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Intrepid class
The USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
First appearance	"Caretaker"
Affiliation	Starfleet
General Characteristics
Armaments	Photon torpedoes Phasers Tri-cobalt devices (USS Voyager)
Defences	Deflector Shields
Propulsion	Warp drive Impulse drive
Power	Warp core

The Intrepid class is a fictional Starfleet starship class in the Star Trek universe, the most notable being Star Trek: Voyager's titular USS Voyager.

In real life, the Intrepid class was designed by Star Trek: Voyager production designer Richard D. James and illustrator Rick Sternbach.

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The Intrepid-class USS Voyager has a spade-shaped saucer section attached directly to the engineering section. The main bridge, escape pods that act as lifeboats, auxiliary navigational deflector, sensor platforms and dorsal phaser arrays are at the top of the saucer section. The ship's ventral phaser arrays, additional sensors, thrusters, running lights, an Aeroshuttle, and additional lifeboats occupy the ventral saucer. The main navigational deflector and two photon torpedo launchers are at the bow of the engineering section. The shuttlebays, aft torpedo launchers, and impulse engines occupy the stern near the warp nacelles.

Voyager has a top speed of warp 9.975, incorporates bioneural gel packs into the computer system, and includes the Mark One Emergency Medical Hologram system. Voyager has a plasma-based power distribution system, a duranium hull, tricyclic life support systems, and artificial gravity plating. The ship has 257 rooms, and is capable of planetary landing.

Other than Voyager, only two other Intrepid-class ships have been on screen. The Star Trek Encyclopedia claims that the prototype of the class is the USS Intrepid. Publicity materials indicate that there were only four Intrepid-class ships planned.^[1]

USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705) 

Transports Vice Admiral William Ross, Dr. Julian Bashir and Section 31 operative Luther Sloan from Deep Space Nine to Romulus in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges".

USS Voyager (NCC-74656) 

The primary setting of Star Trek: Voyager, which features a joint Starfleet-Maquis crew lost in the Delta Quadrant for seven years. Eventually returns to the Alpha Quadrant via a Transwarp Hub that was used by the Borg as a distribution centre so they could attack places far away without wearing out their transwarp coils.

Additionally, an unidentified Intrepid-class ship appears during the Battle of Sector 001 in Star Trek: First Contact.

• Intrepid class article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki