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  PART ELEVEN 
   
  2251-2275:  THE LINEAR WARP REVOLUTION 
  0VERVIEW 
   
  TIMELINE OF EVENTS 
   
  STARFLEET STARSHIP CLASSES 
   
   
  THE DREADNOUGHT PROGRAM (PART 1) 
   
  CORONADO AND ORISKANY CLASS CARRIERS 
   
  DERF CLASS TENDER 
   
  RANGER CLASS SCOUT 
  ENTERPRISE AND TIKOPAI CLASS CRUISERS 
   
  GAGARIN CLASS CORVETTE 
   
  BALSON AND CITADEL CLASS CRUISERS 
   
  BELKNAP CLASS STRIKE CRUISER 
   
  ABBE CLASS TORPEDO DESTROYER 
  THE AVENGER AND MIRANDA PROGRAMS 
  SPECIAL SECTION:  LINEAR WARP REFITS 
   
  OTHER FEDERATION STARSHIP CLASSES 
   
  HOPI CLASS RESEARCH VESSEL 
   
  ANTARES CLASS FREIGHTER 
   
  LOTUS FLOWER CLASS FREIGHTER 
   
  ALTAIR CLASS MERCHANTMAN 
   
  HUNTINGTON CLASS DEUTERIUM TANKER 
   
  WHORFIN CLASS TRANSPORT 
   
  ALIEN ENCOUNTERS 
   
  THE ONLY SHIP IN THE QUADRANT 
   
  THE KZINTI INCURSION OF 2272 
   
  TERRAN EXPLORATIONS 
  THE DELTA TRIANGLE 
   
  HISTORICAL ARTICLES 
   
  THE ROMULANS ARE BACK 
  MEMORIAL HELD FOR EXCALIBUR 
  NEW KLINGON CIVIL WAR RAGING 
  ROMULAN CAPTURED BY STARFLEET 
  TERRA TEN COLONY RELOCATED 
  THE WANDERER WANDERS NO MORE 
  ENTERPRISE SAVES EARTH 
  HORNET HELPS LIBERATE TELLAR 
   
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
   
  The uprated heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701) 
   
   
  The uprated destroyer Larson (NCC-4300) 
   
   
  The uprated dreadnought Star League (NCC-2101) 
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  2251-2275: The Linear Warp Revolution 
   
  I remember the first time I saw the Enterprise after 
  she was rebuilt.  We were rushed, we had a deadline, 
  Vejur was on its way to Earth.  Still, I have to hand it 
  to Mr. Scott – Commander Scott, pardon – for taking 
  one of those precious minutes to show her off.  It was 
  supposed to be a pre-launch inspection, but it was 
  more than that.  I hadn’t yet seen the rebuilt 
  Enterprise, except once before, when she was halfway 
  through the process.  I knew what she was going to 
  look like based on that and the construction profiles.  
  Still, to see her for real ….  I just stood there with my 
  mouth open as Mr. Scott made that single, slow pass 
  around her, giving me a good look before we finally 
  docked.  She was so … glorious.  That wonderful old 
  girl of mine, reborn into a beautiful young woman, 
  sparkling in shining white under those drydock 
  floodlights.  It literally took my breath away.  It’s a 
  sight I’ll never forget for the rest of my life. 
   
  James Tiberius Kirk 
  former Starfleet starship commander 
  (2229-2293) 
   
  The Class I Era officially came to its end in 2255 with 
  the Federation class dreadnought.  Even as the most 
  powerful starship of its time was preparing to join the 
  fleet, though, yet another revolution in starship 
  design was already on the way.  It was one that 
  would remake the Class I fleet in its own image, 
  outstripping even the mighty dreadnought’s firepower 
  and warp capability within twelve short years. 
  The use of trititanium in starship construction had 
  removed the lone remaining bottleneck to starship 
  construction.  That had been the ability of the ship’s 
  frame to withstand stresses higher than the semi-
  mythical Warp 4 barrier.  Once that bottleneck was 
  removed, then the onus had passed back to warp 
  engine design.  The only things now limiting a starship 
  were the power, speed, and range of its warp 
  engines.  Circumferential warp engines, first 
  introduced in the early 2150s, had been the standby 
  of Starfleet for years.  They were powerful and fairly 
  easy to both operate and maintain given proper 
  starship design and control systems.  Even so, a 
  century later it was becoming evident that 
  circumferential warp technology was fast approaching 
  its limits.  A plateau had been reached of a sustained 
  emergency speed of Warp 8 for standard dual-nacelle 
  starship designs (Warp 6 for single-nacelle and Warp 
  10 for triple-nacelle designs).  To the common man 
  this was of little concern; however, it was of 
  considerable worry to Starfleet.  Experiments with 
  captured Klingon warp engine technology had shown 
  that their S-Graph systems were inherently more 
  flexible and easier to upgrade than their Federation 
  counterparts.  Klingon designs permitted change-outs 
  of major components as improved technology came 
  along.  This process might take only a few weeks to a 
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  few months.  Common Starfleet practice was to 
  change out the entire engine and its associated 
  control programs.  This required a space dock or free-
  space reassembly area and was a process that took 
  months to complete.  If the Klingons made any major 
  advances in their warp technology within the decade 
  (and all intelligence pointed to them doing just that) 
  then their newly refitted starships would probably 
  outclass their current Starfleet counterparts.  To 
  prevent this, Starfleet would have to adopt a new 
  warp engine design and do it now, while they still had 
  time to put a fleet-wide upgrade plan into effect. 
   
   
   
  The year 2262 saw a new kind of warp engine 
  become available to Starfleet.  It had been a joint 
  development project of Cochrane Warp Dynamics and 
  Leeding Industries designed to represent the next 
  generation in warp technology. Development had 
  begun in the late 2250s on the LN-40 linear warp 
  engine.  This was designed as a self-contained unit 
  that could be fitted onto existing Class I starships.  
  Its very appearance was markedly different from any 
  of its precursors, betraying its revolutionary design.  
  The old spooled-coil system of circumferential warp 
  systems, which had reached their zenith with the 
  legendary PB-series, gave way to the linear feed 
  plasma systems of Leeding’s new designs.  Starfleet 
  was understandably excited at the promise that this 
  new technology held, which had the potential to 
  double the power of its existing fleet of starships with 
  a minimum of effort.  To that end three starships, 
  each 
  representing 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  major 
  base 
  configurations of the Class I fleet, were withdrawn 
  from service and turned over to Leeding for LN-40 
  testing and conversion.  These were the heavy cruiser 
  Endeavour (NCC-1716), representing the base 
  Jeffries/Joseph design; the scout Monoceros (NCC-
  601), representing single-nacelled designs, and the 
  transport Keppler (NCC-3816), representing both its 
  own class and most of the frigate fleet as well. 
   
  The results of extensive testing conducted in 2262 
  with these three starships produced mixed results.  
  Design limitations inherent with the LN-40 meant 
  that it had to be fitted in pairs.  Problems with 
  adapting it to the single-nacelled Monceros required a 
  redesign, with the paired LN-40s mounted on top of 
  its hull in a configuration resembling a Kearsarge 
  class light cruiser.  The LN-40s themselves also did 
  not prove to be as much of a revolution as Leeding 
  had first promised.  True, they were capable of 
  delivering superwarp speeds in excess of warp factor 
  8 for extended durations.  Unfortunately, they had 
  the highest dilithium decay rate of any modern warp 
  engine Starfleet had ever tested.  Running a LN-40 
  equipped starship at superwarp speed would literally 
  burn out its engines in a manner of minutes.  This was 
  a major factor that would have to be overcome if the 
  promise that linear warp technology held were to be 
  realized.  The Procurements Division rejected LN-40 
  technology on this basis.  Endeavour, Monoceros, and 
  Keppler would be the only starships ever fitted with 
  these engines, which they retained when they 
  returned to fleet service.  The LN-40 project was 
  officially abandoned; however, the drive to produce a 
  viable linear warp engine was not. 
   
  It took several more years and two more design 
  iterations before Leeding was ready to submit a new 
  linear warp engine to Starfleet for field testing.  Their 
  final solution to the LN-40’s decay issues was quite 
  radical; however, it worked.  It removed the dilithium 
  converter assemblies from the engines and made it a 
  single, separate assembly within the hull of the 
  starship itself.  A massive matter/antimatter intermix 
  chamber fed the converted energy into the warp 
  engine(s).  This system was also linked into a 
  redesigned impulse engine system, whereby each 
  system could tap off of the other for power.  The 
  obvious advantage to this was that the impulse deck 
  could be used to “cold start” the warp engines, a 
  feature that had never been available on a Class I 
  starship until now.  Likewise, power from the warp 
  drive could be used to jump-start the impulse deck.  
  Both systems now worked together instead of 
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  separately, and both could be operated from each 
  other’s control systems.  Making the impulse deck 
  part of the warp power assembly also had an added 
  benefit, one that was vital to Leeding’s new warp 
  engine design.  In the past, impulse power was not 
  normally used during faster-than-light travel.  The 
  impulse engines were allowed to idle or power 
  auxiliary systems in order to keep their reactors 
  running.  This was necessary but ultimately wasteful.  
  Leeding’s new design used this excess impulse power 
  to reinforce the flux capacitors in the new unified 
  dilithium converter assembly.  This prevented the 
  rapid dilithium decay of the LN-40 design by 
  repeatedly reversing the polarity of the neutron flow, 
  setting up a constant interference field to prevent 
  decay from ever starting in the first place.  It was an 
  engineering kludge, admittedly, but it worked, and 
  that was all that mattered.  The final form of this 
  design was termed the Leeding LN-64 linear warp 
  engine.  It would go on to become the namesake of a 
  whole new generation of Federation starships. 
   
   
   
  Leeding got the chance to try out its new LN-64 with 
  Starfleet’s new strike cruiser program of the late 
  2260s.  This was nothing more than a budget-sized 
  version of the venerable Constitution class starship, 
  falling halfway between a heavy and light cruiser in 
  terms of tonnage and versatility.  By default Cochrane 
  Warp Dynamics, Leeding’s parent company, already 
  had the warp engine contract for this new class of 
  starship, and a prototype was scheduled for 
  construction based on the partially completed (but 
  cancelled) transport/tug Swift.  Leeding’s engineers 
  had the LN-64 ready in time for use with the strike 
  cruiser prototype program.  The Starship Design 
  Bureau was leery of the proposal at first for two 
  reasons.  First, it had not forgotten the unfulfilled 
  promise of the LN-40 program.  Second, it balked at 
  the amount of reconstruction that would be required 
  to convert the prototype, now named Decatur, for 
  the use of LN-64 technology.  In the end it was 
  overruled by no less than a figure than Fleet Admiral 
  Heihachiro Nogura, commander-in-chief of Starfleet.  
  Admiral Nogura was worried about reports that the 
  Klingon Empire was not only modernizing its fleet but 
  also building new starship classes that were better 
  than the best Starfleet had to offer.  Only linear warp 
  technology offered the promise of matching (and 
  ultimately besting) this new Klingon building effort.  
  Admiral Nogura ordered that the Decatur be built 
  using Leeding’s new LN-64 linear warp engines and 
  support systems.  The rest, as they say, is history.  
  Decatur showed it would work, the rebuilt heavy 
  cruiser Enterprise validated the technology beyond all 
  doubt during the Vejur Crisis of 2267, and linear warp 
  technology went on to become the lynchpin in 
  Starfleet’s new conversion and building program.  It is 
  a technology that has proven itself over the past two 
  decades and still continues strong today. 
   
   
   
  Despite its growing pains, despite its costs, and 
  despite the shortcuts that had to be taken along the 
  way, Starfleet’s linear warp program of the 2270s 
  was without doubt a great success.  This allowed it 
  to keep its fleet on a par with the new-build classes 
  of the Klingons and Romulans at considerably less 
  cost than it would have taken to build a whole new 
  fleet.  It ensured that these newly upgraded starships 
  would remain viable fleet assets until a new 
  generation came along to replace them.  Finally, it 
  gave Starfleet new prestige among the masses as a 
  defensive force fully capable of delivering on its 
  commitments.  Starfleet had reached what was to be 
  the zenith of its popularity since the founding of the 
  Federation.  The era that followed, though, the two 
  decades between that zenith and today, would see 
  Starfleet fall to an almost equal low in a web of 
  politics and conspiracy that was, to be honest, largely 
  of its own doing. 
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  MAJOR EVENTS 
  2251-2275 
   
  2251 
  • 
  Now that the Four Years War is over, Star Fleet 
  begins to downsize again.  Large quantities of older 
  starships will be decommissioned in the next two 
  decades, with the Baton Rouge generation being the 
  last to go.  For every two older ships that are 
  decommissioned, though, one new Class I starship 
  replaces them. 
  • 
  Phaser and photon torpedo backfits begin for all 
  starships that will remain in service.  These will be 
  performed on a ship-to-ship basis given yard space and 
  duty schedule.  This backfit will take almost a decade 
  to complete. 
  • 
  Plans are made to remove the bowling alleys from 
  older Class I starships so fitted and replace them with 
  extended shuttlecraft facilities.  Star Fleet needs the 
  extra room for a wide range of new types of 
  shuttlecraft that will be entering service in the near 
  future.  This changeover will take place on a ship-to-
  ship basis over the next two decades. 
  • 
  TacFleet is established as a rapid response force on 
  the Klingon border in the event of future conflict. 
  • 
  The Allen's Planet Massacre is one 
  of 
  the 
  most 
  unusual 
  Kzinti 
  "incidents" in Federation history in 
  that Kzinti deal justice to fellow 
  Kzinti for the needless slaughter of 
  some 3,000 Federation colonists.  
  The only survivor, an infant named William S. Gerard, 
  is taken in by the Kzinti official in charge of the border 
  ("the Marquis") and raised as one of his own.  Gerard's 
  parents and other relatives were among those slain in 
  the massacre.  Gerard will grow to young adulthood as 
  the only human ever reared by a Kzinti foster parent. 
  Half of the crew of the
  • 
   heavy cruiser Farragut is killed 
   
  252 
  • 
  Star Fleet officially adopts the PB-47 “Titiac” 
  circumferential warp engine for its use.  It will be 
  installed on all new build starships and backfitted onto 
  existing compatible vessels as duty schedules and yard 
  space permit. 
  • 
  Dr. Richard Daystrom builds his 
  first 
  working 
  prototype 
  multitronic computer.  It will be 
  another ten years and four 
  iterations later before the final 
  design, the M-5 Multitronic 
  Unit, is ready for testing and evaluation.  The M-5 will 
  eventually fail during Star Fleet acceptance tests in 
  2262.  Portions of it will form the basis of the 
  Duotronic Mark III currently in use by Star Fleet. 
   
  2253 
  • 
  27 Surya class frigates are placed in the Reserve 
  Force as part of Star Fleet's post-war reduction-in-
  force.  They will remain there until 2264. 
  • 
  Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise 
  files an official report over the current status of 
  Orion's slave trade.  The information it contains is so 
  shocking and outrageous that the Federation Council 
  will eventually endorse a boycott of Orion and its 
  colonies unless it renounces the slave trade.  Orion 
  will appear to concede; however, the underground 
  market in "green animal women slaves" will remain 
  strong for decades to come. 
  • 
  The Lockheed T-4 "Work Bee" multipurpose utility 
  vehicle enters service. 
  • 
  Hikaru Sulu is accepted into the Star Fleet Academy 
  Command School. 
  • 
  Completion of a major naval base at Mastocal marks 
  the return of the Klingons in force to its shared border 
  with the Federation.  A new war between the two 
  seems inevitable in the not-too-distant future. 
  on the planet Tycho IV by a vampire cloud creature.  
  Among the survivors is a young lieutenant named 
  James T. Kirk, who on his first deep space posting. 
  2
   
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  2254 
  • 
  The Bode class scouts are retired from service. 
  The Detroyat class heavy destroyers are reassigned as 
  long-range scouts as part of Star Fleet's overall 
  reduction-in-force.  The real objective of this move is 
  to keep these v
  • 
  aluable starships on active duty status 
  ies with the Klingon 
  • 
  he first of the old 
  o be fully upgraded 
  ns.  The rest of the 
  eive this upgrade 
  in the event of renewed hostilit
  Empire. 
  The Excalibur (NCC-1705) is t
  Constitution class heavy cruisers t
  to Bonhomme Richard specificatio
  Constitution class starships will rec
  over the next six years as yard space and duty 
  schedule permits.  The Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the 
  last of the class to receive this upgrade in late 2260. 
   
  All Detroyat class heavy destroyers are reclassified as 
  heavy scouts and refitted as such.  The only exception 
   
  2255 
  • 
  • 
  All Surya class frigates still on active duty status begin 
  receiving phaser upgrades. 
  • 
  Orion officially renounces its slave trade due to intense 
  Federation diplomatic and political pressure. 
  • 
  The Federation class dreadnought enters service. 
  • 
  The Star's End colony convoy is the largest such to 
  date, with 42 Cochrane class colonial transports 
  ferrying over 100,000 colonists to their new home.  
  This event marks the high point of the service career 
  of the Cochrane class. 
  • 
  • 
  of border space.  This is the first major 
  • 
   
  2257 
  • 
  The Avenger class heavy frigate design is evaluated 
  using the newly converted U.S.S. Resolution as a 
  prototype ship. 
  • 
  The 
  Federation 
  destroyer Xerxes 
  is involved in a 
  battle with the 
  Kzinti 
  over 
  a 
  newly discovered 
  stasis box.  This 
  is 
  the 
  first 
  • 
   
  2258 
  • 
  r Fleet vessels at their first 
  available port-of-call. 
  The Hopi class research vessel enters service. 
   
  is the Resolution (NCC-1101).  It is stricken from the 
  class to serve as the prototype for the Avenger class 
  heavy frigate. 
  • 
  PB-32 warp engine and phaser upgrades begin on the 
  Ptolemy class transport/tugs.  They are among the 
  last “original” Class I starships so upgraded.  The 
  additional power from the new warp engines will now 
  allow them to tow two transport containers at a time 
  without difficulty. 
   
  2256 
  • 
  The S.S. Beagle (NCC-F1307) is lost somewhere near 
  the UFC 892 (Magna Roma) system. 
  Drs. Mornay and Perrin begin working on transwarp 
  theory. 
  Federation and Klingon forces clash over a wide 
  expanse 
  conflict between the two since the end of the Four 
  Years War. 
  Lt. Cmdr. James T. Kirk is promoted to commander 
  and named as executive officer of the destroyer 
  Alexander.  He is one of the youngest starship 
  executive officers in Starfleet. 
  incident on record regarding Kzinti interest in lost 
  Slaver technology.  The Xerxes is successful in keeping 
  the Kzinti from the stasis box ... this time. 
  The heavy cruiser Potemkin (NCC-1711) is removed 
  from fleet duty and reassigned to Star Fleet Academy 
  as a training vessel. 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Defiant (NCC-1717) recovers a 
  damaged 4-man Klingon shuttlecraft in deep space.  
  The event is considered something of an intelligence 
  coup due to the data retrieved from its computer 
  databanks. 
  • 
  All contact is lost with the Omicron Ceti III colony. 
  Star Fleet Command adopts a "unique ship, unique 
  insignia" uniform policy. 
  • 
  A new generation of portable phaser technology 
  enters service, beginning with an improved phaser rifle 
  (weapons), phaser bore (mining tool), and phaser 
  torch (cutting/welding tool).  These are issued 
  immediately to all Sta
  • 
  • 
  The Altair class merchantman enters service. 
  • 
  The Coronado class through-deck cruiser enters 
  service.  This is Star Fleet's first purpose-built 
  shuttlecarrier class since the end of the Four Years 
  War (2246-2250). 
  • 
  Philanthropist Carter Winston is 
  apparently lost in space while on one 
  of his characteristic missions of 
  charity.  No spacecraft or body is 
  ever recovered. 
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  2259 
  • 
  moted to fleet captain 
  in charge of heavy cruiser operations.  His successor 
  is Commander James T. Kirk, executive officer of the 
  • 
   becomes the 
  captain in 
   when he is 
  the starship 
   to wait just 
  ept his new 
  , due to the 
   of the 
  der. 
  • 
  acquainted 
  t starship remaining on the 
  • 
   when it 
  is ordered back out on 
  a special mission to 
  r while 
  ill have several 
  me, either 
  sions that the 
  k (for testing of 
  Captain Christopher Pike is pro
  destroyer Alexander and one of Star Fleet's most 
  promising command candidates. 
  James T. Kirk
  youngest starship 
  Star Fleet history
  given command of 
  Enterprise.  Kirk has
  over a month to acc
  command, though
  conflicting duty schedules
  Enterprise and Alexan
  The Enterprise and Alexander meet for a mid-space 
  rendezvous in order to transfer Kirk aboard for his 
  new command.  Pike helps Kirk become 
  2260-226
  The 
   Starbase 12 and 
  unde
   voyage under the 
  com
   The Enterprise will 
  surpa
  llation as the most famous 
  will 
  explo
   
  with his new command as the Enterprise travels back 
  to Starbase 13 for the end of Pike's five-year mission.  
  The Enterprise is the las
  Bonhomme Richard refit schedule, which is scheduled 
  to begin at Starbase 13 as soon as it arrives. 
  The Enterprise has 
  only just arrived at 
  Starbase 13
  the northern edge of 
  the galaxy.  There it 
  will encounter the Galactic Barrier, becoming the first 
  starship known to have survived the encounter. 
  • 
  The Enterprise returns to Starbase 13 for repairs.  Its 
  internal systems damage due to its encounter with 
  the Galactic Barrier is found to be so great that it will 
  be sent on ahead to Starbase 12 for a more extensive 
  refurbishing than originally planned.  The official start 
  of Kirk's five-year mission is delayed by a full yea
  the Enterprise remains in drydock. 
  • 
  Captain Kirk will honor a tradition among Enterprise 
  commanders by familiarizing himself with his ship over 
  the next year.  He does so while the ship is being 
  rebuilt 
  and 
  upgraded 
  to 
  Bonhomme 
  Richard 
  specifications.  He and his new crew w
  adventures together during this ti
  independently or on the few occa
  Enterprise is allowed out of spacedoc
  various portions of its new upgrade). 
   
  5 
  newly rebuilt Enterprise leaves
  rtakes its most famous five-year
  mand of Captain James T. Kirk. 
  ss its sister ship Conste
  Class I starship of all time.  Both Kirk and his bridge crew 
  become public celebrities due to the tales of their 
  its during this five-year period. 
   
  NOTES: 
  in this 
   
  list Kirk as having been 31 
  e received command of the 
  actually reflects the start of 
  ission in command of the 
  r 
  various 
   
  Some historians list 2259 as the start date for 
  Captain Kirk’s tenure aboard the Enterprise.  This 
  is due to his actually receiving command 
  year and the Enterpris
  galactic rim. 
  Some historians also 
  years old at the time h
  Enterprise.  This date 
  Kirk’s first five-year m
  Enterprise, which was delayed by a full year.  This 
  was due to the encounter with the Galactic Barrie
  e’s special mission to the 
  and the ship’s subsequent upgrade to Bonhomme 
  Richard specifications. 
   
