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Ship Schematics

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Charleston Class Schematics [USS Charleston (first ship of its class); design and images by Joe McMullen.]
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Ship Specifications

General Data

Ship Name: USS Excelsior
Registry: NX-2000-C
Class: Charleston
Type: Battle/Exploration Cruiser

Built: Utopia Planitia Shipyard, Mars
Launched: Stardate 20911.01
Commissioned: Stardate 20911.01

Technical Data:
Dimensions | Crew Capacity | Transporters | Computer System | Accessory Vessels | Propulsion | Warp Drive
Weapons | Defensive Systems | Separation Mode | Sensors

Deck-by-Deck Chart: Saucer Section | Stardrive Section

Technical Data

Dimensions

Length: 550 meters
Width: 342 meters
Height: 125 meters
Mass: 691, 943 metric tons

Charleston Class Saucer Section
Saucer Section Frontal

Crew Capacity

Officers: 125
Enlisted: 550
Other: 3000 max evacuation capacity

Transporters

Personal: 6
Cargo: 10
Emergency: 55

Computer System

V-109-A Bio-Neutral Duotronics Computer Core System

Accessory Vessels

    3 Runabouts (Formerly Type-9B Shuttlecraft)
  • USS Amur
  • USS Belaya
  • USS Cimarron

2 Type-11 Shuttlecraft
3 Type-12 Shuttlecraft
5 Type-9A Shuttlecraft
8 Type-6 Shuttlecraft

Charleston Class Impulse Drive
Impulse Engines

Propulsion

Type-57 Slush Deuterium Engine with Neutrino Accelerators

Maximum Impulse Speed: 0.770c
Standard Impulse Cruising Speed: 0.25c

Warp Drive

Ceries F-Type Matter/Antimatter Engine with variable geometry warp nacelles

Standard Cruising Speed: Warp 6.3
Maximum Cruising Speed: Warp 9.3
Maximum Emergency Speed: Warp 9.7 for 12 hours

Weapons

12 Type-XII-C Phaser Arrays, rated at 22 gigajoules, and equipped with computer-controlled multi-fire

    • Saucer Section:
    • Four dorsal
    • Two ventral
    • Two aft
    • Stardrive Section:
    • One at the head of the stardrive section (where the saucer and stardrive sections connect)
    • One on the bottom of the ship (beneath the main deflector dish)
    • One on the starboard nacelle-connector
    • One on the port nacelle-connector
    Four Rapid-Fire Pulse Photon Torpedo Launchers
  • Two fore stardrive
  • One aft stardrive
  • One fore saucer
    200 Mark-X M/A Photon Torpedoes (30 gigajoule yield) Three Rapid Fire Quantum Torpedo Launchers
  • Two fore
  • One aft

250 Mark-XI M+/A+ Quantum Torpedoes (50 gigajoule yield)

Charleston Class Neck between Stardrive and Saucer
Separation Point at Neck

Defensive Systems

    Enhanced Defensive Shielding Package
  • Eight Separate Shield Generators on continuous cycle, with Advanced Multi-phasic Subroutine (Four Saucer, Four Stardrive)
  • Enhanced Plutonium Plating
  • Tri-layered Ablative Armor
  • Type-8 Standard Shielding System

Separation Mode

The Excelsior has the ability to separate its saucer and stardrive modules in emergencies.

Sensors

Primary SWAC array (cross-matrixed)

    Complete primary LRS package:
  • Wide-angle active electromagnetic scanners
  • Narrow-angle active electromagnetic scanners
  • Gamma ray telescope, 5 meter lens
  • Electromagnetic flux sensor, variable frequency
  • Custom anomalous reading sensor, calibrated to both temporal and physical anomalies
  • Lifeform analysis instrument package with custom zoological database
  • Parametric subspace field stress sensor, quad-variable
  • Broad-spectrum imaging array, tested to frequency extremes
  • Full spectrum analytical capabilities
    Complete primary SRS package
  • Ship sensors, cooperative with tactical arrays
  • Interior scan package, complete with personnel database
  • New diagnostic subroutines, using engineering computer data for to-the-instant damage reporting
  • Additional anomalous scan package

Secondary LRS and SRS packages, used primarily for flight and battle
Tertiary lateral A/P (astronomical/planetary) sensors for emergency use
Complete astrophysical database
Full stellar cartography suite

Deck-by-Deck Chart

(Please note that Charleston-class vessels carry an upper sensor pylon akin to that seen on the Nebula-class vessel. This pylon comprises 6 additional decks, denoted "Pylon 1" through "Pylon 6" -- but they contain little more than maintenance passageways and interfaces for changing the sensor package.)

