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  Original texts and manuscript concept copyright © 2007 by Richard E. Mandel 
   
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  PART TWELVE 
   
  2276-2295:  TOWARDS THE FUTURE 
   
   
  0VERVIEW 
   
  CHRONOLOGY/TIMELINE 
   
  STARSHIPS 
  THE DREADNOUGHT PROGRAM (PART 2) 
  DARAN CLASS FRIGATE 
  ARIEL CLASS SHUTTLECARRIER 
  SYDNEY CLASS TRANSPORT 
  JENSHAHAN CLASS HEAVY CARRIER 
  RENNER CLASS CORVETTE 
  IANAR CLASS FAST FRIGATE 
  MITANNIC CLASS BATTLECRUISER 
  STARFLEET’S NEW PERIMETER ACTION 
   
  SHIP PROGRAM 
  EXCELSIOR CLASS SPACE CONTROL SHIP 
  TRANSPORT/TUGS OF THE LINEAR WARP ERA 
  MIDWAY CLASS SHUTTLECARRIER 
  RANGER CLASS LIGHT CRUISER 
  CONSTELLATION CLASS STAR CRUISER 
   
  TERRAN EXPLORATIONS 
  THE GENESIS PLANET 
   
  HISTORICAL ARTICLES 
   
  THE MIGHTY HOOD GOES DOWN 
  ENTERPRISE DESTROYED 
  LAUNCH OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT 
  KLINGONS THREATEN WAR 
  KIRK SURVIVES COURT-MARTIAL 
  KLINGONS DOOMED TO EXTINCTION 
  STARFLEET CONSPIRACY UNMASKED 
  KIRK DIES SAVING NEW ENTERPRISE 
   
  STARSHIP DEVELOPMENT CHART 
   
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
   
  A Constitution (II) class cruiser (c.2275) 
   
   
  Enterprise (NCC-1701) returns to SpaceDock after the Genesis 
  Incident of 2287.  The space control ship prototype Excelsior 
  (NX-2000) is clearly visible in the background 
   
   
  Enterprise, Excelsior, and Miranda class cruisers in formation 
   
   
  The new Excelsior class starship Enterprise (2295)
  - 3 - 
  
  2276-2295: Towards the Future 
   
   
   
  The Starfleet of the early 2270s lived through an 
  escalation boom in the aftermath of the intrusion by 
  the V’Ger entity, with nearly unlimited resources 
  provided for the prevention of any further invasions of 
  similar kind. The de facto source of these resources, 
  the Organian Peace Treaty, proved but a temporary 
  lull in Klingon-Federation political and military intrigue. 
  Only the stern leadership of Fleet Admiral Robert 
  Conrad and his legendary successor Heihachiro 
  Nogura had kept Starfleet from overreacting to the 
  Klingon threat in the preceding decades.  When these 
  powerful figures retired from Starfleet command, 
  other forces began vying for power in the highest 
  echelons. The infamous coup attempt by Vice Admiral 
  Vaughan Rittenhouse, even though doomed to fail 
  from the outset, cast deep shadows over the public 
  image of Starfleet – shadows that even the brief 
  return of Fleet Admiral Nogura and the resurrection 
  of the exploration program were hard pressed to 
  disperse. 
   
  For the duration of the late 2270s, the militaristic 
  forces inside Starfleet were again technically 
  outnumbered by the more peaceful factions. Despite 
  its official peaceful doctrine, though, Starfleet 
  continued to prepare a huge fleet of modern cruisers 
  with significant military as well as exploration 
  capabilities. Also, the major programs for production 
  of modern dreadnoughts and the space control ship 
  program were finally providing results. These would 
  culminate in the Excelsior class, the next ‘backbone’ 
  vessel of Starfleet and a worthy successor to the 
  famous Constitution heavy cruisers.  
   
  The Klingon Empire attempted to match the 
  Federation move for move, upgrade for upgrade, and 
  new class with new class.  It also introduced cloaking 
  capability to many of its naval vessels, courtesy of its 
  treaty with the Romulans. The rigoriously structured 
  and exploitative Klingon economy was slowly 
  descending towards chaos, as it simply did not have 
  the base to cope with the conservation-minded free 
  market economy of the Federation. Some visionary 
  leaders foresaw the inevitable and strove for closer 
  diplomatic and ultimately economic ties with the 
  Federation. Others sought for the answer in 
  - 4 - 
  
  increased military spending and frantic conquest of 
  new worlds to exploit for new resources. No headway 
  could be made on the Federation front, though, not 
  even after it had become painfully evident that the 
  Organian peace treaty no longer was being enforced 
  at all. Neither side would back off, not even after a 
  series of provocations revolving around the Genesis 
  Incident that introduced a new potential superweapon 
  of immense power. 
   
  To offset this balance of terror, a far-flung conspiracy 
  was engineered by Starfleet hardliners who, under 
  the leadership of Fleet Admiral Lemuel Cartwright, 
  aimed for an offensive against the Klingon Empire. 
  Simultaneously and perhaps not coincidentally, 
  relations with the Romulan Star Empire grew 
  warmer. These two troubling developments came to a 
  peak in the Praxis incident, where a key Klingon 
  energy production facility exploded and left the whole 
  Empire badly damaged. The conspirators saw the 
  right moment had come, and seized it. A chain of 
  assassinations was begun to pave way for a 
  declaration of war against the weakened Empire. 
  Unfortunately, the plan of the hard-liners required 
  support of Klingon and Romulan factions to succeed, 
  and complex plots often end in a disaster, as was 
  luckily the case with their attempted coup of 2291. 
  The actions of one man, Captain James T. Kirk, saved 
  the life of President Ra-ghotarei and the integrity of 
  the Federation. Relationships between the UFP and 
  the Klingon Empire drastically improved, in the 
  aftermath of the aborted coup, and a thorough 
  cleansing of Starfleet would eventually result. 
   
  adapted from 
  Guide to the UFP Starfleet 
  by Timo Saloniemi 
   
   
  A Saladin class destroyer being upgraded (c.2280) 
   
   
  Captain James T. Kirk and his loyal bridge crew (2287) 
  At bottom right is Hikaru Sulu, Kirk’s helmsman for 15 years.  
  Sulu was promoted to captain a few years after this picture was 
  taken.  Captain Sulu would soon become a legend in his own 
  right during his first assignment as commander of the space 
  control ship Excelsior (NCC-2000) 
   
   
  The Midway class shuttlecarrier Ark Royal (c.2295) 
   
   
  The mining complex on Praxis before it was destroyed (c.2290) 
  Image courtesy of the Klingon Empire 
   
  - 5 - 
  
  MAJOR EVENTS 
   
  2276 
  • 
  The Cardassians are encountered for the first time in a 
  conflict over a new Federation colony in the Europa 
  Nova system, located on the far side of the Badlands. 
  • 
  The uprated Federation class dreadnought enters 
  service. 
  • 
  Developent of the transwarp drive is authorized. 
  • 
  The Daran class frigate enters service. 
  • 
  The Ariel class shuttlecarrier enters service. 
   
   
  2277 
  • 
  The Federation flag and seal are updated to mark the 
  150th anniversary of the Federation Charter. 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Excelsior (NCC-1718) is lost while 
  on a long-range reconnaissance mission outside of 
  Federation territory.  The name will be given to the 
  lead ship in the new space control ship program, which 
  is already on the drawing boards. 
  • 
  The first problems with transwarp drive are noted 
  during simulation testing aboard the prototype 
  starship U.S.S. Ingram (NX-2001). 
  • 
  The first of the Jackill's Starfleet Reference Manuals is 
  published. 
  • 
  The Knox class frigates enter service. 
  • 
  The Sydney class transport enters service. 
   
   
  2278 
  • 
  The Klingon C-8/9K'herr class dreadnought enters 
  service, much to the dismay of Starfleet starship 
  spotters.  It outclasses even the uprated Federation 
  class dreadnought, the most powerful ship in Starfleet 
  at the time.  It serves as an incentive for kicking 
  development of the Excelsior class space control ship 
  program into high gear. 
  • 
  The Ares Incident marks the first time a Starfleet 
  vessel has been forced to engage Tholian vessels in 
  combat in years. 
  • 
  The Pleiades class survey cruisers are commissioned. 
  • 
  The Ascension class dreadnoughts are commissioned. 
  • 
  An incident between Klingon and Federation forces in 
  the Typhon Expanse exposes Klingon plans to invade 
  the Federation.  The Klingon plot is made public and 
  condemned, resulting in the overthrow of the current 
  Klingon government.  Starfleet loses a single starship 
  in the incident, the Soyuz class heavy frigate U.S.S. 
  Bozeman (NCC-1841). 
  • 
  The Enterprise (NCC-1701) returns from its final five-
  year mission under Admral James T. Kirk.  It is 
  assigned as flagship of the Terran Defense Group 
  under Commodore Gregory Westlake.  It will spend 
  approximately the next year in drydock undergoing a 
  regularly scheduled routine service upgrade.  In the 
  meantime, Admiral Kirk resumes staff duties within 
  Starfleet Command. 
  • 
  The Canopus class starships are retired. 
    
  2279 
  • 
  Federation surveillance drones spot the new Klingon 
  heavy destroyer K'teremny (D-9 class) while it is 
  temporarily disabled during a final test flight.  This is 
  the first time that Starfleet is able to get the 
  proverbial goods on an new Klingon starship class just 
  as it is about to enter service. 
  • 
  Border incidents with the Klingons begin a marked rise 
  this year, indicating that the Klingons have resolved 
  their internal disputes and are once again arming for 
  war with the Federation. 
  • 
  The Tyson Encounter will go down in history as one of 
  the most unusual carrier duels ever fought between 
  Federation and Klingon forces. 
  • 
  The Klingons stage a surprise raid on Sherman's 
  Planet.  The end result is a massacre. 
  • 
  The Klingons finally begin construction of their long-
  rumored Kar’harmer B-10 class of battleships.  These 
  will be the largest starships ever built by a current 
  spacefaring culture in known space to date. 
  • 
  Starfleet’s new battlecruiser program is placed on 
  temporary hold due to numerous flaws found in the 
  class prototype, the U.S.S. Menagha (NCC-3100) 
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  • 
  A working transwarp drive core is approved and 
  delivered to the yards for fitting into the class 
  prototype U.S.S. Excelsior (NX-2000). 
  • 
  A highly infectious viral plague sweeps the Kzinti 
  Patriarchy.  The death toll numbers in the millions.  
  The new Kzinti Patriarch grants permission for the 
  Federation to dispatch medical assistance teams in an 
  effort to combat the plague.  The leader of this effort 
  is Commander Nyota Uhura and assisting her is 
  Lieutenant Shiboline M’ress, a Caitian.  This 
  unexpected act of kindness despite decades of 
  aggression and piracy does much to change Kzinti 
  perceptions about the Federation. 
    
  2280 
  • 
  The crew of the Klingon D-6 battlecruiser Destruction, 
  all press-ganged prisoners, mutiny and manage (with 
  Starfleet support) to escape into Federation space.  
  All are granted asylum while the ship is interned at 
  Starbase 12 for extensive study.  It will not be 
  returned to the angry Klingons for a year.  Although 
  an old design that predates current starship 
  technologies, its seizure is considered important -- in 
  particular what its computer data banks hold 
  concerning current Klingon fleet strength and 
  deployment. 
  • 
  The Federation confirms the existence of the B-10 
  construction program from the data banks of the 
  captured D-6 Destruction.  Release of this information 
  does much to win Federation Council support for 
  authorization of the Excelsior class space control ship. 
  • 
  The Organians are forced to intercede to prevent the 
  Klingons from going to war with the Federation.  This 
  is the last time they will do so prior to events leading 
  up to the destruction of Praxis. 
  • 
  Admiral James T. Kirk becomes an instructor at the 
  Starfleet Academy Command School. 
   
  2281 
  • 
  Improved Starfleet fightercraft enter service and are 
  deployed as fast as possible to all operational carrier 
  battle groups.  Anywhere from two to four will also be 
  deployed on all fleet units with standard shuttle bays, 
  with Miranda type starships operating at least one full 
  squadron.  This too is a response to increased Klingon 
  activity on its border with the Federation. 
  • 
  The last operational Bering class tanker is removed 
  from service and sold for scrap. 
    
  2282 
  • 
  The first working holodeck is developed, based on 
  simulated reality technology developed some three 
  decades before. 
  • 
  The Kzinti Patriarchy formally petitions for associate 
  member status with the Federation.  It is an act which 
  would have been unheard of only a decade before. 
   
  2283 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Kongo 
  and the frigates Halk and 
  Rome are destroyed by 
  the Klingons in the 
  Kargon Incident. 
  • 
  The Tal Taan Offensive ends in victory for the 
  Federation; however, it is the closest it has yet come 
  to open war with the Klingons.  The pacifists within 
  the Federation Council fall out of favor as more militant 
  factions take the reins of power.  The result is 
  increased funding for more Starfleet starships. 
  • 
  Lars-Eric Valdemar becomes the new Starfleet 
  Commissioner.  He will make many changes in order to 
  improve Starfleet operations and bring up its strength 
  in the face of Klingon aggression.  Many new starship 
  classes that had been stalled in development will be 
  reactived and begin construction under Valdemar's 
  tenure. 
  • 
  The frigate Matkapan (NCC-1960) is lost along with 
  an entire TacFleet force on operations beyond 
  Federation borders. 
  • 
  The Jenshahan class heavy carrier enters service. 
    
  2284 
  • 
  The Renner class corvette enters service. 
  • 
  The Battle of Khatanga results in the loss of seven 
  Starfleet vessels. 
  • 
  Rumblings 
  begin 
  within 
  the 
  Admiralty about the need for 
  retiring the eldest starships in 
  the Class I fleet.  The officer at 
  the forefront of this movement is 
  Admiral 
  Randolph 
  Morrow, 
  Starfleet Chief of Staff and heir 
  apparent 
  to 
  Fleet 
  Admiral 
  Heihachiro Nogura for the role of Starfleet 
  Commander-in-Chief (CinC).  Admiral Nogura makes 
  clear for the need for all Class I starships to remain in 
  active duty service, with the eldest needing to serve 
  “a little while longer.” 
  • 
  The rebuilt heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701), the 
  second oldest operational Class I starship in Starfleet, 
  is reassigned to the Starfleet Academy Command 
  School as a training vessel at the request of guest 
  instructor Admiral James T. Kirk.  Her commissioned 
  days as a Starfleet vessel are numbered, given all of 
  the new Class I linear warp equipped starships 
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  entering service and current trends within the 
  Starfleet Admiralty.  Transfer to training duty status is 
  Admiral Kirk’s way of ensuring that his beloved 
  Enterprise remains in service for as long as possible. 
  • 
  At this time Starfleet has only 69 starship classes and 
  a total of 1,265 active duty vessels in its Class I fleet.  
  Comparable numbers exist for its Class II fleet. 
  • 
  The first working experimental transwarp drive is 
  developed. 
  • 
  Starfleet Command decides to follow the inexpensive 
  LN-52 upgrade path for all remaining existing Class I 
  starships and starship classes that have not yet 
  received a linear warp refit.  The LN-60 upgrade path 
  is officially abandoned save for those vessels that are 
  already scheduled for or undergoing the conversion 
  process.  All Starfleet new builds will have LN-64 
  technology (or derivative, in the case of the new 
  perimeter action ship program) from this point 
  forward.  The ACE (Advanced Circumferential Engine) 
  program is retained only for prototype testing 
  purposes.  It will never see widespread fleet use 
  beyond a few isolated vessels. 
  • 
  Border incidents with the Klingons reach new heights 
  as the more militant of the Imperial Houses take over 
  border patrol duties, seeking the glory of battle with 
  their traditional Federation foes. 
  Several 
  protot
  • 
  ypes 
  for Starfleet’s new 
  perimeter action ship 
  program enter service 
  for fleet testing prior 
  to implementation of the program.  Three slightly 
  different classes (Alert, Akula, and Akyazi) will be built 
  in parallel, with each being modified as data from the 
  class prototypes comes in. 
  • 
  The Chosin class heavy carrier enters service. 
   
  2285 
  • 
  The Ranger class scout program is officially 
  discontinued in favor of the Oberth class.  All Ranger 
  class scouts will be removed from Starfleet service by 
  2290. 
  • 
  Starfleet is forced to begin using non-sequential naval 
  construction contract (NCC) numbers due to rapid 
  changes in fleet construction authorizations and 
  cancellations.  It is also around this time that Starfleet 
  Command begins to consider the possibility of reusing 
  previously assigned NCCs for new-build starships that 
  have the same name as older ones no longer in 
  service. 
  • 
  At this point in time Major General Roger Kensington 
  is Colonel of the Starfleet Marine Corps (i.e. Marine 
  Corps CinC).  He holds the franked rank of general 
  (admiral) for official purposes, such as day-to-day 
  operational duties with Starfleet Command. 
  • 
  The escort carrier Sangamon (NCC-1927) is attacked 
  and damaged beyond reasonable repair by a Meerkan 
  pirate fleet.  The Sangamon will be scrapped once it 
  returns to port. 
  • 
  The Excelsior class space control ship prototype (NX-
  2000) begins construction. 
  • 
  The Ianar class fast frigate enters service. 
  • 
  The Klingons make their boldest move yet into the 
  Treaty Zone, capturing the planet Mrzicann without 
  Organian intervention. 
  • 
  The Loki class destroyer and Adams class scout are 
  authorized, with construction dependent upon the 
  success of the Excelsior program.  They are single-
  nacelled stablemates to the Excelsor, similar to the 
  role that the Saladin class destroyer and Hermes class 
  scout played in the original Class I Program. 
  • 
  The Joshua class command cruiser, a variant of the 
  Loki/Adams program, is also given provisional 
  authorization at this time. 
  • 
  The uprated heavy cruiser 
  Hood 
  (NCC-1707) 
  is 
  responsible for defeating 
  and capturing the Klingon 
  starhsip L’ktja.  It is the 
  first D-8 K’t’inga class 
  battlecruiser to fall into 
  Federation hands.  It will be 
  impounded at the nearest starbase, where Starfleet 
  Intelligence will thoroughly study it for the next five 
  months anticipating return demands.  Oddly enough, 
  that demand never materializes, thus allowing 
  Starfleet Intelligence to continue studying the L’ktja 
  and its data at their leisure.  The L’ktja will eventually 
  be repaired and join Starfleet’s infamous Adversary 
  Squadron, made up entirely of captured Klingon and 
  Romulan starships, for annual war games exercises. 
  • 
  The second and final generation of megaphaser cannon 
  enters Starfleet service. 
  • 
  Randolph Morrow is promoted to fleet admiral, 
  succeeding the retiring Heihachiro Nogura as Starfleet 
  CinC.  One of his first orders is to begin the 
  decommissioning of Starfleet’s oldest Class I 
  starships, starting with such non-combat classes as 
  the Ptolemy class transport/tugs and working his way 
  up to other classes.  All starships whose launch dates 
  fall within Morrow’s parameters are placed on the 
  decommissioning schedule even if they have not yet 
  reached the end of their expected service lives.  
  Morrow’s decommissioning program is set to take 
  place over the next five years.  Included at the end of 
  Morrow’s list are the Constitution class heavy 
  cruisers, the eldest of which is now 63 years old (or 
  almost 20 years in terms of their linear warp 
  conversions, which is they way Admiral Morrow 
  usually describes them). 
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  • 
  As a gesture of goodwill Kzinti warriors are allowed to 
  serve in Starfleet for the first time, albeit on a limited 
  basis.  They quickly find a welcome home in the 
  Starfleet Marines, although it takes them and the 
  Corps a while to adapt to each other. 
  • 
  Work on the Genesis 
  Project has proceeded 
  to the point where 
  Stage II testing is 
  ready 
  to 
  begin; 
  however it cannot 
  proceed 
  unless 
  additional funding is 
  procured.  Dr. Carol Marcus, project director, records 
  a special request for the required funding to be sent 
  to the Federation Bureau of Sciences.  Her recording, 
  along the accompanying data, is classified for security 
  reasons.  Her request will be granted and work will 
  resume shortly thereafter. 
  The heavy cr
  • 
  uiser Enterprise (NCC-1701) undergoes a 
  • 
  rance class frigate enters service. 
  ce. 
  hip in 
  • 
  s
   
  minor refit to better facilitate its new role as a 
  training starship.  Included with the upgrade is a new 
  photon torpedo deck, complete with backup manual 
  operations capability (in the event that the automatic 
  system is out of commission) and a somewhat 
  retooled engineering deck better suited to midshipman 
  training. 
  The Endu
  • 
  The Mitannic class battlecruiser enters servi
  • 
  The keel of the Ingram (NX-2001), second s
  Starfleet’s new space control ship program, is laid 
  down at the Proxima Shipyards.  The major visual 
  difference between Ingram and Excelsior is the addition 
  of second-generation megaphaser cannon to Ingram’s 
  warp engine support pylons.  These will be removed 
  once the Ingram program is terminated and all ships in 
  the class merged with the Excelsior program. 
  All Texas class light 
  crui ers still in service 
  are 
  decommissioned 
  on the direct orders 
  of Starfleet CinC Fleet 
  Admiral 
  Randolph 
  Morrow.  The only fo
  converted “commando” cruisers of the Starfleet 
  Marines, who had declined to decommission them back 
  in the 2270s due to “operational 
  needs.”  This is despite protests 
  by the Starfleet Marines that 
  their new Miranda class cruisers 
  cannot 
  perform 
  the 
  surface 
  landing and support capabilities as 
  the Texas.  General Kensington 
  resigns his commission in protest.  
  Lieutenant General Anthony West, who eventually finds 
  a way to use his Miranda class starships for ground 
  operations 
  via 
  old-fashioned 
  Terran 
  insertion-
  extraction drop techniques.  This and other 
  innovations will earn Anthony West, the new Colonel of 
  the Corps, eventual promotion to major general by 
  2290. 
  2286 
  • 
  The Akula and Akyazi class perimeter action ships 
  • 
  age II Genesis Device is built at the Regula One 
  • 
  ng with all senior 
  • 
   
