Galaxy Class Firepower !
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- čas přidán 22. 12. 2009
- By far one of the most powerful Federation starships, the Galaxy class is only surpassed in firepower by the Sovereign and Prometheus classes. Other ships of notable strength include Defiant, Nebula, Akira and of course, the upgraded Excelsior class Uss Lakota.
Clips from Star Trek The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek 7: Generations.
Enjoy ! - Zábava
My favorite part of the Galaxy class is watching the two little lights on the phaser banks meeting up at the firing point before actually shooting the beam. It’s such a cool little detail.
The sound effect that goes with it is the icing on the cake that is the 24th century Starfleet ship phaser imo.
A build for what is about to come.
I agree!
i believe that effect also in voyager...cmiiw..its a cool one though...
@@gentasepriandi999 Yes in Voyager they do it quite consistantly.
Its fun to see that the firepower of the Galaxy ship is exactly "What the plot requires at this specific moment".
One time it blows a huge hole in a borg cube, the next time it barely scratches the paint of a random "enemy of the week"
@Apsoy Pike dude ur replying to a comment that was made 6 years ago. He’s probably grown up by now. Could be dead.
To the big starfleet in the sky
@Apsoy Pike why Guam?
Thats bc the Borg Cube uses no shields. The drones have shields, the Cube hasnt
LMAO Welcome to Star Trek. Congrats. You noticed all the writers are lazy as fuck and always have been.
Whoever was the captains, the pilots and at the controls of the tactical stations of those two Galaxys at 3:36 deserve medals for their combat co-ordination. Just beautiful.
I think that was a Dominion War-era tactic: Use one Galaxy as cover to hit the enemy’s defenses and then the other Galaxy Wing swoops in to deliver the knockout punch.
Absolutely, that was the coolest shot in the whole vid. Cardissian capital ship picking on smaller ships, then a couple of Galaxies come along and just ruin his day.
3:35 one of my FAVORITE parts of Sacrifice of the Angels. The two Galaxy Class ships doing strafing runs on that Galor class. EPIC.
Cannot agree more. The only thing that bugs me in those fleet battles though is how suddenly every starship is without shields when every first salvo just rips through the hull.
pseudowolf hadn´t enough money to do all the shield effects. sad but true.
Digi20, I think it was a either have a few ships with shields or have a fleet of hundreds with no shields.
You could argue as this is war no ship is holding back unlike in the next generation so the shields collapsed after a few direct hits.
pinoi78, It’s a very powerful scene and it gives me chills every time the sound design shows how powerful the galaxy class is.
Tht never gets old.
I cry every time a galaxy dies. Something about them which sets them apart from every other ship and class as if their actual living beings. RIP yamato, odyssey and enterprise
Seriously. Seeing Odyssey go up hurt. Did a good job making the Dominion feel like a real threat before they really got going too.
@@ThatIrishLass that was the exact point they wanted to make. That's why they chose to use a Galaxy Class
I’ve always preferred galaxy class ships for some reason
Doing a re watch of DS9....yes, it still hurts. RIP Odyssey. Mind you seeing the Galaxy classes get some payback made me warm inside.
The Enterprise going that way really got me. The ship had been a character that I'd loved all that time. Odyssey, too I really felt. Unshielded, she survived a fair old while. Yamato was a gigantic tragedy as she was probably still fully loaded with civilians too
I love the scenes (like 2:15) where the Galaxy's sit still in the middle of a battle and provide fire support. They look so monolithic and imposing, especially with all the tinier ships buzzing about.
It reminds me of a Star Destroyer looking at how much bigger and imposing it is.
My favourite bits are like 2:30 where it shows the phaser strip charging to full power to fire a sustained burst.
I think people forget how truly huge the Galaxy class was. You put the entire crew into a relatively small section of the saucer and their elbows wouldn't be touching. Also there are several times where the Enterprise takes on small colonies or refugees that number in the 100's and they don't even bat an eyelash.
definitely the way I liked the Star Trek battles portrayed. Same with the Odessy battle. These big ass ships just raining fire on anything they could hit. SOOOO much better than the Enterprise E fight with the Scimitar
And you guys complain about Star Wars 😑😆
"Now witness the firepower of this fully armed and operational battle station! Fire at will, commander!"
I had to. I love both star wars and star trek.
This fully armed and operation galaxy class.
same
0:17 if the Enterprise ever faced TIE fighters.
Statalyzer pretty accurate
Do t you mean "bye fighters"?
Fry fighters?
why fighters?
I picture a war refit galaxy manned by Rebels. half the size of an ISD just charging into Imperial space and letting the searing heat of her phaser arrays slicing all oposition in twain. And with the Rebel plans for DS1. The sophisticated targeting scanners could deliver photons right in that stupid hole.
You know when your day is fucked when 2 galaxy class ships are in front of you.
Yeah insurance ain't gonna cover that one.
It's only when you look at a montage like this, that you see how much special effects improved over the years. The real genius of the new phaser strips wasn't really taken advantage of, until "The Best of Both Worlds". After that, the Enterprise-D stared shooting things at things faster and at all kinds of angles. By Deep Space Nine and the Dominion War, Galaxy Class ships were shown actually dog-fighting, shooting in different directions as fast as the tactical officer could lock on.
2:00 those torpedo shots sure look like phaser shots to me man I don't know how they managed to make the torpedo launchers fire phaser shots I'm so confused😭
@@raven4k998 That's because they are phaser shots. It's the most famous special-effects screw-up in The Next Generation's history. I'm not sure if it was a simple case of the model being shot from the wrong angle, for that scene or what, but they literally animated several phaser shots coming from the wrong part of the ship, and no one caught the mistake until the episode actually aired on television.
