| abstract | - Refit Officer's Conference Lounge A, Deck One, USS Twilight NCC - 74413 Accommodation: 80 (15 Officers, 65 Enlisted Crew) Classification: Scout Frigate [Surveyor] Funding for Nova Class Development Project Provided by: Advanced Starship Design Bureau, United Federation of Planets Defense Council Development Project Started: 2363 Production Start Date: 2367 Production End Date: Still in Production Current Status: In Service Locations of Nova-Class Construction: Avondale Production Facility, Rigel II San Francisco Fleet Yards, Earth Current Starship Identification and Registration Numbers: • U.S.S. Twilight – NCC-74413 * • U.S.S. Aurora – NCC-91270* • U.S.S. Starfalcon – NCC-74613* • U.S.S. Unicorn – NCC-74106* • U.S.S. Tolkien – NCC-74625* • U.S.S. Llamrei – NCC-74109* * Starships refitted by Starfleet Intelligence Awaiting Refit:
* USS Aldrin (NCC-74407)
* USS Anticipation (NCC-74410)
* USS Binary (NCC-72454)
* USS Charribey (NCC-72399)
* USS Eclipse (NCC 95098)*
* USS Equinox (NCC-72381) [Destroyed]
* USS Everett (NCC-72392)
* USS Farrier (NCC-72415)
* USS Dyson (NCC-72411)
* USS Kepler (NCC 74412)
* U.S.S. Hubble (NCC-73708) *
* USS Lionheart (NCC-73808)
* USS Lovell (NCC 73671)
* USS Mullen (NCC-72417)
* USS Nova (NCC-73515)
* USS Pulsar (NCC-72358) *
* USS Quasar (NCC-72369)
* USS Rhode Island (NCC-72701) · USS Sagan (NCC 79831) · U.S.S. Sally Ride (NCC-73871)*
* USS Solstice (NCC-72409) 2.1 Main Bridge 2.1.1 Auxiliary Control 2.2 Main Engineering 2.3 Tactical Department 2.4 Starfleet Intelligence Field Equipment 3.1 Phasers 3.2 Torpedo Launchers 3.3 Deflector Shields 3.4 Starfleet Intelligence Installed Equipment 4.1 Computer Core 4.2 LCARS 4.3 Security Levels 4.4 Universal Translator 5.1 Warp Propulsion System 5.2 Impulse Propulsion System 5.3 Reaction Control System 5.4 Structural Integrity Field 5.5 Inertial Damping Field 6.0 Utilities and Auxiliary 6.1 Navigational Deflector 6.2 Tractor Beam 6.3 Transporter Systems 6.4 Communications 6.5 Turbolifts 6.6 Cargo Bays 7.1 Sensor Systems 7.2 Tactical Sensors 7.3 Stellar Cartography 7.4 Science Labs 9.1 Main Shuttlebay 9.2 Hanger Deck/Auxiliary Shuttlebay 9.3 Shuttlecraft 9.4 Waverider Shuttle 9.5 Valkyrie II Warp Starfighter 10.0 Nova Class Flight 10.1 Mission Types 10.2 Operating Modes 10.3 Landing Mode 10.4 Maintenance 11.0 Emergency Operations 11.1 Emergency Medical Operations 11.2 Emergency Medical Hologram 11.3 Lifeboats 11.4 Rescue and Evac Operations 11.5 Warp Core Ejection 11.6 Emergency Life Support and other back-up systems = 1.0 NOVA-CLASS INTRODUCTION = Author’s Introduction: This book has three purposes: first and foremost, as a technical aid for Star Trek writers who wish to include this very popular starship in their stories. Second, as a supplementary rulebook for players and game masters of Star Trek roleplaying and tactical games. Third and finally, for the fun and general enjoyment of all Star Trek fans! I think the publishers at Pocket Books in the offices of Simon and Schuster have completely underestimated the popularity and demand of these books for hard-core Trekies. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was 8 years old and saw the Saturday morning cartoons, then discovered the live-action reruns on WPIX TV. We kids played LARP Star Trek long before the term was invented. My eyes popped when my friend Evan Seidman was given the Enterprise 1701 blueprints for his birthday! What a stroke of genius somebody had! We quickly found every compartment of the ship, from the bridge to engineering to the arboretum (I had no idea until I was ten years old that there was a park on the Enterprise.) Naturally, we used those blueprints to recreate a cardboard version of the bridge. Then, I was given the first Star Trek Technical manual. I remember asking my dad, an electrical engineer, to build me a working communicator and tricorder. “But Dad! The schematics are right here in the book!” He had to patiently explain to me that those schematics were science fiction, and it wouldn’t actually work in the real world—not for another thirty years, anyway, when mobile phones became prevalent. It wasn’t until 1991 that a second Star Trek Technical Manual was finally published—ironically, at the behest of actress Gates McFadden who played Dr. Crusher. She wanted a general rulebook for her props, as an aid to her acting. This way she could spout techno-babble with a basic understanding of what she was trying to say. It made a crazy kind of sense, and the book was so popular, that a second technical manual for Deep Space Nine soon followed. Then, suddenly, the company simply wasn’t interested in publishing these books any longer. Why??? Didn’t Simon and Schuster like making money anymore? We fans were eagerly awaiting a technical manual for Voyager that was never officially published. We fans were left to our own devices, to self-publish our own deck plans and technical manuals on the Internet to fill the need, a gaping void that was inexplicably left behind. I therefore intend to mail a copy of this completed Nova Class technical manual to the publishers at Pocket Books, in the hope they will see the value in publishing at least a limited printing of it. Every Star Trek fan in the world can honestly tell the editors that it will certainly sell—and I’m asking everyone who reads this rough draft to call, write, and email Pocket Books, asking them to officially publish it. Heck, a fan letter-writing campaign saved the original Star Trek for a third season, and eventually brought about another four series and twelve motion pictures. A final note: when I rewrote and put this technical manual together, I deliberately included an appendix featuring the deck plans for the Nova Class, drawings that I personally reworked until I had made them my own. This was a personal touch I always felt should’ve been included in every technical manual before it. Granted, you need a magnifying glass to make out much detail, which is why you need to purchase—or download and print up—full size deck plans; but at least, they are conveniently available at the back of the book as a reference. = 1.1 MISSION OBJECTIVES = Starfleet is the United Federation of Planets’ exploration and peacekeeping force, and as such the organization’s responsibilities are many and varied. Starfleet supports a number of small ships for specific mission types, including science vessels; however, a Starfleet vessel, no matter what its primary intended purpose, must be equipped to meet each of these missions, to one degree or another. Pursuant to Federation Security Council General Policy, and Starfleet Exploration Directive 902.3, the following objectives have been established for a Nova Class Starship: 1. Provide a mobile platform for extended scientific survey and scouting missions. 2. Replace the Oberth for system and planetary survey missions. 3. Provide autonomous capability for full execution of Federation defensive, cultural, scientific, and explorative policy in deep space or border territory. 4. Serve as a frontline support vehicle during emergencies and a mobile platform for the extension of Federation diplomacy and policy. 5. Provide non-critical functions such as transport of personnel and cargo when necessary, extended aid, and short-range patrol. 6. CLASSIFIED – Specific vessels are under the authority of Starfleet Intelligence, and occasionally undertake secret espionage missions into enemy territory. A science vessel was deemed to be the perfect cover for sending a lightly-armed starship alone into foreign space. She is equipped with sensor-jammers to protect classified equipment, while other areas reveal that she is on a routine scientific survey mission. Adm. Nyota Uhura, director Starfleet Intelligence
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