Guide:Columbia

Columbia
Class Overview
Category	explorer
Operational	2151-2161
Constructed	Total: 16
Dimensions
Length	225.1 m
Beam	132.6 m
Height	33.1 m
Mass	Original 262,700 tons 2153 weapons upgrade 263,400 tons NX-02 onwards 263,100 tons
Performance
Cruise Speed	w 3
Max Speed	w 5.0
Endurance	4 years
Complement
Officers	23
Enlisted	Original 57 NX-02 onwards 73 Romulan War standard 182
Tactical Systems
Beam Weapons	Original 2x plasma cannon (6.0 GW) (dorsal hull) 2x plasma cannon (6.0 GW) (ventral hull) 2x plasma cannon (6.0 GW) (dorsal booms) 2x plasma cannon (6.0 GW) (ventral booms) 2x plasma cannon (4.0 GW) (fwd primary hull w/ dorsal and ventral gunports) 2153 weapons upgrade 2x plasma cannon (6.0 GW) (dorsal primary hull) 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (ventral hull) 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (dorsal booms) 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (ventral booms) 2 Type B phased particle cannon (200 GW) (fwd primary hull w/ dorsal and ventral gunports) NX-02 onwards 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (dorsal hull) 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (ventral hull) 2x Type A phased particle cannon (500 GW) (ventral booms) 4x Type B phased particle cannon (200 GW) (fwd hull w/ dorsal and ventral gunports)
Missile Weapons	Original 4x fwd missile tubes (w/80 fusion, KE or antimatter missiles) (ventral hull) 2x aft missile tubes (w/40 fusion, KE or antimatter missiles) (ventral hull) 2153 weapons upgrade 4x fwd missile tubes (w/40 fusion missiles) (ventral hull) 2x fwd torpedo tubes (w/30 photonic torpedoes) (ventral hull) 2x aft missile tubes (w/20 fusion missiles) (ventral primary hull) 1x aft torpedo tube (w/5 photonic torpedoes) (field stabilizer pod) NX-02 onwards 2x fwd torpedo tubes (w/40 photonic torpedoes) (dorsal hull) 2x fwd torpedo tubes (w/40 photonic torpedoes) (ventral hull) 1x aft torpedo tube (w/10 photonic torpedoes) (ventral hull)
Shields	Polarizable armor on hull and nacelles (original) 1-layer subspace/graviton forcefield bubble (refit 2156) Navigational deflector at bow (original)
Laboratories	2 GP 1 astrophysics 1 planetary sciences 1 medical
Transporters	1 GP (1-pad); Mk I (original) 1 GP (3-pad); Mk I (2159 refit)
Auxiliary Craft	2-4 transatmospheric shuttlepods 4 spatial pods
Historical
Ships of Note	Atlantis (NX-05*) Columbia (NX-02) Challenger (NX-03*) Constellation Constitution Discovery (NX-04*) Endeavour (NX-06) Enterprise (NX-01) Florida (NX-10*) Lexington Union * presumed
Canonicity
Design	ENT
Name	ENT
History	ENT (Christopher Bennett, Michael A. Martin, ‘ST:ENT Romulan War’ series)

The Endeavour undergoing the final stages of refitting, portraying her new secondary hull to advantage. Its forward part houses the new power generation functions, while the doors to the aft cargo spaces are clearly visible here, as are the three structures connecting the pod to the preexisting spaceframe.

The Endeavour lights up nebular gases in a demonstration of the poor integration of her warp fields with the Andorian shield bubble. A string of wormhole mishaps in the sixties would result from the failure to understand the finesses of duonetic modeling – while data from survivable incidents would improve that understanding, allowing Starfleet to confront the next hurdle in the path to proper warp theory. The Endeavour never challenged the Ishakawa-Dell barrier, let alone the Tyme one; if the later Columbias did, nothing was learned from it at this stage yet.

Notes

• The initial Enterprise article was updated by Timo, and the Columbia subclass was broken out as its own. Serious attempts were made to update all related information elsewhere in this game canon, but any discrepancies may originate with this attempt to update the material.

Gallery

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  Columbia class (bow view)
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  Dorsal
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  Stern
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  Ventral
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  Columbia class (forward dorsal view)
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  Columbia class (forward ventral view)
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  Columbia class (stern dorsal view)
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  Construction in progress
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  Nearing completion
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  Abaft the starboard beam
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  Columbia class departing Earth orbit

References

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• Back to "Into The Romulan War"
• Appendix A: Of Ship Statistics
• Appendix B: Glossary
• Appendix C: Starfleet Organization - General Outline
• Appendix D: Abbreviations From Outside