Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards
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The Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, or Utopia Planitia Shipyards, is a key Starfleet vessel construction and design facility in the 24th century. It is partly positioned in synchronous orbit 16,625 kilometers above the Utopia Planitia region on Mars, including the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yard's planetary construction facilities. (TNG: "Parallels", Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)
The facility includes a number of drydocks and space stations, as well as several large drafting rooms for starship design and the aforementioned planetary facilities. (TNG: "Booby Trap", "Parallels"; VOY: "Relativity")
The Galaxy-class Starship Development Project, including the majority of ship construction, design work and system model tests, was based out of Drafting Room 5 on Mars Station at Utopia Planitia. (TNG: "Eye of the Beholder", Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual)
Then-Commander Benjamin Sisko was assigned to Utopia Planitia sometime after the battle of Wolf 359 for three years, where he assisted in the design work and flight tests of the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Emissary", "The Search, Part I")
- According to Ronald D. Moore, the production staff put starship models in Sisko's office to show his involvement with ship design. [1]
The USS Voyager also underwent final construction phases at this location. Additionally, while still in drydock, this was the first time Kathryn Janeway visited the ship. (VOY: "Relativity")
In 2371, the death of Gabriel Bell in 2024 led to the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards being erased from history. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")
The fleet yards in orbit of Mars were sometimes seen on the large astrometrics monitor aboard the USS Voyager. (VOY: "The Voyager Conspiracy")
[edit] Ships developed and/or built at Utopia Planitia
- USS Galaxy (NCC-70637)
- USS Yamato (NCC-71807)
- USS Enterprise-D (NCC-1701-D)
- USS Odyssey (NCC-71832)
- USS Equinox (NCC-72381)
- USS Defiant (NX-74205)
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
- USS Defiant (NCC-75633) (aka USS São Paulo)
[edit] Personnel
[edit] External link
- Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
