USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)

The **USS *Enterprise*** (**NCC-1701-B**), sometimes referred to as the ***Enterprise*-B**, was a Federation *Excelsior*-class explorer in service to Starfleet in the late 23rd and early 24th centuries. She was launched in the year 2293 under the command of Captain John Harriman. She was later commanded by Demora Sulu and Thomas Johnson Jr.

Over the course of the *Enterprise*-B's service, she was remembered as a key figure in exploring beyond the Gourami sector, mapping over 142 star systems and making first contact with 17 different civilizations. The *Enterprise* served as flagship of the Federation. The *Enterprise*-B was also the first Federation starship *Enterprise* in 30 years that did not have Captain James T. Kirk in command of the vessel.

## Ship Specifics

### Commander:

John Harriman(2293-2311), Sulu(2311-2320),Thomas Johnson Jr.(2320-2329)

## Specifications

### Crew:

750 (standard), 130 (visiting), 9,800 (max. capacity)

### Armaments:

10 dual-emitter Type-VIII phaser banks, 6 single emitter Type-VIII phaser banks 6 torpedo launchers

### Auxiliary craft:

6 type-4 shuttlecraft 4 type-5 shuttlepod

## History

### Construction

The *Enterprise* was built at the Antares Ship Yards; the decision to model the ship after the failed experiment USS *Excelsior* was highly controversial. However, Starfleet decided to use it for both economic and technical reasons, as *Excelsior* classes had shown that they could withstand the test of time; indeed, they would still be in service nearly a century after first being developed.

### Maiden voyage

By 2293, construction work on the *Enterprise* had been completed, with only a few components needing to be installed such as a tractor beam and the loading of photon torpedoes. Despite this, the *Enterprise*-B was launched from a drydock orbiting Earth on a maiden voyage with three honored guests aboard in the form of Captains James T. Kirk and Montgomery Scott and Commander Pavel Chekov, as well as a large number of journalists.

Although the maiden voyage was just meant to be a short trip out to Pluto and back again, the *Enterprise* received a distress call from two Federation transport ships who were bringing El-Aurian refugees back to Earth. Although not fully equipped, there were no other vessels in range, and Captain Harriman reluctantly gave the order to intercept them. Upon arrival, the *Enterprise* discovered that the transports had become trapped in an energy ribbon called the Nexus, and the starship herself became ensnared in when moving into transporter range. Unfortunately, the *Enterprise* was too late to help the crew of one transport, the SS*Robert Fox*, as it exploded and was only able to rescue 47 people out of 150 aboard the SS*Lakul*, before it too was destroyed.

Captain Scott devised a way to free the ship using a resonance burst from the deflector dish to simulate an antimatter explosion, after a plan to use torpedoes was discarded, as there weren't any on board. Captain Kirk went to deflector control in order to make the necessary modifications as the *Enterprise*'s secondary hull was struck by an energy tendril. The *Enterprise* escaped with minor casualties and a major hull breach along sections 20 through 28 on decks 13 through 15. Kirk was believed killed in the breach, and the mission became notorious due to his loss. (*TNG* movie, novelization & comic adaptation: *Star Trek: Generations*)

An inquiry that followed cleared Harriman of any blame, although several former members of Kirk's crew held him to account. (*TOS* novel: *The Captain's Daughter*)

At some point by approximately 2294, Harriman would have a dedication plaque for Kirk installed in the area of the ship where he was at the time believed to be killed.

### Service history

In early 2294, during its first mission following the loss of Captain Kirk six months previously, the *Enterprise*-B was sent to deal with an outbreak of Terrellian plague in the Antares system, with Doctor Leonard McCoy onboard as chief medical advisor. En route, the starship confronted a renegade Klingon warship, the *K't'inga*-class IKS *Vengeance*, whose captain intentionally released the plague to lure the Federation into violating Article 6 of the recent Khitomer Accords. Harriman defeated the enemy ship by transporter-swapping the *Enterprise'*s entire complement of photon torpedoes for the Klingon crew. The battlecruiser was then destroyed, and the enemy crew captured.

