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U.S.S. TITAN CONCEPT NOTES
The Ship:
U.S.S. Titan,NCC-80102, Luna-class. The Titanis 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/titancontestto 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 notbuilt 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), Titanalso 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 Titanis 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 learn how to work together, or fail to, depending on the circumstances they encounter.
Titanhas eight shuttlecraft of various sizes.
The story behind the Luna-class:
The Luna-Class Development Project was initiated in 2369 in response to the discovery of the Bajoran wormhole, and originally conceived as leading a planned Starfleet wave of deep-space exploration in the Gamma Quadrant. The project was spearheaded by Dr. (Commander) Xin Ra-Havreii, a Starfleet theoretical engineer at Utopia Planitia. Field testing on the prototype U.S.S. Lunawas under way by 2372 in the Alpha Quadrant, and construction of the fleet was scheduled to begin the following year. Unfortunately, contact with the Dominion and the subsequent outbreak of hostilities mothballed the project indefinitely, as Starfleet redirected its shipbuilding resources to the production of vessels better suited to combat.
Upon the war’s end in late 2375, Dr. Ra-Havreii correctly judged that the Federation’s cultural psychology would eventually shift back toward its pre-war ideals, and pushed to have the Luna-class revisited as a major step toward resuming Starfleet’s mission of peaceful exploration (even though the class would no longer be assigned exclusively to the exploration of the Gamma Quadrant). Construction of an initial fleet of twelve Luna-class vessels was completed by 2379, and the Titanwas offered to William T. Riker, one of many command officers eager to put the strife of the last decade behind him.
The Luna -class fleet:
The ships of the Luna-class are all named for moons in Earth’s solar system: