Star Trek: USS Vengeance (Dreadnought Class) | Ship Breakdown

Spacedock delves into the formidable Dreadnought Class USS Vengeance from #StarTrek's Kelvin Timeline.

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[ronin]

The best thing about this thing is the sound it makes while at warp. Say what you will about the newer films, but the sound design was excellent.

[ethanthelungeminewizard]

Sure it goes against Federation ideals, but this ship could be used as the literal embodiment of speak softly and carry a big stick

[FekLeyrTarg]

A few years ago, I read the Star Trek-novel "Dreadnought" by Diane Carey, released in 1986.
It also features an Admiral building an overpowered warship (the USS Star Empire) to spark a war with the Klingons and the plot immediately reminded me on "Into Darkness".

[generalsmite]

I think it’s size is a bit much but I always liked the idea of a super powerful star fleet battle ship which is a result of star fleet ditching the rules

[MegaKnight]

My Trekkie siblings and I loved the design of this ship. It would create quite the arms race in the Trek-verse and it would be interesting to see what Klingons and Romulans made to match it. It would also have been interesting to see how it help up against Borg.

[tomastomasi]

I'd say the automation used in the ship was the most impressive thing about it. Trek really isn't known for that kind of tech.

[kuribayashi]

Given the obvious parallels with the real-life Battleship HMS Dreadnought, I always felt that "Dreadnought" would have been a better name for this ship than "Vengeance".

[kevsha]

I always really liked the addition of the armored doors that close and protect the deflector dish when it drops out of warp, that was a nice touch. It's been said plenty already but the sound design for the ship at warp was awesome (same goes for the sound design for these movies as a whole in my opinion)

[MikMoen]

It really is too bad though, the Federation needed dedicated Warships to fill that defense role. Like a famous Krogan once said, "Offer one hand, but arm the other." Starfleet can be both peaceful explorers and a Military.

[Daginni]

When invading the space of Klingons who love their many versions of "cloaking", it is imperative that you do not have easily ambushed supply lines. You need to carry everything you need for a full campaign with you. That is what I believe the logic of this massive ship was. A fleet to accompany it, and it keeping that fleet supplied, you are basically unstoppable as you move straight to their homeworlds and turn them into smoldering rubble.

Let the Klingons cloak and dagger. Their 'daggers' are useless against a ship such as this.

[kittenmittenkitten]

Say what you want about Abrams, he really knows how to make phaser and torpedo hits look like they *hurt.*

[mattwho]

Kahn “He needed my savagery.” I like the idea 23rd types could build this ship at any time but they just didn’t think that way anymore. Too many decades at peace had left them blind to the brutal aspects of war. Kahn looked at their ship designs and went “Ditch the labs, ditch the chess room and the yoga rooms. Put in torpedoes, shields, torpedoes. Phasers, back up computer cores, torpedoes, armour the deflector dish, and some more torpedoes while you’re at it.”

[Spddialz]

"After the destruction of Vulcan at the hands of Time Traveling Romulans..." Oh Star Trek, never change, hahaha.

[kronosaur]

In my head canon, the corpse of the Vengeance would be salvaged and serve as the basses for a Kelvin timeline variant of the Excelsior class.

[thestanleys]

I do wonder what Marcus's plan was. He seemed to think with just one he could lead Starfleet to victory against the Klingons and as impressive as this class was you'd still need at least a dozen of them

[julius-stark]

As much as I didn't like Into Darkness, I will say, the sound effect of the Vengeance's engine as it comes up behind the Enterprise and opens fire is one of the cooler ship sound effects I've heard. It almost sounds like they recorded a huge industrial fan and sped it up.

[roguerazac]

Everything aside I love this ship and it’s design. Showing what happens when humanity feels less friendly

[adamraddish]

I love the design for the monster of a ship

[CaneMcKeyton]

Star Trek Online made me like this ship 1000x more than if we were just going off the movie