@@Renserin nope that was the prototype phaser lance cannon for the galaxy class it wasn't ready yet for use so they ended up going back to the torpedo launchers after that episode
@@Renserin VFX teams were notorious for screwing up as if the ship designer never passed on notes or something of a schematic to the VFX artists. I remember an interview with the designer of the D'deridex and he mentioned how he watched an episode and was wondering why the Warbirds were firing torpedos from the navigational deflector instead of the torpedo tube he included on the crest. Its like a lot of times they just looked at the model and guessed what each part was
That was my biggest annoyance about star trek is how inconstant the enterprise d weapons strength was. One second it'd be pouring out death and destruction, the next second one tiny anemic phaser blast while getting its ass kicked.
True, doesn't make sense, but in my head I 'justify' it as them balancing their power between weapons and shields.
The Galaxy class was refitted for war with the dominion, those beasts you see are much stronger than the venerable Enterprise-D
Ok, I can solve this debate. Phaser arrays have variable power outputs ranging from a slap to the face to full on evisceration to the nth degree. Most of the phaser shots from Enterprise, Galaxy, or anyone of said class are using this. Enterprise is inconsistent because if she used the full ability of her phaser arrays full time, she'd be ludicrously overpowered and would ruin the feel of the show.
@Leo Peridot I like to think of it as the Klingons still aren't very used to or excited about long range ship vs ship combat. They want to get in close for boarding and fighting with their bak'leths and other melee weapons.
They're the Star Trek equivalent of the Warhammer 40K Commisar waving his sword around while looking out of the huge baneblade tank yelling "Bing me closer! I want to hit them with my sword!"
Klingon captain "BRING ME CLOSER! I WANT TO HIT THEM WITH MY BAK'LETH!"
@Leo Peridot The Worf effect: tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect
Because the Klingons are reputed warriors, they ironically become the punching bag whenever the plot needs to demonstrate how dangerous an enemy is.
The Galaxy-class starship tends to find itself outmatched by other ships of its size when it comes to battle, but that's during peacetime. Starfleet prefers to have its crews researching things and making peaceful contact with other races, not fighting. As such, they make room for sensor arrays and holodecks where other entities might put a thicker hull, shield generators, power cores, and beam emitters. However, from what I understand, Galaxy-class ships are designed for modularity. It takes a relatively-short time in drydock to repurpose them exclusively for something specific, such as ass-kicking. Start a war with the Federation and you'll find that all of those big softie pushover Galaxies turn into nightmares more quickly than you expect. Is it carrying tons of fighter craft (you forced Starfleet to start building those and now they're good at it), thousands of assault troops, or enough phaser batteries and torpedo launchers to level half of your fleet? The Galaxy-class can perform any of those battle roles disturbingly well with a few quick refits...but Starfleet would rather explore than fight, so gigantic science vessel it is. Just don't push it, buddy. You wouldn't like humans when they're angry.
Charles Urban Absolutely.
***** Now they just need to address the vulnerable-nacelle issue and they're set.
+Charles Urban this is a GREAT explaination, love it. Basically exactly what happens in STO, you can be flying the same ship, but it can be weak in attacking but have good support abilities OR be focused on attacking but it won't be able to do the other things.
+Charles Urban As many dominion ships learned to their extreme pain. How many galaxy wings does it take to wreck a battle line? Not very many.
+Charles Urban The scene from Sacrifice of Angels (second to last battle scene of this video) where the Galaxy's lead the charge and fend off the Galors to let the fleet advance is still just about my favorite combat scene in all Star Trek. It made up for all those times prior when they decided that a Galaxy class ship needed to get its butt kicked just to make a point about some new fierce enemy (or Starfleet's pacifist ways).
God, the 1701-D Was such a unit. My favorite Sci-Fi ship of all time
Thank you for not adding some stupid music to ruin the scenes.
RIGHT! RIGHT!
**sings** We come in peace, shoot to kill, shoot to kill, shoot to kill...
"Let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the floor, let the bodies hit the........... (outtakes of actors walking into doors on the bridge)"
@@BrokenCurtain It's worse than that, he's dead Jim.
Star Trekkin by The Firm
the Galaxy Class with the phaser cannon from "All Good Things" still looks awesome today. the Sovereign Class is a great design but the Enterprise D deserved a more dignified farewell than ending up in the dirt of Veridan III
Happy now that it's returned in Picard? (I know this comments 2 years old)
Well I’m aware of the other comment and the age of this one, but I think you got your wish
No it didn't. It gave it's all protecting it's crew, and that includes it's sacrifice at Veridian III.
DAMN DS9 was such a blast. Once you get past season 3, all hell breaks loose. All the WTF space battles in this montage are from DS9. BTW Weyoun kicks ass.
doomie77 yes he does lol
is it worth it to watch the first 3 seasons, or should you just skip them?
@@armydillo1013 Waiting for such an answer. I'm trying to watch the first season, but the acting is awful.
Eyup, just got past season 3.
Sisko gets his badass look.
Word joins the crew.
And Deep Space 9 just gave the Klingons a broken nose.
Because Sisco is a bad ass and Picard is a weak ass... good diplomat, shitty tactical commander.