  Kirk’s first five-year mission aboard the Enterprise 
  was actually closer to six years.  This was due to 
  yard time for her Bonhomme Richard and later 
  Achernar refits, as well as other times spent in 
  drydock to repair damage sustained in 
  missions. 
   
  2260 
  • 
  S
  Star Fleet to Starfleet 
  effective this year. 
  • 
  The building of the Epsilon class monitor stations along 
  the border with the Klingon Empire is approved. 
  • 
  A new form of ablative armor is tested on the 
  Coventry class frigate Constant (NCC-1236).  This is 
  the first use of ablative armor by Star Fleet since the 
  Romulan War. 
  In yet another change 
  of 
  official 
  policy, 
  tarfleet changes the 
  form of its name from 
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  • 
  There is a marked upsurge in Federation-Klingon 
  border incidents beginning this year.  Notable incidents 
  include an attack on the transport/tug Cassini (NCC-
  3824) by a Klingon F-5 frigate and an assault on the 
  old light cruiser Texas (NCC-900) by a Klingon D-7 
  battlecruiser while trying to rescue a stranded landing 
  party. 
  • 
  A Federation-wide survey reveals that the seven Star 
  Fleet Academy campii currently have a student 
  population of 85,397 and a permanent faculty of 
  38. 
  sufficiently distributed throughout the fleet. 
  • 
  f 359 system.  These involved three full 
  • 
  • 
  701) while trying to escape 
  coveries in the history of Federation 
  science. 
  • 
  The Alamo class defense stations enter service. 
  The Derf class fleet tender enters service. 
  tardate 1709 marks the 
   have engaged in direct 
  Federation since the end of 
  Earth outpost stations are 
  Vas'Hatham class P-1A War 
  it is tracked down and destroyed 
  , the 
  t
  d.  This wi
  • 
  d in order to withstand assault by Romulan 
  • 
  This is a two-
  .  Both are issued 
  ssels at their first 
  • 
   weapons 
  he 
   
  2261
  • 
  • 
  b
  to delta radiation during a training accident.  
  , the 
   crippled 
  • 
  • 
  14,0
  • 
  New designs for Star Fleet 
  dress and duty uniforms, as 
  well as anti-exposure and 
  radiation suits, are approved.  
  The changeover is scheduled to 
  take place within six months 
  (2260) once the necessary 
  replicator patterns have been 
  • 
  The changeover to the new Star Fleet regular, dress, 
  and special duty uniforms takes place during this year.  
  The old-style uniforms will still remain in limited service 
  for the next year until the changeover is complete. 
  Star Fleet holds its largest war games exercises to 
  date in the Wol
  fleets in a simulated invasion of Federation space.  The 
  exercise convinces many Klingon officials that Star 
  Fleet is arming for war against the Empire. 
  Orion pirates destroy Deep Space Station K-4. 
  The light-speed breakaway factor, aka "the slingshot 
  effect" for traveling backwards and forwards in time, is 
  successfully employed for the first time by the 
  starship Enterprise (NCC-1
  the gravity well of the dying planet Psi 2000.  The 
  Enterprise succeeds in its escape but is thrown three 
  days back in time as a result.  This time travel side 
  effect was not anticipated in the original intermix 
  formula for "cold-start" of a starship's warp engines.  
  It will prove to be one of the most important 
  accidental dis
  • 
  • 
  The Neutral Zone Incident of s
  first time that the Romulans
  hostile action against the 
  the Romulan War.  Four 
  destroyed by a Romulan 
  Eagle cruiser before 
  by the starship Enterprise.  This also marks the first 
  appearance of the Romulan cloaking device
  powerful Romulan plasma torpedo, and the first face-
  o-face encounter (via viewscreen) between humans 
  and Romulans.  The Vulcan ancestry of the Romulans 
  is thus confirme
  as the Battle of Icarus IV, so named for the comet 
  that the commander of the Romulan ship used 
  unsuccessfully in and effort to distract the Enterprise 
  from its pursuit. 
  Star Fleet begins rebuilding its destroyed Romulan 
  outpost stations.  All of the others will be significantly 
  upgrade
  plasma torpedoes. 
  The Agronska Mark 30 
  handheld phaser enters 
  service.  
  part weapon, consisting 
  of a small, handheld 
  portable unit (Type I) 
  and 
  a 
  pistol-type 
  upgrade (Type II) assembly into w
  can fit for increased firepower
  immediately to all Star Fleet ve
  available port-of-call. 
  The Marfak "Sting" series of personal phaser
  hich the smaller unit 
  is developed.  Types 1 and 2 are somewhat similar to 
  the Agronska Mark 30 Types I and II but have a 
  different color scheme and are more streamlined in 
  design.  When adopted, these will be known as t
  Type III and Type IV by Starfleet in order to lessen 
  confusion with the Agronska units.  Marfak will also 
  develop the Type V, a rifle-based lock-on upgrade for 
  the Type IV.  The new Marfak units will not enter 
  service with Starfleet until the late 2260s. 
   
  The automated tanker Skageraak (NCC-G504) is lost 
  in the Delta Triangle. 
  Starfleet General Order 7, the only 
  one for which violation is punishable 
  y death, is temporarily suspended 
  so the starship Enterprise can 
  transport Fleet Captain Christopher 
  Pike to Talos IV as its new Federation 
  representative.  Captain Pike had 
  been severely handicapped due to recent and severe 
  exposure 
  In exchange for his presence among them
  Talosians help him escape the limits of his
  ll be known to the Romulans 
  body by means of their tremendous mental powers.  
  Pike will eventually be granted ambassadorial status 
  and remain with the Talosians until his death by 
  natural causes. 
  The Shore Leave Planet (Omicron 
  Delta IV) is discovered. 
  The 
  Gorn 
  Hegemony 
  is 
  encountered for the first time in 
  the Cestus III Incident.  The 
  Federation colony on Cestus III is 
  destroyed by the Gorn, who 
  misunderstood it as an attempt to invade their space.  
  
  The intervention of the Metrons in the affair heads off 
  a potential interstellar war. 
  The starship Enterprise makes its first and most 
  famous trip into 
  • 
  Earth’s past when a near-encounter 
  are eventually ruled “a natural 
   the sequential train of 
   
  with a previously unknown “black star” hurtles it back 
  in time to 1969 (Terran Old Calendar).  The event, and 
  the actions Captain Kirk and his crew take to return to 
  their own time, 
  accidental occurrence in
  historical events.” 
   
   
   
  NOTE: 
  This 1969 event is a well-known common point 
  between the Prime One and Prime Two timelines 
  ich Federation personnel had 
  f altering the 
  r own future 
  re information 
  logs of the 
  rdates 3113.2 
  of 
   
  (see Volume 01).  It is also the first temporal event 
  in DTI records in wh
  to deal with the ramifications o
  timestream, thus affecting thei
  existence.  Midshipmen desiring mo
  on this event should consult the 
  starship Enterprise (NCC-1701), sta
  to 3114.1, as well as the official DTI summation 
  the event, via the Academy Intranet. 
   
  • 
  • 
  s 
  rs are almost 
  ld of Ceti Alpha V 
   take over the 
  uch higher. 
  • 
  The full power and import of the Time Planet is 
  discovered by a landing party from the starship 
  Enterprise.  It will become one of the most carefully 
  guarded secrets in the whole of the Federation, with 
  only a few select personnel allowed on its surface in 
  the decades that follow. 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Hood is 
  ambushed by a lone Kzinti 
  cruiser whose crew, tired of 
  treaty constraints, is seeking 
  glory in battle.  The Hood 
  manages 
  to 
  survive 
  the 
  encounter, thanks largely to 
  the quick thinking of Ensign 
  Shiboline M’ress, a young Caitian communications 
  officer.  She will receive a promotion to full lieutenant 
  as a reward for her bravery. 
  262 
  • 
  • 
  ent from this 
  treaty is a technology exchange:  the Romulans get 
  modern starship and warp engine technology (in the 
   D’Kel Brakt (the Briar 
  • 
  s both 
   
  vy 
   (NCC-
  The Department of Temporal Investigations (DTI) is set 
  up to deal with future events involving interferences 
  with the known timestream. 
  The 
  DY-100 
  class spaceship 
  Botany Bay i
  recovered after 
  almost 
  two 
  centuries adrift 
  in space.  Khan 
  Noonien Singh and his followe
  immediately exiled to the remote wor
  after their discovery for trying to
  starship that rescued them from their enforced 
  suspended animation. 
  • 
  The “Four Days War” between the Federation and the 
  Klingon Empire is stopped by the Organians, a powerful 
  race of energy beings, who impose the terms of the 
  Organian Peace Treaty on both sides.  Some 22 star 
  systems and almost a hundred starships (on both 
  sides) are involved in the brief but fiercely fought 
  conflict.  Starfleet loses 17 starships; however, 
  Klingon losses are m
   
  2
  • 
  Sheridan’s World is the first to be jointly developed by 
  both the Federation and the Klingons under the terms 
  of the Organian Peace Treaty. 
  A new generation of Starfleet fighter (F-type) and 
  attack (A-type) shuttles enters service.  These include 
  the F-types 14 and 15, as well as the A-type 10.  
  These replace the older F-type 4 and A-type 6. 
  The Treaty of S’marba marks the start of a tenuous 
  but ultimately profitable military and trade alliance 
  between the Klingons and Romulans that benefits 
  both.  The most portentous developm
  form of older Klingon starships) in exchange for the 
  cloaking device and plasma weaponry.  This alliance will 
  last until the Battle of Klach
  Patch) in 2270. 
  An automated interg
  “berserker” destroy
  the heavy scout Mitannic
  (NCC-1105) and the hea
  cruiser Constellation
  1017), the class prototype 
  and one of the most famous Class I starships in 
  Starfleet, before it is successfully stopped by the 
  heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701). 
  alactic 
  - 11 - 
  
  • 
  arfleet personnel and carrying 
  • 
   
  Six Cochrane class transports and their escorts, 
  manned by 1,250 St
  12,500 colonists to the world of New Demios, vanish 
  without a trace. 
  First contact with the “mirror universe” takes place at 
  the planet Halka. 
   
   
   
  NOTE: 
  The date for this event varies by several years 
  from the perspective of the specific Prime or 
  e passes at different 
   
  First documented crossover point between the 
  Prime One and Mirror One timelines. 
   
   
  Mirror timeline involved.  This space-time 
  phenomena is known as the chroniton variance 
  principle, suggesting that tim
  rates in different periods across the timestreams 
  of the multiverse in order to eventually cancel out 
  major variances among them.  It is the multiverse 
  analog of the Blitnovich Limitation Effect. 
   
  • 
  • 
  rtly) 
  • 
  c computer system 
  rs Hood 
  (NCC-1707) and Lexington (NCC-1703).  The 
  him years to recover. 
  601), and the transport/tug Keppler 
  (NCC-3816) 
  are 
  all 
  pulled from active duty 
  status for use as test 
  beds for linear warp 
  technology.  They are 
  fitted with early, self-
  contained LN-40 linear 
  warp engines for performance evaluations.  These 
  three starships are chosen because they are 
  representative of the three dominant types of design 
  that comprise most of the Class I fleet.  The LN-40 will 
  never see widespread fleet use because at best it 
  represents only a marginal improvement over the tried 
  and true PB-47 circumferential warp engine.  Even so, 
  data gleaned from the LN-40 test program will aid in 
  the development of the LN-52, LN-60/64, and 
  subsequent linear warp engine designs shortl
  thereafter.  All three starships will be returned to 
  2263 
  • 
  Class I starships enter service to replace them. 
  • 
  The 
  last 
  of the Anton class cruisers are 
  • 
  lass I starships fitted 
  • 
  s barred from visitors at the 
  s. 
  • 
  reservers is confirmed by the 
  reserver asteroid deflector on 
  ram III). 
  • 
  to deploy photon torpedo 
  he Federation. 
  Sherman’s Planet is successfully claimed by the 
  Federation after a Klingon plot is exposed to poison 
  grain supplies to its colonists. 
  This 
  year’s 
  Babel 
  Conference is almost 
  disrupted 
  by 
  the 
  Orions, who fail (both 
  overtly and cove
  to keep the dilithium-
  rich planet of Coridan 
  from 
  joining 
  the 
  Federation. 
  A war games exercise
  Daystrom’s new M-5 Multitroni
  goes horribly wrong, resulting in the deaths of all 
  hands aboard the heavy cruiser Excalibur (NCC-1705) 
  and significant damage to the heavy cruise
  computer is successfully deactivated before it can do 
  any more harm.  Dr. Daystrom will suffer an almost 
  total mental collapse because of this incident, from 
  which it will take 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Endeavour (NCC-1716), the scout 
  Monoceros (NCC-
  y 
  fleet duty within two years.  All will retaining their new 
  LN-40s, thus giving the rest of Starfleet a preview of 
  what awaits it in the near future. 
   
  The Baton Rouge class 
  cruisers are officially 
  removed from service 
  effective 
  this 
  year.  
  Many remain on station 
  “unofficially” for the next 
  three years until enough 
  decommissioned. 
  The Achernar class heavy cruiser enters service.  
  These will be the last major C
  with circumferential warp 
  The Melkotian system i
  insistence of its inhabitant
  The existence of the P
  discovery of a working P
  the planet Amerind (Mi
  The Klingons begin 
  technology, presumably stolen from t
  drive. 
   involving Dr. Richard 
  - 12 - 
  
  • 
  The 
  veral 
  olding 
  d to 
  oner 
  e reveals no secrets, her 
  ion historian Tomak 
  • 
  • 
   
  Starfleet obtains an example of a Romulan cloaking 
  device in the Enterprise Incident.  An unexpected 
  bonus is the capture of the Romulan fleet commander, 
  who had attempted to prevent 
  the theft of the device from her 
  new 
  D-7 
  battlecruiser 
  (a 
  present from the Klingons).  
  commander 
  spends 
  se
  months in a Starfleet h
  facility before being returne
  the Romulans in a pris
  exchange.  Although sh
  voluntary discussions with Federat
  of Vulcan concerning the Romulan War will result in 
  the book Why We Fight The Federation.  It will be one 
  of three key insights into Romulan history and culture 
  in this era. 
  The stars Minara and Beta Niobe go nova. 
  The heavy cruiser Defiant (NCC-1717) is lost in a 
  space-time interphase near Tholian space.  It will not 
  be learned until later that the mirror-Tholians were 
  the ones responsible for creating the interphase in the 
  first place. 
   
   
   
  NOTE: 
  ction 31, this induced interphase 
  According to Se
  is th  only known fixed crossover point across the 
  e
  Prime One and Two timelines, with the Mirror 
  timelines providing the conduit. 
   
   
  onnel and visitors die 
  • 
  The 84-parsec-wide charged interstellar plasma mass 
  known as the Badlands is encountered for the first 
  time in a previously unexplored area near Romulan 
  space.  Subsequent explorations in and around the 
  Badlands will eventually lead to first contact with the 
  Cardassian Union in 2276. 
  • 
  Memory Alpha is attacked by a group of non-corporeal 
  life forms looking for a host body.  Its memory core is 
  burned out and all of its pers
  from massive brain trauma.  The threat is eventually 
  negated and the rebuilding of Memory Alpha begins. 
   
  Achernar upgrades take place for many older Class I 
  heavy cruisers in service.  Most of these are a partial 
  conversion, involving the installation 
  • 
  of improved 
  ation room 
  • 
  rnar upgrade.  This was not planned since 
  her current warp engines were only four years old at 
  the time of this refit (having been installed in 2260).  
  They are replaced anyway, due to extreme stresses 
  placed upon them when they reached a speed of Warp 
  14.1 before being shut down, due to fused integrator 
  controls near an abandoned Kalandian outpost.  This 
  will be the highest speed ever achieved by a PB-series 
  circumferential warp engine under its own power. 
  • 
  Experimental life-support belts are issued this year to 
  all Starfleet personnel for extra-curricular use in 
  hostile environments.  They will last only one year in 
  Starfleet use, eventually withdrawn in favor of cheaper 
  (and proven), old-fashioned EVA suits. 
  • 
  The research ship S.S. Aliquippa (NCC-1438) is lost in
  the Delta Triangle. 
  • 
  The LN-64 linear warp engine 
  2264 
  • 
  bserved in combat 
  for the first time. 
  • 
  The galactic core is visited by a Federation starship for 
  • 
  • 
  econd pelagic planet ever 
  discovered within Federation space. 
  • 
  The Kzinti fail in 
  stasis box, this time by attempting
  Federation warp shuttle lured i
  bridge facilities, an early holographic recre
  (predecessor to the holodeck), uprated weaponry, and 
  a redesigned shuttlecraft bay and below-deck 
  maintenance area. 
  Enterprise receives new PB-47 warp engines as part 
  of her Ache
   
  is developed. 
   
  Klingon stasis field generators are o
  the first time. 
  The long-lost Terra Ten space colony is found on an 
  unstable world, its descendants reduced in size due to 
  spiroid epsilon radiation.  They are eventually relocated 
  to the Federation colony world of Verdanis. 
  • 
  The secret of the Delta Triangle is revealed when the 
  starship Enterprise is temporarily trapped within.  
  Enterprise is successful in escaping (along with the 
  Klingon battlecruiser Klothos) thanks to a plan drawn 
  up by First Officer Spock. 
  Argo becomes only the s
  their second effort to secure a Slaver 
   to steal one from a 
  nto a trap at Beta 
  - 13 - 
  
  Lyrae.  The intelligent Slaver weapon discovered inside 
  the box eventually self-destructs to avoid capture, 
  killing most of the Kzinti and crippling their ship.  The 
  Federation vessel and its crew escape unharmed. 
  • 
  Ambassador Robert April takes his last trip aboard the 
  starship Enterprise.  He was its original commander 
  when it first launched on 4 July 2223. 
  • 
  The Phoenix Process of “resurrection” is discovered by 
  Omnedon – and promptly banned throughout all of 
  known space. 
  w.  Its 
  • 
  ling 
  • 
  events of the 
  • 
  space stations, known to most 
  cks, enter service. 
  • 
   renew their trade and 
  military agreements.  
  Starfleet comes up with its own improved cloaking 
  • 
  • 
  • 
   an 
  from returning 
   
  • 
  The Korezima, a Klingon 
  D-7 battlecruiser that 
  had been abandoned due 
  to an encounter with 
  the Chatalia, is found 
  and recovered intact by 
  the cruiser Mosco
  self-destruct system had failed to activate.  This is a 
  major intelligence coup for Starfleet and a major 
  embarrassment to the Klingons.  The incident will 
  cause the Klingons to accelerate production of the 
  new D-8 K’t’inga class battlecruisers, with the first 
  thought to have entered service later this year.  It is 
  the Moscow’s last action prior to its decommissioning. 
  It is believed that the Kzinti and the Mirak Star League 
  enter into a joint trade agreement around this time.  
  The Mirak, with help from the Orions, begin smugg
  modern starship parts and technology to their Kzinti 
  brethren.  This will enable the Kzinti to build their first 
  true space fleet since the end of the Earth-Kzin Wars. 
  The experimental dreadnought Star Empire (NCC-
  2116) is destroyed following the 
  Rittenhouse Scandal. 
  The Ournal class 
  Starfleet personnel as Spacedo
  The Klingons and Romulans
  • 
  device.  It is superior to Klingon and Romulan versions 
  in many respects, with the additional abilities of 
  generating 
  multiple 
  sensor 
  “echoes” 
  with 
  contradictory readings.  The power requirements for 
  this new cloaking device are so high that it can only be 
  fitted in capital ships. 
  The discovery of the Eridam Papers at an abandoned 
  Romulan base provides the Federation’s second key 
  insight into Romulan history and culture in this era. 
  • 
  The Enterprise undergoes its last major in-service 
  overhaul at Starbase 23 prior to the end of its five-
  year mission under Captain Kirk. 
  A Klingon prototype battleship is encountered in 
  combat for the first time.  The design is not much 
  larger than a Federation dreadnought; even so, it is 
  believed to be a predecessor of the rumored 
  Kar’harmer class.  Starfleet comes out the victor, 
  although just barely.  This incident will later be cited as 
  an example to justify Starfleet’s linear warp upgrade 
  program of the 2270s. 
  The heavy cruiser Constitution is heavily damaged in 
  battle in what is Starfleet’s first encounter with
  Klingon D-8 K’t’inga class battlecruiser.  The starship 
  manages to limp back to Starbase 27 for repairs and 
  is laid up for months.  This prevents it 
  to the Sol System in time to be the first Class I heavy 
  cruiser to receive a linear warp upgrade. 
  226
  • 
  • 
  gely to Klingon technology 
  • 
  gin 
   for duty despite rapidly 
  • 
  ol 
  5 
  The long-lost L-5 traveling space city Wanderer is 
  found in the vicinity of Polo’s Bolos, a binary pair of 
  black holes.  The craft is successfully diverted from 
  imminent destruction. 
  Starfleet begins receiving intelligence that the 
  Romulans are in the process of developing and 
  deploying a whole new series of warp-capable starship 
  classes, thanks lar
  exchanges. 
  The Kiaga and Agilis class perimeter action ships be
  to be cycled in and out of the Starfleet Reserve at this 
  time.  They are still needed
  approaching obsolescence. 
  Fleet Admiral Heihachiro 
  Nogura 
  orders 
  the 
  inception of the Class I 
  linear 
  refit 
  program.  
  The first Class I starship 
  to return to the S
  System will be the first 
  to 
  undergo 
  a 
  total 
  conversion 
  to 
  linear 
  warp technology.  This 
  move is in response to 
  the Klingon deployment of the improved D-8 K’t’inga 
  class battlecruiser.  Coincidentally, this upgrade will be 
  taking place at the same time that the early Class I 
  starships are scheduled for their second ESLP refits.  
  This will ensure that they remain in Starfleet service 
  for at least two more decades. 
  - 14 - 
  
   
  • 
  The starship Enterprise (NCC-1701) is the first Class I 
  starship to return to Earth following the end of its 
  current five-year mission.  Per Fleet Admiral Nogura’s 
  orders, it is berthed in the spacedock at the San 
  Francisco 
  Navy 
  Yards 
  normally 
  reserved 
  for 
  dreadnought construction in preparation for its linear 
  warp conversion.  The deconstruction process alone, 
  in which the ship’s individual components are 
  separated and stripped to their trititanium frames, will 
  take ten months.  The actual rebuilding and conversion 
  will take another eighteen (Terran) months. 
  • 
  James T. Kirk is promoted to rear admiral and 
  appointed as Starfleet Chief of Operations in honor for 
  his exploits during his historic five-year mission aboard 
  the Enterprise.  It is a promotion that his best friends, 
  s his new rank and posting. 
  • 
  ings in the ship’s new design and 
  ommendations.  This will 
  e of the Enterprise once her 
  al intended configuration 
  r the Tikopai class heavy 
  • 
   cruisers are authorized for 
   the same manner as 
  om their current missions.  
  e Enterprise class heavy 
   class in Starfleet’s new 
  gram. 
  • 
   
   
  NOTE: 
  Starfleet’s linear warp program of the 2270s and 
  2280s is sometimes called the Class Ib Program in 
  certain reference works.  This comes from one of 
  Fleet Admiral Nogura’s memos on the long-term 
  development of the linear warp technology 
  program.  “Class Ia” were the original Class I 
  starships.  “Class Ib” represented the new linear 
  warp generation.  “Class Ic” was the generation 
  that was to follow both (Excelsior, et al). 
   
