USS Titan

For the 23rd century predecessor, please see USS Titan (23rd century).

The **USS Titan (NCC-80102)** was a Federation Luna-class starship operated by Starfleet during the late 24th century.

## Service history

###### 2379

In 2379, newly-promoted Captain William T. Riker became the commanding officer of the USS Titan. He transferred from the USS Enterprise-E, along with his new wife, Counselor Deanna Troi.

That year, the first assignment for the *Titan*'s crew was to head up the new task force investigating the possibility of peaceful relations with the Romulan Star Empire in the wake of the recent events involving the *coup d'état* of Shinzon of Remus. (Star Trek Nemesis)

###### 2380

By 2380, the Titan under Riker's command was considered a distinguished posting and a step up from ships such as the California-class USS Cerritos. In this year, Ensign Fletcher was promoted and briefly assigned to the Titan from the Cerritos. Within six days, however, he had been demoted and fired for dumping garbage into the Titan's warp core and was transferred back to Earth. (LD: "Terminal Provocations")

The Titan later engaged three Pakled Clumpships that had captured the Cerritos, forcing them to withdraw and saving the latter ship before towing the crippled ship away with the tractor beam. Shortly afterward, Bradward Boimler accepted a promotion and transfer to the Titan. The Titan was then given the task to escort Commander Troi to Tulgana IV. (LD: "No Small Parts", "A Mathematically Perfect Redemption")

###### 2381

Three months later, the *Titan* was attacked by eight Pakled battle harpies. To escape, Riker ordered the ship into an anomaly, whereupon it experienced gluonic disruption. (LD: "Strange Energies")

The *Titan* crew also investigated the Pakled takeover of a Varuvian mining colony on Karzill IV but were unable to determine whether any other power was involved in the operation. During this mission, a transporter duplicate of Brad Boimler, William Boimler, was created. The duplicate remained on the *Titan*, while the original Boimler returned to the *Cerritos*. (LD: "Kayshon, His Eyes Open")

During the Command Conference later that year, the Titan was stationed on the far side of the star system from Starbase 25 to deter Pakled attack. (LD: "An Embarrassment Of Dooplers")

Later that year, an apparent freak accident involving a leak of neurocine gas in William Boimler's quarters caused him to pass away in his sleep. The crew of the Titan gave his body a space burial within a photon torpedo casing, which was subsequently recovered by Section 31. (LD: "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus")

When the Cerritos was being pursued by three rogue Texas-class automated starships, Doctor Migleemo suggested rendezvousing with the Titan. Captain Carol Freeman rejected this as the Titan was too far away. (LD: "The Stars At Night")

###### 2401

In 2401, Starfleet Academy Cadet Rew P'Cott Claudia-Jean was assigned to the Titan. (PIC: "The Star Gazer")

## Technical data

Embarked craft

The Titan carried a complement of Type 6A shuttlecraft, all named after 20th century jazz musicians, in its shuttlebay. (LD: "Kayshon, His Eyes Open")

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## Barash's illusion

In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, then-Commander Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's expectations of his future and constructed a holoprogram of the year 2383 from those elements.

fictional service record, within the holoprogram, was displayed in Riker's quarters on the USS Enterprise-D. According to his fabricated record, in 2370 on Stardate 47203, Commander Riker was promoted to the rank of captain, with his first command being the Titan. Under his command, the Titan was ordered to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone, provide tactical support to Starbase 384, and prevented a Romulanpreemptive strike into the Gamma Hydra Sector. (TNG-R: "Future Imperfect" okudagram)

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###### Crew

"(...) a bunch of complex characters thrown into heavily serialized battles which always ended in mind-blowing twists and made me question the basic tenets of my reality."

– **Bradward Boimler**, 2381 ("Kayshon, His Eyes Open")

###### Command crew

* Commanding officer
	+ William T. Riker (2379–)
* First officer
	+ Titan first officer (2380s)
* Counselor
	+ Deanna Troi (2379–)
* Conn officer
	+ Bradward Boimler (2380–2381)
	+ William Boimler (2381)

**See also:** USS Titan personnel

Luna-class starships **Spacecraft named Titan**

USS Europa • USS Luna • USS Oberon • **USS Titan. Titan • USS Titan (23rd century) • USS Titan (NCC-80102)**

## Appendices

###### Appearances

This list contains 4 items (show all)

* LD: (4)

###### Background information

In the original script for Star Trek Nemesis, Wesley Crusher was to explain at the wedding scene that he was being assigned to the Titan under the command of William T. Riker. On the Titan, he became the assistant chief engineer with the rank of lieutenant commander. In a filmed but deleted scene, Crusher mentions he is on the night shift and that the Titan was equipped with a "double refracting warp core matrix with twin intermix chambers."

In the "Nepenthe" episode of *The Ready Room*, that week's trivia question stated the USS *Titan*was a *Luna*-class starship, named after the moon of Saturn (see "Apocrypha" below).

In the "Et in Arcadia Ego, Part 1" *Ready Room* episode, prop master Jeff Lombardi stated a photograph of Jean-Luc Picard and Thaddeus Troi-Riker was taken aboard the *Titan*.

The ship's design was created by Sean Tourangeau and first appeared on the cover and in bonus pages of the 2007 novel Sword of Damocles of the Pocket Books Star Trek: Titan series. Tourangeau's design was the winning entry in a reader contest announced by the publisher in the first volume of the series, Taking Wing, in 2005.

In the observation lounge of this starship, as seen in the Lower Decks episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Open", there were four images of spacecraft, including the Titan herself, suggesting a history of ships named Titan. The first image was that of the Titan II, the launch vehicle for Earth's first warp capable ship, the Phoenix. The second image was of a ship from an unidentified class, which was based on an early concept for the USS Enterprise by Matt Jefferies in the 1960s. The third image was of the USS Titan (**β**) (NCC-2752), a Loknar-class (**β**) frigate, from FASA's Federation Ship Recognition Manual. [1]

This ship was listed, with other spacecraft, under "Assignment" on a PADD used by a Starfleet Academy officer. This PADD is seen in the The Ready Room episode Mercy.

###### Apocrypha

While mentioned in Star Trek Nemesis, remastered TNG, and early episodes of *Star Trek: Lower Decks*, the *Titan* wasn't seen on screen until "No Small Parts". The ship's class wasn't mentioned by name in the episode.

According to various apocrypha, Wesley Crusher, Sariel Rager, Alyssa Ogawa, Melora Pazlar, T'Pel, and Tuvok also served onboard the *Titan*.

The supplement *Starships* released for the Decipher *Star Trek Roleplaying Game* states that the *Titan* was a brand-new Prometheus-class vessel.

Pocket Books has released a series of novels, called *Star Trek: Titan*, which are based aboard Riker's ship. It was stated that the *Titan* was not the first ship of its class, with that honor going to the pathfinder of the class, the USS *Luna* (**β**). The *Titan* was the most varied multispecies crew in Starfleet history; less than 15% of the crew is Human. The motto of the *Titan* according to the novels is "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" (IDIC), a maxim often associated with Vulcan philosophy. Due to Riker's love for 20th century Earth jazz and its varieties, he was compelled to have all issued shuttles christened with the names of musicians from the era. One, in particular, was named the *Armstrong* for Louis Armstrong; though it was mistaken to be named for Neil Armstrong by Tiburonian chief engineer Nidani Ledrah.

In a rare exception, the class and registry of the Titan from the novels were referenced in the fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 401). Included with the entry, there was an image of the Titan.

The USS Titan was released as a starship miniature by Eaglemoss/Hero Collector, as a Bonus issue within its Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection partwork.