Brief History of the USS Triton
The starship Triton, Starfleet registry
NCC-80106, is a Luna-class explorer launched in the year 2380, making Triton the youngest vessel in the
Fifth Fleet. It is the seventh Luna-class
starship built and the third Federation starship to bear the name.
Triton was built at the Utopia Planitia
Fleetyard orbiting Mars and was launched on stardate 57465.0 under the
command of Captain Ned Sand. After a
brief shakedown, the Triton was
assigned to Starfleet's Small Magellanic Cloud exploratory expedition
alongside the USS Prometheus and
the USS Europa.
Triton completed her extra-galactic mission
in 2385 and returned to Utopia Planitia for post-mission refit and
upgrades. In early 2386, command of Triton
was turned over to Captain Charlie Momsen and the Triton was reassigned to the newly reformed Federation Fifth
Fleet, assigned to Starbase 719
in the Typhon Sector. The vessel’s new mission had barely begun when the
ship fell under attack and Captain Momsen was killed. Triton
returned to Starbase 719, where
Captain Amanda Tomkins assumed command of the starship and resumed its
mission to explore the unknown.
The starship’s nickname,
‘Duranium Raider,’ follows a tradition that goes back to the mid-20th
century when the American nuclear submarine USS Triton (SSN-586),
the first to circumnavigate the Earth submerged, earned the nickname of the
‘Steel Raider.’
