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Ported to OBJ from the fan-modified and retextured model derived from the game stock one first included with the Klingon Academy (KA) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Okay, fellow Trek classic starship fans. There are TWO different Akula classes in the TMP era in the Trek multiverse. One is the fanon perimeter action ship class (PA) from the Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan tech, as best documented in Ships of the Star Fleet Volume 2 (SOSF2). That's the original and first Akula insofar as pissing rights go. The one you see above is the second, the Akula class destroyer, created in its original form years later by the folks at Taldren Studios for the KA series of video games. This second Akula is the semi-canon one, as it was created under an official Franchise license and the first one wasn't. Does that matter to most of us? Absolutely not. We couldn't care less, although those who do like to have pissing contests about them every now and then. I say let them, while we enjoy using both as suits our needs (or only one, or neither) in our own personal threads of the Trek multiverse. (big grin and laugh). All right, enough of that.

There is an official KA series writeup on the Akula class destroyer that you can find and read at your own leisure, and its many fans have had a lot of fun with it over the years. It's been retrograded for the TOS era (see separate entry), it's been souped up and all sort of alternate takes done in all sorts of ways, and so on. Even Taldren Studios itselfs got into the act, using the basic Akula class design as the basis for the later advanced technology (Excelsior era) Araxes class in SFC2: OP, but I digress. I will dare to say that the Taldren Studios Akula is better known to Trek fans today than the older SOSF2 Akula, but I've never been one for popularity contests. I think there's places for both and I have both in my own thread of the Trek multiverse even though I have to ignore the naming conflict in doing so. Ignoring or hand-waving away contradictions is nothing new to us old grizzled classic Trek fans from the TOS/TAS days (chuckle).

For my part in the TMP era, I slot this in the same category of two-warp-engined, over-under layout Starfleet heavy destroyers as I do FASA's Wilkerson and other odd classes of similar configuration. To me it's still a classic Starfleet "panhandle," save it's got two handles instead of just one. You can use it as it as the basic Feddie TMP era destroyer class that most of you know, or possibly as a destroyer leader if you include the classic single-warp-engine "panhandles" in your fleet mix as well -- and the official KA/SFC series back histories allow for that. You can also use this instead of Wilkerson in the over-under TMP era heavy destroyer role, or have both -- with Wilkerson being the early TMP era favorite and Akula replacing it later on for whatever reasons you come up with. You can also do something else entirely with the Taldren Akula. That's the beauty of Trek being a multiverse. The possibilities are endless.

This appears in multiple video games licensed by the Franchise, so its semi-canon status is more or less fixed in stone.

Live long and prosper!

TRIVIA - In the KA series this is officially known as the Akula refit, which implies the existence of an earlier TOS era Akula clas. Thankfully fans have come to the rescue there, and you can find my entry on the TOS era Akula class destroyer elsewhere in the online edition of Mandel's Fighting Starships.

This is sometimes also classified as a frigate (FF) or even up-classed to a light cruiser (CL), depending on which video game or fan mod sources you consult. Destroyer (DD) or heavy destroyer (HDD) are the most widely accepted classifications, with the "heavy" qualifier coming from the fact that it has two warp engines instead of just one (that's a trademark of all Feddie heavy destroyer designs). Use as a destroyer leader (DDL) comes from the KA games themselves.

ASIDE - The existence of KA's Akula will clash with other semi-canon and fanon Feddie starship classes in both the TOS/TAS and TMP eras - Pompey, Wilkerson, et al - unless you do your homework and revise things accordingly if you want it to work with them. Most later Trek fans of a video gaming bent find it easier to go with Akula alone. You do what works best for you, okay?

Description

Ported to OBJ from the fan-modified and retextured model derived from the game stock one first included with the Klingon Academy (KA) series of video games. Preview picture posed in XNALara XPS. NO MODEL DOWNLOAD.

Okay, fellow Trek classic starship fans. There are TWO different Akula classes in the TMP era in the Trek multiverse. One is the fanon perimeter action ship class (PA) from the Gunther/Sofia school of classic Trek fan tech, as best documented in Ships of the Star Fleet Volume 2 (SOSF2). That's the original and first Akula insofar as pissing rights go. The one you see above is the second, the Akula class destroyer, created in its original form years later by the folks at Taldren Studios for the KA series of video games. This second Akula is the semi-canon one, as it was created under an official Franchise license and the first one wasn't. Does that matter to most of us? Absolutely not. We couldn't care less, although those who do like to have pissing contests about them every now and then. I say let them, while we enjoy using both as suits our needs (or only one, or neither) in our own personal threads of the Trek multiverse. (big grin and laugh). All right, enough of that.

There is an official KA series writeup on the Akula class destroyer that you can find and read at your own leisure, and its many fans have had a lot of fun with it over the years. It's been retrograded for the TOS era (see separate entry), it's been souped up and all sort of alternate takes done in all sorts of ways, and so on. Even Taldren Studios itselfs got into the act, using the basic Akula class design as the basis for the later advanced technology (Excelsior era) Araxes class in SFC2: OP, but I digress. I will dare to say that the Taldren Studios Akula is better known to Trek fans today than the older SOSF2 Akula, but I've never been one for popularity contests. I think there's places for both and I have both in my own thread of the Trek multiverse even though I have to ignore the naming conflict in doing so. Ignoring or hand-waving away contradictions is nothing new to us old grizzled classic Trek fans from the TOS/TAS days (chuckle).

For my part in the TMP era, I slot this in the same category of two-warp-engined, over-under layout Starfleet heavy destroyers as I do FASA's Wilkerson and other odd classes of similar configuration. To me it's still a classic Starfleet "panhandle," save it's got two handles instead of just one. You can use it as it as the basic Feddie TMP era destroyer class that most of you know, or possibly as a destroyer leader if you include the classic single-warp-engine "panhandles" in your fleet mix as well -- and the official KA/SFC series back histories allow for that. You can also use this instead of Wilkerson in the over-under TMP era heavy destroyer role, or have both -- with Wilkerson being the early TMP era favorite and Akula replacing it later on for whatever reasons you come up with. You can also do something else entirely with the Taldren Akula. That's the beauty of Trek being a multiverse. The possibilities are endless.

This appears in multiple video games licensed by the Franchise, so its semi-canon status is more or less fixed in stone.

Live long and prosper!

TRIVIA - In the KA series this is officially known as the Akula refit, which implies the existence of an earlier TOS era Akula clas. Thankfully fans have come to the rescue there, and you can find my entry on the TOS era Akula class destroyer elsewhere in the online edition of Mandel's Fighting Starships.

This is sometimes also classified as a frigate (FF) or even up-classed to a light cruiser (CL), depending on which video game or fan mod sources you consult. Destroyer (DD) or heavy destroyer (HDD) are the most widely accepted classifications, with the "heavy" qualifier coming from the fact that it has two warp engines instead of just one (that's a trademark of all Feddie heavy destroyer designs). Use as a destroyer leader (DDL) comes from the KA games themselves.

ASIDE - The existence of KA's Akula will clash with other semi-canon and fanon Feddie starship classes in both the TOS/TAS and TMP eras - Pompey, Wilkerson, et al - unless you do your homework and revise things accordingly if you want it to work with them. Most later Trek fans of a video gaming bent find it easier to go with Akula alone. You do what works best for you, okay?