Saucer Section:

  • Deck 1 - Bridge (dedication plaque), Captain's Ready Room, Commander's Ready Room, Observation Lounge (view)
  • Deck 2 - Stellar Cartography, Briefing Room, Captain's Quarters, Captain's Mess (view)
  • Deck 3 - Holodeck 2, Living Quarters, Chief Science Officer's Quarters, Guest Quarters, State Room (view)
  • Deck 4 - Transporter Rooms 1 and 2, Living Quarters, Mess Hall (view)
  • Deck 5 - Main Shuttlebay, Dorsal Phaser Array (view)
  • Deck 6 - Holodeck 1, Gymnasium, Living Quarters, Mess Hall (view)
  • Deck 7 - Main Security Offices, Brig, Security Chief's Office (view)
  • Deck 8 - Main Sickbay, Medical Labs, Gymnasium, CMO's Office (view)
  • Deck 9 - First Officer's Quarters, Arboretum, Main Science Labs, Science Chief's Office (view)
  • Deck 10 - Main Weapons Locker, Ventral Phaser Array, Living Quarters, Mess Hall (view)
  • Deck 11 - Saucer Engineering, Senior Officers' Quarters, Saucer Impulse Engines (view)
  • Deck 12 - Shuttlebay 2, 12-Forward Lounge, Transporter Rooms 3 and 4, Chief Engineer's Quarters, Living Quarters (view)
  • Deck 13 - Cargo Bay 2, Living Quarters, Mess Hall (view)
  • Deck 14 - Shuttle storage, Weapons Locker 2 (view)
  • Deck 15 - Environmental Controls, Living Quarters (view)
  • Deck 16 - Separation Deck

(For images of the general layout of living quarters, see LQ#1, LQ#2, and LQ#3.)

Stardrive Section:

  • Deck 16 - Separation Deck, Main Stardrive Phaser Array, Battle Bridge
  • Deck 17 - Living Quarters, Mess Hall, Transporter Rooms 5 and 6
  • Deck 18 - Photon Torpedo Storage, Quantum Torpedo Storage, Main Impulse Engines
  • Deck 19 - Secondary Science Labs, Astrophysics
  • Deck 20 - Holodeck 3, Holodeck 4, Cargo Bay, Living Quarters, Mess Hall
  • Deck 21 - Weapons Locker 3, Antimatter Storage Pod
  • Deck 22 - Main Engineering, Warp Core, Main Equipment Locker, Chief Engineer's Office
  • Deck 23 - Matter Storage Pod, Cargo Transporters
  • Deck 24 - Main Deflector Dish, Main Deflector Controls
  • Deck 25 - Living Quarters, Stardrive Sickbay, Tertiary Science Labs
  • Deck 26 - Main Cargo Bay
  • Deck 27 - Computer Core, Living Quarters, Mess Hall
  • Deck 28 - Emergency Batteries, Living Quarters
  • Deck 29 - Deuterium Fuel Storage
  • Deck 30 - Supplementary Living Quarters, Mess Hall
  • Deck 31 - Anti-Matter Storage Pods
  • Deck 32 - Supplementary Living Quarters
  • Deck 33 - Deuterium Fuel Storage, Supplementary Living Quarters
  • Deck 34 - Deuterium Fuel Storage, Supplementary Living Quarters
  • Deck 35 - Deuterium Fuel Storage, Supplementary Living Quarters
  • Deck 36 - Warp Nacelle Access Tubes

Updated in 2009 by Rear Admiral John Styre | Modified in 2011 by Captain T'Ashal | Charleston class specs created for the USS Lothlorien in 1999 by Fleet Captain Quint Kivo
Contributing, 1999: Commander John Styre, Lt. Commander Mavelle Kivo