1:31 *Major design flaw.* The mess hall tables _have sharp corners,_ that's not desirable if crew are there and the ship does a violent manoeuver. Soft rounded corners would be safer, especially with the limited sickbay, although a really bad bruised hip is within its capabilities. *Health and Safety* would get onto it, but the staff in that department are always needing counseling over being overridden by Command about holodeck failures.

Let's also not forget that the Defiant class fell into the hands of the Rebels of the mirror universe where the mirror universe counterpart of Chief Miles O'Brien managed to download the schematics for the Defiant Class and they started building it to fight the Klingon/Cardassian/Bajoran alliance with the help of the classes designer and creator Captain Benjamin Sisko.

The go-kart with an overpowered V12 engine and guns, designed by a grieving, semi-irrational widower who was more focused on getting revenge then crew safety. It's a wonder O'Brien was able to SAVE this thing.

This is my favorite Trek ship.

Great video. I really like how you point out the design flaws in the ships.

Why did they call name her "defiant"? Because Starfleet felt "the USS Benjamin Siskos motherfucking pimp-hand" was too long to fit on the side of the ship.

Just subscribed, this channel reminds me of Spacedock, but in the style of eckhartsladder. I will watch your career with great interest.

Very nice work here, you manage to cram so much life and personnality in those craft, so here's how i discovered your channel if that can help you choose your next topic, i watch a lot of content on both sci fi craft, like generation film, spacedock, those kind of guys, ksp stuff, and also a lot of video about theorethical propulsion which lead me to your Avatar Venture Star video, which by the way is dope. keep up the good work

Hey I'm here cuz Daniel sent me

Have you ever noticed that it looks an awful lot like one of the smaller classes of Cardassian ships, the Eaglemoss?

Good work bro

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Tough little ship!

She's a beau I'll take fifty of them.

You missed a lot...that is something ALL sci-fi ships have in common. They're all shaped wrong...pretty much without exception. The closest anything gets to a correct shape are Star Wars Imperial Star Destroyers...or even closer, the Razorback from The Expanse. Technically, the Tet from Oblivion also qualifies, but it's really not much of a ship as it is a marginally transportable orbital base. . The ideal format for any space combat vessel is a tetrahedron. Given a proper weapons layout along the points and edges of the shape, enemy vessels will be exposed to a bare minimum of 2/3 of the ships total firepower, at all times. They'll be exposed to 100% of that total firepower about 2/3 of the time. Most sci-fi ships can barely attack with 25% of the weapons available to them at any time against a single target. The ISD is actually the worst in that sense, as nearly all of its firepower is usable only against enemy ships in a very narrow wedge above and to the fore of the vessel. Meaning if you attack from a ventral aft vector, they can't shoot back AT ALL. And if you just stay below them, they can barely use even 10% of the total weaponry on board the ship. . Now many ships have "good coverage" when it comes to fighting battles where they're surrounded on all sides, but that kind of space battle will never exist, at all. It's still good to have great spherical coverage, it doesn't mean much if you can only point a handful of them at one target in a one-on-one battle or other small engagement. Ironically, a sphere is not the optimal shape for this, as it allows only for a maximum of about 1/2 the weapons to target any single enemy. Again, the tetrahedron (which can be elongated through one axis both to increase internal volume, or confer some other sci-fi advantage, or simply to make it look cooler), allows for total spherical coverage, while still maintaining a massive single-target weapons advantage over pretty much every other craft ever dreamt of. . Assume you have an assortment of ships of various types, and each has identical types of weapons, in exactly the same number (we'll go with 10, just for simplicity, and because it can be evenly divided a variety of ways. One is an ISD, one is a Constitution class, one is a sphere, and one is a needle-like tetrahedron. Assume also that the weapons are laid out evenly along the "edges" of its volumetric area. . In the case of the ISD, this would mean a weapon at each "vertex" of its overall shape. One at the tip of the ship's fore, one each to the port and starboard vertices at the vessel's aft, one to the point at the vessel's ventral aft, one at the aft base and the top of the command tower, and one each along the four main "edges" of the ship, dorsal, ventral, port, and starboard, equidistant between the five vertices. This would actually give the ISD almost the same amount of single-target firepower it already has, in most cases. The original ship is THAT BAD. It has a lot of guns, but most of them are typically useless. But even so, there are only a few very narrow cones where the ship can fire ALL (but one) of its guns at one target. And in most cases, can only hit a target with 3/4 of its total firepower. Obviously, if you do this with an ISDs existing loadout, then the ship becomes FAR deadlier than its original format, for the same cost. One "improved" ISD carrying its full complement of weapons could likely eliminate an entire battlegroup of conventional ISDs, assuming equal competence (or incompetence) of all commanders. . In the case of a Constitution Class ship, it's WAY more complicated. Four weapons arranged equidistant along the perimeter of the saucer, two each along the dorsal portion of the nacelles, at a slight angle outward to the port and starboard, respectively, with one each being mounted at the aft tip of each nacelle, and the other at the fore tip. Two more along the centered ventral portion of the engineering hull as far fore, and aft, as possible. This may be more firepower than the ship typically carries, but it's a far better layout than those seen in Star Trek thus far. Its single-target coverage is significantly improved this way, and its spherical coverage is actually even improved a little, but it's still notably inferior to the improvements made to the ISD. It's really hard to say just how good its coverage in both spherical and single-target scenarios would be...maybe 30 to 40% in any given vector...with no possibility at all of 100% against a single target? All else being equal, the improved ISD would tear apart even a few improved Connies, especially with as fragile as they are. However, the improved Connies would be far more capable than almost any other ship in all of Trek...again, all else being equal. . The sphere is nice and simple, just put one gun at each "pole", and 4 each at the middle "latitude" in the dorsal and ventral hemispheres (in opposing arrangement, to balance coverage). The advantage is perfect spherical coverage at all times, and a bare minimum of 50% coverage against a single target. But the disadvantage is that there is absolutely no possible way to ever turn 100% of its weapons against a single target. This vessel might well lose to an improved ISD, but would probably still defeat an improved Connie. . Then we come to the tetrahedron. One weapon at each of the vertices, one more in the center of each edge. That's it. With that arrangement, there are only 4 narrow cones where the ship can only use 66% of its total firepower at a minimum, and all other vectors are exposed to 100% of its firepower, period. That's that. Perfect spherical coverage, and a bare minimum single-target firepower that exceeds all of the others. A single one of these vessels could defeat whole battlegroups of any of the other improved ship types, and likely devastate entire fleets of more conventional sci-fi ships, all else being equal. Make one the size of an ISD, and give it the same firepower, and it would be the deadliest space warship in any franchise in history.

just don't crew the class with a bunch stuckup cadets and no inexperienced ferengi lts, plus avoid taking on jemhadar battleships single handed, things tend to get messy if you do.