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I think it's interesting that Starfleet thinks people would be cool with giving up on having lives in order to serve in Starfleet. I've been in the Navy for 19 years and while we give up a lot, at least we still get to come home regularly and actually have families. But five years?

@CertifiablyIngame can you please make a video about the narendra class?

voyager did a involuntary 7 year mission i bet that was fun😊

For some reason, I’m imagining it like the “main quest line” of Skyrim, which would take you across the region as needed, and occasionally taking you back to familiar areas, but your path inevitably allows you to encounter numerous random side quests or points of interest that could temporarily detour you from your main mission, or could happen to occur concurrently to it. Or maybe it’s more the storyline of Pokémon Arceus? You’re supposed to explore & catalog, but can advance the story as quickly or as leisurely as you like while doing other activities.

Sisko's dad lived the life of a working man, and he was far too proud to accept help from others, so it's no wonder he aged prematurely....

I like to think that the "5 Year Mission" is a case of "We think you're potentially ready for flag rank, so we're giving you a ship for five years to see if that's correct." Essentially, most ships did not have the same captain for that many years, but certain classes were "5YM" classes. So a captain getting a "5-Year Mission" would be a big deal, because successfully completing it to Admiralty's satisfaction would put you on the short list for flag rank. If you, say, did well on it but not necessarily well enough to get on the short list, that could be where the Commodore rank comes in and/or more 5YM assigned to a captain. I would expect it "died out" during the Golden Age in name, though in practice it was probably still around in some form.

Desilu talent contracts were for 5 years. Then the show, if it survived without network cancellations would be reevaluated. Beyond that the special mission was Roddenberry basing it on the inteo soliloquy from the original executive cut of WNMHGB...where Kirk says A NEW MISSION where they are finally leaving the patrol area of Earth to explore the vast unknown. They didn't intend to air the pilots, but used them as foundations for the contributing writers. GR wrote up the familiar intro at the last minute while editing the first three episodes for broadcast (source: Solow and Justmans memoir book) Since WNMHGB was aired, that very crude intro exposition segment was removed, and the normal titles added...as well they removed the Quinn Martin style Act titles. So if you consider that, Kirk's mission was the 1st long range mission into the unknown (the Barrier and Corbomite), however they fell back to patrols amd checking on Earth colonies every 3rd episode.

One thing you failed to mention well 2 things really which was a continuous function was commerce as this opened up communications and diplomatic dialogues with any encountered civilization/world and technology acquisition could have been a low-key option simply because section 31 was a organization that was active even in the infancy of Federation and would have loved to "aquire" weapon or any technology it could weaponize. LLAP 🖖

It was a bad thing to add to Trek lore, doesn't make sense, and was likely mostly added because they thought it would look cool

A missed episode opportunity would have been to encounter another ship doing a similar mission from a totally unknown species/alliance of species. And they could be even further out, on a ten year mission or even longer if their species are longer lived,.. or just more dedicated to the cause. So that way they're not going to be bumping into each other's territory anytime soon, but they can still exchange culture ect. And give each other heads up on other civilisations further back in their path. In TOS/SNW "So anyway, be careful of Klingons, they are here and are..." "Thanks, and this territory is the Ferengi. I really recommend you watch your back and be careful of tricks and ambushes. We make it a point to avoid it unless we have backup and want to trade." It could have been an episode or two in Voyager without messing with the Federations geopolitics, as the Federation-like society is so far away. It could have been a social episode, while Voyager itself gets some TLC from their shipyards. In TNG they could have done some interesting exposition, having the long range explorer come from far beyond the Romulans territory in a roundabout route avoid the Romulans. And informing Starfleet that the Romulans had been in a total war with yet another civilisation on the opposite border from the Federation for 50 years, but the Romulans had recently been victorious. - after a bit of a initial misunderstanding due to Vulcan crewmembers on the Starfleet ship..... In Starfleet Battles RPG there's another multi species civilisation called the Interstellar Concordium [ISC] that are even more ethical that the Federation. However they are militant about peacekeeping and would completely change the setting. In later Trek, perhaps the best option would be something similar to the early Federation, with a bit less advanced tech. So the Federation has at least one direction it can go in and meet friends and potential future allies and even future members once warp travel is fast enough to enable it.

