The USS Spirit (NX-79995) was prototype Spirit-class Federation starship, launched in 2378 as a test-bed for Starfleet's experimental quantum slipstream drive. It was commanded by Captain Rademaker. (Ships of the Line 2009)
The Spirit was one-hundred-and-ten meters long, fifty-eight meters across and twenty-four meters tall, with five decks. Its crew complement was between 12 and 30, depending on mission type. Its bridge is located on deck two, and its shuttlebay housed one shuttlecraft and a single work bee. The Spirit was equipped with an extensive sensor suite, housed in its sensor pod, for collecting slipstream data. The vessel was armed with four torpedo launchers and eight rapid fire pulse phaser emitters, along with five standard phaser arrays.
The success of the Spirit project led to the new Vesta-class starships being equipped with slipstream drive. The second Spirit-class vessel, the USS Amsterdam was launched shortly thereafter, designated as a corvette and assigned as a medical transport. (designer's notes)
External links[]
- USS Spirit (NX-79995) article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.