(238) The Excalibur Class (The Constitution Revamp that Was Forgotten)

Lovely ship. I want one.

Captain Calhoun's ship!

They should make a new Star Trek series with Picard son in command of one of these Star ships after all he said he was a connie refit kind of guy . They could CG Scotty into the first mission chatting with him on his first mission as a friend of the family

This is the first time I’ve seen this class. I like it. The pylons aren’t my favorite, but they’re OK.

I wonder if that now means we will see the other connie variants of sto getting videos i want to see how you would fit the vesper and exeter on cannon.

A lovely ship ❤

If you hear a heavy cruiser version of the Sovereign Class that uses the design of this ship as a base, can anyone estimate how long, width and height this ship would be?

Wait you were a STO beta tester that’s pretty cool and great story for the Excalibur

I haven’t forgotten the Excalibur! It was the ship that convinced me to pre-order STO, the ship skin my T6 Temporal Light Cruiser has worn since the day I unpacked it, and the only ship I repeatedly wrote to Eaglemoss to request. I really hope Fanhome makes one to celebrate STO!

very nice Truth OR Myth Beta. like this video

Hella lot better looking than the🤢 G 🤢

Fantastic video really enjoyed it

I would’ve loved to see the Excalibur class in Picard. Sadly that show was just wasted potential.

What I absolutely adore about this is that it feeds that part of my fandom of wanting to know the details of things like federation (and other species/nations) infrastructure and day-to-day operational roles that this class fits the need for

I sincerely love the Excalibur class. I feel like as a design it had so much potential. Your fanfic of the class's development and history does it so much justice.

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Will there be a Exeter-class?

I like what you've done but I think you could have Incorporated some parts of the Constitution 3 or Neo Constitution near the end of the video with this vessel being an inspiration and stepping off point to reinvent the Constitution class into the Neo Constitution or AKA Constitution Mark 3 due to its design I think that could have easily worked for the Excalibur history

I like this ship already

Is there a Montgomery Scott class?

Its not a bad looking ship. for me the neck needs adjusting as the proportions seem off ( as per the Sovereign underside I think it needs some supports reaching up to compliment its swoop) . The secondary hull lines also I feel need a bit more "meat-on-the-bones". The nacelle supports need tweak too imo. However the space frame over all has a good look

I prefer this class over the one we got from picard

Beyond Fantastic!
I gotta get into STO again

Meh, not overly impressive.

The only thing that bothers me is that in my opinion the secondary Hull looks a bit small compared to the rest of the ship.

It's a shame some of the early ships weren't scalable for a long time. Good to see some lore on some of the forgotten ships. Thsnk you.

Btw, did you ever cover the Exeter Class?

One of my favourite ships in the early days of STO

This was a fun episode. I gotta say I do dig the design of this ship. The lore for the ship was interesting too.

it is a nice ship. but. it looks like the impulse engines are pointed at the warp nacelles. fix that and it would be perfect

Speaking of STO. What I’ve sometimes done is put the Nacelles of the Excalibur class onto a Constitution II. Lovely ship, the Excalibur.

Just out of curiosity, have you ever done a video on the Decatur/Belknap class tactical cruiser? I have Starship Design Volume XXXiV number one, and it's a featured ship there

Nice and epic ship I think the Terran Rebellion could build this ship to augment its Defiant class Battle Frigates

The Excalibur is my flagship in STO, safe to say that the tholians went home empty handed

Sir I have a idea for Section 31 ship in between inspired by the Crossfield to honor the USS Discovery I dub the Aegis class plus later Aegis Mark II with everything

I remember this well due to that great STO artwork.

Man I would fly that beauty

Very solid traditional design. Good stuff.👍

I don't think captain Freeman would approve of this class

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I like the Exeter class quite a bit

I think that some of the SNW enterprise design was taken by this Excalibur design. With the way the impulse engines are placed and the rear of the secondary hull where the main shuttle bay looked very similar

In my head cannon, after my beloved pioneer cruiser had been destroyed I was asked by the temporal time admiral to pick a new ship….that ship was this and while fighting the onslaught of the Terran Empire fleet this ship served me well. Thanks.

Speaking of Montgomery Scott, his appearance in the 1701D was, I thought, a very clever aligory about gasoline engines.

In the episode Dyson Sphere, Scotty steps on Laforge's toes regarding the warp core's temperature; it was too hot and on the verge of a meltdown, until Laforge explains that the core was designed to operate at that temperature.

FF a couple of decades, Im watching a forensic files where a man was nearly convinced of arson, until they found lead particles in the gasoline accelerant. This proved the man innocent because there was no leaded gasoline in the area for some time. It had been used as a solvent by the original builders decades ago.

What does that have to do with Star Trek? Well, lead is primarily used as a radiation inhibitor, most commonly heat, so they used to put lead in gasoline to help absorb heat, keeping engine temperature cooler.

However, modern gasoline is unleaded because modern combustion engines can operate at higher temperatures.

So, in the 1960s (OS Star Trek era) most cars used leaded gasoline. By the 90s (STNG era), leaded gasoline was virtually phased out.

Scotty's alarm over engine temperatures (whether intentional or not) I thought was a very clever aligory for leaded gasoline between the 2 eras.

My compliments to the writers.

I love your videos !! 👌🏻

I’ve always enjoyed the Excalibur Class in Star Trek Online mixing Vespers and Consitution Class Mk 2 parts. Making my own kitbash

excalibur and exeter are my favorite connie updates. looking forward to the eventual coverage of the latter.

I was a beta tester also and still play 😂!

I read that Scotty included a bowling alley in his original design but Starfleet Command vetoed it.

Wtf even is a retrofit anymore?

I refit my bowl of cereal with milk.
I refit my head with a haircut.
I refit my spouse when they got lippy.
I refit my face when i put the skin off someone elses face on my own face.
Like...wut?

I love this class. Almost as much as the Constitution Refit.