Galaxy (class)

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• History
  • Galaxy Class Development Project (GCDP) approved: July 2343 (TNG Short Story: "Meet With Triumph and Disaster")
    • Under jurisdiction and direction of Advanced Starship Design Bureau
    • Mission requirements and general specifications settled late 2343
      • Designed for extremely-long-term missions, up to fifteen years away from friendly ports (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
      • As a result, designed for combined Starfleet/civilian populations, including families of officers (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
    • Simulations begin 2344 to determine general requirements for satisfaction of specifications according to basic presumed characteristics
    • Forty space frame designs initially result from simulations; narrowed to 15 by 2345, space frame design locked early 2348
    • GCDP to include enhancements in propulsion, offensive, defensive, computer, sensor, and transporter technologies; technology prototype design and development continues parallel to space frame development
    • Initial plan for 12 commissioned vessels; NCC-70637 reserved for prototype, 7180x-7190x reserved for following 11
      • NCC-71817 cancelled once decision to name third vessel in USS Enterprise line finalized
      • After design finalization, decision made to complete six, take six to spaceframe completion for later activation
      • Construction resumed on latter six following Battle of Wolf 359
  • Initial construction: November 2348, Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars
  • First commissioned: November 2357, USS Galaxy (NCC-70637)
    • First launched 2356, shakedown tests proceed over following year
    • Manraloth quantum virus infiltration led to scrapping, reconstruction of entire Galaxy-class software package, delaying planned 2361 official launch for Federation bicentennial celebrations (TNG Novel: The Buried Age)
    • Initial six launched 2/year starting 2363
      • USS Yamato, USS Enterprise, USS Constitution, USS Odyssey, USS Robinson, and USS Venture
    • Second six launched 2/year starting 2368
      • USS Challenger
  • Due to Borg threat, additional 12 begin construction 2367 at Utopia Planitia, launched 4/year starting 2369; registries reserved 7280x-7291x
  • Deteriorating relations with Klingon Empire and looming Dominion threat leads additional 24 to begin construction of refit design early 2372 across various shipyards, launched 8/year starting mid-2373; registries reserved 7520x-7543x
    • Existing vessels undergo refit to uprated design as well starting 2372
    • NCC-75402 cancelled on naming after USS Excalibur, NCC-26517-A
• Statistics
  • Length: 642.5m
  • Width: 463.7m
  • Height: 195.3m
  • Mass: 4,500,000mt
  • Crew: 1,012 permanent, up to 200 visiting
  • 48 commissioned 2357-2376
  • Cruising speed: Warp 6
    • 2372 Refit: Warp 7
  • Maximum speed: Warp 9.6 for 12 hours, up to warp 9.8 for short periods
    • 2372 Refit: Warp 9.9 for 12 hours
• Layout
  • 42 decks
    • Deck 1
      • Bridge (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" et al.)
      • Captain's ready room (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" et al.)
      • Observation lounge (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" et al.)
    • Deck 2
      • Exterior: Upper sensor array (TNGTM)
    • Deck 3
      • Executive Dining room (TNG: "Violations")
    • Deck 4
      • Main shuttlebay (TNG: "Cause and Effect", TNGTM)
      • Cargo bay complex (TNG: "Schisms", TNGTM)
        • Cargo Bay 1 (TNG: "Code of Honor")
        • Cargo Bay 3 (TNG: "Datalore")
        • Cargo Bay 6 (TNG: "Hide and Q")
        • Cargo Bay 7 (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder")
        • Cargo bay transporters (TNG: "11001001", TNGTM)
      • Ship's stores (TNG: "The Naked Now", "Datalore")
    • Deck 5
      • Interrogation/Detention Area (TNG: "Manhunt")
      • Guest quarters (TNGTM)
    • Decks 5 to 14
      • Port computer core (TNGTM)
      • Starboard computer core (TNGTM)
    • Deck 6
      • Transporter Rooms 1-4 (TNG: "Brothers", "Where No One Has Gone Before", TNGTM)
      • Guest quarters (TNGTM)
      • Water recycling and reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 7
      • Section 4: Guest quarters (TNG: "True Q")
      • Guest quarters (TNG: "The Perfect Mate")
      • Crew quarters (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
    • Deck 8
      • Unfinished multipurpose deck (TNG: "Liaisons")
      • VIP quarters (TNG: "Reunion")
      • Officer's Quarters (TNG: "Q Who", "Chain of Command, Part II", "Genesis")
      • Counselor's office (TNG: "The Price")
      • Battle bridge (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Arsenal of Freedom")
      • Crew quarters (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
      • Captain's quarters (TNG: "Night Terrors")
    • Deck 9
      • Section 4: Guest quarters (TNG: "Bloodlines")
      • VIP quarters (TNG: "Man of the People")
      • Guest quarters (TNG: "Evolution")
      • Officer's Quarters (TNG: "Q Who")
        • Captain's quarters (TNG: "Allegiance")
      • Security station (TNG: "The Defector")
      • Slush deuterium interim storage (TNGTM)
      • Solid waste reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 10
