These three, directly above, are renders of my own Miranda Model. See more Here.

The familiar Miranda Class compared with its TOS equivilent (pre refit). More here.

Miranda Class: 2261 - Still in Service

Light Cruiser type starship, of which later variant, Soyuz Class (an experimental Destroyer) was based. The Miranda Class was introduced initially as a deep range explorer vessel, eventually specialising in only scientific research by the mid 24th century. Constitution Class had already been active for nearly twenty years by the time the Miranda (after long fields tests as a prototype) was finally phased into serive, and the two were intended to bear the torch as Starfleet's foremost 'exploring' vessels. After many years in service though, and after being outclassed by succeeding classes, a lot of Miranda Class ships were decommissioned, though some were refitted, as is common with all starships after a certain 'mileage'. But In the early 24th century, other variants of the original prototype were commissioned, encompassing slightly different designs externally, but a lot more advanced as far as internal systems go, for instance IOC's (Isolinear Optical Chips) were (possibly) employed on these newer variants. A portion of all types are listed below.

Miranda Class Variants

SECOND AND THIRD REFIT VESSELS

Commissioned in the batch batch lines NCC 21***, and NCC 31***

Footnote *

- Although many refer to Soyuz Class as a Miranda variant, is it not possible that the first construction of Miranda maybe in fact be a Soyuz variant?? As stated earlier, Soyuz was definitely around in 2278 (Cause And Effect), but Miranda didn't arrive visually on screen until 2285, but expect the Miranda was the earlier vessel (See Here for more)

-It's possible that the first Miranda variant used a suspended overhead deflector array built into the photon launcher assembly (dorsal mounting), though succeeding Miranda variants seem to have no observable deflectors. How they avoided the myriad particle and debris collisions in space is a mystery. (See Here for more)

Further points regarding Miranda Class

KEY

*A ship would visit drydock for many reasons, including refits, repairs, servicing upgrades, preliminary trials and testing of new components, and spacedock for similar reasons, as well as crew rotation, reassignment, prep period before redeployment, and so forth.

The listed specifications for ship classes are partly hypothetical, but some data such as ship lengths, weapon stats and crew complements are in some cases canon. For an explanation on the specs, and what the Ship designations mean, see Spec Definitions.

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