

If you choose to mail us the application, please return the completed Application for Good Student Discount on the next page right away-within 30 days.These models are works of my imagination, and are posted on this site to share with otherįans in a just-for-fun, non-profit fannish spirit in the same way as fan fiction. copyright © and/or trademark ™ Paramount Pictures, CBS and/or whoever else. These model designs are Copyright © John Payne Star Trek, Starfleet etc. To a profile chart of the ships in this section. To BLUEPRINTS or datasheets of some of these starships. To some detail photos of the Columbus model. Though Columbus' performance was satisfactory, the later layout of the Constitutions proved superior, and most Starfleet ships followed their basic layout for decades afterward.Ĭolumbus fires on an Orion pirate ship before it can duck into a planetary ring system. It's perhaps more surprising that no one in the higher echelons disagreed! One wonders if some wag at Starfleet Registry was just waiting to push the name Columbus for whatever ship happened to draw this construction number.

With Columbus and her sisters, the "long and lean" school of thought was approached, with some success. Columbus is an exploration cruiser, designed and built just prior to the Constitution class vessels during a period of experimentaion when Starfleet was in search of the perfect warp-dynamic layout.
