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USS Enterprise

Registry:

NCC-1701-C

Class:

Ambassador

Type:

Exploratory/Emissary medium Cruiser

Affiliation:

Federation, Starfleet

Status:

Missing (2346)

Career

Yard:

Earth Station McKinley

Laid Down:

June 3, 2331

Launched:

February 26, 2332

Commissioned:

June 11, 2332

Decommissioned:

April 25, 2408

Length:

524.25m (1720 ft)

Mass:

3,710,000 metric tons

Decks:

33

Complement:

320 (Officers)
1,000 (Enlisted)

Armament:

11 Phaser arrays
7 Pulse phaser banks
2 Photon torpedo launchers (fore & aft)

Defenses:

Deflector shields

 
For mirror universe starship, see ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C).

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) was a Ambassador-class Multi-Mission Long range Starship Commissioned on June 11, 2332 by the United Federation of Planets originally deployed for a long-range exploration mission to the edges of the Gamma Quadrant but was derailed by a surprise attack by a Romulan attack fleet on Klingon outpost Khitomer on Narendra III in 2344.

It was later noted by Holographic Imperial Commanding Officer Belle 001 that the Enterprise-C was one of the most significant Ontological ships in Imperial Starfleet history appearing to be the temporal nexal center of not only one but as of current 5 different recorded/cataloged alternate realities/timelines.

USS Enterprise-C personnel[]

Commanding officer
Executive officer
  • Commander Carmona (2332)
  • Commander Nigel Holmes (2332-2336)
  • Commander Samir al-Halak (2336-2440)
  • Commander Tholav (2440-2344)
Second officer
Science officer
  • Commander Tholav (2332-2344)
Operations officer
  • Parker (2332?-2344)
Chief engineer
  • Lieutenant Commander Anjad Kodell (2332 - 2336)
  • Singh (2336 -2344)
Chief medical officer
  • Doctor Jo Stern (2332 - 2336)
  • Doctor Aristide (2336 -2344)
Communications officer
  • Lieutenant Darco Bulast (2332 - 2336)
  • Lieutenant Commander Varani (2336-2344)
Tactical officer
  • Lieutenant Thule G'Dok Glemoor (2332-2336)
  • Lieutenant Kepler (2336-2344)
  • Starfleet Marine contingent leader Senior Lieutenant Mary Sue Smith (2344-2160)
Helmsman
  • Cadet/Ensign/Lieutenant Richard Castillo (2332-2344)
Head Counselor
  • Commander Yuriel Tyvan (2336-2344)
Miscellaneous
  • Anisar Batra, paleogeneticist (KIA, 2336)
  • Doctor Frances Stewart -- junior medical officer/psychiatry (-2344)
  • LoPresti medtech or transporter chief (-2344)
  • Ensign Fredericks junior communications officer (-2344)
  • unnamed Bolian medtech (-2344)

Commanding Officer (Captain)
Executive Officer
Second Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Engineering Officer
Operations officer
  • (post empty)
Security Officer
Tactical Officer

History[]

The Enterprise-C is launched from Utopia Planita construction docks under the supervision of Fleet Captain J.P Hanson in 2332. It's first long range mission after 6 months of routine research and Stellar Cartography missions after its launch is to aid in the migration of several thousand colonists from the species the Warin. Warin Astrophysicists find a binary star system that might have a habitable world for the colonists to live. Thus relieving the Warin homeworld of a possible overpopulation crisis.

However upon reaching the system the Enterprise-C is intercepted by a small fleet of alien constructed probes made by a outer galactic species that the crew never learn of either its name or planetary origin. The probes make an energy web similar to Tholian ships. Which appear to attempt to either examine or crush the Enterprise by slowly coming closer in proximity.

After an attempt to destroy the probes fails, Captain Garrett proposes disrupting the signals between them before breaking out of the web. The encounter shakes the ship, leaving several bridge crew dead or injured, but replacement personnel allow the ship to engage the aliens and do enough damage to make it back to Federation space.

After the end of the incident it is never truly known if the probes were only truly exploratory or a vanguard of militarized drones.

