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INTRODUCTION Write-Up Assumption FASA Refit from Anton To Miranda Canon Class Name Modular Design   ST:II Visual Inspection Witnessed Armament Reliant Bridge Fire Controls TNG ERA 1982 Effects   FASA Weapon Stats FASA Reliant Class (Model MKI)     Weapons and Firing Data Simply Adding The Saucer Phaser Stats FASA Reliant Class (Model MKI) Saucer Weapons Update     Weapons and Firing Data Suggested True Armament Miranda Rack Weapon Arc

Source: FASA Federation Recognition Manual 1st Edition Miranda (ex-Anton Class)

NEW GAME STATS (MKI 2272) Miranda Class (Model MKI)     Weapons and Firing Data How are the FASA rules Effected?     Terms     About ARC Diagram Names     Extended and New rules     About CE Rating NEW FASA DESCRIPTION (2287) Disposition List FASA Continuity note APPEARANCE BRIEF Miranda Variants (page 2) Variant I Variant II Variant III Soyuz (class variant) Links Miranda Class Data Sheets (page 3) Fan Created TNG ship stats

[ VARIANT I ]
(no rack)

A FASA DESCRIPTION

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APPEARANCE BRIEF

U.S.S. Lantree;  [ Refit I ] Class 6 Supply; Contaminated with bio-virus, destroyed in 2365 (TNG "Unnatural Selection")
Captain L. Isao Telaka * Destroyed by USS Enterprise to prevent spread of DNA virus

[ VARIANT II ]
(no rack, new pods, new "planetary sensor" weapon)

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A FASA DESCRIPTION

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FIRING

PHASERS
The phasers on the Saratoga are emitted basically anywhere on or below the planetary sensor when seen. One can conclude that the effects people where completely unaware that day where the phasers shoot from. The effects provide proof that there where defiantly atleast two banks and a maxium of four emitters seen firing from this area(insert more),

To rationalize this we can either say this ship is using 2 banks, or a Phaser Cluster / 'fire cluster weapon system' located on or just above the planetary sensor or even yet we can say the phasers where shooting from the saucers underside forward phaser banks. ( but without dismishing all of the effects and snds, one can see that there are atleast 4 emitters and are equivalent to a TNG style starship weapon, rate of fire was also comparable(to array phasers), the evidence places the phasers  as TNG tech level.   All the other standard saucer phaser banks are also present, but not seen fired.

PHOTON TORPEDEOS
The captain of this ship orders "Load all torpedo bays, ready phasers" but we never actually see them fire photons or where from since the ship was destroyed before it could.  This was also a problem with the TOS Enterprise, there was no actual photon deck or ports, to solve that I took the miranda's automated photon pod and extended its history back to the history I made for the constitutions small automated photon deck. So I'm going with the Constitution Class type automated photon deck, and placing it approximately in the same location as on aConstitutions lower saucer decks, just above the planetary sensor. I'm assuming there where a maxium of two small bays; The photons will approximately be the same size as what was used in the TOS series, but more powerful based on the TNG era tech level.

About 'Automated Photon Decks'
The information above will yet show another improvmement in the 'automated photon deck' that I "placed" as what could have been on a TOS Constitution to explain why the deck would be so small.  So the history of this weapon system goes from the Constitution, to the Miranda Weapon Pod and then back to the Saratoga with an 'automated photon deck'.

APPEARANCE BRIEF

U.S.S. Saratoga; [ Refit II ] Destroyed by the Borg at Wolf 359 in 2367 ("The Best of Both Worlds II", DS9 "Emissary")

The Saratoga was a reuse of the Reliant model built for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, relabeled with new registry. This time around, however, the model was filmed without its upper rollbar modification, and two large outboard modules (referred to by production sources as 'sensor pods' based on there appearance). The ship fired phasers from an area usually identified as the lower sensor dome, rather than from any of the phaser emplacements built into the model.

[ VARIANT III ]
(second impulse deck, no torpedo pod)

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A FASA DESCRIPTION

(coming...) The secound impulse is for better sublight acceleration.

