Federation Other Ships Database - Hermes Class

STARSHIP NAME	REGISTRY NUMBER		INFO
U.S.S. Columbia	NCC-621		Scout vessel. The Colunbia was not seen, but was mentioned in a Starfleet communique overheard at the Epsilon IX Monitoring Station, ordered to rendezvous with the U.S.S. Revere by Commodore Probert, a gag reference to production illustrator Andrew Probert. Star Trek: The Motion Picture ; Star Trek Encyclopedia II
U.S.S. Hermes	NCC-585		NCC-585 was the registry number of a Hermes-class Federation starship. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock The registry, like the class, was originally derived from the Star Fleet Technical Manual. According to that manual, NCC-585 is named the USS Hermes and is the prototype of the Hermes-class of Federation starships. Text from the Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
U.S.S. Revere	NCC-595		Scout vessel, Starfleet registry number NCC-595. The Revere was not seen, but was mentioned in a Starfleet communique overheard at the Epsilon IX Monitoring Station, ordered to rendezvous with the U.S.S. Columbia by Commodore Probert, a gag reference to production illustrator Andrew Probert. Star Trek: The Motion Picture ; Star Trek Encyclopedia II

	Length	242.5 meters
	Width	127.1 meters
	Height	60 meters
	Officers	20
	Crew	175
	Mass	94500 metric tonnes
	Phasers	1 banks/2 each
	Cruise Speed	6
	Max Speed	8
	From Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual

	History:
	The Hermes-class starship was a Mk-VII, class I scout type of Federation vessel built in the 23rd century. Both the saucer section and nacelle of the Hermes are identical to that of the Constitution-class, although the configuration could hardly be more different. The Hermes is one of the relatively few Starfleet designs to employ a single nacelle configuration. The Hermes-class' only distinctiveness from her sister class, the Saladin destroyer, is her armaments. Where the Saladin-class houses 3 phaser banks and 2 photon torpedo launchers, the Hermes scout only houses 1 bank of two phasers. This ship is outfitted for a 9 year range at light-speed before overhaul is required. The first vessels of this class were authorized in appropriations on stardate 0965. Additional subclasses were later authorized, the Mk-VIIA on stardate 3669 and the Mk-VIIB on stardate 5099. The Mk-VIIB was a variant specially modified for duty as a diplomatic courier. (page from the Star Fleet Technical Manual visible in a display in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; ships mentioned in Star Trek: The Motion Picture). The Hermes-class starship was seen on display in the Starfleet Academy's bridge training simulator in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". It was one of several ships from the Star Fleet Technical Manual that appeared in a Trek production. While this manual was once considered canon by the producers, it is now mostly apocryphal, save for a few canonically spotted details, like this class. The subclasses of this vessel were listed in the manual as the Mk-VIIA Monoceros-class and the Mk-VIIB Cygnus-class. In total, 40 vessels were listed as authorized for construction in the manual: 15 Mk-VIIs, 16 Mk-VIIAs and 9 Mk-VIIBs. Several of the registry numbers given for this class conflict with registry numbers devised for other vessels devised by latter-day TNG-era creative staff (such as the USS Oberth NCC-602). Text from the Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference