Brief History of the USS Dauntless
The USS Dauntless NCC-75310 is a Sovereign-class starship built at
Starfleet Yards in orbit of Vulcan and launched at the height of the
Dominion War in early 2375 under the command of then-Commodore Peter J.
Koester.
Originally designated
the Illustrious, the starship’s
name was changed to Dauntless
when her Intrepid-class predecessor, registry number NCC-74658, was destroyed in 2374 and the majority of the
surviving crew were assigned to the new vessel while it was still in its
final stages of construction.
Some of the highlights
of the Dauntless’ early missions include
the first encounter with the mysterious alien species dubbed the Hunters
and participating in the first battle of Chin’toka
and the invasion of Cardassia Prime, the battle
that ended the Dominion War.
The Dauntless was turned over to the command of Captain Virgil D.
Kane in early 2377, after which the starship resumed its mission of
exploration, until a collision with a neutronic
fuel tanker in orbit of the New Gibraltar colony in 2379 resulted in the
relief of Captain Kane and the entry of the Dauntless into drydock at Utopia Planitia Fleetyard orbiting
Mars.
While undergoing
collision repairs, an evaluation determined there was an exceptional amount
of structural damage sustained during the Dominion War. What was planned as a six week repair turned
into a year-long overhaul and upgrade. Dauntless
finally left drydock in mid-2380, once again
under the command of now-Captain Peter
J. Koester, who had briefly retired from Starfleet in 2378 and returned on
the condition that he could resume the duties of a starship commander at
the rank of captain.
Highlights of the
starship’s more recent missions include first contact with the Kairn, an aggressive alien species that invaded and
occupied several sectors of Federation space, first contact with the Morain, centuries-long adversaries of the Kairn with whose help Starfleet managed to push the Kairn back beyond the original border, and the Zaqri terrorist attack that almost destroyed the
starship in late 2382, resulting in the Dauntless
spending another six months in drydock at the Antares Shipyard in orbit of Antares
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U.S.S. Dauntless Ship’s Dedication Plaque U.S.S. Dauntless Ship’s Logo
