====================================================================== From: ST21822@vm.cc.latech.edu Conference: 25 , rec.arts.start To: ALL Message: 147 Reply To: Subj: EXCELSIOR-CLASS STARSHIP Date: 09-11-94 Time: 19:18 ====================================================================== Path: tiamet!coutts!ncrcan!ncrlnk!ncrhub6!ncrgw2.ncr.com!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sgiblab!da rwin.sura.net!aurora.LaTech.edu!vm.cc.latech.edu!ST21822 From: ST21822@vm.cc.latech.edu Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.tech Subject: EXCELSIOR-CLASS STARSHIP SPECS (repost) Message-ID: <1702EBB31.ST21822@vm.cc.latech.edu> Date: 11 Sep 94 19:18:41 GMT Organization: Louisiana Tech University Lines: 77 NNTP-Posting-Host: vm.cc.latech.edu X-Newsreader: NNR/VM S_1.3.2 ======================================================================== EXCELSIOR-CLASS FEDERATION BATTLESHIP ------------------------------------------------------------------------===== Length: 467.0 meters Draft (Height): 78.0 meters Beam (Width): 186.0 meters Crew Compliment: 550 to 600 (best guess considering the 700+ of the Ambassador-class starships) Standard Displacement: 300,000 to 400,000 metric tons (best guess) One book places it at 240,000 metric tons Performance: Maximum Cruising Speed -- Warp Factor 9.0 (new scale) (Sustainable until fuel exhaustion) Maximum Rated Speed -- Warp Factor 9.2 (Sustainable for up to twelve hours) Maximum Emergency Speed -- Warp Factor 9.4 (Sustainable for up to ten minutes before auto shutdown) Ordnance: Phasers -- At least 18 to 22 turrets in 12 banks (Five banks on upper saucer, three on lower saucer, two rear-firing banks near the shuttlecraft hanger, two on the bottom of the secondary hull) Photon Torpedoes -- 3 or 4 tubes (two forward firing, one or two rear firing) 50 to 70 torpedoes (best guess) Megaphasers -- One book says at least 4 megaphaser turrets, but there has been no confirmation from any episode, movie, or official tech manual that megaphasers exist. However, I think it is highly likely that those pylon mounted phasers on the Reliant in STII: TWOK are some form of augmented phaser banks, perhaps megaphasers (or phaser cannons as some books name them). Transporters: 6 standard 6-person quantum resolution transporters 6 emergency 22-person high-volume scan-only transporters 3 cargo molecular resolution transporters Computer System: Duotronic M-type, or most likely the newer Quadritronic (the movie Enterprise uses Duotronic computers) Shuttlecraft: 6-10 Personnel Shuttlecraft, 1-2 Warp Shuttles, 10-12 Workbees, 6-8 Travel Pods (best guess) In 2284 (stardate 8205.5) the USS Excelsior (NX-2000) was commissioned at the San Francisco Orbital Ship Yards as a testbed for the Transwarp Development Project -- an ambitious, expensive, but doomed effort to imporve warp engine performance. The project was deemed unsuccessful by Starfleet Command in 2287; the Excelsior was refitted with standard warp drive and recommissioned for deep-space exploration duties. Captain Styles was given a "sideways" promotion to shore duty; Commander Hikaru Sulu of the USS Enterprise was promoted to Captain and given command of the Excelsior in 2290. The Excelsior-class vessels have had a long and successful career in Starfleet and continues to serve in key positions 75 years after intitial commissioning. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) was one of the most famous of the Excelsior- class vessles, serving in Starfleet in the late 23rd and early 24th centuries. Sources: Star Trek Chronology, Star Trek: The Next Generation First Year Sourcebook by FASA, Starfleet Officer Requirements Vol. 1, Star Trek: The Next Generation: Trading Cards (Inaugural Series) by Impact There is very little concrete information concerning the Excelsior-class in any book. The information above is best guess. If anyone has any better information, please E-Mail me at st21822@vm.cc.latech.edu. I know the USS Excelsior model kit just ame out. Any information in there? Compiled by H. Keith Hamilton Louisiana Tech University United States of America ________________________________________________________________________ | | | Exploring the further regions of experience... | | Z E R 0 R E A L I T Y B B S | | 9o5-934-4o55 / 345 megz and growing! | | Sysop: LiQUiD JeSuS | |________________________________________________________________________|