  • 
   caught operating 
  tension between the two interstellar powers. 
  enter service around this time, thus permitting the 
  obsolete Kiaga and Agilis classes to take their final 
  bow. 
  The St
  spacelab under the direction of Drs. Carol and David 
  Marcus.  The starship Reliant (NCC-1864), under the 
  command of Captain Clark Terrell, is assigned to the 
  Genesis Project.  It goal is to find a suitable nearby 
  uninhabited planet devoid of all lifeforms (intelligent or 
  not) for use in Stage III testing.  The Starfleet Corps of 
  Engineers uses phaser bores in a 10-month continuous 
  effort to hollow out a cave within the asteroid around 
  which Regula One orbits.  This will be the site for the 
  Stage II test of the Genesis Device. 
  Fleet Admiral Morrow holds a briefi
  members of Starfleet Command over the continued 
  absence of the Organians.  It is his belief that the 
  Klingons are seeking to take advantage of the situation 
  and that they are arming for war.  He orders Starfleet 
  to do the same.  Orders are dispatched deploying 
  additional forces to the Treaty Zone and informing all 
  Starfleet units to respond in kind if attacked. 
  It is probably about this time that a conspiracy is
  ur still in service are the 
  formed within the ranks of Starfleet Command to 
  deliberately provoke a war with the Klingons.  The 
  belief that the Federation will win in the end, 
  eliminating “the Klingon problem” once and for all.  
  This conspiracy will in time extend though all branches 
  and ranks of Starfleet, from lowly enlisted personnel all 
  the way up to the Admiralty itself. 
  A squadron of Klingon frigates is
  within Federation border territory.  A battle ensues 
  when they fail to heave to and surrender their vessels.  
  All of the Klingon frigates are destroyed by new 
  Starfleet perimeter action ships, which sustain only 
  minor damage in return.  This incident increases 
  His replacement is 
  - 9 - 
  
   
  • 
  In a carefully coordinated response to “Federation 
  provocation” the Klingon D-9 heavy destroyer Qirsh is 
  sent over the border to provoke a fight.  The uprated 
  heavy cruiser Hood (NCC-1707) responds to the 
  challenge, along with the newly uprated destroyer Ajax 
  (NCC-547) and the uprated Larson class destroyer 
  Moltke (NCC-4417).  The Qirsh takes on all three at 
  once.  In the battle that follows, the Qirsh succeeds in 
  destroying the Hood and the Ajax is so badly mauled 
  that it is forced to retreat from the field of battle.  
  The Moltke is left alone to face the Qirsh but its foe 
  suddenly withdraws, having accomplished its mission in 
  destroying the Hood.  Only 3 members of the Hood’s 
  crew survive the battle.  The Qirsh will become the 
  bane of the Federation border fleet for the next four 
  months, raising all kinds of havoc and leaving many 
  destroyed Starfleet vessels in its wake.  Eventually, 
  the Qirsh is cornered and destroyed just short of the 
  Klingon border by a Federation fleet made up of two 
  uprated Loknar class frigates, three Siva class 
  destroyers, and a Belknap class strike cruiser. 
  • 
  The Cyane class heavy frigate enters service. 
  • 
  The Romulans launch their first dreadnought. 
  • 
  Fleet Admiral Morrow grudgingly gives his blessing for 
  the early conversion of seven Tikopai class heavy 
  cruisers to Enterprise specifications.  This is to replace 
  converted Constitution class heavy cruisers that 
  Morrow intends to retire as soon as possible. 
   
  2287 
  • 
  Stage II testing of the Genesis Device is successfully 
  completed.  Work begins on the Stage III Genesis 
  Device.  Its use will be dependent on locating a 
  suitable planet for the test, something that Captain 
  Terrell and the Reliant have yet to accomplish. 
  • 
  The 
  Genesis 
  Incident 
  marks the gravest crisis 
  to 
  Federation-Klingon 
  relations in years, all due 
  to the mad thirst for 
  vengeance from former 
  Terran dictator Khan Noonien Singh.  It will see the 
  formation and subsequent destruction of the unstable 
  Genesis Planet, the destruction of the starships 
  Reliant and Enterprise, the capture of a Klingon Bird-
  of-Prey (the first successful capture of a starship of 
  this type), and the indictment of both Admiral James 
  T. Kirk and his former command staff on charges of 
  mutiny and sedition.  The Klingon Empire will rejoice in 
  the destruction of the legendary Enterprise but will 
  threaten war unless Admiral Kirk is turned over to 
  them 
  for 
  trial 
  immediately 
  for 
  having 
  authorized 
  Project Genesis in 
  the 
  first 
  place 
  • 
  Former Starfleet commanders Montgomery Scott, 
   configuration and 
   behind 
  months 
  • 
  • 
  arships 
  due to heightened tensions with the Klingon Empire in 
  the wake of the Genesis Incident.  Those that have 
  • 
  l
  o 
   
  (during his time at 
  Starfleet Command).  The only bright point in this 
  whole sordid affair is the apparent death and 
  subsequent resurrection of Captain Spock, former 
  commander of the Enterprise, for whom Admiral Kirk 
  and his command staff risked both their lives and their 
  careers.  Kirk and his followers find asylum on Vulcan 
  under the protection of Ambassdor Sarek., Spock’s 
  father.  The Vulcan government subsequently rebuffs 
  all attempts to bring Kirk and his followers to justice.  
  This added twist to the situation only serves to 
  exacerbate the growing hostility of the Klingon Empire 
  but plays right into the hands of the growing war hawk 
  conspiracy within Starfleet. 
  Hikaru Sulu, and Pavel Chekov help Admiral Kirk 
  convert their captured Bird-of-Prey into something 
  more suitable for human use.  Along the way, though, 
  they record all data on their “acquisition” and forward 
  it to Starfleet Intelligence, who accepts it without 
  comment.  In this manner Starfleet gains considerable 
  knowledge about the Bird-of-Prey’s
  capabilities.  Starfleet Intelligence will also be
  the successful retrieval of the ship several 
  later from the bottom of San Francisco Bay after the 
  end of the Whalesong Crisis. 
  The Arbiter class perimeter action ship enters service. 
  Fleet Admiral Morrow reverses his own order calling 
  for the decommissioning of all older Class I st
  already been decommissioned are reactivated and 
  returned to service as quickly as possible. 
  The completed Excelsior disappears during a test of its 
  transwarp drive and then just as mysteriously 
  reappears three weeks 
  abandoned as a result. 
  ater.  Transwarp drive is 
  • 
  Klingon Ambassador Kiltarc 
  delivers an ultimatum t
  the Council:  turn over 
  Admiral Kirk for trial or
  face the prospect of war.  
  The 
  Federation 
  Council 
  responds that they cannot 
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  grant Kiltarc’s request because Kirk has sought 
  asylum on Vulcan; furthermore, if Kirk is to be tried at 
  all for his actions it will be done under Federation law. 
   
   
  The decision of Admiral Kirk and his followers to return 
  to Terra of their own free will to face court-martial is 
  interrupted by the Whalesong Crisis.  True to form, 
  Admiral Kirk puts the good of the Federation above his 
  own life and moves to resolve the situation.  His 
  actions result in several temporal violations (due to 
  the manner of his solution) but
  • 
   ends the crisis.  
  • 
  upgrade in 
  elsior class space control ship. 
  ew perimeter action ships 
  a Fe Encounter. 
  • 
  ble ship” S.S. Mundy is 
  • 
  he population of the 
  uintupled over the past 
  ed activity on the part of 
  • 
  Starfleet a wealth of intelligence regarding the new 
  Romulan Space Navy. 
  • 
  The Scorpio class corvette enters service. 
  • 
  The Youngblood class heavy carrier enters service. 
  • 
  The Fredrikstad class fleet shuttlecarrier enters 
  service. 
  • 
  Starfleet’s F-type 18 fighter shuttle, A-type 20 attack 
  shuttle, and E-type 3 ELINT shuttle enter service on all 
  operational shuttlecarriers.  Older F-type and A-type 
  craft are retired to bases, secondary vessels, and 
  reserve units. 
  The Kirov class battlecruiser enters service. 
   
  2288 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
   design of its seal for the 
   in 2127.  The new seal 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  enters 
  • 
   
  Because of this all charges against Kirk’s command 
  staff are dropped, as well as all but a single charge of 
  disobeying a superior officer (Fleet Admiral Morrow).  
  Admiral Kirk pleads guilty, is reduced three grades to 
  the rank of captain, and “sentenced” to spend the 
  rest of his useful service career in command of a 
  starship.  The outraged Ambassador Kiltarc storms 
  out of the hearing in protest. 
  To honor of Captain 
  Kirk’s heroic actions and 
  that 
  of 
  his 
  former 
  command 
  staff 
  in 
  resolving the Whalesong 
  Crisis, 
  the 
  upgraded 
  Constitution class heavy 
  cruiser Yorktown (NCC-1704) is redesignated as the 
  new Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) to replace the original 
  destroyed over the Genesis Planet.  The Yorktown had 
  been undergoing a computer systems 
  Spacedock just before the Whalesong Crisis and had 
  been disabled along with all other Starfleet units 
  during the emergency.  The name of Yorktown is soon 
  reassigned to a new Exc
  • 
  The abilities of Starfleet’s n
  are further proven in the Kort
  The mystery behind the “trib
  finally solved. 
  Estimates indicate that t
  “Triangle” region of space has q
  two decades despite increas
  the Romulans and the ever-present threat of war 
  between the Federation and Klingons. 
  The successful completion of Project Grey Ghost yields 
  • 
  The Miranda class cruiser Accommodator is scrapped 
  following a dockyard accident in which it is rammed 
  and damaged beyond repair by the out-of-control 
  civilian freighter John B. Goodings. 
  History repeats itself when a tragic accident during a 
  Starfleet wargames exercise results in the destruction 
  of the starship Arashi and the crippling of the Eiger, 
  with 74 crewmen from both ships dead and 32 
  wounded aboard the Eiger. 
  Klingon fleet strength across the Treaty Zone 
  increases in response to similar Federation moves. 
  The Tholians begin fielding 
  new and more powerful 
  starships of a previously
  undocumented design.  The 
  reasons behind this are 
  unknown at the time. 
  The Federation changes the
  first time since its founding
  features a wreath design that more closely resembles  
  the old Terran New United Nations logo than before. 
  The Nimbus Incident marks the first tenuous step 
  towards defusing the looming Federation-Klingon war, 
  much to the dismay of Starfleet conspirators. 
  A coup within the Klingon Empire and the death of the 
  Romulan Praetor results in a change of government of 
  both of the Federation’s traditional interstellar foes 
   
  within the same year. 
  The Excelsior class space control ship finally 
  service after years of developmental delays. 
  • 
  The starship Excelsior, under the command of newly 
  promoted Captain Hikaru Sulu, embarks on a three-
  year mission to prove that space control ships are also 
  capable of filling the exploratory role previously 
  assigned to Class I heavy and survey cruisers.  
  Excelsior’s exceptional performance under Captain 
  Sulu’s command will lead to the authorization of a 
  second block of Excelsior class starships. 
  The Crippen class colonial transport enters service, 
  replaceing the aging Cochrane class. 
  • 
  Operation Distant Hammer takes place. 
  F
  • 
  The ederation Reference Series is published. 
  - 11 - 
  
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  • 
   capabilities of this new 
  uing 
  battle with all hands lost.  At least two of her 
  attackers are also destroyed and others damaged, but 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  ime with some of its new 
  • 
  rst 
   in a joint operation with 
  • 
  ugh new 
   volume to once again be 
   Federation security. 
  • 
  er Design REFiT) is permanently 
  r 
   
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  • 
  • 
  nters service 
  entually 
   by the 
  Ariel and Excelsior class starship programs.  Yamato 
  will be the last new-build dreadnought class of this era 
  • 
   
  9 
  The Klingons stage an ambush on the Starfleet 
  perimter action ship Abreus with no less than seven 
  assault craft disguised as Romulan vessels to 
  determine the full combat
  vessel type.  The Abreus is destroyed in the ens
  the full status of the surviving vessels remains 
  unknown. 
  The Midway class fleet 
  shuttlecarrier 
  enters 
  service. 
  The 
  F-type 
  22 
  “Peregrine” fighter shuttle enters service. 
  Starfleet begins using five-digit naval construction 
  contract numbers at this t
  starship classes. 
  The strike cruiser Baikal (NCC-2513) is the fi
  Starfleet vessel to take part
  Kzinti forces. 
  By this time the Romulan Space Navy has eno
  starship classes in service in
  considered a serious threat to
  Project ADREFT (Aveng
  shelved.  This would have upgraded an Avenger or 
  Miranda class starship to “pocket dreadnought” 
  status by adding a third warp engine and additional 
  weaponry (known at various times as the Comanche o
  Rickover configurations).  Along with it goes the Kirov 
  class battlecruiser (ADREFT on an Ariel-type primary 
  hull), with only five ships completed. 
  • 
  All remaining Soyuz class frigates are withdrawn from 
  service, having failed to live up to their original design.  
  0  
  • 
  The 
  Federation 
  Starship 
  h rt i  u
  Recognition C a  s p blished. 
  • 
  The first volume in Mastercom’s 
  new Ships of the Starfleet 
  series is published.  Additional volumes follow every 
  ten to twelve months until the series is complete. 
  The Cathedral Unit is formed as a permanent pool for 
  starship prototype testing crews. 
  At this point in time the United Federation of Planets 
  consists of a total of 1,560 member and affiliated star 
  systems. 
  • 
  The massive Yamato class dreadnought e
  as a replacement for the long-delayed and ev
  cancelled Komsomolsk.  It is heavily influenced
  in Federation spacecraft history. 
  The Nordenskjold class cruisers are removed from 
  service. 
  2291 
  e first build group.  An additional 53 
  • 
  • 
   
  • 
  T
  • 
  • 
  o
  core support network 
  is wiped out by the 
  kwa
  ays.  Starfleet 
   homeworld has 
   of the Praxis 
  n of the assassination of Federaton President 
  Ra-ghoratrei by Colonel of the Starfleet Marine Corps 
  Anthony West (a conspirator), and the signing of the 
  Khitomer Accords with the Klingon Empire.  This is 
  Kirk’s last mission aboard the Enterprise.  The age of 
  Kirk and his former command crew is also catching up 
  • 
  The uprated Excelsior class space control ship is 
  authorized for construction.  19 vessels are eventually 
  authorized for th
  are proposed as replacements for existing Class I 
  heavy cruisers once they reach the end of their 
  service lives. 
  • 
  The Decisive class frigate is approved for construction. 
  The Ranger class light cruiser enters service. 
  The Clemenceau class shuttlecarrier enters service.
  • 
  The Anaxagoras class transport/tug is approved for 
  construction 
  he S’harien class battlecruiser enters service. 
  The Todega class transport/tug enters service. 
  The mineral-rich moon 
  f 
  Praxis 
  in 
  the 
  Klingon core systems 
  explodes 
  due 
  to 
  overmining.  Much of 
  the Klingon Empire’s 
  shoc
  ve, which also wreaks havoc w
  internal infrastructure in other w
  ith the Empire’s 
  Intelligence estimates that the Klingon
  only 50 years before the effects
  explosion render it incapable of supporting life.  This 
  humbling event forces the Klingons to turn for help to 
  its traditional enemy, the Federation – an event 
  foreseen three decades before by the Organians. 
  • 
  Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon 
  Empire is assassinated by the 
  Starfleet conspirators in their final 
  bid to provoke an all-out war 
  between the Klingons and the 
  Federation.  Captain James T. Kirk 
  of the starship Enterprise makes 
  the perfect frame for the act, given 
  his past history with the Klingons (the Genesis 
  Incident in particular).  Kirk is eventually able to clear 
  his name through a remarkable series of events that 
  end with the exposure of the conspiracy, the 
  preventio
  - 12 - 
  
  with them, with all but the youngest on the verge of 
  retirement. 
  • 
  The first Kzinti officer ever to serve in Starfleet is 
  present at the signing of the Khitomer Accords.  He 
  takes the time, on behalf of the Patriarch, to invite the 
  Klingons to send an ambassador to Kzin.  This marks a 
  new and unexpected turn in the relationship between 
  • 
  ssigned to a 
  into the 
  and the extent to which the 
   go, including collusion with 
   Klingon Houses in favor of 
  • 
  ort/tugs enter service.  These 
  ollond proposal for a Miranda-
  • 
   
  2292 
  • 
  • 
   
  these millennia-old cultures. 
  The 
  heavy 
  cruiser 
  Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) 
  is decommissioned.  Her 
  name and registry are 
  subsequently a
  new 
  Excelsior 
  class 
  starship. 
  • 
  The Federation Council 
  initiates 
  a 
  two-year 
  investigation 
  Starfleet conspiracy to 
  provoke war with the 
  Klingons.  What they 
  learn, coupled with the 
  depth of the conspiracy 
  conspirators were willing to
  the Romulans and dissident
  war, will shock them. 
  The Hensley class transp
  are based on the old D
  derived heavy transport/tug. 
  The Star League class dreadnought enters service. 
  The Klingon-Romulan alliance is formally dissolved. 
  The Malverne (NCC-2205) is the last of the 
  Ariel/Fredrikstad type shuttlecarriers to enter service. 
  2293 
  • 
  ever recovered.
  • 
  • 
  h the 
  g Starfleet officers and 
  in the affair.  The 
   Council begins debating measures to be 
  lone superpower of space,” 
  • 
  ttlecarriers are retired. 
    
