USS Zheng He

[Omega1967]

USS Zheng He

"Right now, I'm on the bridge of the toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet ever put into service. And I got a fleet of them at my back." – William T. Riker, 2399 ("Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 2") https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Zheng_He

I finally watched the last episode of Picard, like Discovery I am not a fan of either, but I thought that the ship could be done. I thought that the battle fleets of the Romulans and Federation would have been a blood bath between the two of them making the battles of the Dominion War look like nothing. Two powerful fleets capable of great devastation.

I poked around and looked at several postings that the ship and came up with a name and class whether they are correct I cannot know. I used the name and class to make a ship that can be used in place until better stats can be posted.

I estimated that the ship is fifty percent larger than the Galaxy class and made the ship faster and more powerful than the Galaxy-class. The only difference in the ship on the screen and the one I generated is I am not sure whether they have a single phaser array around the saucer (Galaxy-class style) or one on either side of the saucer (Intrepid-class style). The secondary hull and the main hull are attached and cannot be separated.

https://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/USS_Zheng_He
https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Inquiry_class

USS Zheng He
Class and Type: Inquiry-Class Heavy Cruiser
Commissioning Date: extremely late 24th century into the early 25th century

Hull Systems
Size: 9
Length: 925.2 meters
Beam: 703,75 meters
Height: 212.79 meters
Decks: 47
Mass: 7,000,000 metric tons
SUs Available: 3,750
SUs Used: 3442

Hull Outer <40>
Hull Inner <40>
Resistance Outer Hull: 10 <12>
Resistance Inner Hull: 10 <12>

Structural Integrity Field [1 Power/10 Protection/round]
Main: Class 7 (Protection 100/150) <40>
Backup 1: Class 7 (Protection 50) <20>
Backup 2: Class 7 (Protection 50) <20>

Personnel Systems
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 817/82/14,000
Crew Quarters
Basic: 495 <50>
Expanded: 295 <59>
Luxury: 92 <92>
Unusual: 17 <17>

Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [13 Power/round] <40>
Reserve Life Support [7 power/round] <20>
Emergency Life Support (60 emergency shelters) <20>
Gravity [5 Power/round] <10>
Consumable: 3 years’ worth <30>
Food Replicators [10 Power/round] <10>
Industrial Replicators
Type: Network of small replicators [2 Power/round] <10>
Type: 3 large unit [2 power/replicator/round] <3 x 3 = 9>
Medical Facilities: 10 (+2) [10 Power/round] <50>
Recreation Facilities: 8 (four main holodecks; twenty personal holodecks; large, pleasant eating facilities; two large lounges; four small lounges) [16 Power/round] <64>
Personnel Transport: Turbolift, Jefferies Tubes [2 Power/round] <30>
Fire Suppression System [1 Power/round when active] <10>
Cargo Holds: 400,000 cubic meters <12>
Locations: 18 main cargo holds and other minor holds throughout the ship
Escape Pods <7>
Number: 100
Capacity: 10 person per pod

Propulsion Systems
Warp drive Nacelles: Type 8 <138>
Speed: 8.0/9.6/9.95 [1 power/.2 warp speed]
PIS: Type J (48 hours of Maximum warp) <20>
Impulse Engine 2 Type: Class 7 (.75c/.95c) [7/9 Power/round] <40 x 2 = 80>
Location: Engineering section, Starboard and Port Saucer section
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power/round when in use] <10>

Power Systems
Warp Engine Type: Class 13/S (generates 880 Power/round) <163>
Location: Engineering section
Impulse Engine[s]: 2 class 8 (generates 64 Power/engine/round)
Auxiliary Power: 4 reactors (generates 5 Power/reactor/round) <12>
Emergency Power: Type F (generates 50 Power/round) <50>
EPS: Standard Power flow, +400 Power transfer/round <90>
Standard Usable Power: 1008

Operations System
Bridge: Saucer section dorsal <50>
Auxiliary Control Room: Engineering section “Battle Bridge” <30>

