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For this day forward you shall all refer to me as.....Betty....nahaaaaahaaahaaaa

Love seeing Star Gate Universe get a bit of love in retrospect. That poor, poor show...

Born too late to explore the world. Born too early to explore the galaxy

SGU had the best new idea that Stargate had seen in ages, being properly stranded way beyond any hope of rescue. It was all the Earth-based drama and never-ending infighting that let it down. Being stranded out there on Destiny sounds like it would be great if we could just sit down and deal with the mission. Exploring the universe in the hopes of finding something truly incredible. Shame that so much of the focus was on the people instead of the mission. Rush was the only character I truly liked in the show because he got that they were beyond hope of return and that fixing and flying the ship needed to be the priority. Had they done that, perhaps they'd have stumbled on a viable way to return home at some stage. Instead they nearly destroyed Destiny multiple times with half-arsed attempts at boosting morale or rushing matters long before they were ready.

I grew up with Star Trek TOS. I tried watching the various subsequent versions, but they were just...cr*p. What made them cr*p were three things, their scripts had the vibe of Days of Our Lives type soap operas, the writers had a creepy, sleezy obsession with sexual content, and half of the characters, particularly the alien or synthetic characters are so annoying, whining, gross, ham acted, and off-putting that I just had to turn the TV off and never go back to watching them again. That is why the original series, (including the movies with the original crew), are the only version I will watch. Voyager was the one I saw most of, but Janeway is such a sociopathic war criminal with such massive disregard for ethics, particularly Starfleet ethics, that you have to wonder, story wise, how did she ever get through Star Fleet psychiatric evaluation and become a captain. Perhaps like Kirk she hacked Starfleets computers and changed her results. Perhaps you could do a review of what elements turn people off and absolutely ruin a science fiction. Particularly long running science fictions like Star Trek and Star Wars. Like I'm sure a lot of your viewers are doing, I'm writing my own science fiction and the main concern for me is not to make those sort of cringy mistakes in my writing. As my writing is also about conveying concepts of ethical philosophy, I also have to walk the tight-rope of not becoming preachy. Perhaps you could do an episode talking about that tight-rope too. Not many science fictions are even concerned with ethical philosophy of course. Star Trek is one where ethical dilemmas a consistent theme. They've both excelled and failed miserably. Star Wars started out with a good notion, which Lucas stated was based vaguely on Eastern mysticism. Unfortunately, from what I've seen and read of post original Star Wars content has been absolute garbage written by people haven't even bothered to familiarise themselves with the basics of Eastern or Western moral philosophy or the developmental psychology behind the development of ethical reasoning in humans from childhood to adulthood. Compassion, the cognitive skill, along with empathy, that is a prerequisite of ethical reasoning skills and at the heart of Eastern moral philosophy, is described in the subsequent cacophony of toy and product advertisments that the Star Wars universe has become, as an unacceptable, "emotion". It was after hearing that, I realised how poorly educated and morally ignorant the writers of the Star Wars francise are. At least the writers of Star Trek seem to have some notion of ethical reasoning. To be clear, if your brain doesn't generate cognitions of empathy and compassion, you have the psychological disorder known as Antisocial Personality Disorder, (APD), ie you're a psychopath. So apparently jedi masters are psychopaths...actually that would describe a lot of the portrayals of them in post original trilogy creations.

10 points for opening with one of the greatest character ever written and acted.

I'm surprised you didn't include drones. In a more hard sci-fi setting, remote-operated drones would be doing most of the risky stuff. How about instead of energy-transporting people down to a new planet, or costly orbital shuttles, robotic avatar-shells would be launched in from space. Human pilots would operate them remotely, almost like a second skin.

Exploration feels so thankless in Starfield. I’m bummed, it has so much potential

It should be rare with planets that planets have a earth like atmosphere. finding someone with any kind of civilization even rarer. that makes trips in space even more dangerous.

Actually, it really shouldn't be. But...whatever. You people need misery and drama to make yourselves feel better, I guess.

God i was hoping for the Tasting History trademark hard tack clack clack

Imagine Nelix having to prepare meals for the entire Voyager crew because none of them have a clue how to prepare proper meals for themselves 😅

I wonder if tension could be added by using multiple sensors and instruments to try and make coherent maps of the area.