  The uprated Excelsior class starship Enterprise (NCC-
  1701-B) enters service under the command of Captain 
  John Harriman.  Three special guests at the ceremony 
  include original Enterprise commander James T. Kirk, 
  original chief engineer Montogomery Scott, and 
  original weapons officer Pavel Chekov.  The starship’s 
  shakedown cruise is cut short when it comes to the 
  rescue of two El-Aurian transports trapped inside the 
  energy ribbon of the Nexus.  Kirk is apparently killed in 
  the line of duty saving the Enterprise from the Nexus.  
  His body is n
  • 
  The Leavenworth class frigate is approved for 
  construction. 
  Captain 
  Montogomery 
  Scott 
  retires 
  from 
  Starfleet.  He never gives 
  up hope that Kirk is still 
  alive somewhere inside the 
  Nexus. 
  The Federation Council concl
  the Starfleet conspiracy to provoke war wit
  Klingons.  Many high-rankin
  civilian officials are implicated 
  Federation
  udes its investigation of 
  taken against what it see
  trends” 
  within 
  Starfleet.  Some 
  councilors openly 
  question 
  the 
  need 
  for 
  the 
  Federation to remain “the 
  what with the Klingons crippled by the Praxis explosion 
  and Romulan fleet strength still well below that of 
  Starfleet. 
  The Oriskany class shu
  s as “alarming militaristic 
  2294 
  • 
  The transport Jenolan is lost, and along with it 
  legendary starship engineer Montgomery Scott 
   
   
  NOTE:   It is reported that Captain Scott’s accident was 
  arranged by Section 31 as punishment for his 
  altering of the Prime One timeline (see Volume 01). 
   
  NOTE: 
   Two timelines. 
   
   
  The removal of Captain Scott from the course of 
  history will cause the Prime One and Prime Two 
  timelines to rapidly resync with each other.  By the 
  turn of the century (2301) they will running on 
  parallel tracks.  Differences between these two 
  realities will no longer be readily discernable save 
  by a trained observer or with special equipment.  
  The “disappearance” of Montgomery Scott is 
  generally referenced as the reconvergence point 
  of the Prime One and Prime
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  • 
  ated, warp-powered 
  rship designs. 
  • 
  enters service. 
  • 
  er service. 
  • 
  • 
  d, with 
   to begin 
   
  2295 
  • 
  it 
  e
  sed by 
  a unanimous voice of its full membership.  This forces a 
  complete revamping of Starfleet command structure, 
  starship classifications, and fleet mission profiles. The 
  net result is intended to be a wholesale 
  transformation of Starfleet from a military-oriented 
  peacekeeping force into a semi-military organization 
  “dedicated to peaceful galactic exploration.” 
  • 
  Severe restrictions are place on the number of 
  combat-oriented starships procured and operated by 
  Starfleet courtesy of the Starfleet Reorganization 
  Order.  Many of the ones currently on duty are 
  promptly removed from service, scheduled for 
   the 
  "explorer," a new starship class inspired by the old 
  • 
  • 
  ization 
  Order.  Prior to this
  cruisers," predecessors of the 
  coming in just a few shor
  As of this date Starfleet has 95 upgraded or new build 
  • 
  er Class I 
  r.  This 
  -build Class I 
  • 
  • 
  scheduled for 
  sioning and transfer to the Starfleet 
  Reserve.  Fully one-fourth of Starfleet will be going 
   
  4 
  The Romulans introduce upr
  versions of their "classic" sta
  The Arusha class superscout 
  The Kresta class frigates ent
  Betazed
  • 
   joins the Federation.  Its inhabitants are 
  natural empaths, the first humanoid species 
  encountered of this type. 
  The Klingon Empire ceases all work on its B-10 
  battleship program, with only two in service and four 
  hulls in drydock in various stages of completion. 
  The Constellation class star 
  cruiser is authorize
  construction slated
  in 2299. 
  The Federation Council and Starfleet Command clash 
  over the future role of Starfleet.  This is due largely to 
  the political fallout from the Camp Khitomer 
  conference. The Council has the last word when 
  pass s the Starfleet Reorganization Order is pas
  conversion to peacetime-oriented roles, or destined 
  for premature retirement as soon as operational 
  requirements permit.  Replacing them is
  exploratory cruiser classification.  An explorer class 
  starship is intended to be a large, long-range starship 
  designed for peaceful interstellar exploration, with 
  weapons fitted purely for defensive purposes. 
  • 
  All Excelsior-derived designs previously authorized up 
  to this point (Loki, Adams, Joshua, Decisive, 
  Leavenworth, Anaxagoras, et al) are placed on hold 
  pending program review under the Starfleet 
  Reorganization Order. 
  The Federation Council begins debating the issue of the 
  admission of Kzin as a full member of the Federation. 
  The Lng'we Chi class explorers enter service.  These 
  are the first designated "explorer class" starships to 
  join Starfleet under the terms of the Reorgan
  • 
  Class I heavy cruisers in service. 
  The linear warp upgrade program of all old
  starships is terminated effective this yea
  termination will not affect most new
  starship programs. 
  • 
  The Ishtasse class heavy 
  cruisers are cancelled in 
  the 
  wake 
  of 
  the 
  Starfleet Reorganization 
  Order, leaving one ship 
  at 85% completion in 
  spacedock. 
  The Regate class heavy cruisers
  Multiple Class I starships are 
  decommis
   are also cancelled. 
  into Federation storage depots within the coming 
  decade.  Two surprises on this list are the entire 
  rosters of both the Belknap class strike cruisers and 
  Ascension class dreadnoughts, which are among the 
  newest starships in the fleet. 
   
  NOTE:  
  the end o
   
  Some starship historians are already calling 2295 
  f the Class I era. 
   
   
  Excelsior (NX-2000) during final space trials 
   
   they were classified as "star 
  new Constellation class 
  t years. 
   
  The recommissioned Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) 
   
  - 14 - 
  
  STARSHIPS 
   
  THE DREADNOUGHT PROGRAM (Pt. 2) 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR): 
   
  AS
   
  KO
  ELLED 
   
  KIR
   
  YA
   
  CENSION  CLASS:  2278 
  MSOMLSK  CLASS:  CANC
  OV  CLASS:  2287 
  MATO  CLASS:  2290 
   
   
  Starfleet began conversion of its Federation class dreadnoughts 
  along with other ship classes during the fleetwide linear warp 
  upgrade programs of the 2270s.   Federation had been made 
  obsolete overnight by this development, and the old design’s 
  limits had been dramatically illustrated by the vain attempt of 
  the dreadnought Entente (NCC-2120) to catch V’Ger before it 
  could reach Earthspace.  It would not do for one of Starfleet’s 
  newest pre-linear Class I starships to be already obsolete, one 
  that was supposed to be the fastest and most powerful of that 
  same fleet.  For this reason the Federation refit program began.   
   
  Unfortunately, Federation proved more costly and troublesome 
  to convert to linear warp technology than any other other Class 
  I starship.  The specialized primary and secondary hulls were 
  largely to blame for 
  three-nacelle configuration in order to preserve its warp 
  geometry.  Delays and cost overruns continued to compound 
  until, in the end, the Admiralty ordered that a simplified design 
  be employed similar to that of the Enterprise refit.  The custom 
  primary and secondary hulls were discarded in favor of fleet-
  standard, linear warp era ones (save for dual docking ports on 
  the bridge module) and a considerably simplified engine pylon 
  system was adopted.  The new arrangement employed a routine-
  detachable arrangement for the warp support pylons on the
  primary hull inspired by the one used on 
  el mount could not be copied for conversion reasons, so a 
  modified version was used instead using parallel pylons at the 
  top of the secondary hull instead of the old angled arrangement.  
  All but three of the Federation class were successfully converted 
  to the new uprated Federation standard, with the first re-
  entering service in 2276.  These last three would eventually 
  received the Star League “total conversion” that had first been 
  proposed, but not until long after the Federation upgrade 
  program had ended and the days of the dreadnoughts 
  themselves were numbered. 
   
  this, as was the need to keep the unique 
   
  Belknap.  The combined 
  ke
   
   
  The high costs associated with the uprated Federation program 
  caused Starfleet to look elsewhere in modernizing its 
  dreadnought fleet.  It found its answer in the Belknap class 
  strike cruiser.  Its unique design invited rapid installation of the 
  conversions that the Starship Desgin Bureau had been forced to 
  take with the Federation upgrade program.  Ten Belknaps were 
  quickly requisitoned for conversion, and they entered service as 
  the Ascension class dreadnoughts beginning in 2278.  What had 
  limited the use of Belknap in fleet operations, namely lack of true 
  multi-mission capability, made Ascension an ideal rapid-response 
  dreadnought.  She was faster than an uprated Federation and 
  had none of the quirks and design issues.  All ten were soon 
  deployed in a wide dispersal pattern at starbases and other 
  major operations facilities across Federation border space, ready 
  to respond to trouble at a moment’s notice.  The uprated 
  Federations were likewise deployed; however, most wound up 
  being fleet flagships instead.  Ascension was the favorite by far 
  in the new era of linear warp dreadnoughts. 
   
   
  I’m using Eric’s Comanche as a temporary stand-in for the Kirov. 
  Remember, folks, the Kirov’s primary hull is a LOT bigger. 
   
  - 15 - 
  
  The competition to develop the 
  (Excelsior) in the 2280s also ha
  development.  The Komsomlsk and
  f this effort, based on the Chioki
  space control ship program 
  d its effect on dreadnought 
   Kirov classes were spun out 
  s-designed expanded primary 
  arfleet Command 
  the program and use the 
   instead.  Kirov was 
  est the possibilities 
  readnought.”  The program was 
  brup
  r only five ships, once Starfleet 
  ommand decided in favor of Yamato. 
   
  o
  hull for the Ariel class shuttlecarrier.  Komsomlsk was 
  authorized in 2280 but never built.  The Starship Desgin Bureau 
  econdary hull.  By 
  could never agree on a configuration for its s
  the time they made up their collective mind St
  had already decided to cancel 
  appropriated funds for the Yamato program
  gn intended to t
  a one-shot battlecruiser desi
  of building an upsized “Miranda d
  a
  tly terminated in 2289 afte
  C
   
   
  Yamato was designed as a direct challenge to the mighty Klingon 
  B-10 battleship.  Some are already calling it a battleship or 
  uper dreadnought,” although technically it is classified as jus
  “s
  t 
  a dreadnought.  Elements from the abandoned Komsomlsk found 
  their way into the design, although it cannot be said they are 
  the same ship (as some civilian publications have recently 
  asserted).  Yamato is one of two starship classes that were the 
  last fitted with a Chiokis primary hull saucer (the main 
  contribution from Komsomlsk), with the other being the Midway 
  class shuttlecarrier.  Yamato also has a quad LN-70 warp engine 
  arrangement, one each mounted to dual secondary hulls and the 
  other two mounted perpendicularly over the line of the primary 
  hull. Only the Yamato (NCC-1305-C) has entered service so far, 
  ith two more (Musashi and Shinano) under construction at the 
  w
  Utopia Planitia Orbital Shipyards.  No more are on order, with all 
  being converted to long-range “explorers.” 
   
  The enactment of the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 
  has had a marked effect on the dreadnought program.  The 
  entire uprated Federation class is being removed from service, 
  with 
  Affiliation 
  (NCC-2108) 
  being 
  the 
  last 
  on 
  the 
  decommissioning schedule.  The three Star League dreadnoughts 
  will stay on, however, as converted explorer class starships.  All 
  but two of the Ascension class will be retired at the time their 
  next regular ESLP refit was supposed to take place along with all 
  five vessels of the Kirov class.  Two Ascension class 
  dreadnoughts, Belisarius (NCC-2593) and Conquest (NCC-
  2589), will be retained for prototype conversion by the 
  Cathedral Unit.  This will leave Yamato as the only new-build 
  dreadnought class in active Starfleet service. 
   
    
  ASCENSION  CLASS SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 289.8 m 
  rs (7 banks of 2, 4 single mounts) 
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 77.8 m 
  Mass:  ………………….……………... 245,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 485 
  Range:  ……………………….……. 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 11 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 15 
  Armament: …. 18 phase
  YAMATO  CLASS SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 854 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 238 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 82.6 m 
  Mass:  ………………….…………… 1,870,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………... 1,200 
  Range:  ……………………….……. 25 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 12 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 15 
  Armament: ... 26 phasers (10 banks of 2, 6 single mounts) 
       2 megaphasers (forward firing arcs) 
   
  6 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
  Ascension class dreadnought 
   
  Kirov class battlecruiser 
   
  Yamato class dreadnought 
    
   
  ASCENSION AND KOMSOMLSK DESIGNS BY TODD GUENTHER 
  KIROV DESIGN BY ARIDAS SOFIA 
  YAMATO DESIGN FROM KLINGON ACADEMY BY ACTIVISION GAMES 
  ASCENSION VISUAL BY RICK KNO
  AS
  HNSON 
  CHEMATIC
  DATABASE 
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  E 
  KIROV (COMMANCHE) VISUAL BY MODELS PLE
  JO
  YAMATO COURTESY OF CHRIS 
  S BY NEALE DAVIDSON AND THE STARSHIP SCHEMATICS 
  S
  - 16 - 
  
  DARAN  CLASS FRIGATE 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2276 
   
   
   
  Inspired by the respected Surya design from the Four Years 
  War, Daran and its successors were all new builds intended to 
  replace the aging members of Starfleet’s frigate force.  Daran 
  was first out the gate in 2276 but was quickly overshadowed by 
  Knox, its more capable stablemate, the following year.  Knox 
  eliminated the sponsons from the dual hangar bays and 
  employed a modified form of the unified shuttle bay that had
  roven such a success with Avenger.  Two other sub-classes 
  s
   ones scheduled 
  st.  These were retired on a one-for-one basis as new ships of 
  ti
   
  p
  oon followed.  Bragg was little more than a Daran with one of 
  its hangar bays and the unified flight deck removed and replaced 
  with science and research facilities.  It was intended to replace 
  the retiring Shackleton class (a modified Larson class destroyer) 
  in the Starfleet survey cruiser role.  Lancer was a Knox 
  reconfigured for the “heavy firepower forward” role.  It had only 
  two megaphaser cannon, both forward mounted, but also had 
  dual photon torpedo tubes added to the bow in a classic 
  “Marklin notch.”  A handful of later Lancers managed to mount 
  three tubes with full support systems and torpedo storage at 
  the expense of crew facilities. 
   
  Not all of Starfleet’s older frigates received linear warp refits.  
  In fact, Starfleet began retiring its entire force of older Class I 
  class frigates starting in the late 2270s.  Non-upgraded vessels 
  were the first to go, with linear warp refitted
  la
  the Daran, Knox, Lancer, and Ianar classes entered service.  In 
  this manner Daran and its derivatives helped ensure that 
  Starfleet’s frigate force remained at full strength during the 
  transi on from old classes to new builds.  This changeover was 
  completed in early 2293.  Starfleet Command is now currently 
  weighing the premature retirement of the Daran family of 
  frigates versus that of the Alert and Akyazi class perimeter 
  action ships.  This is due to the reduced fleet strength 
  requirements of the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295. 
    
   
  S
    4 megaphase
  Lancer variant: 
  3) photon torpedo tubes 
  PECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 243.3 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 52.8 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 136,000 DWT 
  Crew ……………………………………………. 350 
  Range:  ………………………... 19 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 11 
  Armament …………………. 12 phasers (6 banks of 2) 
  r cannon (2 banks of 2) 
  2 megaphaser cannon and 2 (
   
  SCH
   
  EMATIC: 
   
  Daran class frigate 
  (Bragg almost identical but missing port sponson) 
   
   
  Knox class frigate 
   
   
  Lancer class frigate 
  (Note shortened bow due to “Marklin notch”) 
   
   
  DARAN AND KNOX DESIGNS BY TODD GUENTHER AND ARIDAS SOFIA 
  BRAGG AND LANCER VARIANTS BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  VISUAL COURTESY OF STARFORCE PRODUCTIONS 
  SCHEMATICS BY NEALE DAVIDSON AND RICHARD E. MANDEL 
  - 17 - 
  
  ARIEL  CLASS SHUTTLECARRIER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2276 
   
   
  Ariel – McQuarrie concept proposal 
  Does anybody have a mesh of the version by Aridas Sofia? 
   
  The concept of the fleet shuttlecarrier had once been thought to 
  be a quaint but rather obsolete idea.  The Romulan War (2158-
  2162) had all but proven the futility of throwing armed 
  shuttlecraft up against a well-armed starship … and yet, the 
  notion of a space-going carrier and its squadron of starfighters 
  never really died.  The need for starships that could field large 
  amounts of shuttles for a variety of missions, such as 
  colonization support and defense against space piracy, was ever 
  constant.  Once the Klingons entered the picture, the need for 
  fleet shuttlecarriers returned.  There were several Klingon 
  Houses that specialized in small craft operations, to which the 
  Federation had to respond in kind.  Thus was born the Santee 
  class shuttlecarrier of the Four Years War and the Coronado 
  class, its post-war descendant.  Combat small craft operations 
  were back and in a big way.  This caused Starfleet Command to 
  start thinking about fielding shuttlecarriers that were capable of 
  ore than just convoy escort. 
   
  th features were necessary for the mass of the starship 
  involved.  The Starship Design Bureau modernized the Titan 
  proposal for the linear warp generation, doubling its size in the 
  process.  The single large shuttlebay was replaced by six smaller 
  ones, each with rear-hull exits.  LN-64C linear warp engines 
  placed the original design, and a custom-built, enlarged Chiokis 
   added the final touch.  Numerous point-
  asers were incorporated into the design to 
  rov
  shut
  quic
   
  dow
  all-n
  engi
   
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  desc
   
  fleet c
   
  with a full C3 operations
   
  shuttl
  perations
  es to propose a design of their own (Normandy) 
  o be approved. 
  The massive costs of the craft combined with construction 
  delays caused the Ariel program to be reduced from ten hulls to 
  only six.  The first four were built to the original Ariel 
  specification, while the last two were built to the modified
  Fredrikstad design.  The only visual differences between the two
  are the landing bay sponsons added to th
  greater flexibil
  forced Starfleet to switch to the cheaper “heavy carrier” 
  programs (Jenshahan, Chosin, and Youngblood classes) soon 
  after.  Ariel has since been replaced on the fleet shuttlecarrier 
  procurement schedule by the Midway class.  The Ariel and 
  Fredrikstad classes are expected to remain operational well into
  the 24th century. 
   
  m
   
  The largest shuttlecarrier Starfleet had ever built to date was 
  the Illustrious.  This was a 2 million metric ton, slow-flying 
  monster converted from an unfinished starbase during the Pax 
  Federationis (2263-2221).  It was too old, too large, and too 
  slow to serve any use other than pilot training, and Starfleet 
  wanted a comparable ship suited for the modern starship era.  
  They found their answer in the Titan, one of the proposed but 
  abandoned designs from the Baton Rouge era.  It had married an 
  early Chiokis-type primary hull saucer to a substantially modified 
  primary hull, patterend after a Terran lifting body and capable of 
  operating three squadrons of combat shuttlecraft within a single 
  massive hangar bay.  The dual warp engines were mounted on 
  extended wing struts and were of a modified Pegasys design. 
  Bo
  re
  primary hull saucer
  efense “gatling” ph
  d
  p
  ide protection against attacks from enemy combat 
  tlecraft.  The finished proposal, now named Ariel, was 
  d
  kly approved and the hulls of the first three ships were lai
  n beginning in January of 2271.  The fact that Ariel was an 
  ew design, utilizing no existing Class I components save her 
  nes, delayed her completion by five years. 
   the start the Ariel class shuttlecarrier (and its 
  endant, the Fredrikstad class) was destined for the role of
  ommand ship.  It was one of only three starship classes
   suite, required in its case for combat
  ecraft operations.  They could also support ground assault 
   on an unprecedented scale, which eventually lead the 
  o
  Starfleet Marin
  which has yet t
   
   
   
  e Fredrikstad for 
  ity in hangar bay operations.  Budget limitations 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 496 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 319.3 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 79.2 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………
  Crew ………
  Range:  ………………………... 20 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 6 
  Ma
  Armament 
   
   1,200,000 DWT 
  ……… approximately 700 (plus 70 pilots) 
  xim
   s
  um peed:  ………………….………… warp 14 
  … 40 phasers (12 std, 28 point-defense banks)  
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
  ARIEL DESIGN BY RALPH McQUARRIE, ANDREW PROBERT, AND ARIDAS SOFIA 
  ARIEL (TITAN) VISUALS BY ATOLM 
  SCHEMATIC BY ARIDAS SOFIA 
    
  - 18 - 
  
  SYDNEY  CLASS TRANSPORT 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2277 
   
   
   
  In late 2272 the Starship Design Bureau requested bids for a 
  linear warp powered medium transport with cargo-carrying 
  capabilities between that of the older Independence and 
  Sherman classes. 
  ting for a single 
  s II a
  t of the 
   Starfleet Command was op
  Clas
  tr
  uxiliary transport design this time around in ligh
  emendous costs of the Class I linear warp program.  Shintoi 
  Heavy Industries of Alpha III won the contract with the Sydney 
  class.  Its interior was dominated by no less than six holds, one 
  of which was a dedicated cargo hold and the other five 
  reconfigurable to the buyer’s specifications.  So far 79 Sydney 
  class transports have been purchased for Starfleet in seven 
  different base configurations:  general transport, colony and 
  base supply, hospital ship, auxiliary command ship, repair ship, 
  diplomatic courier and Marine transport.  Over 100 have been 
  purchased or are on order by the Merchant Marine and some 
  three dozen are destined for private ownership.  Shintoi 
  marketing executives are confidently predicting that the Sydney 
  will become the most popular transport starship of its time. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 235.3 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 120.8 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 51.1 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 170,500 DWT 
  Crew …… between 45 and 85, depending on configuration 
  Range:  …………………………. 5 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 6 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament … 2 phasers (2 banks of 1, fittings for 4 more)  
   
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
  SYDNEY DESIGN BY GREG JEIN 
  VISUAL COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES 
  SCHEMATIC BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  JENSHAHAN  CLASS 
  HEAVY CARRIER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2283 
   
  The Jenshahan and its spin-off classes (Chosin, Youngblood) are 
  the direct descendants of the Santee, the first dedicated Class I 
  shuttlecarrier in Starfleet service.  They came about due to the 
   c
  e Four Years War (2246-2250).  
  fact that the mighty Ariel lass was taking too long and costing 
  too much to build.  Their design marks something of a return to 
  the Santee (as opposed to the Coronado/Oriskany lineage), 
  utilizing the same warp engine T-mount and dual-deck shuttle 
  bays.  This time around, however, Jenshahan’s secondary hull 
  was purpose-built instead of converted, featuring a through-deck 
  design for both flight decks (courtesy of Coronado) to help 
  prevent the sort of kamikaze strikes that had badly crippled 
  Santee and Suwanee during th
  These “second-tier” shuttlecarriers were quite popular despite 
  their obvious limitations and were in high demand for colony 
  support and convoy escort operations.  Complaints about 
  certain inadequacies of the Jenshahan would lead to the Chosin, 
  with an improved sensor suite and superior fire control 
  capabilities.  25 each of the Jenshahan and Chosin classes along 
  with an additional 12 Youngbloods (Chosin sub-class) ensured 
  that there were enough “heavy carriers” in service for all who 
  demanded them.  Their popularity with the scientific and civilian 
  sectors has practically guaranteed their survival from the class-
  cutting axe of the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
  ……………………………….. 496 m 
  ……………………………… 319.3 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 79.2 m 
   
  . 
   
   
   
  Length:  ……
  Beam:  ………
  Mass:  ……………………………… 1,200,000 DWT
  Crew ……………… approximately 700 (plus 70 pilots) 
  Range:  ………………………... 20 light-years at L.Y.V
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 11 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 14 
  Armament ………………..… 16 phasers (8 banks of 2) 
     up to 40 small craft (36 combat shuttles + 4 standard)
  SCHEMATIC: 
    
  Jenshahan as built, with Tikopai style primary hull 
  (Chosin and Youngblood have Enterprise style primary hulls) 
   
   
  JENSHAHAN, CHOSIN, AND YOUNGBL
  BY FEDERATION FRONTIERS 
    
  OOD DESIGNS AND SCHEMATIC 
  - 19 - 
  
  RENNER  CLASS CORVETTE 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2284 
   
  Renner was originally proposed in the early 2270s as a catchall 
  replacement design for several different classes used for routine 
  space lane and internal patrol duties in the pursuit of interstellar 
  piracy.  It was one of several programs delayed by the Cammel 
  IV revelations of 2274, in which Starfleet covert actions against 
  the Kzinti leading up to the Kzinti Incursion of 2272 were 
  exposed for all to see.  Renner finally began construction in 
  2282 as part of the Starfleet ramp-up against the twin threats 
  of growing numbers of modern Klingon and Romulan starships 
  entering service. 
   
  This is one of the few Class I starships in service without a 
  Chiokis-style circular primary hull.  Having an inherent stealth 
  capability is the reason behind its angular design.  Stealth plays 
  a critical part in both military operations and space pirate 
  interdiction.  This probably explains why a number of Renner 
  class starships have been regularly diverted from internal to 
  border patrol duties, often filling in for scout class starships in 
  “unusual circumstances.”  So routine has this practice become 
  that TacFleet has requested that the Military Staff Committee 
  provide it with a full squadron of Renner class corvettes, either 
  new builds or appropriated from patrol duty, for its exclusive 
  use.  To date its request is still pending. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 220.8 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 86.1 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 53.0 m 
  ………………………… 111,000 DWT 
  ………………………………….. 180 
   
  Mass:  ………
  Crew …………
  Range:  ………………………..., 8 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 11 
  Armament ………………….. 12 phasers (6 banks of 2) 
   
   
   
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes (both forward) 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
  RENNER DESIGN BY J.C. AND RAFAEL GONZALEZ 
  SCHEMATIC BY ARIDAS SOFIA (FEDERATION REFERENCE SERIES) 
   
  TTLELCRUISER 
  MITANNIC  CLASS BA
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD 
   
  CALENDAR):  2285 
  to being in 
  278 on the personal order of Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura.  
  f
  Starfleet’s modern battlecruiser program came in
  2
  The intent was to build Starfleet’s first dedicated Class I combat 
  starship since the Four Years War.  Many within Starfleet 
  Command as well as the civilian sector questioned the wisdom of 
  such a program, what with so many other Class I construction 
  and conversion programs underway.  That criticism received a 
  signi icant boost in 2280, when the military circular Starship 
  Design reported on numerous flaws found with the battlecruiser 
  prototype Menahga (NCC-3100) after delivery and initial 
  testing.  The program might have died then and there had not 
  Admiral Lemuel Cartwright, Starfleet Chief of Staff, thrown his 
  support behind the program.  Three more vessels were 
  eventually authorized with the understanding that all of the 
  Menagha’s operational deficiencies would be resolved in their 
  design.  They entered service in 2285 as the Mitannic class, 
  with three more (the S’harien sub-class) built to an improved 
  design starting in 2291. 
   
  Both the Menahga and all three Mitannics were tentatively 
  scheduled for conversion to the S’harien configuration in 2305.  
  This upgrade is now in doubt pending review of the operational 
  future of the battlecruiser class in light of the Starfleet 
  Reorganization Order of 2295. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 307 m 
   
   
   
   
   
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 78 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 173,000 DWT
  Crew ……………………………………………. 285 
  Range:  ………………………... 10 light-years at L.Y.V.
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 10 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 13 
  Armament: …. 14 phasers (6 banks of 2, 2 single mounts) 
   
   
   
   
   2 photon torpedo tubes (both forward) 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
   
  MENAGHA AND MITANNIC DESIGNS BY TODD GUENTHER 
  S’HARIEN VARIANT BY DAVID SCHMIDT 
  SCHEMATIC BY TODD GUENTHER 
   
  - 20 - 
  
  IANAR  CLASS FAST FRIGATE 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2285 
   
  Conceived in the 2270s, the Ianar was Starfleet’s first attempt 
  at coming up with a modern frigate design to replace its aging 
  fleet of Surya, Coventry, and Loknar class starships.  It was one 
  of many starship classes put on hold by the Cammell IV 
  revelations of 2274.  Council authorization for construction was 
  not granted until 2283 because of this, allowing the Daran 
  family of new-build frigates to enter service first. 
   
  Ianar was designed to be a rapid-response, tactical-mission 
  starship capable of surgical strike missions deep into enemy 
  rritory.  It shares with the larger dreadnoughts the ability to 
  er taking a direct 
  t on its phototorp deck, destroying both the portside tube and 
  trol systems for both tubes.  Ianar would not 
  ue to its split phototorp design.  A total of 
   
  olde
   
  te
  absorb as much punishment as it gives, and its unusual design 
  configuration is intended to maximize its intended combat 
  capabilities.  Not only is it one of the few Class I starships 
  without a Chiokis-style primary hull, it is also currently the only 
  Class I starship in service with separated, single-tube photon 
  torpedo banks.  The intent behind this was to allow the Ianar to 
  maintain a minimal heavy weapons capability in the event of 
  extreme damage, a point that was highlighted all too well by the 
  duel between the heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701) and the 
  hijacked cruiser Reliant (NCC-1864) during the Genesis Incident 
  of 2287.  Enterprise had to resort to manual loading operations 
  of its sole remaining photon torpedo tube aft
  hi
  most of the fire con
  ave this problem d
  h
  36 Ianar frigates were built between 2285 and 2290, replacing
  r frigates on a one-for-one basis as they entered service. 
  SPE
   
  Range:  ………………………..., 8 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  peed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  speed:  ………………….………… warp 11 
  Armament ………………….. 12 phasers (6 banks of 2) 
   
   
   
     two photon torpedo tubes (both forward) 
   
  CIFICATIONS: 
  Length:  …………………………………….. 220.8 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 86.1 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 53.0 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 111,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 180 
  Cruising s
  Maximum 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
  IANAR DESIGN AND SCHEMATIC BY RAFAEL AND J.C. GONZALEZ 
   
  STARFLEET’S NEW PERIMETER 
  ACTION SHIP PROGRAM 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2286 
   
   
   
  There is not enough space in this document to do justice to 
  Starfleet’s perimeter action ship program of the 2280s and the 
  long, arduous road it had to travel to see the light of day.  
  Midshipmen and civilian readers desiring to know the story in full 
  should consult Ships of the Starfleet Volume 2:  Akyazi Class 
  , available for sale 
  Perimeter Action Ships
  from civilian merchants 
  atastream format via the Academy Intranet. 
  e appearance of the Kiaga and Agilis class perimeter action 
  ship
  of 
  the 
  their
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  mod
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  new
  estroyer of the Four Years War and the Hornet class escort 
  erimental design that had performed surprisingly 
  essed into fleet service to support Starfleet 
  operations during the Kzinti Incursion of 2272.  From the Hornet 
  came the idea of the “fractional hull,” a Class I starship frame 
  with only the minimum necessity of hull components.  From the 
  Marklin came the famed “Marklin notch” phototorp arrangement 
  that has graced the lines of so many modern starship designs
  (or ruined, according to some).  The political debate over 
  perimeter action ship funding began in earnest in 2276 and 
  remained heated f
  in the new Akyazi class was not
  nly grudgingly by a Federation Cou
  creasing Starfleet militarism.  Three years later that number 
  was upped to 105 with the addition of the Akula and Arbiter 
  or for download in d
   
  Th
  s had helped turn the tide of the Four Years War in favor 
  Federation.  Elements of their design were far in advance of 
   time and helped them remain in service without ma
  ifications for over two decades.  Despite this, it had become 
  r by the end of the 2260s that Kiaga and Agilis were rapidly 
  ming obsolete.  Their unusual design would have made linear 
   refits quite costly, so instead Starfleet petitioned the
  ration Council for authorization to build an all-new class of
  eter action ships.  Inspiration for the final design for this 
   program came from two sources:  the Marklin class heavy 
  d
  carrier, an exp
  ell when pr
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  or years.  Final approval for the first 36 ships 
   granted until 2283, and then 
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  ncil split on the issue of 
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  biter, Akula and Atami), differing primarily in the 
  type of ventral flux chillers used for their LN-90 warp engines. 
   
  The future of the modern perimeter action ship program is very 
  much in doubt.  The Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 has 
  placed severe restrictions on the availability of starship classe
  that are designed exclusively for combat.  Starfleet Command i
  currently weighing the continued existence of the perimeter ship 
  program ve
  es.  The final decision is expected by early 2296.  
  b-classes, both quickly authorized in light of 
  cident and increasing Klingon aggression. 
   
  o the casual observer a modern perimeter 
  T
  resembles the mere skeleton of a Class I starship.  Entire 
  sections of its primary hull and engineering support frame are 
  missing, and its design-specific LN-90 linear warp engines add to 
  the ship’s decided “chop shop” look.  Therein lies the design’s 
  success.  Perimeter action ships are not built for long-duration 
  voyages, so they do not need large interior spaces devoted to 
  cargo, provisions, large-scale fabricators and replic tors, 
  cycling facilities, and all of the other spaces
  re
  systems essential to normal starship operations.  They are 
  designed exclusively for combat patrols within contested regions 
  of space, operating either in conjunction with regular Starfleet 
  units or from a nearby base.  It is from these that perimeter 
  action ships are maintained and provisioned, usually with only 
  enough stores and supplies for the mission at hand.  The rest of 
  the ship, save for necessary crew and command spaces, is all 
  weapons, power, and control systems.  Lightening the load by 
  eliminating non-critical systems and spaces also has the direct 
  effect of considerably reducing a perimeter action ship’s mass.  
  A typical modern-day Class I starship has an average mass in the 
  150,000 to 200,000 DWT range.  A typical Class I perimeter 
  action ship, on the other hand, has on the average only one-
  third the mass of a typical Class I starship.  This directly 
  translates into increased speed and maneuverability, far more 
  than would a Class I starship of comparable size.  In fact the 
  Arbiter class perimeter action ships currently hold the 
  Federation warp speed record, recording a sustained “burst” 
  velocity of warp 21.5 for one full hour before mounting frame 
  stresses mandated a reduction in speed. 
   
  Alert, the “original”
  built.  Its main purp
  d
  ing standard or modified Class I components (“old 
  ” ones at the time it was created).  Although it never left
  drawing board, it won Council approval for the program
  e are two basic modern perimeter action ship designs 
  ently in service, each having two distinct sub-classes.  The 
   
  main designs, Akyazi and Akula, differ in that Akula has a
  e
  ial deflector spire mounded on two long booms from th
  m of the ship.  This increases durability in combat at the
  nse of speed and acceleration.  Akyazi does not have this 
  and as s ch 
   
   
  u
  is the only modern Class I perimeter action
  c
  bl
  of 
  aking a (emergency) planetary landing fully 
  s
  intact.  Within
  (Akyazi and Ar
  s 
  s 
  rsus that of the more versatile Daran family of 
  frigat
   
  VISUAL: 
   
   
    
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 216.1 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 120.2 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 27.5 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………….. 68,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 84 
   8 h
  Range:  ………………………..., 2 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….……... warp 14.5 
        (capable of warp 21.5 in “burst mode”) 
  Armament ……  p asers (6 banks of 2, 2 single mounts) 
   
   
   
   
   3 photon torpedo tubes (2 fore, 1 aft) 
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
  Original Alert “working” proposal used to pitch the concept 
  (c.2270) 
   
  Akyazi/Arbiter configuration 
   
   
  Akula/Atami configuration 
   
   
  PERIMETER ACTION SHIP CONCEPT BY TODD GUENTHER AND ARIDAS SOFIA 
  AKYAZI, ARBITER, AKULA, AND ATAMI  SCHEMATICS BY TODD GUENTHER 
  ALERT  PROPOSAL SCHEMATIC BY NEALE DAVIDSON (PIXEL SAGAS)  
   
  - 22 - 
  
  EXCELSIOR  CLASS 
  SPACE CONTROL SHIP 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2288 
   
   
   
  It was called “the Great Experiment.”  It was meant to be the 
  herald of a new generation of starships, just as Baton Rouge and 
  Constitution had done in their day.  The space control ship 
  program was to be the largest and most powerful Federation 
  starship of its time, fitted with the latest technological advances 
  and capable of speeds and deeds of daring previously thought 
  impossible.  On most of these points, Excelsior and her 
  descendants largely succeeded. 
   
  Excelsior might not have ever come about had it not been for 
  two things.  The first was the Klingons.  Every time the 
  Federation produced a new starship class, the Klingons would do 
  their best to produce a more powerful one.  When the 
  Federation surpassed that one they would try to leapfrog them 
  again.  This went on from first contact until 2278, when the 
  Klingons introduced the K’herr class dreadnought.  This monster 
  f a starship easily outclassed an upgraded Federation, and 
  S
  ly 
  anning once current political issues (i.e. the constant threat of 
  o
  tarfleet Intelligence was reporting that an even larger Klingon 
  starship class (Kar’harmmer) was on the way.  This was reason 
  enough for Excelsior, but it was not the only one.  The second 
  was the Galactic Barrier.  Data from the visits by the Enterprise 
  to the Galactic Barrier, the first in 2259 and the second in 
  2262, indicated that starship engines of massive power were 
  required to safely penetrate it for extragalactic travel.  Outside 
  observation of the Kelvan modifications to the Enterprise engines 
  in 2262 (which they afterwards removed without providing any 
  documentation of the efforts) indicated that a combination of 
  transwarp speed and high energy shielding would be necessary 
  in order to avoid the Barrier’s deadly psionic effects.  Research 
  into duplicating the work of the Kelvans led to the development 
  of transwarp drive theory in the early 2270s.  Transwarp would 
  be necessary for any starship attempting extragalactic 
  exploration, something for which Starfleet was definite
  pl
  war from the Klingons) were resolved.  This development also 
  dovetailed nicely with the efforts to design a starship superior to 
  Klingon efforts.  The massive power requirements necessary for 
  transwarp travel would also provide ample energy for weapons 
  and shielding systems. 
   
  In 2274 Starfleet began accepting bids for the space control 
  am.  The specifications were straightforward:  an 
  Jeffries/Josephs configuration with dreadnought 
  and room for 30 shuttlecraft, capable of self-sufficient 
  operations for up to 10 standard years and deriving both ship’s 
  power and main propulsion via transwarp engine technology.  By 
  2283 there were only two designs still in the running, and a 
  single full-scale prototype was authorized for each.  The first 
  was Excelsior (NX-2000), built by the Sol System’s famed 
  Utopia Planitia Orbital Shipyards.  It was named for a recently 
  lost Class I heavy cruiser and utilized Cochrane/Leeding FTWA-1 
  transwarp engines.  The second, Ingram (NX-2001), was named 
  for the late former Starfleet Commissioner Lars Ingram (2190-
  2266) and built by the Proxima Shipyards of Alpha Centauri.  
  ’s configuration was remarkably similar to Excelsi
  wever, there were three important differences.  First, it used 
  of the same Chiokis primary hull that was 
  Ariel class shuttlecarriers (an obvious cost-
  savin
   
  engi
   
  it w
  cann
  supp
   
  exte
   
  save
  s 
  this 
  Starfleet sponsorsh
   
  ship progr
  psized 
  u
  firepower 
  Ingram
  ho
  or; 
  a custom variation 
  eing fitted to the 
  b
  gs move).  Second, it used Koeller UTI-27 transwarp
  nes instead of Excelsior’s Cochrane/Leeding FTWA-1s.  Third,
  as the only one of the two designs fitted with megaphaser 
  on, having two standard fore-and-aft mounts on its engine 
  ort pylons.  Both prototypes were finished by 2285 and
  nsively tested for the next year.  Both performed admirably
   in one area, and in this area both failed.  So blatant wa
  failure that it would bring about the permanent end of 
  ip for transwarp drive research. 
   
   
  It has often been said that the initial failures of “the Great
  Experiment” were due to its transwarp drive.  This is not exactly 
  true.  Both the Cochrane/Leeding and Koeller engines performed 
  exactly as designed.  The problem was in transwarp theory itself 
  and the control systems designed to implement it.  Starfleet 
  engineers had been unable to duplicate the Kelvan modifications, 
  so they did the next best thing:  they sought a way to create a
  controlled wormhole.  The effects of wo
  light travel, especially with regards to starship warp engine 
  imbalances, were well known.  The idea behind transwarp was to 
  cr
  subsp
  hat would literally suck a starship inside and propel it forward 
   
   
  rmholes on faster-than-
  eate a controlled wormhole in front of a starship, an artificial 
  ace channel as opposed to a normal subspace warp field, 
  t
  - 23 - 
  
  a
  arp 20.  Crossing the Great 
  B
  ranswarp starship because 
  hrough, flying though a 
   wouldn’t be time for the 
  .  That was 
  e was that 
  ranswarp control systems proved virtually incapable of 
  managing the wormhole once it was generated.  Both Excelsior 
  and Ingram repeatedly went out of control during transwarp 
  tests, and both had to resort to the old-fashioned method of 
  shutting down their warp drives in order to stop their 
  wormholes.  The most dramatic of these failures occurred on 9 
  July 2287.  Excelsior, having had its transwarp drive and control 
  systems rebuilt for the third time, simply disappeared on its 
  fourth and what would prove to be its final transwarp test flight
   frantic search by every Starfleet and civilian vessel in and 
  hich the ship had fallen through.  
  elsior had become trapped in the limbo between universes 
  e of its early pre-service failures, that 
  any are already calling it “the new Constitution” of the fleet.  
  Starfleet Command also sees the Excelsior in this light, playing 
  a
  t sustained speeds in excess of w
  arrier would pose no problem to a t
  it would literally punch its way t
  controlled wormhole so fast that there
  Barrier’s psionic variances to begin affecting its crew
  he theory, anyway.  What happened in practic
  t
  t
  .  
  A
  around the Local Group yielded nothing.  Two weeks later, the 
  Excelsior suddenly reappeared just outside the Sol System in the 
  exact same spot where she had disappeared, completely drained 
  of all power and running off of emergency batteries.  The 
  reconfigured transwarp control system combined with the 
  power of Excelsior’s engines had done more than create a 
  wormhole.  It had apparently created a breach in the local 
  space-time continuum through w
  Exc
  until Captain Raymond Styles and his crew had regenerated 
  enough ship’s power to affect a safe return.  None of them, 
  including Captian Styles, expressed a desire to stay on a 
  starship that the more existential among them were now 
  beginning to call cursed, and they were soon transferred to 
  other duty stations. 
   
  It was at that point that Starfleet Command stepped in and 
  terminated the transwarp program for good.  Both Excelsior and 
  Ingram were quickly stripped of their transwarp control 
  systems, and ones used for standard linear warp drive were 
  adapted for use with their unique warp engines.  There was 
  method behind Starfleet Command’s apparent madness.  The 
  Excelsior program had already been chosen by the Military Staff 
  Committee as the winning design for the space control ship 
  despite the transwarp issue, and the keels for two additional 
  Excelsior class vessels (Columbia and Galacta) were already 
  being laid.  Political and military realities had forced the rapid 
  acceptance of the space control ship program, problems or no.  
  Transwarp technology was not necessary in dealing with the 
  growing threat of war with the Klingon Empire.  Starfleet needed 
  the Excelsior and needed it now, before the Klingons started 
  using their new K’herr class dreadnoughts for more than just 
  showing off.  Ingram would remain as the lone example of its 
  type.  It would also be the only Starfleet space control ship (as 
  of this date) ever to see service fitted with megaphaser cannon. 
   
  The overall excellence of the modified Excelsior design has quickly 
  proven itself in any task upon which it is called.  So successful 
  has it become, in spit
  m
  the role of a new and larger heavy cruiser in a new fleet of 
  starships that are already being dubbed “the Excelsior 
  generation.”  A number of spin-off designs have already 
  appeared, inspired by exiting Class I Program vessels, and some 
  have even won tentative approval for construction.  It appears 
  that Excelsior may very well join join Baton Rouge and 
  Constitution as the defining starship design of its era. 
   
  There exists a third variation of the basic space control ship 
  platform.  U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-B), named after her 
  Constitution class ancestor, entered service in 2293 as the first 
  of the so-called “modified Excelsiors.”  This configuration 
  includes the addition of two extra hangar bays to the primary 
  hull saucer, upgraded Cochrane/Leeding FESW-2 warp engines, 
  nd a set of bulges for additional sensor systems on either side 
  of its secondary hull.  Weaponry and shielding systems are also 
  improved, making this new Enterprise the most powerful 
  starship in all of Starfleet as of this date. 
   
  VISUALS: 
   
   
  Excelsior (NX-2000) in prototype configuration (2286) 
   
   
  Ingram (NX-2001) in service configuration (2290) 
   
   
  Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) as she appears today (2295) 
    
  - 24 - 
  
   
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (EXCELSIOR ): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 511.3 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 195.6 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 86.8 m 
  Mass:  ………………………. 386,500 DWT (standard) 
        511,250 DWT (modified) 
  Crew .… 780 (including 50 Marines and 20 shuttle pilots) 
  Range:  ………………………... 15 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 15 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 20 
  Armament …….… 24 phasers (12 banks of 2 - standard) 
    30 phasers (7 banks of 2, 16 single banks - modified) 
        4 photon torpedo tubes (2 each fore and aft) 
   
  NOTES: 
  Modified listings are for the Enterprise variant (NCC-1701-B). 
   
  The change in mass for the modified version represents the 
  addition of the secondary hull bulges as well as the dual 
  auxiliary hangars to the aft section of the primary hull. 
   
   
  The 780 listed for Excelsior class starships crews is an 
  average figure.  Thus can range anywhere in size from 530 to 
  875 depending on mission parameters.  This includes 
  deployment of Marine troops and support personnel as well as 
  combat shuttle pilots and maintenance crews. 
   
   
   
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (INGRAM ): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 590.6 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 237.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 88.6 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 505,000 DWT 
  Crew ……..… 535 (+ 50 Marines and 20 shuttle pilots) 
  Range:  ………………………... 10 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….…………  warp 12 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….…………  warp 17 
  Armament ….. 30 phasers (7 banks of 2, 16 single banks) 
       4 photon torpedo tubes (2 each fore and aft) 
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
   
  U.S.S. Excelsior (NCC-2000) 
   
   
  U.S.S. Ingram (NCC-2001) 
   
   
  U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-B
   
  ) 
   
  EXCELSIOR DESIGN BY NILOS RODIS AND BILL GEORGE 
  ENTERPRISE-B MODIFICATIONS BY JOHN EAVES 
  INGRAM DESIGN BY TODD GUENTHER, JASON GENSER, AND DON BOSCH 
  EXCELSIOR AND ENTERPRISE-B SCHEMATICS BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILLS) 
  INGRAM SCHEMATICS BY TODD GUENTHER, JASON GENSER, AND DON BOSCH 
   
  VISUALS BY BRIAN MINOSH, JAY HURST, ANDREW J. HODGES, 
  AND OUTLANCE SHIPYARDS
   
    
  - 25 - 
  
  CLASS I TRANSPORT/TUGS OF 
  THE LINEAR WARP ERA  
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2276 
   
   
   
  The uilding an
  mirrored that 
  only ajor diffe
  isers 
  cam
  rst, wi
  troubled times
  modernization
  equal importa
  rea during 
  .  It was 
  etermined not to let that happen again. 
  The inclusion of the transport/tug Keppler (NCC-3816) in the 
  LN-40 linear warp test program of the 2260s was no accident.  
  e match allowed its test data
  .  More importantly, the aging 
  as in dire need of replacement.  
  e 15 transport/tugs of the Keppler class were in the process 
  of en
  the l
   
  prot
  r 
  warp
  refit
  conv
  era c
   
  In 22
  transport/tug 
   
  warp technology.  It proved even more beneficial to them than 
  the effect that the Enterprise conversion did for Class I heavy 
  cruisers.  A linear warp converted Class I transport/tug could 
  now tow three standard transport containers with relative ease 
  at warp 6, thereby helping to offset Klingon advances in 
  transport and container system design.  A converted Ptolemy 
  was also heavier armed than before, carrying the “full” primary 
  hull complement of 12 phaser banks that graced most linear 
  warp Class I designs. This was a significant upgrade in armament 
  nd reflected a lesson hard-learned from the Klingons:  heavily 
  sports had a better survival rate in combat and 
  substitute cruisers in a pinch.  Only a dozen
  Ptolemy class starships received this conversion due to their 
  extreme age; however, the competing Doppler and Moncrief 
  classes were quickly authorized to fill in the gaps.  Doppler was 
  essentially a LN-60 Ptolemy new-build along the lines of the 
  Constituition (II) heavy cruiser conversion, whereas Moncrief 
  was a LN-64 Ptolemy new-build that added a cruiser-standard 
  dual phototorp deck to the hull dorsal.  Some Moncriefs were 
  fitted with a small, two-craft shuttle bay instead of the 
  phototorp deck as an experiment, intended for use within 
  Federation space, but the phototorp-equipped version was fleet 
  standard.  Both Al Rashid and Ptolemy entered service in 2270
  seeing extensive use during the lat
  nsions escalated with the Klingon Empire. 
   
  b
  d upgrading of Starfleet’s Class I transport/tugs 
  of the various Class I heavy cruiser programs.  The 
  rence between them was that the heavy cru
  m
  e fi
  th their military nature giving them priority in the 
   of the 2270s and 2280s.  Nevertheless, the 
   of the Class I transport/tug fleet was of almost 
  nce.  Starfleet had come up short in this critical 
  the Four Years War (2246-2250)
  a
  d
   
  True, its configuration was a clos
  to
   
   be applied to Class I frigates
  and overworked Ptolemy class w
  Th
  tering service at the time, so it was simple enough to divert 
  ead ship of the class over for use as a LN-40 technology
  otype.  The rest of the Keppler class would receive linea
   technology via improved LN-52s during their first ESLP 
  s in the late 2270s.  Keppler itself would be the last so 
  erted, having operated with LN-40s ever since its 2260s-
  onversion as proof of the concept. 
  66 the Ptolemy class tug Al-Rashid became the first Class I 
  to be scheduled for conversion to LN-64 linear
  a
  armed fleet tran
  could serve as 
   
  , 
  e 2270s and the 2280s as 
  te
   
   
  One thing that Klingon transport/tugs could still do that
  Starfleet designs could not was tow up to four containers at a 
  time.  Klingon designs had been able to do this with their G-type 
  containers ever since the N-6 Morast of the Four Years War.  
  The Dollond class of transport/tugs were originally developed 
  during the 2260s in response to the Morast.  These were 
  derived from the Coventry class frigate, utilizing additional power 
  reactors within the hull (in spaces once reserved for hangar 
  decks) to achieve the four-container capacity.  The program was 
  delayed due to the onset of linear warp technology, and by the 
  time it was finally authorized for construction in 2290 it had 
  been considerably modified.  Officially the new “heavy” Class I 
  transport/tug that entered service in 2291 was
  class; however, it was still 
  Starfleet Command and the name has more or less stuck with 
  continued, persisten
  (hull hard points and all) r
  Its L
  f
   
  It is fortuna
  are coming into fleet service at this
  onstruction of their planned successor, the Excelsior-derived 
  Anaxagoras class, is on hold pending program reassessment due 
  to the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295.  Had the 
  program been delayed any further then it might have suffered a 
  similar fate. 
    
   
   the Hensley
  referenced as the Dollond by 
   
  t use.  It is essentially an upgraded Miranda 
  econfigured for the transport/tug role. 
  N-64 linear warp engines provide ample power for towing 
  our transport containers with ease and up to six if necessary.   
  te that the Dollond (Hensley) heavy transport/tugs 
   point in time time.  
  C
  - 26 - 
  
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (UPGRADED KEPPLER 
   
  Length:  ……………………………
  ): 
  ………
  Beam:  ………………………………………
  .. 222.0 m 
   124.3 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 67.4 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 133,500 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………... 320 
  Range:  ……………………….… 5 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 9 
  Armament: ……… 4 phasers (1 bank of 2, 2 single banks) 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (AL-RASHID, MONCRIEF ) 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 247.1 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 64.0 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 146,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 339 
  ……….. 234.7 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  arine operations.  These will 
  loan from 
  Range:  ………………………… 16 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: ………………..… 12 phasers (6 banks of 2) 
  2 photon torpedo tubes (Moncrief only) 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (DOLLOND/HENSLEY ): 
   
  Length:  ……………………………
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 63.6 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 205,750 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 490 
  Range:  ………………………… 16 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: …… 14 phasers (6 banks of 2, 2 single banks) 
   2 photon torpedo tubes (modified roll bar option) 
   
  NOTE: 
  A special version of the Hensley (Dollond), known as the Brownwood 
  class “assault transport,” is being produced for the Starfleet 
  Marines.  This is a Hensley fitted with the standard 
  Miranda/Avenger roll bar weapons package and interior spaces 
  reconfigured to better accommodate M
  be replacing all Miranda class starships currently on 
  Starfleet on a one-for-one basis as they are built.  Authorization for 
  additional Brownwood class starships is on hold pending program 
  review under the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295. 
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
  U.S.S. Keppler (NCC-3816) with early LN-40 warp engines 
  (LN-52 configuration is almost identical) 
    
   
  U.S.S. Doppler (NCC-3831) - LN-60 new build program  
   
   
  U.S.S. Al-Rashid (NCC-3801) after LN-64 conversion 
   
   
  U.S.S. Moncrief (NCC-3800) – LN-64 new build program 
  (note the photon torpedo deck at the bottom of the dorsal)  
   
   
  U.S.S. Hensley (NCC-4300) – “Dollond” new build program 
    
   
   
  KEPPLER & DOPPLER DESIGNS BY FRANZ J. SCHNAULBELT AND ARIDAS SOFIA 
  DOLLOND  DESIGN BY PATRICK LICHTY AND W.A. KRAUSE 
  MONCRIEF & HENSLEY DESIGNS BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  VISUALS COURTESY OF FILEFRONT 
  SCHEMATICS BY NEALE DAVIDSON AND RICHARD E. MANDEL 
   
  - 27 - 
  
  MIDWAY  CLASS SHUTTLECARRIER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2289 
   
  Mid
  the 2
  s 
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  current a
   
  Ten Midway class shuttlecarriers were initially authorized for 
  construction in 2286.  Midway (NCC-2220) and Akagi (NCC-
  2221) were the first to enter service in 2289 and 2291 
  respectively.  As launched they were deployed with two fighter 
  squadrons of F-type 15, one attack squadron of A-type 20, and 
  a group of four E-type 3 combat shuttlecraft.  Ark Royal (NCC-
  2222), which entered service in 2293, was the first Starfleet 
  shuttlecarrier to deploy with the new F-type 22 “Peregrine” 
  fighter shuttle, which is quickly becoming the favorite of the 
  ghter shuttle pilot corps.  Illustrious (NCC-2224) is named 
   very first shuttlecarrier (post Romulan War 
  uled to enter service next year.  Completion of 
  Nchtari (NCC-2223) is on hold pending program review under 
  the Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295. 
   
  way is based on the unbuilt Napoleon class fleet carrier of 
  260s.  It represents a marked departure from the variou
   I based shuttlecarrier designs and the Ariel/Fredrikstad 
   shuttlecarriers.  Midway was intended to be a combina
  e two, offering the operational versatility of a Class I heavy 
  er yet at the same time capable of operating multipl
  at shuttlecraft squadrons in the same manner as an Ar
  redrikstad.  It also sports the same C3 suite as the Ariel, 
  itti
  dreadnought, 
  space 
  control 
  ship, 
  or 
  huttlecarrier is unavailable. 
  s
   
  way’s armament is almost identical in both arrangement and 
  .
  r to that of an Enterprise or Tikopai class heavy cruiser
  represents a major departure from the deployment of 
  iple point-defense phasers per Ariel and Fredrikstad.  The 
   of fire” concept behind this armament scheme has not 
  t 
  rmed in practice as well as in theory, with enemy comba
  tles simply retreating beyond range.  This allowed the heavy
  ons of their carrier or fleet support ships to do their dirty 
  hem before they swooped in to deliver the final coup 
  on of self-contained heavy weapons 
  capability, in the form of dual photon torped
  Midway the operational equivalent (or sup
  a
  Romulan contemporaries, thus allowing it to go toe-to-toe 
  any foe while their fighters battle among themselves.  The
  gn’s main drawback is its shuttle bay arrangement, with
   launch and retrieval flight decks.  Many critics of the 
  way, such as former Starfleet Commissioner Lars-Erik 
  emar, point out that the lack of a proper through-deck 
  gn sets Midway up for the same kind of combat catastrophe 
   befell the Santee and Sangamon during the Four Years war.
  way’s unique LN-80 warp engines are a variant of the LN-70 
  Yamato.  Four of them are mounted in stacked 
  pairs
  wo.  The configurat
   inspired by the Cheetah 
  protot
   fast cruiser.  These make Midway almost as fast as 
  without having to resort to the use of costly FTWA-1 
  ines and provides superior warp performance and 
  ability to the layout employed on Yamato.  These also 
  way both the speed and range to play a vital part in 
  nd future fleet battle group operations. 
   of 
  fi
  after Starfleet’s
  era) and is sched
  VISUALS: 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 626 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 253.8 m 
  D
  Mass:  …………………………….…1,053,600 DWT 
  Crew ……………… approximately 700 (plus 70 pilots) 
  Cruising spee
  Maxim
  Armamen
   
   
   
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes (both forward) 
       52 combat shuttlecraft (24 fighter, 24 attack, 4 ELINT) 
   
  raft:  …………………….………………… 91.3 m 
  Range:  ………………………. 20 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  d:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  um speed:  ………………….………… warp 16 
  t: …….……... 26 phasers (13 banks of 2 each) 
   
  MIDWAY DESIGN FROM STARFLEET COMMAND II: EMPIRES AT WAR 
   BY ACTIVISION GAMES 
  VISUALS BY DEMON RENEGADE STUDIOS AND STARFORCE PRODUCTIONS 
   
  - 28 - 
  
  RANGER  CLASS LIGHT CRUISER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2290 
   
  Not to be confused with the Class II scout of the late 2260s, 
  the Class I Ranger was a hybrid design meant to combine the 
  best features of the Belknap class strike cruiser with the post-
  modern Pompey class destroyer with the minimum secondary 
  hull possible in a linear warp starship.  It was intended to 
  complement Enterprise, Tikopai, and Miranda class cruisers, 
  taking on missions within Federation borders in order to free up 
  their more versatile cruiser brethren for better tasks.  Ranger 
  was fiercely opposed by Starfleet allies of Cosmadyne, primary 
  contractors for the Belknap, on the grounds that it was a 
  redundant design and additional Belknaps were more than 
  apable of filling this role.  Only three Rangers were built before 
  t
  R
  c
  he Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 put an end to the 
  program (and to future Belknap new builds as well, much to 
  Cosmadyne’s dismay).  The three Ranger class light cruisers are 
  currently scheduled to be reassigned to the Cathedral Unit for 
  use as technology testbeds. 
   
