Helps you science the shit out of things I guess.

I mean when you drop a Gravity Well and other space magic stuff, yeah, stuff don't last very long lol. The Fleet Titan is currently my highest DPS parsing ship and easily doing 200K in PUGs.

The Titan Class Science Destroyer USS Gordon Freeman

It’s the ship Dr. Stone would use. “You think this is a fight between Science and Might? Science is Might”

Pretty much Starfleet in a nutshell, really.

Same. Feels like my most powerful ship tbh.

Same here.Its really good for battle(:

Does it need to be so big though?

@@sardonicspartan9343 No, I don't think it does, but personally I like it. The good thing about STO though is that if you don't like that sensor pod, you can swap it out with the Luna's sensor pod or one of the other sensor pods that family of ships have. They all have had the game mechanic of changing light colors depending on the mode added to them, and they're much more subtle than the Titan's sensor pod light.

Doubt it. Specialized multi-purpose sensors seems most likely, considering the dome glows red when in Tactical Mode and blue when in Science Mode.

@@vegeta002 Your probably right but for me not having seen inside the ship, it's fun to speculate. Also it appears there's an auxiliary deflector dish on the front of the pod?

@@DavidChilson Seems like it. Other science shps with a similar superstructure (including the Titans own predecessor) usually seem to have a second deflector there, so it wouldn't be out of place.

That would be a massive crew lounge, just compare it to the size of the bridge. In game it is labled as a "mission pod" like the ones we see on nebula classes

It does have a Secondary Deflector, IIRC.

Ordinarily I'd be like "Nah, who cares" but yeah... "Science Destroyer" has got to be the stupidest classification I've ever seen.

I'm not going to defend the designation, but STO kind of established its own language of designations. - Science Vessels being less armed ships with stronger shields that mostly gain the upper hand with energy draining, creating spatial anomalies or supporting other vessels. Most STO players just sum it up to "space magic" - Escorts are paper tigers such as the defiant whom are light, nimble and generally overgunned - Cruisers are the big durable bruisers in space conflicts, and pack some support functionalities for their fleets Destroyers, as STO puts it, are cousins to escorts that pack about the same amount of firepower but are slightly less nimble in favor of durability. The 'Science Destroyers' came to exist 5+ years back when the storyline had the factions in STO gain access to a Dyson Sphere. Researching them had them do experiments where they reverse engineered the tech of the creators of the Dyson Sphere into new ships; henceforth called "Dyson Science Destroyers". They were like the 'Destroyers' the game had previously established, but had a mode switching feature where in tactical mode their deployed more weapons and had access to more offensive capabilities - and in Science mode, they rerouted powers to secondary deflectors and had access to better combat-oriented science capabilities. It was personally a type of ship I enjoyed to fly. A bit of a jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-none; but the mode switching allowed me to tailor performance to the kind of gameplay I wanted. The Luna-class was previously designated a Reconnaissance Science Vessel. The Titan-class, though, is not a refit but a wholly new ship type inspired from the Luna. In STO's take on it, I figure that in order to make it special at the point we are, they wanted to give it a gimmick to make it stand out from other science ships, and they opted to make it a Science Destroyer. I was personally very happy with that choice. The original Dyson Science Destroyers visually transformed to show more cannons and compact more for combat, or unfurl its pieces more to reveal their secondary deflector. Samuel is correct to call the glowy blue dome on the Titan-class a gimmick: the default science mode shows as blue, and when in tactical mode, it turns red; but otherwise no change in the geometry.

Since it turns red in Tactical Mode, the superstructure likely houses advanced multi-purpose sensor arrays.

and looks FAST

I believe the name comes from its ability to swap at will between Science Vessel and Destroyer, similar to the Dyson Science Destroyer, an ability that wasn't covered in the video. Besides, destroying people with science has always been Starfleets thing.

No, they’re talking about the raised things that extend onto the saucer section from the rear; both the NX Enterprise and the Akira have them. Basically they’re like the booms on the P38 that extend onto the saucer section. And I assume you meant “sponsons” and ye olde spell check “fixed” it for you; technology. 🤬. Hope that helps.

Neither, the pontoons are the raised areas that are on the saucer section of the Luna class, nx-01, Akira and a few others. I'm not the best at describeding things so hope that helps. If you look at those ships you should see what I mean :)

And if they do not peacefully cooperate, just dump the pod into the sun. Then get a replacement pod.

