USS Yorktown (NCC-1704)

The **USS *Yorktown*** was a Federation starship, a *Constitution*-class class heavy cruiser in service to Starfleet in the 23rd century.

## Specifications

### Armaments:

8 dual emitter phaser banks, 2 photon torpedo launchers

## History

### Service history and disposition

The *Yorktown* was one of the initial batch of *Constitution*-class starships that were ordered for Starfleet appropriation.

The Yorktown was launched in 2245 One year after the first 2 Constitution Class launched. The *Yorktown* was launched under the command of Matthew Decker, with Anne Gauvreau as first officer Decker was in command for 2 years. Captain Evan Foster took command after Decker went to command the USS *Constellation*.

Captain Evan Foster commanded the *Yorktown* for Twenty years from 2247 to 2267.

By the middle of the 2260s, the *Yorktown* — a veteran of several battles against the Klingons — had already undergone seven refits, and was showing signs of general wear-and-tear. Yet, she still maintained a strong reputation for reliability and performance in the Federation Starfleet.

In 2263, Yeoman Lawford transferred to the *Yorktown* from the *Constellation*. (*VAN* novel: *Harbinger*)

In 2267 Command was transfered to Donald Kent and Captain Evan Foster retired from active duty.

In 2267, the *Yorktown* was on a patrol along the Federation-Klingon border in the area near the Kraith space station. Admiral Herbert Solow ordered the *Yorktown* to send an extraction team, led by Lieutenant Fenig, to the station to rescue Ambassador Robert Fox and his diplomatic team.

In 2268, the *Yorktown* was transporting vaccines for a plague on Theta VII. The *Yorktown* was to rendezvous with the USS *Enterprise* to transfer the supplies, but the *Enterprise* was combating the Dikironium cloud creature.) Shortly afterwards, the *Yorktown* was transporting the secret weapon Excalibur. Renegade Andorians damaged the ship in an attack.

In 2270, the *Yorktown* was also a participant in the battle of Caleb IV.

In 2270 Starfleet recalled all Constitution Class ships originally for retirement, but a last minute decision to Refit them the best they could was made and the Yorktown like the rest were space docked and refitted.

18 Months the Yorktown sat in space dock being refitted and the Yorktown launched in 2271

In 2271, while still under the command of Donald Kent, the ship was sent on a top-secret mission by Starfleet Command to probe the Romulan Neutral Zone in order to assess a suspected military buildup stemming from the Klingon-Romulan alliance, and to test out the stolen Romulan cloaking device aboard ship. During the mission, the starship's bridge section was completely destroyed by a collision with a piece of Commander Kor's D7-class battlecruiser. However, the entire bridge crew was beamed aboard a nearby Romulan Bird-of-Prey (along with Kor's crew), and the timely intervention of both a Starfleet task force as well as the Organians saved the ship when the Klingon-Romulan alliance broke apart.

In 2271, the *Yorktown* was one of a small group of starships, including the USS *Majestic*, USS *Exeter*, and USS *Hood*, that assisted the USS *Enterprise* in preventing an experimental transwarp engine from falling into the hands of terrorists.

In 2272, during a visit to Sigma Thernia 3B, a landing party observed simple insects and invertebrates displaying complex behaviors. Within a week, three officers demonstrated unusually high levels of engineering creativity, one of whom wasn't on the landing party. The first two died, as if their brains had burned out.

Yorktown rescued Leonard McCoy, Jon Mikael Duncan, Theela, Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln from Alpha Tau IV.

While he was aboard, McCoy assisted Yorktown's chief medical officer Shrol Th'atyrross and Assistant CMO Christine Chapel with two mysterious deaths, discovering that intelligences encoded within DNA on Sigma Thernia 3B had inadvertently been behind the inflicted crew's inspirations. Doctor Shrol Th'atyrross thought of a way to communicate with the intelligences by suppressing their hosts' neural functions, and McCoy was able to establish contact. The intelligences apologized for the accidental deaths of the two crew and agreed to limit their activity until they could be returned to Sigma Thernia 3B.

In 2286, the *Yorktown* was along the route of the Whale Probe and was rendered powerless and with barely any life support emergency reserves. Power was (presumably) restored when the Whale Probe returned power to the *Saratoga*, and the rest of the vehicles disabled by it.

After the Whale Probe incident and the Yorktown being severally Damaged due to it, the *Yorktown* was ordered to undergo repairs and a small Refit to upgrade current systems.

In 2290 at the tail end of the Second Federation Klingon War Kent recieved intelligence that the battle of Calder II was a trap, He headed there to warn The fleet once there the Yorktown took Heavy damage and Kent rammed the lead enemy Vessel destroying it and severially damaging the Yorktown.

After the battle the Yorktown to be scrapped and decommissioned by Starfleet. When the ship was finally decommissioned, she was restored to her original configuration, but because her bridge was badly damaged, the original bridge of the USS *Enterprise* was installed instead. Following the completion of restoration work, the *Yorktown* was declared a museum piece, and by 2370, she was attached sent to Memory Beta

In 2371, Captain Montgomery Scott managed to steal the *Yorktown* from Memory Beta so that he could travel into Romulan space and rescue Ambassador Spock, who had been taken hostage by the Romulans. In order to get across the Romulan Neutral Zone, Scott installed the cloaking device that the *Enterprise* had stolen in 2268 (which was being used as a museum exhibit). Unfortunately, Scott and the *Yorktown* were captured by the Romulans and sent to Outpost 43. With the help of Commander William T. Riker and Lieutenant Commanders Data and La Forge of the USS *Enterprise*-D, Scott was able to escape and they were eventually able to rescue Spock. Although the *Yorktown* suffered significant damage in the resulting battle with the Romulans, the *Enterprise*-D was able to save the starship, and she was eventually repaired and returned to Starbase 178.