STEAMRUNNER CLASS STARSHIP (STAR TREK)

In the Star Trek fictional universe, the 'Steamrunner class' is a rarely seen class of Starfleet starship. The ''Steamrunner'' class served during the Dominion War and Borg incursions; at least one ''Steamrunner'' was lost in the explosion of the Borg cube during the Battle of Sector 001. The only clearly identified ''Steamrunner''-class starship is the USS ''Appalachia'' (NCC-52136), which is seen fighting the Borg cube towards the start of the movie ''.
In real life, the ''Steamrunner'' class was designed by Alex Jaeger at Industrial Light and Magic and rendered as a computer-generated visual effect. It was originally called the Streamrunner, named for the song "Streamrunner" by Fold Zandura but for some reason the first 'r' had been dropped.
This unconventional ship design has an angular saucer-shaped hull. Like the ''Saber'' class, the ''Steamrunner'' has two warp nacelles embedded in the saucer.
Instead of an engineering hull, an underslung secondary hull with a blue navigational deflector at the forefront is attached to the nacelles by a pylon running downward and inward at the aft end of each. The main bridge and the dorsal phaser array are embedded into the saucer. The primary hull's ventral side is dominated by the ship's ventral phaser array and lifeboats. Two impulse engines are located between the nacelles with one on each side of the ship.
The ''Steamrunner'' class is featured in the non-canon series of computer games as the Federation's long range artillery ship.

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★ Steamrunner class at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek Wiki