Separation System: Saucer Separation [10 Power] <10>

COMPUTERS (BIO-NEURAL)
Core 1: Saucer section, port [7 Power/round] <30>
Core 2: Saucer section, starboard [7 Power/round] <30>
Core 3: Engineering section [7 Power/round] <30>
Uprating: Class Beta (+2) [2 Power/computer/round] <12>
ODN <30>

Navigational Deflector [5 Power/round] <40>
Range: 10/20,000/50,000/150,000
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Forward Ventral

Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power/round] <57>
Range Package: Type 8 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 5 Light-year (0.5/0.6 - 1.0/1.1 - 4.5/4.6 - 6.0)
Low Resolution: 18 light-years (1/1.1 - 6.5/6.6 - 13.5/13.6 – 18.0)
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class Beta (+2)
Coverage: Standard

Lateral Sensor [5 Power/round] <25>
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class Beta (+2)
Coverage: standard

Navigational Sensor [5 Power/round] <23>
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class Beta (+2)
Probes: 100 <10>
Sensors Skill: 5

Flight Control Systems Autopilot: Shipboard systems (flight Control) 4, Coordination 3 [1 Power/round in use] <15>

Navigational Computer
Main: Class 3 (+2) [2 Power/round] <4>
Backup: 2 <2>

Inertial Damping Field
Main <108>
Strength: 9 [3 Power/round]
Number: 6
Backup <27>
Strength: 6 [2 Power/round]
Number: 6
Attitude control [3 power/round] <3>

Communications Systems
Type: Class 10 [2 Power/round] <31>
Strength: 10
Security: -8 (Class Epsilon uprating)
Basic Uprating: Class Beta (+2)
Holocommunications
Emergency Communications: Yes [2 Power/round] <1>

Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Delta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <12>
Accuracy: 4/5/7/10
Location: Aft ventral

Emitter: Class Delta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <12>
Accuracy: 4/5/7/10
Location: Forward ventral (above deflector)

Emitter: Class Alpha [3 power/Strength used/round] <3 x 2 = 6>
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: Shuttle bays 1, 2, and 3

Transporters
Type: Personnel [6 Power/use] <22 x 6 = 132>
Pads: 8
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel Type 8 (100,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition coils: Class J (Strength 10)
Number and Locations: Four in saucer section, two in engineering section

Type: Emergency [8 power/use] <20 x 6 = 120>
Pads: 22
Emitter/Receiver Array: Emergency Type 4 (20,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class J (Strength 10)
Number and Location” Four in saucer section, two in engineering section

Type: Cargo [4 Power/use] <16 x 6 = 96>
Pads: 600 kg
Emitter/Receiver Array: Cargo Type 3 (40,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class J (Strength 10)
Number and location:

Security Systems Rating: 4 <16>
Anti-Intruder System: Yes [1 Power/round] <10>
Internal Force Fields [1 Power/3 Strength] <10>
Science Systems Rating 4 (+3) [5 Power/round] <30>
Specialized Systems: Stellar Sciences, Planetary Sciences, Botanical Science <15>
Laboratories: 48 <10>

Tactical Systems
Saucer Dorsal Phaser Array <56>
Type: XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 200 (up to 5 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Class Beta (Accuracy: 4/5/7/10)
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: Saucer Dorsal
Firing Arc: 405 degrees dorsal
Firing Modes: Standard, Continuous, Pulse, wide beam

Saucer Ventral Phaser Array <56>
Type: XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 200 (up to 5 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Class Beta (Accuracy: 4/5/7/10)
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: Saucer Ventral
Firing Arc: 405 degrees Ventral
Firing Modes: Standard, Continuous, Pulse, wide beam

Engineering Section Ventral Phaser Array <28>
Type: XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 80 (up to 2 shots per round)
Auto-Phaser Interlock: Class Beta (Accuracy: 4/5/7/10)
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: Engineering section ventral
Firing Arc: 405 degrees dorsal
Firing Modes: Standard, Continuous, Pulse, wide beam

