Star Trek Federation Ship Manual

CREDITS Design: Forest G. Brown Writing: Forest G. Brown Historical Consultant: Hikaru Sulu Editor-in-Chief: L. Ross Babcock III Editing & Additional Writing: Wm. John Wheeler Proofreading: Donna Ippolito Illustration & Cover Art: Dana Knutson Typesetting: Karen Vander May Layout & Pasteup: Dana Knutson Todd F. Marsh Jane Bigos

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BRAD'S COMMENTS: The United Federation Of Planets and its Starfleet possess the most high-tech and powerful ships among all of the three major 'superpowers' in the old FASA game universe. Strangely, I don't think the FEDERATION SHIP RECOGNITION MANUAL is as well written as the KLINGON manual, and I also don't think the ship designs are quite as good. Mostly because the scaling seems all wrong to me. Very often it seems the illustrators just photocopied the saucer section and warp nacelles from a refit Constitution class (Enterprise class in the old FASA books) and then slapped a bunch of other hardware around that saucer & nacelles, and called it a ship, regardless of size or mission. There are destroyers like the Lenthal or the Baker which ought to mass more than the Enterprise cruisers, if the identical saucer and nacelles are supposed to be to scale. But too often the saucer and nacelles are not to scale, and I think it was dumb on the part of the designers to slap an Enterprise saucer and nacelles on a scout or an escort or a destroyer when these ships are clearly much smaller than the heavy cruiser that is the Enterprise. Another beef of mine is that the written text describes a total Starfleet that is horribly small compared to, say, the Klingons. Yes, the UFP does have better technology, and yes Starfleet's primary mission is still one of exploration, but the Klingon forces number into the tens of thousands of ships, while if you added up the entire Federation manual you'd get a Starfleet that amasses only a few thousand ships, at the most. This to me is not very believable, especially since we've seen Starfleet ship registry numbers in the tens of thousands. Where are all the rest of the ships? Like all the old FASA manuals, this one was made thoroughly outdated by the TNG universe, as well as movies like Star Trek VI and Star Trek Generations. There was an effort to bring the UFP up to date with the introduction of the STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION OFFICERS MANUAL, but as with the older UFP recognition manual, just about every design in the TNG Officer's Manual is apocryphal, having little or no basis in the actual television program. I have included the TNG Officer's Manual ships in this section, however, since I consider those few ship designs to be an extension of the original UFP recognition manual. Ships are listed below by their ship class. Click on the link to each ship and a window will appear giving a full graphic of the vessel, plus history and game stats. Vessel names that are not linked are vessels that I have not yet scanned in, but will be coming in the future. Enjoy. P.S: I tried to scan each ship at as high a quality as I could, but the original format of the drawings in the manual makes this VERY difficult. The designers at FASA used an old b/w layout trick where the "gray" color that shades the ships is not gray at all, but thousands of tiny black dots on a field of white. The net effect viewed from afar by the human eye is that of 'grayness' but the scanner picks up every last dot and it takes a lot of softening/blurring and reduction via Paintshop to get the ships to look halfway decent. Even then, the images sometimes don't come out crisp. So if things seem a teeny bit fuzzy around the edges, or if the graphics don't look exactly as they did on paper, please understand that I did what I could with what I've got. In some lucky cases I have been able to find large-scale graphics from other sources for canon ships (like the Constitution Refit/Enterprise & Reliant/Miranda). These graphics produce superior scans when compared to the Ship Recognition Manuals, and I have necessarily replaced the poor FASA graphics with crisp, better looking images that have been cropped, resized, and shaded manually. Cheers!

ASSAULT SHIPS

Makin

Continent

Kolm-An

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BATTLESHIPS

Excelsior

Excelsior Refit *

Federation ***

Royal Sovereign (TNG)

Sovereign (TNG) *

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CRUISERS

Triton **

Andor

Anton

Constitution

Enterprise (Constitution Refit)

Reliant (Miranda/Soyuz)

Brenton

Durrett

Constellation (TNG)

Wellington (TNG)

FASA Ambassador (TNG)

Galaxy (TNG)

Akira (TNG) *

Intrepid (TNG) *

Ambassador (TNG) *

Nebula (TNG) *

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DESTROYERS

Firestorm **

Baker

Wilkerson

Larson

Thufir

Decker (TNG)

Saladin ***

Defiant (TNG) *

Lenthal

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ESCORTS

Genser

Griffon

Remora

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FRIGATES

Cygnus (TNG) **

Thoth **

Northampton

Chandley

Babcock

Kiev

Paine (TNG)

Loknar

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CUTTERS AND CORVETTES

Scorpio

Epsilon

Solar

Danube (TNG) *

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SCOUTS

Gagarin/Sagan (Oberth)

Nelson

Bader

Keith

Clark **

Scylla

coming soon? Moscow (TNG)

