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DS9 Tech Manual Image
(Corrected image, courtesy of EAS)
DS9's 3 Nacelled Starship, christened 'The Medusa' - (See Kitbash Variants for more)
(My 3D mesh - More Here)
Medusa Class: 2301 - 2350 (3 reactivated back into service)
| OVERVIEW (Spec Info) | |
| Designation | Destroyer (Ship Designations) |
| Commissioned | 2301 |
| 1st Construction Batch | 2301-2303 |
| 2nd Batch Period | none - 3 vessels reactivated 2373 |
| Final Ship to be Commissioned | USS Cougar - 2303 Construction now ended |
| Last Ship to be Decommissioned | USS Argo - 2350 (now reactivated) |
| Crew | 325 (crew of recommissioned ships - 70) |
| Ships Built/Remain in service | 31 / 3 |
| TACTICAL | |
| Weapons | 6 Phaser Emitters, 3 Photon Torpedo Launchers, (Stock 200) -phasers updated 2373, rearmed with quantum torpedoes |
| Shield Strength | 3.2 |
| Offensive Power | 28.8 (original power) |
| OTHER STATS | |
| Maximum Cruising Speed | Warp 8.2 (upgraded to 9.0, in 2373) |
| Mass | 1.36 million metric tonnes |
| Length | 381 M |
| Decks | 14 |
31 of this strange class of ship were initially built. During the late 23rd century an arm of the Excelsior transwarp project amended the 4 nacelled Excelsior prototype to become a transwarp sister ship. Transwarp was a failure in the end, but from the blueprints of that failure the experimental Medusa Class hulls (originally with four nacelles) were requisitioned and did eventually see the light of day at the dawn of the 24th century, albeit with a reduced 3 nacelles.
This is a fairly old and obsolete starship class today. But 3 Medusas, as well as numerous similarly aged vessels of other classes which had served as cargo vessels and training ships were reactivated back into Starfleet control, and rearmed as part of an operation to boost ship numbers during the onslaught of the Dominion war. This program encompassed many older ships of various classes, such as Miranda and Constellation and several aging Excelsiors, to name only some. Only 3 of the old Medusas were worthy of recommissioning during this emergency, and after being pulled from various surplus depots they were hastily brought up to speed, and rearmed to take their place in the Destroyer Units of the 5th Fleet. Here's a few of the original 31, and those that were recommissioned.
| NAME OF VESSEL | REGISTRY | STATUS |
INFORMATION |
| USS Medusa 1 | NCC 10156 | D | |
| USS Ticonderoga | NCC 10230 | D | |
| USS Argo 2 | NCC 10163 | OR | Reactivated |
| USS Thor | NCC 10188 | Sc | |
| USS Athena | NCC 10175 | D | |
| USS Belligerent | NCC 10176 | OR | Reactivated |
| USS Cougar | NCC 10314 | Sc | |
| USS Saxony | NCC 10203 | OR | Reactivated |
| USS Hampshire | NCC 10196 | Sc | |
| USS Axalon | NCC 10236 | Sc |
Footnote *
-Here and on the Stats Board I have the Medusa prototype listed as having a registry of NX- 10156, even though the model say 7056. NX- 10156 is a recent adjustment, and I haven't yet got round to changing the model.
- Of course, this is all speculative, (reg number included) as virtually nothing is known about Medusa Class, it hasn't even been clearly identified on screen. But the model obviously exists...
-It is reasonably established now that the configuration of the nacelles on this ship is two up, one down.
KEY
| O= Operational |
| OR= Operational after Refit or Repairs |
| DD= In Drydock for repairs or refit * |
| T= Training Vessel |
| U= Under construction prior to preliminary trials |
| D= Destroyed |
| Sc= Scrapped or Decommissioned |
| PD= Presumed Destroyed |
| M= Missing |
*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.
