Star Trek "Sparrow" Class 2.0 - U.S.S. Vortex NCC-973
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- čas přidán 18. 01. 2024
- Updates:
This is a work-in-progress. Made some major changes based on somid feedback. Increased the saucer width by 8' overall. Enlarged the nacelles 25% and added some length to the front to give a more balanced appearance evocative of the Constitution Class.
Building a bridge that is more accurate to TOS colors & configuration but with my short-range science class variations (more displays, two turbolifts and a “command corridor”.
I’l be outfitting the interior of this ship over time. See my previous Deck Plan videos for more.
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A brief video (2:50) of work-in-progress deck plans for a fan-made “Sparrow” class starship that might have existed in Starfleet during the old show (TOS) era of Star Trek. This model is under construction. Please subscribe for updates.
The goal is to design and virtually construct a starship that embodies the familiar Enterprise configuration of a saucer, secondary hull and warp nacelles…in as small a vessel form as practical; sort of a “mini-Enterprise”.
The ultimate goal is to share a completed, exterior 3D model and deck plans so others may build on this idea if interested.
This compact yet fast and maneuvrable class of vessel is inspired by Constitution, Daedalus, Pioneer and Nova class starships. Its primary mission profile is as a science vessel performing short-range scouting and surveying.
The Sparrow class might also serve other mission profiles: training ship, short-range supply or express courier, diplomatic transport or covert, surveillance vessel.
In times of conflict I imagine these vessels may have been pressed into service in a manner similar to the “Liberty Ships” of WWII; being quickly and easily constructed by Starfleet and numerous in production due to their reduced scale and simplified form.
A tactical version of the Sparrow class has all science and astrometric labs removed and replaced with auxiliary generators to augment deflector shields and the existing 9 phaser banks (18 emitters). The forward probe and beacon launch tube is refitted for photon torpedoes. Additionally, both aft airlocks and adjacent fabrication bays are converted into a pair of rear-facing torpedo launch tubes.
The “Sparrow Maneuvre” involves multiple Sparrow class tactical variants warping in, assuming formation in an escape trajectory at full impulse, before firing torpedoes in concert and warping away.
The crew complement for the standard, science variant of the Sparrow class is 45:
- Captain
- Chief Medical Officer
- Chief Science Officer
- Chief Engineer
- Chief Security / Tactical Officer
- 8 Junior Officers (2 Science, 2 Security / Tactical, 2 Engineering, 1 Medicine, 1 Communications)
- 16 Ensign
- 16 Crewmen, enlisted
A typical duty shift aboard a Sparrow class starship requires 15 crew members: 6 bridge crew (commanding officer, helmsman, navigator, science officer, communications officer, security-tactical officer), 4 engineering crew, 2 crew in sickbay, 1 crew member in the galley and 2 science specialists who alternate between time spent in the science labs and the bridge stations of Science 2 and Mission Operations. The vessel typically operates on a 3-shift cycle; alpha, beta and gamma shifts with specifics left to the discretion of the commanding officer.
Length = 70m / 240’
Width = 29.3m /100’
Height = 19.5m / 64’
The Sparrow class starship features 4 decks:
- Deck 1: bridge, emergency hatch, captain’s quarters, conference room/officer’s mess, Captain’s ready room, senior officer’s office, emergency batteries, computer cores (P&S), deuterium tanks, matter injector, warp governor, shuttle bay control room, cargo storage, shield emitters, forward, dorsal phaser banks (3) and aft, dorsal phaser bank.
- Deck 2: airlocks, crew’s quarters, galley, mess & recreation hall, sickbay, sonic showers (emergency triage), lifeboats (6 x 8 person), navigational deflector control room, armory, main engineering and warp core reactor, primary EPS conduits (P&S), shuttle bay (including a single class F shuttlecraft), cargo transporter & storage, fabrication bays, impulse reactors and control rooms (P&S), observation corridors.
- Deck 3: personnel transporter rooms 1 & 2 (2 x 4 person (P&S), shield generator room, structural integrity field (SIF) generator, inertial dampening field (IDF) generator, warp plasma containment field generator, engineering lab, chief engineer’s office, science labs (1-4), emergency batteries, subspace tranceiver, forward & aft tractor beam emitters, lateral (P&S) & forward (P&S) phaser banks.
- Deck 4: antimatter injector and storage pods, warp core ejection system, planetary sensors, long-range sensors, sensor control room, launch tube (probes and beacons) control room, water storage, waste processor, atmospheric processor, aft, ventral phaser bank.
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It’s refreshing and artists of all must be appreciated and celebrated! Thank you for all the work…
You’re too kind. I appreciate the thought. It’s fun and maybe I will have more to say with some “Trek Tales” of my own in time taking place during TOS era and maybe occasionally in the shadows of established tales.
Actual construction from the ground up! Reminds me of the old Manuals from TOS.
Yes, no filler here! I’m building all the decks, compartments, walls and so forth that a small starship would require. There are so many immense starships I chose to go in the opposite direction.
I am a fan of TOS and little ships. I’ve been using my Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual for parts of this ship. Please check out my most recent upload which features a cargo transporter “built” after one depicted in the manual!
Thanks for the feedback and follow. See you “Out There”!
Really enjoying the detail on this. It feels like actually being onboard.
I’m glad to hear that this project is entertaining folks! I want for there to be a level of realism that viewers can imagine characters, or even themselves, aboard ship.
I prob mentioned I want to tell some Trek Tales on the Vortex in time. As much as I’m trying to build a ship that’s “practical” and in line with the TOS aesthetic, I’m also putting in lots of features aboard ship that will lend to good storytelling.
The more I think about it, the Vortex would make a great training vessel for cadets! Half time in the classroom the other half aboard ship!
Thanks again! :^>
Love it!!!
Thanks Jeff. I appreciate the long term support. I’m happy with the external form as well as the internal compartment arrangement that’s taken shape. I hope to pay homage to TOS aesthetic while putting my own twists for a science variant starship as well. I’m thankful for all the useful feedback from everyone. I plan to use this vessel as a vehicle for some Trek tales of my own in time. Looking forward to sharing more. Thanks again. See you “Out There”!