Probably one of the best, more recent depictions of what real space exploration could be. Is shown in the Netflix reboot of LOST IN SPACE. Exploration came as a necessity for survival.

That seems limiting. It should really depend on the genre.

Another note about ice harvesting equipment: If your ship requires fuel of some variety, water-ice can be very quickly and easily electrolyzed into hydrogen and oxygen, refilling your ships' cryogenic tanks with vital propellant, or being recombined in fuel cells to produce power, heat, and clean water to drink, or being used to refill your supplies of coolant. In a moderately hard sci-fi I'd say asteroid-harvesting equipment is practically mandatory for any exploration ship worth it's salt, or even in some of the softer ones; you never know when something's going to break, and money is always the limiting factor (You can always add bigger tanks, better engines, make the ship bigger etc etc but that stuff costs money. A *LOT* of money), so it's almost always better to have in-situ processing equipment for producing your own supplies than it will be to have those supplies on-board

The US manage to get up to 800 shot between barrel changes which us bout 200 less the a 155mm gun

Funnily enough, for a _Transhuman Traveller_ setting I'm working on, exploration is a major job in of itself. Like the _Traveller_ IISS, the IEB (Imperial Exploration Beureau) has dedicated *_FLEETS_* of ships ranging from semi-'short' range 'seekers' to battleship-sized deep-exploration vessels where they do Star Trek-style Starfleet exploration cruises. Those of the IEB can opt, at the end of their career, to undertake the 'final exploration' retirement package, which is basically given a long-range 'seeker' type vessel, and as long as they keep in touch with the Mandate, they can do their own exploration. Then there are the various corporations that specialize in planetary and system exploration and surveying, which is usually made up of IEB retirees that don't take the final exploration retirement package. However, if the IEB or someone on their 'final exploration' retirement discovers a world where there are humans/a species that the Mandate has under their aegis, they have the unenviable task of blending in (which sometimes necessitates that at least one person 'swaps' into a 'morph better suited for the situation, like if the planet has a pre-FTL Feiresi on it then the 'scouts' would need to slot into Feiresi 'morphs of the required sophistication) and investigating on how to uplift and integrate said world. The IEB is one of the few exceptions to the 'rule' within the Mandate that civilians can't possess Mil-Spec weaponry because they deal with Grandfather's (i.e., the Ancient that basically caused the setting; everyone calls him 'Science Cuthulu' because of his shenanigans) leftovers. So an IEB ship can be armed with modified battledress armed with *_GASER (gamma ray lasers) AND FUSION RIFLES_* and weapons that wouldn't be that far off from an equivalent weight regular spacy warship if you account for the larger fuel tanks for the jump drive.

Man SGU was fantastic

Dangers for exploration should be running out of supplies, ship being damaged, getting lost or stuck, hostile natives and hostile other explorers and any other random ideas.

another important thing to have is weapons, its unknown if we'll find alien life and if their hostile or not, but its best to be prepared just in case. it also depends on the crew of the ship, not everyone can be trusted and depending on the size of the ship will determine how many problems there would be, even though the uss enterprise is used for space exploration and diplomacy the ship and crew were armed, which through the series came in handy. if not phasers lasers would be the next best thing, ammo can be recharged, cause less damage to the ship itself, and easier to train with since lasers don't have recoil and not make a lot of noise so the crew wont have to damage their hearing if using it in self defense.

I like the how they portrayed the NX-01 as a utilitarian ship instead of a space station pretending to be a starship like in the TNG and Voyager. The only thing that I always find lacking with NX-01 is the documentation process during explorations. They have so much computational processing and sensor power at their disposal but the crew only carries a space DLSR for their planetary trips. They don't even take videos, only photos. I guess NX-01only can only afford one license to Photoshop.

Wouldn't kidnapping the crew also be a goal? It would add to the avoid causalities goal but mean that there's an additional way to 'recruit' crewmembers through conscription or making them into slaves to be sold at a later date with only a few being valuable enough for ransom. Classic pirates sometimes freed slaves but also often sold their captives into slavery as well if they didn't join the ship.

X4 is awesome. I have over 1100 hours in it. Cool sponsorship.

