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U.S.S.VOYAGER NCC-74656
SPECIFICATION
REGISTRY: NCC-74656
LAUNCHED: 2371
DECKS: 15
CREW: 141
NCC-74656
NCC-
Voyager was lost in the Delta Quadrant, 70,000 light
years from Earth, and made an epic journey home
SHIP PROFILE
T
he U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 was only the a species known as the Ocampa but, by doing
second Intrepid-class starship built. At 1,130 so, she stranded both Voyager and the Maquis
feet long, a mass of 1.5 million metric tons, vessel in the Delta Quadrant 70,000 light years
with 15 decks and a normal crew compliment of from home. Both crews, which had suffered serious
141, Voyager was much smaller than Galaxy-class casualties, joined forces aboard Voyager to
vessels but was far more maneuverable than embark on the 70-year journey back to Earth.
larger ships in the fleet. Voyager was designed as a multi-mission
On the ship’s first mission – locating and exploration vessel that would be supported
capturing a Maquis vessel that had disappeared by regular visits to Starbases, and, although
in the Badlands – both Voyager and the Maquis she represented the cutting edge of Starfleet
ship were swept across the Galaxy and deep into technology, she was far from the ideal vessel for
the Delta Quadrant by an alien known as the such a massive journey. She had a normal cruising
Caretaker. Captain Kathryn Janeway opted to speed of warp 6 and a sustainable cruise velocity
destroy the Caretaker’s array to help protect of warp 9. If necessary she could maintain a top
speed of warp 9.975 for up to 12 hours. This meant
she could cover approximately 1,000 light years
every 12 months. She was built to carry enough
fuel (antimatter and deuterium) for roughly three
years of continuous space operation so from the
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p Voyager used a beginning it was clear that the crew would have raising children during the 70 years it would take
number of advanced to modify their ship. for them to return home.
technologies to make the
70,000 light year
Systems were re-routed to conserve as much The most serious casualties involved the loss
journey to Earth in a power as possible. In particular the use of of the ship’s entire medical staff. Fortunately,
relatively short period of replicators was severely restricted. The captain’s Voyager’s state-of-the-art sickbay incorporated
time. They used a
private dining room was removed and replaced advanced holographic systems that generated
graviton catapult to cut
three years off the with a galley that provided the crew with freshly an Emergency Medical Hologram. The EMH,
journey and completed cooked meals using vegetables grown in the which was programmed with the experience of
the last leg using Borg hydroponics garden, which had been established 47 doctors, was left active and developed an
transwarp conduits.
in the cargo bays. The mess hall doubled as a unexpected level of independence.
reception area for diplomatic events and was also Unwilling to accept that the journey would take
used by crewmembers as a rec room. To further let generations, the crew worked on several engine
the crew relax, they were able to use Voyager’s projects using the ship’s holodecks for extensive
two holodecks, albeit on a strictly rationed basis. flight simulations vital to the development of the
Crew quarters were also affected by the ground-breaking warp 10 engines that were tested
modifications. Voyager had never been intended on the Cochrane shuttle. In 2375, Voyager itself
to accommodate families, so quarters located on was equipped with a quantum slipstream drive,
decks 3 through 6 were modified to enable crew which enabled it to travel 300 light years closer to
members to have the option of marrying and Earth within a short space of time. Both methods of
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SHIP PROFILE
t Voyager’s shuttlebay
was located at the rear of the
main hull. The ship carried
a variety of Class-2 and
Class-6 shuttles, all of which
were warp capable. The
shuttles were regularly sent
on reconnaissance and
diplomatic missions.
t In emergencies Voyager
could eject the warp core from
a hatch in the underside of the
main hull. Assuming the core
did not detonate it could be
retrieved, repaired and
reinstalled in the ship.
propulsion were, however, ultimately deemed to and messages to and from their loved ones p The Captain’s ready
be too unstable. back home in the form of monthly data streams. room was located on
Deck 1 to the port of the
The crew also used Borg technology to With the help of the Pathfinder project and the main bridge. It provided
update Voyager’s astrometrics laboratory and destruction of a Borg transwarp hub, used to Captain Janeway with
enhance the ship’s navigational sensors. The deploy vessels anywhere in the quadrant within a working area where
she could perform her
new astrometric sensors measured the radiative a matter of minutes, Voyager was finally able to
administrative duties and
flux of up to three billion stars simultaneously. The return to Earth a mere seven years after the crew talk to crew members.
upgraded system allowed the crew to plot a was stranded in the Delta Quadrant.
new course home that shaved five years off their
original projected journey. DATA FEED
After initially assuming the ship to have been
The U.S.S. Voyager was commanded by Captain
lost, Starfleet learned of Voyager’s fate. A Starfleet Kathryn Janeway who assumed control of the ship
project named Pathfinder was quickly put in as soon as it was launched. The crew was trapped
place, with the aim of making contact with the in the Delta Quadrant on the ship’s first mission, and
ship through a Federation communications array, she decided it was more important to protect the
known as MIDAS, and via a micro wormhole and Ocampa than to get home. Under her command
Voyager made the journey to Earth in a tenth of the
the Hirogen communications network.
time that was expected and on her return she was
From 2377 onwards the crew was able to send promoted to Admiral.
and receive orders and instructions from Starfleet
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SHIP PROFILE NCC-74656 HIDDEN FEATURE
DATA FEED
Like the Captain’s yacht on the Enterprise-D before
it, Voyager’s AeroShuttle was always part of the
ship’s design but never actually appeared on screen,
although this launch sequence was worked out by
the show’s visual effects team.
VOYAGER’s AeroShuttle
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ntrepid-class starships were fitted with reconnaissance missions, planetary
an autonomous medium-range landings and crew evacuation. It was
vessel, known as the AeroShuttle, considerably larger than a standard
which was normally docked on the shuttle and was suitable for extended
underside of the saucer section. The missions. It was warp capable, and the
AeroShuttle, which was designed to warp core ran down the spine of the
operate within a planet’s atmosphere, ship, with a single racetrack dilithium
was closely related to the Danube-class swirl chamber positioned roughly in the
runabout, and they were based on the middle that fed the twin warp nacelles.
same hull design. The warp core also provided power to p The AeroShuttle was closely related to the
Danube-class runabout but the addition of wings
The AeroShuttle was a multi-mission the defensive shields, the navigational made it more suited to atmospheric operations.
vessel that was intended for long-range deflector and four pairs of Type VI
3 Independent operation
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Shuttlebay
PLANETARY LANDING
Unlike most large Starfleet vessels, Voyager was
designed to land on a planet’s surface. The
landing procedure starts with the Chief
Engineer taking the warp core offline and
venting plasma from the nacelles. The Conn
officer then brings the landing mechanisms
online and sets the inertial dampeners and
structural integrity fields to maximum. The Ops
officer monitors for any EM discharges. On the
final stage of approach the four landing struts
are deployed and immediately before
touchdown the structural integrity field is
adjusted to match planetary gravity. After
landing, the engines are disengaged and the
thruster exhaust is secured.
Phaser array
COMPUTERS
Voyager was fitted
with state-of-the-art
computers that
used bio-neural gel
packs. These organic
Auxiliary deflector components could
make extremely fast
calculations but were
vulnerable to disease.
UPGRADES
Voyager completed the
journey to Earth with the
help of technology that
a version of Janeway
brought back from the
future. The technology,
included advanced
Sensor palettes armor and transphasic
torpedoes that were a
match for the Borg.
Main navigational deflector
q Rick Sternbach’s design for
the “almost Voyager.” A version
of the ship that came incredibly
close to appearing on screen.
DESIGNING THE
U.S.S. VOYAGER
The design for the U.S.S. Voyager drew inspiration from a killer whale,
a Starfleet runabout and a sleek and curvy car.
W
hen work first started on STAR array, or the navigational defector.
