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USS Endeavor NCC-71805 -- Nebula class heavy cruiser. This design first seen as the USS Phoenix in TNG: The Wounded, and variations thereafter in other episodes throughout the various Trek series.
       The USS Endeavor is a primary ship from Jay Hailey's Outwardly Mobile. It gets a brief mention in Lines in the Sand, and is featured in the STB-600 game.

USS Royal Sovereign NCC-75000 -- Sovereign class heavy frigate. This ship class is first seen in Star Trek: First Contact as the Enterprise-E. The USS Royal Sovereign gets in as the class ship even though the Enterprise D was never destroyed in Epiphany Trek. Generations is just too stupid to accept.
       The USS Royal Sovereign is seen in "Destinations" and in the STB-600 game.

USS Maui NCC-75742 -- Steamrunner class light frigate. The Steamrunner is another design new with First Contact. Not much as been made available on the class.
       The USS Maui is seen in Lines in the Sand.

USS K'talan CX-29 -- "Blue" Dolphin class heavy cruiser. The Dolphin class was first mentioned in one of Jay Hailey's short shorts "New Ship, Old Mission. The K'talan is the first of her class, the disodium heavy cruisers. The Dolphins are 36 decks deep with a hull as wide as it is long.
       The Dolphin, unlike the Manta, with which it shares a similar hull shape, is built on the modular hull design. It is a big GXC cruiser, not a bigger version of the Manta frigate. The Dolphins are built with the latest advances in technology and comfort. They can carry 1000 beings in comfort to the most dangerous places in the Galaxy. This class is considered a general replacement for the Planet class cruisers. A good idea that was simply too expensive. Also unlike the Manta the Dolphin has the bridge on deck one. A design concession to Admiral Hailey. However the bridge module is built flush with the hull. The Dolphin is build with two major power systems. It can be built with either the Disodium HE system shown, which is preferred by the horned fleet, or in a standard disodium system favored by Starfleet. Performance curves are similar for both systems.

USS Lexington NCC-79000 -- "Fleet" Dolphin class heavy cruiser. The Dolphin class was first mentioned in one of Jay Hailey's short shorts "New Ship, Old Mission. The K'talan is the first of her class, the disodium heavy cruisers. The Dolphins are 36 decks deep with a hull as wide as it is long.
       The Dolphin, unlike the Manta, with which it shares a similar hull shape, is built on the modular hull design. It is a big GXC cruiser, not a bigger version of the Manta frigate. The Dolphins are built with the latest advances in technology and comfort. They can carry 1000 beings in comfort to the most dangerous places in the Galaxy. This class is considered a general replacement for the Planet class cruisers. A good idea that was simply too expensive. Also unlike the Manta the Dolphin has the bridge on deck one. A design concession to Admiral Hailey. However the bridge module is built flush with the hull. The Dolphin is build with two major power systems. It can be built with either the Disodium HE system which is preferred by the horned fleet, or in a standard disodium system, shown, favored by Starfleet. Performance curves are similar for both systems. The Dolphin is the first Ane designed ship accepted as a frontline starfleet ship for the fleet at large.

USS Deliverance NCC-78765 -- Mercury class relief cruiser. The Mercury class is built with a single mission in mind. Recovery follow-up. The Kliges'chee implosion zone is a massive region of space that is fill to bursting with formerly space faring races that the Kliges'chee have pounded back to pre-spaceflight. The Mercury class is designed to move in quickly with a relief mission once such a planet is contacted. She moves in behind the GXC cruisers sets up a relief mission and once it is going moves on to the next task.
       To that end she is designed to carry up to two cargo pods in her own slipstream. the vessel can carry one pod at her own maximum cruising speed unloaded, two at slightly under that. Outside of this capacity it is a normal, of somewhat unusual looking light cruiser.

YDF Manhattan NCC-1463 -- Baton Rouge class Heavy Cruiser. The Baton Rouge class ships were the main design previous to the Constitution class ships. They carried the brunt of the fighting in the Four Years War and still are the major reserve fleet in the time of TOS.
       The YDF Manhattan is the flagship of the Yany Defense forces in 2262. She and her sister ship are the colony's security blanket against the Klingons.
       The YDF Manhattan is seen in Collateral Damage.

USS Potemkin NCC 374 -- Freedom class heavy cruiser. New in the 2220s the Potemkin should not have been on the front line in the Four Years War, but it was. While a significant advance over the Horizon and earlier Daedalus class ships she was no match for the Klingon D5s.
       The USS Potemkin is mentioned, but not seen as Lt. LaSaille's ship in Call No Man Dead....

