Duderstadt class

The Duderstadt class was a type of Federation starship operated by Starfleet during the early 25th century.
==History==
In 2401, one ship of the class, the , was sent to intercept the following the latter's return from an unauthorized excursion to the Ryton system. () 
==Technical data==
===Physical arrangement===
The Duderstadt class had an unorthodox configuration in which the warp nacelles were mounted on a posterior extension of the saucer section, with a separate, relatively small engineering section containing the main deflector below. It was similar in size to a vessel, and could carry at least five hundred passengers.
The class had at least two shuttlebays. ()
===Tactical systems===
The Duderstadt class was equipped with deflector shields, and armed with phaser arrays and photon torpedo launchers. ()
==Ships commissioned==
* (NCC-79520)
* (NCC-72370)
* (NCC-77690)
* (NCC-75441)
== Appendices ==
=== Appearances ===
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=== Background information ===
The class name was provided by Dave Blass on Twitter, who also emphatically confirmed that the name was chosen in honor of Dorothy Duder, the late wife of Doug Drexler, and that the class was not named after the . Drexler co-designed the class with Bill Krause. 
Blass also stated that the class is 1898 feet (578.5 meters) long, and that the aft-facing dish on the secondary hull is a long range sensor array. 
While the presence at Frontier Day of at least two Duderstadt-class vessels (Intrepid and Trumbull) as part of the assembled fleet was indicated on the bridge monitor as seen in the penultimate Season 3 episode , former Picard Research Assistant Jörg Hillebrand did establish that neither were part of the "fleet formation mode" demonstration. Nonetheless, Titans bridge monitor screen showed that both were actually present in the formation, as the Intrepid at least was seen taking part in the destruction of . This strongly implied that not all Starfleet vessels assembled at Sol Station took part in the demonstration.
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