From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Steamrunner class starship
Steamrunner class starship
Steamrunner class computer-generated visual effect. It was originally called
First appearance Star Trek: First Contact the Streamrunner, named for the song "Streamrunner"
by Fold Zandura but for some reason the first r had been
Affiliation United Federation of Planets
Starfleet dropped.
This ship design has an angular saucer-shaped hull.
General characteristics Like the Saber class, the Steamrunner has two warp na-
Armaments Photon torpedoes celles embedded in the saucer.
Phasers Instead of an engineering hull, an underslung sec-
Tricobalt Device ondary hull with a blue navigational deflector at the fore-
Defenses Deflector Shields front is attached to the nacelles by a pylon running
downward and inward at the aft end of each. The main
Propulsion Warp drive bridge and the dorsal phaser array are embedded into
Impulse drive
the saucer. The primary hull’s ventral side is dominated
Power Warp core by the ship’s ventral phaser array and lifeboats. Two im-
pulse engines are located between the nacelles with one
In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Steamrunner class on each side of the ship.
is a rarely seen class of Starfleet starship.
In other media
Description The Steamrunner class is featured in the non-canon Star
The Steamrunner class served during the Dominion War Trek: Armada series of computer games as the Feder-
and Borg incursions; at least one Steamrunner was lost ation’s long range artillery ship. It also appears in the
in the explosion of the Borg cube during the Battle of game Star Trek: Legacy as a Destroyer.
Sector 001. The only clearly identified Steamrunner-class An upgraded version of the Steamrunner class, the Ze-
starship is the USS Appalachia (NCC-52136), which is seen phyr class, features in Star Trek Online as an "Escort" type
fighting the Borg cube towards the start of the movie Star vessel available to players who have reached the rank of
Trek: First Contact. Commander.
Design External links
In real life, the Steamrunner class was designed by Alex • Steamrunner Class at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek
Jaeger at Industrial Light and Magic and rendered as a Wiki
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