Aft Torpedo Launcher <27>
Standard Load: Type II Photon Torpedo (200 Damage), Mark I Quantum Torpedoes (400 damage)
Spread: 10
Range: 15/350,000/1,500,000/4,040,000
Targeting System: Class Beta (Accuracy: 4/5/7/10)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location: Engineering section aft
Firing Arc: Aft, but are self-guided

Forward Ventral Torpedo Launcher <27>
Standard Load: Type II Photon Torpedo (200 Damage), Mark I Quantum Torpedoes (400 damage)
Spread: 10
Range: 15/350,000/1,500,000/4,040,000
Targeting System: Class Beta (Accuracy: 4/5/7/10)
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location: Engineering section forward
Firing Arc: Forward, but are self-guided
Torpedoes Carried: 300 <30>

TA/T/TS: Class Epsilon [6 Power/round] <18>
Strength: 11
Bonus: +3
Weapon Skill: 5

Shields (Forward, Aft, Port, Starboard) <159 x 4 = 636>
Shield Generator: Class 7 (Protection 1400) [140 Power/shield/round]
Shield grid: Type C (50 % increase to 2100 Protection)
Subspace Field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Iota (Threshold 450)
Recharging System: Class 3 (35 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) <10>
Auto-Destruct System <10>

Auxiliary Spacecraft System
Shuttlebay(s): Capacity for 100 size worth of ships <200>
Standard Compliment:
Location(s): Main shuttlebay (saucer section), two smaller bays (engineering section, forward dorsal, port and starboard)
Captain’s Yacht: yes <10>

Description and Notes
Fleet Data:

What do you think?

[WaveMan]

mate please don't take this as a criticism, but that write-up isn't living up to the quote "I'm on the bridge of the toughest, fastest, most powerful ship Starfleet ever put into service."

3 type 12 phaser arrays and 2 torpedo tubes (10 spread) and 300 torpedoes.

in comparison a Sovereign-class has 16 type 12 phaser arrays and 4 torpedo tubes (12 spread) and 300 torpedoes. Plus the Sovereign-Class is exactly the same speed rating as your write up, and both the the Intrepid-Class (9.975 top speed) and Prometheus (9.982 top speed) are faster

Plus no ablative armour, no metaphasic shields or regenerative shields (to improve 'toughness')

[Omega1967]

I know it is a little wimpy but it works as a first step till we see better data on the ship.

[Omega1967]

I was poking around Bravo Fleet web site looking at ships that I could tweak and found the specs… well a set of specs for the Inquiry-class from Star Trek Picard. I do not know how close these are to what is actual, however I thought that they look interesting enough to play around with. Though this is a size seven starship it has the fire power and defensive ability for a starship larger than itself. The only problem is with size seven ships the SU’s are inadequate to the needs of the starship so once I was through making it up, I had to whittle away here and there to make it fit. Basically, I had to loos the ablative armor and reduce here and there to make it drop a few hundred SU’s of excess weight. Even though I have trimmed out a lot it is still a mean machine maybe not as bad as Captain Will Riker boasted it was, nevertheless, it is still mean.

One thing that I did not install into this ship is the separation system for the saucer as far as I can see there is no separation capability. There should be a heavy line showing a separation between the two. Even without this it is still like that of the Intrepid class as it did not have a separation system and resembles the Intrepid in some way. So, when I was laying out the weapons emplacement, I followed the Intrepid to a point and then winged the rest to other ships similar.

The ship is better looking than my first try at the creation with just looking at the ship on the screen and making educated guesses here and there at the tech. this is far from being an explorer like the Galaxy class but can be utilized for science missions, as well as diplomatic envoy and still maintaining a combat starship. I guess after the Dominion War and the multiple encounters with the Borg the Federation wants to be prepared like any good Boy Scout.

