Duderstadt class
The Duderstadt class was a type of Federation starship operated by Starfleet during the early 25th century.
History
In 2401, one ship of the class, the USS Intrepid, was sent to intercept the USS Titan following the latter's return from an unauthorized excursion to the Ryton system. (PIC: "Imposters")
Technical data
Physical arrangement
The Duderstadt class had an unorthodox configuration in which the warp nacelles were mounted on a posterior extension of the saucer section, with a separate, relatively small engineering section containing the main deflector below. It was similar in size to a Constitution III-class vessel, and could carry at least five hundred passengers.
The class had at least two shuttlebays. (PIC: "Imposters")
Tactical systems
The Duderstadt class was equipped with deflector shields, and armed with phaser arrays and photon torpedo launchers. (PIC: "Imposters")
Ships in class
- Named
Appendices
Appearances
- PIC:
- "Imposters"
- "The Bounty"
- "Võx"
- "The Last Generation"
Background information
The class name was provided by Dave Blass on Twitter, [1] who also emphatically asserted that the name was chosen in honor of Dorothy Duder, the late wife of Doug Drexler, and that the class was not named after the German town Duderstadt. [2] Drexler co-designed the class with Bill Krause. [3]
Early concept art by Krause had the class with Sovereign-class-style nacelles, with the provisional designation Wasp-class interceptor USS Chaparral (NCC-29757).
Blass also stated that the finalized class is 1898 feet (578.5 meters) long, and that the aft-facing dish on the secondary hull is a long range sensor array. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]
While the presence at Frontier Day of at least two Duderstadt-class vessels (Intrepid and Trumbull) as part of the assembled fleet was indicated on the USS Titan-A bridge monitor as seen in the penultimate Star Trek: Picard Season 3 episode "Võx", former Picard Research Assistant Jörg Hillebrand did establish that neither were part of the "fleet formation mode" demonstration. [9] Nonetheless, Titan's bridge monitor screen showed that both were actually present in the formation, as the Intrepid at least was seen taking part in the destruction of USS Excelsior. This strongly implied that not all Starfleet vessels assembled at Sol Station took part in the demonstration.