The BETTER Galaxy-class? USS ROSS - Star Trek Explained

Huge step backward from the Galaxy.

Although I loved STTNG, I never like the Galaxies nor their Variants. Way too organic! They look like mushrooms!
I absolutely loathed the Excelsior Class as well. Just plain ugly. Nothing will ever outclass the Constitution Refit!

Yeah and don't forget the Yamamoto...oh hi Picard...BOOM! Yep ...

Love this ship.

For me, the Ross Class would have been named to honour Admiral Ross, hero of the Dominion War...

I wonder if and when they will produce a Picard class vessel or just name a current class of ship after him?

The added aft and side thrusters allowed for better movement of the Ross class, especially when it needs to PIVOT!

The defector dish reminds me of the one on the Ambassador Class.

I don't know about better. It is definitely uglier.

THIS should have been Enterprise G.

It's smaller than the Galaxy

Thanks I hate it

I always felt like the E was a LEAP forward and the Ross feels like a natural step. The Constitution was beautiful, sustainable, upgradable… the Galaxy was quite similar… elegant, strong, effective, and Ross would be a stronger Galaxy. I could see her lasting decades! Just as elegant, new tech, wish we could see a bit more of her on screen because I could see her being a great hero ship.

This is a nice cross between the Galaxy & Sovereign classes. I like it! I mean, this could've easily been the new G.

Could a Ross Class Stardrive be connected to a Galaxy Class Saucer ? (and the other way around ?)

Love this ship...naturally the updated Galaxy class

I don't understand what this channel is ?

It seems like something Corporate at times. with the multiple hosts and the way it seems like advertising at times
What is it for exactly ? It certainly seems more like something some company made than a personal channel.
That said it's still less in your face about it that some I could mention but it gives me "Corporate videogame channel vibes" quite often it seems like an advert for some licensed product more than the subject of the video itself.
& It's never really fells like a personal channel, for reasons like how it pretends no one has an issues with modern trek or how it can use advertising ebola like Raid Shadow Legends.

I like the sleek back of the Sovereign style neck, but it's width leaves much to be desired if it's gonna be more tactically sound than the Galaxy. Hell even the Galaxy had a slightly wider neck when it blended with the secondary hull.

Don't forget what the fighter swarm did to the Enterprise in Star Trek Beyond.

I want them on models the use Ross

Fan fiction- anyone ever thought of adding enclosed nacelles to the right and left flank of the saucer section similar to Defiant Class giving the separated saucer section warp capabilities?

The Ross would have been the perfect replacement at the end instead of renaming the titan a to ent g.

It gives the galaxy a much needed better balance nicer lines and better stance. The galaxy i always thought wasnt a well proportioned design, at certain angles the neck and saucer look like ET, not the clean and beautiful lines of the constellation or enterprise refit,

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According to your story the Ross might be the better Galaxy Class, but the Enterprise D is by far the more more beautifully designed. The Ross looks like a mixture of the Enterprise-Dand the Enterprise-C.

Omg that desing... I just dont like it

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This was actually done almost 20 years ago, as the "USS Mnemosyne" as a fan made mod for various trek games (especially ST: Bridge Commander).
It's really cool, but when I first saw this as the "Ross" I instantly recognised it xD

Not better no

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It looks like combination of a Galaxy and Ambassador class.

So there are no actual Galaxy class ships in service in the 25th century?

The Ross class is plain ugly. The designer must be cross eyed as it has absolutely no balance or poise. It looks like the results of showing a 5 year old a screenshot of the Enterprise D then asking them to draw it a week later.

SF should have made battle ships. As Picard put it. A PREDATOR. !!!!

Anybody else think that having a long "Neck" on Star Trek ships is in general a bad idea? It presents a rather obvious vulnerability that can be exploited rather easily if the ship's shields are disabled.

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I'm really liking the ribbing that comes off from the deflector dish. Looks like a Sovereign dish but the aesthetic flow gives it a very functional, yet efficient look.

Never liked the Galaxy

I'm glad I watched this just to be corrected on who the class was dedicated to

its better as a refit galaxy class or a kelvin galaxy class, an not a new ross class simply cause i don't see a new ship class here

The Ross is a cool ship and handy, mine is the named USS Ross.

Raid shadow legends video, featuring Ross class federation ships.

I prefer the USS Rachel

Am I the only one who thinks 'Galaxy class, but make it ugly' with this design? It's obviously a Galaxy class taking a few design cues from the Sovereign, but it looks very much like a fan-made mashup of those two vessels. It's not awful, but none of the STO or Picard vessels are on the level of the Galaxy, Sovereign, Defiant, Intrepid, Steamrunner or Akira which all brought very distinct design language of their own to the table and should have all been featured in STP. This goes doubly given how many Excelsior and Miranda class vessels show up in TNG/DS9.

The D separated the saucer 4 times.
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Ugliest ship ever built.

Why name a ship after that jerk? What's next? Shinzon class? Ransom class? How about Garth of Izar class?

The clear blue line of windows is because the saucer section has a large promenade circling a couple of decks of the entire saucer, like DS9. Those windows are quite literally the viewing windows of the ship's promenade. That is one of the diplomatic-focused amenities that strongly differentiates it from similar vessels.

The ship also has an entire layer dedicated to a Cetacean Operations center, fully aquatic, taking up multiple levels, with windows allowing them and the terrestrial species to interact with one another. That is another part of the diplomatic portion of the ship.

The Clear Skies campaign, especially Eric Campbell and Sam de Leve, directly worked with the Star Trek Online team to create the ship's design, and their decision to include a promenade is why that line of windows is present in the final design of the ship.

The Clear Skies campaign are also the ones who decided on the name, and history of the name and woman it's named after. It was kind of a big deal when Star Trek Online revealed to the Streampunks viewers live that the ship was officially canon in STO.

In fact, BOTH of their ships, from BOTH of their campaigns were made soft-canon (and the Ross later made harder canon, included in the Star Trek Titan novels). Their first Star Trek live play campaign was called Shield of Tomorrow, and had an Intrepid-class ship named the USS Sally Ride, which was also later included (as an NPC ship) in Star Trek Online.

Not to be the contrarian, but I think the Ross Class completely ruins the graceful lines of the Galaxy Class.