WhenTheGunsFallSilent/StarfleetClass

Current Classes

Over the years, Starfleet has fielded many classses. Here are a listing of those that have come up here. Of note: all subclasses of a ship, no matter the design lineage, are considered subtypes of the original class. Bolded flights are still in production.

Akira

First produced in 2330 with the failure of the Ambassador class, the ship was originally designed to perform as a gunboat cruiser.

This class has been refit many times, especially as the Cardassian Liberation War began to warm up, and during the war. With the end of the war in 2352, it is likely that the rapid refits and improvements of this class will slow down to a pre-war tempo.

• Service Record: 2330-current

Subclasses

Using parlance from the old UESF, subclasses, or "flights", are when significant changes were made to the ship to make it distinct. While ships may have individual changes beyond that, this was the intended specification for the ship.

Each flight is named after the first ship to be built with those specifications and changes. This tree denotes design lineages.

• Flight Andorian Resolve (Ia), built 2332-2341;
  • Flight Kh'shir (Ib), built 2338-2348 - This was designed for specialized recon and exploration roles, which came to an abrupt end in 2348 after all but three ships were destroyed in Second Setlik. The surviving ships were refit and rebuilt into the IIIb Suleiman-type.
• Flight Myogi (II), built 2336-2340 - These were specialized patrol and SAR ships, with a majority of them further refit into two competing types. Flights IIa/IIb were basically rebuilt into IIIa to better fight the war.
  • Flight Kanashima (IIa), built 2340-2348
  • Flight Takashima (IIb), built 2342-2348
    • Flight Clausewitz (III), built 2344-2349 - first dedicated war design.
    • Flight Suleiman (IIIa), built 2348-2351 - Several improvements, including a counter to a specialized Cardassian weapon.
      • Flight Saladin (IIIb), built 2352-2353 - considered the best, despite the addition of flaky torpedo and phaser systems.
        • Flight Artania (IV), built 2353-current
      • Flight Efendi (IIIc) built 2351-current - unlike the Artania class, the Efendi class was built when stealthy operations were more required.

Notable Ships

• NX/NCC-52097 USS Akira - Flight I, built 2330, destroyed in combat 2350.
• NCC-52451 USS Saladin - Flight IIIb, built 2352, in service.
• NCC-52749 USS Artania - Flight IIIb/IV, built 2352, in service.

Ambassador

Only three ships of this design were created. The three prototypes (NX-10521, NX-10529, NX-10530) were all destroyed due to failures during testing in 2330, and at that point, the Akira Design Project gained ascendancy due to internal factors in Starfleet.

In 2350, with the war proving the issues of the Excelsior-class to be so great as to be worth essentially rebuilding the ship, work was began on a crash program to build an Ambassador-class starship, based on both the Excelsior-class's form factors, and the technology in the Akira-class

Notable Ships

• NX-10521 - Destroyed by warp drive torsional failure
• NX-10529 - Destroyed by SIF implosion
• NX-10530 - Destroyed by torpedo misfire.
• NX/NCC-55618 USS Ambassador- First launch 2353.

Miranda Class

Designed as a cruiser in 2260s, this ship class has received many variants and upgrades, and is considered the workhorse of the fleet, and while no longer able to stand as a primary ship, as of 2350, is being considered for use in operations where Starfleet needs wings of ships to escort larger ones. In addition, they are retrofitting them for atmospheric operations.

As of 2353, plans to refit to fit them into rapid strike roles are ongoing.

Subclasses

• Flight Ustio (XIV) (2345-2347)
  • Flight Belka (XIVb) (2347-2351)
    • Flight Shimarin (XIV) (2352-current) (NB: Sometimes called the Shimarin class, because the Starfleet Design Bureau really dislikes calling things a Flight XIV Miranda.)

Former Classes

Constitution Class

Produced from 2249 through 2290, this class was known for it's versatility.

Notable Ships

• NCC-1701 USS Enterprise (last refit: Flight Ia, built 2249, scuttled 2285)
• NCC-1701-A USS Enterprise-A (last refit: Flight IV, built 2286, decommissioned 2292 and placed in fleet museum.)

Excelsior Class

First built in the 2280s, refits have kept this venerable class alive through the 2340s, although the Ambassador class was originally meant to be a replacement. The Cardassian Liberation War proved that even with the latest refits, and new class designs, the basic spaceframe was aging beyond usability. This was the cause for the start of the Next Stage Design Project, in 2350.

In 2353, with the trials of the USS Ambassador, NX-55618 complete, this class was no longer in production.

Subclasses

• Flight Excelsior (I) built 2280-2295
• Flight Chrysaor (II) built 2295-2308
  • Flight Cura Si Manjakini (IIa) built 2306-2314
• Flight Thuận Thiên (III) built 2314-2320
• Flight Imhullu (IV) built 2320-2340
  • Flight Rhongomyniad (IVa) built 2340-2350
  • Flight Fragarach (IVb) built 2350-2353

Notable Ships

• NCC-1701-B USS Enterprise (last refit: Flight Rhongomyniad); commissioned 2292, destroyed in 2348.
• NCC-2000 USS Excelsior (last refit: Flight Thuận Thiên); built 2281, decommissioned 2319 and placed in fleet museum.
• NCC-14193 USS Caledfwlch (last refit: Rhongomyniad); built 2320, destroyed 2351.