Makes me think of Macross, in which it isn't really about exploration most of the time, but where they send out these large colonization fleets with specialised ships for agriculture, mining and manufacturing coupled with a military escort.

X4 Timelines: Supported by the Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action of the Federal Republic of Germany) I sure hope the game is better than most of the other games coming out of Germany...

The math shows that SGC could have sent a Daedalus class ship out on a trans galactic rescue mission with a round trip time about equal to the first season.

The Sea has never been kind to man. Space is no different.

So dangerous it shouldn’t be attempted.

who else thought the thumbnail was an arkbird

Having learned so much about eras of exploration, yes, space travel should be dangerous, but unless one is looking to make a tragedy, it can't be too impossible for the characters to survive

_The AI controlled exploration ship just sent back a lot of useful data._ - how it will most likely really be.

James Alan Gardner had a good novel (or series) about an Explorer Corps. They were deemed expendable (often because of physical defects) - in fact that was the name of the novel.

Yep, space exploring can be hazardous to one's health.

How many Decks?

Within the railed helical coil gun; The guide/electrification rails themselves could be helix opposite to the barrel helix, at same relative rate to rifling of a similarly weighted priojectile, to introduce spin dynamics to this cool concept.

With our current level of technology Space travel is extremely dangerous Honestly till someone perfects a Single stage to orbit system able to carry 20 tons , the moon should be the further we travel

The Culture: Nah.

Definitely what I loved about Enterprise was that is was the first Trek series where the crew felt wholy out of their element and beyond their capabilities when compared to what they were facing. So much of the conflicts early on were resolved either finding a way to run away or having to talk their way out of sticky situations by necessity (as opposed to Picard talking his way out of a situation he could just blast his way out of for the sake of being a good person).

I think this is especially true when you consider what other options you have: WW1 in space (less focus on fighters) 1800s in space Ancient Mediterranean naval combat in space (weaker ranged weapons, higher focus on ramming/boarding) And my favorite: 14-1500s inspired space combat. Lots of exploration, dangerous to go long distances, ships engage one on one or in small packs, difficult/impossible to call for reinforcements, focus on piracy/privateering

Hi spacedock can you please do a video about the ship that botila used in season 2 of Kong king of the apes please thank you

I have a question for any one who hates on Columbus or Thanksgiving. Do you honestly believe. We can explore space and not repeat the mistakes of the past? Will we trust aliens? Will we take planets as our property? Will we stay loyal to Earth once we leave? Will we resist aliens who don't respect our culture?

Your hardtack comment requires the scene from Tasting History of Max smacking two pieces of hard tack together. At least you got Townsends!

Don't know why you picked Voyager as an example of space exploration done wrong. In my opinion Year of Hell are two of the best episodes showing just how deadly exploration can be even for a fully kitted out vessel.

Imho This ship was nothing but a Mary Sue that showed why JJ Abrams is a totally overrated director.

Voyager should have been BSG meets DS9.

If you need a great example id like to reccommend the AMC miniseries "The Terror" It's a phenomenal show that fits sci-fi in all but aesthetics and hits every single beat mentioned in this video. Exploration for a purpose, bad food stores, malfunctioning experimental technology, complete isolation in an inhospitable environment, emergency survival measures and plans, everything you could ask for is executed extremely well here.

space exploration is brutal just looking at the distance involved: The next major star close to our system is alpha centauri which is 4367 light years from Earth or 276,173,783.63 astronomical units from Earth between our system and alpha centauri there is something called the "oort cloud" which is a region in space that there are no major stars and cannot system life and is basically around 10000AU wide Voyager 1 took 30 years to reach the edge of our solar system ((17,2 km/s or 61920 km/h (3,6 UA/year)) so speed alone is a challenge since without it it would take a ridiculous amount of time

Now that's an interface I never expected to see - footage from Townsends in a Spacedock video 😄

The maintenance and repairs was my favorite part of some HFY story involving "break ships". The concept was that to travel instantaneously across the universe, you needed to transfer across between locations in the univese with the handwavey "similar energy state". However even at the best of times, this transfer where they "break" physics by instantaneous travel also means that the entire ship is very slightly warped, to screws are no longer perfectly circular, and so much else, effectively breaking the ship, and forcing a severe overhaul while underway.