   
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  sters 28 
   
  2266 
  • 
  ost 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  ps 
  that support specific Starfleet vessels 
  Spock of Vulcan and Dr. Leonard McCoy, are against 
  and both try unsuccessfully to get him to refuse it for 
  his own good.  Both will resign their Starfleet 
  commissions and leave the service after he refuses 
  their advice and accept
  • 
  The Ranger class scout enters service. 
  Commander Montgomery Scott, former chief engineer 
  of the Enterprise, is placed in charge of the ship’s 
  linear warp upgrade.  He immediately spots a number 
  of shortcom
  vociferously argues against them, finally appealing all 
  the way up the chain of command to Fleet Admiral 
  Nogura himself.  Nogura will accept most, but not all, 
  of Commander Scott’s rec
  change the final appearanc
  refit is complete.  The origin
  later forms the basis fo
  cruiser. 
  Five additional Class I heavy
  linear warp upgrades, in
  Enterprise, as they return fr
  These will be known as th
  cruisers, the first starship
  linear warp technology pro
  A new warp factor scale is proposed due to the 
  expected speed of linear warp starships.  This will 
  eventually replace the current linear scale by the turn 
  of the century with an asymptotic table, with Warp 10 
  (infinity) as its maximum (and unachievable) speed. 
  Tests begin on the new LN-64 linear warp engines 
  intended for use with the linear warp program. 
  The 
  “Tandem” 
  series 
  shuttlecraft, accessories, 
  and warp booster sleds 
  enter service. 
  The Pearl class warp-powered mobile spacedock 
  enters service. 
  At this time Starfleet Command admini
  starbases, 17 deep space stations, and 741 
  outpost/monitor/auxiliary 
  stations 
  with 
  a 
  total 
  complement of about 800,000. 
  Following successful component deconstruction, the 
  rebuilding of the Enterprise with linear warp 
  technology begins. 
  The Romulans obtain photon torpedo technology, m
  • 
  likely from the Klingons.  They will make little use of it, 
  though, maintaining their preference for plasma-based 
  weaponry. 
  The Gagarin class corvette enters service. 
  Starfleet once again changes 
  uniform styles, this time in 
  reflection 
  of 
  the 
  impending 
  changes coming to the fleet.  
  Improved fabricators will be 
  installed on all Starfleet Class I 
  and Class II starships in the years 
  to come, allowing Starfleet personnel to have their 
  clothing directly materialized on them.  These 
  fabricators will be integrated into new sonic showers 
  in crew and personnel quarters in all Starfleet facilities 
  and starships. 
  Starfleet reverts to a standardized division insignia 
  badge for all uniforms.  The design chosen is the 
  arrowhead of the heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-
  1701), in honor of the fame and prestige its exploits 
  under Rear Admiral James T. Kirk have brought 
  Starfleet.  The old-style, ship-specific emblems will be 
  maintained on an unofficial basis by the Friends of 
  Starfleet, the Starfleet Association, and civilian grou
  - 15 - 
  
  • 
  The “tribble ship” S.S. Mundy is found adrift and 
  abandoned in the vicinity of Starbase 21. 
    Instead, 
  she will be repaired sufficiently for use as a fleet 
  auxiliary training ship, providing relief for the Potemkin 
  • 
  .  It 
  e
  g;” 
  mulan fleet in action, 
  plus several Klingon starship classes previously 
  undocumented. 
  ,
  d for all Class I 
   for their next 
  I starships that 
   will be removed 
  eir next periodic 
  s.   This stepping-
   
  2267  
  esigns must be 
   must be 
  • 
  • 
  operation in later years. 
  as part of Project Citadel.  This 
   will later form the basis for 
  n class command cruisers.  The 
  voked by the Klingons near the 
   the first test for the converted 
  ties. 
  • 
   
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Essex is severely damaged while 
  making a port call to the Rigel system.  Explosives are 
  placed at critical points on the outer hull by Orion 
  pirates disguised as dockyard workers and then 
  detonated by remote control.  The structural damage 
  to her primary hull, shuttlecraft bay, and warp engine 
  support pylons is so great that she has to be towed to 
  the nearest Starfleet facility for repairs.  Essex will 
  never rejoin the fleet in a frontline capacity.
  as needed. 
  The Klingons and 
  Romulans engage in 
  a 
  major 
  battle 
  within the Triangle 
  region of space
  is lat r declared “a 
  misunderstandin
  however, it is the first indication that all is not going 
  well with their shaky alliance against the Federation.  
  Long range scans of this encounter provide Starfleet 
  its first glimpses of the new Ro
  • 
  Rear Admiral Kirk enters into a 
  one-year marriage contract with 
  Vice Admiral Lori Ciana  a close 
  friend and confidant since his 
  promotion to the Admiralty.  She 
  will be, in a real sense, his 
  surrogate Enterprise during this 
  time.  The marriage will not survive 
  the expiration of the contract. 
  • 
  Linear warp upgrades are authorize
  starships in service as they return
  scheduled ESLP refit.  Those Class 
  have already had a recent ESLP refit
  from service and upgraded during th
  service overhaul in between mission
  up of the linear warp program is in response to data 
  gleaned on the new Klingon and Romulan starship 
  classes observed in action in the Triangle. 
  • 
  Starfleet 
  Command 
  places 
  an 
  unusual 
  request 
  with 
  the 
  Starship Design Bureau.  
  It asks for two different 
  groups of shuttlecarrier 
  designs, one based on upgraded Class I components 
  and the other comprised of new builds.  Two 
  specifications are laid down.  First, all d
  able to support current Starfleet shuttlecarrier 
  operational procedures.  Second, all designs
  able to support Starfleet Marine ground assault 
  operations.  This program marks the inception of the 
  “modern” shuttlecarrier programs of today. 
  A new interstellar coordinate system goes into effect 
  within Federation space. 
  Operation Dixie takes place.  This intelligence gathering 
  effort into Klingon space yields little data beyond 
  confirming the existence of the Klingon’s B-1 
  battleship program.  All intelligence operatives and 
  starships involved in the operation are lost, with the 
  fate of their crews unknown.  Starfleet will officially 
  disavow the 
  • 
  The heavy cruiser Kon
  a command cruiser 
  experimental conversion
  the Citadel and Balso
  Bezwell Incident, pro
  Treaty Zone, provides
  Kongo’s new capabili
  Project Grey Ghost is initiated by Starfleet Intelligence 
  in order to gain as much information on new Romulan 
  starships, technology, and fleet deployment and 
  capabilities as possible. 
  go (NCC-1710) is converted into 
   
  • 
  The Vejur Crisis represents the greatest threat to 
  known space in the recent history of all major 
  spacefaring cultures.  It is put to an end only by the 
  premature launch of the upgraded starship Enterprise.  
  Rear Admiral James T. Kirk is returned to command of 
  the Enterprise following the disappearance of Captain 
  Willard Decker.  Returning with him is most of his old 
  command staff (including both Spock of Vulcan and Dr. 
  Leonard McCoy) and many of his former crewmen, all 
  by their own request.  Following in the footsteps of his 
  predecessor, Christopher Pike, Kirk will command the 
  ogy is perfected and 
  use.  
  rebuilt Enterprise on back-to-ba
  • 
  Megaphaser cannon technol
  quickly accepted for Starfleet 
  ck five-year missions. 
  - 16 - 
  
   
   
  NOTE: 
  e Vejur 
   Decker’s sacrifice. 
   
  Admiral Kirk temporarily demoted Captain Decker 
  to the rank of commander when he assumed 
  command of the Enterprise during th
  Crisis.   The rank was posthumously restored by 
  Admiral Kirk in honor of
   
  2268 
  • 
  • 
   
  The Lotus Flower class freighter enters service. 
  The Gibraltar Accord brings about an understanding of 
  sorts between the Federation and the Romulans.  For 
  the first time in Federation history a Romulan 
  ambassador is dispatched to represent his people’s 
  interests within Federation-controlled border space. 
   
  • 
  At the same time that the Gibraltar Accord is being 
  formalized, the Romulans sell the Klingons several of 
  their new S-11 “Bird of Prey” patrol ships.  The 
  Klingons are so impressed by the capabilities of the 
  “Bird of Prey” that they quickly adapt it for their own 
  use.  They will produce both patrol ship and cruise
  • 
  • 
  • 
  104 starship classes 
  and 
  1,907 
  vessels 
  causes Starfleet Command to begin looking for less 
  expensive alternatives to speed up the process.  Two 
  solutions are eventually devised:  a straightforward, 
  engines-only upgrade utilizing the self-contained LN-52 
  warp engine, and a partial conversion built around the 
  LN-60, a close cousin to the LN-64.  These two 
   
   
  r 
  sized versions of it in the years to come, much to the 
  irritation of the Romulans.  The D-11/D-12 “Bird of 
  Prey” will eventually become so associated with the 
  Klingon Empire that most will either forget or be 
  unaware of its Romulan origins. 
  The Pershing class automated transport enters 
  service. 
  The command cruiser Balson enters service. 
  The Enterprise sets an unofficial space speed record 
  when it achieves warp factor 17.863 (old scale) while 
  testing the maximum capabilities of its new engines. 
  The projected high cost 
  • 
  of 
  the 
  linear 
  warp 
  upgrade program across 
  additional upgrade programs will proceed in parallel to 
  the original refit program until all Starfleet vessels are 
  upgraded with linear warp technology. 
  NOTE: 
  This three-track parallel upgrade process is the 
  reason why not all Class I starships of the linear 
  warp generation have common components.  
  of its 
   
  Starfleet was under pressure to upgrade all 
  starship classes in order to counter the new 
  shipbuilding programs of the Klingons and 
  Romulans.  This was the only way it could finish 
  upgrading its entire fleet in time. 
   
  • 
  Representatives of the Federation, the Klingons, and 
  the Romulans agree to jointly develop the Neutral Zone 
  world of Nimbus III “in the interests of galactic peace.” 
  • 
  The Star League design represents the first proposed 
  configuration for upgrading the Federation class 
  dreadnoughts with linear warp technology.  It will be 
  rejected at this time in favor of a simplified, less 
  costly, and more militaristic design.  It will resurface 
  again near the end of the century and be used for the 
  last three conversions due to Federation Council 
  pressure. 
   
  2269 
  • 
  ile in combat. 
  dents on 
  lis 
  ’s linear warp program, 
  on will be delayed for years. 
  • 
   promotion to full admiral.  
  • 
  By this point in time all Starfleet starship classes are 
  in the process of undergoing linear warp upgrades.  
  The speed at which they rejoin the fleet is dependent 
  on which of the three upgrade tracks they have been 
  selected to follow. 
  Starfleet Intelligence learns of 
  the existence of the Romulan 
  V-11 Stormbird, a rebuilt 
  Klingon 
  D-7 
  battlecruiser 
  equipped with new engines 
  and plasma weaponry.  In theory it is more powerful 
  that a Klingon D-8 K’t’inga, although it will prove to be 
  more frag
  • 
  In response to the increasing number of inci
  the Klingon and Romulan borders, Starfleet is granted 
  permission to commence a new perimeter action ship 
  program to replace the obsolete Kiaga and Agi
  classes.  These are the
  authorized under Starfleet
  although actual constructi
  Rear Admiral Kirk receives a
  At the same time, Spock of Vulcan receives a 
  promotion to the rank of captain.  He declines an offer 
  of his own command, instead electing to remain with 
  Admiral Kirk as First Officer of the Enterprise. 
   first new build starships 
  - 17 - 
  
  • 
  • 
  A new series of Starfleet 
  uniforms 
  (the 
  current 
  st communicators 
  and personal bioscan monitors that were also 
  introduced at that time are likewise withdrawn, 
  • 
  • 
   
  2270 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  ce. 
  The Oriskany class through-deck cruiser enters 
  service. 
  • 
  s to the power of its 
  tical results will be 
  s of other single-
  • 
  • 
  are 
  among the most powerful starships of their time. 
   
  2271 
  • 
   starship designs ever built by the 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  • 
  ng near 
  the Perseus system, resulting in a containment 
  breach.  Fully one-fourth of the aft quarter of the ship 
   
   to Terra under its own power, where it is 
   
  227
  • 
  ests several prototypes of the Cheetah 
  r service, 
  . 
  • 
  nages to end the political 
  • 
  • 
  as 
  the Fifth 
   of the “Zetarian Squeeze,” 
  tarfleet losses total at 11 Class I starships, 
   facilities, and hundreds of lives (a 
   include thousands of civilian 
  sses are far greater, with almost 
  r captured, along with the 
  ent will go down in 
  • 
  Dr. Carol Marcus is granted funding for work 
  will become the Genesis Project. 
  The Rita’s Planet Massacre serves to incite growing 
  hostilities between the Klingons and the Federation.  A 
  Klingon occupation force takes over the planet and 
  massacres its entire population, with no intervention 
  by the Organians. 
  “redjacket” series) is authorized 
  to replace the unisex uniforms 
  ordered into service by Fleet 
  Admiral Nogura only three years 
  before.  The older uniforms had 
  proven 
  to 
  be 
  extremely 
  unpopular with Starfleet personnel due to their drab 
  colors and unibeing nature.  The wri
  replaced by newer “retro” designs. 
  The Oberth class research ship enters service. 
  The Antares class freighter enters service. 
  The Hippocrates class medical frigate enters service. 
  The Al Rashid and Moncrief class transport/tugs enter 
  service. 
  The Huntington class deuterium tanker enters service. 
  The Orca class gunboat and Jester class corvette 
  enter servi
  • 
  • 
  The Whorfin class transport enters service. 
  The Jenghiz is the first uprated Class I single-nacelle 
  starship to return to 
  service.  Its prior 
  problems with warp 
  field instabilities above 
  Warp 6 have disappeared thank
  new LN-64 linear warp engine.  Iden
  reported from linear warp upgrade
  nacelle designs, such as the Siva and Ares classes. 
  Political maneuvering within the Federation Council 
  puts Starfleet’s planned perimeter action ship 
  program on indefinite hold. 
  • 
  The uprated heavy cruiser Excalibur breaks the warp 
  velocity record set by its sister ship Enterprise during 
  its shakedown cruise.  Its achievement of and ability to 
  maintain a speed of warp 18.74 will remain the official 
  Federation warp speed record for years. 
  The Romulans begin 
  construction of a 
  second wave of all-
  new 
  starship 
  designs.  These are 
  the “Hawk” series 
  (Sparrowhawk, Skyhawk, Firehawk, etc.) and 
  The keel of the first Ariel class shuttlecarrier, 
  Starfleet’s second modern shuttlecarrier class and 
  one of the largest
  Federation, is laid down in a specially constructed 
  spacedock at the San Francisco Navy Yards at Terra. 
  The Constitution (II) class heavy cruiser, an alternate 
  upgrade to the Enterprise class utilizing LN-60 based 
  technology, enters service. 
  The Citadel class command cruiser enters service. 
  Starfleet Intelligence notes the deployment of new 
  shuttlecarriers by the Klingons. 
  Operation Cambria Bay takes place. 
  A new type of har
  • 
  d-cased photon torpedo is approved 
  for Starfleet use. 
  • 
  The command cruiser Kongo clips a cosmic stri
  is lost (along with one of her warp engines) and 143
  personnel are killed as a result.  The Kongo manages 
  to return
  immediately put into spacedock for conversion to 
  Constitution (II) specifications. 
  2 
  Starfleet t
  class fast cruiser.  Although it will never ente
  the Cheetah’s unusual four-nacelle configuration will 
  directly inspire the des
  star cruiser of the 2290s
  Persistent lobbying ma
  stalemate that is holding up Starfleet’s new perimeter 
  action ship program.  Three one-third scale prototypes 
  are authorized for construction. 
  The Hornet class experimental carrier enters service. 
  The Kzinti Incursion (also 
  known 
  ign of the Constellation class 
  Earth-Kzin War and the 
  Six Week War) manages 
  to catch Starfleet by 
  complete surprise.  Considerable resources have to be 
  pulled from other fronts in order to put it down.  A 
  Starfleet task force under the command of Admiral 
  James T. Kirk is ultimately successful in defeating the 
  Kzinti through the use
  forcing the Kzinti fleet
  sun.  S
   into the gravity well of a black 
  several dozen ground
  figure that does not
  casualties).  Kzinti lo
  all of their ships destroyed o
  current Kzinti Patriarch.  This ev
  Kzinti history as “The-Last-Stand-of-the-Heroes.” 
  on what 
  - 18 - 
  
  • 
  uninhabited 
  planetoid near the Mutara Nebula as part of Project 
  Genesis. 
  2273 
  • 
   
   to 
   retired. 
  s the third and simplest approach 
  • 
  l
  spacedock at the 
  orbital spaceyards of Cosmadyne Corporation, Terra.  
   
   
  The Regula I space station is built near an 
   
  The Surya class frigate Avenger is removed from 
  service for conversion to linear warp technology along 
  the lines of the successful Miranda class cruiser.  A
  number of improvements to the base Miranda design 
  during the upgrading process will result in the Avenger 
  class heavy frigate. 
  • 
  The three perimeter action ship prototypes fail
  perform up to design specs and the program is 
  temporarily shelved once again. 
  • 
  The Cahuya class survey cruisers are
  • 
  The Endeavour class uprated heavy cruiser enters 
  service.  It represent
  to upgrading Class I starships, utilizing self-contained 
  LN-52 linear warp engines and a minimum of 
  conversions to the rest of the ship. 
  The uprated heavy 
  cruiser Truxtun, a 
  starship 
  of 
  the 
  Endeavour class, is 
  aid down inside a 
  It is the first new build Class I heavy cruiser of the 
  linear warp generation. 
  NOTE: 
   sister ships (Confiance, 
   
   
   
  The Truxtun and her three
  Bunker Hill, and La Vengeance) are widely 
  considered to be the last “original” Class I 
  starships ever built despite their LN-52 linear warp 
  engines.  This is because their primary and 
  secondary hulls were built in accordance with
  rnized) Class I design
  original (albeit mode
  specifications. 
   
  • 
   
  ure, 
  although the “commando cruisers” remain in service. 
  • 
  se Starfleet covert 
  in response.  As punishment the Federation 
  Council cuts Starfleet’s procurement budget in half 
  and a public investigation is conducted.  Several 
   
  2274 
  n borders, assisting 
   lack of 
  • 
  • 
   
  a
  s 
  colonists whose ancestors had 
  mmissioned starship decades 
  nists, including a new habitat 
  module as a replacement.  The restored Carolina is 
  eventually donated to the Starfleet Museum at 
  • 
  • 
  n and she has to bear with constant 
  prejudice as a result.  Nevertheless, her half-Romulan 
  background will provide the Federation with its third 
  • 
   the 
  hts to 
   The 
   set 
  impler 
   
  An official request by the
  Starfleet Marines for a 
  dedicated starship class to 
  replace its aged Texas 
  class converted commando 
  cruisers is flatly rejected 
  by Starfleet Command.  The major design obstacle is 
  how to produce a Class I starship capable of a 
  planetary landing, something that Starfleet is unwilling 
  to do at this time given its other priorities.  Major 
  General K’tanga, the Marine Corps Commandant, 
  resigns in protest.  Starfleet will eventually convert a 
  number of Miranda class cruisers for the exclusive use 
  of the Starfleet Marines as a compromise meas
  • 
  The Abbe class torpedo destroyer enters service. 
  The Cammel IV revelations expo
  activities against the Kzinti dating back to 2270, 
  actions that almost certainly brought about the Kzinti 
  Incursion 
  ranking Starfleet flag officers are forced to resign or 
  take early retirements.  Starfleet’s linear warp 
  upgrade program is frozen at current fleet levels for 
  the time being. 
  • 
  The Belknap class strike cruisers enter service.  These 
  are immediately pressed into service as patrol units 
  along the Klingon and Romula
  frigates and other fleet units to cover for the
  modern perimeter action ships. 
  The Kearsarge class light cruisers are removed from 
  service. 
  The Daedalus class 
  starship Carolina is 
  discovered intact in
  the Xii system.  It had
  been welded to an 
  steroid and used a
  a habitat module for 
  purchased the deco
  before.  The Starfleet Association arranges to 
  purchase the Carolina and provide adequate 
  compensation for the colo
   
  Memory Alpha, which had no Daedalus class starships 
  in its museum fleet. 
  Project Genesis yields its first success under 
  controlled laboratory conditions. 
  A storm of controversy erupts when Sarek of Vulcan 
  sponsors the half-Romulan, half-Vulcan Saavik for 
  entrance into Starfleet Academy.  Many still see her 
  as an enemy alie
  key in understanding Romulan
  Work begins on converting
  Federation class dreadnoug
  linear warp technology. 
  original Star League proposal is
  aside in favor of a s
  conversion along Enterprise class 
  lines.  This conversion program 
  shares components with the Tikopai class heavy 
  cruisers, which are under construction at this time. 
   culture. 
  - 19 - 
  
  2275 
  lsior 
  • 
  • 
  badly needed) funding for its various 
  linear warp programs.  The fact that agents from 
  many of the Federation’s enemies are present at the 
  • 
   
  • 
  • 
  Authorization is given for construction of the Exce
  The Avenger class heavy frigate enters service. 
  class space control ship as the Federation Council 
  begins to loosen the reins on Starfleet funding. 
  The Tikopai class heavy cruiser enters service. 
  Starfleet authorizes the first of its limited sales of 
  older, unconverted Baton Rouge, Class I, and Class II 
  starships and starship components (pre-2245) to 
  local sector fleets and the private sector.  This 
  initiates one of the greatest and most memorable 
  starship auctions in history, providing Starfleet with 
  additional (and 
  auction, both major and minor, is quietly ignored by 
  Starfleet so long as they attempt no purchases. 
  The Soyuz class attack frigate enters service. 
   
   
  n older Class I heavy cruiser approaches Starbase One 
   
  A
   
  eadnoughts in action during the Four Da
   
  hip bowling alley.  These were removed in the 2260s to 
  om for additional shuttle maintenance facilities.  It was 
  ractice to still refer to the area as “the bowling alley.” 
   
