Steamrunner class

A Steamrunner at the Battle of Sector 001.
Type:	Light cruiser
Length:	244 meters
Beam:	179 meters
Draft:	41 meters
Mass:	585,000 metric tons
Crew:	228
Maximum Speed:	Warp 9.7 (12 hours max)
Armament:	4+ phaser arrays, 2+ photon torpedo launchers
Defenses:	Deflector shields, ablative hull armor

The Steamrunner class was a type of starship in service with the Federation Starfleet in the late 24th century.

Ships of this class saw action at the Battle of Sector 001 in 2373, where several were lost. Several other Steamrunner class starships were involved in the Dominion War, and participated in Operation Return in 2374 and the second Battle of Chin'toka in 2375. Several ships of the class were stationed near Deep Space 9 during the war.

The Steamrunner class starship was designed by Alex Jaeger at ILM, and was named Streamrunner initially, after a song by the band Fold Zandura. It was rendered as a computer-generated visual effect.

Ships commissioned

Named

• USS Appalachia (NCC-52136)
• USS Hiroshima

Unnamed

• Unnamed Steamrunner class starships

Appearances

• Star Trek Movies:
  • Star Trek: First Contact
• DS9:
  • "Call to Arms"
  • "Favor the Bold"
  • "Sacrifice of Angels"
  • "Statistical Probabilities"
  • "The Magnificent Ferengi"
  • "Tears of the Prophets"
  • "Afterimage"
  • "Field of Fire"
  • "The Changing Face of Evil"
  • "What You Leave Behind"
• VOY:
  • "Relativity"
  • "Endgame"

Apocrypha

• The Steamrunner appeared in Activision's "Star Trek Armada" and "Star Trek Armada 2" as a long-range artillery ship.