Soyuz(class variant)
(more info coming)

The Soyuz class variant was an after thought of the TNG series designers to represent a ship that was constructed back in the TMP era for using in the TNG series. For gamers and enthuses this gives us something more to play on and explore.

If you asked me the Soyuz Class Variant starship looks to be using non-trek-like model parts. Done by the same people that did the non-trek model component bashing for the ConstellationStarship. I was surprised to find that these Miranda class variants(Soyuz Class) where actually 'built' before the time of the Constellation and before STII. Behind Scenes; The script called for a new starship type; Soyuz class but the model makers didn't have enough time to come up with a new model and so just stuck some 'sensor pods' onto the existing Miranda.

However these ships do back up the entire "modular design era" I seemed to observed in the early ST Movies and in canon  pre-TMP text.  But they didn't go about it how I would have thought, and this is mostly due to the fact it wasn't done by the original Reliant Model Makers. Even so these ships do exist, but the preliminary cannon suggestions for what components on the ship do are terribly flawed and totally not thought through so well.

The ship 'apears' to be heaver than a standard Miranda, and perhaps more power is required to operate ship, possiably slightly lower top ends ans acceleration. I would guess the sheilds maybe beefed up a tad. -more- a science or scout ship featured enhanced weapons and shielding and lacked the science applications of the Miranda. Externally, the ship had enlarged aft cargo and shuttlebay sections as well as outboard weapon, deflector and sensor pods. These ships served primarily as border cutters for perimeter action and enforcement.

As of 2278, there were only five Soyuz-class ships in service, including the Bozeman and, presumably, the Soyuz. The last Soyuz-class ship was taken out of service in 2288, although the lost Bozeman was recovered, given a 24 century refit and was placed on active patrols from 2368 until 2373.

Source: TNG  ( 2278 ?new and last built? )
(These images came from ?a magazine? There identical views just scanned from different equipment)

A FASA DESCRIPTION

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An advanced variant of the Miranda-class. Featured a third enlarged aft cargo and shuttlebay section. Equipped with several large outboard sensor pods.

Source: TNG, USS Bozeman

APPEARANCE BRIEF

USS Soyuz; not seen.

USS Bozeman; TNG: "Cause and Effect", Disappeared near the Typhon Expanse in 2278 where it remained until 2368, trapped for 90 years in a temporal causality loop; commanded by Captain Bateson(who said he just left spacedock 3 weeks ago, LOL "Frashier" hes funny). The TNG era Refit Bozeman was in the armada to intercept the Borg incursion to Sector 001 in 2372  Mentioned in TNG: All Good Things..."; ST: First Contact. (Involved in task forces in "Star Trek: Generations" and "Star Trek: First Contact", Mentioned)

Source: TNG, USS Bozeman

Some Sites on the Reliant and the Miranda Class, Including Source Material for this write-up;

http://www.shiporama.org/miranda.htm -
http://www.neutralzone.de/database/Federation/StarFleet/Miranda.htm -
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/tr_reliant.htm -
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/trek/ss_soyuz.htm -
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Miranda_class -
http://members.aol.com/FH1860/ - Avenger / Miranda Class Starship General Plans
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steven.bacon/anton.htm - FASA material
http://www.sub-odeon.com/stsstcsmua/federation/anton.html - FASA material
http://www.sub-odeon.com/stsstcsmua/federation/reliant.html - FASA material
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/star-trek/ships/expanded/ - Canon Miranda Ship List included. May 14 2004
http://www-rnks.informatik.tu-cottbus.de/~tweimann/schematics/bridges_miranda_class.htm - Different Bridges
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084726/trivia - STII Trivia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_class_starship "Miranda class starship" at Wikipedia
http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Miranda_class -  "Miranda class" at Memory Alpha
"Miranda class" at LCARScom.Net
"Starship Gallery - Miranda" at Ex Astris Scientia
"Miranda class" at Neutral Zone Starship Database
"Miranda class" by Stephen Pugh

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