USS Monitor(NCC-83800)

The **USS *Monitor*** was a *Defiant*-class Federation starship in service in the late 24th century. the *Monitor* was commanded by Captain Charles Reynolds.

## History

In 2377, the *Monitor* was assigned a covert mission to destroy the Borg Homeworld, fitted with a Transwarp drive and command was temporarily handed over to Ambassador Spock, accompanied by Most of the senior staff of the Enterprise Commanded by, Captain James T. Kirk. Before departing on the mission, Captain Reynolds had the name "USS *Enterprise*" painted on her hull as a tribute to her new temporary crew.

The ship reached the Borg Homeworld in the Delta Quadrant where it engaged a joint Romulan-Borg armada, destroying the Romulan Flagship IRW*Avatar of Tomed*. The *Enterprise* discovered the Central Node of the Borg Collective; although the *Enterprise* was too damaged to destroy it with its currently-disabled weapons, Kirk apparently sacrificed himself to destroy the Node and therefore severed the connections of the entire Collective, leaving them reduced to smaller 'components' who would be more vulnerable in future. With their mission accomplished, the *Enterprise* then headed back to the Alpha Quadrant.

After returning to the Alpha Quadrant its name reverted to *Monitor* and returned to its original crew.

### 2378-2380

The Monitor was assigned Border patrol Duty around the Tholian Assembly space.

### 2380-2380

While on their normal Routine Patrol of the Tholian Border the Monitor is confronted by 3 class unknown Klingon Starships and without warning is attacked. The ship and it's crew recover quickly enough to raise shields and weapons and fight back, the ship Destroy's all three ships but not before suffering massive damage. The ship limps away from the battle with most of the crew dead or wounded the Monitor sets course to the nearest Starfleet Colony which was Klavdia III. The Monitor's communication's were offline when they arrived near the colony they realized it was nearly destroyed, with escape ships being picked off one by one by a small attack fleet orbiting the planet.

The Monitor began to draw their fire away from escaping ships and focus on them, The little ship took a beating all the while returning just as much back to the Enemy. Within a few minutes the remaining escaping ships had disappeared into Warp and the Monitor attempted to do the same as well.

During the fight the Monitor's Warp drive went off line and the intense fighting had taken the Shields off line as well, Reynolds ordered the ship to try and escape inside the nearby, while trying to escape two shuttle crafts from the Colony appeared and tried to help defend the Monitor.

The shuttles didn't stand much of a chance and while the Monitor was beaming the crew of one of the damaged runabouts aboard the other one exploded near the Monitor and remaining shuttle sending a chain reaction that made it seem as if the Monitor was destroyed as well.

With it's Unique Microdiffracted Hull that made it nearly invisible and the fact the explosion's damaged the Monitor so severely it could not be detected as it drifted further into the Nebula.

A few hours later and the bridge crew woke up, they realized the ship was heavily damaged and that Plasma was leaking throughout the ship, Captain Reynolds and the remaining bridge crew tried to save the remaining crewmembers but by the the time the ship was cleared and the environment was safe only 3 of the original crew were left alive which was the Bridge Crew. the 4 Starfleet officers they recovered from the Shuttlecrafts were alive as well, Leaving 7 out of 50 Original crewmen left aboard.

After the Dead were taken care of and placed in Cargo Bay 4, the skeliton crew began to repair the ship the best they could.

The 4 crew members The Monitor had picked up were Commander Allyson Leno a Vetern Science officer and Ex Wife to Charles Reynolds, Ensign Riley Hershey a Engineer and recent graduate of Starfleet Academy and first day at the colony, Lt junior Grade Dell Bandis a Security Officer and Lt Junior Grade Melissa Kendle a Medical Officer. The 4 Officers were quickly put to work along with the remaining crew and were assigned tasks to repair the ship they all were not accustomed too.

Starfleet Declared the ship Missing in Action during the conflict and the newly formed Klingon Confederation Declared them destroyed, but 10 days after their disappearance into the Nebula the ship immerged somewhat repaired and continued to head towards Federation Space.

The Monitor took out severial Patrols on it's way to Federation Space, The Klingon Confederation keeping the attacks under wrap's as to know show any weakness in their new Goverment began to send more and more ships towards the sectors that the Monitor was sighted in.

The Monitor was still heavily damaged with it's warp core not functioning correctly could only make Short bursts at a time before the Core needed to be realignment. The ship continued to "Limp" along hidding and evading Patrols all the while.

3 Months would pass before the Monitor crossed over the border and back into Federation Space.

## Ship Detail

Unique details-Its hull is coated in microdiffracted carbon to absorb all visible radiation that fell upon it, making it as black as the space it moved through.

*Defiant*-class vessels crewed 50 officers and crew, with room for a maximum of 150 in evacuation situations. The *Defiant* vessels weighed 355,000 metric tons, measured 170.68 meters in length, 134.11 meters in width and 30.1 meters in height. The *Defiant* had a warp core power plant rated at over 1,500 cochrane units in output, feeding two warp nacelles. The warp drive was rated for a maximum output of warp factor 9.982 for 12 hours. The ships of the *Defiant*-class were also fitted with two impulse engine fusion reactor plants and thrust emitters.

The vessels have ablative armor to absorb enemy weapons fire and were fitted with beam weapons consisting of four pulse phaser cannons, capable of firing from numerous phaser arrays along the hull. *Defiant* ships also are equipped with two launchers, capable of firing either photon torpedoes or quantum torpedoes from numerous emplacements along the hull. In an extreme situation the *Defiant*-class's nose section, which contained the vessels stock of torpedoes, could be separated as a last resort to act as a large projectile.

The *Defiant*-class was one of the few classes of Starfleet starships capable of planetary landing and lift-off, and as such, had four sets of landing gear in its ventral hull to facilitate this.

The compact type-10 shuttlecraft was designed alongside the *Defiant*-class and two can be held in its shuttle bay.