ADF Swift CF-187 -- More on the Falcon class can be found on the 10 pixel to 1 meter descriptions.

USS Enterprise NCC-1701 -- Constitution class refit. Hey, what needs to be said? The Ship to which all others bow.  In this case the Enterprise is from an Alternate Universe and is featured in Time and Again.

USS Springfield NCC-51077 -- Springfield class light cruiser. The Springfield is one of several "half galaxy" saucer classes found in the Fleet, the Niagara and the New Orleans classes being two more. This fulfills the role of the general light cruiser before the appearance of the Intrepid class.
       The Springfield is to appear in one of Jay Hailey's stories yet to be written. He asked me to clean up his graphic of it. So it found its way into here.

USS Oberon NCC-10201 -- Miranda class Mobile subspace telescope. The Oberon is something truly unusual, a mobile subspace telescope. The massive saucer on the top opens to deploy a subspace array that is two kilometers across. The limitation is that the ship is a mere appendage to the telescope when it is deployed and it cannot move. The up side is the Oberon is the equal of many orbital instillations for sensitivity and it can set up in the depths of interstellar space.

USS Tenacious CB-17 -- Manta-Ds class refit heavy frigate. The Tenacious seen in the STB-600 game has been refit with the new disodium warp cores and the warp nacelles to handle the hotter plasma. It is otherwise similar to the Questing.

USS Excaliber NCC-78548 -- Galaxy-Ds refit heavy cruiser. Starfleet is having a problem with the Galaxy class. All of the ships are relatively young, yet the graceful swan neck are not suitable to upgrade to disodium. The Excalibur refit is the answer. Chop out the neck and reconfigure the ship. The turrets from the Manta class have been added as well.

SS George C. Kenbono -- Mammoth class container ship. The generation before the Behemoths. The later design takes a lot from this one.
       The Mammoths are mentioned but never seen in Destinations.

USS Necessity FF-72 -- Stingray class light frigate The stingray was the first of a new type. Light frigates intended for system defense and limited patrol. They are designed taking the lessons of the failed Emerald class firmly in mind. It is considered a replacement for the aging Unity class ships.
       The Necessity is seen in the short-short Necessity in the Tales Starbase 600 series.

TIS Vindictive -- Trantorian battleship. A tip of the hat to The Foundation Trilogy My Trantorian Empire is coreward of the Federation and STB-600 is just having to deal with them. My battleship is a combination of what Asimov described and Trek sensibilities. They have been seen in the STB-600 game.

SS Timberline -- Sottaceto class freighter. An older design in 2261, something a struggling colony mission could afford.
       The Timberline is seen briefly before it blows up in Collateral Damage.

USS Covenant Cl-01 -- Covenant class light cruiser. The Covenant is named for a lost Unity class ship. As the development of the class was recently "requested" in the STB-600 game the ship has no history as of yet.
       Admiral Hailey asked his development teams for a new light cruiser to supplement the Dolphin class heavies. This is the result.

Lucyintheskywithdiamonds -- Contractor class cruiser. The Builders are not big ones for a large variety of designs. This is what you get for anything short of towing massive loads. The Contractor has four built-in nacelles powered by four di-potassium warp cores that are supplied by a zero-point energy source. Fast? You betcha. They can spank anything in known space smaller and a good deal that is larger than themselves.
       The name? Well Builders do name their ships. They do have more than one and need to keep track of them. Obviously the guy doing the naming that day was enjoying a bit of the Beetles music they received in payment for Renaissance Station.
       Builder cruisers are seen in The Word of the Builders. They also appear infrequently in the Starbase 600 game.

Jolly Rogers -- Wanderer ship. The Jolly Rogers is made from discarded bits. Not even the bits from a single class of ship either. The ship was also known as "The Beloved Groddy Failure Looking for a Place to Happen". The Aneilogs and Starfleet took pity on the Jolly Rogers and traded their old ship for a new one.
       The Jolly Rogers is seen in the STB-600 game.

Renaissance Gift -- Wanderer ship. This is the replacement that STB-600 built for the Jolly Rogers. It is variation on the old "light freighter" idea from the 23rd century. From the STB-600 game.

Farcit Dart -- Farcit Frigate. These little warships are the Farcit's primary means of enforcing the "mine" zone. As Farcits stand about three feet tall it is a bigger ship than it looks to be. Even at that it has all the welcoming grace of the inside of a sub. Farcit frigates are powerful little ships, and if not for their more limited shielding technology they could walk all over most of the races in their sector.
       Farcit names run to the order of "Mine, Mine, Mine!" or "Mine, Not Yours" and are therefore uninteresting.
        The Farcit Dart makes a populous appearance in The Word of the Builders.

