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{{Featured article | date= | article=Andrew Sheppard | image=Image:ASheppard.jpg | content summary='''Andrew Sheppard, MD''' is a celebrated [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]] [[Starfleet]] officer, physician, and linguist serving during the latter half of the twenty-fourth century.  The highlights of his recent career center around assignments as [[Chief Medical Officer]] of the ''USS Intrepid'', ''USS Frontier'', {{USS|Vesta}}, and ''Starbase 484''.  In these roles, Sheppard not only witnessed major events involving the Elyshan Cold War, the Hobus Disaster, unrest in the [[Romulan Star Empire|Romulan Empire]], and growing awareness of the Yang Zutal, but played a key role in them also.  He currently serves as [[Chief Medical Officer]] and [[Second Officer]] of the {{Class|Ethereal}} ''Starbase 484''.
 
 
Andrew Sheppard was born on April 14, 2351 to Kestra Ellus, a young [[Betazoid]] woman, in New York City on Earth.  Shortly after giving birth, Kestra passed away and the yet unnamed child was placed into the temporary care of Charles and Annabeth Sheppard.  Charles Sheppard was an ordained United Methodist pastor in New York City and his wife, Annabeth, was the youth director at Charles’ church.  The Sheppards eventually decided to formally adopt the young child, giving him the name Andrew.
 
 
Andrew spent much of his childhood living in New York City with his adoptive parents and his adoptive older brother, Michael.  The two of them got along rather well and would often spend most of their free time roaming around the city in search of something interesting or exciting to do.  Because of their parents’ involvement in the United Methodist church, both Andrew and Michael spent a great deal of time involved in the various activities and ministries of their local congregation.  Andrew liked the feeling he got from helping others and he enjoyed spending time with the other youth at the church.}}
 
 
 
 
{{Featured article | date= | article=Ascension class | image=Image:Ascension_Class.jpg | content summary=Designed in early 2345, the ''Ascension''-class was meant to be the next flagship of [[Starfleet]]. However, due to the sheer size of the vessel, the power requirements, and the prohibitive costs of building it, the design was shelved.
 
{{Featured article | date= | article=Ascension class | image=Image:Ascension_Class.jpg | content summary=Designed in early 2345, the ''Ascension''-class was meant to be the next flagship of [[Starfleet]]. However, due to the sheer size of the vessel, the power requirements, and the prohibitive costs of building it, the design was shelved.
  

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Ascension class

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Designed in early 2345, the Ascension-class was meant to be the next flagship of Starfleet. However, due to the sheer size of the vessel, the power requirements, and the prohibitive costs of building it, the design was shelved.

In 2380, after the Dominion War, the Borg attacks on Federation space, and other minor skirmishes, the Advanced Starship Design Bureau pulled the design for the Ascension-class off the shelves and had a closer look at it. They started to update the design, utilizing lessons learned on the Vesta Project. The designers also looked at the hull and shields, which at the time were inadequate for a capital ship such as this. They added an additional layer of hull to make it triple-layered, incorporated a regenerative shield system (similar to the one equipped on the Sovereign-class), enhanced the shield generators to produce more shield power, and increased the available power to the shield generators.

Next they looked at the power systems, which required a drastic upgrade to accommodate all of the modern weaponry. There was also a requirement for a higher warp factor. The designers and the Starfleet Corps of Engineers worked tirelessly on this problem for months, experimenting with various types of warp cores, even upgrading them to produce more power, but no design proved to be enough to power such a large ship. The designers decided to get radical. Thus far, the tests of the Excalibur-class with its dual warp core system had proven quite successful. They ran a simulation of with three warp cores in the same fashion and were quite pleased with the results they achieved. Two warp cores running at 75% could power the ship for normal operations, with the third kept on hot standby. In Red Alert conditions, the third warp core could power up to provide much of the needed power for shields and weapons. They also installed massive fusion reactors to power the impulse systems and provide secondary power for the ship, which can power the shields at 50% while the third warp core is brought online.