Vor’Cha Class Imperial Klingon Cruiser

The QIb was built at the Klingon Imperial Shipyards above Qo'noS and launched on Stardate 45529.9. First seen transporting Klingon High Council leader K'mpec on stardate 44246.3, the Vor'Cha class attack cruiser reflects traditional Klingon ship design but also includes a new foredeck module and warp nacelles. These new design features are a result of recent advances in technology shared with the the Federation. The QIb is equipped with a standard Klingon cloaking device, upgraded and improved upon since the Klingons received this cloaking technology from the Romulans during their political alliance circa 2268. Since 2293 the Klingon Empire has experimented to develop a ship that could operate its weapons while cloaked...the Vor'Cha class cruiser is the culmination of those efforts.

Personnel Complement

  • Officers: 122
  • Crew: 327
  • Additional troops if necessary: 175

Dimensions

  • Overall length: 481 meters
  • Overall draft: 315 meters
  • Overall beam: 78 meters

Performance

  • Maximum velocity: warp 9.3
  • Cruising velocity: warp 7.0

Armament

  • Missile-type Weapons: Photon torpedo launchers (three forward, two lateral, two aft); Quantum torpedo launchers (one forward, two lateral)
  • Beam-type Weapons: Eight disruptor arrays (three forward, one ventral, one dorsal, two lateral, one aft)

Defense

  • Twelve 384 megawatt graviton polarity shield generators: Five in the primary hull, three in the secondary hull and four in the warp nacelles.

Transport Equipment

  • Transporters: Four standard 6-person transporters, Four battle transporters, 2 cargo transporters
  • Shuttlecraft: Six standard, ten battle-equipped

Deck Layout

  • Deck 1 Bridge and Captain's Ready Room
  • Deck 2 Briefing Room, Officers Quarters
  • Deck 3 Upper Weapons Array Control, Junior Officers and Crew Quarters, Galley
  • Deck 4 Auxiliary Control Room and Support, Impulse Engines and Engineering Support
  • Deck 5 Main Life Support Control, Medical Bay, Computer Core, 'Yay Tach' Lounge (Victory Bar Lounge)
  • Deck 6 Armory, Personnel Transporters, Battle Transporters
  • Deck 7 Main Phaser and Fire Control, Lateral Sensor Array
  • Deck 8 Lateral Torpedo Array Control, Torpedo Storage
  • Deck 9 Main Engineering, Cargo Bays and Cargo Transporters
  • Deck 10 Cargo Bays and Storage
  • Deck 11 Waste Recycling, Emergency Batteries, Shuttle Bays
  • Deck 12 Shuttle Maintenance and Storage
  • Deck 13 Aft Weapons Array Control, Crew Quarters
  • Deck 14 Main Impulse Engines
  • Deck 15 Lower Engineering and Ship Systems Support
  • Deck 16 Antimatter Injection Reactors
  • Deck 17 Antimatter Storage Pods

Bibliographic Sources:

  • Star Trek Website by Paramount Digital Entertainment, 1997.
  • The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide To The Future by Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda and Debbie Mirek, 1994.
  • Star Trek Omnipedia on CD-ROM by Simon and Schuster, 1995 & 1996