Phtau -- Youn Gallis. This ship is a Youn heavy frigate. While it can engage in light trading, its purpose is to defend the trade routes for Youn merchants and to discourage the competition. It was in this latter role that it tangled with a Ferengi light Marauder on the edges of the Ozian system in the STB-600 game. Both ships were escorted, in damaged condition, by frigates of the ADF to a dock at Renaissance Station.

Plentiful Goods at Reasonable Prices -- Ferengi Marauder. A standard Marauder as seen in TNG several times. "Plentiful Goods" was seen in the STB-600 game where she was contracted to rescue refugees from an overloaded Federation Starship. The Ferengi Damon got the thanks of Starfleet and a fat reward, one of which meant something to him.

PSS Giffin ZNC-3400 -- Courageous class heavy cruiser. the Giffin represents the newest class of ship produced by the Poong for the Zantree Alliance. The Starfleet influence is obvious. the Giffin never appears by name and would mainly be seen in the STB-600 game.
       A three-view of the Giffin is featured below.

PSS Albin ZNC-365 -- Able class heavy cruiser. The Able class represents the state of the art in Poong designs before they were influenced by Starfleet designs. This design has no appearance as of yet.
       A three-view of the Albin is featured below.

Qua'nov (Alien Destroyer) -- D7 battlecruiser. The classic TOS Klingon ship. No appearence in Epiphany Trek as of yet, but it can only be a matter of time.

vavnl bortaS (Grandfather's Revenge) -- K'T'Inga battle cruiser. Grandfather's revenge is from Jay Hailey's Prometheus Quest Part II story. It stands in for the TMP update of one of the most common Klingon ships ever built.

tajHom bang (Razor's Kiss) -- Bat'leth class "swift" cruiser. As the Federation discovered, big ships are all well and good, but there is an eternal need for the ship in the 300 meter range. The Federation answer was the Intrepid, the Klingons built the Bat'leth.
       Razor's Kiss is from the STB-600 game, and escorted the USS Endeavor across Klingon space in search of the John Gill, and John Flagg.

Dunqeng (Great Lifter) -- T7 tug. The Dungeng is the Klingon Tug seen in Collateral Damage. Even the Klingons need tugs and transports.

Vengeance Blade -- D6 war dragon. The generation before the D7. One more advancement in Klingon ship design.
       Vengeance Blade is one of the D6 war dragons seen in Collateral Damage.

quD -- Neg'var battleship. The ship for Klingons that are compesating for something, massive and ugly. She is mentioned in passing near the end of The Long Patrol

jejang (Sharp Answer) -- Vor'cha battlecruiser. The Klingon equivlent of the Galaxy class, only more Klingon. This ship is Ambassador's Karrak's vessel in the STB-600 game.

targhSoS (Targ Sow) -- Klingon container freighter. This is the McGuffin in Collateral Damage.. Her name is never mentioned in the story.

Aw (Sting) -- taj class scout. I consider that the basic BoP scout is 100 years old at this time, a better ship has been developed to fill the role. This is the taj, or dagger class scout.
       The Aw makes it's appearance in the STB-600 game.

Securer -- Zak battleship. Zak build heavy angular ships with great redundancy. A race that views everything in term of threat.
       Securer could be any number of Zak battleships that are seen in Jay Hailey's stories or in the STB-600 game. Zak do not tell you the name of their ships, you might use that to advantage.

Kliges'chee cruiser -- A Kliges'chee cruiser. The mass minded Kliges'chee do not name their ships. They don't even really number them. As each Comptroller knows where its bits are, and doesn't have to keep track of names. They make only one class of ship for each job, and only vary that if the type proves to not do the job.
       This could be any of thousands of ship in either Outwardly Mobile or Epiphany Trek.

Kliges'chee scout -- A Kliges'chee scout. The mass minded Kliges'chee do not name their ships. They don't even really number them. As each Comptroler knows where its bits are, and doesn't have to keep track of names. They make only one class of ship for each job, and only vary that if the type proves to not do the job.
       This could be any of thousands of ship in either Outwardly Mobile or Epiphany Trek.

Kliges'chee Transport -- A Kliges'chee Transport. The mass minded Kliges'chee do not name their ships. They don't even really number them. As each Comptroler knows where its bits are, and doesn't have to keep track of names. They make only one class of ship for each job, and only vary that if the type proves to not do the job.
       This could be any of thousands of ship in either Outwardly Mobile or Epiphany Trek.


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