Universe : | Prime Timeline |
Affiliation : | Dominion |
Class Name : | Dominion Battleship |
Type : | Battleship |
Unit Run : | Starfleet estimates thirty vessels completed 30 built in total. 19 have been lost in all. |
Commissioned : | Unknown, but the design is believed to be less than 15 years old |
Dimensions : | Length : 1,282 m [1] Beam : 1,048 m [2] Height : 324 m [2] Decks : 79 |
Mass : | 18,200,000 metric tons |
Crew : | 1,200, plus up to 20000 troops |
Armament : |
2 x Heavy duty Pulse polaron cannon 38 x Phased polaron beam emitters, total output 235,000 TeraWatts 9 x Mark 2 photon torpedo tube with 600 rounds |
Defence Systems : | Standard shield system, total capacity 4,644,000 TeraJoules Heavy Variethiel Double hull plus 25 cm High density armour. High level Structural Integrity Field |
Warp Speeds (TNG scale) : |
Normal Cruise : 8 Maximum Cruise : 9.4 Maximum Rated : 9.925 |
Strength Indices : (Galaxy class = 1,000) |
Beam Firepower : 4,700 Torpedo Firepower : 3,240 Weapon Range and Accuracy : 1,410 Shield Strength : 1,720 Hull Armour : 2,940 Speed : 1,824 Combat Manoeuvrability : 400 |
Overall Strength Index : | 2,998 |
Diplomatic Capability : | Believed to be equivalent to Starfleet Grade 3 |
Expected Hull Life : | Unknown |
The current status of the prototype battleship is unknown. It was apparently quite badly damaged by the Valiants attack, [3] and is believed to have spent some time in shipyards after the battle being repaired. For the rest of the war there were no further reports of these vessels; it seems unlikely that the Dominion was unable to correct what was after all a fairly minor design flaw, yet they seem to have abandoned the Battleship completely after the Valiant battle.
But this was not the end of the basic design, however; a scaled up version of the Battleship design was used as the basis for the much larger Dreadnought type vessel seen - though not engaged - in the final stages of the war. [4]
Canon source | Backstage source | Novel source | DITL speculation |
# | Series | Season | Source | Comment |
1 | DS9 | 6 | Valiant | Stated in the to be twice the size of a Galaxy class ship. This is assumed to mean twice the length, rather than twice the volume. Note that battleships of this design seen in the DS9 finale appeared to be approximately 4.5 kilometres long compared to Dominion battlecruisers. |
2 | Production drawing | |||
3 | DS9 | 6 | Valiant | |
4 | DS9 | 7 | What You Leave Behind, Part 1 |
Series : | DS9 Season 6 |
Episode : | Valiant |
Comment : | Stated in the to be twice the size of a Galaxy class ship. This is assumed to mean twice the length, rather than twice the volume. Note that battleships of this design seen in the DS9 finale appeared to be approximately 4.5 kilometres long compared to Dominion battlecruisers. |
Source : | Production drawing |
Series : | DS9 Season 6 |
Episode : | Valiant |
Series : | DS9 Season 7 |
Episode : | What You Leave Behind, Part 1 |
Second, I've assumed that three times the firepower means three times the overall strength, rather than just three times the beam weapon output. Again, there is nothing much to say unless we eventually get to see more of this ship in action in future incarnation of Trek.
Although this ship design was also seen in the DS9 final episode "What You Leave Behind", special effects shots indicate that those ships are considerably larger than the original battleship. After considerable wavering I've decided to class them as a new type of ship, the Dreadnoughts. See the Comments section of that class for more details about the relationship between the two ships.
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