      • Ten Forward (TNG: "The Child", "Power Play")
      • Crew quarters (TNG: "Conundrum")
      • Planetary sciences laboratory (TNG: "Pen Pals")
      • Science laboratory (TNG: "Suspicions")
      • Saucer antimatter storage pods (TNGTM)
      • Saucer deflector shield graviton field generators (TNGTM)
    • Decks 10 to 11
      • Saucer impulse engines (TNGTM)
    • Deck 11
      • Holodecks 1-4 (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "Where No One Has Gone Before", "The Big Goodbye", "Angel One", "11001001", "We'll Always Have Paris", "Elementary, Dear Data", "All Good Things..."; TNGTM)
        • Holographic Environmental Simulator 4J 2917
      • SIF generator (TNGTM)
      • IDF generator (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 12
      • Chief medical officer's office (TNG: "Genesis")
      • Sickbay (TNG: "The Naked Now", "The Big Goodbye", "The Next Phase", "Genesis")
      • Geordi La Forge's quarters, 2364 (TNG: "Code of Honor")
      • Biomedical Lab (TNG: "Home Soil")
      • Nursery (TNG: "Home Soil")
      • Gymnasium (TNG: "The Icarus Factor")
      • Replicator matter stream generation (TNGTM)
      • Personal holographic simulator rooms (TNGTM)
    • Deck 13
      • Shuttlebay 2 (TNG: "Transfigurations", TNGTM)
      • Shuttlebay 3 (TNG: "The Next Phase", TNGTM)
      • Water recycling and reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Solid waste reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 14
      • Transporter rooms 5-6 (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", TNGTM)
      • Primary care classroom (TNG: "Rascals")
      • Conference Room (TNG: "The Outrageous Okona")
      • Sensor maintenance
    • Deck 15
      • Science section (TNG: "In Theory")
    • Deck 16
      • Exterior: Lower sensor array (TNGTM)
      • Guest quarters (TNG: "Violations")
      • Captain's yacht (TNGTM)
    • Deck 17
      • Arboretum (TNG: "Genesis"; SCE Short Story: "Wildfire, Book 2")
      • Crew quarters (TNG: "The Next Phase")
    • Deck 21
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 22
      • Lounge (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")
    • Decks 23 to 24
      • Impulse System (Main), Fusion Reaction Systems (TNG: "Contagion", display graphic, TNGTM)
    • Deck 24
      • Water recycling and reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 25
      • Port and starboard nacelle Jefferies tube access (TNG: "Eye of the Beholder")
      • Port and starboard nacelle tube/plasma injector (TNG: "Eye of the Beholder")
      • Torpedo bay (TNG: "In Theory", TNGTM)
      • Forward photon torpedo launcher (TNGTM)
      • Docking port 5 and 6 (TNG: "11001001", TNGTM)
    • Deck 26
      • Probe storage (TNGTM)
    • Deck 30
      • Matter injector (TNGTM)
    • Decks 30 to 35
      • Deuterium injection subsystem (TNG: "Contagion", display graphic)
    • Decks 30 to 37
      • Stardrive computer core (TNGTM)
    • Deck 31
      • Stardrive deflector shield graviton field generators (TNGTM)
    • Deck 32
      • Living quarters (TNG: "Imaginary Friend")
      • SIF generator (TNGTM)
    • Decks 32 to 38
      • Main deflector dish (TNGTM)
    • Deck 33
      • Brig (TNG: "Deja Q")
      • IDF generator (TNGTM)
      • Personal holographic simulator rooms (TNGTM)
    • Deck 34
      • Navigational deflector graviton polarity source generator (TNGTM)
      • Navigational deflector subspace field generators (TNGTM)
      • Solid waste reprocessing (TNGTM)
      • Replicator matter stream generation (TNGTM)
      • Life support (TNGTM)
    • Deck 35
      • Aft photon torpedo launcher (TNGTM)
    • Deck 36
      • Main engineering (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "11001001", "Contagion", "Conundrum", TNGTM)
      • Chief engineer's office (TNG: "Galaxy's Child")
      • Warp core reaction chamber (TNGTM)
      • Droid Maintenance
      • Science lab (TNG: "Time's Arrow, Part II")
      • Weapons room (TNG: "11001001")
    • Decks 37 to 42
      • Antideuterium injection subsystem (TNG: "Contagion", display graphic)
    • Deck 38
      • Cargo bay complex (TNGTM)
        • Cargo Bay 3 (TNG: "The Hunted")
        • Cargo bay transporters (TNGTM)
    • Deck 39
      • Cargo bay complex (TNGTM)
        • Cargo Bay 12 (TNG: "A Matter of Perspective")
        • Cargo bay transporters (TNGTM)
    • Decks 41 to 42
      • Stardrive antimatter storage (TNG: "Liaisons", TNGTM)
    • Deck 42
      • Antimatter injector (TNGTM)
      • Antimatter generator (TNGTM)

Known ships

Galaxy-class

Name	Registry	Service Begin	Service End
USS Galaxy	NCC-70637	2357	(2379)
USS Yamato	NCC-71807	2363	2365
USS Enterprise	NCC-1701-D	2363	2371
USS Constitution	NCC-71824	2364	2381
USS Odyssey	NCC-71832	2364	2370
USS Robinson	NCC-71842	2365	(2386)
USS Venture	NCC-71854	2365	(2374)
USS Trinculo	NCC-71867	2368
USS Dauntless	NCC-71879	2368
USS Idaho	NCC-71885	2369
USS Challenger	NCC-71899	2369	2383
USS Madison	NCC-72804	2369
USS Lowe	NCC-72811	2369	2371
USS Mukaikubo	NCC-72829	2369	2371
USS Ulysses	NCC-71909	2370	2381
USS Asgard	NCC-72846	2370	2375
USS Bolivar	NCC-72896	2371
USS Magellan	NCC-75213	2373
USS Hedderjin	NCC-75277	2374	(2379)
USS Jefferies	NCC-75312	2374	(2378)
USS Trident	NCC-75347	2375
USS Excalibur	NCC-26517-A	2376
USS Cheyenne	NCC-75435	2376