Klingon star ship

Klingon star ship
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Klingon starships are fictional spacecraft that appear in the television and film installments of the fictional universe of Star Trek. In the shows, these vessels are used by the forces of the Klingon Empire. Interstellar vehicles, they are typically warships, ranging in sizes similar to modern naval vessels to much larger. They are equipped with a fictional faster-than-light propulsion system called "warp drive", and armed with equally fictional weapons like photon torpedoes.
Although a variety of Klingon ships were appeared on Star Trek, they generally conform to a general and recognizable style, the antecedent of which was the Klingon ship that first appeared during the third season of Star Trek. Designed by Walter M. ("Matt") Jefferies—the designer of the original USS Enterprise—it featured a bulbous forward hull separated by a long central boom from the wing-like main hull, which featured wingtip-mounted nacelles. Jefferies wanted to emulate the shape of a predator, something akin to a manta ray, and so he made even the color scheme of the ship dark on top, lighter on bottom. All later designs harken back to at least some elements of this original design.