USS Aledo

The USS Aledo (NA-01) was a Federation starship operated by Starfleet in the late 24th century. It was the first of three fully automated starships. Like its sister ships, it malfunctioned and became unhinged due to faulty artificial intelligence.
In 2381, the Aledo came to the assistance of the when it was in combat with three Breen interceptors in the Delos system. The Aledo destroyed all enemy combatants. With this success of this mission, Vice Admiral Les Buenamigo confidently told Captain Carol Freeman that the Aledo had "passed [its] sea trials." ()
Due to this and the exposé revealing the misadventures on the Cerritos, the was set to be decommissioned. However, Freeman hastily declared a second contact race to prove the ship's worth. The Aledo won the contest, but when Ensign D'Vana Tendi realized the ship broke the Prime Directive by not scanning for life forms again on Planet LT-358, Freeman used this to convince Buenamigo that his ships were unfit for duty.
Adding to the troubles, Sam Rutherford realized that the AI on the ships was based on the same type of AI that he had used to create Badgey, a hologram with a dangerous programming flaw that caused him to develop patricidal impulses, and that the Aledo had likely malfunctioned in the same fashion. In response to this discovery, he rushed into Freeman's ready room to warn her of the emergency as she confronted Buenamigo. Realizing they knew the truth, Buenamigo gave the Aledo full autonomy despite Rutherford's warning that it was emotionally unstable and ordered the ship to destroy the Cerritos under the assumption that it fell to enemy hands. However, the ship refused, locking out the admiral from its systems before killing him. It proceeded to activate its sister ships, the and the and began to ravage Douglas Station. The trio overpowered the before the Cerritos lured the ships away using Rutherford as bait.
With the aid of Brad Boimler, Freeman allowed Lieutenant Shaxs to eject the warp core to destroy their pursuers, however the Aledo survived with minor damage and attacked the helpless ship. The arrival of Petra Aberdeen and former Ensign Beckett Mariner along with the entire fleet of California-class ships saved the Cerritos, destroying the Aledo under a hail of phaser fire. ()
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