The DAEDALUS class | The ship that created a super power

Welcome to the daedalus. One of the coolest ship designs in all of science fiction and the final step that mankind needed to take to go from simple gate travel and exploration. To starting their ascent to a galactic power. So settle in and enjoy the history, development and statistics of the ship.

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0:00 Intro
2:37 Lore primer
10:52 Development History
21:03 Dimensions
23:01 Fire power & Weapons
31:21 Quirks & use
34:14 MAXIMUM FAST

[scienceinsanity]

I am leaving this as an addendum to the video. I have been told that the dimensions i listed in the video are wrong. They are not, those are the officially given dimensions from the They were listed, to the best of my knowledge, in the extras from when SG-1 was released on DVD in that giant box they came in.

HOWEVER. The reason the scale not only changes but looks so weird is due to making it look good on screen. It’s extremely common to dramatically change the size of ships on screen to make action, setpieces or more look better. A great example of this is any WW2 movie in the pacific ever. If the scale was accurate, then carrier fleets would be so spread out you would barely be able to see the ships in the distance. So instead, they make them way bigger, and put them way closer to make the scenes look better compared to what it is in reality.

As far as I’m aware, the sizes given are lore accurate, that doesn't mean they were consistently followed in the series. If anyone does have concrete sources stating a different size then let me know and I’ll edit this comment to correct myself.

[hetzer]

Stargate in a nutshell:

Season 1: “Holy shit! Snake people! Run!”
Season 5: “Look man, we don’t wanna kill you, we just wanna talk.”
Season 10: “What up fuckers! You talking mad shit for someone in nuking range!”
Atlantis: “I hear you like nukes, here, have five.”

[hobomacjones]

Stargate Commands philosophy on escalation: "If at first you don't succeed, try a larger thermonuclear device." Just like granny Mitchell always said.

[Knight]

You know its funny Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica ran concurrently back in the day and when the Big G jumped to Earth at the end i was convinced they would be surrounded by 304s with an anoyed O'niell asking them who the hell they were.

[Kempeth]

One particularly memorable moment illustrating just how ridiculously outpaced humanity has most other races with the mean beams is when they get into a fight with the big bad of the show and have to figure out how NOT to destroy the enemy vessel until their people are rescued off of it. After that has been accomplished the captain orders in an almost bored tone: "please make that ship go away". One shot. Done.

[thegang]

Stargate had the best portrayal of how humans would operate. Mining planets, giving technology to tribal people, experimental worlds we basically treat like the Bikini Atoll and strategic staging bases all over the galaxy… not because we’re going to go to war with the universe, but just in case we need to.

[neutchain]

what I love about Stargate is that you can track down every single tech to an episode when they acquired/stole/developed it. The tech continuity is so good, and you see the same thing turning up on one of their spaceship in the next season its just so satisfying. Also, they really tend to weaponize everything they can...when they realize that Naquadria is way too unstable to use it as a power source they go: "hmm unstable you say, lets use it to enhance the yield of our already cataclysmic nukes".
Its an amazing ship design, looks utilitarian and menacing, something humanity would build to serve as a warship. No fancy curves, and decoration, its sharp angles, and weapons. I never forget when I saw it for the first time in Atlantis S203 when she comes about and start engaging the Wraith. What an introduction to a hero ship.
I also really appreciated that finally they didnt just used main characters to crew their ship ( shoutout to Col. Pendergast who died on the Prometheus tho ) like they often did with Prometheus, but this class had their own crew except the tactical officer guy who was seemingly both served on the Daedalus and the Odyssey. Another shoutout to the girl who was handling maneuvering and her only line in the show was MAX THRUST! :)
An amazing ship enjoyed every second of screentime it got.

[starfuryms]

The pyramids were built as landing pads, not part of the ship itself.

[andrewbutton]

The Daedalus' pet Asgard was very reluctant to allow the beaming tech to be used as a weapons deployment method, until he was convinced by lots of wraith shooting at the ship he is on. They only managed to beam nukes into wraith ships a few times before the wraith figured out what was going on and jammed their beaming (which kinda implies they dealt with that sort of thing before). There was later a cooperative effort to circumvent the jamming but it went tits up and the wraith betrayed them, because of course it did.

[CxOrillion]

I think my favorite part about the 303-304 progression is the fact that you can distinctly see a "lessons learned" approach. All the design cues are still there, they just look more refined, more mature, and better-implemented. You've still got the forward section with a bit of a chin, the hangar pods, the carrier-like command bridge, and even the top plate hull design is present on the 303, just in an odd position and not nearly as large.

[Wynn_Silver]

I love how you explain the SGC's escalation policy. It's just like Habitual Linecrosser describes Canadians: either incredibly apologetic or walking genocide.

[BrendanKOD]

Slight correction regarding the hyperdrive the F302 had they never could get them to work at any significant range, but they could make very short jumps, which they used to jump inside an enemy ships shields and open fire.

[Metaljacket]

The spicey phaser beams being so powerful actually does make sense. The Asgard were on par with the Ancients who build the stargates before they ascended, their tech has continued to advance all that time. Even up until the replicators and genetic engineering mistakes cause their end.

[spinetanium]

It'll fly even faster with a ZPM boosting the engines. I think it was Earth to Atlantis in 4 days during "The Siege" arc.

[SkyBound_]

I feel like when you look at the ha'tak class vs. the BC-303 and 304 it's like, here is the Ha'Tak it's a ship of intimidation, it's designed to scare it's enemies... and then there is the 303 and 304 i.e. these are ships of war, they are designed to kick butt

[nibblitman]

Man I enjoy Stargate so much. And the ships here are just literally such obviously flying tanks they have to have had some military input for them

[attila]

The 301 backfired on SG command hilariously, when the owner of said fighter activated the returnhome device on it and the fighter literally started flying out of the Solar system.

[RoballTV]

Stargate SG1 was basically the X-COM game in live action. :D

[richardarriaga]

4:33 For non-Americans, the name comes from a Native American tribe that was merged from two tribes in Great Plains region of the present-day US.

[CylixTheGamer]

21:03 the BC-304 is actually 650 meters long, 367 meters wide and 131 meters high. The 200-225 meters long, 90-95 meters wide, and 70-75 meters high are wrong because not even ONE f-302 fighter can fit in one of the BC-304’s hangars.