That's the thing that always confused me about the other powers in the Alpha Quadrant. Why would you antagonize a people whose science vessels can fight your warships head to head? The only canonical ships built explicitly for warfare are the Defiant, Defiant II, and the Valiant, all in the same class. The Sovereign class ships are clearly more combat capable than previous large classes of Federation vessel, but it's still not a warship. It's got every bit the same amount of research and exploration potential as a Galaxy class, just with three times the firepower.
+Zephyrbal It may not be a warship, and I agree with literally everything you said, but you do have to admit that the Sovereign class was designed with the Borg threat in mind, and therefore a warship by default, even if it wasn't officially dedicated to war or classified as such. It wasn't designed as the most powerful vessel ever created by accident or anything. It was designed to be the strongest and best defense the federation had to offer in case of attack, and that is pretty much the definition of a warship. Exploration is just it's day job.
+Idazmi7 To say nothing of the Akira Heavy Cruisers (you don't mount 15 torpedo launchers on a dedicated explorer) and Prometheus Tactical Cruisers.
you can stick a tactical Pod on a Nebula
Zephyrbal that’s a really good point
The Enterprise-E is a warship... designed to combat the Borg...
2:30 you can see the shields collapse and the beam continuing into the haul to destroy it.
Always loved how the Enterprise phasers powered up. 0:17-0:22 is my all time favorite Enterprise phasers moment.
What’s the episode?
@@davidcolaco8355, if you're asking about the particular episode I was pointing out, that was from ST:TNG "Conundrum". Season 5 Ep. 14.
@@bonusbaby801 thanks! Going to rewatch it today probably
That phaser shot is the best ever. Though it’s a sad one!
It reminds me a lot of how CIWS today actually work. Great Szene!
I Will always have a special place in my heart for the galaxy class. I wish the retrofitted bridge for Generations was added during the last season of TNG. It was really cool looking.
ixmntr I agree it was such a beautiful setup between the extra consoles on either bridge wing replacing those bland storage lockers and the added handrails giving it a sturdy look all topped off with a darker sleeker lighting setup it was arguably the most beautiful setup I’ve personally ever seen in the entire span of startrek... and we only got to see a vague version of it during yesterday’s enterprise...tho I did throughly love the nx-01 thru and thru.
TNG:
"sir, enemy fleet just decloaked"
"mr. worf, fire a warning shot"
2 quick phaser bursts
"12 enemy ships destroyed and 27 disabled, captain."
voyager:
"target that shuttle! fire all phaser banks, target all photon torpedos on their engines!"
"no effect captain. nothing we have ever has any effect. why do you even bother with anything other than the tachyon beam anymore?"
Ty Guy I enjoyed this comment SO much. Galaxy class was a TANK, but it had big ol' balls too.
Patrick MCP I know what you mean. I think that's due to TNG's tendency to frown upon "firepower based" solutions as opposed to diplomatic ones. Consequently the Galaxy Class' obvious tactical assets were downplayed considerably. You could probably make the same argument for the other ships in Starfleet in general.
albatani27 Especially when you consider the number of times it went into combat situations in its cruise configuration and not its battle configuration.
+albatani27 I agree. A prime example of firepower being played down is the sickening scene from 'Rascals' when Ferengi completely take over the Enterprise in two knackered old Klingon birds of prey. They should have been an easily dealt with threat if Riker hadn't waited until shields were down and they were being boarded to give the order to fire.
+Ty Guy what about the part where the enterprise is beaten by a clingon war bird... context man, context.
The Galaxy Class ship is the epitome of how the Federation operated under Roddenberry's vision.
Vastly powerful, but they don't brag about it. Nobody EVER talks about the ship being powerful, it's simply implied at various times throughout the show. Starfleet is a force that everyone knows is strong, although often unprepared (it would be boring if they won all the time anyway) but they never beat their chest, they earned repect by helping others and by exploring.
The Klingons, Romulans & Cardassians just 'know' that if they go up against a Galaxy class ship, they will meet a crew of peaceful scientists, explorers and diplomats who just also happen to have a huge arsenal at their disposal.
The federation is the Grandmaster Ip Man of space ships. Powerful but never arrogant and always willing to help.
A D’deridex might stand a chance
Roddenberry's Trek: Power without talking about or abusing it. Everyone helps fix the problem of the day. Beautifully designed ships and basis in science.
Kurtzman's Trek: No power to speak of. One Mary Sue fixes every problem because wokeness has decimated the Federation. No basis in science whatsoever.
@@austinbate5107 Easily.
@@ministryoflies1344 Discovery's actually getting better about that.
And being "woke" isn't the problem. Star Trek's been "Woke" since Gene created the Franchise. The prob is more the Writers on Discovery are idiots and focus WAY too much on Burnham. They've got a likeable and competent crew. GIVE THEM SOME FUCKING SCREENTIME.
By the last scene, I just wanted to give the old girl a big fat hug.
35% of the Galaxy class Saucer Section is hollow (Reserved for future refit modules) if these areas were used for combat purposes like storing Troops, Weapons, maybe extra Shuttlecraft or additional reactors to increase Phaser power or Additional Shield projectors the Galaxy class could make a great Military Assault Ship in Wartime. Being able to transport 6000+ Soldiers and additional War equipment to a Planet Surface to reinforce existing defenses is extremely useful.
How do you decide whether or not to capitalize a word?
@@kevlosent6375 idk. It's always been an issue for me lol.
@@richardched6085have you figured it out yet
@@Cenot4ph College forced me to make a few changes for the better lol.
0:47 One of the best ST:TNG episodes ever... "Yesterday's Enterprise" 😁🥇
Is it me or does the quality improve significantly around half way through? Increased SFX budget perhaps.
