2238

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Historical Events

  • USS Justice (NCC-227, Drexler frigate) began a training mission.[1]
  • Construction begins on the first Aholi subclass (of the Ariadne) reconnaissance corvette.[2]
The years of production are mostly conjecture.
  • The Babel Conference of 2238 is the last to be held on Earth.[3]
  • The surviving Lincoln class frigates, with USS San Francisco as the first, are decommissioned and transferred to the Federation Customs Service.[4]
  • USS Glasgow (NCC-1414, Baton Rouge class) is the first vessel to be refitted with an operational dilithium regulation engine.[5]
  • The Ashanti class battle cruiser enters service with Star Fleet.[6]
  • Councilman Saldran of Rigel IV continues a campaign of Star Fleet black-painting and doomsday predictions.[7]
  • USS Albert Cushing Read (Byrd class galactic survey cruiser) departs on her 25-year voyage.[8]
  • Prototype USS Sawyer (NCC-810/I810) light scout is commissioned into the service of Star Fleet.[9]
A few months after extensive flight testing, fourteen armed versions are ordered.
  • Dilithium-regulated antimatter reactors had been substituted for the original 4:1 m/am spicing, compression fusion powerplants on the Project Starship prototypes.[10]
  • Project Quarterback is redrawn into a mighty battle cruiser, utilizing the PB-30 propulsion and power system of Project Starship with a tremendous weapons suite.[12]
  • May: Construction begins on USS Constitution.[10]
  • USS Constellation is re-activated into Star Fleet service with prototype registry NX-1017.[10]
  • Star Fleet issues a design order to Salazar for a high endurance, deep space survey and surveillance type for the needs of the intelligence community, replacing the Hale class and emphasizing affordability over the technological ambitions that had hobbled the earlier program.[13]
  • Star Fleet determines the strategic need for fifty to seventy antimatter-powered deep space escort vessels.[14]
  • December: USS Pyotr Velikiy (NX-1670) is flight-tested at warp speeds with temporary ‘Merlin II’ nacelles and power from its fusion reactor alone.[15]

New Technology


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