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U.S.S. Excelsior. The first starship of the
Excelsior class, built at the San Francisco Fleet Yards on Earth. The vessel was
launched in 2284 on stardate 8105.5 with a registry number NX-2000. The ship was first
commanded by Captain Styles, and was the testbed vehicle for the unsuccessful transwarp
drive development project. (STAR TREK III: The Search For Spock).
In 2287 the ship was fitted with standard warp drive,
redesignated as an exploratory vessel and
given the registry designation NCC-2000. Captain Hikaru Sulu assumed command of the
Starship Excelsior in 2290 and he began a three-year mission aboard her cataloging planetary
atmospheric anomalies in the Beta Quadrant. Upon successful completion of this mission in 2293,
the crew of the Excelsior encountered a subspace shock wave resulting from the accidental
destruction of the Klingons' chief energy-producing moon, Praxis. Captain Sulu communicated with
the Klingons and offered them assistance. This offer was refused. A short while later Klingon
Chancellor Gorkon was assassinated and Captain James Kirk and Dr. McCoy were accused of the crime
and were taken to the Klingon Homeworld to be tried. (STAR TREK VI: The Undiscovered Country).
Against Starfleet orders, Captain Sulu decided to mount a
rescue of Kirk and McCoy. Junior science officer Ensign Tuvok confronted Captain Sulu about the
breach of orders but to no avail. To conceal the Excelsior's approach to Qo'noS, Sulu
ordered the Excelsior through the Azure Nebula. It was there that he encountered a
Klingon Battle Cruiser commanded by Captain Kang who insisted on escorting the Excelsior
out of the nebula. To evade Kang, Sulu ordered that the volatile sirillium gas contained in the
nebula be ignited. Once away from Kang's ship, three more Klingon Battlecruisers appeared and
engaged the Excelsior. In the ensuing battle, junior science officer Lieutenant Dmitri
Valtane was fatally injured. Captain Sulu aborted the rescue mission and retreated back to
Federation space. ("Flashback" [VGR]).
Captain Sulu and the Excelsior later played a key role in the Khitomer Peace Conference of 2293 by
assisting the U.S.S. Enterprise-A in its battle with General Chang's prototype
Bird-of-Prey and by preventing the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Azetbur. (STAR TREK VI: The Undiscovered Country).
Some years later in 2370, the Excelsior, presumably under the command of a different captain,
assisted the U.S.S. Nobel in the ultimately unsuccessful search and rescue mission for
the U.S.S. Hera. ("Interface" [TNG])
The Excelsior-class ship was designed by Bill George and the model was built at Industrial
Light and Magic.
Ship's Dedication Plaque:
Starship Excelsior's Motto:
"No matter where you go, there you are"
Exterior Starship Views:
Port Profile
Top Plan
Bottom Plan
Specifications:
| Length Overall | 467.0 m (1532.2 ft) |
| Width Overall | 181.6 m (595.8 ft) |
| Height Overall | 77.8 m (255.4 ft) |
| Nacelle Length | 248.6 m (815.7 ft) |
| Engineering Hull Length | 263.8 m (865.4 ft) |
| Primary Propulsion | Twin Warp Drive Nacelles |
| Secondary Propulsion | Twin Impulse Engines |
| Cruising Speed | Warp Factor 10* (1000c) |
| Max Safe Speed | Warp Factor 12* (1728c) |
| Number of Decks | 18 |
| Crew complement | 510 |
| Defense | Deflector Shields |
| Armament | 12 Phaser banks,
4 photon torpedo launch tubes |
*Note: The speeds given above do not violate the Warp 10 limit as seen in STAR TREK: Voyager
and in the STAR TREK Technical Manual, STAR TREK Encyclopedia and STAR TREK Omnipedia. This is because these
speeds are given in the Warp System of the Original Series. This is the system used in the classic STAR TREK
series and movies. In this Warp System scale it IS possible to exceed warp 10, which is 1000 times
the speed of light. Indeed, the Original Starship Enterprise exceeded Warp 14 in the
episode "The Changeling" (TOS). Converted to the the Next Generation Era Warp System, Excelsior's
cruising speed (old Warp 10) becomes Warp 7.947 in the New system, and its max speed (old Warp 12)
becomes Warp 9.328 in the New system.
Excelsior-class Starships:
| Ship Name | Registry Number | Appearances |
| Excelsior | NX-2000
NCC-2000 | STAR TREK III: The Search For Spock,
STAR TREK VI: The Undiscovered Country,
"Interface" [TNG],
"Flashback" [VGR] |
| Enterprise | NCC-1701-B | STAR TREK: Generations |
| Al-Batani | NCC-42995 | "Caretaker" [VGR] |
| Berlin | NCC-14232 | "Angel One" [TNG] |
| Cairo | NCC-42136 | "Chain of Command, Part I" [TNG] |
| Charleston | NCC-42285 | "The Neutral Zone" [TNG] |
| Crazy Horse | NCC-50446 | "The Pegasus" [TNG]
"Descent, Part I" [TNG] |
| Crockett | NCC-38955 | "Paradise" [DS9] |
| Fearless | NCC-14598 | "Where No One Has Gone Before" [TNG] |
| Fredrickson | NCC-42111 | "A Time to Stand" [DS9] |
| Gorkon | NCC-40512 | "Descent, Part I" [TNG] |
| Grissom | NCC-42857 | "The Most Toys" [TNG] |
| Hood | NCC-42296 | "Encounter at Farpoint" [TNG]
"Allegiance" [TNG]
"Tin Man" [TNG]
"The Defector" [TNG] |
| Intrepid | NCC-38907 | "Sins of the Father" [TNG]
"Reunion" [TNG]
"Family" [TNG] |
| Lakota | NCC-42768 | "Paradise Lost" [DS9] |
| Lexington | NCC-14427 | "Thine Own Self" [TNG] |
| Livingston | NCC-34099 | "Invasive Procedures" [DS9] |
| Malinche | NCC-38997 | "For the Uniform" [DS9] |
| Melbourne | NCC-62043 | "11001001" [TNG]
"Best of Both Worlds, Parts I and II" [TNG]
"Emissary" [DS9] |
| Okinawa | NCC-13958 | "Homefront" [DS9]
"Paradise Lost" [DS9] |
| Potempkin | NCC-8253 | "Legacy" [TNG]
"Ethics" [TNG] |
| Repulse | NCC-2544 | "The Child" [TNG]
"Unnatural Selection" [TNG] |
| Roosevelt | NCC-2573 | "Unity" [VGR] |
| Tecumseh | NCC-14934 | "Nor the Battle to the Strong" [DS9] |
| Valley Forge | NCC-43305 | "Tears of the Prophets" [DS9] |
| Yorktown | Unknown | "Flashback" [VGR] |
Starship Excelsior in Spacedock
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