#Vor'cha Class Attack Cruiser

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Opening salvo of the Battle for Chin’toka.

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”Warp Speed”

#Star Trek #Klingon attack cruiser #vor'cha class cruiser #TOS #scifi #starship #Science fiction

[stra-tek]

How BIG is the Klingon Bird of Prey?

First introduced in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock and seen in nearly every iteration of Trek since, the Klingon Bird of Prey is iconic. But how big is she? This is complicated by her appearing at several different sizes throughout the same movie, let alone through the franchise.

With the classic movie Enterprise (305m)

With the Next Gen Enterprise (625m) and Romulan B-Type Warbird (1353m)

Lawrence Miller's 1985 K'tara-class blueprints say she's 168 feet long, which is only 51.2 meters (would not fit whales)

The official Haynes Klingon Manual (2012) gives her overall length as 456 feet/139 meters (would fit whales)

The Star Trek Encyclopedia tried to account for the various on-screen size discrepancies by saying there were in fact at least two differently sized versions of the Klingon Bird of Prey which were externally identual. The B'rel class was the smaller one, and K'vort class the bigger.

The Enterprise crew standing on the sinking HMS Bounty, which is so tiny in this shot I'm not sure the bridge would fit inside. Definitely would not fit whales.

The real life reason for the upscale in TNG-era Trek was budget. The model was super detailed and big screen ILM quality, so when they needed a big Klingon ship, they just reused the Bird of Prey model and kept the wings up (which moved a lot in STIII and IV) to make it look slightly different instead of building something else.

Later they could afford to build the Vor'cha Klingon Attack Cruiser model and switched over to that for all "big" Klingon ship needs until "All Good Things" and DS9 had the Neg'var model (which one time grew to like five kilometers in length, but that's another story!)

And maybe I'm massively overthinking a franchise where this bridge in STIII

Suddenly becomes this bridge in STIV

With zero explanation🤷‍♂️

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[defconprime]

Impel TNG trading card number 33, "Klingon Vor'Cha Class Attack Cruiser," 1992.

#star trek tng #vorcha class #star trek cards

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Star Trek Vor'cha-class Attack Cruiser by AdamKop

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Klingon Vor’cha-class attack cruiser

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[weatherman667]

Star Trek: Vor'cha Class Attack Cruiser | Ship Breakdown

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vor'cha Class Attack Cruiser Production base: Qo'noS Orbital Factory Base Type: Heavy Cruiser Accommodation: 1,900 plus flight crew and troops Power Plant: One M/A warp system; two impulse systems Dimensions: Length, 481.32 meters; beam, 341.76 meters; height, 106.87 meters Mass: 2,238,000 metric tonnes Performance: Warp 9.6 Armament: Eighteen ship-mounted disruptors; one large forward disruptor; three torpedo launchers

source: Star Trek Deep Space Nine Technical Manual [Herman Zimmerman, Rick Sternback, Doug Drexler]

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This is General Martok to all ships: assume tactical formation, we are moving out.

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“The Way of the Warrior”

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USS Defiant takes on the Klingons, “The Way of the Warrior”

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