Actually, increased technology. In ST The Next Generation they had NO CGI whatsoever since it was made in the 80s. Everything was done with scale models, rotoscopy, cartoon fx, real pyrotechnics and so on. The USS Enterprise C (the galaxy class) got a CGI makeover in ST Deep Space Nine, which is the first series that used computer models and fx. The footage for this video was taken mainly from TNG and DS9.
@@danielciocilteu3545 ... the Enterprise C was an Ambassador Class XD the Enterprise D is the Galaxy Class... also you forgot the Movie Star Trek Generations The D was also in this
@@danielciocilteu3545 Enterprise-C is an Ambassador class. Enterprise-D is a Galaxy class.
CGI was used after the first couple seasons of DS9. That's when you could finally have massive battles with more than just half a dozen ship models present. I sometimes try to imagine what the battle of Wolf 359 would have looked like had they had access to CGI.
Yup like others said... literally went from 80's with no CG to mid 90's with it.. Tech simply got better quickly
Seeing 3 galaxy class starships in one shot is just such a sight
When two GALAXY-class ships fire on you, you’re done fighting in the battle. I don’t care who you are, if you aren’t a Borg Cube then you’re done.
Jem hadar battleships beg to disagree.
@@thehighground3630 If you are talking about the one that destroyed the Valiant, then yes. It is said to be twice as long and three times as powerful as a Galaxy Class. I wouldn't count the ones that destroyed the Odyssey, since there were 3 Jem hadar warships, and the Odyssey's shields were down.
@@thehighground3630 The Jem' Hadar LOST the war. They can disagree all they want.
@@allnamesaretakenful Actually the Odyssey's shields were ineffective against Jem Hadar warships in the early stages of the war. Starfleet quickly alleviated that problem shortly thereafter. Even after they upgraded and left it's civilian crew back on DS9 the Odyssey should've survived that encounter with 3 Jem Hadar fighter craft. Their phasers alone could've sustained an impulse long enough to destroy them. They would've sustained considerable damage but should NOT have been destroyed. The producers of that episode just thought it would be cool to destroy a Galaxy class starship like that. It was pathetic in my opinion.
@@KnowTrentTimoy yeah except that I said jem Hadar battle ship. These things are like 5 km long.
When a Galaxy class starship starts bearing down on you, and starts machinegunning photon torpedo's at you, that's a good way to tell that you really really pissed off her captain.
"Lt. Worf, fire phasers on full with a simultenous spread of photon torpedoes!"
Nerdgasm
+BuzzKill Certainly my favorite battle scene in TNG
when i first watched that I watched it at least 2 more times, I had never seen the enterprise use its power unrestrained like that before lol
He should have done that in Generations.
@@SackAttack81 To be fair, the Enterprise was being attacked from behind in Generations. Maybe it just couldn't do the same tactic from that angle? _But yeah, they still should've fired a couple photon torpedoes instead of just one phaser shot._
@@MrDibara
The Enterprise started the battle facing the target. They could have _liquidated_ that ship.
One thing is for sure, this is one ship you never want to make angry.
You can just imagine the Cardassian Gul at 3:34 bracing himself to fight a Galaxy Class starship, then when the second one appears thinking "oh crap..."
Tyrants of the universe. Do not mistake the Federation's idealism for weakness.
Underestimate them at your peril.
They have steel in their hearts, and hope in their souls.
And piles of antimatter missiles.
Those are important too
Many Deep Space Nine really stepped up the VFX, it still looks good today.
Friendly reminder that an episode of TNG saw a Galor-class Cardassian warship, notably still the backbone of their fleet even at the end of DS9, get a clean shot on the Enterprise-D *while its shields were down* and only manage to cause minor damage to the secondary hull. The Enterprise shot back and almost immediately took out its forward shields.
These are the people the Cardassians decided to side against in the Dominion War. The people who built exploration vessels capable of wiping the floor with their finest warships.
0:14 - Shows the accuracy of the firing system
0:19 does it better.
CAP'M, OUR PEWPEW GENERATOR IS AT MAXIMUM CAPACITY
you mean the phase emitters
ishigoto pretty sure the akira class is. It has torpedoes on the side
Fire a boom boom at their whoosh engines at my signal!
and while the galaxy doing a shooot shiiiiit shoooot shiiit shooot shooot. one of the bug ship is sreeett sreeeett kabooomm..
Yes, that is not far off : ) The Galaxy class ships were like the fleet battleships during the Dominion War. But only an estimated 30 or so of these ships were constructed...that's not much of a backbone.
The real backbone of Starfleet is the Excelsior class : )
I think there were much more during the dominion war, they started to mass produce them. Over 60% of the ship was empty in the war refit
The scene where the "lightning storm" appears around the Enterprise (00:36) is one of my favorite special effects sequences. It's a great visualization of how powerful the alien ship's weapons are.
When data turned around and said “the husnock warship appears to be *capable of far more powerful discharges sir”* we knew that thing was not to be trifled with!
I always loved that scene at 3:36-3:41 with the galaxys coming up all like "Bitches get outta my way!"
the galaxy class is a beast
Mhm :>
Not as much as the sovereign class. That thing had starbase.level weaponry
Especially when they upgraded their shields and weapons during the Dominion war effectively making it a dreadnought class warship..
Heavy battle cruiser. The Sovereign class is the Federation's dreadnought. :)
Until you graze the warp core...
I totally love it when the Enterprise D refit rips right through the Klingon Warship with it's Lance Phaser totally amazing & when those Dominion refit Galaxy class Starships damage those Cardassian Galor class Destroyers
3:25 Starfleet charge, boy that never gets old!! This is a tribute to our favorite space-spoon.
3:43 And that's why the Venture is the most badass Galaxy-class ship! If you were to be assigned to a Galaxy-class ship, then you'd better hope it's the Venture, as that ship survives everything thrown at it.
According to Memory Alpha, it was the Venture. The Galaxy was the ship seen exchanging fire with a weapons platform earlier in the battle. I have a theory on the extra phaser arrays on the Venture's nacelles. Starfleet might have leaned from the Enterprise's loss at Veridian III, and gave the Venture extra arrays as an experiment to give the Galaxy-class more firepower on the aft section. The arrays must not have worked properly, so they were removed a couple of years later. Hence why the Venture doesn't have them in her later appearances.
Yeah, the arrays were a leftover from "All Good Things...". Curiously, the 4ft Enterprise-D model was restored to it's proper appearance, without the arrays, for it's appearance as the Odyssey in "The Jem'Hadar", but they were put back on for it's appearance as the Venture in "The Way Of Warrior". A funny thing to watch out for in "Sacrifice Of Angels" is that the CGI model of the Venture used in the battle scenes doesn't have the arrays, but the ship appears to have regained them when she reaches DS9. This was simply because the shot from "The Way Of The Warrior" was re-used.
0:18 I always loved that shot.
Pity the gunnery wasn't usually that competent against actual threats..
It is a crying shame that they were never able to do any scenes in the main shuttle bay... it's such a prominent feature of the ship, occasionally mentioned but never see in use. :-(
can you imagine without the use of CGI how massive that set would be when they filmed STNG.
Decompress the Main shuttle Bay, it might push us safely away from them.
I remember several times in episodes where enemies would comment to the effect of that's a galaxy class ship out there...essentially you don't mess with those.
Awesome compilation! Thanks!
Back here reminding myself just what a Galaxy class is capable of before the big Star Trek: Picard grand finale! The dialogue in episode 9 made it sound like Geordi restored the Enterprise-D to pre-Dominion War condition (which makes sense since it was already gone before then), but I’m hoping we see some great & memorable Galaxy class action one more time as Picard and the E-D ride in to save the day one more time. Pre-war they could seem like cruise ships but during the war they sure seemed to be like Iowa-class battleships - huge and able to reach out & touch someone.
and boy did we see her kick ass.
I have a feeling if the human species ever ventures into the reaches of our galaxy, we will indeed require AT LEAST the power of a Galaxy Class.
You do realise if their Aliens out there 1. There be far more advanced 2. They'll squat us like flies even if we had a Galaxy Class Starship. Have you seen the concept Enterprise from NASA it has zero defensive capabilities. If we ever encounter hostile aliens, it's over before its starts especially if they track us back to Earth, they'll just wipe us out, probably just use biological weapsons rather then nukes... Basically it's like any life form on Earth attacking us in a Tank no compenttion GAME OVER DUDE!
Jonathan Maughan that's not a garuntee. Assuming any alien race out there is automatically more advanced than us is a grand assumption. It's very possible we are the most advanced civilization in the universe. The reason aliens are portrayed as more advanced is because they actually make it to us. If we make it to them, then we would be those scary advanced aliens now wouldn't we.
+Justin Padron keep smoking they'are observations of many stars systems that have gone nova or super nova proving that they are many star systems that are older then our system that is half way through it's life cycle unless we are the only system with life on then, then there is no way we are the oldest civilisations in the universe.
Jonathan Maughan dinosaurs were around for millions of years. You think they were more advanced than us? as I said, it's possible we are the most advanced. I didn't say anything about being the oldest. You think Hollywood is the example or something?
+Jonathan Maughan I agree with you that we would be completely powerless if advanced aliens were to attack earth but you miss one thing. A galaxy class isn't a human ship, it is a federation ship, it os the combined technologies and ideas of over a dozen species.
I love how sometimes it fires out of the forward torpedo port. Also, some of the scenes are where it eventually gets it butt kicked. Their biggest problem is that they are slow to attack and attack with as little firepower as they can.
Refitting a Galaxy-class for increased firepower would actually be very easy. If you eliminated the extravagant crew quarters and all the non-essential rooms (cargo holds, arboretum, school, etc...) you could pack rather a lot more weaponry into a ship that size. However, it was actually the Nebula-class that offered the most potential (not generally seen onscreen). It had a swappable secondary module easily the size of an Excelsior-class's saucer section which could be anything from a sensor pod to an expanded weapons array.
They upgraded the firepower after the first Borg attack, and then again a few times during the Dominion War. Despite not having special armor or quantum torpedoes they were stated as being the most powerful ships the Federation had (until the next generation of ships such as the sovereign were built).
I always thought the Galaxy class could easily be transformed from a ship of exploration into a sort of battle carrier. All that internal space could easily hold troops and vehicles (Peregrine Class fighters, for example). That and plenty of firepower to get into hostile space with a battle group, orbit a planet, and attack/garrison it, while defending itself on top of providing fire support to troops on the ground.
I'd think they would have retrofitted the Galaxy class to take advantage of that internal volume for combat purposes, and make it a real ass-kicker.
But 1v1 against a hostile ship with solely ship-ship combat design? She wasn't a great fighter.
It's like a F-22 v a F-35. The F-35 is more versatile and capable at multirole missions, and can definitely fight if need be, but the F-22 is by far the superior fighter.
