Intrepid Class

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Re-Development of Intrepid Class

The Intrepid class was designed to help free Galaxy Class starship's from a number of exploration and scientific based missions. The class was launched in early 2370 and became a frontline ship for exploration.

In 2377 the USS Voyager NCC 74656 returned to the Alpha Quadrant after a seven year long trip lost in the Delta Quadrant. During that time the Intrepid class starship under the command of Captain Kathryn Janeway experienced and under went numerous events during its service.

The crew didn’t have the luxury to dock at a Starfleet shipyard or starbase for routine repairs, refits and re-supplying. The crew adapted to do their best to keep the ship running without this luxury. The Chief Engineer Lieutenant B’Elanna Torres was the key creator of a number of the ship’s adjustments and modifications. Captain Janeway gave her a lot of free will when it came down to the operation status of Voyager. They were fortunate enough to encounter friendly species which allowed them to dock at their own shipyards and stations to perform minor repairs and refits.

When communication with Starfleet was re-established with the ship in 2376, the crew began to send the status of their ship and the improvements they made to the ship along their journey.

Starfleet Corps of Engineering was extremely impressed with the work done by the crew to keep their ship alive. Numerous changes were made to the ship’s propulsion, tactical, sensor and internal computer systems. The S.C.o.E was eager to see the modifications themselves and with the ship’s return in 2377 they had their chance.

The ship was dry-docked at San Francisco Shipyards, as she was taken apart to see what improvements had been made. The Borg modifications that had improved the starships overall systems peaked Starfleet Tactical’s attention. Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, the ship’s Chief Security and Tactical officer had stated that two years previously the ship had encountered a twenty ninth century Borg drone. The drone (or One as he called himself) helped the crew improve their phasers and shields to fight the Borg. The improvements had been effective and assisted in the ship’s defence during its remaining years in the Delta Quadrant.

Another Borg improvement was made to the main computer processor. The first Borg drone liberated from the Collective by the Voyager crew, Annika Hansen (or Seven of Nine) had experimented with installing Borg command subroutines to improve the processor’s overall efficiency. The enhancements at first effective a number of secondary and back up systems but the error was later corrected.

When Captain Janeway had formed a temporarily alliance with the Borg Collective in early 2374, the Borg had partially assimilated the ship to fight Species 8472. Many of the modifications were removed as they harmed the normal running of ship systems but several were kept in place. Lieutenant Torres reported that the EPS system was heavily improved and requested to keep the enhancements in place.

In the middle of 2374, Chief Operations Officer Ensign Harry Kim and Seven of Nine collaborated to improve the ship’s sensor and stellar mapping systems. They specifically designed and built a new laboratory for these new systems. The ship’s Stellar Cartography section was kept in place while a new Astrometrics Lab was installed. The lab used combined Borg and Starfleet technologies to create a new way of mapping star systems. It was the first ever joint project which showed how well both Starfleet and Borg technologies could work to advance Starfleet’s main objective of scientific exploration. Astrometrics allowed Voyager to safely journey home while exploring the Delta Quadrant within the safety of their new lab.

When Voyager returned home in 2377 the crew also brought back with them futuristic tactical systems. The ship apparently encountered a future version of their commanding officer who brought back technologies created to defeat the Borg and get the ship home quicker. These included Ablative Armour Generators and Transphasic Torpedoes. Starfleet took these technologies apart, and after long studies on them installed them on all ships in the Fourth Fleet (Codename: Bravofleet).

In 2378 shortly after her promotion to Rear Admiral, Kathryn Janeway was asked to write a formal report on how well she felt her old ship had performed while in the Delta Quadrant. She noted how well the ship achieved its goal as one of the best designs in starship creation. She suggested that Starfleet should look in to improving the class with what lessons the Voyager crew and her had learnt.

Starfleet Advanced Starship Design Bureau took the admiral’s suggestions under advisement and began to look at updating the class.

The next Intrepid class starship to be launched with these improvements would be in 2382. Starfleet Command gives Admiral Janeway the job in christening the next ship. She names it after a child hood hero of hers and a woman the Voyager crew encountered in the Delta Quadrant, the USS Earhart NCC 74711 after Amelia Earhart. It would be constructed at the new Oakland Shipyards in orbit of Earth.

Summary of Re-Development

• 2377: USS Voyager NCC 74656 returns home from being lost in the Delta Quadrant for seven years. The ship is put in dry-dock at the San Francisco shipyards and her systems are closely examined.

• 2378: After a report made by Rear Admiral Kathryn Janeway, the ASDB look in to improving the Intrepid class and its capabilities as a front line explorer and scout. Construction plans are made for a new Intrepid class starship to be built with these new enhancements.

• 2379: The new uprated Intrepid class starship is to be named USS Earhart NCC 74711 and the new Oakland shipyards are tasked with its construction. The ASDB would work alongside the shipyard’s engineers on improving the Intrepid class starship’s systems with the lessons learnt from Voyager.

