Observant and Automated: The Sutherland Class

The Sutherland Class was added to the lore of Star Trek through Picard and with it comes some background information that ties well into the canon of the shows drawn from Star Trek Online. Let's take a look.

Chapters
00:00 Real Origins
01:40 Starfleet Origins
02:51 USS Sutherland
03:41 Mission Profile
05:44 Specifications
07:36 Conclusion

Star Trek Online developed by Cryptic Studios and Perfect World.
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.

[Von_Splatterblast]

It would be a shame if some outside force took advantage of the increased oh wait!

[ODST_Parker]

Can I just reiterate how much I love the STO 25th century ships? The aesthetic, which has stayed pretty consistent along the massive suite of Tier 6 ships, is absolutely beautiful, and my favorite of the entire franchise. Not only did they design and produce their own unique vessels, but they lovingly recreated the classics in all new glory. Thomas and the entire team who bring these ships to life have outdone themselves time and time again, and I'm always excited for their next project.

[WhittyPics]

The episode where Commander Data was captain of the Sutherland was one of my favorite episodes

[Buddy]

The Nebula class was always one of my favorites, one of the few ships built for TNG.

[theodoremccarthy]

I love the Sutherland class. I’m a huge fan of the Nebula, and the Sutherland is a worthy successor. The Andromeda is a harder sell.

[Arcboltkonrad]

My favorite ship of all of Trek! I main her in STO with the round comms pod vs the triangular launcher pod. She's such a good ship!

[ItsTheNatMan]

The Nebula Class is my favourite so when I first encountered the Sutherland Class and the other Nebula Class Variants for changing something I loved. After seeing it in action though the Sutherland is growing on me and I like to think of it more like the Constitution Refit so that my personal Nebula Class can be “refit” into one.

[utxex]

I love these STO designs, so a big thank you for these videos. IMHO, the STO designs are way better than the retro classes of Picard.

Please do the Reliant class next.

[Reddotzebra]

So it has an absolutely massive sensor array and a mission pod that allows it to work as a communications center or booster relay?
This is basically a starship version of the eye in the sky. If the Dominion war had still managed to keep Starfleet producing warships at this point it would probably have an ECM pod as well.

[AS-kxjt]

This video had great fly-by shots of the ship! The best way to see how pretty it is is by close-up shots like this. Well done!

[DrewLSsix]

What i like about this class and similar ships is that they retain much of the 2360/70s ethos, simply updated to the latest technologies. I like this better than the idea that in response to the Borg and Dominion conflicts starfleet and the federation opted to go straight military.

As cool as they were i never saw tha anti Borg ships as the future of the fleet, perhaps they represent a portion of the fleet with more defensive goals but i just never saw starfleet abandoning their overall purpose.

[ItalianCaliBoi]

oh she’s a unit too just like her predecessor 👏🏼💪🏼

[warwolf]

I absolutely love this ship such an amazing design😊

[MagnanimousEntropy]

Excellent design. Paramount could do far worse than adapting some, or all, of Star Trek Online to live action and making it official cannon.
All of these new ship designs are just beautiful.

[RedDwarfNerd]

Theres something about downwards curved nacelle struts which always makes me think of a ship as a 2nd class, or sub-standard version of a primary class.

[malguskerensky]

Thank you for these, the series and the STO play though have been great! It got me back into the game over the last few weeks. :)

[keithmorse]

The Sutherland and Nebula classes reminds me of the Miranda class in which the USS Reliant belonged to. The Miranda Class also had mission pods.

[philly]

I love these looks at the various classes. Looking forward to the next one

[dsc]

Nebula is me favourite class, this variant I like it with the circular upper pod better. Why, I guess aesthetics.

[KnightMage]

On this channel I keep hearing that the Galaxy class had a crew of 1000, here they mention 1012. However, that number also includes non Starfleet. From what I remember from the Galaxy class tech manual, it had a Starfleet crew of 600 to 700. The rest were civilian, and civilian specialist, like Kieko O'Brien, a botanist.