DY-100 class

DY-100 class
Affiliation:	Earth, Augment

The DY-100 class was an early design of Earth space vessels that were in operation during the late 20th century.

The ships were specially designed for interplanetary travel. They had simple nuclear fusion-powered engines and were equipped with artificial gravity. They still used transistors as components. DY-100 ships were launched into orbit with booster rockets. In the 1990s, this class of spaceship was considered to be one of the most advanced.

At least some of the DY-100 ships were "sleeper ships." In those, a crew of at least 85 could be placed into suspended animation inside life support canisters prior to liftoff. The life support of the ship was turned off for the journey. The use of suspended animation was necessary up to approximately 2018, as it took years to travel from planet to planet in the solar system prior to that.

• In the Star Trek Universe, the production of the DY-100 class ship began prior to 1996 and ended some time before the year 2000. A later generation of the class, the DY-500, was similar in configuration, and some 23rd century Humans had trouble telling them apart.

Fun Fact

A model of a DY-100 appeared on a window sill of the office where Rain Robinson worked, at the Griffith Observatory in California in 1996. She also had a photograph of the launch of a DY-100 attached with tape to a cabinet.