Editing Intrepid Class (section)

==GENERAL INFORMATION:==

When the Intrepid was first released it was from stem to stern, the most advanced starships in Starfleet. The class employed a new warp core, variable geometry warp nacelles, and was the first to field both bio-neural gelpaks and the Emergency Medical Hologram system.

Nearly three-hundred-fifty meters long, the Intrepid class is built sleek and long, sporting one of the fastest top speeds on record for a Starfleet vessel with the exception of the new Sovereign class and the ground-breaking Prometheus class. The tilting, wing-like nacelles can shift microns in their positions, emitting minutely adjustable warp fields that are more efficient and safer when traveling in subspace. This, combined with new verterion manufacturing and the APD-01 Warp Core, makes its propulsion systems super-advanced.

The class serves multiple functions based on its load out, as well as size. An Intrepid could be seen on patrol or escort duty as easily as long-range exploration or survey. State of the art computers give it unprecedented storage capacity, access speed, and rigor conditioning. This, combined with a wide array of sensors covering a large amount of the exposed surface, makes the Intrepid class a premier ship of the line for Starfleet’s scientific endeavors.

Fast, agile, and well armed, these science ships are among the more capable multi-role platforms when faced with combat situations. Advanced shielding and Type-X Phaser arrays equip it admirably, with several representatives of the class serving during the Dominion War with amazing success.

Perhaps the most visible example of the superior nature of the Intrepid class is one of its first members. Third of it’s class, the USS Voyager made it across the Delta Quadrant aided by it’s own technology to a huge degree. The data returned by its crew has placed it permanently in the pantheon of most effective ship classes in Starfleet history.