Technical
specifications
Length: 302m
Width: 162m
Height: 85m
Decks: 29
Crew: 350
Max life support:
600
Shuttles
Shuttlebays: 1
Weapon
systems
Primary weapons: Phasers
type VI
Secondary weapons: Photon
Torpedos
Defensive systems:
Shields
Energy and
propulsion systems
Primary energy source:
MARA warpcore
Secondary energy source: Fusion
reactors
Computer
systems
Crew interface:
DCLD
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Stargazer NCC-2893 
Ship
/ Class History:
The Constellation
class starship was a result of
the need for a high speed, long
range cruiser with substantial
firepower during a time where
current technologies were not
sophisticated enough to provide
sufficiently effective hardware
with the traditional two nacelle
design which dominated the design
of starships in Starfleet since
it's exisitence and even back to
the Phoenix which served as the
basic configuration for all
starships even up to this day.
The Federation's territory was
growing at an extremly fast rate
with better and better starship
designs and engines allowing
Starfleet to explore fronteers of
space uncharted at that time. The
current fleet in the 50's, 60's
and 70's were fast though their
range was not what Starfleet was
comfortable with.
Starships could not
travel the long distances
required of them and in several
cases ran out of power before
they reached their destination.
In battle situations, sending a
ship low in power would be
disasterous. The R&D labs
were working on increasing the
range with new designs and
technologies but by 2261,
Starfleet could not wait any
longer. They began conceptual
designs for a new long range ship
that would use current
technologies heavilly modified to
fit the needs of Starfleet. They
found that by using 4 nacelles,
with lower amounts of power
supplied to them, they could
achieve better range than the
mainstreem dual nacelle
configuration.
There was some
drawback to this scheme. It
required a dedicated computer to
monitor and manipulate the
subspace fields constantly.
Adjustments had to be made
constantly to maintain a stable
warp field. Because of this
configuration, it left many of
the power and sensor systems
highly vulnerable to damage in
battle. At the same time, R&D
labs were making significant
gains in new technologies, but
most of it was highly
experimental and was not up to
starfleet's standards for field
testing in a testbed ship.
Starfleet could not wait and
decided to go ahead with the
project.
USS
Constellation NCC-1974
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