  A stars
  make ro
  common p
   
  The upgraded Enterprise in spacedock, shortly before her 
  emergency launch in 2267 to deal with the Vejur Crisis 
   
   
  Border clash between Klingon and Federation starships 
   
   
  EVA outside of an uprated Class I heavy cruiser 
  Dr
  ys War (2262) 
   
  - 20 - 
  
  STARFLEET STARSHIPS 
   
  THE DREADNOUGHT PROGRAM (Pt. 1) 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR): 
  FEDERATION  CLASS – 2255 
  UPRATEDFEDERATION  CLASS – 2276 
   
  STAR LEAGUE  CLASS – 2291 
   
   
  The idea of a triple-nacelled “super starship” had been kicking 
  around 
  era.  A
  Baton R
  concept.  They had come within an ace of getting their Baton 
  Rouge era Invincible prototype built when it was cancelled, like 
  so many other Baton Rouge era starship classes, once the Class 
  I Program was established.  It took the hard lessons taught by 
  the Klingon’s B-1 Jul’Kar class battleship during the Four Years 
  War to convince Starfleet Command that a dreadnought was a 
  needed fleet asset.  Surprisingly, the Federation Council took 
  less convincing than had the Procurements Board, approving the 
  post-war construction program without debate on the first 
  pass.  The fight for funding of all 20 ships in the planned class
  was anot
  Military S
   
  The Federation class dreadnoughts were the epitome of the 
  Class I era.  They were the first to field Cochrane’s new PB-47 
  “Titiac” warp engines, capable of driving such a massive starship 
  as if it were a light cruiser.  They had many other features 
  pioneered with the early Class I starships:  multiple beam 
  weapon banks (Federation had extra phaser banks on the belly of 
  her secondary hull), a spacious shuttle bay (which could hold 
  almost as many shuttlecraft as a Surya class frigate), and 
  extensive sensor suites (the equivalent of a Hermes class 
  scout).  A slightly redesigned primary hull saucer also housed a 
  centrally located command bridge, as opposed to the topside 
  mount of normal Clas
  bridge from being targeted during combat, which had been a 
  favorite battle tactic of the Klingons during the Four Years War. 
   
  There was still doubt within certain parts of Starfleet Command 
  as to the workability of a triple nacelle design.  Problems with 
  such a configuration dated all the way back to the UESF’s Verne 
  class starships of the mid-22nd century and, more recently, in 
  the ignominious Tritium.  Arbing and Lidde’s solution was to 
  follow the warp field flow of the basic Jeffries design in the 
  placement of its engines.  The third warp engine was mounted 
  ahead of the other two and on top of the primary hull, as 
  opposed to the symmetrical, in-line triangular configurations of 
  earlier designs.  This allowed the forward engine to act as a 
  spearhead of sorts for the other two, thus reducing the 
  tendency to wormhole.  This configuration also had an obvious 
  combat advantage:  in an emergency saucer separation, the 
  primary hull of a Federation class dreadnought would remain 
  warp capable.  This configuration would be duplicated in all 
  subsequent Federation dreadnought designs.  
   
  The only chance these ships got for the kind of combat for which 
  they were designed was during the brief Four Days War of 
  2261.  By the time the Organians intervened and enforced 
  peace on both sides, a battle fleet led by the dreadnoughts 
  Federation (NCC-2100) and Affiliation (NCC-2108) had already 
  penetrated the Klingon border and fought their way to its outer 
  industrial zones.  The Klingons were understandably impressed 
  by the demonstrated abilities of Starfleet’s new combat vessels, 
  and would copy aspects of their design into the later C-series 
  K’herr class dreadnoughts. 
   
  All Federation class starships were scheduled to receive linear 
  warp technology during their first ESLP refits in the late 2270s.  
  This move was made with the events of the Kzinti Incursion of 
  2272 still fresh in everyone’s minds.  Only nine of the 
  conversions were carried through, though, due to political fallout 
  over the Cammel IV revelations in 2273.  The final straw was 
  the development of the Space Control Ship program, which 
  made the dreadnoughts obsolete in their own lifetime.  The three 
  non-upgraded Federations were eventually rebuilt to a different 
  configuration. 
   
  The Star League conversion program was the original proposed 
  linear warp conversion for the Federation class.  It retains both 
  the lines and layout of the original secondary hull configuration 
  while adding linear warp technology.  The Star League program is 
  credited with saving the dreadnought class from being eliminated 
  altogether under the terms of the recent Starfleet 
  Reorganization Order. Completion of the first conversion, which 
  was a rather lengthy process, was accomplished in 2291.  The 
  last Star League conversion is on track for scheduled completion 
  later this year.  There is some discussion within Starfleet 
  the Starship Design Bureau ever since the Baton Rouge
  rbing and Lidde, one of the lead contractors of both the 
  ouge and Class I programs, were the champions of this 
   
   
  her matter, though, and fiercely debated within the 
  taff Committee until in the end only 12 were built. 
  s I designs.  This was done to protect the 
  - 21 - 
  
  Command of converting the other Federation class dreadnoughts 
  to the Star League configuration for greater mission flexibility.  
  This would take place, if at all, during their second ESLP refits 
  ometime around 2310.  Nothing has come of this proposal as 
  s
  of yet. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (UPRATED FEDERATION ):
   
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 307.6 m 
  …… 141.7 m 
  83.7 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 275,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 500 
  Range:  ……………………………... 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 11 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 15 
  Armament: … 20 phasers (7 banks of 2, 6 single mounts) 
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  NOTE:  
  Star League specifications are almost identical. 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  First successful Class I starship design to have more 
  than two warp nacelles 
   
  Beam:  …………………………………
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 
  VISUALS: 
   
   
  Federation class dreadnought (c.2260) 
   
   
  Upgraded Federation class dreadnought (c.2280) 
    
   
   
  Star League dreadnought conversion (c.2295) 
    
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
   
  Arbing and Lidde’s original Invincible dreadnought proposal 
   
   
  Federation class dreadnought (c.2260)  
   
   
  Upgraded Federation class dreadnought (c.2280) 
   
   
  Star League class dreadnought (c.2295)  
    
   
  DREADNOUGHT CONCEPT AND DESIGN BY FRANZ  JOSEPH SCHNAUBELT 
  FEDERATION  UPGRADE BY TODD GUENTHER (STARSHIP DESIGN) 
  STAR LEAGUE UPGRADE BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  FEDERATION VISUALS COURTESY OF FILEFRONT 
  STAR LEAGUE VISUAL COURTESY OF RICK KNOX 
  SCHEMATICS COURTESY OF NEALE DAVIDSON AND ERIC KRISTIANSEN  
   
  - 22 - 
  
  CORONADO AND ORISKANY  CLASS 
  SHUTTLECARRIERS 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2258, 2270 
   
   
   
  The 
   the Coronado class came about as the result 
  of les
  with shuttlecarrier operations during the Four 
  Year
  class, St
  uilt Class I shuttlecarrier, is 
   were made for the Coronado’s purpose-
  ary hull, though.  This design was originally called a 
  through-deck cruiser due to the through-deck design of its main 
  hangar, with shuttle bays on each end instead of stacked 
  (Santee) or side-by-side (Anton/Surya/Coventry/Miranda).  This 
  was unique to the class and gave the Coronado the ability for 
  through-flight shuttle operations. 
   
  Changes in Starfleet operational practices over the years since 
  their commissioning also lead to changes in the mission profile 
  for the Coronado class.  They were 
  as convoy escorts as ha
  Peacetime found them filling in for cruisers for those missions 
  for which a large number of shuttles were required, such as 
  second-pass planetary surveys and search-and-rescue.  Their 
  limited interior spaces prevented their use in support of Marine 
  operations (to which the Coventry and Miranda classes were 
  more suited); however, they often flew as escort on such 
  operations. 
   
  All six ships of the Coronado class received linear warp upgrades 
  to the Oriskany configuration in the 2270s.  Plans to build 29
  more were aut
  of the Jenshahan class heavy carrier.  They began leaving active
   service in 2286, with the last retired to the Starfleet 
  eserve in 2293. 
    
  six vessels of
  sons learned 
  s War (2246-2250).  The design influence of the Santee 
  arfleet’s first purpose-b
  obvious.  Major changes
  built second
  originally intended to serve
  d their ancestors, the Santee class.  
   
   
  horized, but cancelled shortly thereafter in favor 
   
  fleet
  R
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (ORISKANY  CONFIGURATION): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 304.8 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 70.8 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 197,500 DWT 
  Crew ………
  Range:  ……………………………... 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  ed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  peed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: ……...14 phasers (6 banks of 2, 4 banks of 1)
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  ………………………………….… 98 
  Cruising spe
  Maximum s
   
  VISUALS: 
   
   
  Oriskany class – Coronado’s linear warp upgrade (c.2275)  
    
  SCHEMATIC: 
  Coronado class shuttlecarrier 
   
   
  Oriskany class linear warp conversion
   
   
   
  CORONADO  DESIGN BY TODD GUENTHER (STARSTATION AURORA) 
  VISUALS COU
  SCHEMATIC
   
  ORISKANY CONVERSION BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  RTESY OF MAETEEN GREENWAY AND STARFORCE PRODUCTIONS 
  S COURTESY OF RICHARD MANDEL AND NEALE DAVIDSON  
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  DERF  CLASS TENDER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CAL
   
  ENDAR):  2260 
  ing 
  pport for Starfleet operations in combat zones and also 
  maintenance of the Federation’s marker buoy system during 
  times of peace.  It was an odd role for an odd ship, yet Derf filled 
  it admirably.  It mounted a customized extended primary hull full 
  of repair and maintenance facilities, shops, spare parts storage, 
  and other items that always seemed heaven-sent to duty-
  pressed starship engineers.  A single Derf’s onboard facilities 
  could usually handle all but the most severe of starship damage.  
  The Pearl class mobile spacedock would be created during the 
  linear warp era to fill this gap, assisting the Derf in its role of 
  keeping the Class I fleet in full operational trim. 
   
  The Derf class was designed to act as fleet tenders, provid
  su
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 274 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 128 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 65 m 
  Mass:  ……………………………… 128,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 72 
  Range:  …………………………….. 6 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ……………….…………….. warp 6 
  Maximum speed:  ……………….…………… warp 8 
  Armament: …………….. 6 phaser banks (3 banks of 2) 
   
  SCHEMATICS 
   
   
   
  DERF CONCEPT BY DANA KNUTSON (FASA CORPORATION)  
  RANGER  CLASS SCOUT 
  SERVICE ENTRY D TE (OLD CALENDAR):  2265 
  A
   
   
   
  The Range
  vessel class
  r class scout was named for the versatile survey 
   of the Baton Rouge era.  Its unusual hull form was
  an experiment in producing a multi-mission hull suitable for use 
  as a Class II starship.  While the Ranger prototype itself failed in 
  that respect, nevertheless data from the program would be 
  used to develop its successor, the Gagarin class corvette.  
  Starfleet found a niche for the Ranger, though, as a fast fleet 
  scout on the Klingon border and ordered six more vessels to be 
  built.  These were built with linear warp technology; Ranger and
  the ot
  builds were finished.  All plans for additional orders were
  to the success of the Gagarin program.  This 
   to have the shortest lifespan of any linear 
  warp generation Starfleet vessel, with all removed from 
  Starfleet service by 2290.  The entire class was transferred to 
  the Federation Bureau of Sciences and renamed as the 
  Qnhartchi class survey ships.  It is in this manner that they 
  continue to operation within Federation space today. 
   
   
   
  her original six vessels were converted as soon as the new 
   
  cancelled due 
  would cause Ranger
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 87 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 57 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 21 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 59,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………
  Range:  …………………………….. 3 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ……………….…………….. 
  Maxim
   
  ………………………….… 75 
  warp 6 
  um speed:  ……………….…………… warp 8 
  Armament: …………….. 6 phaser banks (3 banks of 2) 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
   
  RANGER CONCEPT AND SCHEMATIC BY DANA KNUTSON (FASA CORPORATION)  
  VISUAL BY RICK KNOX 
    
  SCHEMATICS BY NEALE DAVIDSON (PIXEL SAGAS) 
    
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  ENDEAVOUR  CLASS HEAVY CRUISER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2262, 2273 
   
   
   
  e story of the 
  Th
  Endeavour class is the story of linear warp 
  tech
  s 
  pass
  et 
  serv
  t. 
   
  End
  r 
  use 
  t 
  upgr
  d 
  tech
  e 
  over
   
  e transport/tug Keppler, were soon returned to service.  All 
  heir new LN-40 warp engines.  Endeavour would 
  heavy cruiser of its type until the 2270s.   
   
  Delays in Starfleet’s linear warp program caused Starfleet 
  Command to revisit the concepts behind the LN-40 program.  A 
  revamped program with improved tecnhnology could serve as a 
  quick, cost-effective means of upgrading the rest of the Class I 
  fleet without the bother of a full linear warp upgrade.  Twelve 
  other heavy cruisers were converted to a slightly modified 
  Endeavour configuration, utilizing the improved LN-52, starting in 
  2273.  These were joined by four all-new builds in 2275.  These 
  last four (Truxtun, Confiance, Bunker Hill, La Vengeance) were 
  the last “old-style” Class I starships ever built, and their date of 
  entry into service is widely held as marking the end of the Class I 
  era. 
   
  The biggest advantage of the LN-40 as opposed to the othe
  esign in development at the time (the LN-60) was its self-
  ontained nature.  It was specifically designed to be fitted to 
  existing Class I 
  replacing their older PB
  a minimum of yard time and internal system reconfiguration.  
  There was one significant drawback to the LN-40, though.  Its 
  dilithium decay rate proved to be the highest of any linear warp 
  engine design.  In practical terms, this meant that starships 
  equipped with LN-40s could not maintain superwarp speeds 
  (above Warp 8) for extended periods.  This problem was partially 
  resolved by the use of the improved LN-52 in the later 
  E
  hile its dilithium decay 
  arp engines, 
   permitted 
  ing durations while maintaining superwarp speed.  
  Endeavour’s LN-40s were removed and replaced with LN-52s in 
  2272 at the same time other starships were being converted or 
  built to the Endeavour configuration.   
   
  Two Endeavour class starships have been lost in the line of duty.  
  Excelsior (NCC-1718) disappeared while on a long-range mission 
  outside of Federation territory in 2277 and has never been seen 
  since.  The new space control ship Excelsior (NCC-2000) was
  amed in her honor.  The Saratoga (NCC-1724) was ambushed
  d
  nology itself:  how it almost came about a decade early, wa
  ed on, and yet still managed to find its way into Starfle
  ice a decade after its lead ship had already joined the flee
  eavour (NCC-1716) was one of a trio of ships converted fo
  as LN-40 linear warp prototypes in 2262.  When tha
  ade program was passed over in favor of LN-64 base
  nology, Endeavour’s days as a technology prototype wer
  .  She and the other two ships, the scout Monoceros and
  th
  three retained t
  remain the lone 
  r 
  d
  c
  starship frames and warp pylon mounts, 
  -series circumferential warp engines with 
  ndeavour conversions and new builds.  W
  rate was still excessive compared to other linear w
   was not as pronounced as the older LN-40 and thus
  it
  longer cruis
   
   
  n
  and amaged beyond repair by four unknown starships, two of 
  which are believed to be of Klingon origin.  373 crewmembers 
  were lost and the unsalvageable hull had to be scrapped.  The 
  name has since been reassigned to a new-build Miranda class 
  cruiser. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 283.1 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 126.2 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 73.8 m 
  Mass:  ………………………………… 190,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 98 
  Range:  …………………………….. 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 10 
  Armament: ……………… 8 phasers (4 banks of 2 each) 
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
   the use of self-contained linear warp engine 
  ing 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  Pioneered
  technology as a means of quickly upgrading an exist
  starship with minimum yard time 
  • 
  Last of the “original” Class I starships 
  SCH
   
  EMATIC: 
   
    
   
  ENDEAVOUR DESIGN BY WALTER M. JEFFRIES AND MIKE MINOR 
  VISUAL COURTESY OF FILEFRONT  
  SCHEMATIC BY GEOFFERY MANDEL ABD DOUG DREXELER  
    
  - 25 - 
  
  ENTERPRISE AND TIKOPAI  CLASS 
  HEAVY CRUISERS 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2267, 2275 
   
   
   
  On 7 March 2265 the Starfleet heavy cruiser Enterprise 
  returned to the Sol System after completing its historic five-
  year mission under the command of Captain James Tiberius Kirk.  
  oth Captain Kirk and his officers were public celebrities due to 
  t
   but 
   also defend it under the commands of such captains as 
  a
  hip available at the time capable of dealing with the Vejur 
  risis, was like no other in Starfleet.  Two months after its 
   quickly incorporated into 
  e refit.  The old dish-style navigational deflector was replaced 
   strike cruiser Decatur only a short time before.  
  nterprise was the first operational starship to receive them. 
  et a proper shakedown cruise until after the 
  Adm
  bles
   
  disa
  durin
  mos
  the 
  bank
   
  rate
  speed
  during subsequent testing.  With impres
   
  these Starfleet wasted little time in seeking Federation Council 
  appr
  such 
  s
  results, h
  resu
  g 
  ll of Starfleet’s 
  rvi
  g 
  n schedule to 
  warp upgrades as fast as yard space, duty 
  funding allowed. 
   
  In 2272 Starfleet began construction of its first all new-build 
  heavy cruiser class since the Achernar class of the 2260s.  
  These were not built to the proven Enterprise design, however.  
  43 ships were authorized for the cheaper and less versatile 
  Tikopai design, the same that had been rejected when Enterprise 
  was first pulled into drydock in 2265.  This was the doing of the
  Tikopai design in orde
  o increase c
  it would far easier to upgrade the
  Enterprise specifi
  ntinue rebuilding older heavy cruisers to the expensive 
  Enterprise spec, much less order expensive new builds.  Their 
  argument bore weight, considering that Starfleet Command had 
  to cut short its plans to upgrade all existing Class I starships 
  due to costs.  Many had to be refitted with LN-60 linear warp 
  B
  heir exploits; the Enterprise herself had long since surpassed 
  her lost sister Constellation as an icon in the public eye.  The 
  Enterprise, to them, was Starfleet realized, the very essence of 
  all that the Federation was supposed to be.  There was only one 
  problem with this picture.  Enterprise was an old ship.  She had 
  been the second ship of the Class I Program back during its 
  inception, launched in 2223 amid great fanfare and hope for the 
  future.  Enterprise had helped not only to realize that future
  to
  Robert April, Christopher Pike, and Captain Kirk.  Even so, the 
  Enterprise was aging, and not even a major overhaul and two 
  major upgrades (plus many minor ones) over the past five 
  decades could hide that fact.  The time had come for her second 
  ESLP refit, one designed to extend her life by another 20-25 
  years.  It just so happened that Enterprise was in the right place 
  nd at the right time, as it had been so many times before 
  during its storied career.  Its next ESLP refit would like no other 
  performed before on a starship of its class. 
   
  The Enterprise that re-entered service prematurely in 2267, the 
  only s
  C
  return to Terra back in 2265, after all crew had disembarked, 
  the ship’s logs downloaded and all systems shut down, it had 
  been towed into the spacedock normally reserved for 
  dreadnought construction.  This was on the direct orders of 
  Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Commander-in-Chief of 
  Starfleet.  The next ten months were spent stripping the ship 
  down to its base frame and stress-testing every deck, bulkhead, 
  and frame member along the way.  Enterprise’s PB-47 
  circumferential warp engines, which were practically brand new 
  and had been in use for less than a year, were removed along 
  with their support pylons.  The rebuilding process began in 
  2266, initially to the Tikopai specification that had been originally 
  drawn up on the orders of Fleet Admiral Nogura.  Vociferous 
  objections were raised on certain aspects by Commander 
  Montgomery Scott, former chief engineer of the Enterprise and 
  now head of the conversion project.  This caused the design to 
  be changed in mid-conversion.  These changes mainly affected 
  weapons and sensor capability (as well as a modified internal 
  layout for the secondary hull) and were
  th
  by a hull-mounted recessed one, and a new split-level hanger bay 
  (considerably larger than the previous one, courtesy of 
  Commander Scott) was also included.  The fitting of Starfleet’s 
  new small craft docking system at strategic points on the hull 
  was also a first for an active duty vessel.  The primary hull 
  saucer retained its classic lines; obvious changes included the 
  new impulse deck and additional phaser banks.  The most telling 
  visual difference of all, though were Enterprise’s new LN-64 
  linear warp engines.  They had been successfully tested on the 
  prototype
  E
   
  Enterprise did not g
  Vejur Crisis was over.  Once again resuming the con was Rear 
  iral James T. Kirk, who had resumed the captaincy (with the 
  y
  sing of Fleet Admiral Nogura) after the untimel
  ppearance of Captain Willard Decker.  Extensive testing 
  e 
  g Enterprise’s shakedown cruise revealed her to be th
  t powerful ship in Starfleet (and possibly known space) at 
  time.  She outclassed a dreadnought with her 12 phaser 
  s and dual photon torpedo tubes.  Her new engines were
  d for warp 8 cruising speeds and warp 12 emergency 
  s, although Enterprise hit an unofficial speed of warp 17.8 
  sive numbers such as
  ova for more funding for its linear warp program.  With 
  a pokesman as the legendary Enterprise showcasing the 
  ow could the Council refuse?  They did not, of course, 
  l 
  ltin in the Starfleet that we have today.  A
  vin Class I starships were immediately put o
  su
  receive linear 
  schedules, and 
   
  Starfleet Admiralty, who insisted on the 
  t
  r 
  lass size given available funding.  They insisted that 
   less versatile Tikopai to 
  cations as necessary in the future than to 
  co
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  te
   
  p
  e
  the 
  on
  with 
  ompletely self-contained LN-52.  
  eet 
  the 
  y got its way; however, the number of the ships in the 
  class was reduced to 33 for fiscal reasons.  Tikopai, the class 
  ship, was launched on 11 October 2275.  She and her sister 
  ships are scheduled to be uprated to full Enterprise 
  specifications during their first ESLP refits, which are scheduled 
  to take place just after the turn of the century. 
   
  Tikopai might have been remembered as little more than a 
  cheaper Enterprise variant save for one thing.  As the first new-
  build starship class of the linear warp generation,* Tikopai was 
  able to take advantage of the latest advances in starship 
  construction techniques.  The original Class I heavy cruisers 
  Constitution, Bonhomme Richard, Achernar) had 75-year 
  c
  chnology (instead of LN-64 as preferred) in order to meet
  roduction timetables.  By th  end of the 2270s all of 
  version had to be fitted 
  remaining starships awaiting c
  the cheaper, less versatile, but c
  Both the Starship Design Bureau and experienced Starfl
  eterans argued against the proposal but in the end 
  v
  Admiralt
  (
  expected service durations, with a potential service lifetime of 
  100 years given proper care and maintenance.  The Tikopai class 
  were the first Class I starships with planned service durations of 
  100 years (150 potential, including post-duty fleet reserve 
  storage).  It was an almost Klingon approach to starship 
  construction, giving them such long service lives; however, 
  Starfleet was already looking ahead to its own future.  It did not 
  want to be caught again with an aging and inadequate fleet as it 
  had been in the decades following the Romulan War.  The Tikopai, 
  along with its new-build cousins in other classes, would ensure 
  that Starfleet would be able to both defend the Federation and 
  expand its borders in the decades to come. 
   
