Is There A More Dominion Ship? Battle Cruiser Lore

The Dominion Jem'hadar Battle Cruiser is the second most commonly seen vessel in the Dominion armada. Featuring in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, these battleships are the size of a Galaxy class but dedicated entirely to battle. The Jem'hadar fighter or attack ship is made to operate alongside these fearsome vessels and these are there to occupy a system and hold it.

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:24 Real Origins
01:52 Lore Origins
04:22 Specifications
07:26 Summary

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Outro Animation made by @icarogabriel17

[hfar_in_the_sky]

My personal headcanon for why Dominion Battle Cruisers and Battleships looks less like an insect when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter is because the Jem'hadar fighter was the Dominion navy's primary tool for "keeping the peace" in their empire. Thus the Jem'hadar fighter was built just as much to intimidate as it was to be efficient, and the insect like appearance was meant to evoke the same fear and dread as seeing an unstoppable swarm of killer insects. It's conveys a sense of "You cannot stop us, for we are infinite and relentless. Rebel against us and we will lay waste to all you hold dear" to the Dominion's subject worlds. A visual design that helps furthers the Dominion's policy of "Order through fear."

The battle cruiser and the battleship meanwhile is for when the Dominion is facing an enemy that needs more serious muscle. And thus the Dominion springs for simple and brutal efficiency rather aesthetic meant to intimidate. The Jem'hedar fighter still provides the needed intimidation factor, of course. But the BS and BC are for when the Dominion is ready to take off their kid gloves and get serious. Thus why when compared to the Jem'hadar fighter they have a slightly more utilitarian design. These are not Dominion "peacekeeping" ships. These are purely warships by design.

Again though, that's just my personal headcanon.

[casual_polaroid]

I have been very impressed by this warship since it first appeared! In fact, it's my absolute favorite ship in the Star Trek franchise. In DS9 you didn't even see it drifting or in a defeated state.

[tomxaros]

I find that ship SO GRACEFUL and Beautiful!

[markvaughan]

I really appreciate you doing these videos on various Star Trek ships. it's tough to find to find alpha cannon information about these ships and the wiki sites and tech manuals are not always forthcoming. Since you are doing videoes on Dominion ships, please do some on the Breen and Cardassian ships as well. Thanks.

[yodaslovetoy]

"Does it come with a coffee machine?" - Janeway

[IamMeHereSee]

It is my personal headcanon that Shinzon captured one of these in the war & used it as the frame for the Scimitar.

It definitely makes more sense that the Remans building an entire dreadnought from scratch.

[laggybum]

How timely! I just got done watching the retaking of DS9 from the Dominion!

[adamrobinson]

Give me the vibes of ISD from Star wars, they are designed to work singularly or in small groups to occupy systems distant from support groups. It's a smart design

[justinbane]

To be fair, a battle cruiser and a battleship are completely different things. And generally the battleship is bigger. Now we can start every Navy historian trying to explain exactly what a battle cruiser is.😂

[Momo-tcsc]

I’ve always wanted to see this ship in battle. I’d love to see it go up against a Galaxy or Sovereign!

[ilejovcevski]

Up to this day, i have a hard time believing how little on-screen presence we got from these ships, or seen them in direct action. And they just happened to be my favorite Dominion ship!!!

[Gaarafan]

I didn't watch much DS9 when I was a kid, just whenever Dad had it on. Therefore, I was unfamiliar with The Dominion when I began to collect and play Star Trek Attack Wing as a member of a strategy gaming club. While I primarily played Romulan, I did collect some Federation, Klingon, and Dominion ships. My Jem'Hadar Fighters, Battlecruisers, and Battleships proved to be rather formidable adversaries for my clubmates. I love the design of these ships, they really scream out 'warship', which was part of the reason I preferred Attack Wing to X-Wing despite being a bigger Star Wars fan than Trekkie. There's just something about capital ship engagements that excites me more than dogfighting.

[Darmok_]

I really wish with the Dominion ship designs we got something different and more interesting. Instead of yet another derivative of the basic Klingon bird of prey body and wing layout. I always thought it would’ve been cool if they were less elegant and swooping and more brutalist and monolithic. To better reflect how ancient the Dominion is as well as their repressive caste system hierarchy. Visually similar to something out of a Denis Villeneuve film.

[timr]

Big fan of you, Rick, as well as Lt. Cmr. Adam and Venom Geek. 3 different styles of storytelling and all with your own interpretations of the lore. But always entertaining. Keep up the good work.

[niefali]

I would really like to see a modern design take on the Dominion. What would their ships look like if they returned ?

[icefire]

Axiliary warpcores as it is a warship and needs to operate selfsuficiently

[kerviuskuroshiba]

Please do a video on the Jem'Hadar Battleship if possible! That girl is a BEAST and I loved her debut in DS9. 😆😁

That the Dominion to this day does not want to share technical data and design origins with SF is so rude!

[LackofFaithify]

Battlecruiser and Battleship are pretty distinct terms. Anyone that has treated them as the same in real life has had a bad time.

[WatchingYoutube]

I still don't get why dominion ships need a Carnival Cruise amount of windows.