Steamrunner class starship

Infobox Fictional Spacecraft
name = "Steamrunner" class


first = ""
last =
affiliation = Starfleet
armaments = Photon torpedoes
Phasers
Tri Cobalt Device
defense = Deflector Shields
propulsion = Warp drive
Impulse drive
power = Warp core
primeref =In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Steamrunner class is a rarely seen class of Starfleet starship.

Description

The "Steamrunner" class served during the Dominion War and Borg incursions; at least one "Steamrunner" was lost in the explosion of the Borg cube during the Battle of Sector 001. The only clearly identified "Steamrunner"-class starship is the USS "Appalachia" (NCC-52136), which is seen fighting the Borg cube towards the start of the movie "".

Design

In real life, the "Steamrunner" class was designed by Alex Jaeger at Industrial Light and Magic and rendered as a computer-generated visual effect. It was originally called the Streamrunner, named for the song "Streamrunner" by Fold Zandura but for some reason the first 'r' had been dropped.

This ship design has an angular saucer-shaped hull. Like the "Saber" class, the "Steamrunner" has two warp nacelles embedded in the saucer.

Instead of an engineering hull, an underslung secondary hull with a blue navigational deflector at the forefront is attached to the nacelles by a pylon running downward and inward at the aft end of each. The main bridge and the dorsal phaser array are embedded into the saucer. The primary hull's ventral side is dominated by the ship's ventral phaser array and lifeboats. Two impulse engines are located between the nacelles with one on each side of the ship.

In other media

The "Steamrunner" class is featured in the non-canon series of computer games as the Federation's long range artillery ship. It also appears in the game Star Trek: Legacy as a Destroyer.

External links

* [http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/index.php/Steamrunner_class Steamrunner class] at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek Wiki