Constitution class Heavy Cruiser specifics:



The Constitution class heavy cruiser has 21 Decks:

Primary Hull:

01 Main Bridge, Ready Room

02 Briefing Room

03 Senior Crew Quarters, Junior Crew Quarters, Crew Quarters

04 Crew Quarters, Laboratories, Main Deflector, Main Impulse Drive, Deuterium Tanks, Main Engineering

05 Laboratories, Crew Quarters

06 Laboratories

07 Sickbay, Shuttlebays, Transporter Room

08 Anti-matter Storage, Cargo

09 Cargo

10 Cargo

11 Main Sensor Array

Secondary Hull:

12 Photon Torpedo Storage

13 Photon Torpedo Bay

14 Warp Engineering

15 Warp Engineering

16 Engineering Support

17 Main Deflector Control, Shuttlebay

18 Shuttle Hanger, Cargo

19 Cargo

20 Botanical Garden

21 Matter-Antimatter Containment, Tractor Beam

Length - 305 metres

Beam - 140 metres

Height - 75 metres

Mass - 620,000 metric tonnes

Crew Complement - 450

Maximum Evacuation Limit - 1000 persons

Maximum M/AMRA power output - ? Teradynes per second

Maximum Sustainable Velocity - Warp 10 [OCU] for 12 hours

Maximum Exploration Endurance - Warp 8 [OCU] for 1 year

Standard 6 Person Transporters - 2

Emergency 22 Person Transporters - 3

Cargo Transporters - 3

Shield Output - 310,500 terajoules

Directed Energy Weapons - Eighteen [18] Type VII phaser emitters

Maximum Phaser Power Output - 6000 terawatts

Maximum Phaser Range - 300,000 kilometres

Two [2] Photon Torpedo Launchers - 2 fore

Torpedo Explosive Yield - 18.3 isotonnes

Torpedo Spread - 1 per launcher

Maximum Torpedo Range - 2 million kilometres

Torpedo Load Status - 100 Type II photon torpedo warheads

Shielding systems are designed to exceed ? x 10~5 kw primary energy dissipation rate.

Type 3 Shuttlecraft - 4



U.S.S. Constitution, NX 1700, was tested from 2239 - 2245. Enterprise then joined the fleet in 2245. Soon Constellation, Republic and Potemkin joined the fleet and the Constitution class revolution began. Luminaries such as Captain Robert April paved the way.

During the 2260s, about a dozen Constitution class starships were selected for 5-year deep space missions. The captains of these ships would become legends: Garth of Izar, James T. Kirk, Matthew Decker, Robert Wesley and Emma Roberts to name but a few. Construction of the Constitution class continued right through this period. This was important as many of the Constitution class did not survive to the end of their five year missions. Constellation, Intrepid, Defiant, Excalibur and Kongo were amongst those lost. Barely a handful of Constitution class returned to Earth.

Upon the return of the Enterprise in 2270, the first of the class home, the logs were examined from the ship and from the logs of all the Constitution class to-date. There were shortfalls in the existing configuration of the Constitution class. The answer was eighteen months of redesign and refit work on 1701 Enterprise. New concepts worked on by Commanders Scott and Spock, whilst on the deep space mission, helped to design the Constitution class ready for another half century of service. Hood and Potemkin soon joined the refit ships along with Lexington.

New build Constitution class were delivered from this point including the Intrepid NCC 1730. Later replacements were ordered for those vessels lost during their five year missions [some subsequently replaced by Constellation and Excelsior class vessels]. By the mid-2290s, the fleet was once again reviewed. With the Constellation, Excelsior, Oberth and Miranda classes delivered in larger and larger numbers, older classes such as Constitution class could now have a replacement date conjectured. The class is due to be phased out from 2315 - 2325.

Below is a list of Constitution class vessels:

NAME	REGISTRY	NOTES
Constitution	1700	First vessel of the class.
Enterprise	1701	Destroyed SD 8130 over Genesis Planet.
Constellation	1017	Lost early season 2 TOS with Planet Killer.
Republic	1371	Kirk's training vessel. Training vessel in DS9, last left solar system in 2324
Valiant	1623	Lost. Greg Jein T-Negative list.
Intrepid	1631	Lost SD 4307, season 2 TOS.
Farragut	1647	Crew killed by cloud creature. Kirk's prior assignment.
Potemkin	1657	Seen in TOS Ultimate Computer, mentioned in ST: VI.
Excalibur	1664	Lost SD 4729, Season 2 TOS to M-5 computer tests.
Exeter	1672	Canon number as given by Greg Jein is 1672, ST:Exeter uses her number from Franz Joseph of 1706.
Eagle	1685	Mentioned ST: VI
Helin	1692	Mentioned ST: VI
Hood	1703	Seen in TOS Ultimate Computer.
Lexington	1709	Seen in TOS Ultimate Computer.
Kongo	1710	Lost. See ST: Exeter episode 2.
Bonhomme Richard	1712	DC Fontana alt list.
Sol	1713	Mentioned on PADD in ST: Experience and in TNG.
Merrimack	1715	Mentioned in ST: TMP Epsilon 9 chatter.
Yorktown	1717	Renamed 1701-A as Enterprise SD 8390
Endeavour	1718	Mentioned ST: VI.
Wasp	1721	DC Fontana alt list.
El Dorado	1722	DC Fontana's list
Ari [Lion]	1723	DC Fontana alt list.
Saratoga	1724	DC Fontana's list - used on Miranda class.
Tori [Bird]	1725	DC Fontana alt list.
Krieger [Warrior]	1726	DC Fontana alt list.
Intrepid	1730	Seen in ST: IV, number by Nick Cook.
Valiant	1731	Mentioned in Franz Joseph Tech Manual as replacement vessel.
John Muir	1732	Mentioned in ST: VI
Defiant	1764	Lost in interphase space whilst on maiden voyage, SD 5693, season 3 TOS.
La Fayette	1866	Greg Jein T-Negative list.
Hornet	1868	Greg Jein T-Negative list.
Monitor	Unknown	DC Fontana alt list.
Excelsior	Unknown	DC Fontana's list. Perhaps replaced by NX 2000 before ordered.

Author's Notes:

The registry numbers of the Constitution class are taken from Greg Jein's list from T-Negative magazine in 1975. In the starships from La Fayette to Krieger where registries are unknown, where possible Franz Joseph's registries have been used. Greg matched the registries to the list in Commodore Stone's office in Starbase 11, seen in TOS episode 'Court Martial'. Eagle and Endeavour, both seen in an Okudagram in Star Trek VI, were given the registries by Mike Okuda of NCC 956 and NCC 1895 respectively. Both outwith the normal range of registries for the Constitution class and counter to registries established for them by Greg Jein in 1975. Therefore the Author has chosen to go with Greg Jein's list, which ironically was written the same year as Franz Joseph's 'Starfleet Technical Manual'.

The Trek Place website is the source for these names and Greg Jein's registries. The additional Constitution class are from D.C. Fontana and Bob Justman's memos of August 8th and 9th 1967, featured in Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry's book 'The Making of Star Trek'. The 11 names selected by Bob Justman were: Enterprise, Essex, Excalibur, Lexington, Yorktown, Endeavour, Eagle, Constellation, Hornet, Wasp and La Fayette. [Obviously Constitution must have been the twelfth]. Greg Jein selected the following names for the twelve (as per Tomorrow is Yesterday): Constitution, Eagle, Endeavour, Enterprise, Essex, Excalibur, Exeter, Hood, Intrepid, Lexington, Potemkin and Yorktown.