At some point during or after 2293, an *Enterprise*-B landing party under the command of Ensign Demora Sulu marched into an ambush by the Brevant race on Beta Orvis III, with Sulu nearly paying for her mistake with her life.

In 2303, Captain John Harriman and Lieutenant Commander Demora Sulu departed the *Enterprise*-B at Starbase 23 under the guise of personal leave, but secretly were headed toward the Romulan Star Empire on a covert mission for Starfleet Intelligence. The mission was to monitor for indications of advanced cloaking technology within Romulan space. Command of the starship was turned over to Captain Demián Rendón while Harriman and Sulu were gone. For eight weeks, the two became displaced some 173 hours into the future due to a temporal encounter with a star designated "Odyssey". After this displacement, Harriman and Sulu returned to Starbase 23, via the Foxtrot III monitoring station, and re-took command of the *Enterprise*.

In 2307, the *Enterprise* underwent a rather extensive refit at Starbase 11, in an effort to bring it up to standards in respect to the new Romulan *Ivarix*-class vessels. Several significant crew-transfers took place: among them the arrival of Boslic officer Xintal Linojj. At some point during this same year, both the *Enterprise* and *Excelsior* crews shared an overlapping shore leave at Starbase 11. Not long afterward, the *Enterprise'*s refit was completed, and the starship returned to active status

Three years later, in 2310, as part of relief efforts stipulated in the Khitomer Accords, the *Enterprise*-B delivered supplies to four thousand indigents on the planet Qadyaq, in coordination with Commander Kang aboard the IKS *K'tanco*. However, upon arrival, Captain Harriman's crew discovered the planetary population held in thrall of a corrupt Klingon governor, who refused to accept the relief supplies. The next day, both the Starfleet and Klingon vessels were shocked to discover the entire planet massacred by the governor — their throats slit — simply because they proved a risk to his crooked schemes. Filled with disgust, Harriman's ship departed Klingon space.

Captain Harriman remained in command of *Enterprise* until 2311, when the ship played a key role during the Tomed Incident. Following the incident, Harriman stepped down, and command was given to his first officer, Demora Sulu.

In 2311, on her very first mission as captain of the *Enterprise*-B, Demora Sulu ran into unspecified trouble during a voyage to the Röntgen Wall.

the *Enterprise*-B crew under Sulu's command Began in 2313 a two year studying the Debrune ruins in the Barradas system.

than 2315 The Enterprise B arrived at Earth Space dock and underwent a 6 month Refit, the Crew temporarily reassigned to Earth Space dock while the Refit was underway.

Sulu's took a leave of absence to care for her terminally-ill paternal grandmother during this time.

On a mission to a moon in Desidera's Loop aboard the *Enterprise*-B prior to 2319, Demora Sulu narrowly escaped death by both drowning and hypothermia.

In 2318, the *Enterprise­*-B under Captain Demora Sulu's command, participated in a first contact mission on Beta Velara IV, but without the participation of freshly-certified contact specialist Hawkins Young.

Starting in either late 2318 or early 2319, the *Enterprise* was assigned to explore an unclaimed, unaligned region of space near the Tzenkethi Coalition, and was ordered to avoid all contact when possible with Tzenkethi ships. With no return-date specified, the starship conducted exploratory missions in the region, equipped with a dozen Class H shuttlecraft, two *Gagarin*-class warp shuttles and a half-dozen cargo-management units. Two months into the voyage, a massive construct was discovered in the Jalidor Lambda star system, whose exploration ultimately cost the *Enterprise*, among other things, the loss of a shuttlecraft, the *Eriksson*.

The ship's last commander was Captain Thomas Johnson Jr., who took command in early 2320. The ship's assignment under Johnson was patrol of the Cardassian border. The ship was therefore able to render assistance to Bajoran refugees in 2328, when Cardassia annexed Bajor. The following year, the ship was lost in deep space shortly after the crew contracted some unknown infection.

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