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Hermes ***

MONITORS

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SPACE STATIONS

Alamo Defense Outpost

Earth Spacedock

R1 Orbital Station

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SHUTTLES

comings soon? Greyhound

Pulsar

SW-7 Shuttle & Warp Sled

S-10 Travel Pod

S-20 Shuttle (TNG)

comings soon? Sphinx Shuttle (TNG)

SW-21 Shuttle (TNG)

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MISCELLANEOUS

Illustrious carrier **

Cochrane transport

Aakenn freighter

Mokal transport

comings soon? Ptolemy freighter ***

Pearl mobile repair facility

Kethkin transport

Liberty freighter

Samson tug / tender

M'Benga medical ship (TNG)

comings soon? Derf tender

Cle Dan tender

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(TNG) Denotes a ship class that is specifically from the era of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and periods shortly afterward, including ST:DS9 and ST:VOY. The design may or may not be part of official Trek canon, and may or may not have been included in the FASA-produced TNG Officers Manual. * Denotes a ship class NOT included with the original FASA version of the STSSTCS. The ship class itself is official and part of movie and television lore, but the stats are not necessarily official and have been written by Brad R. Torgersen as part of the continuing update. ** Denotes a ship class that is neither officially part of the FASA version of the STSSTCS, nor is it part of official Trek canon. Usually a fanship design. Gamers may choose to ignore any and all fanships, as they are completely apocryphal. *** Denotes a ship class that was not part of the original FASA version of the STSSTCS. The ship class was taken from the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, originally compiled by Franz Joseph in 1975. I have always loved these ST:TOS era designs, especially the Federation Class, and happily include them here. I hope you fans have as much fun using them in the game as I did building them into this site!

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BRAD'S COMMENTS: If the scale of the saucer section and the warp nacelles is to be believed, then the Lenthal class is both wider and longer than even an Enterprise class cruiser!! Naturally, it's not, so I don't like the looks of this ship very much. And I've already covered the fact that I never really understood the close-together nature of the warp nacelles, something we see a lot of in the UFP Ship Recognition Manual. So I won't repeat that material here. Things would be better if the Lenthal class had some teeth, but without torpedoes this ship is pretty much going to get mauled in any kind of fight with and advanced Klingon or Romulan opponent. Best player advice: safety in numbers.

From the FASA Star Trek FEDERATION SHIP RECOGNITION MANUAL, circa 1985 Lenthal Class IX Destroyer NOTES: Of the 311 Lenthals built, 161 Mk IIs and 98 Mk Vs remain in active service, with 10 Mk Ils in reserve fleets; 2 Mk IIs are used by Star Fleet Training Command; 22 Mk Ils and 10 Mk Vs have been destroyed; 2 Mk Ils are listed as missing; 2 Mk lIs and 2 Mk Vs have been scrapped; and 2 Mk Ils have been sold to civilian commercial concerns. The Lenthal, an Andorian design, is manufactured at Salazaar at a rate of 18 per year.

Construction Data: Model NumbersShip ClassDate Entering ServiceNumber Constructed Hull Data: Superstructure PointsDamage ChartSize LengthWidthHeightWeightCargo Cargo UnitsCargo CapacityLanding CapabilityEquipment Data: Control Computer TypeTransportersStandard 6-personCombat 20-personEmergency 22-personcargo-

MK II IX 2/1202 201

MK V IX 2/1708 110

18 C

19 C

260 meters 110 meters 40 meters 133,700 tons

260 meters 110 meters 40 meters 135,300 tons

100 units 5,000 tons None

100 units 5,000 tons None

M-2

M-2

4 None 2 1

4 None 2 1

Other Data: CrewPassengersShuttlecraft-

160 10 2

165 10 2

Engines and Power Data: Total Power Units AvailableMovement Point RatioWarp Engine TypeNumberPower Units AvailableStress ChartsMaximum Safe Cruising SpeedEmergency SpeedImpulse Engine TypePower Units Available-

36 3/1 FWD-1 2 12 L/G Warp 7 Warp 9 FIF-1 12

40 3/1 FWD-1 2 12 L/G Warp 7 Warp 9 FIF-2 16

FH-12 6 in two banks 3f/p/a, 3f/s/a R 6

FH-13 6 in two banks 3f/p/a, 3f/s/a T 8

(1 - 9) (10 - 16)

(1 - 5) (6 - 12) (13 - 18)

Shields Data: Deflector Shield TypeShield Point RatioMaximum Shield Power-

FSH 1/2 12

FSH 1/2 12

Defense FactorWeapon Damage Factor-

77.7 29.4

82.1 39

Weapons and Firing Data: Beam Weapon TypeNumberFiring ArcsFiring ChartMaximum PowerDamage Modifiers +3 +2 +1