USS Venture (NCC-71854)

The USS Venture (NCC-71854) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. Its captain was a friend of Benjamin Sisko.
In 2372, the Venture led a task force under the command of Admiral Hastur to reinforce Deep Space 9 when it was threatened by a Klingon attack. Sisko offered to talk to the captain of the Venture to secure Worf a position aboard, although Worf preferred to stay on Deep Space 9. ()
The Venture visited DS9 again in 2373. ()
In 2374, the Venture participated in Operation Return, protecting the flank of the . The Venture was one of the first ships to arrive at Deep Space 9 after the Dominion retreat. ()
The Venture saw action again later that year when it fought as part of the Federation Alliance fleet that invaded the Chin'toka system. ()
By 2401, this ship had been superseded by a . ()
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=== Background information ===
The Venture in "The Way of the Warrior" (and episodes which reused that footage) was the four-foot model built for the third season of . Although it was mostly unchanged from the Enterprise-D, the Venture retained the phaser arrays on the dorsal sides of its nacelles from when the model was modified into the future Enterprise from , but they were turned around for the Venture. This was the last use of the four-foot physical model to represent the Galaxy-class, although AMT kits would be used later as well as computer generated versions that did not have the extra phasers. 
The Ventures appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a post, by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes, on the newsgroup .
The Venture was also the first Galaxy-class ship to have its full name emblazoned below the registry number on the ventral side of its saucer section, which was carried over to other Galaxy-class ships such as the from .
=== Apocrypha ===
In the strategy game, Star Trek: Bridge Commander, the USS Venture was one of the ships the player has to rescue from a Cardassian attack.
In Star Trek Online, the Venture has been destroyed or decommissioned by 2409 and replaced by a starship, ; this ship was subsequently lost attempting to halt a Borg incursion into fluidic space.
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