They show up to planets that need engineering stuff done on them in order to be able to communicate with the Federation. We’ve extended the visual metaphor of the uniforms to the ships, and the Cerritos has yellow on the hull because it’s primarily a second contact engineering ship. In the California-class, there are three types of hull painting: there’s blue, red, and yellow. It’s a California-class ship, which has always existed in Starfleet – what we’re saying – that they’re the utility support ships. Per series creator/showrunner Mike McMahan: Mike McMahan stated that the shuttles are all named after California State Parks, but apparently, he misspoke. ![]() ( LD: " Terminal Provocations", " Strange Energies") If the core were removed, the shields would be drained faster than normal when under attack. The shield array of this class was capable of auto-repair, which was regulated by an isolinear core. The California class was armed with phaser arrays and photon torpedoes. ![]() It was believed that these caused the sound of their warp engines to be a little bit higher pitch, however, other sources maintained that the unique sound was caused by the vibrations in the dilithium dispersement manifold. Unlike Galaxy-class starships, the warp engine of this class incorporated inverted plasma distributors. The warp core ejection system required simultaneous authorization from two officers who each used a keycard to unlock it. The warp core was located in the secondary hull. It could exceed this speed for short bursts, but at the risk of severe structural damage. The maximum safe velocity of the California class was warp 8. A small secondary hull, bearing the navigational deflector dish, was mounted between the nacelles via a second pair of pylons. The pylons contained turbolift access in their aft-most section. The California class consisted of a saucer section with a pair of warp nacelle pylons attached directly to its ventral surface. Ventral forward view showing California-class configuration Thus with the discrediting and death of both Admiral Buenamigo himself and his project, the California class resecured its place in Starfleet. Meanwhile, Beckett Mariner had rallied all thirty-two other active ships of the California class to aid the Cerritos, and together they destroyed the Aledo. The Cerritos crew managed to bait them away and destroyed two of them by detonating its warp core between them, but this desperation attack left the Cerritos dead in the water while the Aledo survived. Instead, its AI went rogue, killing him and attacking Douglas Station alongside its sister ships. Unwilling to countenance a problem that could set his pet project back decades, Buenamigo switched the Aledo to independent control and ordered it to destroy the Cerritos. ![]() The entire California-class fleet arrives to defend the Cerritos Though the Aledo won the race, it was later discovered its artificial intelligence not only blatantly disregarded the Prime Directive by planting its deliveries without regard of the possible ecological consequences that the organic competitors accounted for in their mission, but the AI's programming was fatally flawed due to possessing similar code to that used by Badgey, a hologram created by Ensign Sam Rutherford who developed patricidal impulses and had repeatedly attempted to murder Rutherford. Protesting that the Texas-class had not been tested, Captain Carol Freeman of the USS Cerritos convinced Starfleet Command to hold a "second contact race" between her ship and the USS Aledo. ![]() In 2381, Vice Admiral Les Buenamigo advocated decommissioning the California class and replacing them with his new Texas-class automated starships. ( LD: " Moist Vessel", " Much Ado About Boimler", " No Small Parts") The Merced was eventually repaired and returned to service by the end of 2381. ( LD: " Cupid's Errant Arrow", " No Small Parts", " First First Contact")Īt least three ships of this class were lost in 2380: the USS Merced was critically damaged from exposure to terraforming emulsion that leaked from an ancient generation ship, the USS Rubidoux was subsumed by a space-dwelling lifeform, and the USS Solvang was destroyed with all hands by an enhanced Pakled vessel. Starfleet Command was reluctant to change the senior staff of California-class starships. However, new ships of the class continued to be commissioned. By the 2380s, the California class had been in service for a long time, such as that some examples of the class were beginning to "fall apart".
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