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| Universe : |
Prime Timeline |
| Affiliation : |
Federation |
| Class Name : |
Constitution Class [1] |
| Type : |
Heavy Cruiser [2] |
| Unit Run : |
NCC 1701 USS Enterprise [3] - Destroyed [4]NCC 956 USS Eagle [5] - Retired NCC-1701-A USS Enterprise [6] - Retired [7] plus 37 others built in total. 10 have been lost in all. 30 have been retired from service. |
| Commissioned : |
2269 - 2286, remained in service until 2298 |
| Dimensions : |
Length : 305 m [8]
Beam : 140 m [9]
Height : 75 m [9]
Decks : 23 [10] |
| Mass : |
620,000 metric tons |
| Crew : |
400 |
| Armament : |
18 [3] x Type VII phasers [3], total output 6,000 TeraWatts
4 [11] x 2nd class photon torpedo tube with 120 rounds |
| Defence Systems : |
Standard shield system, total capacity 702,000 TeraJoules
Standard Duranium Double hull.
Standard level Structural Integrity Field |
Warp Speeds
(TOS scale) : |
Normal Cruise : 6
Maximum Cruise : 7 [3]
Maximum Rated : 9.5 for 4 hours.
|
Strength Indices :
(Galaxy class = 1,000) |
Beam Firepower : 120
Torpedo Firepower : 250
Weapon Range and Accuracy : 150
Shield Strength : 260
Hull Armour : 20
Speed : 448
Combat Manoeuvrability : 5,340 |
| Overall Strength Index : |
219 |
| Diplomatic Capability : |
4 |
| Expected Hull Life : |
40 |
| Refit Cycle : |
Minor : 1 year
Standard : 1 years
Major : 20 years |
Notes
Once the Enterprise was through her shakedown cruise successfully the remaining Constitutions where refitted in quick succession. The new ships proved to be more than capable of carrying out their normal exploratory and scientific roles, while in the combat arena they where judged an easy match for the new Klingon K'T'Inga class.
The Constitutions continued in service for a further twenty years [6], and once again the Enterprise set the standard for the rest of the ships to follow.
After her shakedown the ship conducted another five year exploratory mission under Admiral Kirk [12] before being
transferred to training duties in 2277 under Captain Spock. She continued in this role for a further eight years [11], and many of Starfleets most successful officers went into space for the first time aboard this ship. In 2285
the Enterprise suffered heavy battle damage while preventing Khan from stealing the Genesis Device; the ship was to be retired at this point, but Kirk and his officers stole her and took her to Genesis to retrieve Captain Spock's regenerated body from the planet. The Enterprise was attacked and crippled by a Klingon Bird of Prey while at Genesis, and was subsequently destroyed by Admiral Kirk shortly after the Klingon crew boarded to take control. [11] The USS Yorktown was subsequently renamed as [13] the second Starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-A, and assigned to the now Captain Kirk. [6] The Yorktown had recently emerged from a major refit, and
the ship suffered many technical problems on her first mission [14]; nevertheless, she went on to serve the remainder of her service life with distinction.
The most notable mission of the Enterprise-A where the actions she and the USS Excelsior participated in at the Khitomer conference; as the Enterprise escorted the Klingon Chancellor to the first meeting assassins beamed over to the Klingon ship and killed the chancellor. Kirk and his chief medical officer where arrested and convicted of this crime, and sentenced to life imprisonment on the penal asteroid of Rura Pente; Kirk promptly escaped and took the Enterprise to the conference at Khitomer, preventing another assassination attempt and saving the peace process. [7] The Enterprise-A went into retirement shortly after this mission [15]. The remaining Constitutions where decommissioned over the next five years as the Excelsior class became available in numbers.
Saucer Section features | Deck | Contains... |
| A | Bridge [16] |
| B | Security office. [17] |
| C | Officer's mess [17] |
| D | VIP staterooms , conference roo, junior officer's quarters, water tanks, pump machinery, phaser banks [18] |
| E | Senior officer's quarters [18] |
| F | Crew quarters, crew messrooms, crew lounge, impulse engineering section, elevator maintanence shop, personnel airlocks. [19] |
| G | Crew quarters, crew messrooms, crew lounge, impulse engineering section, elevator maintanence shop, personnel airlocks. [19] |
| H | Main docking ports, fire control, computer core, laundry, fabrication facility, phaser banks, saucer,engineering hull couplings. [20] |
| I | Viewing lounges, backup computer memory bank. [20] |
Stardrive Section features | Deck | Contains |
| J | Primary hull circuit breaker room. [21] |
| K | Main sensor array monitoring room. [21] |
| L | Photon torpedo stowage. [22] |
| M | Docking ports, photon torpedo launcher, observation lounge. [22] |
| N | Main engineering upper deck; main structural hull supports. [23] |
| O | Main engineering lower deck; horizontal intermix shaft. [23] |
| P | Engineering support, energy converter units, main battery room, chief engineer's briefing room and office, main maintanence area, upper landing bay and observation galleries, Circuit breaker room. [24] |
| Q | Landing bay, docking ports, upper cargo bay, observation lounges. [24] |
| R | Shuttlecraft hangar, lower cargo bay, secondary auxiliary control centre, secondary computer, lifeboats. [25] |
| S | Main cargo storage. Fabricators, shuttlecraft maintanence, recorder-marker system. [26] |
| T | Matter/antimatter containment system, botanical garden, tractor beam housing, messroom, ship's pool. [27] |
| U | Sanitary waste recovery, fresh water tanks, pumping machinery, swimming pool maintanence, phaser banks. [27] |
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