The F35 lost against an F16 as well.
That was a specific test, intended to explore and diagnose problems, it wasn't intended as a fair 1v1. Don't get me wrong; I like the concept of the Lightning II, but it's still totally unproven, and way overbudget. In the end, it could either be incredible, awesome, a real aviation game-changer. Or it could be the worst military design disaster in recent history. I think it's a case of how hard we want the former over the latter...
2:11 who needs a Death Star when you have a ship that can just ignite the atmosphere and incinerate the planet's population?
Which Star Destroyers can do too. Death Star was a mistake b/c it wasn't nearly as good as building hundreds of SDs instead. Sort of like Germany building Bismarck and Tirpitz instead of a couple hundred extra uboats.
Statalyzer, That’s the problem of the empire. They are based on the 3rd reich and almost follow that to the letter but as it’s combine with the shows and films being marketed towards children they cannot go full evil instead they are idiots who lose due to sheer incompetences not due to the protagonists actually having skill.
There was a lot of planet busting tech in Star Trek. Sisko made a Maquis planet unlivable by humans for years by shooting torpedoes with tricobalt resin into the atmosphere. The Klingon's destroyed Indrii VIII pretty much with a plasma reaction which killed all organic life in the episode The Chase.
@@WizelBalan
Adding to that, Kirk destroyed Tycho IV with an antimatter bomb.
Can't really beat oneshotting an entire planet to oblivion.
I came here for one clip and one clip only.
Seeing the Two Galaxy Class ships slap up that Cardassian ship.
Fact of the day: One photon torpedo has enough explosive yield to vaporize a major Earth city in seconds.
Yet in star trek V they fire a torpedo on the planet and it looks like a 500 pound bomb going off
@@MrGunlover12 Photon Torpedoes have a variable yield, im betting they just dialed it down so as not to vaporize the crew on the surface....lol
Fun fact nukes do that as well
I’m no physicist but wouldn’t explosives be rather useless in a vacuum? There would be no mass of atmosphere to displace and provide a medium for the explosive energy. I mean wouldn’t it just be a bit of light and radiated heat unless you count a bit of shrapnel from the casing?
@@farthersaidin yeah, that is why nuclear warheads are useful in space. As they produce lots of radiation and different types of it
1:53 was a mistake corrected in a later remastered version. Phasers shooting out of the torpedo launcher.
+Chad Snow that was Geordi using hand phaser from torpedo bay
+Delluminati lol. I like that explanation. that how the got other guy by surprise
INTENSIFY FORWARD FIREPOWER
...wait, wrong universe.
Sil3nt, Still works.
Helmsman: TOO LATE!
Could be the same universe, just another galaxy far, far away...
TO LATE!!!!!!!! AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
@@nodak81 true
Always wished the Enterprise would unload like it did against the Husnock warship when it went up against other ships, that scene spoiled me in every other fight the series gave us. We know what the ship can do but they had to Worf Effect it hard to give it any type of challenge. The Enterprise should have blown the hell out of the Bird of Prey(s) in Generations and in the Alternate future with no problems.
It might have done better if it had a better captian
Generations would have been better if the Duros sisters had gotten the frequency and then said, "pass the frequency to the Captains, and tell them to kill the Enterprise". Two Klingon Battleships decloak and open fire. That little Bird of Prey was to make the Enterprise overconfident.
I am so glad that they killed off the enterprise D
That screen on POV after Riker orders "commence rapid fire with all weapons on FULL" My god.
@@TheDarkhorse386 I would point out that when she was lost, Riker was in command.
And shot down by one decommissioned Klingon bird of prey
Shaun Watson plus one so old and under gunned by comparison that the enterprise should have been able to defeat it even without shields
I know but that shouldn't have been the overwhelming factor in the fight even without sheilds the d massively outgunned the bird of prey and against one that was not manoeuvring or cloaked it should be more than capable of wiping it out with out Shields. the odyssey was without Shields when she was destroyed and she received much more of a beating from ships of a much newer and higher calibre than an outdated BoP before she was destroyed and even that was only due to a kamikaze run. It would have been a much more believable fight if they showed then hitting the engines first and manoeuvring to a blind spot in the weaponry or at least remaining mobile rather than just sitting there tanking it out
fair point I forgot TNG was late 80's early 90's. It's just a shame that a pretty iconic ship got such a lacklustre final battle compared to her predecessor's, though the crash was always fairly cool if a bit heart-rending. Though I'm sure they could have found the budget if they had dropped the cast playing HMS Pinafore lol :)
Lexington73300 Yeah, tbh i just had an idea on how you could have saved money, made it a bit more exciting and explain a plot hole from the undiscovered country. Have the klingons use a BoP like what Chang had and make it be able to fire while cloaked and instead of worf using technobable to lower their shields say they were decommissioned because that technobable disabled their cloak, and then they blow it up but have to abandon ship due to the damage as with them no longer being constricted to show the BoP moving they can have the torpedoes hit areas like the nacelles, engines or deflector dish that could seriously damage the drive section enough to be forced to abandon ship in the saucer.
@Lexington73300
Which means the Enterprise-D got shafted.
They call it a cruiser, but let's be honest here. the damn thing's a battleship.
Well, this isn't even the Federations attempt at building a battleship, this was there attempt at building a kitchen sink style starship, it's basically a jack of all trades.
Then they actually got serious and started making dedicated Battleships like the Defiant and the Sovereign instead of trying to make a ship that does everything.
