While not strictly military (according to the designers Eaves and Sternbach, they were not 'escort' vessels, more like 'sports car heavy cruiser'), and usually used for diplomacy and exploration, Sovereign still packs a punch, more than Galaxy-class vessels, due to how many torpedo launchers they have. The Artois class were a series of nine frigates built to a 1793 design by Sir John Henslow, which served in the Royal Navy during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

What is the purpose of the Captain's Yacht on some Federation starship classes? Is it a fundamental tenet of liberalism to allow the expression of illiberal ideals? 3. In 2380, the Intrepid became the first Starfleet vessel to successfully chart and explore a Mutara class nebula's outermost region. Everyone will know what they are, and will focus on taking it out first, and you will surely lose it. There was the Sovereign … The Intrepid-Class (USS Voyager), was similarly not included in the DS9 fleet scenes (The Intrepid sent to Romulus being the exception) because the producers did not want the audience to think that Janeway and crew were suddenly back in the alpha quadrant fighting instead of exploring the delta quadrant.

The class employed a new warp core, variable geometry warp nacelles, and was the first to field both bio-neural gelpaks and the Emergency Medical Hologramsystem. The Sovereign class beat the NX-class by a wide margin.

Sovereign class super star destroyer