Intrepid class (32nd century)

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The Intrepid-class was a type of Federation starship operated by Starfleet during the 31st century into the 33rd century.

History[]

In 3069, this class saw the loss of at least three of its ships to The Burn. Ships with active warp cores were destroyed when their dilithium became inert, resulting in antimatter explosions. (DIS: "People of Earth")

In 3189, the fleet at Federation Headquarters included the USS Voyager-J, a ship of this class. The collective energy of this fleet sustained a distortion field that concealed the headquarters' location. (DIS: "Die Trying")

In 3190, four starships of this class were in orbit of Earth during the President of United Earth's visit to Federation Headquarters. (DIS: "Coming Home")

In the 33rd century, two starships of this class participated in a ceremonial honor-formation at Federation Headquarters for the launch of Zora and the USS Discovery's Red Directive mission. (DIS: "Life, Itself")

Ships commissioned[]

Named

• USS Voyager (NCC-74656-J)

Unnamed

• Unnamed Intrepid class starships

Appendices[]

Appearances[]

Background information[]

Intrepid-class with onscreen designation…

…and as seen on "Die Trying" publicity artwork

TrekCore reported that CBS confirmed this design to have "the same class designation as Captain Janeway's Voyager, but with eight hundred years of evolution beneath the hull." [1] An early reveal of the full shape showing the disconnected warp nacelles and an early surface texture was used in promotional artwork on social media. [2]

The 32nd century Intrepid-class was designed by Ryan Dening, acting on a brief with a specific request from Alex Kurtzman: "Let's do an advanced version of Voyager." Dening started with Star Trek: Voyager promotional shots, and offered two designs to the producers, including the design that would eventually be accepted. Dening's design included sharper corners, a ventral shuttlebay, and detached nacelles that could potentially latch on to the engineering hull. (Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection Issue 13, pp. 8-14)

Concept art of the Intrepid-class and two other contemporaries…

…and its appearance on/in its own magazine outing

The Intrepid-class received its own individual outing in Eaglemoss Collections' Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection display model/magazine partwork publication as issue 13.

The CG model for the Eaglemoss publication was constructed by the company's mainstay Fabio Passaro, who re-rendered the production model constructed at Pixomondo from the Autodesk Maya software into the LightWave 3D software format (Eaglemoss' software package of choice) in order to make it print publication ready, aside from additionally converting it into the CAD files needed for display model manufacturing.

Apocrypha[]

Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection suggested the class was launched in the 32nd century and had a length of 452.95 meters, though ships of this class were present at the Burn in the 31st century.

In Star Trek Online, this class of ship is called the Janeway-class (β).

Further reading[]

• Star Trek Universe: The Official Starships Collection, issue 13, February 2022

External link[]

• Janeway class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works