Protostar class

Protostar class
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Type:	experimental starship
Service period	2380s
Dimensions
Length:	at least 200 meters
Specifications
Maximum speed:	protostar warp velocity
Cruising speed:	warp factor 9
Systems:	protostar drive
Auxiliary craft:	Federation shuttlecraft, Runaway rover

The Protostar class represented by the USS Protostar was a 24th century Federation starship class, an experimental vessel in Starfleet service in the 2380s decade. (PRD episode: "Lost and Found")

Technical specifications

Armaments

Dorsal phaser beam array.

Phaser beam arrays were installed on the ship's saucer section. Ships of the class were equipped with deflector shields whose shield bubble formed close the ship's hull. (PRD episode: "Lost and Found")

The tactical array allowed auto-_targeting at the push of a button. (PRD episode: "Starstruck")

Projectile weapons included at least one torpedo launcher loaded with photon torpedos. (PRD episode: "Dream Catcher")

Propulsion

A ship of this class was equipped with an impulse engine and two warp cores. (PRD episode: "Starstruck")

It would accelerate to a warp factor of 9. The protostar drive outpaced warp. At protostar warp, a ship could cross 4.000 lightyears in an incredibly short amount of time. (PRD episode: "Terror Firma")

The protostar engine had to be engaged in order to perform a jump. (PRD episode: "A Moral Star")

Systems

The vehicle replicator allowed for the swift construction of auxiliary vessels. (PRD episode: "Lost and Found")

A holodeck was included. (PRD episode: "Kobayashi")

The transporter allowed instantaneous matter transport. In 2383, the Unwanted discovered this system and used it to beam a piece of pecan pie across 200 meters inside the ship. (PRD episode: "First Con-tact")

History

The prototype of this class, the USS Protostar (NX-76884) was dispatched by Starfleet on a mission to the Delta Quadrant. (PRD episode: "First Con-tact")

Following first contact between the Federation and the Vau N'Akat, the people of Solum descended into a civil war and devastated their planet. The Diviner held the Federation responsible. In the 25th century, he captured the Protostar and wanted to use it to infect Starfleet's systems with a destructive agent. However, both the Diviner and the Protostar stranded at Tars Lamora sometime in the 2360s. (PRD episode: "A Moral Star")

The Unwanted, prisoners of Tars Lamora, escaped with the Diviner's daughter Gwyn aboard the Protostar in 2383. (PRD episode: "Lost and Found")

At the time, Starfleet had dispatched the USS Dauntless to search for the missing Protostar. In 2384, the Dauntless detected the protostar signature. (PRD episode: "A Moral Star")

In 2385, shortly after the Attack on Mars, the new Protostar-class ship, the USS Prodigy, was completed. However, Starfleet was going to decommission it due to the attack causing their focus to shift from exploration to defense. Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway instead had the Prodigy turned into a cadet ship in a pilot program under her authority and staffed it with the young former crew of the Protostar as well as Maj'el. Janeway also installed the Protostar's Emergency Training Hologram, Hologram Janeway, who was upgraded to be the Prodigy's Emergency Command Hologram. (PRD episode: "Ouroboros")

Known vessels

• USS Protostar (NX-76884)
• USS Prodigy (NCC-81084)

Appendices

External link

• Protostar class article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.