USS Akagi USS " Akagi " ( NCC - 62158 ) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet . In 2368 , the " Akagi " joined Captain Picard ' s fleet that blockade d the Klingon - Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War . The ship was one of twenty - three assembled for the fleet and was one of the seventeen chosen for the tachyon network . Identified by its name and registry number , the ship ' s position in the network was monitored from the . A plan was hatched by Picard , which he hoped would lure the Romulans through the detection grid . When Gowron launched a full attack against the forces of the House of Duras , the Romulan ships would rush to their aid . During this , the would fall back with feigned engine troubles , taking the " Akagi " and the . In doing so , this would open up a small gap in the detection net for the Romulans to attempt to pass through . As their ships passed through the gap , the " Enterprise - D " and the would swing around , close the gap , and catch the Romulans in the act . The plan was foiled when the network was disrupted by a high - energy burst released by the Romulan s , the net was no longer effective in a of ten million kilometer s around the . Subsequently , Picard ordered the fleet to proceed to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp , where the fleet would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there . ( ) In 2374 , " Akagi " was assigned to the Ninth Fleet , operating in the Bajor sector theater . A week after Operation Return , the ship visited Deep Space 9 along with and to be resupplied . ( ) The starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command . The name of the reporting ship and its registry and the casualties were named on the " Personnel Status Update " chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom . ( " okudagram " ) Appendices . Background information . The classified this vessel as a starship . " Akagi " was named for the that served as the flagship of the Pearl Harbor strike force on 7 December 1941 . " Akagi " held the somewhat dubious distinction of being the only Starfleet vessel whose namesake was ( indirectly ) destroyed by an " Enterprise " , sunk by dive bombers from the first aircraft carrier at six months later . The American carrier was also heavily engaged in that action . writer Ronald D . Moore thought it fitting that in " Star Trek " s future , USS " Akagi " would be serving alongside . ( ) The inclusion of a Japanese carrier in Starfleet had already been a desire of " " Producer Robert Justman , when he annotated on a ship names list memo of 9 August 1967 as namesake suggestions for starships belonging to , what they at the time still called , the " Starship " - class , " " I think there would be several other candidates , such as " Saratoga " and perhaps another English carrier , a French carrier , a Russian carrier and certainly a Japanese carrier " " . While there had been plenty of historical Japanese aircraft carriers to choose from at the time , the eventually chosen had in actuality been a World War I - II era . ( " The Making of Star Trek " , pp . 164 - 165 ) It was therefore Moore who had at long last fulfilled Justman ' s wish a quarter of a century later .