A New Era of Design: The Reliant Class

The Reliant Class Starship featured in canon for the first time in Star Trek Picard season 2 alongside the Gagarin, Sutherland and Ross vessels. This ship has a lot of lore on it from its origin in Star Trek Online and some of that translated behind the scenes to the shows so let's take a look and analyse this space ship.

Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:17 Real Origins
01:44 Star Trek Origins
02:50 6th Generation Technology
04:40 Mission Profile
05:39 Specifications
06:54 Summary

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Star Trek Picard/Strange New Worlds/Enterprise/Voyager/Deep Space Nine/Discovery and The Next Generation are all owned by Paramount Pictures/CBS and distributed by CBS.
This Video is for critical purposes with commentary.

[TheHeroRises]

One of those “Boy, a model would look good with the rest in my display case” ships.

[pterodactylptroll]

A logistics ship with 12 phaser arrays and four torpedo tubes, with the ability to fire quantum torpedoes. It also has slipstream drive. That's a pretty powerful ship for only doing courier and logistical operations.

[lovipoekimo]

Always had a soft spot for Starfleet ships that are Reliant-esque. Miranda, Akira, Nebula, etc.

[adamlytle]

I like that we have replacement for Miranda that is roughly the same size and layout of it's predecessor. You gotta figure they have starbases configured to deal with Miranda class ships, so it makes sense to have the new version be very similar to the old

[AncroKT]

Sometimes a ship just hits different, and for me that's the Reliant-class. I like the design, specifically I like the nacelles slanted at a different direction but with a type of sleek look you don't see a lot in larger vessels. It looks like a ship you could have some fun in, I know it's supposed to be designed for logistics but it still has that Starfleet toughness about it that says "underestimate me at your own risk" and wouldn't mind doing a couple of hard turns in the gravity wake of a black hole.

[AncalagonTheDread]

Just like the Ambassador class succeeding the Excelsior, this is a perfect evolution for the Miranda class.

[samb]

Appreciate how you've incorporated the T6 traits into this.

[Power-Ads]

The Reliant class actually is subtly borrowing styling queues form classic muscle cars .... YES muscle cars!... its got two huge engines mounted to a smaller sleek looking ship, with what amounts to a huge spoiler on the top!.. this ship looks sleek and fast just standing still ... Its fun to speculate about all the different class and ship designs created for Star Trek, However I think this one was created to appeal to people like me who are into the classic sports car look!
The Reliant is a really pleasing look!

[adamjames]

I like the reliant. It's a huge upgrade over its predecessor. It is the jack of all trades.

[silentmoniker]

One of my favorite cruisers in game as a dps eng...and just love the style.

[baystated]

We all love Trek II but given the events of the film, the implications of the Reliant, its role in the secret Genesis project, its commandeering by Khan, its battle with the Enterprise, and its destruction leading to the Genesis planet and its problems, I would expect Star Fleet to steer clear of direct references to all that by naming this class in its honor.

[hunterpdx]

This makes me want to pull my Reliant out of mothballs in STO. I only get back there once every couple months anymore.

[AeronHale]

One of my favorite ships to fly alongside it's more offensively outfitted variant the Bozeman Class.
It's a great little ship and exemplifies the traits that made the Miranda so successful over it's service.

[AzraelThanatos]

My main Federation captain in STO tends to use the Fleet version of the Reliant...used to use the standard one for a long while as the main ship. I use the Reman cosmetic shields for it because of the metallic hull look it gives.

My KDF captain uses the old klingon boat anchor they use as a carrier...same cosmetic shield...

[kaitlyn__L]

Honestly, when I played STO (about 10 years ago now, crikey) I viewed all these homage/update ship designs quite cynically — as upgraded and reskinned versions of old ships to milk the optional purchases.

I didn’t give much attention to the finer points of the redesign. These videos over the years have honestly helped me to appreciate them a bit more.

I still feel a lot of them mess with the proportions and lines of the classic ships, but I can appreciate their filling in the previously-missing details on various models like deflectors and impulse engines, and the deliberate “family resemblance”.

[archades]

I love the resurrection of old designs that worked. The Miranda into the Reliant, the Constitution II and Excelsior II, etc. If it's not broken, don't fix it.

[Eviltto]

It's a great design, easily the best of the new ships in my opinion. The same classic lines as the Reliant (making its ancestry obvious) while sporting the look of the new fleet. It looks retro and high-tech at the same time. I picked one up in-game despite having better ships already unlocked for starter characters based just on the ship's appearance, and run them up through Commander rank before I replace them.

[SamwiseOutdoors]

What a gorgeous design. I've been really disillusioned with the Sovereign-era design aesthetics, but the ships that we're seeing now look incredible.

[DSBOY]

perfect timing because I just made my new captain and I just gave her the ship
this is a good informational videoThank you for all the extra information on this ship I didn't even know much about it

[petekwando]

When you consider how many Mirandas there were in Starfleet through the late 24th century (at least based on the on-screen evidence), there must be tens of thousands of people for whom a Miranda was the ship where they spent the majority of their career. I like the idea that the Reliant Class honors them in some sense, the workhorse of Starfleet crewed by the workaday members of Starfleet.