There's actually an explanation for why using the joystick in place of the console for manual flight: it's that much better. The questionable design choice isn't the joystick, it's why it took them so long to add it.

Lol I loved the questionable design choices part. And impressive that you came up with a good explanation to the hole accessible only through Jeffreys tube.

Honestly, I don't think the Enterprise E's more hardened military look and the removal of Civilians off Federation ships was a step back. I think it was the stupid finally getting smacked out of Starfleet after one too many civilians died when they hadn't needed too. Took em long enough.

The ship was also one of the early ships to use muti vector shielding so each part of the ship had its own shield grid sections (warp necels, engineering top and bottom and saucer section top and bottom (I assume the bridge had its own extra shield grids) Voyager also had it as well but limited CGI for that show, limited everything to a bubble even if it had over 50 shield grids protecting parts of the ship individually (fully individually controllable) early enterprise E movies was still using bubble CGI later ones used the correct individual shield CGI grids Older ships even enterprise galaxy class only used only 4 shield grids sections,, witch was common in most ships for TNG time, but think that was more an CGI explanation of how there shields worked, as Discovery era ships and enterprise E had close to the Hull shields as CGI allowed this more realistic way for shields to function (as its a lot of power to project a shield far away from the ship)

Remember in the TNG Season 2 episode 'Q Who' where Q introduced the crew of the Enterprise D to the Borg in System J25 he did it to not only spite the Federation but to show them that they are not fully ready for what was out there as the Federation thought they could be ready for whatever they encountered out in space as Picard put it when he was talking with Q in 10 Forward and sadly it took the events of the Battle of Wolf 359 for the Federation to open their eyes and show them that they were not ready for what was out there and the first encounter with the Dominion really opened their eyes to reality and the dangers out there showing Starfleet had become complacent in the 75 years of peace they had and why they were forced to change their starship design philosophy with classes like: The Defiant Class The Sovereign Class The Akira Class The Saber Class The Steamrunner Class The Intrepid Class The Prometheus Class

Love the Enterprise E! Sovereign is my favourite ship class by a long way. Always did wonder about that warp core shield though... bit of a chocolate fireguard! Great vid 👍

That fight against the Scimitar kicked ass

Best I can come up with for the hatch room is that maybe it was designed as an upgrade slot where some externally-mounted machinery could plug in?

Good job mate enjoyed your analysis

Very well done. My favorite ship design.

the enterprise E should've been in the dominion war we should've seen both the defiant and the enterprise epicly destroying jem hadar

Whoo whoo, though the D is still the biggest or finest Star Trek ship next to Connie refit of course

The sovereign-class Starship is the best Starship. Specifically built to take on the Borg but it also took on the scimitar which would have ended very quickly if the damn thing didn't fire wind cloaked.

Except that the Enterprise E’s phaser arrays were type 12, with more after refit.

What episodes (or movies) was the footage taken from? I'd like to re-watch them!

nice video

...an Enterprise made out of five Ellipses...one ellipse to make the disk where the Bridge is located...a second ellipse to connect the top disk with a third ellipse housing the Shuttle Bays...a fourth and fifth ellipse to comprise each of the two Nacelles...

Stop staying up until 7am editing videos you nocturnal worm man Good vid tho

How annoying must it have been to have the Enterprise-D crew _jump the queue_ and take the new Sovereign assigned to your command, because _they_ managed to lose a Galaxy class to a single obsolete Bird of Prey? Still it would have been awkward to have the Flagship of the fleet be a older Diplomatic Explorer that was outgunned by newer ships.

And yet, they could just have the computer beam them weapons while they got cute. Having physical ones accessible is wise, too.

Well how long could Starfleet keep the everyone is wonderfull going for? They are a military as much as they say they are not. Time to act like one

Zeitgeist

Finally a star trek ship that actually looks good.

Star fleet had no choice but to beef up its military and combat capacity They Had their back against the wall so to speak with the Borg and later the dominion after 60 to 70 years of relative peace and prosperity and pacifistic hubris following the kitomar accords of 2293 and the treaty of algoron of 2311 the same think happened in the mid 2250s with the first federation Klingon war between the late 22nd century following the formation of the federation in 2161 and the Start of the first federation Klingon war in 2256 during a time of relative peace and prosperity Star fleet let its combat readiness slip and prioritized expanding is exploration, scientific research and diplomatic capacity (Btw Star Trek fans need take a chip pill and stop this ridiculous complaining about a new spinoff show every time it comes out this happened in 1987 with the next generation with ds9 in 1993 with voyager in 1995 with enterprise in 2001 with discovery in 2017 and with Picard in 2020 I’m not sure if it happened with the animated series in 1974 or not or if it happened with lower decks in 2020 or not the point is Star Trek fans have always whine and moan about every spinoff show fans should take advice from MST3K it’s just a show I should really just relax)

Give me the Enterprise E and I will never come back to Earth