Galaxy (class)
- Explorer
- 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
- Second six launched 2/year starting 2368
- 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
- Galaxy Class Development Project (GCDP) approved: July 2343 (TNG Short Story: "Meet With Triumph and Disaster")
- 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)
- 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)
- 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")
- 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)
- Cargo bay complex (TNGTM)
- Deck 39
- Cargo bay complex (TNGTM)
- Cargo Bay 12 (TNG: "A Matter of Perspective")
- Cargo bay transporters (TNGTM)
- Cargo bay complex (TNGTM)
- Decks 41 to 42
- Stardrive antimatter storage (TNG: "Liaisons", TNGTM)
- Deck 42
- Antimatter injector (TNGTM)
- Antimatter generator (TNGTM)
- Deck 1
- 42 decks
Known ships
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 | |
USS Jefferies | NCC-75312 | 2374 | (2378) |
USS Trident | NCC-75347 | 2375 | |
USS Excalibur | NCC-26517-A | 2376 | |
USS Cheyenne | NCC-75435 | 2376 |