Steamrunner class starship (Star Trek)

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In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Steamrunner class is a rarely seen class of Starfleet starship. The Steamrunner class served during the Dominion War and Borg incursions; at least one Steamrunner was lost in the explosion of the Borg cube during the Battle of Sector 001. The only clearly identified Steamrunner-class starship is the USS Appalachia (NCC-52136), which fights at the Battle of Sector 001 in 2373.

In real life, the Steamrunner class was designed by Alex Jaeger at Industrial Light and Magic and rendered as a computer-generated visual effect. It was originally called the Streamrunner, named for the song "Streamrunner" by Fold Zandura but for some unknown reason the first 'r' had been dropped.

This unconventional ship design has an angular saucer-shaped hull. Like the Saber class, the Steamrunner has two warp nacelles embedded in the saucer.

Instead of an engineering hull, an underslung secondary hull with a blue navigational deflector at the forefront is attached to the nacelles by a pylon running downward and inward at the aft end of each. The main bridge and the dorsal phaser array are embedded into the saucer. The primary hull's ventral side is dominated by the ship's ventral phaser array and lifeboats. Two impulse engines are located between the nacelles with one on each side of the ship.

The Steamrunner class is featured in the non-canon Star Trek: Armada series of computer games as the Federation's long range artillery ship.

[edit] External links

• Steamrunner class at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek WikiWiki
• Steamrunner class at LCARScom.Net
• "Steamrunner class" at the Neutral Zone Starship Database
• "Steamrunner-class starship" article at the official Star Trek website.