| Intrepid |
 |
| First introduced around 2370, the Intrepid-class is among the fastest starships of the fleet. It features bionerual computer components and a variable geometry warp field which is accomplished with folding warp pylons. While teh ship's general structure is unusually consistent (as Voyager is "Rick Sternbach's Pride"), there are several questions why the angle of the alleged variable warp geometry nacelles is always the same at warp, whether there is a captain's yacht ("aerowing") on the saucer underside, why the only shuttlebay is called "shuttlebay two" and, last but not least, where all those shuttles come from. The Intrepid has an auxiliary craft, the aeroshuttle, docekd to the saucer bottom. We may make up several explanations why it never showed up in Voyager. In a Star Trek: The Magazine article, Rick Sternbach suggests that the aeroshuttle may not yet have been installed when Voyager departed for the Badlands. Although it is not written in stone, Rick Sternbach says that the Intrepid's registry is NCC-74600. |