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 QuartersBandai models 2003 model of the Enterprise 1701 from Star Trek: The Motion Picture. What a beauty!
  • 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 metresBandai models 2003 model of the Enterprise 1701 from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
  • 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.


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