USS Arella (alternate reality NCC-1062)

STARSHIP
USS Arella
Class:	Constitution-class
Registry:	NCC-1062
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Commander:	Paige Halliwell Martin (2259)
Launched:	2259
Status:	Destroyed (2263)

The USS Arella (NCC-1062) was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser. Launched in 2259 in the course of her career she became well known with the Klingons and the Tholians. In the cause of her seven years of service she excelled in military engagements always using unorthodox tactics. The Arella also was a key ship in many discoveries most noted the discovery of a lost Starfleet vessel from the 2130s. All of these were under the command of Captain Paige Halliwell Martin. The Arella was destroyed during the battle of sector 879 during the Federation-Klingon War, but a new one was commissioned the USS Arella-A.

Specifications

The class featured a saucer section connected by a neck on the rear of the saucer which ran down into the vessel's engineering hull. The primary hull contained the bridge on A-deck, officer and crew quarters on D and E-decks, a personnel transporter room on F-deck, and sickbay on G-deck. The saucer section was also fitted with six phaser battery placements, three dorsal and three ventral, with two batteries at each placement. The saucer section could also be separated in emergencies.

The secondary hull housed the ships' engineering facilities, with primary engineering control on N and O-decks, including the vessels' matter-antimatter injection mix warp core, which powered the vessels' warp drive and phasers.

At the fore of the secondary hull was the class' navigational deflector, above which were twin type 4 photon torpedo launch tubes. R-deck included the ship's cargo bay and hangar bay, which could house sixteen shuttlecraft.

The secondary hull also featured the classes pylons, connecting to twin model FWG-1 warp nacelles. Like its contemporaries, the Arbiter-class, Defender-class, Guardian-class, and Interceptor-class, the Constitution-class could, in addition to its standard systems, be armed with quantum torpedoes, and the ability to temporal shift.

Origin

Arella is the Hebrew word for Angel Massager, the NCC-1062 was the first Federation starship to carry the name of the Arella.

Early history

Although the Arella became famous under the command of William Ironside, she was originally intended to be a consulate ship intended to transport diplomats from sector to sector within the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. All of this was while under the command of Lester Hamilton. Her diplomatic missions only lasted six months before she was handed over to Paige Halliwell Martin in 2259 to begin a five year mission of exploration.

Command crew

Arella crew
Command	William Ironside• Paige Halliwell Martin
Executive	Julia Watson
Second	Clause Elberg
Tactical/Security officer	Thaal
Helm	Jamie Kaye
Medical	Sarah Chambers
Engineering	Lee Olson
Communications	Tina Hendricks