I lengthened the ship to a thousand feet, just a few feet longer than it was, and enlarged the saucer, eventually adding an updated superstructure to the top and bottom of it." Upon re-materialization the Klingons true to their nature immediately attack the Enterprise. These colors were accented with soft white light or multi colored lights installed in floor and wall paneling, and later, in the ceiling. Enterprise rendezvous with the Discovery, 2257. The two computer console graphics, also created by Jefferies, showed a Constitution-class vessel in comparison with a Romulan D7-class battle cruiser and an in the episode barely discernible yardstick. (TOS: "Court Martial"), Aboard the Enterprise at least, new colorful Starfleet uniforms were adopted before some other ships. Visual sensor pickups located at various points on the Constitution-class' outer hull were capable of image magnification and allowed a varied choice of viewing angles. [5]. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Ultimate Computer"; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; etc. 72.6 meters Located in the center of the room, and extending for many levels both above and below the deck, was the warp core. For information on the Constitution-class interior sets, please see Constitution-class sets. 6 Certain ships: While most of these ships were already confirmed as class member in the Original Series, even more emphatically reaffirmed in its 2006-2008 remastered version, the classification of others was more tentatively derived. 2254 Thanks! While the Constitution class was never meant as a warship, the vessel was adequately well-armed for dealing with various threats. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), The bridge of the Constitution-class starships were subject to many minor and major cosmetic changes over their many years of service. Conditions: Must use star trek online as a base for the person Xander became and the memorys and knowledge he gained. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; Star Trek III: The Search for Spock). The original configuration of the Constitution-class carried a standard complement of 4 shuttlecraft, some of which were Class F. (TOS: "The Omega Glory"), The refit configuration Constitution-class starship featured a new landing bay design. Directly below this panel was a row of eight flip-switches provided to set warp flight speeds. 203 (2250s)430 (2260s)1 The saucer, nacelles, pylons and hull were interchangeable with Excalibur-, Exeter- and Vesper-class starships. Crew complement: In each privacy area, a view screen was mounted into the wall, providing a full exterior tour of the vessel. They had to be easily identifiable from a distance, so that eliminated 3, 8 , 6, 9 and 4-none of which is that clear from a distance, That didn't leave much! The U.S.S. (The Making of Star Trek, pp. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow"; TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Doomsday Machine", "The Paradise Syndrome"), Ship-mounted phaser banks had a range of approximately 90,000 kilometers. ", A close-up of the impulse drive assembly on the original configuration in 2265, ...and seen firing its secondary hull aft phasers. 203 to 430 In 2268, an Orion scout ship was able to cause buckling in some of the shields of the Enterprise after it had made just five attack runs on the ship. #link #parent ... She's more like a peacekeeper or peacemaker. (TOS: "Elaan of Troyius"), After the refit, in the 2280s, a Constitution-class starships needed 13.5 seconds to lower and raise their shields when taking a shuttlecraft on board via its tractor beam. The Eagle, Korolev, Emden, Endeavour, and Ahwahnee, with their respective registry numbers, were all derived from the Operation Retrieve mission charts artwork, seen in the Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country  (Special Edition) DVD, where they were represented by Constitution-class icons. (…) The disc of the Enterprise would separate from the rest of the ship to land on the surface of planets." 5 Even though the hologram appearance of the Discovery redesign in the lobby of Starfleet Headquarters can easily be construed as a homage to Pike's ship in that particular era, there had been indications that the latter-day Star Trek producers, responsible for all on-screen Star Trek from Discovery onward, consider it the canon replacement for Jefferies' classic design – that is, in their minds at least. Current rank Lieutenant Commander Galo.My second command and new teir 2 ship a Vesper Class Cruiser. [7] While another, new ship would have made more sense, the intent of the producers was clear, the class was retro-applied to the lost ship. (citation needed • edit) (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), A typical corridor on the Constitution-class, late 2250s, A typical corridor on the Constitution-class, 2260s, The color scheme implemented aboard Constitution-class ships was predominantly red accents alongside dark gray or light gray paneling. Must use ships that were created in early 25th century or before. It should be noted that the inclusion of the Valiant was a late addition and that it was not even considered in the first two proposals. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident"). In 2293, a Task force consisting of the Constitution-class USS Ahwahnee, USS Eagle, USS Emden, USS Endeavour, and USS Potemkin was assembled to assist with rescuing of James T. Kirk, and Leonard McCoy from Klingon captivity as part of Operation Retrieve. 22 Don't put in redirects for shows, books, etc.. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident"), Intensive Care Unit on a refit configuration vessel. The Farragut, Kongo, Republic, Valiant, and Yorktown were from The Making of Star Trek, as discussed above. Decks: History Technical specifications Deck plan Subclasses Vesper. Active: (Star Trek: The Motion Picture), The bridge underwent only a few minor modifications from that point until the destruction of the ship in 2285. This color scheme was kept until the Constitution-class refit in the early 2270s. A wide range of Starfleet and Federation craft could utilize this state-of-the-art landing facility. I don't recall which ones were used, or which ones ended up unseen. Warp 9 was also possible for this class of starship, although it was highly discouraged because it was an unsafe velocity. [6] It was not until the Discovery episode "Brother" that the launch year of Enterprise was confirmed in canon on a graphic display. The bridge of the USS Enterprise-A, commissioned one year later (in 2286), had mainly cosmetic differences at launch, but by 2287, it had been drastically upgraded to reflect the advances made in computer control technology. Type: During the battle Kirk is forced to perform a maneuver akin to that of William T. Riker in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II". 2240s–2260s In fact, it was Probert himself who took the initiative to introduce the new dimension when he co-designed the refit-Enterprise for The Motion Picture, "I wanted to actually go larger on the size of the ship, not realizing at the time that the Enterprise was originally in drydock for a refitting. This panel consisted of three main sections. Mass: 89, 134). (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) Four spacesuit lockers lined one wall, each containing one suit, providing enough to clothe a standard party of four. Beam: Federation StarfleetImperial Starfleet Jein postulated the Enterprise as the second MK IX subclass member, hence the justification of the "01" addition to both the registry "NCC-17" and the technical journal graphic as seen, the reasoning adopted by the original registry designer, Matt Jefferies, as he himself had stated above. The USS Enterprise in 2254 The USS Enterprise in 2257 But I have never really stepped out and squashed the rumor that the number on the "Enterprise" came off my airplane." Just forward of this section of the lounge were two privacy areas. Vesper is the lead vessel of the Vesper-class cruiser. (citation needed • edit) (Star Trek: The Motion Picture). (TOS: "The Tholian Web"), The Defiant emerged in the 22nd century mirror universe, where the Tholians of that universe had created the interphase rift by detonating a tricobalt warhead within the gravity well of a dead star. Star Trek Online. 124-129). The saucer, nacelles, pylons and hull were interchangeable with Excalibur-, Exeter- and Vesper-class starships. The Sovereign was … by Burning_Bridges Oct 28, 2018 . ", "The Paradise Syndrome", "The Tholian Web"). The twelve ship assertion was actually supported by production sources, as The Making of Star Trek (pp. After being hit with the equal force of 270 photon torpedoes, warp maneuvering power was lost. Owner: (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer"; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"), Only one turbolift serviced the bridge of the original configuration Constitution-class ship. The probe Nomad increased the ship's engine efficiency by 57% in 2267, allowing the ship to reach warp 11, but Kirk persuaded Nomad to reverse its "repairs" because the ship's structure could not stand the stress of that much power, and it would eventually destroy the ship. Operator: The original configuration Constitution-class length came closest to canon, when two ship size comparison graphics were featured in the Original Series third season episode "The Enterprise Incident". (TOS: "By Any Other Name"), The maximum warp speed recorded for this class by itself was warp 14.1, achieved by the Enterprise due to sabotage to the vessel's warp drive system. (citation needed • edit), Just within the landing bay doors was a force field generator unit, which was built into the main bulkheads on either side of the entry area. Warp 6 (cruising speed)Warp 8 (maximum speed) 430 All stations were normally manned at all times. The Manual itself was based on the internal document Star Trek: The Next Generation Writers' Technical Manual in which Andrew Probert had provided dimensions for most of the more prominent Starfleet vessels until then established in the live-action franchise. Phaser power was increased by drawing energy directly from the warp drive. [9] The implied intent had already accrued credence when the redesign appeared as Kirk's Original Series ship in the Star Trek: Short Treks episode "Ephraim and Dot" shortly before its holographic reappearance, for all intent and purposes the first actual retconning of the ship in canon – which, incidentally, was all the more remarkable as the interiors shown in that episode adhered more closely to the ones as seen in The Original Series. (TNG: "Booby Trap"), The Defiant, an original configuration Constitution-class vessel cruising at warp in the mirror universe, The Constitution-class of starships has been fitted with both lithium and dilithium reactor circuits in the warp drive assembly over its service lifetime. There was also a holographic rec room, which was the predecessor of the holodeck. 2 The launch date of the class (for the Starship vs. Constitution-class dichotomy, please refer to: Starship-class background information) has never been established, but the reference book The Making of Star Trek stated on page 203 that the producer's intent was that the "Enterprise-class starships have been in existence for about forty years." Likewise, the 1,000 feet length of the refit-Constitution-class was never canonically established on screen either, instead generally gleaned from the 1991 reference book, Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, where it was propagated to the public at large. This, canonically speaking at least, constituted somewhat of a conundrum, an observation not lost on Greg Jein, as he had noted that the ship in question was already destroyed in 2217, whereas the Constitutions only became operational a decade later as far as was established by the producers. 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