Taking Wing - Michael A. Martin [141]
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U.S.S. TITAN CONCEPT NOTES
The Ship:
U.S.S. Titan, NCC-80102, Luna-class. The Titan is a mid-size Starfleet vessel, approximately 450 meters in length (larger than the U.S.S. Voyager, smaller than the Enterprise-D; go to www.startrekbooks.com/titancontest to see size comparison), with a crew complement of 350. Titan’s hull configuration is comparable to other established Starfleet vessels.
The Luna-class is Starfleet’s newest-generation long-range explorer, a starship not built specifically for combat, but like the Constitution-class of the previous century, a vessel designed for a long-term multipurpose mission into un-charted space. Equipped with conventional tactical systems (deflector shields; phasers; quantum torpedoes), Titan also boasts state-of-the-art propulsion and cutting-edge scientific equipment, as well as being a testbed for experimental science tech not yet available on other classes.
The Titan is manned by the most varied multispecies crew in Starfleet history, with humans taking up less than 15% of the 350-member crew. The diversity of the crew is intended to facilitate stories that will explore the ways that beings of different cultures, biologies, psychologies, and physical appearances