  (*) Technically this was the U.S.S. Truxtun (NCC-1728), a new-build 
  Endeavour class uprated heavy cruiser.  The Endeavour class is widely 
  onsidered to be the last of the original Class I generation of starships 
  due to its use of the original style primary and secondary hulls. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 304.8 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 71.3 m 
  Mass:  ………………….……………... 210,000 DWT 
  Crew …………………………………………….. 500 
  Range:  ……………………….……. 22 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: …. 18 phasers (7 banks of 2, 6 single mounts) 
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  First official starship class in Starfleet’s new Class I 
  linear warp program 
  • 
  First fitted with Starfleet’s docking port system 
  • 
  Tikopai was the first class of all new-build Class I 
  starships since the start of the linear warp program 
   
  VISUALS: 
   
   
  U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) in fleet service immediately after 
  her rebuilding in 2268.  The original was lost in action in 2287.  
  The upgraded heavy cruiser Yorktown (NCC-1704) would be 
  renamed as a new Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) later that same 
  year.  This was in honor of James Kirk’s extraordinary efforts to 
  end the Whalesong Crisis and save Terra from destruction. 
   
   
  U.S.S. Tikopai (NCC-1800) nearing completion (2275) 
   
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
  The inset illustrates the main visual difference (lower sensor 
  suites) between the Enterprise and Tikopai classes.  Many 
  Tikopai class starships are also missing the arboretum (and its 
  telltale windows) in the lower part of their secondary hulls. 
    
   
   ENTERPRISE AND TIKOPAI DESIGNS BY WALTER M. JEFFRIES, MIKE MINOR, 
  RICHARD TAYLOR, ANDREW PROBERT, AND JOE JENNINGS 
  VISUALS COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES AND WILLIAM S. CULLARS 
  SCHEMATICS COURTESY OF NEALE DAVIDSON  
   
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  GAGARIN  CLASS CORVETTE 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2266 
   
   
   
  The Gagarin class corvette was to the Class II Program what the 
  Enterprise was to the Class I Program.  It provided an all-new, 
  modern technology frame on which to base a variety of new 
  linear warp derived starship designs.  In the case of the Gagarin, 
  however, the ship involved was a brand new design, meant to 
  serve as a base for the many different kinds of low-profile 
  missions for which a true starship was not required.  Various 
  attempts at this had been tried over the years, but in the 
  Gagarin they found what many consider to be their ultimate and 
  most successful expression. 
   
  The stock Gagarin prototype, U.S.S. Greer (NCC-472) was little 
  more than a small form factor hull with minimal crew and 
  ommand facilities slung between two Kloratis FWB linear warp 
  us.  It 
  atures an underslung sensor and survey pod, with power 
  pport pylons attached directly to a Gagarin’s 
  rd points.  The following year saw the 
  intro
  to O
  pod)
  h 
  megaphaser cannon).  Many more variations followed in the 
  year
  Gag
  mod
  l-
  know
   
  fitte
   
  A to l of 226 Gagarin hulls have been built since the class first 
  ente
   2266, with more on the way.  For almost 
  ever
  la
  Gagarin d
  his has given Starfleet the most 
  vers
  ption.  
  This
   
  with 
  by the St
  y 
  f the Gagarin has enabled Starfleet to better cover gaps 
   the Federation Council under this order.  The 
  agarin and its derivatives can be expected to serve 
  Starfleet in an expanded capacity in the future given these 
  circumstances.  The fact that all of these are new builds, with 
  100-year expected service lifetimes, almost guarantees it. 
   
  c
  engines.  Three hard points were mounted under the ship, two 
  directly under the engines and one centerline for different kinds 
  of attachments.  The first variation of the Gagarin, the Oberth 
  class research ship, has since become the most famo
  fe
  provided through su
  owered outer ha
  p
  duction of the Jester class light corvette (almost identical 
  berth but with a photon torpedo rack instead of the sensor 
   and the Orca class gunboat (an triple-engined Gagarin wit
  s to come.  For example, the Clarke class clipper was a 
  arin with a third underslung warp engine and internal 
  ifications for diplomatic accommodations.  Another wel
  n example was the Fisher class light tug, which is a Gagarin
  d with a Class I transport container tow pad. 
  ta
  red service in
  y C ss I starship class there is a corresponding Class II 
  erivative to match.  T
  atile “light” mission capability it has had since its ince
  p
   has
  roven to be of great benefit in current times, what 
  the cutbacks and restrictions in Class I starships imposed 
  arfleet Reorganization Order of 2295.  The availabilit
  o
  imposed by
  G
  versatile 
  SPECIFICATIONS (BASE GAGARIN  CONFIGURATION): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 120 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 103 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 40 m 
  Mass:  ……………… 22,500 DWT in base configuration 
  Crew ……………………………… between 24 and 60 
  Range:  ……………………….…….. 10 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 6.0 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  First multimission design for Starfleet’s Class II 
  starship program 
  • 
  Versatility of basic design has spawned numerous 
  derivative and sub-classes since its initial launch. 
   
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 7.6 
  Armament: ……………….……. 1 forward phaser bank 
   
  All specifications are subject to variance depending on specific sub-class.  
  For specifications concerning a specific sub-class, midshipmen should 
  consult the Academy Intranet.  Civilians should consult the Jackill’s series 
  of Starfleet reference works, in particular Volumes 2 and 3. 
  VISUALS: 
   
   
   
  ADDITIONAL DATA COURTES
   
  GAGARIN DESIGN BY DAVID CARSON (INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC) 
  VISUAL COURTESY OF PARAMOUNT PICTURES 
  SCHEMATICS COURTESY OF DAVID SCHMIDT (STARFLEET PROTOTYPE) 
  Y OF DAVID SCHMIDT AND ERIC KRISTIANSEN   
    
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  BALSON  AND CITADEL CLASS 
  COMMAND CRUISERS 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2268, 2271 
   
   
   
  The premature end of the Federation building program had left
  tarfleet with a major shortage in starships with the C3 
  fro
  o
  e known unofficially as Starfleet’s 
  hirteenth dreadnought.”
   
  e Directorate 
  CC-2110) were needed in defense of remaining Local Group 
  ions.  
  e only major change was the inclusion of an end-to-end photon 
  r the 
  tubes, 
  wo 
  on 
  cont
  o 
  arra
  ns 
  and 
   
  Proj
  Fede
  Clas
  warp
  Bureau 
  heav
  sides
  purp
  capa
  y cruisers 
  that were s
  er conversion were 
  subs
  proc
   
  depe
  ng
  to te
   
  ser w
  with 
  ne that lacked the keel “scoop”, being smaller and more 
  The space gained was necessary for the inclusion of 
  uite.  Another less obvious but important difference 
  was the double-ended phototorp deck, identical to that first 
  used with Balson. 
   
  Kongo was the first such conversion, made during the pre-linear 
  days as part of Project Citadel to test the concept.  Because of 
  this Kongo did not get a double-ended phototorp deck until her 
  2273 LN-60 linear warp refit.  Kongo was subsequently lost in 
  the Kargon Incident of 2283, becoming the only Starfleet 
  command cruiser ever to be destroyed in combat.  Four other 
  uprated heavy cruisers were subsequently converted to 
  command cruisers after Kongo.  These were the Lexington, 
  Farragut, Excalibur, and Bonhomme Richard.  The conversion of 
  several Tikopai class heavy cruisers as replacements is being 
  discussed once these four end their service lives, but nothing 
  has come of this as yet. 
   
  (*) Astute midshipmen will be quick to point out that there were in fact 13 
  Federation class dreadnoughts built.  Star Empire (NCC-2116) was a prototyp
  ip built to a modified configuration and never officially existed; hence it i
  ually not included in class service listings.  Underclassmen are not to be held 
  accountable for this exception during their professional development training. 
   
   
   
  S
  capability needed to coordinate fleet actions.  In the past ships 
  m other classes, such as Constitution, Bonhomme Richard, 
  and Miranda class cruisers had been pressed into the role, but 
  none were really up to the task.  All of them lacked the 
  dedicated equipment and communications facilities so necessary 
  in a purpose-built, C3-capable starship.  Starfleet Command 
  found its answer in the pre-dreadnought program Project 
  Citadel, which had looked at producing a command cruiser based 
  n or modified from existing Class I components.  The program 
  was revived, and soon becam
  *
  “t
   
  The U.S.S. Balson (NCC-2105) was originally built out of leftover 
  Class I Program components.  She was given the primary hull 
  intended for the cancelled destroyer Jugurtha (NCC-527), the 
  PB-47 warp engines that had originally belonged to Enterprise 
  (NCC-1701), and a secondary hull left over from the cancelled 
  Alliance (NCC-2113) – the real unbuilt thirteenth Federation 
  class dreadnought.  This represented the quickest way to field a 
  command cruiser, since the dreadnought secondary hull already 
  had provisions for full C3 facilities.  Balson was, in essence, a 
  dreadnought without the third engine; a cruiser with 
  dreadnought-class C3 capabilities for the coordination of fleet 
  activities on a large scale.  Three more Balson class starships 
  were planned but never built due to the impact of the linear 
  warp upgrades on Starfleet’s already tight budget. 
   
  The proof for Balson’s existence came during the Kzinti Incursion 
  of 2272.  All but one of the dreadnoughts had been deployed to 
  outer starbases, and the combat capabilities of th
  (N
  systems.  Balson was used to coordinate fleet strategic and 
  Marine landing activities in the liberation of the Galen, Jourett, 
  and Tellar systems.  Balson distinguished herself when she came 
  under fire from Kzinti forces in the Jourett operation, destroying 
  one Kzinti cruiser and crippling another before system space was 
  secured by Starfleet forces.  Even after Admiral Kirk arrived on 
  the scene and took command, having been delayed by Kzinti 
  forces at Mimit, Balson still served as his fleet command and 
  coordination vessel.  Balson was present at Admiral Kirk’s final 
  victory and was credited with another kill during the battle, this 
  time a Kzinti destroyer. 
    
  In 2283 the Balson received a full linear warp upgrade in order 
  to keep her current with Starfleet technology and operat
  Th
  torpedo array, similar in concept to that being used fo
  Miranda refits.  This gave Balson four photon torpedo 
  t
  forward and two aft.  It is in this configuration that Bals
  inues to operate today.  Its unique photon torped
  o
  ngement has since been copied for other Class I conversi
  upgrades. 
  ect Citadel had proven itself with the Balson.  Even so, the 
  ration Council was still unwilling to authorize yet another 
  s I starship program given the already high costs of linear 
   upgrades.  To resolve this quandary, the Starship Design 
  came up with a command cruiser variation of existing 
  y cruisers as a cost-savings measure.  This neatly 
  tepped the issue of authorizing new builds.  For this 
  ose a custom-built, specialized secondary hull with full C3 
  bilities was produced in limited numbers.  Heav
  elected for command cruis
  equently docked and their secondary hulls swapped out in a 
  ess that took approximately two to three months, 
   on the base or sp
  ndi
  acedock involved.  The quickest way 
  ll a converted command cruiser apart from a normal heavy 
  as the replacement of the standard shuttle bay 
  crui
  o
  utilitarian.  
  the full C3 s
  e 
  s 
  sh
  us
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  VISUALS: 
   
   
  Aft view of the Balson (NCC-2105) after her linear warp refit.  
  Clearly visible in this image is her double-ended phototorp deck.  
  Her likeness to the uprated Federation is also evident. 
   
   
  Excalibur (NCC-1705) after command cruiser conversion in 
  2281.  In this port profile one can clearly make out the 
   
  “chopped” shuttlecraft hangar bay indicative of a C3 secondary 
  hull.  Excalibur did not receive the dual-ended phototorp refit 
  until 2286 due to operational needs.  
   
  SCHEMATICS: 
   
   
  U.S.S. Balson (NCC-2105) command cruiser 
   
   
  Citadel class command cruiser conversion  
   
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (BALSON): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 305 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 71.3 m 
  Mass:  ……………………….. 218,000 DWT full load 
  Crew ………………………………………... 440 
  Range:  ……………………………... 22 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: …. 18 phasers (7 banks of 2, 6 single mounts) 
   
  4 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  First dedicated Starfleet command cruisers since the 
  modified Caracal class starships of the 2180s 
  • 
  Project cost of additional hulls resulted in command 
  cruiser conversion program for existing upgraded 
  Class I heavy cruisers 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS (CITADEL HEAVY CRUISER CONVERSION): 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 305 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 71.3 m 
  Mass:  ……………………….. 214,000 DWT full load 
  Crew ………………………………………... 460 
  Range:  …………………………... 22 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: …. 18 phasers (7 banks of 2, 6 single mounts) 
   
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
   
  BALSON DESIGN BY TODD GUENTHER (STARSTATION AURORA) 
  CITADEL DESIGN BY DAVID SCHMIDT (STARFLEET DYNAMICS) 
  VISUALS COURTESY OF FILEFRONT  
  SCHEMATICS BY NEALE DAVIDSON AND RICHARD E. MANDEL 
    
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  BELKNAP  CLASS STRIKE CRUISER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2274 
   
   
   
  Belknap, to put it simply, was Starfleet’s attempt to build a 
  Class I heavy cruiser on a budget.  Cost overruns with the 
  Achernar program had caused the Procurements Division to
  be
  e
  enough, in
  in order to launch the Baton Rouge program on time and unde
  budget.  One of those corners had been the relocation of the 
  warp engines from the preferred “high mount” of the original 
  Jeffries specifications to positions almost parallel with the 
  secondary hull.  This configuration had by necessity limited the 
  top speed of Baton Rogue; however, in actual operations this 
  limitation was negligible.  Of more importance was the 
  maneuverability gained, something that had caught the eye of 
  TacFleet specialists when that organization was first founded
  When
  Bureau w
  im
  rea
  could get, the better the c
  e well-known agility of Klingon and Romulan designs.  
  a prototype were secured, with a primary hull 
  e uncompleted transport/tug Swift (NCC-3894)
  and spare PB-32 warp engines from storage.  The Starship 
  Design Bureau dubbed the new ship a strike cruiser to 
  emphasize its intended role:  that of long-range, independent 
  tactical operations on contested Federation borders. 
   
  Two major changes 
  (NCC-2500), the cl
  commenced.  The first was to implement a new type of warp 
  support pylon design.  Termed “routine-detachable,” this 
  mounted the warp engines at the bottom of the secondary hull 
  in a sled-like arrangement instead of the traditional side 
  positions.  This allowed for the removal of both engines at the 
  same time in the event of emergency with a single separation
  event, a feature that 
  cked.  This “warp sled” was designed to be routinely 
  detachable (hence the term), allowing it to be removed and 
  reattached with relative ease.  Upgrading the warp engines on a 
  strike cruiser would be a simple matter of swapping out its 
  routine-detachable 
  engine 
  assembly. 
   
  Second, Leeding 
  Technologies had just been given approval by Starfleet Command 
  to procure its new LN-64 linear warp engines for fleet testing 
  nd evaluation.  The Decatur was one of two starships that 
  valuate these new engines.  The 
  CC-1700) once it returned from 
  s 
  e 
  Dec
   
  furth
  nicel
  t 
  the 
  r 
  of t
  Star
  imm
   
  orbit
  Debacl
  strike cruiser program.  They would not
  prot
  uiser Decatur launched on 17 February 2267, 
  offici
  generatio
   
  Decatur 
  with the 
  st retur
  from an initial shakedown cruise 
    
  tle weaponry to face such a challenge.  Such a crisis had not 
  been
   a 
  prot
   
  phas
  ll 
  prior
  s 
  Dec
  prise 
  (NCC
  p 
  gene
  e 
  ultim
   
  Crisi
  that had first been installed and t
  te
  before.  Decatur was soon refitted to full strike cruiser 
  pecifications, though, and not long after production began on 
  her new-build
  her despite th
  relegated to t
  classes she had helped to bring about. 
   
   
  gin seeking out alternative designs to the increasingly 
  xpensive Class I heavy cruiser.  They found their answer, oddly 
   the aging Baton Rouge.  Many corners had been cut 
  r 
  .  
   their ranking officers learned that the Starship Design 
  as considering building a modernized Baton Rouge they 
  mediately threw their support behind the program.  The 
  son was obvious:  the more maneuverable a starship they 
  hances of their commanders against 
  th
  Components for 
  obtained from th
   
  were made to the design of the Decatur 
  ass prototype, before construction 
   
  traditional Class I cruiser designs had 
  la
  a
  would be available to test and e
  ther would be Constitution (N
  o
  it
  five-year mission.  The routine-detachable feature of th
  atur design made installing linear warp engines appealing;
  ermore, the planned connection point happened to dovetail 
  y with the intermix shaft conduit design required to suppor
  avo
  new engines.  The procured PB-32s were discarded in f
  he first LN-64 linear warp engines ever delivered to 
  t 
  fleet.  Construction of the Decatur began almos
  ediately after the new engines arrived at the Cosmadyne
  al yards.  Cosmadyne had come a long way since the Tritium 
  e of the 2180s, and much was
   
   expected of it with the
   fail to deliver.  The 
  otype strike cr
  ally making her the first starship of the linear warp 
  n. 
  was one of only a handful of starships available to deal 
  Vejur Crisis just six months after her launch.  She had 
  ned to the Sol System 
  ju
  for additional stress testing and hull integrity evaluation.
  Unfortunately, Decatur’s origins as a converted tug left it with 
  lit
   foreseen during Decatur’s construction, since she was
  otype vessel, so the only weapons she had were the four
  ers that had already been installed in Swift’s primary hu
   to its cancellation and reuse with Decatur.  Because of thi
  atur had to sit on the sidelines while the starship Enter
  -1701), the first real starship of the linear war
  ration, rose to the challenge.  Be that as it may, th
  ately successful performance of Enterprise during the Vejur
  s owed a lot to the new technology it carried, technology 
  es d on the Decatur months 
  s
   stablemates.  Her differences would remain with 
  e upgrade, though, and in the end she was 
  he status of fleet training vessel for the starship 
   
   
  The final design of the Belknap class strike cruiser incorporated a 
  few minor changes from lessons learned with the Decatur during 
  testing, as well as equipment (such as photon torpedoes) that 
  had not originally been installed on the prototype.  Starfleet’s 
  new docking ring system was incorporated, as well as an 
  - 31 - 
  
  E
  gned 
  p
   the 
  also 
  , although it was still noticeably smaller than the 
  one used for Enterprise.  As soon as each Belknap was finished it 
  was immediately rushed to the border for its “shakedown 
  cruise,” which amounted to little more than filling in for retiring 
  Kiaga and Agilis class perimeter action ships.  They would remain 
  on the border for the rest of their service lives. 
   
  l of the Belknap class strike cruisers are scheduled to be
  nterprise-style enlarged primary hull saucer and redesi
  haser power systems.  An elliptical recessed navigational 
  place
  deflector, similar to the one used on Enterprise, re
  ircular mount used on Decatur.  The shuttlecraft bay was 
  c
  enlarged a bit
  Al
  r
   
  etired as a group to the Starfleet Reserve in 2296.  This was 
  forced by the imposition of the Starfleet Reorganization Order in 
  2295 by the Federation Council despite vociferous objections 
  from TacFleet, which is losing one of the most powerful starships 
  in its inventory.  The Belknap class will cease active duty status 
  just short of its first ESLP refit, with none planned in the 
  immediate future.  Belknap was sacrificed so that larger 
  numbers of Tikopai and new-build Miranda class starships could 
  remain in service.  The entire class will soon sit idly in storage 
  depots, a still-young group of vessels whose service life was cut 
  short by nothing more than the expedience of politics. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 290 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 67.5 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 187,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 395 
  Range:  ……………………….…….. 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: ….. 15 phasers (7 banks of 2, 1 single mount) 
  2 photon torpedo tubes 
   
  Innovations: 
  • 
  First Class I starship equipped with linear warp 
  technology (Decatur prototype) 
  • 
  First starship design fitted with a routine-detachable 
  warp engine assembly 
   
  SCHEMATIC: 
     
   
  BELKNAP DESIGN BY TODD GUENTHER 
  VISUAL COURTESY OF RICK KNOX 
  SCHEMATIC COURTESY OF NEALE DAVIDSON 
   
   
  The newly refitted Enterprise (NCC-1701) passes her sister ship 
  Constitution (NCC-1700) as the latter returns to the Sol 
  System for her own linear warp upgrade 
   
   
  Constitution (NCC-1700) on final approach to the San Francisco 
  Navy Yards, Starfleet Division, for linear warp conversion 
   
   
  An uprated Enterprise class heavy cruiser fires on a fleeing 
  Klingon battlecruiser at warp speed … 
   
   
  … while another Enterprise class cruiser encounters two ships 
  from the Romulan Star Empire’s new fleet 
   
   
   
   
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  ABBE  CLASS TORPEDO DESTROYER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2273 
   
   
   
  Starfleet has always tried to maintain a starship class dedicated 
  to the heavy firepower forward concept ever since the Marshall 
  class destroyer of the Romulan War.  The Abbe is the 
  contemporary version of that concept, a starship class who can 
  count in its ancestry such storied starship classes as the 
  Marklin class heavy destroyer of the Four Years War and the 
  Sigma battlecruiser prototype of the Pax Federationis.  It brings 
  the heavy firepower forward concept into the linear warp 
  eneration of starships. 
  g
   
  Lessons learned from the Marklin were applied to the Abbe’s 
  esign.  The weapons-heavy secondary hull was replaced by a 
  tops
  ll.  
  This
   
  class
  abilit
  phas
  its w
  pod 
  t 
  have
   
  just 
  for one of a design more befitting t
   
  assig ed.  It was this multi-mission potential that finally 
  convinced the Federation Council to fund Abbe, although it has 
  yet t
   
  Ther
  r
  detachabl
  the standard heavy weapons 
  rsion, consisting of no less than eight photon torpedo tubes 
  ard and aft) complete with support systems and 
  e second is the scout pod, somewhat larger than 
  the heavy weapons pod.  It retains only two photon torpedo 
  tubes but adds a sophisticated sensor/scanner suite that is the 
  equivalent of that found on an uprated Hermes or Nelson class 
  scout.  The photon tubes are used primarily for the launching of 
  sensor probes; even so, a limited number of photon torpedoes
  carried for defensive purposes.  Other Abbe pod types have 
  been discussed; however, none as
  fleet service. 
   
  The primary mission of the Abbe is that of first response.  It is 
  designed to be sent into a contested area of space with minimal 
  support (more frequently none at all) and hold it until other fleet 
  units arrive.  This also applies to an Abbe reconfigured for the 
  scout role:  it stays on station for as long as possible gathering 
  as much information as possible until it is either forced to 
  withdraw or additional Starfleet units arrive on the scene. 
   
  While the Abbe class has yet to see fleet action in a major 
  battle, it has not stopped it from proving its worth on a smalle
  surprise
  secret supply base.  On
  D-7 battlecruiser that had been bought by the Orions and 
  converted for their own use.  The Abbe engaged all four vessels 
  at once, and with its first photon torpedo salvo so badly mauled 
  the D-7 that it was forced to withdraw.  As the other three 
  ships circled around and attempted to attack from the rear, the 
  Abbe then let loose with a full aft photon salvo.  A second Orion 
  vessel caught the full brunt of the spread and was destroyed 
  instantly, while Captain Mordan of Andor brought the Abbe 
  about and immediately attacked the two remaining Orion 
  vessels.  Skillful phaser fire combined with a third photon salvo 
  forced the last two Orion vessels to withdraw after suffering 
  significant damage.  The Abbe herself received only minimal 
  d
  and des
   
  Starfleet proposed 39 Abbe class heavy destroyers in its 2270 
  appropriations request.  The Federation Council cut that number 
  down to 20.  All but one remain in service.  The sole exception is 
  the Xe (NCC-5309), which was lost in the line of duty.  
   
  d
  ide weapons pod mounted over a minimal engineering hu
   configuration, suggested by the Baton Rouge era Ranger
   survey cruiser, allows Abbe to maintain the Marklin’s 
  y to remain a combat-capable starship, vis-à-vis multiple 
  er mounts on its primary hull, in the event it has to jettison 
  eapons pod.  The top-mounted, routine-detachable weapons 
  also gives Abbe more multi-mission potential than it migh
   otherwise had.  Reconfiguring Abbe for a special mission is
  a simple matter of changing out its standard weapons pod 
  he mission it had been
  n
  o realize its full potential. 
  e a e at present only two versions of the Abbe routine-
  e pod.  The first is 
  ve
  (four each forw
  magazines.  Th
   
  are 
   yet have been implemented in 
  r 
  scale.  In 2274 the class lead ship U.S.S. Abbe (NCC-5300) 
  d 4 Orion pirate vessels while they were enroute to a 
  e of these was a decommissioned Klingon 
  amage during the encounter, and shortly thereafter located 
  troyed the Orion supply base. 
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 261 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 53.5 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 165,750 DWT
  C
  Range:  ……………
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: ….. 12 phasers (6 banks of 2 on primary hull) 
       8 photon torpedo tubes (heavy weapons pod) 
   
   
      2 photon torpedo tubes (scout pod) 
   
   
  rew ………………………………………….… 401 
  ………….…….. 16 years at L.Y.V. 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
    
   
  ABBE DESIGN COURTESY OF ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S
  VISUAL COURTESY OF THE “DUCT TAPE WONDER” 
  SCHEMATICS COURTESY OF NEALE DAVIDSON (PIXEL SAGAS) 
   
  ) 
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  T
  M 
  HE AVENGER  CLASS HEAVY FRIGATE 
  AND THE MIRANDA  REFIT PROGRA
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2275 
   
   
   
  Starfleet Command resurrected Project Avenger in the late 
  2260s.  This time around, its goal was to find some way of 
  modernizing the numerous yet obsolete Kearsarge class light 
  ruisers still in service.  The final result, like the Enterprise class 
  eavy cruisers, would have transformed the Kearsarge into a 
  new class altogether.  The old PB-32S “shorty” drive systems 
  would be replaced with a pair of 
  c
  h
  full-sized LN-64 linear warp 
  ngines.  Its photon torpedo banks would also be removed and 
  ty.  In the end, it was decided to 
  ke the Surya, the “least versatile” of the lot (in other words, 
  e same thing with Miranda,” he is reported to 
  ave said.  “These proposals are almost identical.  I think 
  taken 
  ver by newer Starfleet vessels.  22 Surya class frigates, among 
  n.  Miranda’s trademark 
  uadruple hull “hard points” were retained instead of being 
  e
  relocated to Miranda-style mounts mounted on the underside of 
  the hull.  This would have given the refitted Kearsarge the extra 
  warp speed, range, and durability that had so limited its 
  operational effectiveness before. 
   
  At the same time, however, a completely different Starfleet 
  Command design study was underway.  This was intended to 
  refit the versatile Miranda class cruisers and its frigate 
  counterparts (Surya and Coventry) with linear warp technology.  
  Upgrading the Miranda was especially attractive due to its 
  proven performance and versatility.  The limiting factors in this 
  case were operational necessities and lack of funding.  Miranda 
  class cruisers were in as great a demand as Constitution class 
  heavy cruisers, and Starfleet could ill afford to spare large 
  numbers of them from fleet du
  ta
  the one with the smallest modular hull and requiring the most 
  work) and use it as the basis for the upgraded Miranda 
  program.  Surya would be the first converted to upgraded 
  Miranda specifications, while Miranda and Coventry would 
  receive the conversion once the Surya refits were complete. 
   
  What happened next is has since passed into Starfleet legend.  
  The final specifications for both Avenger and the Miranda refit 
  programs were given to Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura for his 
  final approval.  He looked at them for a few minutes, then took 
  the hardcopy schematic of Avenger’s port profile and 
  deliberately turned it upside-down.  “I don’t see why you 
  couldn’t do th
  h
  Starfleet would be best served by upgrading Miranda like 
  Avenger here,” he said, holding up the inverted schematic, “than 
  what was originally planned.  Might work for some of the other 
  frigates, too.  Make the appropriate changes and bring it back.  
  Dismissed.”  With Nogura’s order all hope was lost for the 
  Kearsarge to become part of the linear warp generation.  The 
  class was quickly retired to auxiliary duties and their roles 
  o
  the oldest in Starfleet, were scheduled for conversion per 
  Admiral Nogura’s order.  The first of these just so happened to 
  be named Avenger (NCC-1860), which was upgraded and 
  returned to service in 2275.  It is the only time in Starfleet 
  history where the lead vessel in a starship upgrade program 
  shared the same name as the project title under which it was 
  being upgraded. 
   
  The Miranda refit wound up becoming a more powerful starship 
  than had been originally planned, thanks to the adaptation of the 
  Avenger standard.  The reconfigurable multi-mission hull was 
  retained but modernized, and the combined hangar bay (with 
  dual bay ports) first tested with the Coventry class frigate Indus 
  now became design standard.  Additions from the Enterprise 
  conversions were extensive, with the most obvious being the 
  new LN-64 linear warp engines and the six dual heavy phaser 
  banks both top and bottom of the hull.  A second pair of single-
  mount phasers were mounted aft to provide extra protection 
  due to the Miranda hull configuratio
  q
  removed, with the two uppermost ones added for the Surya 
  conversion program.  This would enable the fitting of the various 
  Miranda “roll bar” options and all of the mission versatility that 
  they brought with them. 
   
   
   
  Ther
   
  Ave
   
  entered Starfl
  equivalent to 
  hig yie
  quirements had until now prevented them from being mounted 
  cept starbases and selected defensive platforms.  
  s of the 
  Avenger design coupled with LN-64 linear warp capabilities 
  practically begged for megaphaser fitting.  The Avenger thus 
  became the first Federation starship class equipped with 
  megaphaser cannon.  In operational practice they were akin to
  the old-style phaser cannon of the Four Years War, yielding
  pressive results at a high cost in available warp power.  The 
  subsequent succ
  cause the technology 
  lasses of the linear warp generat
  e was one last addition made to the design spec before the
  nger conversion process began.  The megaphaser cannon had
  eet service in the 2260s, producing beam power 
  a 
  h-
  ld modern photon torpedo.  The power 
  re
  on anything ex
  The modular hull and warp-power equipped hard point
   
   
  im
  ess of megaphaser operations in the field would 
  to be fitted on other Starfleet starship 
  c
  ion.  The inclusion of dual 
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  megaphaser cannons, one on each side of the classic Mira
  roll bar, would also cause the Avenger to be reclassified as
  nda 
   a 
  s
  tional 
   too 
  40 of 42 Miranda class cruisers and 22 Surya class frigates 
  were eventually upgraded to the Avenger specification, with the 
  Surya conversions coming first.  The Surya upgrade program 
  was eventually cancelled before completion due to conversion 
  difficulties, spacedock delays, and lack of funding.  The funding 
  issue also resulted in the cancellation of the planned Coventry 
  LN-64 upgrade program.  Instead, Coventy received a low-level 
  LN-52 upgrade beginning in 2289.  The reason for the lack of 
  funding was the authorization for an alternate “upgunning” of 20 
  Miranda class cruisers in 2273 to a variant specification. 
  heavy frigate in tead of a cruiser.   Frigates were the tradi
  combat gun platforms of Starfleet and Avenger was now
  overgunned for the standard cruiser designation. 
   
   
   
   
  The Soyuz class attack frigate was the first Miranda variant to 
  use the edge-mounted hardpoints instead of the traditional 
  topside roll bar.  The reason for this was because its 
  megaphaser cannon were mounted in adjustable turret-style 
  mounts (an idea borrowed from Klingon “Bird-of-Prey” heavy 
  disruptors), with two more mounted top and bottom on a 
  special modular hull extension.  An enhanced sensor suite 
  provided independent tracking capabilities for each megaphaser 
  turret.  Only 6 of the authorized 20 were ever built, as the 
  Soyuz configuration soon proved too expensive and too unwieldy 
  to effectively operate in combat.  The remaining 16 Soyuz 
  conversion candidates received the standard Avenger upgrade 
  instead. 
   
  he Avenger program proved an immediate success.  It has since 
  inspired several sub-classes (Endurance, Cyane, Hippocrat
  T
  es, 
  , Nimitz) and several derivative frigate-class designs 
  Comanche
  (Knox, Daran, Bragg, Lancer).  Avenger-derived modular hulls 
  have been the subject of much experimentation by the Starship 
  Design Bureau and can be seen in both “long” and “short” forms 
  on several prototype starships – most notably the Athabaska 
  strike carrier and the Belasarius prototype dreadnought.  It was 
  also the inspiration for the Dollond class transport/tug. 38 new 
  build Avengers were authorized in 2282, with the first entering 
  Starfleet service in 2285. 
   
  All Avenger class heavy frigates were reclassified as Miranda 
  class cruisers, regardless of origin, following the Federation 
  Council’s Starfleet Reorganization Order of 2295.  This was a 
  urely political move meant to de-emphasize their once-military 
  nature.  Most have since been reconfigured for the long-range 
  exploration role save for the derivative Soyuz.  The entire class 
  (save the Bozeman, which was lost in the Typhon Expanse in 
  2278) had already been removed from service by 2289, never 
  living up to the potential that had been expected of its unique 
  design.  An additional order for 112 new-build Miranda class 
  cruisers (Avenger configuration) is currently pending review by 
  the Federation Council. 
   
  p
  SPECIFICATIONS (STANDARD CONFIGURATION): 
  • 
  First Class I starship to mount megaphaser cannon 
   
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 234.0 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 141.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 48.5 m 
  Mass:  …………………………………. 180,000 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 395 
  Range:  ……………………….…….. 20 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….………….. warp 8 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 12 
  Armament: …. 14 phasers (6 banks of 2, 2 single mounts) 
      additional weaponry varies with option configuration 
   
  NOTE: 
  Standard specifications do not include “roll bar” options and 
  hard point option packages.  Soyuz class variant displaces 
  212,400 DWT due to megaphaser turrets and extended hull. 
   
  Innovations: 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
  Avenger (uprated Miranda) in standard configuration 
   
  Avenger (uprated Miranda) with standard roll bar package 
   
  Soyuz class attack frigate  
   
   
  AVENGER (MIRANDA) DESIGN BY 
  VISUALS COURTESY OF BATTLECLINIC.COM AND SCIFI MESHES 
  SCHEMATICS BY NEALE DAVIDSON (PIXEL SAGAS) 
  - 35 - 
  
  OTHER FEDERATION STARSHIPS 
   
  HOPI  CLASS RESEARCH VESSEL 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2258 
   
  Although it was the spiritual descendant of the Cahuya, the 
  Class II Hopi differed in many aspects.  It was fitted with modern 
  PB-47 circumferential warp engines, for starters.  It also lacked 
  the Cahuya’s limited ability for a planetary landing.  What made 
  it unique was its sectioned triple hull.  Its center hull had control 
  and crew spaces on one end, with both secondary propulsion 
  nd an oversized shuttle bay on the other.  Everything 
  a
  in the 
  iddle, though, was removable.  This permitted the fitting of 
  specialty packages, such as extended sensor suites or a deep 
  space telescope for stellar cartography mapping.  The side 
  sections were 100% reconfigurable according to mission need 
  and duration.  This made the Hopi class among the most flexible 
  and popular research craft of their time. 
   
  m
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  …………………………………….. 203.8 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 138.2 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 92.1 m 
  Mass:  ….……….……….…………….. 151,800 DWT 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 325 
  Range:  ………………………….…... 5 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………………………warp 6 
  Maximum speed: ……………….……………. warp 8 
  Armament: …... 4 phasers (1 bank of 2 both fore and aft) 
   
  SCHEMATIC: 
    
   
  HOPI CONCEPT BY DON CHRISTANSON 
  SCHEMATIC AND BACKSTORY BY FEDERATION FRONTIERS 
    
  ANTARES  CLASS FREIGHTER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2269 
   
   
   
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  Fede
  inde
  It is
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  any 
  in the event of an emergency.  Its warp engine design is 
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  owners are kn
  tastes, resultin
   
  Antares class freighter is a common sight at all points in 
  ration space.  It is popular with both corporate and 
  pendent operators alike due to the ruggedness of its design.  
   capable of planetary landings for loading and off-loading o
  argoes.  It has six individual general-purpose cargo holds, 
  of which can be sealed off and separated via explosive bolts 
  -fashioned but adequate for the task.  Antares 
  own to “soup up” their ships to suit their own 
  g in thousands of individual variations. 
  SPE
  ………………………………….. 280 m 
  …………………………………… 75 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 51 m 
  Mass:  ….……….……….……… 53,200 DWT empty 
       up to 115,000 DWT full load 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 48 
  Range: 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….… warp 5 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 3 (full load) 
  Maximum speed: ……………….….. warp 7 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 6 (full load) 
  Armament: …………….……….….. varies with owner 
   
  CIF ATIONS: 
  IC
   
  Length:  …
  Beam:  …
   ………………………….…... 3 years at L.Y.V. 
  SCHEMATIC: 
   
   
     
   
  ANTARES CONCEPT BY GREG JEIN 
  VISUA
  SC
  L COURTESY OF RANDY ASPLUND 
  HEMATIC COURTESY OF THE STARSHIP SCHEMATIC DATABASE 
   
  - 36 - 
  
  LOTUS FLOWER CLASS TRANSPORT 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2268 
   
   
   
  This was the first civilian transport craft of the linear warp era.  
  218 of these were ordered by the Federation Merchant Marine 
  r various purposes to meet its ever-expanding transport 
  east twice that number have been sold to a 
   businesses and private citizens.  It has dual 
  eta
   
  In th
  cont
  use,
   
  fo
  requirements.  At l
  variety of Federation
  d
  chable holds that can be configured for a variety of cargo. 
  eir place it can carry a single standard Starfleet transport 
  ainer or one or more containers of other various systems in 
   such as the older and still popular Watt-era cargo pods. 
  SPE
   
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 49 m 
  .……….……….…….. 148,000 DWT empty 
       up to 245,000 DWT full load 
  Crew ………………………………………….… 81 
  Range:  ………………………….…... 2 years at L.Y.V. 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….… warp 7 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 3 (full load) 
  Maximum speed: ……………….….. warp 9 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 6 (full load) 
  Armament: ……………..……….……….….. none 
   
  CIFICATIONS: 
  Length:  …………………………………….. 237 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 73 m 
  Mass:  …
  VISUALS: 
   
  ALTAIR  CLASS MERCHANTMAN 
  SERVICE ENTRY
   
   DATE (OLD CALENDAR):  2258 
   
   
  These Class B trading vessels are most commonly seen in the 
  Rigel sector or operating near border worlds along the Treaty 
  Zone.  They are small but surprisingly maneuverable.  Hundreds 
  of these are owned by Federation merchants and free traders, 
  shipping firms, and the like.  Hundreds more are owned and 
  operated by “independents,” caring little for Federation law and 
  only for the profits that await them at the end of their often 
  illicit trading runs. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  ………
  Beam:  ………
  …………………………….. 250 m 
  ……………………………… 155 m 
  y 
   
  Range:  ……………………………... 1 years at L.Y.V. 
   
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 184 m 
  Mass:  ….……….……….……..  20,000 DWT empt
         up to 34,500 DWT full load
  Crew ………………………………………….…12 
  Cruising speed:  ………………….… warp 4 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 2 (full load) 
  Maximum speed: ……………….….. warp 6 (unloaded) 
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  warp 4 (full load) 
  Armament: ……………………….. 2 phasers (1 bank) 
  VISUALS: 
   
    
    
   
  LOTUS FLOWER CONCEPT BY DAN KNUTSON (FASA CORPORATION) 
  VISUAL BY RICK KNOX  
  SCHEMATIC BY DANA KNUTSON (FASA CORPORATION) 
    
   
  MERCHANTMAN CONCEPT BY NILO RODIS (INDUSTRIAL LIGHT AND MAGIC) 
  SCHEMATIC COURTESY O
  VISUAL COURTESY OF FILEFRONT 
  F THE STARSHIP SCHEMATIC DATABASE 
   
  - 37 - 
  
  HUNTINGTON  CLASS 
  DEUTERIUM TANKER 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2270 
   
   
   
  Deuterium (“heavy water”) is the optimum fuel source for 
  modern fusion reactors and impulse engines systems.  The only 
  requirements for making it are a plentiful water supply and a 
  refining station.  Most Starfleet vessels are capable of producing 
  their own deuterium while civilian vessels are usually not so 
  fitted.  For this reason, deuterium tankers have plied the space 
  lanes almost from the moment they were opened for use, 
  transporting large quantities of refined deuterium to distant 
  olonies and in-transit refueling stations.  These slow, lumbering 
  c
  vessels are easy pr
  armed and travel ei
  ey for raiders and pirates, so they are always 
  ther with a Starfleet escort or with a squad 
  f fighter craft in its hangar bay.  The Huntington is the linear 
  warp
  et 
  Clas
  me 
  feat
  ass 
  for u
   
  o
   generation’s deuterium tanker, derived from Starfle
  s I starship components and with many of the sa
  ures.  These are rapidly replacing the older Ishinomaki cl
  se by the Merchant Marine and civilian shipping sectors. 
  SPE
   
  ad 
  ……………………………………….… 52 
    ……………………………... 28 years at L.Y.V. 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 6.0 
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 7.5 
  Armament: ……… 4 phasers (2 banks of 2 top & bottom) 
  CIFICATIONS: 
  Length:  …………………………………….. 261 m 
  Beam:  ……………………………………… 102.5 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 70.3 m 
  ty 
  Mass:  ………………………….. 189,250 DWT emp
  up to 211,250 DWT full lo
  Crew …
  Range:
   
   
  BACKGROUND AND STATISTICS PROVIDED BY ERIC KRISTIANSEN (JACKILL’S) 
  VISUAL BY TERRADYHNE 
    
  WHORFIN  CLASS TRANSPORT 
  SERVICE ENTRY DATES (OLD CALENDAR):  2270 
   
   
   
  These were originally developed for use as diplomatic vessels and 
  priority personnel transports.  All were named for famous
  deration ambassadors of both past and present.  They served 
   
  Fe
  Starfleet in this role for almost two decades before they were 
  replaced by more modern designs.  Many Whorfin class 
  starships were purchased by the civilian sector following their 
  decommissioning from Starfleet, but several still remain in fleet 
  reserves as a fallback measure. 
   
  SPECIFICATIONS: 
   
  Length:  ……
  Beam:  ………
  ……………………………….. 127.1 m 
  ……………………………… 37.7 m 
  Draft:  …………………….………………… 22.3 m 
  y 
   
   
  Maximum speed:  ……
   
  5 
   
   
  Mass:  …………………………… 35,000 DWT empt
  up to 129,300 DWT full load
  Crew ………………………………………….… 22
  Range:  ……………………………... 3 years at L.Y.V. 
  …………….………… warp 5.0
  Maximum speed:  ………………….………… warp 7.
  Armament: ……………………………... 1 phaser bank
  VISUALS: 
   
   
    
   
  WHORFIN CONCEPT BY INDUSTRIAL LIGHT & MAGIC, CGFX DIVISION 
  SCHEMATIC COURTESY OF THE STARSHIP SCHEMATIC DATABASE 
    
   
   
  - 38 - 
  
  SPECIAL SECTION 
   
  STARFLEET’S LINEAR WARP 
  UPGRADE AND BUILDING PROGRAM  
   
  The linear warp program of the 2270s and 2280s was one of 
  the most ambitious programs in Starfleet history.  It affected 
  every major starship type in both the Class I and Class II 
  Programs.  Many older designs were uprated and several new 
  classes were introduced as well. 
   
  To attempt to deal in depth with the linear warp program is 
  beyond the scope of this training document.  Instead, what is 
  provided in this section is a series of visuals.  These show many 
  of the major Class I and Class II starships that were eithe
  pgraded or built as part of the linear warp program.  
  r 
  u
  Midshipmen are required to familiarize themselves with every 
  vessel listed in this section.  They must be able to identify them 
  either by picture, port profile or silhouette on sight.  Cadets 
  should also be able to identify to which of the three linear warp 
  engine technology paths (LN-52/LN-60/LN-64) a given class 
  belongs. 
   
  A full listing and illustrations of the various starship classes 
  involved in the linear warp programs of the 2270s can be found 
  in the civilian publication Jaynz’ Ships of the Linear Warp Era, 
  which is available through the Academy Intranet.  The 
  information it contains is not required knowledge but may prove 
  helpful to midshipmen in the course of their studies. 
   
   
  VISUALS BY MICHAEL KURT BARTEL (THE TREKKER'S GALACTOPEDIA), DON 
  ARNAGE, THE DAYSTROM TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, STARFORCE PRODUCTIONS, 
  TERRADHYNE, AND MANY OTHER TALENTED ARTISTS 
   
  DREADNOUGHTS: 
   
  K
   
  Federation class as built with original PB-47 warp engines 
   
   
  U.S.S. Star Empire (NCC-2116) 
  uprated Federation prototype vessel 
  PB-49 program (experimental) 
   
   
  Federati
  LN-64 program
  on (uprated) class dreadnought 
   
   
   
  Star League (uprated alternate Federation) class dreadnought 
  LN-64 program 
   
  - 39 - 
  
   
  CRUISERS: 
   
   
  Enterprise (uprated Constitution) class heavy cruiser 
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Constitution II (uprated Constitution) class heavy cruiser 
  LN-60 program 
   
   
  Endeavour (uprated Bonhomme Richard) class heavy cruiser 
  LN-52 program 
   
   
  Tikopai class heavy cruiser 
  new build 
   
   
   
   
  Oriskany (uprated Coronado) class shuttlecarrier 
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Command cruiser U.S.S. Balson (NCC-2105) 
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Citadel class command cruiser (Enterprise conversion) 
  conversion of existing LN-60/LN-64 program heavy cruisers 
   
   
   
  Belknap class strike cruiser
  new build 
   
   
  uprated Miranda class cruiser 
  (stock configuration without “roll bar”)  
  new build 
  - 40 - 
  
   
  FRIGATES: 
   
   
  Phobos (uprated Loknar) class heavy frigate variant 
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Avenger (uprated Surya) class heavy frigate 
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Soyuz class (uprated Miranda)attack frigate  
  LN-64 program 
   
  DESTROYERS AND SCOUTS: 
   
   
   
  Monoceros (uprated Hermes) class scout 
  LN-52 program (dual nacelle prototype) 
   
   
  Siva (uprated Saladin) lass destroye
  LN-64 program 
   c
  r 
   
   
  Ares (uprated Hermes) class scout 
  LN-64 program
   
   
   
  Akula class
  LN-64
   (uprated) heavy destroyer 
   program 
   
   
  Ranger cl
  new build 
   
  ass scout 
  Abbe class torpedo destroyer 
  new build 
   
   
  - 41 - 
  
   
  TRANSPORTS (CLASS I AND II): 
   
   
  Uprated Keppler  class transport/tug
  LN-52 program 
   
    
   
  Al Rashid (uprated Ptolemy) class transport/tug  
  LN-64 program 
   
   
  Lotus Flower class transport 
  new build 
   
   
   
  CORVETTES AND VARIANTS 
   
   
  Gagarin (Greer) class corvette  
  new build 
   
   
  Oberth class research ship (Gagarin variant) 
  new build 
   
   
  Jester class light corvette
  new build 
   
   
   
  Orka class gunboat 
  new build 
   
   
  Huntington class deuterium tanker 
  new build 
   
  Clarke class clipper 
  new build 
   
   
  Fisher class light tug 
  new build 
  - 42 - 
  
  ALIEN ENCOUNTERS 
   
  THE ONLY SHIP IN THE QUADRANT 
  AN ABRIDGED AND EDITED EXTRACT FROM THE VEJUR CRISIS 
  BY CARLTON XAVIER (VEGA IX:  NEW FRONTIER PUBLISHING, 2280)  
   
   
   
  This extract describes how the newly rebuilt heavy cruise
  Enterprise
  r 
   (NCC-1701) wound up being the starship that 
  intercepted Vejur on its approach to Earth in 2267. 
   
