Steamrunner class

[JNG]

The Steamrunner class (at 315, not 350 meters in length) is 29 meters shorter and has fewer decks than the Intrepid class but is 105 meters wider, with nearly the same volume and therefore mass (despite a lot of empty space behind the main hull): 688,000 metric tons to the Intrepid's 700,000.

At the 355-meter length, its volume was about 15,000 cubic meters greater than the Intrepid. Scaled down to 315 meters, the volume of the Steamrunner would be about 450,000 cubic meters. At the same density as Voyager, it would thus be slightly over half a million metric tons (about 515,000). Since Voyager is a lot more dense than Enterprise-D, I would suggest to use a slightly lower density figure for Steamrunner, and go with 500,000 as a max.

Or 474,474, or maybe 447,447 if it has very large internal spaces for shuttles, or something with 47s in it

I do kinda wish the fandom would just get together and call it "Streamrunner." Immortalizing typos bums me out.

 

[Bill Morris]

It does have a lot of shuttlebay space. So 447,000 sounds good.

 

[Praetor]

I do kinda wish the fandom would just get together and call it "Streamrunner." Immortalizing typos bums me out.

I'm game.

 

[Disillusioned]

As a personal opinion, I've always thought that the warp core should go in the main part of the ship, rather than the pod, with nothing in the pod but the deflector and maybe a couple of launchers. Wouldn't be much room though for a magazine there though, so maybe even just the deflector and related systems.

 

[Bill Morris]

I placed the warp core in that schematic exactly according to the location of the ejection hatch shown in the ventral-view drawing published in Star Trek: The Magazine, which likely followed the original design intent.

 

[Disillusioned]

Oh, I'm not saying your schematic is inaccurate, they probably did intend it to be that way. If I'm not mistaken they also had part of the Defiant texture on the bottom as well. I'm just saying how I would try to rationalize the design. If I'd designed it I probably wouldn't have done the pod to begin with.

 

[JNG]

The strange pod placement did at least lend it a distinctive silhouette, which was probably priority one for the design of ships that were always intended to be background players. It is our joy to take the resulting oddities in design and make sense of them within the fictional framework