18 Aug 2024

The size of the Klingon Sarcophagus Ship

The Sarcophagus, or Ship of the Dead, was a Klingon starship that originally served as the command vessel of the House of T'Kuvma. In 2256, the Sarcophagus was encountered by the USS Shenzhou at the edge of Federation space.

The Set Designer David Moreau published a top view of the Sarcophagus ship's bridge. My calculations follow a purely mathematical approach. In this case I was able to use the correct dimensions from the bridge set.
On this you can see the dimensions of the opening of the front window (9'-6'' = 2.74m + 0.15m: overall 2.89m).

Sarcophagus ship bridge - by David Moreau

According to this set blueprint, the entire dome window has a diameter of 4.27m.
It is one of the largest bridge sets ever built for Star Trek. However, I had my doubts early on about the officially published length of the ship (2550.6m), because it seemed very gigantic (even for such a large bridge window).

This gives the entire spaceship a width of 472.7m.


 This results in a length of 993.06m for the Sarcophagus ship.