Science Destroyers have a Tactical Mode that unlocks additional tactical slots and replaces the secondary deflector with the experimental weapon slot.

Yeah, some of these ships are much better than the Copy Paste fleet we saw in ST Picard. In fact, the ship Riker was flying was very similar to the Avenger/Arbiter in STO.

just swap the pylons for the Luna ones and the ship looks perfect X3 That's what I did with my ship

The Luna-class in STO originally launched under the category "Reconnaissance Science Vessel". It was a tactically leaning science vessel - could do the 'space magic' Startrek Online associates with science abilities (Tyken's Rifts, gravity wells, tachyon beams, etc...). Science vessels typically get stronger science-oriented powers, more power boosts to auxiliary systems, good shields... but a fairly small weapon loadout. We saw the Luna-class on launchday, but it's spent about 10 years not being remastered and updated. Lower Decks was the excuse for it. However, by then, we choices for science ships had expanded and I supposed Cryptic Studios needed some way of making it stand out from the crowd. Around STO's fourth anniversary, they'd unveiled a new type of ship that was reverse engineered from Dyson Sphere tech that came to be called as "Dyson Science Destroyers". They took the basic qualities of destroyers - which was a favorable weapon loadout along with some nimbleness and toughness, and mixed it in with the equipment slots of a science vessel. They also included a mode switching gimmick where you could be in science mode and have power in your secondary deflector; or go tactical and bring online extra weapons. It wasn't the best at both jobs, but the versatility of being able to tweak your desired playstyle/capabilities was fun (for me, anyways). When the 2410 version of the "Luna" was to come out, it'd been a long time since an updated "Science Destroyer" had been made widely available... so I figure the Titan-class was it. So, yup, it's an hybrid Science vessel / Destroyer, and "Science Destroyer" was how they chose to put it.

@@zoberraz It's still a silly designation that implies a 'science is bad' purpose for the class.

Science Destroyer is more a videogame parlance thing. Quoting from the Startrek Online wiki: Science Destroyers are a type of starship. A combination of Science Vessel and Destroyer, they possess the attributes of both: like standard Destroyers, they have seven weapon slots are always able to utilize Dual Cannons, though as Science Vessels they tend to have more Science consoles than Tactical ones. They possess three device slots, as is standard for both types of ship. Additionally, these vessels come with the ability to function in two different modes that offer the capabilities of each albeit only one at a time. In Science Mode, they have all the abilities of a Science Vessel, able to utilize built-in Sensor Analysis and Subsystem Targeting, as well as a Secondary Deflector slot, while having access to +15 Auxiliary Power and higher Shield Capacity. This is the default mode, and gives access to a Commander Science Bridge Officer ability. In Tactical Mode, the Science Vessel abilities are replaced with Tactical-focused ones: the ship is able to utilize its Experimental Weapon slot, while having access to +15 Weapons Power and higher maneuverability in the form of Flight Speed, Turn Rate and Inertia Rating. In this mode, the ship has access to a Commander Tactical Bridge Officer ability.

Or the concept artist simply wanted to inspire himself of a bird in a dive, and the rest is just a resemblance. twitter.com/sandman979/status/1329305599721361408 Some of the best shapes are in nature. If it happens to look like a 'better take on Discovery', so much the better.

​@@zoberraz don't let the artist's tweet dismiss your intuition, Fred. the ship _is_ a Titan mask over a Glenn iteration Crossfield frame, but this design of the Titan class still has a strong visual relation to the Luna class, so what they did was pretty clever and i have to give them credit for that. almost balances the 'work' they did on the Gagarin class, where they took a Walker class, stripped off some of the ventral body and just flipped it over. i wanted to love that ship, honestly, but i cannot ever 'unsee' it being upside down. meh, personal hang-up.

It’s already in sto. ITS CALLED THE GLENN CLASS LOOK IT up

@@jaredchildress6724 I know I can’t wait for them to do a video on the ship

Nope. It's a two word summation of game developpers trying to explain "It's an hybrid between a science vessel and a destroyer". Besides, in Startrek Online, it's common to have three variants of a same ship designation, each variant having equipment slot priorities tied to a certain profession. For example "Tactical cruiser", "Science Cruiser" and "Operations Cruiser" are designations tied to the Odyssey-class (STO flagship, which Trekyard covered in a video). So, in STO, seeing "Science Destroyer" is a pretty easy way of understanding that "oh, it's a destroyer, but it equips lots of science gear". Not that your reaction is uncommon.