• 2380: Design work on improvements to Intrepid Class is complete. The improvements are approved and construction begins. By the end of the year the stardrive section nears chassis completion. Saucer section nears 75% chassis completion.

• 2381: Primary and secondary chassis's now at 100% completion. Computer cores are installed. Work continues on interior and outer hull sections. Mid year computer cores are activated and ship functions begin to be transferred from station control to ship control. Computer systems are now operating at 80%. Warp core begins primary testing. Ship undergoes inspections as reviews, construction is allowed to continue.

• 2382: Stardrive section completed with final attachment of navigational deflector array. Bridge module attached to primary hull. Computer system fully self aware and umbilical from the station are cut as the ship become self sufficient. New EPS system finally brought online. Thirteen type ten phaser banks are installed. Ship wide holographic systems installed allowing for EMH Mark Five to be used anywhere on the ship.

• 2383: Pulse Fire Torpedo Launch systems are put in place. Storage bays improved to allow the ship to carry more supplies (mainly torpedoes). Warp stress coating is applied. Warp Core passes Review Three and it tested to 100% peak. Industrial Replicators are installed allowing the ship to build and repair its own shuttlecraft and runabout fleet. Delays in launch of USS Earhart as the Borg attack the Krazzle Empire, and later Rayea 3.

• 2384: Starfleet orders for USS Earhart to be launched. On 11th March 2384 USS Earhart is officially commissioned by Starfleet during a brief ceremony. Bridge Plaque is put in pride of place and Captain Nicholas Webb takes command of the ship. USS Earhart is ordered to begin shakedown cruises estimate to last one year.

• 2385: Borg invasion resumes and Starfleet orders for all Intrepid class starships to be upgraded as soon as possible.

• 2399: Construction of several new Intrepid class starships begin at Copernicus shipyards. After the Battle of Sol and the lost of the original Voyager, one of the new Intrepid class starships is renamed: USS Voyager NCC 74656-A.

• 2401: USS Voyager NCC 74656-A is moved to Utopia Plantia for finally refits and installations. On 30th November 2401 the USS Voyager is officially commissioned by Starfleet during a brief ceremony. Bridge Plaque is put in pride of place and Commodore Bryan Cash takes command of the ship. USS Voyager is assigned as flagship of Starfleet’s Re-Exploration Initiative and is ordered to begin re-exploring the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

• 2402: USS Voyager NCC 74656-A returns to Utopia Plantia for major repairs, refits and overhaul. She is upgraded with a Trelinium crystal based warp core. USS Voyager returns to its mission of re-exploration.

Technical Specifications For Intrepid Class Ships

Category: Explorer/Scout - Uprated

Expected Duration: 80 years

Time Between Re-Supply: 2 years

Time Between Refit: 5 years

Systems:

Hybrid bioneural/isolinear circuitry

Primary fusion reactors: output 5.6 EJ/hr

Secondary fusion reactors: output 4.1 EJ/hr

Tractor beam: type-XI ( Range 2.75 km )

Sensors: advanced lateral and long range output/retrieval systems

Warp core: M/ARA ( Using a Trelinium Powered Core )

Speed:

Standard cruise velocity: Warp 7

Maximum cruise velocity: Warp 9.98

Emergency velocity [12 hours]: Warp 9.95

Personnel:

Officers: 35

Enlisted crew: 115

Marines: 64

Passengers: 20

Auxiliary Craft:

Shuttle bays: 1

Shuttles:

2 type-9 personal shuttles

2 type-18 shuttle pods

Runabouts:

1 Delta Flyer Class Runabout

1 Aeroshuttle Class Runabout

Weaponry:

Phasers:

13 Type-X phaser arrays

Torpedoes:

Launchers: 4 (2 forward, 2 aft)

Hellfire: 10

Photon: 80

Quantum: 30

Transphasic: 4

Tri cobalt: 4

Defence:

Ablative Armor Type I

Ablative Armor Type II

Multi Layered Shielding System

Starfleet / Romulan Cloaking Device

Dimensions:

Height: 66.2 meters

Width: 133 meters

Length: 343.1 meters

Decks: 15

Additional Information:

Currently there are 7 in service with 3 building per year. 92 were lost during the Borg War

• USS Voyager NCC 74656 – A

Flagship of Starfleet Re-Exploration Initiative Task Force

• USS Bellerophon NCC 74705

Assigned to Earth Defence Force

• USS Faithful NCC 74710

Assigned to Earth Defence Force

• USS Earhart NCC 74711

Assigned to Earth Defence Force

• USS Intrepid NCC 74600 – B

Assigned to Earth Defence Force

• USS Miranda NCC 77001 – C

Assigned to Earth Defence Force