Star Trek Service Record Simulator
TURN 67: April 2141
Starfleet Engineering was established in the summer of 2136 as an effort to begin the process of Starfleet constructing and operating its own spacecraft independent of the United Earth Space Probe Agency. Upon its creation, Starfleet Engineering held forty members and occupied an office on the first floor of UESPA headquarters in Houston on Earth. By the beginning of 2137, Starfleet Engineering had nearly tripled in size, divided into three branches overseeing warp propulsion research, starship design, as well as a general administrative office.
In the summer of 2137, Starfleet Engineering was relocated to Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco. In 2140, the offices of Starfleet Engineering were relocated again to the new Starfleet Engineering Complex.
STARFLEET ENGINEERING
STARFLEET ENGINEERING COMPLEX
On January 17th 2139, groundbreaking occurred to the west of Starfleet Headquarters for a new engineering complex for the design and development of new warp propulsion systems. That same month, Starfleet Engineering opened a new project file to design and successfully test a Warp 2 engine by the year 2142.
The Starfleet Engineering Complex was formally opened on February 17, 2140; the facility included the offices of Starfleet Engineering as well as a flight testing facility (known as the "Test Bay") capable of launching experimental warp craft into Earth orbit.
The location of the
Starfleet Engineering Complex adjacent
to Starfleet Headquarters
In December 2140, the Office of Special Projects, a branch of Starfleet Operations, formally became a tenant agency of the Starfleet Engineering Complex in order to oversee the development of the NX Project. the first warp test ship, the Type 3 Warp Test Craft, was constructed in March 2141.