TREK: VOYAGER very little was Rather than wait for any more details,
known about the ship. The Sternbach, immediately got to work on
only things that concept designer, preliminary sketches using his design for
Rick Sternbach knew for certain were the runabout as well as conventional
that the producers wanted the new Starfleet vessels with the traditional
design to be much smaller than the saucer sections and engineering hulls
Enterprise-D and that it would have as references. He also looked to nature,
the ability to land and take off from knowing that in the past birds and
a planetary surface. marine animals had provided the
“This was a real departure from the inspiration for some of the most
norm,” recalls Sternbach. As a result, successful ship designs.
many of his early design sketches
featured swept down nacelles like the ORGANIC DESIGN
runabout that could support the ship “Voyager began in embryonic form by
when it had landed. taking on the characteristics of an Orca
Throughout the design process Sternbach
The producers also wanted some part whale, a Manta Ray and various birds,”
experimented with computer-generated sketches that
of the ship to animate or articulate. This recalls Sternbach. “Those biological allowed him to look at his designs from a variety of
could be the nacelles, the weapons shapes were then hardened into a different angles.
DESIGNING THE SHIP
FAMILIAR ELEMENTS
“Many of the eventual design elements
such as the dropped nacelles, the fin
[which would later disappear] and the
extended arrow-shaped saucer section
got worked out at this stage as well as
the placement of familiar items like the
impulse engines and phaser array”
spacecraft structure that echoed some which from past experience I knew explains Sternbach. “Also because
of the Starfleet designs that already would most likely be built into the Voyager itself was going to be so much
existed. Preliminary functions, like standing set.” smaller than previous ships, structures
radiators or exotic warp stabilizers were One approach stood out in like the windows had to be made
then added. Continuing to follow the Sternbach’s early sketches: a proportionately larger and visible and
Starfleet standard, the bridge was then streamlined dart-like primary hull, which the design required more model details
located on Deck 1 at the top of the ship was matched to a flattened, elongated in order to match the stage sets which
while a variety of ‘placeholder’ crew engineering hull with swept-back of course influenced various aspects of
windows were dotted about the hull, runabout pylons. Over time, the the design.”
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At this stage, preliminary hull cross give the producers an idea of what though this idea would be abandoned
sections were drawn in blue pencil to could be achieved and could serve at a later stage. The art team also
check different internal deck heights, as a starting point for discussions about experimented with the idea that doors
the total number of decks and the what they liked or disliked or wanted on the nacelles would open to expose
overall length of the ship. changed. the warp coils for some new kind of
“In the past, many Starfleet ships energy jump. Impulse thrusters were
seemed to have 13 feet between VOYAGER EVOLVES buried underneath as in the runabout,
decks, an idea partially driven by set “During those discussions, the producers and a large triangular wedge sat on
wall heights and the idea that there was decided they were keen on the design top of the ship, which would possibly
a two-foot structural thickness made of which featured a more streamlined dart act as an AWACS-type of long range
deck plating, gravity generators and shaped saucer section and they then sensor array, or even some kind of
various conduits,” Sternbach says. requested it be used for the next phase detachable ship such as the captain’s
“So at this stage of the design process, of the process.” Around this time the yacht or a scout vessel.
Voyager could have been anywhere slightly angular dart front was smoothed As work continued Sternbach
between 500 to 1,200 feet long, which in off and nestled into the engineering produced an alternate version featuring
comparison to the Enterprise-D at 2,108 section. At this point it was still assumed a sleeker looking ship, which did away
feet was tiny.” that the two hulls would separate in the with the AWACS wedge and also
same way they did on the Enterprise-D, combined some shape ideas from the
MOVING PARTS
Recalling the producers’ desire for the q Several versions of the design
ship to have an obvious moving part, featured an AWACS style pod on the
top, that could have been either a
Sternbach played around with various sensor palette or a separate vessel.
ideas before settling on the nacelles as
the most obvious choice. He then
experimented with a view to making
the warp nacelles swing from a curved
down position up in to a horizontal
position whenever the ship went into
warp flight.
