Talk:Constellation class

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Contents 1 Medium Cruiser 2 Megaphaser? 3 engineering set 4 Photon torpedos 5 Removed 6 Star Trek Film Appearance

[edit] Medium Cruiser

What is the source for the claim that this ship is a "Medium Cruiser"? It links to "Explorer Class", but I'm not sure what the source for that is either. Thanks! Aholland 04:27, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Megaphaser?

What in the heck is this "megaphaser cannon" that the article claims Constellations are supposed to have two of?Roundeyesamurai 08:19, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I have no idea. This is one of the many aspects of this article that needs attention and citation. I'll try my hand at it if no one else gets there first. Aholland 11:18, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

It sounds like something from Dungeons & Dragons In Space: The Card Game- Your shields get +36,000 Megaphaser damage to your Capital Ship, or some such baloney. Roundeyesamurai 00:30, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

i've seen fanon versions of the Miranda class (usually under the fanon name 'Avenger') listed with 'mega-phasers' as part of it's compliment elsewere online. probably a false assumption based on the pulse like phasers used by the Reliant in Wrath of Khan, and the amount of damage they seemed to do. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.102.25.90 (talk). (15 june 2006)

There was a version of the Excelsior-class blueprints way back in 1984, which showed a somewhat different (and pretty neat, though non-cannon) version of the Excelsior. It had a Constitution class-type hanger bay, and Megaphaser emplacements where the horizontal pylons met the vertical pylons. These megaphaser emplacements looked an awful lot like the phaser emplacements on the outer rollbar (port and starboard) of the Miranda Class. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.189.230.114 (talk).

[edit] engineering set

is that a redress of the partial warp core set they made for ST III?--monkey²:twice the monkey 15:38, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Photon torpedos

Is there the possibility that photon torpedos are a standard armament on the Constellation class? As Picard relives the final moments of the battle, does he not order "phasers, fire, torpedos away!" as he destroys the Ferengi ship. Could one not assume in the absence of any other canon information that this class of ship was so equipped? Or is there other specific (canon) information to suggest armament is limited in the standard variant, but that the Stargazer was better equipped? – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 128.253.66.16 (talk).

As far as I know, the Stargazer was a standard configuration. Here is something from the script proving photons:

RIKER: "Enterprise to Stargazer... to Captain Picard aboard Stargazer, please answer. Mister Data, what was Stargazer's condition?"

DATA: "Considerable fire damage to interior surface as reported, sir. But none of her main systems are crippled."

RIKER: "Armaments, Lieutenant Yar?"

TASHA: "Six photon torpedoes short, sir, probably used when the Captain destroyed his Ferengi attacker seven years ago. Otherwise fully armed."

This would indicate that the Stargazer had and was capable of using photon torpedoes. I will fix the article. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 16:20, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Removed

• "In non-Trek media, the cartoon parody of the Constellation class starship first appears in the Filmation cartoon Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, which premiered 12 years before TNG."

Certainly this needs a better explanation that this. How can something have appeared on-screen elsewhere before it was even conceived? Plagerism? --Alan 12:47, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Star Trek Film Appearance

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but as the handful of ships are leaving Earth to go to Vulcan in the latest Star Trek film, I seem to recall a four-nacelle ship with them. If this is so, is this a precursor to the Constellation class, or is it actually a Constellation class vessel? If someone can verify this, an image should be uploaded. --Kahwless 08:37, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

You are probably looking at the ship that had two nacelles, and then two engineering sections (a first in Trek Starfleet desings, I think). I thought it was a four nacelle ship at first as well. Besides, the movie takes place largely about 30 years before we think the Constellation class got started, and in an alternate timeline where technological development and starfleet design had been diverging to a high degree for about 25 years. Not likely to be a Constellation present. --OuroborosCobra ^talk 08:54, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

Great, thanks for the clarification. I wasn't aware that the extra nacelles were engineering sections until I read the page on the Kelvin which said that it only had one warp nacelle. Again, thanks. --Kahwless 14:14, 19 June 2009 (UTC)