Nova class starship (Star Trek)

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Nova class
The USS Equinox
First appearance	Equinox
Last appearance	Endgame
Affiliation	Starfleet
General Characteristics
Class	Nova
Armaments	Phasers Photon torpedos
Defences	Deflector shields

The Nova class starship is a fictional class of starship within the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager. The first time this class of starship appeared was in the episode entitled Equinox in the form of the USS Equinox.

In real life, the Nova class was designed by Star Trek: Voyager illustrator Rick Sternbach, based on an early design for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's USS Defiant.

Sternbach's Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, published in 1991, speculated that the long-term successor to the Galaxy class starships would be given the name "Nova". The on-screen Nova does not fulfil this narrative role.

Contents 1 Description 2 Known Nova-class starships 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Description

Ships of this class are small science vessels with minimal defenses. The Nova class design follows a conventional approach to traditional Starfleet starship design with an angular trowel-shaped saucer section, an engineering hull, and two cigar-shaped warp nacelles attached to the engineering hull by pylons running aft. The main bridge is embedded into the saucer to provide for better protection from enemy fire by blocking against attacks from the side. At the bow of the saucer is the auxiliary navigational deflector, lifeboats, sensor platforms, phaser strips, and photon torpedo launchers. The ship's ventral phaser arrays, a waverider shuttle, additional sensors, and more lifeboats occupy the ventral saucer. The engineering hull houses the main deflector dish, shield emitters, two shuttlebays, and the warp core. The shield charging cycle takes 45 seconds. Unlike most starships, which have unsupported cruise durations of a year or more, the Nova class is designed for short-range cruises of only a few months.

The Nova class is one of the first starships built with an Emergency Medical Hologram system.

[edit] Known Nova-class starships

USS Equinox (NCC-72381) 

The starship Equinox was built at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, Mars and commissioned on stardate 47007.1. The Equinox was commanded by Captain Rudy Ransom when it was transported to the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker in 2371. While returning to the Alpha Quadrant, the ship suffered heavy damage and casualties. In 2375, the surviving crew encountered nucleogenic antimatter life-forms from a different spatial realm, which the Equinox crew used for fuel to return to Earth. After meeting the USS Voyager's crew, the Equinox is destroyed by a warp core breach caused by the lifeforms. Only five crew members survive.^[1]

USS Rhode Island (NCC-72701) 

Named for the state of Rhode Island, the starship Rhode Island is commanded by Captain Harry Kim in an alternate universe in 2404 and defended Admiral Janeway's shuttlecraft SC-4 when she went back in time.^[2]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "Nova class" at Memory Alpha