Model HB-88

The Model HB-88 was a 29th century Federation timeship. 
== History ==
One of these craft, the Aeon, was inadvertently acquired by a 20th century Human named Henry Starling. Starling found the craft in the High Sierras on Earth, as Captain Braxton, the ship's original commander, had to transport out before the ship crashed. Starling went on to use the future technology found aboard the ship to advance the computer age of late 20th century, and create Chronowerx Industries. ()
== Technical data ==
The Model HB-88 was essentially a small one-pilot craft equipped with a form of temporal drive that utilized rifts in the space-time continuum to travel through time. The timeship generated temporal rifts by initiating a temporal inversion from its temporal navigation system, an act which had the effect of powering the ship's temporal field generator. Once the ship's temporal core reached cascade potential, it was possible to open a rift to a specified time and place. The Model HB-88 was armed with a subatomic disruptor energy weapon capable of breaking apart the molecular structure of its target. discovered that 24th century phaser fire had little-to-no effect. It also possessed the ability to travel at "regular" warp speeds as well, and was equipped with hyper-impulse drive. ()
== Ships commissioned ==
* Aeon
== Appendices ==
=== Background information ===
The Aeon was described in the final draft of the "Future's End" script, dated , as a "vessel" that appeared as "a sleek, black, thing triangle, half the size of a shuttle. It looks like a curved, obsidian spear-head – small but striking."
The Aeon was designed by Rick Sternbach and was based on a single-seater fighter with elements from the stealth program. His original concept featured an ejectable cockpit, but the feature could not be matched to the final set piece. The final design was rescaled with a larger cockpit to shrink the vessel's overall size. 
(Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration, p. 211)
The model designation "HB-88" is a reference to the jet-car HB-88 from the movie The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension!.
=== Further reading ===
*Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection, issue 87, 2016
===External link===
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Category:Federation starship classes
Category:Time travel