Inquiry-class
Class and Type: Inquiry-Class Heavy Cruiser
Commissioning Date: 2390

Hull Systems
Size: 7
Length: 460 meters
Beams: 210 meters
Height: 80 meters
Decks: 18
Mass: 3,500,000 metric tons
SUs Available: 1500 - 2750
SUs Used: 2724

Hull Outer <28>
Hull Inner <28>
Resistance Outer Hull: 10 <12>
Resistance Inner Hull: 10 <12>

Structural Integrity field [1 power/10 Protection/round]
Main: Class 5 (Protection 80/120) <31>
Backup: Class 5 (Protection 40) <16>
Backup: Class 5 (Protection 40) <16>

Personnel Systems
Crew/Passengers/Evac: 350/70/5000
Crew Quarters
Spartan: none
Basic: 230 <23>
Expanded: 140 <28>
Luxury: 42 <42>
Unusual: 8 <8>

Environmental Systems
Basic Life Support [11 Power/round] <28>
Reserve Life Support [6 Power/round] <14>
Emergency Life Support (42 emergency shelters) <14>
Gravity [4 Power/round] <7>
Consumable: two years’ worth <14>
Food Replicators [7 Power/round] <7>
Industrial Replicators
Type: network of small Replicators [2 Power/round] <7>
Type: two large unit [2 Power/replicator/round] <6>
Medical Facilities: 10 (+2) [10 Power/round] <50>
Recreation Facilities: 7 (three main holodecks; fifteen personal holodecks; large, pleasant eating facilities; one large lounge; three small lounges) [14 Power/round] <56>
Personal Transport: Jefferies tubes [2 Power/round] <21>
Fire Suppression System [1 Power/round when active] <7>
Cargo hold: 60,000 cubic meters <2>
Locations:
Escape Pods <5>
Number: 80
Capacity: 8 persons per pod

Propulsion Systems
Warp Drive Nacelles: type 7A8 <128>
Speed: 8.0/9.0/9.99 [1 Power/.2 warp speed]
Uprating: two package 4 and one package 2 (+1.0 to standard ) one package (+0.15 to maximum) <22>
PIS: type J (36 hours of Maximum warp) <20>
Impulse Engine Type: one Class 8 (.75c/.95c) [7/9 Power/round] <40>
Location:
Reaction Control System (.025c) [2 Power/ round when in use] <7>

Power Systems
Warp Engine Type: one Class 13/S (generates 890 Power/round) <164>
Locations:
Impulse Engine[s]: Class 8 (generate 64 power/engine/round)
Auxiliary Power: 4 reactors (generate 5 Power/reactor/round) <12>
Emergency Power: Type F (generates 50 Power/round) <50>
EPS: Standard Power flow, +300 Power transfer/round <65>
Standard Usable Power: 954

Operations systems
Bridge: <30>
Auxiliary Bridge/control room <21>

Computers
Core: [5 Power/round] <14>
Core: [5 Power/round] <14>
Core: [5 Power/round] <14>
Uprating class Beta (+2) [4 power/round] <12>
ODN <21>

Navigational Deflector [5 Power/round] <28>
Range: 10/20,000/50,000/150,000
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location:

Sensor Systems
Long-range Sensors [5 Power/round] <60>
Range Package: Type 7 (Accuracy 3/4/7/10)
High Resolution: 5 Light-year (.5/.6-1.0/1.1-3.8/3.9-5.0)
Low Resolution: 17 light-years (1/1.1-6.0/6.1-13.0/13.1-17)
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class gamma (+3)
Coverage: Standard

Lateral Sensor [5 Power/round] <29>
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class gamma (+3)
Coverage: Standard

Navigational Sensor [5 Power/round] <28>
Strength Package: Class 10 (Strength 10)
Gain Package: Class gamma (+3)
Probes: 40 <4>
Sensor Skill: 5

Flight Control Systems
Autopilot: Shipboard systems (flight control) 3, Coordination 2 [1 Power/round in use] <11>

Navigational Computer
Main: Class beta (+2) [2 Power/round] <4>
Backups: 2 <2>

Inertial Damping Field
Main <56>
Strength: 9 [3 Power/round]
Number: 4
Backup <14>
Strength:6 [2 Power/round]
Number: 4
Attitude Control [2 Power/round] <2>

Communications Systems
Type: Class 10 [2 Power/round] <32>
Strength: 10
Security: -8 (Class Epsilon Uprating)
Basic Uprating: Class Beta (+2)
Emergency Communications: [2 Power/round] <1>