  Starfleet had over 1900 Class I combat-capable starships 
  at its disposal throughout the Federation, yet only one had any 
  prayer of intercepting the Intruder as it rolled across the Klingon 
  border on a direct bearing for Earth.  Without waiting for orders 
  the dreadnought Entente (NCC-212O) had made an emergency 
  launch from Starbase 27, leaving behind its escorts Tamerlane
  (NCC-510) and Revere (NCC-595
  Federation Quadrant 2 at top warp speed.  The dist
  the Entente had to cross, though, weighed in favor of the 
  Intruder.  Despite its status as one of the fastest and most 
  powerful starships in the fleet, Entente could not close the gap 
  in time.  Fleet Captain Michael Bradbury was betting on 
  Starfleet being able to somehow slow it down before it reached 
  Earthspace.  His was a losing race, though, with the Intruder 
  getting closer and closer to E
  Bradbury could do was relay reports
  Entente tried in vain to close the gap between it and its
  Between the Intruder and the Sol System were 15 Class 
  starships.  None of these were as powerful as the K’t’inga class 
  battlecruisers that the Intruder had wiped out of existence with 
  so little effort.  Entente might have had a chance but it would 
  never get to Earth in time.  There was talk within Starfleet 
  Command of massing these 15 starships, mostly frigates, 
  between the Intruder and Earth.  This action was promptly 
  overruled by Fleet Admiral Heihachiro Nogura, Commander-in-
  Chief of Starfleet.  He had no desire to see Starfleet personnel 
  die needlessly.  Nogura was not about to throw away the lives of 
  15 starship crews on what he knew would be a useless gesture.  
  If the Intruder had so easily batted away a trio of the Klingon 
  Empire’s newest starships, along with the Epsilon 9 monitor 
  outpost, then nothing available in the field (save perhaps the 
  distant Entente) stood a chance.  This left two starships, both in 
  Earth orbit, with any hope at all of dealing with the Intruder. 
  The possibility of using the strike cruiser prototype Decatur 
  (NCC-2500) was abandoned almost immediately.  It was a Clas
  I prototype vessel fitted with new
  These were by far more powerful than anything Starfl
  service, outrating even the triple PB-47 circumferential warp
  engines of the mighty Entente.  Decatur might have been a 
  viable choice had she the weapons to match.  The fact that 
  Decatur had been converted from an unfinished tug, though, 
  meant that it didn’t have photon torpedoes and only four phaser 
  banks for armament.  “That ship won’t last five minutes against 
  that thing, let alone five seconds,” said Chief of Security 
  Androvar Drake.  
  firepower, and we need it now.” 
   
  “What about the Enterprise?” 
   
  It was Chief of Operations James T. Kirk who spoke those 
  fateful words, relayed via secured comline.  He had been 
  vacationing at Gibraltar when the Intruder first appeared, and 
  was speaking to his fellow members of the Admiralty from a 
  private compartment inside a Starfleet airtram.  Kirk was on his 
  way back to Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco as fast a
  the tram could take him; however, it 
  minutes before he got there.  Kirk was already a lege
  not only the most famous starship captain in Starfleet history
  but one of the youngest officers to earn his admiral’s stripes.  
  Enterprise had been the ship that had brought him his fame.  As 
  the first Class I heavy cruiser to return to Earth after 
  completing its five-year mission, it had been the first chosen fo
  conversion to linear warp technology.  It to
  warp engines; however, it also had the weaponry to ma
   
  “What about it?” Drake said. 
   
  “She’s faster and more powerful than anything in the 
  fleet,” Kirk replied.  “We might have a chance with her.” 
   
  “Jim, she’s still in drydock,” countered Chief of Staff 
  William Paris.  “She hasn’t even undergone he
  and you know as well as I what that means.” 
   
  “Can you name me another ship in range with the power to
  stop that thing in time?” 
   
  “We don’t even know if she can, provided she can launch!” 
   
  “She will launch,” Kirk replied.  “I know Mr. Scott.  If 
  anybody can get her out of that dock in time, he can.” 
   
  “Admiral Kirk,” said Nogura, speaking quietly.  “I have no 
  doubt about Commander Scott’s abilities.  Are you sure Captain 
  Decker can handle this?” 
   
  “It’s what he was trained for, sir.  St
  you about that when I get there.” 
  “Agreed.”  Nogura nodded to Kirk as the screen winked 
  out, then turned to face the rest of his staff.  “I concur with 
  Admiral Kirk’s recommendation.  The only starship with any hope 
  of stopping the Intruder in time is Enterprise.  Inform Captain 
  Decker and Commander Scott to begin immediate preparations 
  for an emergency launch.  Dismissed.” 
   
  ) and was tearing across 
  ance that 
  arth with each passing hour.  All 
   and curse his luck as 
   goal. 
  I 
  s 
   LN-64 linear warp engines.  
  eet had in 
   
  “We need something with dreadnought 
  s 
  would be another twelve 
  nd, being 
   
  r 
  o had new LN-64 
  tch. 
  r space trials yet, 
   
  ill, I’d like to talk to 
  - 43 - 
  
  THE KZINTI STRIKE BACK 
  AN ABRIDGED AND EDITED EXTRACT FROM 
  THE KZINTI INCURSION OF 2272  BY HANSON BRIGGS 
  (TERRA:  CAMBRIDGE PRESS, 2292)  
   
   
  Beginning in 2270 the Federation Starfleet began 
  onducting a series of covert “hemming-in” operati
   
  ons against 
  e 
  S
  avy 
  right under the noses of Starfleet.  The new ships were built in 
  deep underground caverns on asteroids and small planets within 
  the Patriarchy, well shielded and hidden from prying Federation 
  eyes.  In this they were helped by two of their former vassal 
  states, the Mirak Star Empire and the M’dok.  The Tzenkethi, 
  who
  avel back and forth, as well as 
   s
  Orion trade cartels were 
  c
  th
  Kzinti.  These was in blatant violation of the terms of the 
  Treaty of Sirius.  Starfleet justified its actions on the grounds 
  that the Kzinti were “up to something.”  What it was they didn’t 
  know and their best intelligence amounted to little more than 
  educated guesses.  There were certain indications, though, that 
  something was stirring within the Patriarchy.  Starfleet vessels 
  began violating Kzinti space on a regular basis, searching with 
  their long-range sensors, trying to find out what it was.  The 
  Kzinti, to Starfleet’s surprise, did nothing to stop them save 
  verbal warnings.  Not that the Kzinti could have resisted, 
  anyway.  Even in groups, antiquated Kzinti police cruisers (the 
  largest ship class they were allowed under treaty terms) were 
  no match for a single Federation starship.  The suspicions of 
  Starfleet Intelligence were in fact correct, but far beyond their 
  worst nightmares. 
   
  The Kzinti had not been idle since their humiliation at 
  tarfleet’s hands in the Beta Lyrae Incident of 2264.  The loss of 
  the Trader’s Claw, a reportedly stolen Kzinti police vessel whose 
  real mission was to steal a recently discovered Slaver stasis 
  box, might not have been learned had not two of the ship’s 
  crewmen survived.  They had been on the far side of the ship 
  when a Slaver weapon inside the box self-destructed to prevent 
  capture, and thus escaped the instant death that was served to 
  their fellows.  The Kzinti Patriarch is said to have exploded in 
  rage upon hearing the news of their failure and that of Chuft-
  Captain, their late commander.  It is said that he swore war 
  against the Federation on that day in payment for the constant 
  humiliations his people had been made to suffer under the Treaty 
  of Sirius.  Whether his vow was justified or not is a question for 
  the historians to argue.  The fact remains that war was waged 
  within the decade, and a very costly one at that. 
  Ever since the late 2250s the Kzinti had been 
  surreptitiously building a small but powerful modern space n
   had once been servitors to the Kzinti, refused aid but 
  allowed Mirak and Kzinti trading ships to pass through their 
  territory unchallenged.  This was of great help to the Patriarch’s 
  war effort, for it gave him back-door contact with his third and 
  most unlikely ally:  the Klingon Empire, which provided 
  considerable technical assistance.  The Klingons and Kzinti had 
  set aside the traditional bad blood between them for the chance 
  to strike a blow at Starfleet from deep within the Federation 
  itself.  The alliance with the Mirak was just as important.  The 
  Mirak Star Empire was centered on the Omega Sagittarii star 
  system and thus lay well out of the Federation Treaty Exploration 
  Territory.  Kzinti and Mirak agents used the circuitous Tzenkethi-
  Klingon-Rigel trade corridor to tr
  to muggle arms and technology.  The 
  hip deep into this operation, as one might have expected, and did 
  their part to aid the Mirak and Klingons in rearming the Kzinti 
  with modern ships and weaponry – all the while making a 
  handsome profit along the way. 
  To the ruling Kzinti Patriarch, none of this mattered.  He 
  did not care how his prides rearmed for war, so long as it was 
  accomplished.  His gift to his people would be one last chance at 
  glory in the warlike ways of the past before the old ways of Kzin 
  died forever.  Only a knowing few were aware of the real 
  reasons behind his actions.  No others would learn of the threat 
  that was bringing Kzin to the brink of extinction until after the 
  Heroes’-Last-Stand had gone down in history as the last great 
  military campaign of the Kzinti. 
   
   
  On 07 August 2272 the frigate Norma Ra Den (NCC-2779) 
  s
  .  Its 
  t’s last “hemming-
  ” a
  to be fairly routine. 
  could 
   Kzinti space at warp 8 at red alert 
  d 
  situation and that the Kzinti 
  appe
  ng day, the Fomalhaut 
  wa  on routine assignment patrolling the border sectors of the 
  Kzinti Patriarchy closest to the Local Group systems
  counterpart on the other side of the Patriarchy was the cruiser 
  Encounter (NCC-2632), patrolling the coreward border sectors.  
  All had been quiet on the border since Starflee
  in
  ction only months before.  Nothing unusual was expected 
  and the day was expected 
  The destroyer Hashishiyun (NCC-516) was enroute to the 
  Patriarchy for its turn at border patrol when it received a badly 
  garbled distress signal from the Ra Den.  What little that 
  be discerned was the Ra Den was under attack by multiple Kzinti 
  spacecraft.  Captain Thomas Hooker immediately ordered the 
  Hashishiyun to proceed to
  an full battle readiness.  He also sent a message to Starfleet 
  Command apprising them of the 
  ared to be “causing another incident.”  It would be the last 
  message ever received from the Hashishiyun. 
  Approximately 13.4 hours after receiving Captain Hooker’s 
  message from the Hashishiyun, Regional Space Station Omega-
  12 was attacked and destroyed by “more than 30 starships of 
  unknown configuration.”  The followi
  - 44 - 
  
  system fell to the enemy force, along with thre
  combat vessels.  By this time the identity of t
  ec e, was
  e more Starfleet 
  he attackers was 
  is
   confirmed.  
  S
  ars of almost 
   Kzinti were 
  arth-Kzin Wars, losing their Empire, the Patriarch’s ancestor 
  made to grovel before the boots of Starfleet in order to save the 
  prides, the ever-present and always-chafing restrictions of the 
  Treaty of Sirius, and the “unceasing” poking and prodding by 
  Starfleet patrol vessels had finally taken their toll.  The new 
  Kzinti space fleet, fitted with ships of Mirak design, weapons and 
  engines of Klingon origin, and shielding technology stolen right 
  out from under the very nose of Starfleet itself, cut a bloody 
  swath of death and destruction through the Ophiucus sector 
  that would have done their ancestors proud.  Their goal was 
  obvious to anyone who could read a star map:  the Federation 
  Local Group systems and Terra in particular. 
   
  known to Starfleet – or to be more pr
  tarfleet had pushed the Kzinti too far in three ye
  and now the
  constant “hemming-in” operations 
  riking back.  Two centuries of resentment against losing the 
  st
  E
   
  What was not realized at the time was that not one but 
  two 
  y had long sought and, to them, well worth 
  the price they paid for it. 
   
  Kzinti fleets had simultaneously burst out of the Patriarchy.  
  The first, the larger of the two and the one bound for Local 
  Group space, was the one that had destroyed the Ra Den and 
  Hashishiyun.  The second, smaller fleet had destroyed the 
  Encounter.  It was making a beeline for the border, where the 
  freedom and protection of Mirak space awaited them.  They 
  pointedly avoided combat with the few Starfleet vessels they 
  encountered.  By the time Starfleet Command realized what was 
  happening it was too late.  A fleet of fourteen Starfleet vessels, 
  hastily assembled to stop the Kzinti at the border, was mauled 
  by a Mirak fleet that came over the border to assist the fleeing 
  Kzinti.  Five Starfleet vessels were destroyed and four more 
  badly damaged before the battle was over.  Thus did the mates 
  and heirs of the Patriarch escape capture, and soon found new 
  homes with the Mirak ruling prides.  The Mirak, on the other 
  hand, gained legitimacy as the “true heirs” of the Kzinti legacy.  
  It was a status the
   
   
  The main Kzinti thrust made it as far as Tellar, conquering 
  the planet for the second time in its history.  This conquest cost 
  them dearly, as did their occupations of Galen and Jourett.  
  Starfleet and local forces put up stiff resistance, destroying a 
  number of Kzinti starships and inflicting heavy casualties on 
  Kzinti ground assault teams.  In return the Kzinti killed all 
  prisoners taken in combat and subjected the surviving population 
  to torture, deprivation, starvation, and slavery.  All Kzinti forces 
  were under orders to impose the old ways on their new 
  conquests, in order to remind the Federation of just how terrible 
  the Kzinti scourge could be.  Once again, the Sea of Stars 
  served as the Kzinti dinner table … if only for a brief time. 
   
   
   
  It was at the Battle of Tau Ceti that the tide finally turned 
  in favor of Starfleet.  The tactical importance of the system was 
  not lost on the Patriarch.  Capturing Tau Ceti would buy his fleet 
  the time and resources it needed to counter the inevitable 
  Starfleet response-in-force.  To this end Kzinti forces launched a 
  massed-wave attack on the Starfleet base at Tau Ceti IX with 
  the intent of capturing it intact.  It was here, though, that their 
  luck ran out.  Waiting for them in anticipation of such an attack 
  was the heavy cruiser Xanthii (NCC-1743), along with two 
  destroyers, three frigates, and a hastily assembled force of a 
  dozen Kearsarge class light cruisers.  The last had been quickly 
  reactivated from a nearby Starfleet storage depot and sent into 
  the fight.  They were undermanned but crewed sufficiently for 
  combat operations.  What happened next was the fiercest battle 
  within Federation space in living memory.  Tau Ceti was saved 
  from the Kzinti claw-swipe at the cost of three Starfleet vessels 
  destroyed, seven crippled, three badly damaged, and a total of 
  1,762 Starfleet personnel dead and 4,657 injured.  The three 
  ships lost were the light cruisers Littorio (NCC-1513), Piorun 
  (NCC-1547), and the destroyer Samson (NCC-543).  These 
  would be the last Starfleet vessels destroyed during the Kzinti 
  Incursion.  The heavy cruiser Xanthii was the most heavily 
  damaged of the surviving Star Fleet vessels, with well over half 
  of he
  ti vessels and they had superior 
  repower.  Second, and most important, was the quick thinking 
  f a team of junior officers at the Starfleet base on Tau Ceti.  
  Duri
  e
   while fighting off 
  enra
  r crew and Captain Julius Long killed in action.   All but a 
  dozen Kzinti vessels in the attacking force were destroyed, with 
  the survivors fleeing back to Tellar as fast as they could. 
   
  There were two things key to Starfleet’s victory at Tau 
  Ceti.  The first was the presence of the Kearsarges.  These ships 
  had been designed for close-in combat with Klingon vessels 
  during the Four Years War.  The fact that they were three 
  decades old made little difference; their agility almost matched 
  that of the more numerous Kzin
  fi
  o
  ng the battle, as the Patriarch’s flagship made a strafing run 
  at the Starfleet base, Lt. Trayce Donvoan used a subspace 
  tachyon pulse to create a temporary hole in the attacking ship’s 
  shields.  It was small and lasted only for a few seconds, but was 
  nough for a squad of Starfleet Marines led by Lt. Allan “Custer” 
  Donovan to beam aboard the Kzinti vessel.  They attacked the 
  ship’s C3 command center and destroyed it, then made their 
  escape in one of the ship’s own attack shuttles
  ged Kzinti warriors all the way to the hangar deck.  Most of 
  Donovan’s Marines were lost in the raid; however, the attack 
  disrupted Kzinti fleet coordination activities, thus giving Starfleet 
  its chance to turn and pounce on its prey. 
   
   
  Admiral James T. Kirk arrived at Tau Ceti shortly 
  thereafter, having been delayed by Kzinti forces at Mimit.  He 
  took personal command of all Starfleet forces in the area.  Under 
  his leadership, Task Force Zulu was formed to drive the Kzinti 
  from
   o
   Federation space.  Its success under his leadership is 
  evident by the shortness f his campaign, with the whole of the 
  Kzinti Incursion lasting only six weeks (as opposed to six years). 
  - 45 - 
  
   
  A Tikopai class heavy cruiser on patrol 
   
   
  U.S.S. Phobos (NCC-2788), a variation on the 
  standard Loknar linear warp upgrade 
   
   
  Enterprise and Avenger class starships on joint patrol 
   
  U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701) 
   
  Typical shuttlecraft retrieval operations (c.2260) 
   
   
  Starfleet task force enroute to Organia 
  during the brief “Four Days War” of 2261 
   
   
  The upgraded U.S.S. Yorktown (2271) 
   
  The last known image of the U.S.S. Bozeman (NCC-1941) prior 
  to the ship’s disappearance in the Typhon Expanse (2278) 
   
  - 46 - 
  
  TERRAN EXPLORATIONS 
   
  THE DELTA TRIANGLE 
   
   
   
  The Delta Triangle 
  Federation space in Quadrant 2 south.  
  Romulan and Klingon empires and in front of another region of 
  space known as “the Triangle” (no connection other than the 
  name).  Its claim to fame is as a region of space where starships 
  and other spacecraft have mysteriously disappeared for as long 
  as beings have roamed the Sea of Stars in that region. 
   
  Records of known disappearances within the Delta Triangle go as 
  far back as the old Kzinti Empire.  Its first mention is in one of 
  the few tales that have come out of the legendary Kzinti-Klingon 
  War of ages p
  area and so
  need or whenever they could use it to their tactical advantage. 
   
  The Federation’s first encounter with the Delta Triangle came 
  during the Romulan War (2158-2162).  The main force of the 
  Romulan flank fleet, under the leadership of Commander Xerius, 
  cut across the Delta Triangle in pursuit of harried Star Fleet 
  forces.  Romulan forces were thrown into confusion when the 
  flagship of Commander Xerius suddenly disappeared without a 
  trace.  The resulting confusion within the Romulan fleet gave 
  Star Fleet the time it needed to escape and regroup at Rigel, 
  where it was able to finally able to stem the Romulan tide. 
   
  The Delta Triangle has claimed i
  s
  starships as well, despite it being a known navigat
   
  It lies across the most direct route to certain border systems.  
  Daring civilian ship captains have been known to cut across the 
  Delta Triangle in order to shorten their journeys, betting that 
  they will not become its latest victim.  Not all of them win this 
  bet with fate.  In addition, a number of Starfleet and civilian 
  science research vessels have disappeared while trying to probe 
  the Delta Triangle’s secrets.  These include the rebuilt UESPA 
  survey cruiser Bonaventure, the first human starship ever fitted 
  with warp drive, and more recently the survey ship Hopi.  Only 
  two starships are known to have ever fallen victim to the Delta 
  Triangle and escaped to tell their tale.  Their respective reports 
  unlocked the secret behind one of the great mysteries of 
  recorded space flight. 
   
  In 2264 the St
  ambushed by a trio of Klingon D-7 battlecruisers.  Captain Kor
  the Klingon fleet commander, was using the known sensor 
  anomalies of the Delta Triangle to hide his fleet until the 
  Enterprise was within range.  Enterprise responded in kind, and 
  the burst of weapons fire within the Delta Triangle apparently 
  triggered a temporary interphasic portal.  Both the Enterprise 
  and the lead Klingon ship, Kor’s Klothos, were thrown into an 
  alternate space-time continuum.  There they found not only all of 
  the ships that had ever been lost within the Delta Triangle but 
  their crews as well, all alive and healthy.  They had named their 
  “pocket universe” Elysia, and quickly brought the Enterprise and 
  Klothos crews up to speed on their situation.  The abnormal 
  physics within Elysia gave its inhabitants immortality, but it also 
  had a deteriorating effect
  systems.  Captains Ki
  escape before their s
  point where they could no longer achieve warp factor 8 and thu
  re-open the interphasic portal.  The two eventually set aside 
  their differences long enough to temporarily combine their ships 
  into one vessel, providing enough with both power to escape the 
  Elysian time trap.  All of the inhabitants of Elysia elected to 
  remain behind, content to live within their new home. 
   
