12.24 Key Historical Starships – 1957-2295 (Terran Perspective)

KEY HISTORICAL STARSHIPS 1957-2295 – TERRAN PERSPECTIVE

VISUAL DATE LENGTH MASS (DWT)

1968 110.8 m 3,400 Apollo (with Saturn V launch vehicle)

1980 37.2 m 68

OV-100 Space Shuttle

1990 108 m 27,200

DY-100 (production model)

2010 760 m 162,500

Marilee (typical Bussard ramjet colonization ship)

2018 125 m 28,100

Aventeur class

48,400 2028 300 m (full load)

Galileo class

2033 156 m 65,000

Companion class

2038 300 m 52,700

rise class ringship Enterp

2040 120 m 8,600

Columbus class

2057 167 m 23,000 DY-X

2060 206 m 19,400 UES Bonaventure (Cochrane class, as built) MAX CREW PROPULSION KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER SPEED

First manned vehicle to leave Terran orbit 3 chemical rocket 0.13c and deliver crew to an off-world location (Luna)

335 7 chemical rocket First reusable Terran spacecraft km/hr

First manned interplanetary commercial 20 fusion drive 0.2c Terran spacecraft

Early Terran interplanetary colonizer; had 20 to be accelerated to 0.06c by fusion drive (+200 0.13c before ramjet could be used; deliberately in deep Bussard ramjet (est) crashed on Perry’s Planet after all crew cryoand colonists disembarked; wreckage sleep) used to build colony

First Terran long-range interplanetary 109 fusion drive 0.2c exploration spacecraft

One of the most popular and long-lived 98 fusion drive 0.3c Terran transports of its era

20 fusion drive 0.5c First UESF warship class

First successful, purpose-built 100 impulse drive 0.4c Terran starship ecraft) (manned interstellar spac

First Terran starship c lass to reach spiked 40 0.75c another inhabited planet; first with spiked antimatter antimatter engines

0. 65c (+1 2sec Best all-around UESF starship of the CDP 94 warp Earth-Kzin Wars; first Terran starship “jump drive” 1.2 designed for faster-than-light travel jumps)

First production Terran starship to first-generation maintain a cruising velocity in excess of 45 warp 2 warp drive the speed of light; first starship fitted with Cochrane warp drive

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VISUAL DATE LENGTH MASS (DWT)

25,000 2064 235.9 m

Verne class

2064 97 m 16,500 Keldysh class

2069 197.2 m 23,800 Conestoga class

2078 258 m 27,700 Messier class 76.2 19,400 2105 (unladen) (unladen) Roanoke class

2105 320 m 57,500

Prometheus class ringship

2139 168 m 48,500 Wright class

2141 130 m 14,900

Cavalry class

2146 280 m 38,500 Horizon class

2146 207 m 38,000 Armstrong class

2155 50 m 8,750

Jeffries Project prototype

2157 225 m 22,700 Marshall class

2158 114.5 m 27,500

Daedalus class

2158 182.2 m 411,300

Olympus class

2165 198 m 115,000

Bonaventure rebuild MAX CREW PROPULSION KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER SPEED

First Terran starship to reach a noneneration warp first-g 112 human inhabited world; first starship with warp drive 2.5 three warp engines

First Terran ex plorer class starship; first Terr ctic an vessel to encounter the Gala first-generation warp 80 Barrier; first starship jointly designed by warp drive 2.1 cultures from different worlds (Terra and Alpha Centauri IV) 25 first-generation warp First Terran colonizer equipped (+200) warp drive 2.0 with warp drive

Fi rst Terran starship with non-human first-generation warp 183 crew members; oldest UESF warship warp drive 2.9 class to serve in the Romulan War

first-generation warp 20 First of the Class J cargo ships warp drive 2.2

toridal warp Last major Terran ringship class 115 warp drive 3.2 produced prior to the Romulan War

First warship class of the Federation Star Fleet; design inspired by first-generation warp Centaure stroyer; an Djartanna class de 125 warp drive 3.0 considered one of the influences on the Jeffries/Joseph design lineage due to its dual splayed warp engine arrangement

Second warship class of the Federation first-generation warp 80 Star Fleet; direct ancestor of the Class I warp drive 3.1 de s stroyer and scout design

first-generation warp First exploratory starship class of the 224 warp drive 3.25 Federation Star Fleet