  A new Ranger class light cruiser has been proposed that 
  addresses the deficiencies of the original design.  Approval has 
  been held up pending program review under the Starfleet 
  eorganization Order of 2295. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 260 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 64.0 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 147,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 402 
  Range:  ………………………..., 8 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 11 
  Armament: .….. 15 phasers (6 banks of 2, 3 single banks) 
   
   
   
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes (both forward) 
   
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
   
  RANGER DESIGN BY DAVID SCHMIDT 
  SCHEMATIC COURTESY OF THE STARSHIP SCHEMATIC DATABASE  
   
  CONSTELLATION  CLASS 
  STAR CRUISER (EXPLORER) 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2299 (est.) 
   
   
   
  tarfleet’s newest class of starship came about in the late
  2280s as a natural outgrowth of the Cheetah fast cruiser 
  prototype program.  The idea was to create a high speed 
  superscout starship capable of extended duration missions deep 
  into uncharted space.  The Starship Design Bureau reworked 
  Cheetah into a long range survey cruiser, almost doubling the 
  ship’s internal volume by “pancaking” two extra decks into a 
  modern Class I primary hull and adding two extra outer “rings” 
  for additional support facilities, such as shuttle bays and extra 
  science labs.  The new hull form factor was promptly dubbed the 
  “laminate hull” due to these extra layers.  External hull blister
   were added to help house the largest sensor and 
  scanner suite ever intended for fitting onto a Class I starship.  A 
  full range of weaponry equivalent to that of a Class I command 
  cruiser was also provided, obstensibly for defensive purposes.  
  This would allow this new starship class to cope with any 
  unknown and potentially hostile situations that might arise when 
  deployed at extreme distances from any potential Starfleet 
  support. 
  Constellation after the famous Class I 
   heavy cruiser lost in 2262.  The new 
  Co
  ay 
  class
   
  Mid
  T si
   
  dest
   
  LN-7
  l 
  impu
   
  to t
    
  Con
  torp
  each 
  arr
   a specific range of science facilities for improved EVA mission 
  support. 
   
  Con
   should have had the hull number NCC-1017-A in keeping with 
  S
   
  s 
  and fairings
   
  The new design is named 
  Program prototype
  “
  nnie” mounts four linear warp engines as does the Midw
   shuttlecarrier.  Its arrangement is different, eschewing the
  -
  way dual-stack design following the Cheetah inverted double
  milar to that first used with the Pompey class heavy
  h
  royer.  It will be only the second starship class fitted wit
  0 linear warp engines, with Yamato being the first.  Dua
  e
  lse decks are included both for mission redundancy and du
  he design requirements of the laminate hull configuration.
  stellation will also enter service fitted with dual photon 
  o d cks,
  ed
  e
   one each nestled at both of the T-junctures for 
  warp engine pylon.  Its multiple shuttle bays will allow it to 
  y up to 26 small craft of various types, each having access 
  c
  to
  stellation is expected to enter service in 2299.  As proposed 
  it
  - 29 - 
  
  n
  gistry of 
  N
  ved by 
   starship 
  t offered to 
  ewly authorized Starfleet naming conventions.  A re
  CC-1974 had already been requested and appro
  ew
  Starfleet Division’s Aiken Facility on Luna for the n
  ng before a name was given to the vessel.  Starflee
  lo
  change the registry as a favor to the Constellation chapter of 
  the Starfleet Association but the group declined, stating its 
  preference to keep unique the hull number of the original Connie.  
  Per its request Starfleet has permanently “retired” the registry 
  of NCC-1017 from use by any future starships named 
  Constellation. 
    
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 315 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 168.1 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 85.2 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 208,750 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………... 530 
  Range:  ………………………. 25 light-years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 7 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 11 
  Armament: …. 16 phasers (6 banks of 2, 4 single mounts) 
   
   
     4 photon torpedo tubes (2 forward banks of 2) 
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
   
   
  The Baton Rouge era Titan class shuttlecarrier concept.  This 
  unbuilt design would serve as the basis for the Ariel and 
  Fredrikstad class shuttlecarriers 
   
   
  Ascension class dreadnought 
   
   
  The converted dreadnought Belsarius (NCC-2567) during 
  weapons tests at the Arcturus Test Range.  Her conversions 
  included a Miranda-style modular primary hull, megaphaser 
  cannon, and additional photon torpedo mounts.  The idea was to 
  see just how far a linear warp dreadnought could be overgunned. 
   
   
  CONSTELLATION DESIGN BY RICK STERNBACH, 
  ANDREW PROBERT, AND GREG JEIN 
  VISUALS COURTESY OF FILEFRONT 
  SCHEMATICS BY BRAD TORGERSON 
   
  The Napoleon fleet shuttlecarrier proposal from the 2260s  
  served as the basis for the modern day Midway program 
  - 30 - 
  
  TERRAN EXPLORATIONS 
   
  THE GENESIS PLANET 
   
  The Genesis Planet was created on 28 January 2287 (stardate 
  8130.3) from the entire mass of the Mutara Nebula by 
  tonation of the Stage III Genesis Device.  The device was 
   Terran dictator Khan Noonien Singh at the 
  een the starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) and 
  the 
   a 
  few 
  Gene
  o 
  capt
  it in
  r his 
  exile
  new
   
  and 
   
  his l
  whe
  En
  ssembly, damaged during the battle, and go to warp seconds 
  is Device detonated. 
  Drs. Carol and David Marcus, the creators of Project Genesis, 
  had programmed the Genesis Device to create a small, Terran-
  like planet.  The Genesis Planet coalesced and formed according 
  to the matrix that been programmed into the Genesis Device; 
  however, it proved unstable from the beginning.  It had been 
  intended for detonation on a small, lifeless world or barren 
  asteroid.  The fact that its mass base was a nebula instead of a 
  pre-existing body meant that it took several days for the Genesis 
  Planet to coalesce and come into being.  The new world’s 
  inherent instability was documented by the survey vessel 
  Grissom (NCC-638).  The reason behind this was soon revealed 
  by the ship’s special guest, Genesis Project co-creator Dr. David 
  Marcus.  He had obtained a small supply of the illegal substance 
  known as protomatter in order to prime the lifeform matrix for 
  the Genesis Device.  It should have worked on a planetary scale 
  as it had during the smaller Stage I and Stage II tests.  The fac
  that Stage III had been activated inside a nebula as opposed to 
  the surface of a planetary body had caus
  expand well beyond its desi
  contracted and the Genesis Planet c
  with an unstable matrix instead 
  programmed.  This inherent instability eventually caused the 
  planet to revert to a lifeless, molten mass.  A surprise attack by 
  a cloaked Klingon vessel searching for the secrets of the Genesis 
  Device resulted in the destruction of the Grissom, the death of 
  Dr. Marcus, and the destruction of the starship Enterprise, 
  which had returned for reasons of its own.  Admiral Kirk and his 
  crew only escaped with their lives by capturing the Klingon Bird-
  of-Prey that had attacked them and then using it to escape 
  before the Genesis Planet went into its final death throes. 
  de
  triggered by former
  nd of a duel betw
  e
  hijacked Reliant (NCC-1864).  The Mutara Nebula was only
  sectors away from the Regula One space station where the 
  sis Device had been developed..  Khan had managed t
  ure the Reliant due to an incredible series of events and use 
   an attempt to kill Kirk, the man he held responsible fo
  .  Acquiring the Genesis Device was just a side benefit of his 
   freedom.  However, after Enterprise successfully crippled
  disabled the Reliant, the dying Khan triggered the device as
  ast attempt to exact vengeance on Kirk.  The attempt failed 
  n 
  terprise managed to repair its dilithium converter 
  a
  before the Genes
   
  t 
  ed the lifeform matrix to 
  gned parameters.  Thus, once it 
  oalesced, it came into being 
  of the stable one originally 
    
   
  The Genesis Planet as it app
   
  The Genesis Planet is still considered off-limits by the Federation 
  Council, with Starfleet’s original ban of stardate 8158.6 still in 
  effect.  Starfleet now maintains a small fleet in the area while 
  Federation scientists continue to study the now-lifeless, lava-
  covered world.  They are also studying the small G-type star, 
  named Boojum per the Project Genesis control program, which 
  was created during the formation of the Genesis Planet.  Star 
  creation had been an option of the Stage III control program but 
  was not supposed to have been activated as programmed.  
  Boojum’s existence despite this, along with its apparent stability 
  in light of the dramatic death of its only world, will continue to
  be a so
   
  ears today (2295) 
   
  urce of study and debate for years to come. 
  SPEC
   
  Distance from system star ……………… 93 million km 
  Period of revolution (Terran measure) …… 54.6 hours 
  Period of orbit (Terran measure) ………… 198.9 days 
  Mass ………………………………….. 4.7 x1024 kg 
  Diameter ………………………………. 5915.5 km 
  Axial inclination ………………………… 28º  
  Average surface temperature ……………  @1200º C 
  Satellites ……..………………………..  none 
  Planetary Richter Scale rating ………….. A (formely M) 
  Lifeforms ……………..………………… none 
  M
  Pla
  IFICATIONS: 
   
  System star: UFC 415246 (Boojum) 
  ajor surface features ………………….. none 
  ces of note …………………………... none
  - 31 - 
  
  HISTORICAL ARTICLES 
   
  THE MIGHTY HOOD  GOES
  UFP INFONET – 13 OCTOBER 2286 
   DOWN 
   
   
   
  Starfleet is reporting that one of its starships, the heavy cruiser 
  Hood, was destroyed earlier today in an unprovoked attack by a 
  Klingon warship.  The Hood and two other Starfleet vessels had 
  been dispatched to investigate reports of Klingon raids on 
  border colonies near the Treaty Zone.  What they found, 
  according to a Starfleet spokesman, was one of the Klingon’s 
  new D-9 class heavy destroyers.  When it was ordered to stand 
  down the Klingon captain turned and attacked, crippling the 
  ood with its first salvo.  It then ignored
  H
   the fire from the other 
  two Starfleet vessels and destroyed the Hood with a second 
  salvo as it was attempting to flee the scene of battle.  All but 
  three members of the Hood’s crew were killed.  The Klingon 
  starship then engaged the other two Starfleet vessels, crippling 
  the destroyer Ajax before its own mounting damage forced its 
  withdrawal. 
   
  The only survivors from the Hood were three space-suited 
  maintenance personnel who had been affecting emergency 
  repairs on Hood’s shuttlecraft bay.  They were blown out of the 
  bay when the ship was destroyed and later picked up by the 
  destroyer Moltke, the only member of the Hood’s battle group 
  to escape relatively unscathed.  The other 493 members of the 
  Hood’s crew, including Captain Andlath Kontaris and his 
  command staff, went down with their ship.  The present 
  whereabouts of the Klingon D-9 that destroyed the Hood are 
  unknown. 
    
  LAUNCH OF THE GREAT EXPERIMENT 
  “NEWS BITS” –CLASSIC STARSHIPS  MAGAZINE– FEBRUARY 2288 
   
   
   
  The newest starship to join the fleet may very well be its 
  greatest yet.  Excelsior, the winning design in Starfleet’s Space 
  rol Ship Program, was commissioned into service today in 
   official ceremony presided over by Fleet Admiral Randolph 
  Morrow,
  Morrow 
  mitted
  been a 
  r now part of Starfleet, the Klingon 
   help but take notice of the fact that 
  Starfleet will not be cowed by new Klingon designs and 
  h them size for 
  size, ship for ship, fleet for fleet, until they come to 
   
  Cont
  an
   Commander-in-Chief 
   Starfleet.  Admiral 
   that Excelsior’s development history had 
  of
  ad
  troubled one but that those issues were behind it now. 
   
  The failure of transwarp drive doesn’t mar the fact 
  that Excelsior still represents the future of Starfleet.  
  It was one of many new systems that were tried, and 
  it was the only one to fail.  That one failure was easily 
  fixed by resorting to tried and true standard warp 
  drive systems.  With this problem resolved, Excelsior 
  has since gone on to excel at every one of her space 
  trials, breaking records across the board.  She is the 
  newest, largest, and most powerful ship to join the 
  fleet. 
   
  With Excelsio
  Empire cannot
  even grander ambitions.  We will matc
  understand our resolve.  The Federation has no 
  intention of becoming a Klingon vassal state.  
  Excelsior, and her offspring to come, will make sure of 
  that. 
  - 32 - 
  
  KLINGONS THREATEN WAR 
  UFP INFONET – 23 APRIL 2287 
   
   
   
  At a special meeting of the Military Staff Committee earlier 
  today, Klingon ambassador Kiltarc, of the House of Neygebh, 
  berated the Federation over the delicate subject of the recent 
  mutiny of Admiral James T. Kirk, former Starfleet Chief of 
  Operations. 
   
  Behold!  The quintessential devil in these matters!  
  James T. Kirk, renegade and terrorist!  Not only is he 
  responsible for the murder of a Klingon crew, the theft 
  of a Klingon vessel – see now the real plot and 
  intentions!  Even as the Federation negotiated a peace 
  treaty with us, Kirk was secretly developing the 
  Genesis Torpedo!  Conceived by Kirk’s son and test-
  detonated by the admiral himself! … We demand the 
  extradition of Kirk!  We demand justice!  Remember, 
  there will be no peace as long as Kirk lives! 
   
  Federation President Hiram Roth was quick to respond to 
  Ambassador Kiltarc’s demands.  He pointed out that Kirk and his 
  followers were currently enjoying asylum on Vulcan under the 
  protection of Ambassador Sarek, who was present at the 
  meeting and also exchanged words with Ambassador Kiltarc.  
  President Roth then went to on emphasize that as a Federation 
  citizen Kirk would be tried for his crimes under Federation law, 
  not Klingon.  At that point Ambassador Kiltarc and his entourage 
  stormed out of the chamber. 
  KIRK SURVIVES COURT-MARTIAL 
  UFP INFONET – 29 APRIL 2287 
   
   
   
  For most of his career James T. Kirk has been making possible 
  the impossible.  He did so again today by surviving the second 
  court-martial in his career, remaining an officer of command rank 
  in Starfleet, and assuming command of a new starship. 
   
  Kirk was first court-martialed in 2260 when he was framed for 
  the murder of a fellow officer.  The deception was eventually 
  discovered and Kirk was cleared of all charges.  This time, 
  however, Kirk’s guilt was obvious.  He deliberately violated 
  orders, stole a starship (his former command, Enterprise), 
  accessed a restricted part of space, was responsible for the 
  destruction of the starship he had stolen, engaged in 
  unauthorized combat with a covert Klingon team, and so on.  
  Kirk and his followers were forced to seek asylum on Vulcan 
  under the protection of Ambassador Sarek, an old ally, rather 
  than face charges of mutiny and sedition.  Kirk’s conscience 
  eventually got the better of him, though.  It was fortunate for 
  him that his decision to return to Earth coincided with the 
  Whalesong Crisis. 
   
  Kirk used his legendary ingenuity to once again save Earth, after 
  which mitigating circumstances were at play in his case.  All 
  charges were dropped by Starfleet on the orders of Federation 
  President Roth against the mutineers, save for a single charge 
  against Admiral Kirk for disobeying a superior officer.  Kirk was 
  busted all the way back to captain, which guaranteed he would 
  never achieve flag rank again.  Kirk’s punishment turned out to 
  be a blessing in disguise, however.  As a captain he could once 
  again command a starship, which as President Roth quickly 
  pointed out was a job for which his talents were best suited. 
   
  According to reports Captain Kirk has been given command of 
  the Yorktown, a sister ship of the Enterprise and rebuilt in much 
  the same fashion.  It has been rechristened as a new Enterprise 
  (with the registry of NCC-1701-A) in honor of Kirk’s original 
  command.  Kirk and the new Enterprise left Spacedock today on 
  what will be the ship’s maiden voyage under its new name.  We 
  can but hope that Captain Kirk and his new starship will continue 
  to protect and serve the Federation as has been the case for so 
  many years. 
  - 33 - 
  
  KLINGONS DOOMED TO EXTINCTION 
  FEDERATION NEWSFLASH  – 18 JUNE 2291 
   
   
   
  Welcome to Federation Newsflash, I’m Sanjiin Ghobhattai.  Our 
  story at the top of this hour concerns the powerful shockwave 
  that ripped across Federation space days ago from the Treaty 
  Zone.  Collected reports from a number of independent ship 
  captains seem to indicate a powerful, planet-sized explosion 
  within the heart of the Klingon home systems.  For the effects of 
  such an explosion we go to our Newsflash military expert, 
  retired Starfleet commodore Nash Grantham.  Commodore 
  Grantham was a guest earlier today on Starfleet Matters and 
  had this to say on the explosion: 
   
  All of these independent reports say the same thing:  
  e Grantham had this to say about its cause: 
   
  The only thing I could think of that could cause this 
  kind of devastation on this scale would be a planet or 
  large moon blowing up.  My guess is that it was 
  probably either Praxis or Nchut.  Both are large 
  moons that have extensive subsurface mines, where 
  they tap molten magma straight out from beneath the 
  mantle.  If something went wrong at enough of those 
  mines, it could have caused a chain reaction that 
  would have torn them apart in no time.  Those poor 
  bastards probably didn’t even have time to evacuate 
  before the thing went off. 
  STARFLEET CONSPIRACY 
  UNMASKED 
  they had one hell of an explosion in the heart of the 
  Klingon Empire.  Something on the order of a large 
  moon or small planet.  The results of something that 
  big on the infrastructure of the Klingon home systems 
  would be catastrophic.  You could wipe out the entire 
  population of several worlds, knock starships and 
  space stations out of the sky, disrupt the orbital paths 
  of moons and asteroids with something that big – and 
  that’s just for starters. 
   