  There have been two Federation-sponsored expeditions back into 
  the pocket universe of Elysia despite the severe risks involved.  
  Both made it back safely.  A third is being planned with the 
  sponsorship of the Star Fleet Association.  Its goal is to retrieve 
  the Bonaventure and return it to our universe as a museum 
  ship.  Some question the wis
  that it would be better p
  than subjected to the whims of fate in normal space and time
  The Federation Council has as yet to rule on the matter. 
  of space is located near the far border of 
  It lies between the 
  ast.  Both the Kzinti and Klingons lost ships in the
  on learned to give it a wide birth, skirting it only at 
   
  ts own hare of Federation 
  ional hazard. 
  arfleet heavy cruiser Enterprise (NCC-1701) was 
  , 
   on dilithium-based energy-producing
   and Kor had three days to effect an 
   
  rk
  hip’s warp engines deteriorated to the 
  s 
  dom of such a venture, pointing out
  reserved within the Elysian time trap 
   
  .  
  - 47 - 
  
  HISTORICAL ARTICLES 
   
  THE ROMULANS ARE BA
  UFP INFONET – 30 NOVEMBER 2260  
  CK 
   
   
   
  The Romulans have apparently awakened from their decades-
  long slumber and attacked the Federation.  Four Neutral Zone 
  outpost stations were destroyed and the starship Enterprise 
  damaged by a sole Romulan vessel before the attacking ship was 
  disabled.  The commander of the Romulan ship destroyed his 
  own vessel to prevent capture.  At today’s press briefing 
  Starfleet reported that the Romulans were fielding two new
  pes of equipment:  a cloaking device that could render a ship 
   
  ty
  practically invisible and a plasma torpedo weapon of incredible 
  power.  Additional Starfleet units have been dispatched to the 
  border to discourage the Romulans from attempting any more 
  such raids.  The names of the casualties aboard the Enterprise 
  and from the outpost stations is being withheld pending 
  notification of next-of-kin. 
  MEMORIAL HELD FOR EXCALIBUR  
  UBC WORLD NEWS – 18 DECEMBER 2262  
   
   
   
  It was a simple yet elegant service, held within the aged walls of 
  Glastonbury Cathedral.  Not far from here is Glastonbury Abbey, 
  where according to legend King Authur is said to be buried.  A 
  place connected by the same legend both to the sword of King 
  Arthur and the starship that bears its name.  The entire crew of 
  the starship Excalibur, along with Captain Neville Harris, was 
  killed in a vicious attack by the experimental M-5 computer 
  uring Starfleet war games exercises held last month.  It has 
  taken this long to gather all of the remains and bring them back 
  home, here to Earth, for proper burial. 
   
  Retired Fleet Admiral William Shepherd, former commander of all 
  Starfleet forces, spoke at today’s ceremony. 
   
  Tragedy knows no bounds, no limits.  It is no discerner 
  of persons, beings, or creeds.  They died at their 
  posts, not knowing or understanding what was 
  happening to them, but doing all that they cou
  d
  ld to 
  save their ship from certain doom. 
   
  Representatives of the families of the victims were in full 
  attendance at today’s ceremony.  It is the only joint memorial 
  that will be held; with each family claiming the body of their late 
  loved ones for local burial.  In the meantime, Starfleet has 
  already announced plans to rebuild the wrecked Excalibur.  A 
  memorial plaque will be placed on the bridge of the restored 
  vessel, along with that for the ship’s dedication, in honor of 
  Captain Harris and his gallant crew. 
  - 48 - 
  
  NEW KLINGON CIVIL WAR WAGING 
  UFP INFONET –  19 AUGUST 2262 
  ROMULAN CAPTURED BY STARFLEET 
  UFP INFONET – 20 MARCH 2263  
   
   
   
   
  Recent reports from the Rigel Sector seem to indicate that the 
  Klingons have become embroiled in a new civil war.  This comes 
  in the wake of the imposition of the Organian Peace Treaty on 
  both the Federation and the Klingons as well as the ritual suicide 
  of Chancellor Kassa shortly thereafter.  The Klingons appear to 
  be taking out on themselves their own frustration at not being 
  able to go to war with the Federation, since the Organians have 
  both the will and power to prevent them.  No one can predict 
  how the Empire will behave once the civil war is over, new 
  leaders come to power, and it sorts out its various internal 
  affairs.  One thing is for certain, however.  Klingon belligerency 
  against the Federation will not end in the foreseeable future. 
   
   
  In a special briefing held for reporters earlier this afternoon
  tarfleet confirmed that it had captured the commander of a 
  Enterprise (NCC-1701).  
  ey have also confirmed that Commander Nek’thea is being held 
  The 
  ing 
  cust
  no 
  doub
  he 
  Rom
  ion 
  agai
  mmander Nek’thea for 
  portant information that might be useful to Starfleet.  A 
   channels that they are 
  watching Commander Nek’thea’s treatment with keen interest.  
  Local traders on the border have also noted an upsurge in 
  Romulan starship sightings which Starfleet will neither confirm 
  nor deny.  Most military experts believe that Commander 
  Nek’thea will be eventually returned to the Romulans, either as 
  a gesture of goodwill or when Starfleet has no further use for 
  her. 
    
  , 
  S
  Romulan starship as had been previously reported.  Commander 
  Nek’thea is the first Romulan to have ever been captured alive in 
  recorded Federation history.  She was not only the commander 
  of a Romulan starship but also the commander of one of several 
  Romulan fleets that patrol the Neutral Zone.  Starfleet has so 
  far refused comment on the circumstances surrounding 
  Commander Nek’thea’s capture and is also refusing to grant any 
  access by the press.  They have released a number of images of 
  Commander Nek’thea along with hardcopy of her initial debriefing 
  by Commander Spock of the starship 
  Th
  “in comfortable guest quarters” at Starbase 23 pending a 
  decision regarding her ultimate fate. 
   
  Vulcans have already expressed interest in assum
  ody of Commander Nek’thea for the time being, due 
  t to the historical ties between their culture and that of t
  ulans.  They have made it clear that they will take act
  nst any attempts to interrogate Co
  im
  special envoy, Tovak of Vulcan, has already been dispatched to 
  Starbase 23, where Commander Nek’thea is being held, to look 
  after her personal needs and ensure that planet Vulcan’s wishes 
  with regard to her health and welfare are enforced. 
   
  The Romulans have as yet said nothing nor communicated 
  anything with regards to Commander Nek’thea’s return.  UFP 
  Infonet has learned through Orion
  - 49 - 
  
  TERRA TEN COLONY RELOCATED 
   2264 
  UBC WORLD NEWS – 16 FEBRUARY
   
   
   
  Nina Blakely, UBC News.  Today I am standing in a small, well-
  protected valley about a hundred meters from the main scientific 
  search station on Verdanis.  It is an area that is off-limits to
   
  We – they were too small to ever be found again 
  unless someone came upon us by chance.  They were 
  too small even to use the small craft that the space 
  ark had carried.  They had no choice but to come to 
  terms with their new size and build new things and a 
  new place to live on a harsh and hostile planet.  Only 
  by doing this could they survive. 
   
  The city is built from materials salvaged from the wreck of that 
  craft, which crashed on the only habitable satellite of Cepheus.  
  They were recently rescued by the starship Enterprise and 
  transplanted here to Verdanis, where they can live in peace, free 
  from the constant volcanic eruptions that plagued their former 
  home.  There is no chance of reversing the mutations that 
  generation of exposure to spiroid epsilon radiation have brought 
  about in the humans of Terratin.  It is possible, though, for 
  normal humans to be temporarily downsized to Terratin scale via 
  exposure to Terratin’s defensive beam network, which is based 
  on spiroid epsilon bombardment, after which the process can be 
  reversed via previously stored transporter patterns.  Both 
  Verdantis and Terratin scientists are working on a project to 
  restore the Terratins to normal size by artificially creating 
  pattern maps of the Terratins in regular human scale.  The 
  process is quite complex and is expected to take years to 
  complete. 
  re
   
  the general public for research purposes.  Sitting about a dozen 
  meters or so from my feet inside a specially prepared protective 
  area is what appears to be a model city.  Elegant spires and 
  domes rise up from a metroplex that would measure several 
  kilometers across in normal scale.  This was built by human 
  hands, but not the same as yours and mine.  It was built by 
  miniaturized humans, shrunken in size due to constant 
  bombardment of spiroid epsilon radiation from the star Cepheus.  
  The people that built this fantastic city are the descendants of 
  the long-lost Terra Ten space colony, one of only two of the 
  Space Ark program of the 21st century known to have survived.  
  The Mendant of the Terratins, leader of his people, explained 
  their situation to us. 
  THE WANDERER WANDERS NO MORE 
    
  UFP INFONET – 9 FEBRUARY 2265
   
   
   
  In a breaking story, the starship Enterprise has discovered the 
  long-lost Terran L-5 space city Wanderer near the Klingon 
  border.  It was adrift in space, more than 20 years out at space 
  normal speed from the nearest Federation colony, and headed 
  straight for Polo’s Bolos, a binary black hole pair also known as 
  the Galactic Maelstrom.  Starfleet spokesmen report that 
  conditions aboard the Wanderer over the past two centuries 
  had deteriorated to the point that large portions of it were no 
  longer functional and the descendants of the original inhabitants 
  were locked in a deadly civil war.  Captain Kirk and his crew, who 
  are already famous for their many other exploits, managed to do 
  the impossible in both stopping the civil war and re-igniting the 
  Wanderer’s fusion engines.  It is now on course to slingshot 
  around Polo’s Bolos and back into Federation space, where it will 
  e guided into a safe orbit around the first available Class M 
  b
  planet on its new trajectory. 
  - 50 - 
  
  ENTERPRISE  SAVES EARTH 
  UFP INFONET “FROM OUR READERS” SECTION – 24 AUGUST 2267  
   
   
   
  The following was submitted by UFP Infonet reader Kylie Jones 
  with regards to the successful conclusion of the Vejur Incident of 
  23 August 2267. 
   
  He did it again.  Admiral Kirk and the Enterprise saved the 
  Federation’s butt again, this time from that cloud thing that 
  looked like it was going to destroy Earth.  I don’t know how the 
  man does it, or why he keeps on doing it, but I’m glad he does.  I 
  known I speak for a lot of people in saying that I’m glad Starfleet 
  had sense enough to give Kirk his ship back after making him fly 
  a desk for the past couple of years.  It’s starship captains like 
  him that protect us from such dangers, not paper-pushing 
  admirals and politicians.  We need more starship captains like 
  Kirk, and I’d give a lot just to be part of his crew for a day.  They 
  broke the mold when they made him, because he’s the best that 
  ere’s ever been an
  th
  I’
  d there’ll never be another better.  I know 
  ll b
  ack 
  out 
  e able to sleep better at night knowing Admiral Kirk is b
  there again. 
  HORNET  HELPS LIBERATE TELLAR 
  ST 2272  
  JAYNZ DEFENCE WEEKLY – 29 AUGU
   
   
   
  One of the oddest-looking starships of Starfleet’s new linea
  arp fleet was put to the test this past week.  The U.S.S. 
   down numerous Kzinti drones and 
  fighter shuttles sent to intercept them.  The Hornet herself took 
  part in the space battle high overhead, destroying one Kzinti 
  spacecraft and damaging three others before her own damage 
  became too great to continue flight deck operations.  She was 
  forced to withdraw from the battle and effect repairs while 
  other Starfleet units finished off the Kzinti orbital defense 
  forces.  Hornet’s repairs were effected in time to land all of her 
  own craft and then return to Starbase 1 for further repairs. 
   
  Starfleet Command is reportedly pleased with the Hornet’s 
  performance at Tellar.  This will all but guarantee the approval of 
  the other nine ships planned in the Hornet class.  The Hornet’s 
  better-than-expected performance during the battle in orbit is 
  also said to be of considerable interest in certain quarters.  
  Unconfirmed sources report that backers of Starfleet’s long-
  stalled perimeter action ship program are already evaluating the 
  Hornet combat data.  This is supposed to be in anticipation of a 
  new perimeter action ship design that will replace the rapidly 
  aging and nearly obsolete Kiaga and Agilis classes. 
  r 
  w
  Hornet (NCC-9700), an experimental escort shuttlecarrier, 
  supported landing and ground strike operations during Operation 
  Talon, the successful effort to liberate the Tellar star system 
  from Kzinti occupation forces. 
   
  The Hornet was designed as a reduced-hull cruiser but was 
  converted for use as a patrol craft in the Rigel sector.  It was 
  designed from the onset to deploy combat shuttlecraft, carrying 
  ten K-type “Killer Bee” attack craft in addition to standard 
  cruiser armament.  Hornet had just launched and was on her 
  shakedown cruise when the Kzinti Incursion broke out.  She was 
  immediately redeployed to the area and became one of only 
  three operational shuttlecarriers assigned to Task Force Zulu 
  under the command of Admiral James T. Kirk.  Hornet’s fighters 
  escorted Marine starships and assault craft during landing 
  operations on Tellar, shooting
  - 51 - 
  
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  ti
  to be con
  nued … 
  - 52 - 
  
  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
  VOLUME 11:  2251-2275 
    
   
  AUTHOR’S COMMENTS: 
   
  Perceptive readers will note that I differ with Dixon (Prime Zero) 
  as to the number of and dates for the “early” adventures of 
  Captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise.  This is 
  largely a matter of interpretation.  I do not accept the proposal 
  of a number of pre-“Where No Man” adventures as posited in 
  some of the more recent TREK novels.  I instead fall back to the 
  premise of the original Graham-Mandel timeline, that which we 
  old-school fans always understood, that the five-year mission of 
  the Enterprise (save for “Where No Man”) took place from mid-
  2260 to early 2265.  This allows time for both the Bonhomme 
  Richard (TOS) and Achernar (TAS) refits, and on that point at 
  least Dixon and I are somewhat in tune.  “Where No Man,” the 
  second series pilot, is an obvious exception due to the set and 
  uniform styles, which are closer to the Pike era (“The Cage” and 
  “The Menagerie”).  It has always been my belief based on the 
  on-screen evidence that this episode took place not long after 
  Kirk took command, which would place it somewhere in early to 
  mid-2259.  Gary Mitchell’s reference to a prior adventure with 
  Kirk on Dimorus in no way implie
  signed on as Enterprise execu
  novel/comic retconning.  As a ma
  makes clear that he and Kirk had been friends ever since their 
  Academy days, so the visit to Dimorus could have taken place at 
  any time between those two bookends.  The only time for such 
  pre-TOS “early adventures” of the Enterprise, in my opinion, is 
  between “Where No Man” and the first production TOS episode, 
  “The Corbomite Maneuver.”  Unfortunately, since the Enterprise 
  was in drydock most of this time getting its Bonhomme Richard 
  upgrade then the scope of such tales is by default severely 
  limited.  I’m afraid this is some more of that insidious retconning 
  that the TREK novel writers are especially guilty of taking upon 
  themselves – even more so with the incorrect suppositions of 
  the Church of Okuda and the encouragement of the Official 
  Franchise Heirs to back them up.  It’s the only real problem I 
  have with Dixon’s work regarding this era in TREK history, but 
  as I said it’s a matter of interpretation.  I know a lot of you have 
  your own ideas on the topic and you’re welcome to them. 
   
  The debate concerning the use of Starfleet as opposed to Star 
  Fleet is as old as STAR TREK itself.  Star Fleet is the form used 
  by old-school TREK tech fans and is derived directly from Franz 
  Joseph Schnaubelt’s Star Fleet Technical Manual (SFTM), the 
  standard by which all TREK technical publications are judged.  
  Unfortunately this form of the word was but one of several 
  errors that found their way into the SFTM.  The only time we 
  ever see the term on screen in classic TREK is in the TOS 
  episode “The Menagerie.”  It is printed on the cover of the top 
  secret report that Commodore Mendez hands Captain Kirk on 
  Talos IV.  It is very clearly written as Starfleet on the cover of 
  that folder (“FOR THE EYES OF STARFLEET COMMAND ONLY”).  
  Geoffery Mandel “corrected” this to Starfleet in his classic 
  fanon reference work U.S.S. Enterprise Officer’s Manual, thus 
  perpetuating the error.  It was finally returned to its true form, 
  Starfleet, in the “Headquarters scene” near the beginning of 
  STAR TREK: The Motion Picture.  Still, who am I to try to swim 
  against the current of years of classic TREK fanon?  That’s why I 
  have the term changed in 2260, so the use will be somewhat 
  consistent both with what’s on screen (“Tommorow Is 
  Yesterday,” “The Menagerie”) and with the beloved SFTM.  It’s 
  a compromise, yes, but a necessary one. 
   
  The photoshopped picture of Vice Admiral Lori Ciana is my little 
  gift to “canon” TREK, in the same vein Okuda’s “Captain April.”  
  Mine is more accurate, though.  It’s a picture of Susan Sullivan, 
  the actress who actually played Admiral Ciana in Star Trek: The 
  Motion Picture.  You never saw her face because she died along 
  with Commander Sonak in a horrible transporter malfunction.  
  Now that we know what she looks like, it’s easy to see why Kirk 
  was attracted to her.  I photoshopped my pic because I don’t 
  ST:TMP set of Ms. Sullivan in 
  nd could send it to me, I’d be 
  happy to include it in place of my own. 
   
  The Citadel class command cruiser is my attempt to combine 
  three somewhat different concepts into one design.  Those are 
  the Federation CC of Starfleet Battles (Stephen V. Cole), the 
  Citadel class command cruiser from Starfleet Line Officer 
  Requirements (David Schmidt), and the “Enterprise upgrade” 
  from the old FASA RPG (Dana Knutson).  I’ve tried to describe it 
  as a fallback measure, something Starfleet had to do when the 
  Council refused to fund the rest of the Balson class.  Not every 
  Enterprise-type heavy cruiser would get such an upgrade, 
  though – just the bare minimum needed for fleet operations.  
  That’s why I’ve limited the number of Class I heavy cruisers that 
  got a CC-type upgrade.  Oh, by the way, C3 is Navy slang for 
  “command, control, and communications.”  Those are the three 
  things you want in a ship of this type. 
   
  I described megaphaser cannon the way I do for a reason.  I see 
  them as an evolutionary step in developing more powerful 
  phasers, the kind we see in the 24th century, just as the original 
  phaser cannon of the Kiaga helped usher in phaser technology in 
  the first place during the Four Years War.  This is how most 
  canon and fanon tech sources treat what would otherwise be a 
  technological anomaly within the TREK franchise, and it makes 
  sense to me. 
   
  s that it took place after he 
  tive officer.  That is TREK 
  tter of fact “Where No Man” 
  know of any photos from the 
  costume.  If anybody has one a
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  My side reference to the Ishinomaki class deuterium fuel tanker 
  is a nod to the “alternate” Kobayashi Maru design by Roger 
  Sorensen.  I’ll admit that I’ve always had a preference for the 
  original proposal by Aridas Sofia ever since I first saw it back in 
  the 1990s.  Having said that, I feel that Roger’s design is also 
  quite innovative and deserves mention in this work.  Space 
  limitations prevented me from doing a full writeup; hence the 
  aside of it being the Huntington’s contractual ancestor.  
  According to Sorensen’s blueprints the Ishinomaki entered 
  service in 2252. 
   
  It was Todd Guenther who first mentioned the Kzinti Incursion in 
  various publications, most notably Ships of the Star Fleet 
  Volume 1 and the Federation Reference Series – thus vexing 
  TREK Kzinti fans for years.  ^_^  Others have since 
  elaborated on his brief comments, Lawrence Miller in particular 
  (U.S.S. Hornet General Plans).  Also, interestingly enough, Larry 
  Niven’s second Kzinti story for the STAR TREK franchise, “The 
  Wristwatch Plantation” from the old TMP-era daily comic strip, 
  just happens to take place around the same time as the Kzinti 
  Incursion.  What I’ve done is try to tie this and other materials 
  gleaned from other sources into a new version of how the Kzinti 
  Incursion started.  It is an account entirely of my own devising 
  based on my interpretation of the various source materials I 
  used. 
   
  To be honest, I had enough of an outline to write up a whole FSC 
  supplement on the Kzinti Incursion alone, just as I did earlier for 
  the Earth-Kzin Wars.  Having said that, I didn’t want to take any 
  more away from whatever Todd Guenther had planned to do 
  with the concept.  That’s why I stopped where I did, halfway 
  through, with Admiral Kirk assuming command of the Starfleet 
  task force that will eventually defeat the Kzinti.  Todd and Aridas 
  have already outlined the ending in their works; where it goes 
  from here is up to them and you.  The only liberty I took with the 
  various sources was to add the tale of the second Kzinti fleet, 
  the one that escaped into Mirak space.  This not only legitimizes 
   
  No, the TNG-derived Antares class freighter is not the same as 
  the ship that was mentioned in the TOS episode “Charlie X.”  
  Everybody seems to have a different opinion regarding that one, 
  so I left it alone. 
  the Mirak as the “Kzinti” of the SFB/SFC gaming franchise but 
  also hopefully helps explain why “the Patriarchy” in Geoffery 
  Mandel’s STAR TREK Star Charts is no longer inside the 
  Federation as it’s supposed to be per the older STAR TREK 
  Maps.  This hopefully gives the Franchise even more wiggle room 
  should they ever bring back the Kzinti on-screen. 
   
  Yes, I am guilty of somewhat retconning events in David 
  Gerrold’s novel The Galactic Whirlpool in order to better fit with 
  the FSC.  Its backstory may not be strictly canon anymore, but 
  it’s still one of the best TREK novels you’ll ever read. 
  Regards, 
   
  - Richard E. Mandel 
   
   
   
  CONTACT INFO: 
   
   
  Want to contribute to the Federation Spaceflight Chronology?  
  You can find me on the FRS Online or Starfleet Network forums.  
  If you prefer direct contact then you can reach me at: 
   
  rtrodude@yahoo.com
   
   
   
   
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  SPECIAL THANKS TO: 
   
  Amarillo Design Bureau (selected timeline data) 
  Jason Bogguess (Star Fleet Network) 
  Manny Coto 
  Neale Davidson (Pixel Sagas) 
  Sharmon Divond and Ron Harris 
  James Dixon 
  (Federation Reference Series Online) 
  FASA Corporation (selected timeline data) 
  Todd Guenther 
  Bernard Guigand (Treknografix) 
  Shane Johnson 
  Court Jones 
  Jan Hendrik Kolbarg (The Andorian’s Office at K7) 
  Memory Alpha and Memory Beta 
  Larry Niven 
  Timo Saloniemi 
  Bernd Schnieder (Ex Astris Scienta) 
  Aridas Sofia 
   
  VISUAL SOURCES: 
   
  Activision Games 
  Randy Asplund 
  Atolm 
  Atrahasis (Outlance Shipyards) 
  Michael Kurt Bartel (The Trekker's Galactopedia) 
  W. J. Casmir 
  William S. Cullars (The IDIC Page) 
  Neale Davidson (Pixel Sagas) 
  Demon Renegade Studios 
  The “Duct Tape Wonder” 
  Filefront 
  Ted W. Giebel (SFB Nexus) 
  Glitchwerk Studios 
  Maeteen Greenway 
  Andrew J. Hodges 
  Don Karnage 
  Rick Knox (aka “Pneumonic81”) 
  The Light Works 
  Chris Martin (aka “EG180”) 
  McDaniels Models 
  The Mego Museum 
  Masao Ozazaki 
  “The Red Admiral” (http://www.trekmania.net/) 
  Paramount Pictures 
  Sony Tristar Pictures 
  Star Trek Communicator magazine 
  Starforce Productions 
  Starship Modeler 
  The Stress Puppy 
  TallGuy Productions 
  Thomas Models 
  Adam Turner 
  Warped9 
  ZambieZan 
   
  coming soon 
   
   
  also available 
   
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