This page details a counterpart of Constitution class in the alternate reality created by Nero's temporal incursion; for Constitution class in the primary universe see Constitution class; for the Constitution class in the mirror universe see Constitution class (mirror).

STARSHIP CLASS
Constitution class
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet, Terran Empire, Imperial Starfleet
Type:	heavy cruiser/flagship[1]
Service period:	c. 2250s[2]
Dimensions
Length:	762 meters[3]
Width:	335.28 meters[3]
Height:	190.5 meters[3]
Mass:	495000 metric tonnes[3]
Specifications
Crew:	1100[3]
Armaments:	2 type 4 photon torpedo launch tube; 6 dual-phaser batteries, Unknown number of Torpedo Launchers on either Side
Defences:	shields
Auxiliary craft:	16 shuttlecraft, including military shuttles & passenger shuttles; survival pods[4]

The Constitution-class was a type of starship operated by the Federation Starfleet as a heavy cruiser and flagship^[1] in the 2250s^[2] of the alternate reality created by the temporal displacement of the Narada. One notable member of the class was the USS Enterprise, which launched in 2258.

SpecificationsEdit

The class featured a saucer section connected by a neck on the rear of the saucer which ran down into the vessel's engineering hull. The primary hull contained the bridge on A-deck, officer and crew quarters on D & E-decks, a personnel transporter room on F-deck, and sickbay on G-deck. The saucer section was also fitted with six phaser battery placements, three dorsal and three ventral, with two batteries at each placement. (TOS website: Experience The Enterprise; TOS movie: Star Trek)

The secondary hull housed the ships' engineering facilities, with primary engineering control on N and O-decks, including the vessels' matter-antimatter injection mix warp core, which powered the vessels' warp drive and phasers. At the fore of the secondary hull was the class' navigational deflector, above which were twin type 4 photon torpedo launch tubes. R-deck included the ships' cargo bay and hangar bay, which could house sixteen shuttlecraft.

The secondary hull also featured the classes pylons, connecting to twin model FWG-1 warp nacelles. (TOS website: Experience The Enterprise)

Like its contemporaries, the Arbiter-class, Defender-class, Guardian-class, and Interceptor-class, the Constitution-class could, in addition to its standard systems, be armed with quantum torpedoes, and the ability to temporal shift. (TOS video game: D-A-C)

HistoryEdit

The Constitution-class was designed by W. Matt Jefferies. Construction of the USS Enterprise was conducted at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa on Earth, and was well underway by 2255. The Enterprise was also built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards, and had been launched into space by 2258. Her maiden voyage took place in that year, prematurely due to her being called into action in response to the Narada's attack on Vulcan. (TOS website: Experience The Enterprise; TOS movie & novelization: Star Trek)

In the 2250s members of the Constitution-class were part of the Starfleet force that battled starships of the Romulan Star Empire. (TOS video game: D-A-C)

Known vesselsEdit

Mirror universeEdit

• ISS Enterprise

AppendicesEdit

BackgroundEdit

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} The Experience The Enterprise website identifies the USS Enterprise as a heavy cruiser, while the video game D-A-C classifies members of the Constitution-class as flagships.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} The movie Star Trek features the launch of the USS Enterprise in 2258. While it is not known whether other Constitution class vessels may have already launched at this time it is notable that the class marks a new style of Starfleet design, with all other ships seen in the film built from components similar in design to the much older USS Kelvin, which would seem to indicate the Constitution-class is at the very least a relatively new design at this point.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} The USS Enterprise dimensions, weight, and crew complement are given on the Experience The Enterprise website.
4. ↑ The Enterprise's shuttle complement is given on the Experience The Enterprise website. The video game D-A-C includes a feature allowing a player to launch an "escape pod" when their ship is about to be destroyed, permitting them to respawn and continue playing quicker. The escape pod design for all Federation ships in the game is a military shuttle.
5. ↑ ^{5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10} In D-A-C starship names are selected and allocated at random. The game features eleven Federation starship names which are assigned randomly to all classes of ships in the game. All Constitution-class names from D-A-C are therefore also known as the names of vessels of the four other Starfleet classes in the game.

ConnectionsEdit

Variants and sub-classes of the Constitution-class starship
	Constitution-class (mk I) • Bonhomme Richard-class (mk II) • Achernar-class (mk III) • Tikopai-class (mk IV) • Enterprise-classes (mk I-III refits) • Exeter-class (24th century) • Constitution-class (alternate reality) • Constitution-class (mirror universe)

Federation Starfleet starship classes (alternate reality)
	Arbiter • Constitution • Defender • Guardian • Hermes • Interceptor • unnamed (Kelvin-type)

External linkEdit

• Constitution class (alternate reality) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.