  Commodor
  UFP INFONET – 18 AUGUST 2291 
   
   
  Captain James T. Kirk has cleared his name in the murder of the 
  late Klingon Chancellor Gorkon.  In the process, he has also 
  uncovered a Starfleet conspiracy to provoke an all-out war with
  e Klingon Empire.  The conspiracy reached into the highes
  th 
  cer 
  Spoc
  to ju
  ed 
  back 
   of 
  Fede
  er 
  the p
  the 
  “Gen
   to 
  prov
  f a 
  polit
  ce, 
  whe
  e 
  cont
  o stand aside, let the Federation and Klingons 
  annh
  ick 
  up t
  as 
  coun
  h a 
  cloa
  nks 
  to t
  hip 
  Exc
  ct 
  Chan
  o 
  dete
  n 
  Chan
  mp 
  hito
  onference just in time to prevent Colonel West from 
  ssassinating both the President and the new Klingon 
  Chancellor, Gorkon’s daughter Azetbur.  West was killed while 
  trying to escape while Captain Sulu arrested Admiral Cartwright 
  on charges of high treason. 
    
   
  t 
  th
  levels of the Starfleet Admiralty, with Chief of Staff Admiral 
  Lemuel Cartwright and Colonel of the Starfleet Marine Corps 
  Anthony West both implicated.  Also included in the conspiracy 
  were General Chang, his counterpart in the Klingon Empire; and 
  Romulan Ambassador Nanclus. 
  Kirk, who had been framed for Gorkon’s murder, broke out of 
  e Klingon maximum security penal colony at Ruta Penthe wi
  th
  the help of his crew aboard the starship Enterprise.  First Offi
  k had uncovered enough of the conspiracy in Kirk’s absence 
  stify violating Klingon space to rescue him.  They rush
  to Khitomer in an attempt to prevent the assassination
  ration President Ra-ghoratreii.  This event, which was und
  ersonal supervision of Colonel West, would have incited 
  eral War” that the conspirators so desperately sought
  oke.  General Chang and his allies wanted no part o
  ical settlement that would have brought about pea
  reas Ambassador Nanclus and the Romulans were quit
  t t
  en
  iliate each other, then move in with their own fleet and p
  he pieces.  Kirk’s attempt to save the President’s life w
  tered by Chang, who intercepted the Enterprise wit
  ked Bird-of-Prey.  Chang was ultimately unsuccessful tha
  he timely arrival of Captain Hikaru Sulu and the stars
  elsior.  Sulu, Kirk’s former helmsman, managed to distra
  g long enough for First Officer Spock to devise a means t
  ct Chang’s ship.  Both Kirk and Sulu then opened fire o
  g, destroying him and his ship.  They arrived at the Ca
  mer c
  K
  a
  - 34 - 
  
  KIRK DIES SAVING NEW EN
  3 
  TERPRISE 
  UNS NEWS WIRE – 15 MAY 229
   
  Flags are flying at half-mast today 
  on a thousand worlds as the United 
  Federation of Planets mourns the 
  death of its greatest living hero. 
  Captain James Tiberius Kirk, former 
  Chief of Starfleet Operations, 
  three-time commander of the 
  original starship Enterprise and the 
  first for her rebuilt successor 
  Enterprise-A, gave his life earlier 
  today to save the crew of the new 
  starship Enterprise-B from the energy vortices of the Nexus.  
  Captain Kirk, who had recently retired from Starfleet service, 
  had been a special guest aboard the Enterprise-B during its
  voyage.  Kirk was apparently killed when an energy bolt
  om Nexus breached the hull where he was standing while 
  ra in the United Americas farming community of 
  iverside, Iowa, Kirk was encouraged in his dream of reaching 
  the 
  ty 
  spec
  uty 
  prom
  the 
  serv
  co 
  cam
  pril, 
  the 
  as 
  foun
  only 
  mids
   to 
  beat
  ing 
  simu
  uated early in 
  249 due to the needs of the Four Years War with the Klingon 
  er of the destroyer Alexander.  He 
  received a promotion to captain and his first command posting 
  just in time for his 30th birthday.  This made James T. Kirk the 
  youngest captain in Starfleet history.  His new assignment was 
  the starship Enterprise, succeeding the recently promoted Fleet 
  Captain Christopher Pike.  As legendary as Captain Pike’s back-
  to-back five-year missions had been, they would pale in 
  comparison to the first tour of duty of his young successor.  
  Captain Kirk’s five-year mission would include some of the most 
  important events in Federation history of recent times:  the re-
  emergence of the Romulans, the unmasking of Kodos the 
  f the 
  erate 
  ave Planet, the solution to the neural parasite plague, the 
  admission of Coridan to the Federation, the first use of 
  Medusans as starship navigators, multiple visits to parallel and 
  alternate realities, the saving of the entire population of the 
  Pallas XIV star system, the end of Orion neutrality, hundreds of 
  new worlds and star systems charted, and hundreds more new 
  species and forms of life encountered.  The events mentioned 
  only skim the surface of Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the 
  Enterprise, and whole volumes have been dedicated to his
  s and those of his loyal crew. 
  gret his 
  ecision, though, despite a rewarding job and marriage to fellow 
  ch he graduated in 2249.  The following year 
  he additional task of special instructor in starship 
  ut 
  rovocation by the starship Reliant, which had been hijacked by 
  ince his first tour of duty aboard the Enterprise, 
  Kirk violated orders and returned to the scene of battle to 
  retrieve Spock’s body, stealing the Enterprise with the help of a 
  small group of loyal officers to enable his mission.  The 
   
   
   
  maiden 
  fr
  assisting the ship’s crew in their rescue efforts.  His body was 
  never recovered. 
   
  The late Captain Kirk is a Starfleet legend.  Born 26 March 
  2229 on Ter
  R
  stars by his father George Kirk, a Starfleet securi
  ialist.  His father’s subsequent death in the line of d
  pted him to follow his father’s footsteps and also enter 
  ice.  Ironically, Kirk’s appointment to the San Francis
  pus of Starfleet Academy was sponsored by Robert A
  first captain of the starship Enterprise.  Kirk’s legend w
  ded during his Academy days, when he became the 
  hipman of his generation (and of all prior generations)
   the Academy’s infamous “no-win scenario” train
  lation.  Both Kirk and his classmates grad
  2
  Empire.  He was present as a junior officer on special duty during 
  the signing of the Treaty of Axanar, which ended the war, and 
  for it he received the Palm Leaf of the Axanar Peace Mission.  It 
  was but one of many awards and commendations Kirk would 
  receive during his long and storied carrier, being at his death the 
  most decorated officer in Starfleet history. 
   
  By 2259 Kirk had already risen to the rank of commander and 
  was serving as executive offic
  Executioner, the Four Days War and the pacification o
  Klingons by the Organian Peace Treaty, the first delib
  arship, the discovery of the Shore 
  instance of time travel by a st
  Le
   
  exploit
   
  Kirk accepted a promotion to rear admiral and posting as 
  Starfleet Chief of Operations in 2265 following the end of his 
  first five-year mission.  His rapid rise to flag rank was also the 
  fastest in Starfleet history.  Kirk would later come to re
  d
  officer Lori Ciana.  Kirk’s marriage would end in failure within a 
  year.  Just over two years later the Vejur Crisis occurred and 
  Kirk used it to regain command of the newly rebuilt Enterprise.  
  Once back on board a starship he quickly regained his status as 
  Starfleet’s greatest living starship commander since Garth of 
  Izar.  His exploits during his second five-year mission were just 
  as impressive as had been the first, and he was rewarded with a 
  promotion to full admiral in 2272.  That same year the Kzinti 
  Incursion broke out, and Admiral Kirk was placed in charge of the 
  Starfleet task force that ultimately brought the Kzinti to heel.  
  Kirk voluntarily stepped down a second time as commander of 
  the Enterprise in 2283 to accept the position of Director of 
  Personnel at the San Francisco campus of Starfleet Academy, 
  the same from whi
  took on t
  combat tactics at the prestigious Starfleet Academy Command 
  School, even convincing the Admiralty to “loan” him his former 
  command Enterprise as a training vessel. 
   
  Kirk was court-martialed twice in his career.  The first time was 
  in 2260 when he was framed for the death of a fellow officer.  
  The officer in question turned out to be very much alive and the 
  one behind the affair, and all charges were subsequently 
  dropped.  The second, however, was more serious.  In 2287 
  while on a training cruise, the Enterprise was attacked witho
  p
  an old foe of Kirk’s seeking revenge.  Kirk’s tactical wizardry 
  saved the day; however, the Enterprise was heavily damaged 
  during a series of running battles and Captain Spock, the ship’s 
  commander, was mortally wounded.  Kirk authorized a full 
  funeral with honors for Captain Spock but was later shocked to 
  learn from Spock’s father Ambassador Sarek, upon returning to 
  Spacedock, that Spock might not be dead in the traditional 
  sense.  Acting on behalf of his best friend, with whom he had 
  served ever s
  - 35 - 
  
  Enterprise was subsequently destroyed by a Klingon sh
  prowling the area.  Kirk and his party survived only by trickin
  t
  nd then capturing th
  ip 
  g 
  eir 
  ip.  Having recovered Spock, who was in fact still alive, they 
  immediately sought asylum on Vulcan so Spock would have time 
  to recover from his ordeal.  Kirk’s eventual decision to leave 
  Vulcan and face the certain court-martial that awaited him 
  happened to coincide with the Whalesong Crisis.  As his ship was 
  in the area affected by the whale probe, Kirk again used his 
  ingenuity along with the resourcefulness of his followers to 
  successfully resolve the situation.  In gratitude the Federation 
  President ordered all charges of mutiny and sedition against 
  Admiral Kirk and his followers dropped, save for a single charge 
  against Kirk for disobeying a superior officer.  Kirk was demoted 
  all the way back to the rank of captain and given command of a 
  new Enterprise, where according the President he belonged.  
  Thus Kirk would forever be denied another chance at flag rank.   
   
  Captain Kirk served his fourth and final five-year mission aboard
  e new Enterprise, which was in truth starship Yorktown
  onor during the commissioning 
  eremony and shakedown cruise of the new Enterprise-B.  It 
  was
   in 
  the l
   
  Capt
  lso 
  serv
   on 
  Terr
  de, 
  Iowa
  he Klingons into beaming them aboard a
  sh
   
   
  th
  renamed in honor of Kirk’s former starship.  His greatest 
  accomplishment during this period would be thwarting a secret 
  Starfleet conspiracy to prevent the Khitomer Accords in 2291, 
  thus bringing about the first true peace with the Klingon Empire 
  that the Federation has ever known.  By this time Captain Kirk 
  was 68 years old and beginning to feel his age.  He accepted 
  early retirement from Starfleet “in order to pursue new 
  horizons” with other retiring members of his former command 
  staff, as he told reporters.  He was lured out of retirement two 
  years later as special guest of h
  c
   during this cruise that James Tiberius Kirk gave his life
  ine of duty so that others could live. 
  ain Kirk is survived by a nephew, Peter Kirk, who a
  es with Starfleet.  A memorial service is being planned
  a by friends of the family in Kirk’s birthplace of Riversi
  , where a monument will be erected to his memory. 
   
  The Cheetah class fast frigate prototype.  Although it never 
  entered service, data gleaned from the Cheetah program would 
  be instrumental in the development of the Constellation class 
  star cruiser, currently scheduled to enter service in 2297. 
   
   
  The Excelsior class Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) 
  in orbit above Earth. 
   
   
  U.S.S. Decatur (NCC-2500) heads for early retirement 
   
   
  U.S.S. Star League (NCC-2101) embarks on its first five-year 
  mission exploring beyond the edges of known space 
  - 36 - 
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   of the starship Enterprise under my command. 
   of another crew. To them and their posterity 
  he voyages we have begun and journey 
  e no man, where no one, has gone before.” 
  - Captain James T. Kirk (2291)  
   
  “Captain's log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise
  e care
  tinue t
  g wher
   
  This ship and her history will shortly become th
  will we commit our future. They will con
  to all the undiscovered countries, boldly goin
   
   
   
  - 37 - 
  
  KEY HISTORICAL STARSHIPS 
  1957-2295 – TERRAN PERSPECTIVE 
   
  VISUAL 
  DATE 
  LENGTH 
  MASS (DWT) 
  CREW 
  PROPULSION 
  MAX 
  SPEED 
   
  KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER 
   
  3 
  chemical rocket 
  0.13c 
  First manned vehicle to leave Terran orbit 
  and deliver crew to an off-world location 
   
  Apollo 
  (with Saturn V launch vehicle) 
  1968 
  110.8 m 
  3,400 
  (Luna) 
   
  OV-100 Space Shuttle 
  1980 
  37.2 m 
  68 
  7 
  chemical rocket 
  335 
  km/hr 
  First reusable Terran spacecraft 
   
  DY-100 (production model) 
  1990 
  108 m 
  27,200 
  20 
  fusion drive 
  0.2c 
  First manned interplanetary commercial 
  Terran spacecraft 
   
  Marilee 
  (typical Bussard ramjet 
  colonization ship) 
  2010 
  760 m 
  162,500 
  20 
  (+200 
  in deep 
  cryo-
  sleep) 
  Bussard ramjet 
  0.13c 
  (est) 
  Early Terran interplanetary colonizer; had 
  to be accelerated to 0.06c by fusion drive 
  before ramjet could be used; deliberately 
  crashed on Perry’s Planet after all crew 
  and colonists disembarked; wreckage 
  used to build colony 
   
  Aventeur class 
  2018 
  125 m 
  28,100 
  109 
  fusion drive 
  0.2c 
  First Terran long-range interplanetary 
  exploration spacecraft 
   
  Galileo class 
  2028 
  300 m 
  48,400 
  (full load) 
  98 
  fusion drive 
  0.3c 
  One of the most popular and long-lived 
  Terran transports of its era 
   
  Companion class 
  2033 
  156 m 
  65,000 
  20 
  fusion drive 
  0.5c 
  First UESF warship class 
   
  Declaration class 
  2038 
  300 m 
  52,700 
  100 
  impu
  First successful, purpose-built 
  lse drive 
  0.4c 
  Terran starship 
  (manned interstellar spacecraft) 
   
  Columbus class 
  2040 
  120 m 
  8,600 
  40 
  spiked 
  antimatter 
  0.75c 
  First Terran starship class to reach 
  another inhabited planet; first with spiked 
  antimatter engines 
   
  DY-X 
  2057 
  167 m 
  23,000 
  94 
  CDP 
  “jump drive” 
  0.65c 
  (+12sec 
  warp 
  1.2 
  jumps) 
  Best all-around UESF starship of the 
  Earth-Kzin Wars; first Terran starship 
  designed for faster-than-light travel 
   
  UES Bonaventure 
  (Cochrane class, as built) 
  2060 
  206 m 
  19,400 
  45 
  first-generation 
  warp 2 
  First production Terran starship to 
  maintain a cruising velocity in excess of 
  warp drive 
  the speed of light; first starship fitted wi
  Cochrane warp drive 
  th 
  - 38 - 
  
  VISUAL 
  DATE 
  LENGTH 
  MASS (DWT) 
  CREW 
  PROPULSION 
  MAX 
  SPEED 
   
  KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER 
   
   
  Verne class 
  2064 
  235.9 m 
  25,000 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  2.5 
  First Terran starship to reach a non-
  human inhabited world; first starship with 
  three warp engines 
  112 
   
  Keldysh class 
  2064 
  97 m 
  16,500 
  80 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  2.1 
  First Terran explorer class starship; first 
  Terran vessel to encounter the Galactic 
  Barrier; first starship jointly designed by 
  cultures from different worlds 
  (Terra and Alpha Centauri IV) 
   
  Conestoga class 
  2069 
  197.2 m 
  23,800 
  25 
  (+200) 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  2.0 
  First Terran colonizer equipped 
  with warp drive 
   
  Messier class 
  2078 
  258 m 
  27,700 
  183 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  2.9 
  First Terran starship with non-human 
  crew members; oldest UESF warship 
  class to serve in the Romulan War 
   
  Roanoke class 
  2105 
  76.2 
  (unladen) 
  19,400 
  (unladen) 
  20 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  2.2 
  First of the Class J cargo ships 
   
  Prometheus class ringship 
  2105 
  320 m 
  57,500 
  115 
  toridal 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  3.2 
  Last major Terran ringship class 
  produced prior to the Romulan War 
   
  Wright class 
  2139 
  168 m 
  48,500 
  125 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  3.0 
  First warship class of the 
  Federation Star Fleet; design inspired by 
  Centaurean Djartanna class destroyer; 
  considered one of the influences on the 
  Jeffries/Joseph design lineage due to its 
  dual splayed warp engine arrangement 
   
  Cavalry class 
  2141 
  130 m 
  14,900 
  80 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  3.1 
  Second warship class of the Federation 
  Star Fleet; direct ancestor of the Class I 
  destroyer and scout designs 
   
  Horizon class 
  2146 
  280 m 
  38,500 
  224 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  3.25 
  First exploratory starship class of the 
  Federation Star Fleet 
   
  Armstrong class 
  2146 
  207 m 
  38,000 
  175 
  Cochrane PB-1 
  warp 
  3.6 
  First joint Terran-Centaurean-Andorian 
  starship; direct ancestor of the 
  Loknar class frigate 
  (NOTE:  takes place of NX-Program 
  Enterprise in Prime One timeline) 
   
  Jeffries Project prototype 
  2155 
  50 m 
  8,750 
  14 
  first-generation 
  warp drive 
  warp 
  3.8 
  Direct ancestor of the Baton Rouge and 
  Constitution class starships 
   
  Marshall class 
  2157 
  225 m 
  22,700 
  157 
  Warp drive 
  3.8 
  screens; best known Federa
  Fleet class from the Romul
  warp 
  First starship class fitted with force field 
  tion Star 
  an war 
   
  alus class 
  Daed
  using data 
  he Jeffries Project 
  2158 
  114.5 m 
  27,500 
  120 
  Cochrane PB-2 
  “Quantum” 
  warp 
  3.9 
  First starship cl
  gleaned from t
  ass built 
   
  Olympus class 
  2158 
  182.2 m 
  411,300 
  806 
  warp drive 
  wa
  3
  (aka “cylinder ship”) 
  tonnage produced during this era 
  Typical CS-series starship 
  rp 
  .5 
  from the Romulan War era; the largest 
  Federation starship in terms of mass 
   
  Bonaventure rebuild 
  2165 
  198 m 
  115,000 
  190 
  Cochrane PB-6 
  “Quantum II” 
  warp 
  3.9 
  First time an existing starship was broken 
  down and rewoven into a new type of 
  vessel; first full-blown Federation starship 
  to employ a disc-like primary hull 
  - 39 - 
  
  VISUAL 
  DATE 
  LENGTH 
  MASS (DWT) 
  CREW 
  PROPULSION 
  MAX 
  SPEED 
   
  KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER 
   
  112,000 
  140 
  Cochr
  “Quantum
   
  Texas class 
  2175 
  189.9 m 
  ane PB-8 
   III” 
  warp 
  3.6 
  Last production Federation starship fitted 
  with ablative armor; longest-serving 
  starship class as of this date (110 years) 
   
  Tritium class 
  2188 
  202 m 
  476,000 
  250 
  Cochrane PB-8 
  Most expensive failure in Federation 
  “Quantum III” 
  (modified) 
  warp 
  3.6 
  starship history 
   
  Mann class 
  2192 
  185 m 
  54,000 
  294 
  Vickers J27-A 
  4.5 
  matter/antimatter m
  arp 
  engines; first fitted with dual purpose 
  deflector/sensor grid on hull 
  warp 
  First Federation starship to break the 
  Warp 4 barrier for sustained FTL 
  cruising speeds; first with 1:1 
  ix ratio for its w
   
  Illustrious class 
  2198 
  1200 m 
  1,989,000 
  600 
  multiple 
  Cochrane 
  PB-10E 
  “Klepton” 
  warp 
  3.5 
  First (and still largest) shuttlecarrier in 
  Federation history 
   
   
  Baton Rouge class
  2205 
  245 m 
  92,500 
  344 
  Kloratis VX-28 
  “Pegasys” 
  warp 
  5.2 
  First major Federation warship build 
  program since the end of the Romulan 
  War; first starship class with a true disc-
  shaped primary hull; first starship class 
  built using modular component 
  construction techniques; first starship 
  class fitted with transporter technology 
  and duotronic computer systems; lead 
  starship class of its generation 
   