First joint Terran-Centaurean-Andorian starship; direct ancestor of the warp 175 Cochrane PB-1 Loknar class frigate 3.6 (NOTE: takes place of NX-Program Ent e) erprise in Prime One timelin

first-generation warp Direct ancestor of the Baton Rouge and 14 warp drive 3.8 Constitution class starships

First ield starshi force f p class fitted with warp 157 Warp drive sc r reens; best known Federation Sta 3.8 Fleet class from the Romulan war

Cochrane PB-2 warp First starship class built using data 120 “Quantum” 3.9 gleaned from the Jeffries Project

Typical CS-series starship (aka “cy linder ship”) warp 806 warp drive from the Romulan War era; the largest 3.5 Federation starship in terms of mass tonnage produced during this era

First time an existing starship was broken Cochrane PB-6 warp down and rewoven into a new type of 190 “Quantum II” 3.9 ves ip sel; first full-blown Federation starsh to employ a disc-like primary hull

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VISUAL DATE LENGTH MASS (DWT)

2175 189.9 m 112,000

Texas class

2188 202 m 476,000

Tritium class

2192 185 m 54,000

Mann class

2198 1200 m 1,989,000

Illustrious class

2205 245 m 92,500 Baton Rouge class

2210 185 m 146,500 Anton class

2222 290 m 190,000

Constitution class

2246 290 m 185,000 Santee class

2255 320 m 285,000 Federation class

2260 279.5 m 175,000

Endeavour prototype

2266 120 m 22,500 Gagarin class corvette

2267 304.8 m 210,000 Enterprise class

2275 234.0 180,000 Avenger (uprated Miranda)

2288 511.3 386,500 Excelsior class MAX CREW PROPULSION KEY FACTS TO REMEMBER SPEED

Last production Federation starship fitted Cochrane PB-8 warp 140 with ablative armor; longest-serving “Quantum III” 3.6 starship class as of this date (110 years)

Cochrane PB-8 warp Most expensive failure in Federation 250 “Quantum III” 3.6 starship history (modified)

First Federation starship to break the W arp 4 barrier for sustained FTL warp cruising speeds; first with 1:1 294 Vickers J27-A 4.5 ma rp tter/antim or its wa atter mix ratio f engines; fi l purpose rst fitted with dua deflector/sensor grid on hull

multiple Cochrane warp First (and still largest) shuttlecarrier in 600 Federation history PB-10E 3.5 “Klepton”

First major Federation warship build program since the end of the Romulan War; first starship class with a true discsha s ped primary hull; first starship clas K loratis VX-28 warp 344 built using modular component “Pegasys” 5.2 construction techniques; first starship class fitted with transporter technology and duotronic computer systems; lead starship class of its generation First Federation starship with “modular Kloratis VX-28 warp 290 hull;” direct ancestor of the Surya, “Pegasys” 4.8 Coventry, Miranda, and Avenger classes

First starship class of the Class I Cochrane 430 wa rp 8 program; most famous and recognizable PB-18 “Perth” starship class in Federation history

First purpose-built Federation Cochrane PB-32 shuttlecarrier; direct ancestor of 345 warp 8 C “Titiac” oventry, Oriskany, Jenshahan, Chosin, and Youngblood classes First stable tri-nacelled starship design in Federation history; first starship with a Cochrane PB-47 500 warp 10 warp-capable primary hull after “Titiac II” em ul ergen powerf cy separation; most Federation warship of its time

Leeding O ne of the first Federation linear warp 430 (Cochrane) warp 10 technology testbeds (along with the scout LN-40 Monoceros and the tug Keppler)

First m class, ultimission auxiliary starship Kloratis warp with many variations developed for a 24 (Cochrane) 7.6 variety of purposes from the base FWB Gagarin design F irst in-service starship conversion of the Leeding li near warp generation; lead ship for the 500 (Cochrane) wa rp 12 linear warp upgrade and building LN-62 programs of the 2270s and 2280s Li near warp upgrade of earlier Miranda class (an Anton descendant); first Leeding starship class fitted with megaphaser 395 (Cochrane) warp 12 canno ice to n; only starship class in serv LN-62 rival C s of ons term titution/Enterprise in mission capability and design flexibility Testbed for (unsuccessful) transwarp Leeding p rogram; first Federation “superheavy” 780 (Cochrane) warp 20 starship class, lead ship of its generation FTWA-1 of starship designs

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