In either late 2335 or 36 After halting a renegade Klingon squadron the Enterprise-Cs first assigned Executive Officer Nigel Holmes was killed during the police operation. As such he is replaced by Commander Samir al-Halak. Samir is later revealed to have been a member of an Arabic colonist based criminal cartel named the Asfar Qatala. The Qatala cartel in this period grew in power to the point that they both equalled and rivaled the Orion Syndicate.

al-Halak led the Enterprise-C crew to believe that Starfleet Intelligence needed the ship to go to the Draavid nebulae cluster near to Cardassian space to rescue a ship of alien colonists stranded by pirates. The Enterprise-C accompanied by a medical cruiser the USS Blakely finds the colonist transport and they are successful.

However the rescue mission was a ruse set up by the Quatala cartel so al-Halak could sneak off ship to find a nearby planet that held ancient technology created by the earliest modern civilization from Cardassia Prime known as the Hebitians. The Hebitians created a portal that would lead back to their homeworld when they believed the ecological crisis that rendered the planet uninhabitable for them would subside. The Asfar Quatala wanted control of the portal to sell access to Cardassia Prime to their highest bidding enemies and to sneak onto the planet themselves to act as a trafficking and illegal smuggling gateway.

Upon reaching al-Halak the crew finds Garrett's ex-husband Ven Kaldarren a xenoarchaeologist on an expedition to also find the ancient portal with other Quatala agents as a backup team if al-Halak was unsuccessful. The search for the portal was interrupted by the discovery of a device called the Well of Souls. The Well was a repository of the consciousness of the planet's dictatorial leaders to keep them near immortal.

The native species the souls ruled over were long extinct. And they also needed the portal to escape their now planetary prison. So they attempt to possess several members of the Enterprise-Cs away team to reach the portal. At the same time as the Enterprise-C is in orbit they are intercepted by a Cardassian military patrol who threatens to open fire as they are seen as encroaching on Cardassian ancestral land.

To save the Starfleet ship and his Ex-wife Ven allows one of the souls to possess him and before sabotages the Wells internal mechanism to collapse the cave containing the well and destroying the Well itself. This act also sacrifices Kaldarren but it allows the crew to escape.

Al-Halak due to his actions with a known criminal organization is relieved of duty and is replaced by the ships Chief science officer Thelin.

In 2336 the Enterprise-C was sent on a First contact mission to Zalda to start unification procedures with its government. Thelin, Darya Bat-Levi and ships doctor Jo Stern take part in the diplomatic away team, but Stern took the lead in discussions, given the Zaldans' aversion to falsehoods and appreciation of blunt honesty.

Battle of Narendra[]

In 2344, the Enterprise-C responds to a call to arms brought from Romulus by Commander Saavik of the USS Armstrong. Saavik brought word of an unprovoked Romulan attack on the unarmed Klingon outpost on Narendra III, which was the target of the mad Romulan Praetor, Dralath. Captain Garrett is presumed killed during the battle, along with most of her crew.

The only members of the Enterprise crew to escape the ships explosion and also avoid Romulan capture was a member of the Enterprise-C medical crew Frances Stewart, two security guards, and a shuttle pilot, all of whom were assigned to accompany the stricken Saavik to Vulcan. They only they survived because their shuttle left the ship before the Romulan attack took place.

Participation in Creation of Imperial Federation[]

The Enterprise was highly integral in the creation of the Imperial Federation of United Worlds. Upon reaching Klingon Outpost Khitomer while it seemed that the Romulan assault fleet was going to attack the outpost directly the Enterprise crew quickly discovered their true purposes.

Narendra III contained a rare element known as Chronomite. Upon which when detonated would create a massive Temporal Rift where the attack fleet could enter nearly anywhere at any time period (including before the Federation itself was created). However little known to both enemies Chronomite is highly unstable when in its pure unrefined state. And when the Romulans detonated the planets internal supply of Chrono Ore, the fission reaction created a Sub-Quantum fused TransDimensional/Temporal Quantum Singularity that dragged in both the Enterprise and nearly the entire assault fleet.

Interdimensional First Contact[]

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A disabled Enterprise-C entering Imperial Space

The Enterprise first entered Imperial Prime Sector 001 on November 1, 2159 (in the 24th year of the Imperial reign of the House of Sato) and was first encountered by Constitution-class (Type I) Imperial Training Ship NXO Enterprise 1701-000 Supervised by Imperial Command Instructor Christopher Pike and captained (Training Level) by Command Cadet James Tiberius Kirk.

