mentioned in any series, but is a popular craft in STO.

The prototype of the Yellowstone appeared in a potential future during the Voyager episode 'Non Sequitur', but yeah the 2409 version appears only in STO.

Ah ok ... I must have missed it, or fallen asleep. LOL I'll have to go watch it now. Thanks Spacedock. :P (BTW do a story on what Picard called "A powerful little ship" to which Worf replied "little?" ;) (you know, USS Defiant 74205.)

Allan C-B It was Riker. Star Trek First Contact

Damn you're right ... I'm having a very off day apparently!!!

Sounds like you're a Sternbach fan.

Yep. Event though Galaxy class is pretty nice, I still like smaller practical ships.

Nah, this dinky thing doesn't have enough gun for my taste.

@@Self-replicating_whatnot for their size they pack a hell of a clout

@@Peoples_Republic_of_Devonshire Almost too much, 6 Phasors and 2 torpedo launchers for a 23 meters ship sounds more like a warship to me than anything else.

I'm glad someone else brought that up! That they had an entire 7 year series to show that on DS9 and failed to do so even once was quite disappointing.

It was due to the back set being constructed separately, in the standing set room for the day. You'll notice the bunks were used in the Defiant quarters right after. Either alien locales used up the space in other episodes, or then later they'd have to tear up the Defiant quarters if they wanted to recreate the back.

I think DS9 benefited from leaving the rear sections of the craft ambiguous; it left its multirole capabilities open without having to explain continuous refits

Since DS-9 preceded Stargate Atlantis by many years, it would be fairer to say that the Puddle Jumpers were likely inspired by the Runabouts, in both style and function

You're absolutely right about DS9 coming first but, for the sake of pedantry, the first puddle jumper appeared in the early 2005 SG1 episode It's Good to Be King.

Kirk Jacobson Actually, they first appeared in the Atlantis premiere in 2004.

may be a bit late on this, but while the other comments are correct on the puddle jumpers - runabouts, there is the f-302 - peregrine fighter comparison

apparently not

The Defiant class is a pretty prominent example as well.

This is potent? Also do you see the little 'wings' holding the warp engines on?

Apparently after DS9 and the TNG movies finished, the canon (?) lore had Starfleet going to a new design paradigm with blended nacelles on the main body and combined primary/secondary hulls. They didn't have to worry about appealing to the casual viewer with a "classic trek" looking ship design. The in universe explanation was that the Defiants success meant they rewrote the rulebook on Starfleet ships, which can be seen with the Defiants shuttle pod type10 the _Chaffee_ as well, that have armored nacelles in a similar layout to the Defiant. And I read somewhere that they were even going with internal bridges on later ships that were scaled up Defiant style builds for the lore. This is seen somewhat with new anti Borg vessels introduced in First Contact such as the Saber, Steamrunner, Norway and Akira, that leave the Saucer, secondary hull and nacelles on pylons aesthetic behind, so as to not be confused with the new Sovereign class Enterprise debuting onscreen. But then Star Trek online appeared and went with a lazy jazzed up version of classic ships for their inventory, so the new paradigm gradually faded away, especially as the reboot dragged everything back to the original layout. We can only hope that the new Picard series continues and expands the new look, as it would be a interesting way to suggest that the Federation has changed a lot because of the Dominion war, and is not the optimistic Federation of old.

@@casbot71 A Federation without optimism, is no Federation at all.

LJFTW HARK!

Legate Damar: Counfound those Starfleet boys... THEY DRIVE ME TO DRINK!!!

Quark: How do I love her...father's money.

Dang it, I can't stop giggling long enough to write something funny... ...hmm, "HELP, TOM! HELP, DICK! HELP, LARRY!" screamed the severely injured villain...

@@turbopokey Unhand her, Gul Dukat! Unhand her, Gul Dukat! Hey, we're getting in a rut!

Aeron Hale So basically you want the Raven that was seen in Voyager.

Zafran Orbian Yeah essentially. It would certainly be a way to be left alone too, though I would probably end up as a crazy hermit off in the Alpha Quadrant if I was able to do that.

Just like the Spaceballs Winnebago...

In fact, yeah, lets get Spacedock to do a video on the Eagle-5 from Spaceballs

weldonwin ...and Spaceball One the transformer ship... the only space ship in science fiction to have a zoo and a three ring circus.

Lore Reloaded - Good to see you here Lore Reloaded! Keep up the good work!

'sup captin lore. (How do you spell captin?)

Apparently, Major Kira began naming Runabouts assigned to Deep Space 9 after Bajoran rivers, according to the post-DS9 novels.

Technically Starfleet is a Human organization that accepts non-humans as a matter of course. Starfleet existed before the Federation. It was Earths space program.

In cannon you have had the T'Kumbra, captained by Solok Sisko's Newman, and various other ships with a T' name that would be Vulcan. There are other non human sounding starship names mentioned. Especially during DS9 when they are said to be docked at the station (although mostly it's the same few establishing shits of a Nebula class) Given Sisko seems to be the one naming the ships were there a non human station commander then they would probably go with a non Terran name.

BECAUSE FUCK YOU THATS WHY ..... A M E R I C A

Tellar has no atmosphere, so probably no rivers either.

The Flyer is a higher performance but I'd rather have a nice reliable Runabout. There is something to be said about a nice, multi-role ship.

No because J.J. verse B.S. isn't cannon.

design-wise, they were the brainchild of Rick Sternbach and Jim Martin, interiors by Joseph Hodges, all supervised by Herman Zimmerman.

Brass 'n Barrels Firearms Channel On the warp sled... i think there is plenty of pics on google. Basically on top of the modular cargo section.

The only times were landing on the nacells would be a problem would be a crash landing, in that vase a landing gear would not help you. And why use a maintnace heavy track system when you can just hover 10cm above the ground with barely any energy usage.

My ideal ship is the classic B'rel-class Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Needs only a handful of officers and men to optimally run it, very well armed with disruptor cannons and a torpedo launcher, some variants equipped with phaser beam emplacements and an aft torpedo launcher in addition to the standard armament as well. Capable of both space and atmospheric flight, as fast as some larger, more powerful ships, of course the cloaking device, a bit more useful overall than the YT-1300

Never knew there were so many Robotech fans on Spacedock. Cool.

Joshua Jarvis The delta flyer is actually larger than a Danube and is basically Voyagers super danube.

Levent Taskan Well,the cokbit is basically an oversized shuttelcraft cokbit, wich always had windows, so I think they would see this as a validmexeption.

Literally every shuttle has forward windows instead of a view screen.

because windows in space are stupid, view screens have so many more uses its not funny