I always thought of it vaguely like the soviet 5 year plans, in terms of having a goal of advancement, like making contact with a ser number of civilisations or mapping a certain area of space, depending on what occurred. Not necessarily that a fixed goal was met, but more that something meaningful was achieved within those 5 years

I would argue: five years is the length of time a major class ship was assigned to its commanding officer. It was the captain who was given the mission along with a series of assignments, not necessarily tied to a particular sector of the quadrant to explore. The CO’s senior ship’s company (medical officer, XO, engineering, etc.) could be working with the CO for the same length of time, with junior members assigned for shorter periods (ie six months) and rotated as required.

TOST never made the 5 year mission.

_"The more they over-think the plumbing, the easier it is to stop up the drain."_ - Montgomery "Scotty" Scott. (Star Trek III)

Add ablative armor and quantum torpedoes and it would be perfect

To boldly violate the territorial integrity of distant paranoid Empires and start conflicts with them...

4:30 Scarlett Johansson was in TOS?

their mission plan was to expand the federation!

CAPTAIN APRIL 1ST. 2ND CAPTAIN PIKE 3RD CAPTAIN KIRK

A mission one day longer than 4 years, 364 days

Why does April in the thumbnail looks like he came from STO?😂😂

"surmises" the history of the 5-year mission ? I think you were reaching for the word "summarizes" but I think you just driveled a bit.

That makes sense. 🙂

Originally, it was called "5-season mission", but that name got cancelled.

"What was a 5-year mission?" It was the most amount of time Roddenberry thought CBS would give the show before pulling the plug 😂.

I wonder what Castroville, CA did to get their zip code as the Borg designation for the Pakleds.

I liked the video during the ad. I am that excited for this video and yes it's going on while I type.

There's a lot of mistakes in this one.

It's more like a 5 year deployment, NOT a 5 year mission then?

Forgive me but, did you not just describe protocol?

5 years is 1825 days. 🖖🙂

To me it always seemed like the five year mission was almost *entirely* decided upon by the captain in terms of where they went, when, and why, with *approval* from Starfleet but not too much actual input or even oversight in the TOS days. It would make sense in that format as having highly discretionary missions with a relatively large and extremely capable crew means you can get the most value out of the ship. If the captain is an expert at charting courses as part of the command requirements for the class anyway and they have all the info required of places Starfleet is interested in then to me it makes sense that one of the primary tasks of the command staff would be using that data to actively figure out where to go next and submitting it for aproval, which would almost always be granted, with Starfleet then 'overriding' that mission when the ship was needed and near enough to respond. It makes more sense that way too if you consider it a singular and continuous mission, for which time your captain has a mandate to take the ship and explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; to boldly go where no man has gone before. It's a whole 'period' where the captain has nearly unlimited discretion and control over the ship's actions to give them proper freedom to explore which is why it's a continuing mission and not broken up into smaller assignments where they come back for shore leave and repairs etc. They *do* all those things, but it's continuous because the captain still has that freedom assigned to them the whole time so they're *choosing* when and where to come back themselves, just with loose approval So in summary to me the 5 year mission is a period in which a captain is almost entirely free to set their own mission with large amounts of control and independence, under the primary mandate of exploration, so long as they stick within established guidelines. It's applying for and being granted 5 years of independence to explore

I read somewhere a long time ago that Galaxy-class vessels were actually on 15-year missions.

That’s a really good question, what was the 5 year mission? In Picard era Star Trek, the Federation had a ton of ships, but in Kirk’s time the fleet was a lot smaller and the galaxy was less well known, so I can see a ship being told to explore for five years and come back.