That first batch of hull designs was
assembled into a booklet in order to
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U.S.S. Excelsior. As work continued more
The study model
details crept in, notably the large that was built from
forward sensor cut out and a stepped Sternbach’s drawings
and nearly approved.
engineering hull that supported a ring of
As the producers looked
large cargo bays and impulse engines. at it in detail they
Sternbach then submitted the sketches decided that their new
to the producers. “The wedgeless and ship needed one more
pass so they asked the
sleeker version was the one that
art department to blend
received a thumbs up” the shapes together to
make the ship curvier.
SHIP THAT NEVER WAS
At this point, everyone thought that they
had established the final look of
Voyager, and a study model was built. A
top plan view of the ship was scaled up
to a length of 48 inches – the presumed
size of the motion control model at that only stage left to the design process was
time. From the top view, Sternbach to produce a final set of modelmaker’s
derived bottom, side, fore and aft views blueprints but at the last moment the
and worked out that the ship would producers had a final request – they
have at least 14 decks and be at least wanted the ship to have a "curvier
1,000 feet long. Details such as photon shape, like a Lexus". Sternbach went
torpedo launchers, impulse reactors back to the drawing board and
and the warp core were dropped produced a revised version of his design
inside, while on the exterior, two doors that not only blended the shapes
were added forward of the warp core together but also altered the position of
hatch and aft of the deflector dish the nacelles, which now started
allowing for landing gear so the ship horizontal and swept up when the ship
could touch down on a planet. went to warp. Nearly a year after he
Sternbach also sketched in a hint of had produced his first sketches, Voyager
engine hardware on the exterior. The was finally ready to take flight.
Sternbach’s revised
and all-but final
design. After this, he
produced a series of
close-up sketches for
Tony Meininger’s Brazil
Fabrications who made
the shooting model.
Final details were
worked out during the
modelmaking process.
FILMING THE
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FILMING THE SHIP
F
rom the very beginning there were a lot of The two CG companies used different software
U.S.S. Voyagers. For the first time ever, the to create their effects, with Santa Barbara Studios
decision was made to create both physical using a unique system that could handle gaseous
and digital versions of the ship that would be used clouds, but this meant that nobody else could
on a regular basis. The first version of Voyager use their version of the model. At the end of the
to be built was the physical model, which was second season Amblin’s CG version of the model
constructed by Tony Meininger’s Brazil Fabrication, was handed over to Foundation Imaging, who
who worked from sketches produced by Rick were now sharing the show’s effects with Digital
Sternbach. This physical model was 61 inches long Muse, and the Santa Barbara Studios CG version
and included tiny film cells with photographs of was also retired.
the real sets in the windows. One of the Foundation supervisors, Rob
The physical model was then supplied to two Bonchune, was horrified to discover that,
different CGI companies, Amblin Imaging and presumably due to some kind of corruption, the
Santa Barbara Studios, both of which scanned the textures on the CG model had a definite purple
ship in 3D and created shots for the opening title tint to them. He went through the ship correcting
sequence. Inevitably there were subtle differences the colors so they matched the practical model.
between the two versions. For their model Amblin He also upgraded the way the deflector dish was
used a technique that involved photographing lit, again so that it looked more like the practical
the physical model and then wrapping the model. This improved version of the model was
images around their CG version. The results were then shared with Digital Muse.
impressive but not without a few problems since it As the series progressed, various episodes called
was virtually impossible to fit the 2D photographs for close-ups of different sections of the ship,
around the 3D model perfectly. including the escape-pod hatches, the exterior of
During VOYAGER’s second and third seasons the bridge and the rooms on either side of it. Each
the STAR TREK visual effects team almost time this happened the VFX team improved the
completely abandoned traditional models detail in this part of the CG model until eventually
and Meininger’s physical version of Voyager the entire model had been upgraded, making it
was effectively retired. It was eventually sold the most sophisticated CG model that had ever
at auction in 2006 for $132,000. appeared in STAR TREK.
Foundation Imaging’s upgraded CG version of VOYAGER during The earliest version of the Santa Barbara Studios model, as seen in
the sixth season after several areas had been created in hi-res detail. the title sequence, where their technology allowed it to part ‘clouds’.
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