More like a battleship armed like a cruiser with a bad tendency toward warp core breeches that would blow up the entire ship like a firecracker. Certainly wasn't intended as a warship. When pressed into service as one, didn't fair very well.
The technical term for it is 'Explorer', not 'Cruiser'.
But it was originally built to fight the Borg. Why wouldn't it stand against a Galaxy Class ship?
Either way the galaxy class is no battleship, it sucks ass
at 3:33 ;" Ensign, have galaxy wings 9-1 and 9-3 engage those destroyers: - Sisko
Galor class: Captian! Enemy galaxy class headed straight for us!!
captain: Eh, we'll one shot it when it gets close!
Galaxy Wing 9-3: HELLO GALOR!!
Galar Class: HOLY SH*** MOVE MOVE MOVE!!!!
Galaxy Wing 9-3: GOODBYE GALOR!
Galaxy Wing 9-1: PEW PEW!!!! GOODBYE AGAIN!
Galor Class: O.0
francis singh :)
francis singh I love that sequence. Its also worth thinking about it from Dukat an Weyoun's point of view;
Dukat: Sisko is trying to provoke us into oopening a hole in our lines. So I'm going to give him his opening and then close it on him.
Dukat and Weyoun watch the battle unfold.
Weyoun: You forgot the Federation had Galaxy-Class ships when you came up with that plan, didn't you Dukat?
Dukat: My twin brother warned me they could take out a Galor's shields in one shot, but I never believed him. I guess I owe him ten strips of latinum.
Helbore ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!
+Helbore Haha, twin brother, deep cut, nice :) Marc Alaimo played both the Ur-Cardassian and the Canonical Cardassian!
+Lexington73300 this.
Thumbs up if you like 3:33 - 3:42 the most.
This awesome Galaxy power scene still gives the goose bumps.
We need this stuff in FULL HD.
U mean 4k?
@@HowDidIGet3700Subs Lol! How things change in 10 years :)
Excellent video. Thanks for putting this together :)
Very good set of clips, Galaxy-class was always my favorite :)
I love how they change the colors of the phaser beam when firing on the Borg cube in the one clip from Best of Both Worlds. It reflects that they are changing the frequancies which is a truth. Change a laser frequency and the color changes.
It is not a laser it's phaser :D
And i hate to be a pain but you should never see a FTL weapon, or ship for that matter
Lesserthannone FTL torpedo's yes.. Phasers.. errr they should only be going at the speed of light once they leave the warp bubble really who knows how they would react.
can you see a laser in a vacuum?
Lesserthannone
No, but it is a T.V series so they make obvious exceptions.
Interesting how it wasn't even designed to be a warship, imagine a defiant the size of a galaxy class.
Then you have a Prometheus class ship. ^^
Well, the Prometheus is roughly half the size of a Galaxy class.
Well, maybe more like 2/3. The Prometheus was 415m to the Galaxy's 643m
with 200,000 phaser banks, 45,000 torpedo launchers lol
IF you want a comparable warship setup in a Galaxy class hull, think the Scimitar
Brings back great memories!!!
That's one thing I've always found so interesting about the federation starships, Starfleet especially, they're not designed as dedicated combat vessels, but can go toe to toe with other races starships designed solely around combat, like warbirds.
It's a shame the federation doesn't consider an entirely defensive based fleet, built soley around reacting to threats that are held in reserve of different sectors.
It wouldn't be militaristic and at least they'd have some proper defences.
The Federation is only as strong as its Engineer Corps.
The Dominion should have just used some broken down Klingon Bird of Preys. Those guys are like kryptonite to the Galaxy class!
There also green like Kryptonite!
astute observation kind sir, how in the devil did you discover this outstanding information!?
No they are not the only reason why things happened in generations the way they did was because they knew the shield modulation
I think Birds of Prey are just kryptonite against ships named Enterprise (see The Search For Spock)
Gary Cannon but they could have remodulated the shield frequency. Ever since Starfleet encountered the Borg, that’s become a common procedure.
Love phaser fire! I think it's really cool how it charges and it's a continuous beam of energy instead of pew pew pew lasers.
Yeah those pew pew STD phasers are so dull
It took some time for me to appreciate the Galaxy class. After some studying (and building the model), I really grew to love it.
I love how you included the clip of the Dominion ships tearing into a Galaxy while its phasers seem only capable of pushing one of the ships away.
Chills and more chills! THAT’S MY BABY!
The Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is like the cruise ship RMS Queen Mary 2 having the armaments of the USS Zumwalt
I loved that scene of the 2 Galaxy's pounding on that Cardassian ship. I must have rewatched that scene about a dozen times when i first saw it!!!
That DS9 battle with the two Galaxy Classes coming up and firing on the Cardassians, was EPIC! (3:33)
Change video name to "every time a galaxy class fired weapons"
Firepower? The galaxy class sucks ass. it is the cheesiest starship ever created.
Oh we are? No matter. Us white boys in America are not here to please the rest of the world. That still dose not change the fact that the Galaxy class sucks ass
sounds pretty racist
So basically, a showcase of the Galaxy-class's Firepower?
It was'nt built for battle I would take an old constitution class over the Galaxy class
Thanks : ) Yes, there are a few Enterprise-D scenes in there, but I missed a few. I think they are so rare and far apart than few people have the patience to sort through the TNG episodes to make an Enterprise-D battle compilation.
