Saber class

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Saber-class
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Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Active:	24th century
Armament:	Phasers, photon torpedoes
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The Saber-class of Federation starship was first introduced in the late 24th century, and was in full service by 2373. The ship featured a design more compact than other Starfleet vessels, and was fairly well armed despite its small size; the class has featured prominently in the Battle of Sector 001 against the Borg and in the Dominion War.

Contents 1 Ships commissioned 2 Appendices 2.1 Appearances 2.2 Background 2.2.1 Size 2.2.2 Technical Manual 3 Apocrypha 4 External link

[edit] Ships commissioned

Named

• USS Yeager (NCC-61947)

Unnamed

• Unnamed Saber-class starships

[edit] Appendices

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Background

The Saber-class starship was designed by Alex Jaeger at ILM. It was rendered as a computer-generated visual effect. During the pre-production phase of the film, the producers approved alternative backups for ship names and registries. The ship scale sheet showing the back-up names and registries can be found on John Eaves' blog.

The Star Trek Encyclopedia uses the British spelling, "Sabre", in several places. For consistency, the alternate spelling is used.

[edit] Size

Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes said that an overall length of 625 feet (190.5 meters) was generally used onscreen. [1]

[edit] Technical Manual

The following information of specifications and defenses comes exclusively from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual:

• Production base: ASDB Integration section, Spacedock 1, Earth
• Type: Light cruiser
• Accommodation: 40 officers and crew; 200 person evacuation limit
• Power plant: One 1,500 plus Cochrane warp core feeding two nacelles, two impulse systems
• Dimensions: Length, 364.77 meters; beam, 225.61 meters; height, 52.48 meters
• Mass: 310,000 metric tonnes
• Performance: Warp 9.7 for twelve hours
• Armament: Four type-10 phaser emitters, two photon torpedo launchers

The dimensions given here are identical to the dimensions given by the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual for the Norway-class.

[edit] Apocrypha

The Saber appeared in Activision's Star Trek: Armada II and Star Trek: Starfleet Command III. It is also the smallest Federation ship available in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars.

Also, in the popular e-books series, Star Trek: SCE, the ship USS daVinci is a Saber-class starship assigned to the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, under Captain David Gold.

[edit] External link

• Saber class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works