Tractor Beams
Emitter: Class Delta [3 Power/Strength used/round] <12 x 2 = 24>
Accuracy: 4/5/7/10
Lactation: aft and forward

Emitter: Class Alpha [3 Power/Strength used/round] <3 x 2 = 6>
Accuracy: 5/6/8/11
Location: one per hanger

Transporters
Type: Personnel [3 Power/use] <19 x 4 = 76>
Pads: 6
Emitter/Receiver Array: Personnel Type 7 (50,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class I (strength 9)
Number and location:

Type: Emergency [7 Power/round] <19 x 6 = 114>
Pads: 22
Emitter/Receiver Array: Emergency Type 3 (15,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class I (strength 9)
Number and location:

Type: Cargo [5 Power/round] <15 x 4 = 60>
Pads: 600 kilograms
Emitter/Receiver Array: Cargo Type 3 (40,000 km range)
Energizing/Transition Coils: Class I (strength 9)
Number and location:

Security Systems Rating: 3 <12>
Anti-Intruder System: Yes [1 Power/round] <7>
Internal Force Field [1 Power/3 Strength] <7>

Science Systems Rating: 2 (+1) [2 Power/round] <17>
Specialized Systems: three <15>
Laboratories: 28 <6>

Tactical Systems (eleven Type XII phaser arrays)
Type XII Port and Starboard dorsal Phaser Arrays <58 x 4 = 232>
Type XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 200 (up to 5 shots per round)
Targeting Systems: class Gamma Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: port and starboard saucer and dorsal (arch shadowing on the dorsal saucer section)
Firing arc: 540 degrees
Firing Modes: standard, pulse, continuous and wide beam

Type XII Ventral Engineering Phaser Array <39>
Type XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 120 (up to 3 shots per round)
Targeting Systems: class Gamma Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: ventral engineering
Firing arc: 540 degrees
Firing Modes: standard, pulse, continuous and wide beam

Type XII aft dorsal saucer port and starboard <20 x 2 = 40>
Type XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 40 (up to 1 shot per round)
Targeting Systems: class Gamma Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: port and starboard saucer section aft either side of the midline
Firing arc: 540 degrees
Firing Modes: standard, pulse, continuous and wide beam

Type XII Ventral port and starboard engineering nacelles <20 x 2 = 40>
Type XII
Damage: 240 [24 Power]
Number of Emitters: 40 (up to 1 shot per round)
Targeting Systems: class Gamma Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Range: 10/30,000/100,000/300,000
Location: port and starboard saucer section aft either side of the midline
Firing arc: 540 degrees
Firing Modes: standard, pulse, continuous and wide beam

Torpedo Launcher <18 x 4 = 72>
Standard Load: type II Photon torpedoes (200 damage), Quantum torpedo (400 damage)
Spread: 12
Range: 15/300,000/1,000,000/3,500,000
Targeting Systems: class Gamma Accuracy 3/4/6/9
Power: [20 + 5 per torpedo fired]
Location:
Firing Arc: forward and aft but are self-guided
Torpedoes carried: 200 Photon torpedoes and 200 Quantum torpedoes <40>

TA/T/TS: Class Delta [4 Power/round] <15>
Strength: 10
Bonus: +3
Weapon Skill: 5

Shields (Forward, Aft, Port, Starboard) <111 x 4 = 444>
Shield Generator: Class 7 (protection 1300) [130 Power/shield/round]
Shield grid: Type C (50% increase to Protection 1950)
Subspace field Distortion Amplifiers: Class Iota (Threshold 433)
Recharging System: Class 3 (35 seconds)
Backup Shield Generators: 4 (1 per shield) <7>
Auto-Destruct System <7>

Auxiliary Spacecraft systems
Shuttlebay(s): Capacity for 28 Size worth of ships <56>
Standard Complement: four Shuttlepods and twelve shuttlecrafts (ten shuttles and two runabouts)
Location(s): two shuttle bays
Captains Yacht: none