USS Aventine

The **USS *Aventine*** (**NCC-82602**) was a 24th century Federation starship, a *Vesta*-classmulti-mission explorer in Starfleet service from the 2380s decade. Since the year 2381, *Aventine* was under the command of Captain Ezri Dax, with a crew of about 750. (*ST* - *Destiny*  novel: *Gods of Night*)

## Service history and disposition

###### 2380

The *Aventine* was fitted to serve as a testbed starship for the quantum slipstream drive in late 2380. (*TNG*  novel: *Greater Than the Sum*)

###### 2381

The *Aventine* saw her first combat action against the Borg during the invasion of Acamar. During the battle, the commanding officer and the executive officer were both killed, leaving Ezri Dax in command of the ship. One week after the battle, Starfleet officially promoted Dax to captain and gave her command of the *Aventine*.

The *Aventine* was then sent to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate and salvage the remains of the *Columbia*. This was, however, cut short when the ship was reassigned to defend Trill from the Borg. During the operation, two of the *Aventine'*s engineering personnel, who were part of the salvage team, were found dead. An investigation revealed the cause of the death to be a Caeliar, who also managed to board the *Aventine*, where he caused additional deaths. After stealing the runabout USS *Seine* in an attempt to locate his former home, Erigol, Arithon confessed to Captain Dax that he had not caused the deaths on purpose, but had known only the need to feed. (*ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Gods of Night*)

Once in the Azure Nebula, the *Aventine* received a distress call from the USS *Enterprise*-E and rescued it from a Borg cube. After dealing with the immediate threat, the two vessels enacted repairs while awaiting further orders. Captain Dax wanted to utilize the tunnels as exploratory devices, but Captain Picard insisted on determining how to collapse them to prevent further Borg incursions. However, after sensor readings indicated that collapsing the tunnels could have disastrous results, the two ships worked to open and survey the far sides of the tunnels, hoping to take the front line of the Borg invasion to the Collective. The *Aventine* made contact with an unusual cosmozoan species in the Delta Quadrant who had repelled a fleet of Borg vessels and only allowed the ship to survive because they were not Borg. Another tunnel took the *Aventine* to the intergalactic void, almost a million light years distant of NGC 5078, and the last tunnel that the *Aventine* went through, jointly with the *Enterprise*, deposited them in a plasma stream between a binary star on the outer rim of the Carina Arm near the meridian of the Delta and Gamma Quadrants, where they faced a Hirogen assault. Although the two vessels were boarded, they were able to repel the assault. The journey back was rushed due to the collapse of the tunnel system, and when they arrived back at the Azure Nebula, they found a ship graveyard—the remnants of the Alpha/Beta Quadrant expeditionary force which had been destroyed by a massive Borg armada of over seven thousand cubes. The *Aventine* set course for Earth to attempt a defense, and the *Enterprise* chased them. (*ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Mere Mortals*

Against immeasurable odds, Captain Dax of the *Aventine* initially planned to bring the ship's experimental slipstream drive online ahead of the test schedule to allow the ship to get to Earthahead of the Borg and mount a desperate last defense. Dax was eventually dissuaded from this plan by Captain Picard of the USS *Enterprise*. (*ST* -  *Destiny*  novels: *Mere Mortals*, *Lost Souls*) )

After being repaired and refitted, the *Aventine* began relief operations. It occasionally used its slipstream drive to expedite travel times between destinations. In April 2381, it transported Sonek Pran to Achernar Prime in order to convince Donatra to help in providing aid to the Romulan Star Empire. (*ST*  novel: *A Singular Destiny*)

###### 2382

In August of that year Julian Bashir and Sarina Douglas were dispatched on an under-cover mission into Breen space to track down the prototype Breen quantum slipstream-equipped starship, and destroy it. The *Aventine* provided support for the mission; ready to make a slipstream jump into Breen space and extract them once the prototype was destroyed. Ultimately the *Aventine* was called in slightly before the destruction of the prototype, and had to help finish the mission by using her shields to force the Breen ship back into the shipyard, where it was destroyed by a reactor core breach in the base. (*ST* -  *Typhon Pact*  novel: *Zero Sum Game*)

###### 2383

In 2383, Starfleet sent the *Aventine* to the Venetan Outpost V-4 to investigate Tzenkethi activity there. (*ST* -  *Typhon Pact* novel: *Brinkmanship*)

###### 2385

In August 2385, Captain Dax and the *Aventine* crew docked at the new Deep Space 9 for the dedication ceremony of the new starbase. (*ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *Revelation and Dust*)

In September, the *Aventine* was ordered to intercept Dr Julian Bashir on his way to Andor to prevent classified information being leaked to the Typhon Pact. The *Aventine* was involved in a standoff and fired upon by Andorian ships before temporarily defusing an extradition situation. Once Captain Dax had sided with Bashir in administering the cure to Andor, the USS *Warspite*and USS *Falchion* attempted to remove the *Aventine* from the system. However, the ship remained in orbit of Andor for the duration of the conflict. (*ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *A Ceremony of Losses*)

It is unknown who replaced Dax following her arrest and incarceration on Jaros II. (*ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *The Poisoned Chalice*)

Later in 2385 it was revealed that Ishan Anjar was long dead. Baras Rodirya - the man who had taken his identity during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor - was revealed to be working with the Cardassian group the True Way. Baras was personally arrested by Attorney General Phillipa Louvois and removed from office. Admiral Akaar was soon authorized by President Pro-Tempore Sipak to drop all the charges against Captain Dax. Dax was issued a commendation for her actions and reinstated as captain of the *Aventine*. (*ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *Peaceable Kingdoms*)

###### 2409

The *Aventine* remained in service into the 25th century. In 2409, the ship underwent a refit and became the prototype of the *Aventine*-class multi-mission reconnaissance explorer. (*STO* - *Klingon War* mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock")

###### 2410-2411

In 2410, the *Aventine* travelled to the 20 Draconis system, where the time-displaced Deep Space Station K-13 had been recovered and its crew awoken from suspended animation. Captain Dax intended to bring her experiences as counselor and with the Klingon Empire to bear when helping the 2270-era station personnel and their Klingon ex-prisoners to terms with the 25th century. (*STO* -  *Tales from K-13* short story: "Part 3")

Following the end of the Dominion-Hur'q conflict, Doctor Julian Bashir accepted the assignment for chief medical officeraboard the *Aventine* so he could live with his wife Ezri and their children. (*STO* -  *Victory is Life* mission: "Home")

During an away mission to investigate a mycelial network, Bashir ended up hanging upside down and called *Aventine* for assistance. After his recovery, Captain Dax's investigation led her to classified files from the astromycologist Paul Stamets. (*STO*-  *Age of Discovery* short story: "Spores")

In 2410 and 2411, the *Aventine* represented its class in the Starfleet Shipyards Operations interface. (*STO* -  *Klingon War* mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock")

Khitomer Alliance flag officer in, or aligned with, Starfleet, deployed *Aventine* for missions around the galaxy's four quadrants as part of the four-quadrant strategy. (*STO* -  *Klingon War* mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock", *admiralty system*)

## Crew manifest

*See also USS Aventine personnel*
* Commanding officer:
	+ Captain Dexar (2380-2381, KIA)
	+ Captain Ezri Dax (2381-2385, 2385-2411)
* First officer:
	+ Commander Tovak (2380-2381, KIA)
	+ Commander Sam Bowers (2381)
* Second officer:
	+ Lieutenant Commander Ezri Dax (2380-2381)
	+ Lieutenant Commander Gruhn Helkara (2381)
* Chief engineer:
	+ Lieutenant Mikaela Leishman (2381)
* Chief medical officer:
	+ Doctor Simon Tarses (2381)
	+ Lieutenant Commander Julian Bashir (2411)
* Operations manager:
	+ Lieutenant Oliana Mirren (2381)
* Chief science officer:
	+ Lieutenant Commander Gruhn Helkara (2381)
* Chief of security/tactical officer:
	+ Lieutenant Lonnoc Kedair (2381)

## Auxiliary craft

* *Meuse* (shuttlecraft)
* USS *Seine* (*Danube*-class runabout)

## Appendices

###### Connections

(primary universe)
(mirror universe)

###### Appearances

* *ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Mere Mortals*
* *ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Lost Souls*
* *ST*  novel: *A Singular Destiny*
* *ST* calendar: *Ships of the Line 2010*
* *Star Trek Magazine* Issue 156: "Building the Aventine"
* *ST* -  *Typhon Pact*  novel: *Zero Sum Game*
* *ST* -  *Typhon Pact*  novel: *Brinkmanship*
* *ST* calendar: *Ships of the Line 2013*
* *ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *Revelation and Dust*
* *ST* -  *The Fall*  novel: *A Ceremony of Losses*
* *TNG*  novel: *Takedown*
* *STO* -  *Klingon War* mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock"

1. ↑ *TNG*  novel: *Greater Than the Sum*
2. ↑ Jump up to: 2.0 2.1 *ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Mere Mortals*
3. ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 *ST* -  *Destiny*  novel: *Gods of Night*