(252) The Durga Class (Starfleet's Classified Failure!)

So Starfleet pulled a “Anders” maneuver to get rid of the evidence. 😂

Hurray!

The Atlas looks like a prototype Excelsior.

i really like all the work you do and that you point out that starships are not just all around awesome. balancing successes and failures.

At least the Atlas got it's place in Star Trek Online

Well done! Another interesting design! And it takes a LOT of embarrassment to fly a ship into the sun!

This is cool. It kinda looks like two ships put together, which gives me an idea to pass along for another kitbash. Imagine a 23rd century predecessor to the Prometheus class. Four nacelles and two saucers and two secondary hulls that join together. It could have a high warp capacity together and tactical superiority when separated.
What do ya think?
Wanna make it?

Really fun story and an amazing kit bash! I really also enjoy the idea that the only thing really being a threat to Starfleet being Old World style bureaucracy.
Like Rootbeer, eh?
It's also really fun seeing some love for the old ships that were sitting in the technical manual and encyclopedia and the like. I still have most of them on my shelves.

I feel sorry for the poor engineer who had to work on the class.

I love that one of the ships you made was a failure since it’s believable great video man

First rule about the Durga class is...we don't talk about the Durga class.

Although, sometimes failure IS an option if you learn from it.

More nacelles!!!

I thought the story was going to end with the attempt to send the ship into a sun failing and the Durga Class ship ended up getting its remains found.

I love hearing about the early starfleet/federation days particularly the time after the romulan war between 2160 to about 2230 🤗

Hm...... I bet even that footnote was oftentimes attempted to be erased....

Are you sure the Durga was destroyed? I'm willing to believe that certain personnel in the Admiralty just report it as a failure, but the ship was actually and quietly given off to Section 31. A minor reprogramming of the secondary sensor array, and you have speedy little spy ship with enough firepower to take out anyone who discovers the ship's little secret.

Just my thoughts.

I've always wondered what do you use to create these kit ash ships and CGI flybye scenes. Blender? Sandbox?

Nice looking ship. Thankfully Q thinks the same and so saved her from destruction.

I'm having Team America flashbacks.... Durga! Durga! Durga!

damn starfleet really did the walk of shame ...right into the star

Love the design and idea of the Durga Class! I would love to see more failed classes of the TOS era!

Great Unique channel !!!!!!! Thanks !!!!!!!

Trial & Error🤔🖖

Dang, that`s quite a fate for one ship.

A poor end for a potential class

What TYPES of ships were the "Atlas's" and the "Durga's" respective design classes supposed to have BEEN???

Idc, I'll take two

The Durga class looks like two phase 2 Constitution class ships slammed together.

Every time someone mentions the FASA game, I get excited! I never actually learned how to PLAY it, but I spent hundreds of hours creating crews. I wish I had kept everything!

I have an idea for a ship from between just before the Galaxy Project started up? If I extol it, would you do a model and video?

Great job as usual for this one.

I got to admit I like this design. It's really cool for sure.

Everybody knows it was the Vulcans fault. All that Star Fleet isn't ready nonsense.

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I always liked my Carolina class. A vertically symmetrical, slightly larger and taller engneering hull with 2 somewhat shorted necks on top and bottom each with a saucer and 4 pylons with warp nacells. Looked good as both Connie refit and Soverign types. And you could either have 2 shuttle bays, upper and lower with a gap between them, or 1 much larger bay with no gap.

I don't get WHY the classes shown were considered embarassing enough failures that one had it's materials WASTED by basically incinerating it. that said, I came up with a similar idea in high school (34 years ago!) for a "fednaught" replacement who's plans got mothballed by the Refit and the excelsior project, only to be pulled back out and updated after transwarp failure. 6 got made before the Khitomer incident killed the plans. incidentally, I wrote that the build of one caused the 'tuesday incedent' because the parts e-b were missing got delivered to that yard by mistake XD

It was developed into the moderately more successful Derka-Derka Class.

Since it was the recomm Connie that was the springboard for the revival you postulate here, does that mean Scotty saved the Federation? We all know that any flaws in tech he was to install on the Enterprise would have been "tweaked" immediately.

Seems a bit extreme to send it into a sun, if anything they would have just mothballed it until the technology became advanced enough to upgrade or refit it.

It sounds too bulky for my tastes. I prefer small and midsized ships to dreadnaughts (Which is why all my regularly active STOL character command Frigates while the Klingon character I play occasionally commands a Bird of Prey.

That said I think whoever decided to scrap it should have been court-martialed. Even if it didn't live up to their expectations once the resources had been invested to build the prototype the least they could do is find a role suited to its capabilities and get the best use from it they could. It should have only been scuttled if they could find no use for it.

Is there a Kali Class?

While I appreciate the time and effort it took to do the kitbash and design the Durga, I can’t help thinking that it is an …awkward design. It looks to like it could an early experiment in separation of sections that are able to act independently.

Please do the Achilles class starship from the ds9 Dominion war game

Interesting

I enjoy hearing about The Durge Class.

It was never a failure because it doesnt exist

You just can’t slap a saucer and any number of nacelles together and call it a starship. The design has to make sense not look cool. The Oberth class started that nonsense and it’s been downhill from there.

How about the Aries Class, as seen in Axanar?

Interesting design and fun story, it’s not that much of a shame the Atlas-Class failed, its failure thankfully paved the way for newer more advanced starships to be built and commissioned, and while this Class might’ve not have been a wowing sucess? It was clear that it would become rapidly obsolete with the introduction of the Constitution-II-Class in 2272.

Speaking of. I wonder if you can manage to kitbash the original Discovery-Class design seen in the TOS Comic: “Year Five” and do a video on why that design also fell short? and also how, eventually many decades later? Would have one of its vessels, the U.S.S. Theseus NX-1987, Recommissioned and rebuilt for the ST Comic: “Godshock” and would end up saving the galaxy? It’s rebuilt design is in STO as the “Theseus-Class”, apparently she was used as a test article in the late-2370’s for upcoming technologies, well over a century after she was built.

I love your stories! The Atlas class being a failure made me sad but I still love the stories as a whole.