USS Brave (NCC-86515)

The USS Brave (NCC-86515) is a Assault Cruiser in service with Starfleet and the Federation in the late 24th century.

The Brave is one of the combat-oriented starships launched and commissioned in 2384 for the specific purpose of forming the fleet strength of the Tenth Fleet, also known as the Vanguard Fleet.

The Brave was temporarily refitted with a modified warp drive that would allow it to utilize transwarp coils in travelling across real space, laying a series of subspace relay stations along a nearly straight line between Starbase 514 and the terminus of the Bajoran wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant. This took the Brave four months to complete. The ship's microdiffracted carbon hull coating allowed it to travel undetected over the vast distance. The ship returned to the Alpha Quadrant thru the wormhole.

Thereafter, it was designated as flagship of the Station Frontier Defense Task Force, which was assigned to protect Station Frontier, the headquarters of Vanguard Command. It is the designated personal flagship of Vice Admiral Anasstasia Folonova, but it is directly supervised and frequently commanded by Captain Samuel Freeman, who is the executive officer of Station Frontier.