After scanning that the newly appearing ship was no real threat (after the attacks by the Romulans and the Gravimetric sheer of the Singularity) the Imperial Enterprise aids its disabled counterpart into Dry Dock at Jupiter Central Station for repairs. Shortly after docking and repairs begin on Enterprise-C with the aid of the mostly Cadet crew of the other Enterprise Captain Garrett agrees to meet with a group from the Imperial Diplomatic Core who inform her on the situation within their own universe.

A hostile faction known as the Vulcan Imperium has been attacking Imperial Colonies and some of their allies for years and has been now aligning themselves with a Radical Romulan faction calling themselves the Concordance. And upon the discovery of Enterprise-C's advanced firepower and shielding the diplomats implore Garrett to help them. Garrett repeatedly refuses not wanting to involve Starfleet in a fight that is not theirs and also due to the fact that the Enterprise’s main goal now is to return to their own reality and try to help whoever may have survived the Khitomer Attack.

Future Intervention and the Battle of Prime Sector 001[]

After stubbornly refusing to aid the sieged Empire, 1 night as repairs were nearly completed on the Enterprise-C. The night watch detected an incoming ship (Registration and signature unknown) that wanted immediate contact with the C and its Captain. Garrett agreed and on the main screen was a young girl who said her name was Belle and without Garrett's help the entire future of her universe might not exist.

After allowing the girl to come aboard and further explain Belle explained that she was the Commanding Officer of the Chrono-Ship NXT Infinity and was sent back by Imperial Temporal Command to insure that Enterprises involvement in the battle to come is supposed to happen. Also, Belle revealed that the radical faction that allied themselves with the Vulcans is the attack fleet that tried to attack the Klingon Outpost. Apparently, the enemy fleet had entered this dimension several years before through the unstable Singularity and was already building a power base alongside the Vulcans within this Dimension.

The Enterprise Project[]

After finally Realizing that there is no other alternative Captain Garrett agrees to help end the Romulan/Vulcan assault on the Empire. So began a year-long massive military upgrade project only known as Code Name: Enterprise. Led by interim 1st Officer Castillo and constructed by Imperion Industries the entire Imperial Fleet was completely rebuilt with the technical advancement and knowledge of Enterprise-C's crew.

And on November 21, 2160 3 Main Line defense Warships were created and the N.X.O. or zero series was replaced with the T series/class. These ships were the N.X.T. Enterprise, Dyson, and Constellation. Also during this same year the Enterprise-C goes on a diplomatic tour of the Alpha Quadrant in order to gather allies for the battle to come.

Return to Prime Universe[]

In the aftermath of the battle while the Romulan/Vulcan alliance was defeated it lead to the loss of a large portion of the Enterprise’s crew and resources however with the aid of the Infinity's crew they were able to fully repair and refuel most of the ship's systems and with the Future warships assistance was able to reopen the fissure leading back into their universe, however, the quantum singularity still created by the unstable chronomite instead of guiding them into one possible reality had instead into several somewhat similar yet different Quantum Realities when the Enterprise-C crossed into the wormhole leading back to 2344, it was in fact duplicated.

Each copy of the ship was sent into an alternate reality differing from the other. While one became vital in the Imperial Federation, the other became pivotal in a Federation civil war that lasted from 2344 to 2408 (off and on, and with jumps in time).

Enterprise-C 1 (return to Narendra III)[]

The Enterprise-C managed to return to the point of its reality in which it left and upon its return the crew was almost instantly able to see what the rare element detonation left in its wake the Chrononal explosion left the Klingon Colony nearly destroyed and vulnerable to the now incoming Romulan reinforcements that were arriving to take what was left of the colony while the Enterprise seemed hopelessly outmanned and outgunned the ship was thankfully saved by an incoming fleet led by the newly rebuilt USS Enterprise-B.

After the defense of the remains of the outpost the Klingon Empire respected the honor and sacrifice of the Enterprises crew however since they did not die as they did in the original "Yesterdays Enterprise" Timeline the Klingons would not sign the Khitomer Accords for another 10 years.

