Tritium class (FASA)
The expensive and ill-fated Tritium class was commissioned on Stardate 2205.051 (20 February 2205).[Notes 1] The first starship designed with three warp nacelles, the design sought to disprove Zefram Cochrane's original warp drive theories, which held that no more than two warp nacelles could be used on a single ship, as imbalances in the warp fields generated would nullify the drive's effect. The engineers responsible—and several flag-rank officers in Starfleet Engineering Command—disagreed with Cochrane, and believed that the third nacelle would dramatically increase maximum operating performance. A total of six Tritium class ships were constructed before the project was terminated, but the class never met any of its design specifications. Numerous high-level Starfleet personnel were discharged as a result, and the six ships were decommissioned within seven years.[1][2]
Tritium class vessels
Notes
- ↑ "The Four Years War" referred to events by a FASA-specific dating standard called the "Reference Stardate." All dates in this article have been adapted from that notation into standard calendar dates, which are then adjusted for errors in the baseline dates used as reference by the FASA authors. Working with a known, dated event (e.g., the launch of the Constitution class starships), the other dates in the timeline can be adjusted accordingly. "The Four Years War" gives the launch of the Constitution class as Reference Stardate 1/8801.04, or 04 January 2188; this has been established on screen, however, as having occurred in 2245. As the exact month and date remain unstated in other sources, those remain the same, but the year is adjusted to 2245, giving a modified date of 04 January 2245. This can then be converted into the pre-TOS stardate system established in Star Trek (2009), giving us a stardate of 2245.004. Using this as a baseline, all other dates in the FASA timeline can be similarly modified and converted. The Tritium class was noted as becoming operational on Reference Stardate 1/4802.20; converting as stated previously gives a modified date of 2205.051.
FASA Timeline
The expensive and ill-fated Tritium class was commissioned on Reference Stardate 1/4802.20 (20 February 2148). The first starship designed with three warp nacelles, the design sought to disprove Zefram Cochrane's original warp drive theories, which held that no more than two warp nacelles could be used on a single ship, as imbalances in the warp fields generated would nullify the drive's effect. The engineers responsible—and several flag-rank officers in Star Fleet Engineering Command—disagreed with Cochrane, and believed that the third nacelle would dramatically increase maximum operating performance. A total of six Tritium class ships were constructed before the project was terminated, but the class never met any of its design specifications. Numerous high-level Star Fleet personnel were discharged as a result, and the six ships were decommissioned within seven years.[1][2]
Tritium class vessels
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Goldstein, Stan and Goldstein, Fred with Sternbach, Rick. Star Trek: Spaceflight Chronology. Pocket Books, 1980.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "The Four Years War." Star Trek: The Roleplaying Game, Supplement 2218A. Game. 1986. FASA.
