Excelsior Class Starship
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The Excelsior Class Heavy Cruiser
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Background
| Taking nearly 17 years to develop, the Excelsior Class was a huge success - eventually, and managed to spawn nearly Two Hundred vessels (in several variations) over a period of 50 years. Though the class' initiation into the field wasn't finalized until 2284 the Excelsior project had been on the table for almost two decades and its many years of experimental trials were less than smooth. After transwarp technology was finally withdrawn, due to the failure of its application on the first prototype Excelsior, the Excelsior Class heralded a new era in fast, powerful long range cruisers.
After prototype runs, some modifications were made, such as major redesigns of the Bridge and Shuttlebay structures seen priot to the NCC-2000 class-ship. Several variations of the original design have continued in service up to the Dominion War. Being the largest vessel constructed (at the time), it was Starfleet's principle class ship. Indeed... The Excelsior held the title of flagship for some time. The class' overall success is demonstrated by how many were built over this period, with a second, slightly enhanced variation introduced in 2293 with the USS Enterprise-B. A number of the 192 ships built (of all types) are detailed below. |
OVERVIEW (Production Info)
- Dates of Service: 2267 - Current
- Designation: Heavy Cruiser
- Project Began: 2267
- 1st Production Period: 2284-2297
- 2nd Production Period: 2305-2309
- 3rd Production Period: 2330-2350 (Sporadically)
- Most Recently Commissioned: USS Crazy Horse 2 - 2350 (Construction now ended)
- Ships Built: 192
- Ships still in service: 51(Including 15 activated from reserve/mothball fleet)
Specifications (Current):
- Length: 469 Meters
- Height: 100 Meters
- Width: 185 Meters
- Mass: 2,350,000 Metric Tons
- Crew: 750
- Decks: 21
- Power System: Primary power system is Anti-Matter with a 20 year life span. Ship normally only goes 5 year between refueling
- Cargo: Cargo holds are scattered about the ship that allows for carrying up to 60,000 tons of Cargo in addition to standard compliment of supplies and ammunition.
- Payload: Effectively Unlimited.
TACTICAL
Performance
- Maximum Cruising Speed Warp 7.4
- Maximum Transwarp Velocity Warp 9.2 (Equivalent To Contemporary Scale)
- Range:
- Space: 12,437 miles (20,000 km)
- Atmospheric: 12.4 miles (20 km)
Weapons:
- Phaser Emitters: 12 Dual Banks
- Torpedo Launchers: 2 Fore, 2 Aft
- Rate of fire: One at a time or in volleys of 2 per launcher.
- Payload: 200 torpedoes (50 per launcher).
| SPECIFIC WEAPONS INFO: Twelve (12) banks of 2 Siege Phaser Cannons: Primary energy weapon system with five banks on the top and five banks on the bottom of the primary hull. The ship also has two banks on the top of the secondary hull. While this ship does not have mega-phasers, the large number of siege phasers is still very effective. The weapons damage is about equal to laser cannons used by the CAF but the Phasers have a greater rate of fire. The phasers are also slightly shorter ranged. Phaser Cannons in each bank may be linked, or fired separately. Several ships of the Excelsior class have had their phasers rebuilt to increase their firepower and range. Photon Torpedo Systems: All launchers are mounted in the secondary hull. Two launchers forward, mounted above the main deflector array and Two launchers aft. While the launchers are older than those used on the U.S.S. Defiant and other Next Generation ships, they can use Quantum torpedoes. Newer photon torpedo warheads carry more anti-matter. Effectively very similar to Phase World cruise missile launchers but instead of having groups of multiple launchers, Starfleet has concentrated on launchers that can launch more than one torpedo at the same time. Once a spread of torpedoes has been launched, the launchers must reload and rearm before launching another spread. In the early service of this ship, it carried photon torpedoes which were anti-matter/matter warheads. Torpedoes have a top speed of Mach 25 in a planet's atmosphere. In space, they have an acceleration of 10% of light per turn (far faster than any starship). When the drive goes dead, the torpedo will still cruise unless preset to self destruct or receives a destruct code but has very low odds of hitting star ships (Great for hitting bases and planets because target does not move and torpedoes when dead at -25% to detect.). |
Ships Of The Class
| USS Cairo (NCC-42136) | USS Charleston (NCC-42285) |
| USS Crazy Horse (NCC-50446) | USS Crockett (NCC-38955) |
| USS Enterprise (modified, NCC-1701-B) | USS Excelsior (prototype, NX-2000/NCC-2000) |
| USS Farragut (NCC-?????) | USS Fearless (NCC-4598) |
| USS Fredrickson (NCC-42111) | USS Gorkon (NCC-40512) |
| USS Grissom (NCC-42857) | USS Hood (NCC-42296) |
| USS Intrepid (NCC-38907) | USS Lakota (modified, NCC-42768) |
| USS Lexington (NCC-14427) | USS Livingston (NCC-34099) |
| USS Malinche (NCC-38997) | USS Melbourne (NCC-62043) |
| USS Okinawa (NCC-13958) | USS Potemkin (NCC-18253) |
| USS Repulse (NCC-2544) | USS Roosevelt (NCC-2573) |
| USS Tecumseh (NCC-14934) | USS Valley Forge (NCC-43305) |
FAMILIAR EXCELSIOR CLASS VESSELS:
USS Al-Batani (NCC-42995)
USS Berlin (NCC-14232)
USS Dallas (NCC-2019) (Star Trek: Elite Force II)
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USS Tel Aviv (NCC-14233): Received major damage in anti-piracy action in 2330.
Decommissioned and placed in the mothball fleet.
Sold to a private concern in 2375.
After 4 years of repair and modernization the vessel was renamed Lotus Station and began service with the Maquis in 2379.
Resources
- Major Research by Lotus Station
- Bridge Schematics: LCARS Interface
- Ex Astris Scientia
- Wikipedia
- Memory Alpha
- Star Trek: TNG Technical Manual
- Star Trek: DS9 Technical Manual
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