Later Interdimensional Contact[]

After the Enterprise-C's Interdimensional first contact with Universe-Delta (or Imperial Universe as it is colloquially known by Federation researchers) Captain Garrett along with the rest of the ship's crew debrief Starfleet Command of their encounter with this other reality Command wanted more investigation and research performed on this newly discovered dimension and the means that the Enterprise was exposed to in order to reach it.

So only a few months after the incident, a Federation research team returned to Narendra III in order to more closely examine and experiment on Chronomite as a viable fuel element (this predates the discovery and utilization of Red Matter by nearly a century). Starfleet later places a permanent research station on Narendra III for further study, protection, and advancement of the element.

Several years later Starfleet successfully develops the 1st fully functioning Chronomite-powered InterChrono Drive Engine which has been installed into the Enterprise for its first test run and orders Captain Garrett along with the rest of the ship's crew along with a specially selected new research crew to return to Universe-Delta as soon as possible.

At first, Captain Garrett relents at even the idea of returning to the place that was a hellish battlefield for nearly a year. However, Rachel finally agrees being informed that the Federation desperately needs any new tactical assistance after several large defeats by the Cardassians in the Beta Quadrant and so the Federation hopes that this new universe will be far more cooperative and friendlier than the first Extra-Dimensional reality as was reported by Captain James T. Kirk nearly over a century ago. So on December 21, 2346 the Enterprise makes its second maiden voyage into Universe-Delta

Second Contact with Delta[]

Garrett along with most of the ship's crew assume that they will return to nearly the exact same point in time from which they first had left Universe-Delta. However contrary to their beliefs that was not to happen. Simply due to the fact that while Starfleet Research had experimented and fine-tuned the Linear Interphasic Resonance Frequency of the Chronomite upon entering Delta instead of entering at the earlier temporal moment of exiting in the 22nd century, they instead entered at the exact same parallel Temporal point as their own universe.

Enterprise-C 2 (Conflict Years)[]

The second duplicate of the Enterprise-C returned to Narendra III, as did the other in its separate time-line, however the planet showed absolutely no signs of planetary damage and most of the Romulan Assault Fleet remained and no Federation defense came to save them, so due this fact most of the senior officers died off in this reality, whereas in the other, all of the senior officer crew survived.

Mutiny[]

The new captain, Edward Shield, did not have a smooth start. Ostracized from the Federation, his crew mutinied against him on several occasions. The most notorious of these mutinies was caused by a security officer who was actually a clone of Shield's own father. It succeeded in wresting control of the ship from Shield, but ended shortly thereafter when the mastermind was killed by the vengeful captain.

Future[]

Sometime after Edward Shield regained control of the Enterprise, he and Lianna Young of the USS Admonitor made the decision to enter the 25th century since they had no purpose now in the 24th century.

Multiversal crisis[]

Upon reaching the year 2401 the Enterprise-C was caught yet again in another unstable singularity. However, this instability was created by Q attempting to transport Jean-Luc Picard and the crews of the La Sirena and USS Stargazer into yet another alternate universe where the New Insurrection lost during the conflict era and the known galaxy was dominated by the Confederation of Earth a fully socially and culturally isolated totalitarian iteration of the former utopian Federation.

The Enterprise-C is near wrecked in a subspace eddy as it lands in a stellar debris belt which is later discovered alongside other alternate timeline/reality ships tossed there.

Change of Captaincy[]

A few months after the arrival in the 25th century, Darya Bat-Levi was awakened from cryo-sleep, after which Edward Shield believed that, since she was the next in the chain of command, she should be the captain. However, after a successful recapturing of the Enterprise after it was commandeered by the Federation, Bat-Levi promoted him to full captain. Shortly thereafter, he came down with a serious illness which left him in a suicidal state of depression. During this time, K'hallA, the unofficial first officer, was made acting captain of the Enterprise. When he disappeared after being cleansed, her time as acting captain continued further for almost six months. Upon his return, he regained his position as captain.

Final Destruction[]

This "version" of the Enterprise didn't last long, though. During a peace summit scheduled on Earth between the New Insurrection and the Federation, the USS Intrepid made a sneak attack on the ship that left it severely damaged. Captain Halliwell ordered his crew to "scuttle" the Enterprise, setting explosive charges throughout the ship. During the battle with Edward Shield, Halliwell separated the two ships prematurely, sending the damaged Enterprise falling to Earth.


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