OBERTH-CLASS STARSHIP
U.S.S. PEGASUS NCC-53847

The Oberth-class starship is a small Federation starship typically used for scientific missions. The Oberth-class is not heavily armed, but it has a large computer core, very powerful sensors and other scientific instruments, contained in the equipment module. This makes it a popular research vessel as well as a testbed for new projects. The Oberth-class is one of the few Federation vessels that is used in non-Starfleet research missions.

The class was named after Herman Oberth, a 20th century German rocket scientist.

One classified test was the phased cloak protoype aboard the U.S.S. Pegasus NCC-53847, commanded by Captain Erik Pressman. In 2354, the Pegasus was secretly fit with an illegal prototype Federation phased cloaking device. (The Treaty of Algeron, signed by the Federation and the Romulan Empire in 2311, ended hostilities between the two and prohibited the Federation from developing cloaking technology.) The phased cloak functions as a standard cloak, which allows the ship to appear invisible. It also is slightly phased which allows it to pass through normal matter. While conducting dangerous tests, the crew became concerned that Captain Pressman had become obsessed and was endangering the ship and the crew. The crew mutinied and Captain Pressman and his supporters (including then Ensign William T. Riker) were forced to abandon ship. After Pressman escaped from the Pegasus, the ship appeared to be destroyed by a warp core breach.

U.S.S. Pegasus

In 2370, the Pegasus was found trapped inside Asteroid Gamma 6-0-1 in the Devolin System. Starfleet Security sent now Admiral Erik Pressman with the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D to salvage the cloak. Captain Jean-Luc Picard was suspicious of Admiral Pressman's motives as he endangered the Enterprise and its crew to salvage the Pegasus, but he was under orders. When Commander Riker finally told Captain Picard of the mission and of the cloaking device, Picard took Admiral Pressman into custody for violating the Treaty of Algeron.

By the 2370's, the aging Oberth-class vessel is being phased out of Starfleet, replaced by the Nova-class starship.

Notable Oberth-class starships include:

U.S.S. Grissom NCC-638, commmanded by Captain J. T. Esteban. Assigned to study the newly formed planet Genesis in 2285. The research team included Lt. Saavik and Dr. David Marcus, son of Captain James Kirk. The Grissom was subsequently destroyed by the Klingons who were attempting to claim the planet and the secret of the Genesis device for the Klingon Empire.
S.S. Vico NAR-18934. Non-Starfleet Federation research vessel. Destroyed by gravitational wavefronts, amplified by the ship's shields, in the Black Cluster in 2368. One survivor, a boy named Timothy, was rescued by the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D.
U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky NCC-53911. In 2364, the ship was conducting research on a red super giant star which was in the process of collapsing into a white dwarf. The crew became infected by the PSI-2000 virus and died. It was subsequently destroyed by a stellar core fragment from the collapsing star. The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D responded to the Tsiolkovsky's distress call, but it had arrived too late.

	SPECIFICATIONS	U.S.S. PEGASUS NCC-53847
	NAME, REGISTRY	U.S.S. Pegasus, NCC-53847
	STARSHIP CLASS	Oberth-Class Science Vessel
	YEAR COMMISSIONED	2354
	LENGTH	160 M
	WIDTH	41 M
	HEIGHT	38 M
	WEIGHT
	DECKS	11
	CREW COMPLEMENT	80
	PRIMARY PROPULSION	Matter/Antimatter Reactor (warp core)
	SECONDARY PROPULSION	Deuterium Fusion Drive motors (impulse engines)
	SUSTAINABLE WARP	7.0 (Cruise Velocity); 8.5 (Sustainable); 9.0 (Max)
	ARMAMENT	Type-VII Phaser Arrays (5.1 MW); 3 Mark-VIII and Mark-IX Photon Torpedo Launchers
	COMPUTER CORE	Redundant primary computer cores. Isolinear optical circuits.
	AUXILIARY CRAFT

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OBERTH-CLASS STARSHIP U.S.S. PEGASUS NCC-53847

OBERTH-CLASS STARSHIP
U.S.S. PEGASUS NCC-53847