USS Republic (NCC-1371)
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| STARSHIP | |
| USS Republic | |
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| Class: | Constitution-class |
| Registry: | NCC-1371 |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | Active (2268) |
- For other starships of the same name, see USS Republic.
The USS Republic (NCC-1371) was a Constitution-class Federation starship in service in the 23rd century. By 2251, the Republic was serving as a Starfleet Academy training vessel and was commanded by Captain Rollin Bannock.
- In the comic The Enterprise Murder Case!, the USS Republic was depicted as a Baton Rouge-class vessel.
In late 2251, the Republic was assigned a two week patrol of the Klingon Neutral Zone, as well as being assigned a top-secret mission to deliver forcefield barriers and surveillance equipment to a planet containing the Klingon rebels, the M'tachtar. After delivering the equipment, the Republic was redirected to the Beta Bora system so they could represent the Federation at the signing of the peace treaty between the two warring factions on Heir'tzan. An assassination attempt was later foiled by Cadets James T. Kirk, Gary Mitchell, and Phelana Yudrin ensured that the peace initiative was successful. (TOS novel: My Brother's Keeper: Constitution).
In 2254, Ensign James T. Kirk served on the Republic. During this tour, Kirk reported a circuit to the atomic matter piles accidentally left open by his friend and crewmate Ben Finney, an act which would affect their friendship years later. (TOS episode: "Court Martial")
In the 2260s, the Republic was under the command of Captain Richard Cornelius Patterson. Her non-classified assignments during this period where the transport of an investigating committee to Vardaine and sensor scans of the remains of the Gadani II supernova. She also recovered a message buoy which was launched from the USS Calypso, which detailed that vessel's destruction by parasitic creatures. In 2268 the Republic was attacked by a Vardaine duplicate of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). Captain Patterson and nearly his entire crew were killed in the battle, and the Republic was left a derelict in the attack. The original Enterprise later engaged and destroyed the Vardaine duplicate. (TOS video game: Star Trek: 25th Anniversary; novel: Vulcan!)
In 2268, the Republic, under the command of Captain Manchu, along with the USS Excelsior was dispatched to Altair VII in response to an unknown entity had been attacking several targets in the Beta Quadrant. Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise discovered that a vast machine planet intelligence from a parallel universe called Nagha was behind the attacks. (TOS short story: "The Sleeping God").
[edit] FASA Continuity
The Republic (registry number NCC-1373) was listed as "Missing" on reference stardate 2/0808.26 (26 August 2208, equivalent to 2267 in the standard timeline) while under the command of Captain Richard V. Masterson, seven months after its last known contact. Many years later (reference stardate 2/2304, six months after the Cetacean Probe crisis, equivalent to standard year 2286), the USS Excalibur (NCC-1788) under Captain Preye discovered the Republic on the fringes of Federation space in the Styx Rift region where it had disappeared. The Republic's crew appeared to be somewhat disoriented and did not appear to have aged since the ship's disappearance. According to the crew, the ship's Edoan science officer had become unstable or insane, wiped the ship's astrographic databases and destroyed hardcopy maps before committing suicide, leaving the Republic to slowly wander in the Rift until they could re-establish their bearings enough to return to the Federation. Before this data could be obtained from the Excalibur, events exposed that the Republic's crew was under the influence of neural parasites (of the type that once infested Deneva), encountered at the site of a 600-year-old wreck site the ship had investigated. As an Edoan, the science officer was immune to the effects of the parasites, and destroyed the navigational data to prevent the infected crew from returning to Federation space and unleashing the parasites on potentially dozens of worlds. (FASA RPG: "Lost and Presumed Dead" scenario, Star Trek III Sourcebook Update.)
- As an RPG scenario, no "official" outcome of the incident was given. The source was unclear as to whether the lack of aging of the Republic's crew was connected to the parasite's influence or was only due to relativistic effects of sublight travel.
[edit] Connections
- USS Republic article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
| Early series of Constitution-class class I/class XI heavy cruiser starships |
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  Constitution-class starships of various specifications: Alexander • Asimov • Confederate • Enterprise (Vardaine copy) • Glory • Indomitable • Isshasshte • Jefferson • John F. Kennedy • Lubien • Niagara • Oceanic • Olympus Mons • Ortisei • Pathfinder • Surak • Tao Feng • Townshend • Trojan • Venture • Zimbabwe • unnamed Constitution-class starships See also the later subclasses: Bonhomme Richard-subclass (mk II) • Achernar-subclass (mk III) • Tikopai-subclass (mk IV) • Enterprise-subclasses (mk I-III refits) • other Constitution variants
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