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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 improved Excelsior as first seen with the Enterprise-B in the Generations (STG) feature film, and later re-used for the Lakota and various other similar starships in other Franchise productions. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. While I'm not making this particular model available for download, there are plenty of alternatives out there. All it takes is a simple search to find them.

This was the first major variation on the basic Excelsior type. Others have waxed eloquent elsewhere on what all of the changes were and what they did for it, so I'm not going to repeat any of that here. This was a new build class that came about early in the post-TMP era and was apparently built in parallel with the original Excelsior design for a time, judging from the later on-screen evidence, although apparently not in the same numbers as the many Excelsior production blocks that eventually came about. Again, according to the available official Franchise data, this was apparently replaced in production at some point well into the post-TMP era by Excelsior II, but I have no data on that one. These served all the way through the TNG/DS9/VOY era and beyond, with DS9's Lakota probably being the best known example there.

This is solid canon. 'Nuff said.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - To me, given my naval background, this is to Excelsior what the Iowa class battleships were to the preceding South Dakota class during World War II. Both were the best of their type during the war BTW, with South Dakota being the best Treaty-limited battleship and Iowa being the best post-Treaty fast battleship per almost every naval expert worth their salt. They also looked a lot alike, with Iowa's second stack for her extra boilers being the biggest difference. Same idea here IMHO, pretty much the same layout and technology, but enough obvious improvements to warrant the improved Excelsior being in a class by itself.

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan-created model made for the Starfleet Command (SFC) series of video games. Based on the improved Excelsior as first seen with the Enterprise-B in the Generations (STG) feature film, and later re-used for the Lakota and various other similar starships in other Franchise productions. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. While I'm not making this particular model available for download, there are plenty of alternatives out there. All it takes is a simple search to find them.

This was the first major variation on the basic Excelsior type. Others have waxed eloquent elsewhere on what all of the changes were and what they did for it, so I'm not going to repeat any of that here. This was a new build class that came about early in the post-TMP era and was apparently built in parallel with the original Excelsior design for a time, judging from the later on-screen evidence, although apparently not in the same numbers as the many Excelsior production blocks that eventually came about. Again, according to the available official Franchise data, this was apparently replaced in production at some point well into the post-TMP era by Excelsior II, but I have no data on that one. These served all the way through the TNG/DS9/VOY era and beyond, with DS9's Lakota probably being the best known example there.

This is solid canon. 'Nuff said.

Live long and prosper.

ASIDE - To me, given my naval background, this is to Excelsior what the Iowa class battleships were to the preceding South Dakota class during World War II. Both were the best of their type during the war BTW, with South Dakota being the best Treaty-limited battleship and Iowa being the best post-Treaty fast battleship per almost every naval expert worth their salt. They also looked a lot alike, with Iowa's second stack for her extra boilers being the biggest difference. Same idea here IMHO, pretty much the same layout and technology, but enough obvious improvements to warrant the improved Excelsior being in a class by itself.