I'd always assumed that the 5 year mission is more of a 5 year deployment, other than replacements, most of the officers and crew would be assigned to the ship for a 5 year period before being assumed gaining reassignment. While exploring would be a chunk of it, the ship would be, largely, on the move through it to different places and different things. More specialized ships would, likely, have shorter duration assignments. I'm kind of assuming that, with the expansion of capabilities between TOS and TNG, that the total assignment duration would be, potentially, expanded

The show was supposed to be for 5 seasons, but we only got 3. The ship would be on mission for 5 years and afterwards will return to port for reassignment, refit, or sold or scrapped. However I real 5 year cycle wouldn't be out of place. A flagship/Cruiser can go with a armada group of escorts, at various rendezvous points they meet up with resupply convoys as crew and escort ships ae switched out and the cruiser remains. And in 5 years the cruiser should return to it's starting point.

Can you do a video, based on either Alpha or Beta canon, that explains how ships are chosen by Starfleet Command to conduct rescue or humanitarian missions. I think it would be a good follow up to this video.

Apparently with the Doomsday Machine, the USS Constitution NCC 1071 ended it's reign as longest serving ship of it's class. USS Enterprise NCC 1701 ended up serving, per the list shown, one 5 year mission under Captain April, then possibly 3-1/2 5 year missions under Captain Pike before LT. Kirk got assigned mid-mission apparently. Then newly promoted Captain Kirk ran USS Enterprise NCC 1701 to his near 5 year mission nearing Phase 2, until Starfleet decided to call back the USS Enterprise NCC 1701 at it's mission end for the experimental refit known as the Constitution II, which was the basis for newer ships to be built up until the NX-2000 Excelsior finally came along to phase the Constitution II class out of service. Not until Star Trek: Picard did we see the evolution of said Constitution design with the Neo-Constitution III class which bore the name eventually USS Enterprise NCC 1701-G. Some theories suggest Captain Kirk received one of the first NEW Constitution II class starships at the end of "The Voyage Home", which was originally set to become the USS Yorktown, but quickly re-badged the USS Enterprise NCC 1701-A in honor of the aging but valiant crew. Even at the end of the Klingon Peace Conference debacle, Enterprise NCC 1701-A continued on nearing it's final mission to live out it's days in the Starfleet Spacedock Museum, as seen in Picard season 3.

Can I just say that Anson Mount looks so good as Pike. Never has a man of the modern day looked so "Star Trek".

I recall reading somewhere years ago. That the Galaxy class ships had plans to carry out 20 year missions. Hence one of the reasons why family members and other civilians were allowed on board the ship.

If you’re going out for that long, you’re among the top tier, so you’ll be doing whatever is necessary. Patrol, peacekeeping, law enforcement, hospitality, search and rescue, emergency response, civilian escort, etc. And on slow days, you do charting, research, technology troubleshooting, and serve as ambassadors for the Federation when attempting to extend its boundary.

So, there is flexibility to work in a 2 week Romulan Ale run.

This video is getting me pumped for some new episodes of strange new worlds!

5 year missions need a cruiser. Cruisers are synonymous with long duration stuff: - going on a cruise - cruising speed - cruising altitude - cruise control

I thought 5 yrs was the life of dilithium crystals.

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Since Strange New Worlds started, I've wondered why they say they are on a five year mission, when they haven't been. They've been close to earth and in contact with with the Federation. I think that's different than TOS. And in TNG, of course, they've said on a Continuing Mission.

3 years in space, 2 years of paperwork, 20 years begging to go out again

One thing I'm curious about is if there is any lore in Star Trek on how they explore water worlds.

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely greatly well done and informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and format provided by you on the 5yr missions performed by the various many Captains and Starship's assigned to those missions!, A job very fabulously spectacularly well done indeed Sir!👌.