They should never have got rid of the galaxy class in the TNG movies. They seem to forget that the ship itself is as beloved and popular than some of the crew. Its like its own character, its important to the fans. I loved it when it was in orbit above a planet, looking big, grand, powerful, and stylish. Its bridge matched its grandeur with its size and the glass dome roof and the 3 command chairs being enclosed with that curved boomerang shaped beam with the tactical station built into it. It was more like a cruise ship in certain ways and it wasn't just a control room that is practical like in other starships. The sovereign had its pluses, but it was just another variation of the Excelsior class in its looks.
One of my favorite videos on CZcams. Good ending too!
0:18 me when I see a bunch of spiders
Edit 1:15
3:33
-After you, captain...
-No, after you, captain...
-No, sir, no, I insist...
Gotta love the sound effects, in the vacuum of space. 😄
Just realized, the alternate timeline where the Klingons and the Federation were at war because of the Enterprise C was not there still had the Borg(Q who and thanks to Enterprise under the command of Archer) that was still on it's way. With both sides weakened, the Borg will steam roll the Alpha Quadrant.
I bet the Galaxies during DS9 are way more powerful than during TNG since they were being refitted for war with the Dominion. The Galaxies during TNG's time had a ton of stuff that aren't very useful in combat, like civilian living areas, schools, diplomatic guest quarters, theaters, tons of scientific equipment, etc. They probably had most of that stuff taken out and replaced with extra weapons or hanger bays for fighters during the Dominion War.
Supposedly most of the newer Galaxy class ships had much in the way of unfinished interior space. Just flying heaps of power , perhaps some areas raw cargo bay's for thousands of ground troops ready to kick ass.
***** Yeah....they probably evacuated any families stationed on them and transferred all power from the science research lab places like stellar cartography, arboretum, etc. into shields and phasers....now if only they thought to put ablative armor on those Galaxies as well so that, like the Defiant-class it can still take a fair amount of punishment even after shields are down then those Galaxies would've been real tanks in the war :)
***** It reminds me of one author's rendition of how the mirror universes' Enterprise D would appear. In the book "Star Trek : Dark Mirror" the Terran Enterprise was outfitted with armor plating, roughly double the amount of phaser arrays of the prime universe D, only one science laboratory, two tactical stations as opposed to just one, four times the number of photon torpedoes, one holodeck used for training, no civilian luxuries, and an insanely huge reactor core that actually took a turbolift to scale - whose power was diverted to strengthening the shields.
I'd imagine the war-ready Galaxies of the Dominion War to be comparable.
_TNG: Yesterday's Enterprise_ had a Galaxy-D warship. _TNG: Parallels_ briefly had piles of Enterprises from alternate universes, some configured as pure warships.
But none of them looked particularly impressive. That big tub just doesn't make a decent combat platform.
I presume Galaxy-class in Dominion war simply transfer those extra power into the two big-f**king-phaser array on the saucer section and carry extra photon torpedoes, but not much else is done.
Though, I believe the most useful aspect of Galaxy-class is, as the ship has facility equivalence of a mobile starbase, they became the fleet's command vessel. Those extra spaces could fit entire command staff without interfering with shipboard operation. (I still don't get why in "Sacrifice of Angle", Sisko command the fleet in the Defiant rather than on dedicated command center on one of those Galaxy)
When I saw the USS Vengeance from Into Darkness I thought "This could've been the Enterprise D!"
The Galaxy class. Part Love Boat, part glass cannon (remember the warp core nearly exploding every few episodes).
But god I loved it
This sparks joy.
That is a Galaxy Class Starship - we are no match for them!
Man the future Enterprise D from the TNG Episode 'All Good Things' was my favorite Enterprise design with those 3 warp nacelles the 2 phaser cannons on the sides of the main bridge the extra photon torpedo launcher on top of the main shuttle bay and especially that huge phaser cannon lance on the underside of the saucer section that destroyed a Klingon Neg'Var Class Warship in about 3 or 4 shots now that was awesome and that version of the Enterprise could really kick ass.
I feel like that gigantic battle we got in that DS9 episode was the wish fulfillment of a hundred million Star Trek fans. Goodness knows i wouldn't mind having that run as a loop for my computer's screen saver.
The CG was lit at the end
1:59 wait a minute. The Torpedo tube has a phaser bank as well?
never seen that before, wtf.
considering how big those Torpedo tubes could be in comparison to the Side of the people , i find it Believable.
Sometimes the effects guys haven't read the technical manual that closely haha.
Episode?
@@zezinho_pereira Darmok. Was a failure of the SFX guys in that episode.
When the federation builds their "Science and exploration" starships for the purposes of "Peaceful contact" we should all be very scared.
"We brought no weapons! All tools. These are flashlight lasers with variable beams. At night one can see great distances, for one can narrow the beam indefinitely by turning this ring. Indeed, one must be careful not to burn holes in nearby objects or persons, for the beam can be made perfectly parallel and extremely intense." - another Peaceful Race, from Ringworld
Great video put together. There was never enough shooting in the shows.
super montage!
Oh hey look (3:47), a Miranda Class survived.
This needs to be updated with scenes from Picard Season 3.
I came back looking for this comment.
1:41 I'm not sure I remember the Enterprise having some sort of flare defense system like that before.
They used it like one time in the show for plot purposes.
I think you can use it on STO, but I haven’t played in years.
When you got two Dominion War-era Galaxy classes attacking you, you know you're in trouble.
I love the camera angle in that shot, how the second one swoops up from out of frame. I imagine the Galor's officers getting all psyched "ok everyone, Galaxy ahead, let's get ready to go toe-to-----ahhh CRAP WHERE'D THAT COME FROM"