  Anton class 
  2210 
  185 m 
  146,500 
  290 
  Kloratis VX-28 
  “Pegasys” 
  warp 
  4.8 
  hull;” direct ancestor of the 
  Coventry, Miranda, and Avenger classes 
  First Federation starship with “modular 
  Surya, 
   
  Constitution class 
  2222 
  290 m 
  190,000 
  430 
  Cochrane 
  PB-18 “Perth” 
  warp 8 
  First starship class of the Class I 
  program; most famous and recognizable 
  starship class in Federation history 
   
  Santee class 
  2246 
  290 m 
  185,000 
  345 
  Cochrane PB-32 
  “Titiac” 
  warp 8 
  First purpose-built Federation 
  shuttlecarrier; direct ancestor of 
  Coventry, Oriskany, Jenshahan, Chosin, 
  and Youngblood classes 
   
  F
   
  2255 
  320 m 
  500 
  Cochrane PB-47 
  “Titiac II” 
  warp 10 
  wa
  emergency separation; most powerful 
  Federation warship of its time 
  ederation class
  285,000 
  First stable tri-nacelled starship design in 
  Federation history; first starship with a 
  rp-capable primary hull after 
   
  Endeavour
  175,000 
  430 
  LN-40 
  w
  One of the first Federation linear warp 
  technology
  Monoceros and the tug Keppler) 
   prototype 
  2260 
  279.5 m 
  Leeding 
  (Cochrane) 
  arp 10 
   testbeds (along with the scout 
   
  Gagarin class corvette 
  2266 
  120 m 
  22,500 
  24 
  Kloratis 
  (Cochrane) 
  FWB 
  warp 
  7.6 
  First multimission auxiliary starship class, 
  with many variations developed for a 
  variety of purposes from the base 
  Gagarin design 
   
  Enterprise class 
  2267 
  304.8 m 
  210,000 
  500 
  Leeding 
  (Cochrane) 
  LN-62 
  warp 12 
  Firs
  the 
  line
  he 
  linear warp upgrade and building 
  programs of the 2270s and 2280s 
  t in-service starship conversion of 
  ar warp generation; lead ship for t
   
  Avenger
  ) 
  180,000 
  Leeding 
  (Cochrane) 
  w
  Linear warp upgrade of earlier Miranda 
  rival Cons
  terms of 
  mission capability and design flexibility 
   (uprated Miranda
  2275 
  234.0 
  395 
  LN-62 
  arp 12 
  class (an Anton descendant); first 
  starship class fitted with megaphaser 
  cannon; only starship class in service to 
  titution/Enterprise in 
   
  Exc
  ass 
  Leeding 
  starship class, lead ship of its generation 
  elsior cl
  2288 
  511.3 
  386,500 
  780 
  (Cochrane) 
  FTWA-1 
  warp 20 
  Testbed for (unsuccessful) transwarp 
  program; first Federation “superheavy” 
  of starship designs 
   
  - 40 - 
  
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
  VOLUME 12:  2176-229
   
  AUTHOR’S COMMENTS: 
  5 
   
  Here we
   end of the line.  It’s been a long time 
  coming, and there were times I thought I might not ever see it 
  through, but here we are.  T an
  han
  r the 
   
   are, folks: 
  h
  ks for 
  ging in fo
  ride. 
   
  I came up 
  arfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 as 
  way of t
  several divergent event  in bot
  and fanon works, all of which
  w
   
  “explore
  hips of TNG/DS9/Voyager.  How best to 
  explain this?  History has a tendency to repeat itself.  Just as 
  the Federation forced Starfleet to reduce its forces after the 
  Romulan War, so I see them doing afte
  signing
  Khitomer Accords and the end of hostilities with the Klingon 
  Empire.  I don’t
   wouldn’t have made them scale 
  back 
  o the resurgence of the new 
  Romulan Space Navy (and its first generation of original Hawk-
  series designs, courtesy of SFB/SFC).  I know I’m stepping out 
  on a limb
   a mod st scaling-back was intended, with 
  new starships of the Excelsior generation gradually replacing 
  those of the Class I era.  The monkey wrench that destroyed all 
  of these plans was Admir l C
  ight
  olonel
  s 
  conspira
  ke a 
  eneral War.  That’s right, I’m 
  deliberately using the Starfleet Battles term.  IMHO, the 
  SFB/SFC universe (and maybe th
  FASA
   thin
  t 
  have end
  at General War come about at whatever 
  point in the timeline you want to pick.  That’s obviously what 
  Cartwright, West, General 
   (t
  gon 
  , 
  Ambassador Nalcus (the Romulan faction), and everyone else 
  involved wanted.  Once the various political investigations 
  exposed just how deep the conspiracy ran and to what extent 
  the conspirators were willing to
   cause that General War, 
  then the Federation Council
  uld have acted to make sure that 
  suc
  d again.  Hence the demilitarization of 
  Starfleet, something that i  al
   several times 
  .  
  Starfleet
  ange
  ary force back to an 
  exploration force, just as it was meant to be in the early days of 
  the Federation.  This helps e
  wh
  -calle
  t 
  Years” or “Los
  ween The Undiscovered Country and The 
  Next Generation
  t that.  Starfleet is almost completely 
  transformed over the next si
  well-armed 
  military force to a well-arm d 
  atio
    Wh
  difference?  One of percepti
  and operating philosophy, as I’m 
  sure any Federation Councillor will tell you. 
   
  The Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 
  also th
  I 
  could 
  e 
  st of my canon and fanon sources 
  could have their cake and eat it, too.  The date was deliberately 
  chosen for two reasons.  First, most of the “good” TREK 
  TOS/TAS era tech fanon works
  events depicted in Th
  isc
  those 
  go beyond suggest
  s 
  actually issued, although it is nowh
   I 
  an
  su
  t time
  vesti
  to the assassination attemp
  eration 
  President at Khitomer to run th
  aral
  im
  Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295 as
  example the failed effort of the Canadians to 
  armed
  o a si
   organiza
   
  can think up of many more.  The fallacy of the Starfleet 
  Reorganization Order of 2295 will eventually be proven wrong 
  decades
  uring t
  minion
   
  “difficult days” of the late 22nd ce
  Starfleet will always be looking for ways to return Starfleet to 
  its “real” military calling (TNG’s “The Pegasus,” for example).  
  Those events are beyond the sc
  be c
   
  The “Colonel of the Corps” busi
  issue of Colonel West’s appearance (Rene Auberjonis
  print
  VI:
  ndi
  the tw
   appro
  used by 
  g 
  his situation.  First, as the commander-in-chief of the Starfleet 
  Mar
   ho
  e ful
  which 
  nt to 
  miral and explains why he wears an 
  admiral’s pin on his Starfleet uni
  if he were wearing a Marine uniform, which we never see (and 
  gh
  t p
  fficial
  their suggestion of using the Brit
   
  expanded it to cover the whole of the Starfleet Marine Corps.  
  Inste
   M
  orp
  centur
  tates,
  23rd century Starfleet has a “Colonel 
  of the Corps.”  It’s a purely honorary title but one that would be 
  used on a regular basi
  nce
  est”
  f “Ge
  l We
  general idea from the Napoleonic era (and earlier) would be 
  bett
  ut 
  eems
  folks
  ywa
  e talked to several current Marines 
  about this idea and they’re comfortable with it, so I’m going to 
  run with it for as long as my fellow fa
   
  If you’ve ever seen Marines do a
  from low-flying C-130 transport craft
  impressive a sight it is.  Now 
  scre
   th
  sp
  shields and doing the same thing, 
   
  pallets of heavy equipment and other ground combat gear out of 
  its dual hangar bays for Marines “on the ground” while at the 
  with the St
  ying together 
  s
  h canon 
  ards the
   point the way to
  r” class stars
  r the 
   of the 
   believe th
  as much, though, due t
  ey
  , but I think
  e
  a
  G
  artwr
   and C
   West’
  cy to provo
  at of 
  ) is how
  gs migh
  ed up had th
  Chang
  he Klin
  faction)
   go to
   wo
  h a thing never happene
  s
  s from a milit
  luded to
  in TNG
  ’s posture ch
  xplain 
  y the so
  d “Los
  t Era” bet
   is jus
  x decades
  explor
   from a 
  n force.
  e
  on 
  at’s the 
  is 
  e best 
  come up with wher mo
   end c.2290, shortly before the 
  overed Country.  Material within 
  s that such an order wa
  e Und
  few that 
  ere documented.  Second,
  w
  in
  ted to allow 
  gations in
  fficien
   for the various political 
  t on the Fed
  eir course.  There are obvious 
  e and obvious parallels to the 
   well.  Take for 
  p
  lels to this in our own t
  integrate their 
  tion.  I’m sure you readers
   forces int
  ngle
   later d
  he Do
   War.  As they did during its
  ntury, the more militant within 
  ope of
  not 
  ness is my way of resolving the 
   this document and will 
  overed here. 
  ) in the full 
  scovered Country.  It is based on 
  Memory Alpha in describin
   of Star Trek 
  o-pronged
   The U
  ach 
  ines, he would
  is equivale
  ld th
  an ad
  l (or franked) rank of general, 
  form.  He would wear the same 
  mi
  t not even exis
  er “o
  ” sources).  Second, I’ve taken 
  ish concept of “colonel” and
  ad of having a
  y United S
  arine C
   the 
  s Commandant as does the 21st 
  s; he
  nera
   his being addressed as “Colonel 
  st.”  Maybe the old colonel-
  a 
  W
   instead o
  er approach, b
   t
  n
  that s
  y, I’v
   too archaic a route for most 
  o follow.  A
  ns let me. 
  n insertion-extraction operation 
  , then you know how 
  imagine a Miranda class starship 
  here of a planet with full forward 
  drop-kicking antigrav-equipped
  a
  h
  ming throug
  e atmo
  - 41 - 
  
  same time 
  e with several phas
  salvoes to
  own any re
  e.  Yeah, I c
  Starfleet Marine fans drooling at the thought.  ^_^ 
   
  I realize a
   of th
  her/Sofia school of TREK tech 
  (and poss
  hemselves) are going to be mad at me for 
  discounting the Enterprise (II) class from 
  f the
  t 
  and going with the Great Bi d’s 
  the ”Ent
  me to be.  I’ll be frank with you.  I’m going 
  by what’s on screen.  Ships of the Starfleet was published 
  before Star Trek VI: The Undisc
   Cou
  s relea
  t 
  the end of that film, which is upposed to take place in 2293 per 
  the Graham/Mandel timeline, Captain Kirk receives orders for 
  the “new” Enterprise to be retired from service.  This 
  presumably takes place despite Captain Kirk’s
  t lit
  around the block” per the end of t
    
  This implies
  nterprise cannot be a new starship; 
  otherwise she would have had a lot more life left in her.  Now 
  you know part of the reason behind my rationale for Starfleet’s 
  Extended Service Life Program (ESLP).  Yorktown, which was the 
  name of the “new” Enterprise 
  ginal
  issioned (per 
  the Gr
   se
  e corrected), five 
  years after the original Enterprise in 2223.  She retired as the 
  “new” Enterprise in 2293.  This would have made her 65 years 
  old – just 10 years short of the projected maximum 75
   
  lifespan for an original Class I Program stars
  overhauls, which 
   had per fandom tech documents.  
  Such a long life for a starship 
  he lat
   
  shows, both TNG and DS9 in particular, where we see century-
  old M
  ers still in active service.  The renaming 
  of the older, refitted Yorktown as the “new” 
   thus 
  with what’s depicted on-screen in both TOS and all s
   
  feature fi
  k the Great Bird was right on this one, 
  making it one of the few times he was right in his later, more 
  scurrilous years. 
   
  With regards to the decommissioning of the Enterprise after 
  Star Trek IV, I flatly reject the su
  ion
  ain n
   
  Kirk a
  “bo rowed” the ship and subsequently 
  destroyed it in another battle with the Klingons.  There is no on-
  scree
   an ve
  r ta
  ce.  It
  y 
  understanding when TNG first aired, as it was with many of my 
  fellow fans at the time, that the old “Constitution class 
  starship” Captain Picard menti
  e’d
   
  the En
  lf, preserved as part of a museum fleet 
  due to her historic importance.  I’ll admit that this was never 
  said on-screen, just something you felt
  c
   
  remarkable 
  heless, I know a lot of you won’t 
  agree 
  of you were quick to point out the 
  supposed “error” of my original statement back in Volume 10 
  (per ST II
   T. Ki  w
   only
  n eve
   
  e Kobayas
  aining simulation.  That came directly from 
  -screen dialogue, by the way.  So, for the sake of those of you 
  who must swear by your TREK novels, I’m only mentioning the 
  Enterprise-A was decommissioned and leave it at that.  Now 
  you’ll be able to interpret her ultimate fate however you want. 
   
  ap and 
   
  ed
  to
   their
  e 
  Dominon War of the 24th century (
  mak
  hat
   w
  operat
  om
  it on-screen.  (Of course there isn’t, because both are fandom 
  desi
  sus
  like 
  scrap
  after 
  5 to pacify th
   where 
  did the Belknaps end up during
  Maybe they got sent to less host
   
  t
  r t
  dera
  had already been scrapped by t
  and let Todd and Aridas tackle it ins
  er 
  release revised versions of their excellent fandom TREK tech 
  works 
  ith 24
  tury
   
  I deliberat
  he hull numbers for the Midway class 
  shuttlecarriers, since the ones flo
  presumably from SFC II:EW) du
  Fredrikstad classes. 
   
  Nowhere in any of the various 
  given for the Camp Khitomer co
  the stardates seems to indicate a 
  I 
  it
  he 
  f th
  Federa
  ent a
   Aug
  of the TREK movie from which this event comes.  The movie’s 
  -tit
   Und
  ed
  birthday of Virginia Dare, t
  the lost English colony of Roanoke. 
   
  The reason I list the 
  ax
  Belkn
   explain
  Ascension classes as getting
   telling absence during th
   in 2295 is 
  DS9).  I suppose one could 
  ere pulled from reserves and 
  ewhere, but there’s no record of 
  e the case t
   they
  ed on the periphery s
  g
   
  ns – ed.)  I
  ped shortly 
  pect, 
  229
  Timo, that the Ascensions got 
  e Klingons.  So
   the Dominion War?  I dunno.  
  ile areas in order to free up
  bet er starships fo
  he Fe
  tion war fleet, or perhaps they 
  hen.  I’ll pass on that question 
  tead -- provided they ev
  updated w
  th cen
   info.  -_^ 
  ely upped t
  ating around the Internet (and 
  plicated those of the Ariel and 
  TREK materials is a specific date  
  nference.  Dixon’s research into 
  date of mid-August 2291.  
  arb rarily picked t
  tion Presid
  day o
  s 14
  e assassination attempt on the 
  ust.  It’s a nod towards the title 
  sub
  le is The
  iscover
  he firs
   Country.  14 August was the 
  t child born in the New World at 
  letting loos
   knock d
  er and photon torpedo 
  an see you 
  sistanc
   lot of fans
  ibly they t
  e Gunt
  Ships o
   Starflee
  r
  semi-official explanation of how 
  erprise-A” ca
  overed
  ntry wa
  sed.  A
   s
   las
  tle “spin 
  ources.
  he movie and official s
   that the “new” E
  as ori
  ly comm
  eat Bird), entered
  rvice in 2228 (dat
  -year life
  wo ESLP 
  hip given t
  Yorktown
  is supported by t
  er TREK
  iranda class cruis
  Enterprise
  fits 
  ix TREK
  lms.  I thin
  pposit
   of a cert
  ovel that
  nd company later 
  r
  n evidence for such
   e
  nt eve
  king pla
   was m
  oned h
   seen in “Relics” was
  terprise-A herse
   while wat hing this
  episode.  Neve
  with me, just as some 
  rt
  ) that James
  hi Maru tr
  rk
  as the
   perso
  r to beat
   
  Well, as the saying goes, it’s b
  I’ve
  c
  d. 
  Federat
  eflig
  olo
  revised versions, with corrections a
  t 
  likely.  Is the long-delayed Romul
  nly,
  g
  there be any additional FSC volumes to cover 
  Voyager
  d their
  ect
  love i
   they
  adays
  desire to
   the FSC beyond the 
  he 
  “classic
  eature films.  T
  Perhaps others of you might want
  TNG-era
  ip chronology in
  trail that has been already blaz
  prefer t
  the FSC and elab
  more detailed “classic TREK” 
  classes.  Perhaps some o
  u w
  adapt i
  cano
   
  path that others have done in works 
  before 
  mine.  Perhaps reading the FSC will inspire you to create your 
  own future cities, alien vistas, planetscapes, starships, 
  drawings, or 3D models like those of the many, many, MANY 
  artists with whose work has graced all volumes of the FSC.  
  een nice and it’s been grand but 
   It’s time for me to bring the 
  gy to its final end.  Will there be 
  nd possible additions?  Mos
   had all that I 
  ion Spac
  an stan
  ht Chron
  an supplement ever going to be 
  et the details worked out.  Will 
  the TNG, DS9, and 
  released.  Certai
   once I 
   eras an
  s with what
   extend
   resp
   now
  ive alien “powers?”  No.  My first 
   call “classic TREK.”  I have no 
  sixth and last of t
   TREK” f
  hat I leave to you. 
   to take on the challenge of a 
   
   starsh
   your own works, following the 
  ed for you.  Perhaps you would 
  orate on it in specific areas, or 
  tech on your favorite starship 
  o take 
  f yo
  n” TREK
  ould like to rewrite the FSC and 
  timeline (Prime Two), seeking the 
  that came long 
  t to the “
  th
  on
  - 42 - 
  
  There are so many possibilities.  The one thing I’ve tried to do 
  above all else with the FSC, even above my effort to hammer the 
  old Graham/Mandel timeline back into shape, is to inspire you 
  ol “classic TREK” still has to 
  with the possibilities that old-scho
  offer.  Hopefully I’ve fanned that sp
  way that hasn’t been done before.  
  ark of creativity within you in 
  What you do with it from 
  SPECIAL THANKS TO: 
   
  “Cluttered Mind” 
  Jason Boguess 
  Neale Davidson 
  Stan and Fred Goldstein 
  a 
  here on is up to you. 
   
  Be seeing you 
   
  - Richard E. Mandel 
   
  Jan Hendrik Kobarg 
  Aridas Sofia 
  Memory Alpha 
   
  VISUAL SOURCES: 
   
  3D Starships 
  Activision Games 
  Atolm 
  Atrahasis 
  Darius Architectus 
  Demon Renegade Studios 
  Federation Frontiers 
  Ted W. Giebel (SFB Nexus) 
  J. C. and Rafael Gonzalez 
  Todd Guenther 
  Industrial Light and Magic 
  Greg Jein 
  Hal Jordan 
  Rick Knox (aka Pneunomic81) 
  Eric “Jackill” Kristiansen 
  Jason “Vektor” Lee 
  Chris Johnson 
  The Light Works 
  Michael Newlyn 
  Models Please 
  OrbiterMods 
  David Schmidt 
  Outlance Shipyards 
  John Payne 
  Paramount Pictures 
  Martin Shaw 
  Slider17 (FileFront) 
  Starforce Productions 
  Starship Schematic Database 
  Aridas Sofia 
  Daniel Swift 
  Taldren 
  Brad Torgerson 
  Adam Turner 
  Yeaterk 
   
  CONTACT INFO: 
   
  Want to contribute to future revisions of the Federation 
  Spaceflight Chronology?  You can reach me at: 
   
  rtrodude@yahoo.com
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