- 1 - Hvjef!up!uif!Lmjohpo!Gmffu! Selected Starships and Small Craft – 2300-2301 by Richard E. Mandel - 2 - Manuscript copyright © 2007 by Richard E. Mandel STAR TREK, its on-screen derivatives, and all associated materials are the property of CBS Paramount. Multiple references in this document are given under the terms of fair use with regard to international copyright and trademark law. This is a free scholarly reference work intended to explain the background and historical aspects of STAR TREK and its spacecraft technology and is not sponsored, approved, or authorized by CBS Paramount and its affiliated licensees. All visual materials included herein are protected by either implied or statutory copyright and are reproduced either with the permission of the copyright holder or under the terms of fair use as defined under current international copyright law. Mastercom/SFHQ catalog number RS:905802 - 3 - For Neale … - 4 - Might does not make right. Might makes an empire. Might builds it, solidifies it, reinforces and protects it. Without might no empire can last. It will either fall to its enemies or rot from within. Might made this Empire. Might will ensure that it lasts. Unless we are willing to bring that might down upon the necks of our enemies, and strike them without mercy, then we are not worthy to wield it. Without the willing and deliberate exercise of our might this Empire will surely fall. – Chancellor Kessa War Address to the Klingon High Council prior to the Organian Incursion (2267) - 5 - Table of Contents Preface 15 Fleet Transports Foreward 16 Fleet Auxiliaries State of the Klingon Fleet 17 Selected Shuttlecraft and Small Craft Klingon Hull Types 18 Other Klingon Starship Designs 1 Battleships 19 The Future of the Klingon Fleet 2 Pocket Battleships Appendices 3 Dreadnoughts Klingon Shipyards and Ordinance Manufacturers 4 Shuttlecarriers Glossary of Terms 5 Heavy Cruisers Afterword 6 Battlecruisers 7 Other Cruisers 8 Assault Ships 9 Destroyers 10 Frigates 11 Scouts 12 Escorts 13 Monitors 14 Patrol Craft - 6 - Foreward This one hundred and sixth edition of Guide to the Klingon Fleet comes “authorized,” indicating a vessel that has been authorized but has not at a time when its subject matter is in something of a state of flux. In order actually begun construction. BUILDING indicates a vessel that is under to match Starfleet’s linear warp upgrade program the Klingons have construction. ACTIVE indicates a vessel that is in service and has been likewise begun to upgrade the rest of their own fleet. Per standard Klingon detected in action within the past year. LOST is obvious, with confirmed fleet practice the best of their older ship classes are being upgraded with wreckage from the ship having been spotted or recovered by the Klingons, the latest in technology. At the same several new ship types have been Starfleet, or some other reputable agency; or for a vessel that the Klingons added to the ranks of Klingon forces. The impact of the trade protocols of have admitted that they are unable to locate or find any trace thereof. the Treaty of S’marba continues to make itself felt with certain of these new SOLD-X indicates a vessel has been sold and is now in their service of types, as well as with Klingon fleet operations. The excellent B’rel class interstellar power “X.” Likewise, CAPT-X indicates a vessel that has been escort, which was derived in part from a Romulan design, may be the seized as a war prize and returned to service by interstellar power “X.” ??? forerunner of a whole new generation of Klingon starship designs to come. is for a vessel that was identified but whose current status remains All of this and more is designed to match the Federation ship for ship in its unknown. recent upsizing of Starfleet, not to mention any other unknown foes along Unlike Starfleet vessels, Klingon starships have no distinctive class the far borders of Klingon controlled space. At the rate the Klingon fleet is breakdowns or build group emblem. All hulls bear standard Klingon growing this may very well be the last edition of Guide to the Klingon Fleet markings and nomenclature. Recently, though, some differentiation in paint that contains all of its data within a single volume. schemes has been spotted. This seems to follow the pattern of the Klingon Like the preceeding volume, Federation Fleet Review, the information in House that owns or operates the vessel in question. The only time this has this work is organized to enable the reader to quickly locate the data happened before in all the history of the Federation’s dealing with the desired. The individual vessel listings (when known) appear in chart form. Klingon Empire was with several rogue Houses in the years