The Gorn destroyer was a type of destroyer employed by the Gorn Hegemony during the 23rd century. Larger than a Federation Constitution-class starship, it was armed with plasma weapons. Like the much smaller Gorn hunter, this vessel projected patterns of light for inter-ship communication. The ship was capable of operating inside a planetary atmosphere.
In 2259, the USS Enterprise was attacked by a Gorn destroyer and three Gorn hunters near Finibus III. After eliminating the hunters, the Enterprise crew fooled the destroyer into believing that they had been destroyed by accelerating close to a black hole while detonating an AP 350 atmospheric processor within its accretion disk. (SNW: "Memento Mori")
Later that year, a Gorn destroyer participated in the attack on the USS Cayuga and the colony on Parnassus Beta. It and three hunters subsequently engaged the Enterprise over the planet. (SNW: "Hegemony")
Ships of the class[]
- Unnamed Gorn destroyers
This ship's designation was not identified in dialogue, but rather appeared on a shuttle computer display.