Although my pet starship design project, an attempt to re-imagine April Welles' kitbashed Excelsior-class model "U.S.S. Farrington (NX-2010) " to make it better fit my Star Trek fan multiverse concept, is still far from over, I was able to find time to make a few improvements to this initial stage of the design over the last week and a half.

First of all, I have cleaned up, erased, retraced, and redefined some of the lines, panels, and detailing of the original portside elevation view of the prototype Federation battlecruiser. Second, I've finally gone ahead and done a forward view of the starship, something that I just completed today, about 8 hours ago.

It's not perfect; I feel particularly dissatisfied with the way that her giant, round warp nacelle fairings turned out. However, I have almost never drawn front views of starship designs before - even when I was turning out a massive amount of designs back in high school - so this is a first for me.

I've since dug up a large number of line art pieces and starship blueprints for the Excelsior-class and the loosely related Ingram-class vessels, and future iterations will be more and more heavily influenced by those reference works.

The front view should offer some more details into my re-envisioning of the starship's powerful wormhole drive assembly. It better shows the exact semicircular ring shape of her gravitic field generators, as well as the tubelike form of the field regulator pod in the center.

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Here are some statistics that I've worked out. The "scaled-up" calculations for things such as dimensions and crew complement and the rescaled top speed are based on comparisons that I calculated from information about the canon Excelsior, Constitution, and alternate reality Constitution classes. I got this information from the website Memory Alpha, which itself references publications such as the "Enterprise Tour" website promoting the 2009 "Star Trek" movie and various official "Star Trek" technical manuals.

Prefix and Name: United Space Ship Farrington

Registration Code: NX-2010

Class: Excelsior (unique variant)

Function: Experimental Battlecruiser/Wormhole Drive Test Platform

Overall Length: approx. 1,140 meters

Overall Beam: approx. 454 meters

Overall Draft: approx. 190 meters (discounting height of wormhole drive assembly)

Scale Factor Compared to Canon NCC-1701-B: approx. 2.44 times

Average Deck Height: approx. 4.87 meters

Decks: 39

Crew Complement: 1,918 officers and enlisted personnel (standard)

Crew Scale Factor Compared to Canon NCC-2000: approx. 2.56 times

Maximum Speed: Warp Factor 9 (emergency engine shutdown after 12 hours)

Weapons: Class-II/Secondary & Class-III/Defensive Turret-Style Phaser Emitters and Photon Torpedo Launch Tubes (4 fore, 2 aft); each tube can fire up to 3 torpedoes before reloading

Defensive Systems: Deflector Shields, Defense Screens, and Point-Defense Phaser Turrets/Anti-Drone System

Special Technology: Artificial Wormhole Generator System ( "Wormhole Drive" ), two advanced tritium/antimatter-based warp core assemblies, and completely new plasma conduits & power distribution systems

Construction Site: San Francisco Federation Fleetyards, Starfleet Division

Operating Authority: Starfleet, United Federation of Planets

Commanding Officer: Brevet Captain M. Tobias Sun

Commissioned: August 5th, 2287 (Stardate 2287.217)

Current Status: Missing in Action as of September 2287