following the Included with each listing are its hull number, name, date existence was Organian Conflict. We have chosen to refrain from duplicating these verified, current status, and any other information peculiar to a given vessel. schemes in this issue due to lack of data. We intend to incorporate this The reader must bear in mind that all data on Klingon activity is gained into a future edition or color supplement, once the extent of these new second-hand, either through overt or covert intelligence. While we make paint schemes and their origins is more fully understood. every effort to be as accurate as possible we are necessarily limited by the amount and quality of Klingon intelligence data that Starfleet has been able to glean in its operations. Richard E. Mandel We have endeavored to follow the general system of presentation used in Federation Fleet Review. GMT (gross metric tonnage) is a measure of the actual physical mass of a starship. This is the mass measurement normally used by Starfleet Intelligence. DWT (deadweight metric tonnage) measures the mass of a starship in subspace as opposed to its true mass in normal space. Deadweight tonnage is the mass measurement used on an operational basis by Starfleet and likewise in most public and civilian publications. Commentary is provided regarding a specific vessel within a given class. Current status is fairly straightforward. AUTH. Is short for - 7 - State of the Klingon Fleet Klingon name for the Karsid), a race of powerful aliens who saw Q’o’nos as yet another trophy in their growing interstellar empire. They slaughtered all Klingons who opposed them and looted Q’o’nos and its sister worlds. They moved on, so one account of the legend goes, only when there was nothing left of value. As those Klingons who survived crawled out of the ruins or returned from the hills, they swore as a culture that such a thing would never again happen to them. Thus was born the Fortress Doctrine that has been a part of Imperial military doctrine ever since the earliest days of the Empire. As the Empire expanded, it fortified its holdings. As new conquests were added, older ones were reinforced. Layer upon reinforced layer was built up over centuries, so that by the 23rd century one might describe the Klingon Empire as a concentric set of armed barriers, each more formidable than the last, until one reached the heaviest armed and most protected defenses located in and around the Klingon home and inner systems. It was a tactic guaranteed to slow, if not eventually stop, any attempt at armed invasion. What it did not foresee, what it could not have anticipated, was that the Empire’s fortified heart would be gutted from within by a single, massive stroke of disastrous consequences. Thus the Praxis explosion of 2293 did what no would-be invader since the Hur’q’ The end of the 23rd century, Terran Gregorian calendar, finds the Klingon had done: it brought the Klingon Empre to its knees. With the ecosystem Empire still in the process of rebuilding its internal infrastructure from the of Q’o’nos in shambles, not to mention those of three dozen other major Praxis explosion of 2293. Seven years have passed since that event, yet Imperial inner systems; with the heart of its Imperial infrastructure in ruins the Klingon Imperial Fleet remains hamstrung by its consequences. It has and its ability to defend itself compromised, it is small wonder that the been estimated that the Empire lost 85% of its starship building capacity, Klingons acted as they did and turned to the Federation for help. Starfleet 73% of its repair and upgrade capability, and almost 64% of its starship had been a deadly enemy, yes, but always an honorable one. The same support services infrastructure as a direct result of the Praxis explosion. It is could not be said of the Empire’s many other foes. Peace with the small wonder then that the expansion and modernization of the Klingon Federation would give the Empire the time it so desperately needed to fleet, which once set the standard for known space, has all but stopped. rebuild, while it committed its remaining resources towards holding its Production of new classes is extremely limited due to lack of sufficient yard other borders no matter what the cost. availability. Likewise, the once-vaunted Klingon starship modernization The year 2300 still finds the Imperial Klingon Fleet a force to be program has practically slowed to a crawl. reckoned with, with powerful starships of every class and type. The one The fault for this state of affairs lies in the deep-rooted tradition of thing it lacks – indeed, the one thing that always made it the terror of the paranoia that has been part of the Klingon psyche for centuries.