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Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original design by John Eaves and Doug Drexler for the Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) television series. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

In all Franchise canon influenced threads of the Trek multiverse, Conestoga was humanity's first warp-capable starship used to colonize other worlds. The type was named for the large Conestoga wagons used by pioneers to settle the Wild West in United States history. It entered Earth space service within a decade of Zephram Cochrane's pioneering warp-speed space flight (TOS "Metamorphosis," First Contact feature film) and was equipped with a somewhat modified form of the same warp drive used for the earlier Valiant class (TOS "Where No Man ...," c.f. Greg Jein's model). The design was also based on Valiant's general hull form but was considerably larger and built from the keel up as a starship, instead of being converted from an existing sub-light vessel, and also incorporated selected elements of lifting body or flying wedge spacecraft designs. The latter was so it could accomplish a planetary landing, although it was always a permanent one with the ship unable to take off again. This was so the ship itself could be used as a temporary home until the colonists it delivered to a given world could set up their own, after which the ship was always cannibalized for anything else they needed. For this reason no intact Conestoga survived over time, with only scattered pieces and artifacts remaining of them.

Class ship SS Conestoga was featured in ENT "Terra Nova," which is the main source of information on the type. The episode also included a visual of the ship itself, which makes this canon as far as all of Trekdom is concerned.

Live long and prosper.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the original design by John Eaves and Doug Drexler for the Star Trek: Enterprise (ENT) television series. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

In all Franchise canon influenced threads of the Trek multiverse, Conestoga was humanity's first warp-capable starship used to colonize other worlds. The type was named for the large Conestoga wagons used by pioneers to settle the Wild West in United States history. It entered Earth space service within a decade of Zephram Cochrane's pioneering warp-speed space flight (TOS "Metamorphosis," First Contact feature film) and was equipped with a somewhat modified form of the same warp drive used for the earlier Valiant class (TOS "Where No Man ...," c.f. Greg Jein's model). The design was also based on Valiant's general hull form but was considerably larger and built from the keel up as a starship, instead of being converted from an existing sub-light vessel, and also incorporated selected elements of lifting body or flying wedge spacecraft designs. The latter was so it could accomplish a planetary landing, although it was always a permanent one with the ship unable to take off again. This was so the ship itself could be used as a temporary home until the colonists it delivered to a given world could set up their own, after which the ship was always cannibalized for anything else they needed. For this reason no intact Conestoga survived over time, with only scattered pieces and artifacts remaining of them.

Class ship SS Conestoga was featured in ENT "Terra Nova," which is the main source of information on the type. The episode also included a visual of the ship itself, which makes this canon as far as all of Trekdom is concerned.

Live long and prosper.