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| Name: | USS Black Hawk |
| Registry: | NCC-75004 |
| Class: | Sovereign |
| Type: | explorer |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | retired |
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| Original Dedication Plaque | |
The USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004) was a Sovereign-class starship assigned as the flagship to Admiral Jeff Higdon, Starbase Commander, Starbase Rockford, on the Cha'ouw/Federation border. Formerly the USS Britannica, the name was changed by Starfleet Operations to Black Hawk when the Admiral's former command, the USS Black Hawk (74683) was recalled because of a mistake in her registry. (Star Trek: Black Hawk).
On stardate 64467.12, the Black Hawk was part of a task force sent out to assist in the evacuation of the Cha'ouwian Star System Biscayne due to a shockwave of the Hobus supernova, which had destroyed the Romulan star system. As the Black Hawk was warping out, the shockwave hit, damaging the Black Hawk. (Prelude to a Swansong (ST:BH)) The Black Hawk was declared damaged beyond repair, dismantled and retired. She was replaced with the USS Black Hawk, NCC-75004-A.
Nomenclature[]
The ship was named after Black Hawk (Sauk leader) (1767-1838), of the Sauk Native American tribe in what later would be known as the Midwest United States of America, on Earth; the Black Hawk War of April-August 1832; and sea vessels and starships named Black Hawk.
Lineage of Black Hawk[]
USS Black Hawk, NCC-75004
The Black Hawk is the ninth vessel (both sea and space vessels) dating back to the US Naval tinclad (i.e., lightly-armored) gunboat USS Black Hawk, (1862-1865) that served as the flagship of the Mississippi River Flotilla during the U.S. Civil War, destroyed by fire in 1865; the cargo ship USS Black Hawk, originally the Rheatnia and renamed the Black Arrow; the U.S. Navy destroyer tender USS Black Hawk (AD-9), commissioned in 1918, once flagship of the U.S. Atlantic destroyer fleet and winner of one (1) battle star during Earth's World War II (which gives double duty to the command star on the wing of the 'black hawk' on the starship's logo), decommissioned in 1946; the US Navy Osprey (Minehunter Coastal) Class Vessel USS Black Hawk (MHC-58), commissioned in 1996, which saw action in the First and Second Iraq Wars as well as the War on Terrorism, decommissioned in 2007 and placed in the mothball fleet where she was until recommissioned in 2053, serving with distinction in World War III; the Earth Starfleet Daedalus-class starship SS Black Hawk (NCC-158), commissioned in 2170 and decommissioned in 2210, seeing action in the Earth-Romulan War and was transferred to the Federation Starfleet as the USS Black Hawk; the Baton Rouge-class cruiser USS Black Hawk (NCC-1058), launched in 2229 and served in its later life as a testbed for improvements for the future Constitution II refits, decommissioned in 2275; the Miranda-class frigate USS Black Hawk (NCC-1848) which was lost on her first mission and not heard from again in 2288; the Cheyenne-class Starship USS Black Hawk (NCC-50495), commissioned in 2348, served a very long and distinguished career before her destruction during the Dominion War in 2373; and the Intrepid-class USS Black Hawk (mentioned above).
- The Original Dedication Plaque is one of the only starship dedication plaques that does not list the usual names and construction personnel (except for early Constitution-class Starships). Also it does not list the Miranda-class USS Black Hawk because of a clerical error. There are actually nine (9) vessels of that name. That plaque is later replaced with a standard dedication plaque after a major refit.
Cloaking Device[]
USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004) mission patch.
The Black Hawk is equipped with the new Type X phase cloak, allowed when the Cha'ouw government negotiated a special amendment to the Treaty of Algeron with the Romulan Empire during the Dominion War to "allow any starship, vessel or space craft listed under the operational command of Khon of the Special Cha'ouwian Imperial House K'HIg'Den, to be equipped with cloaking device/devices supplied by the Cha'ouw". The Type X is secretly a joint Federation/Cha'ouw operation after Cha'ouw operatives "acquired" covertly before the phased cloak was revealed to the Romulans by the USS Enterprise-D.
Marine Strike Group[]
The 263rd Marine Strike Group ("The Hawk's Talons") were embarked on Black Hawk beginning in 2378.
| Starships named Black Hawk |
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| USS Black Hawk (Daedalus class) - USS Black Hawk (Baton Rouge class) - USS Black Hawk (Miranda class) - USS Black Hawk (NCC-50495) - USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004) - USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004-A) |
| Sovereign-class starships |
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| Prototype (2370): USS Sovereign - Block I (2372): USS Black Hawk - USS Enterprise-E - USS Honorius - USS Independence - Unrevealed (after 2372): USS Arsinoe - USS Atlas - USS Bozeman-A - USS Chancellor - USS Constellation - USS Erebus - USS Gibraltar - USS Gilgamesh - USS Hrothgar - USS Hutchinson - USS Igraine - USS Musashi - USS Okuda - USS Pachacuti - USS Roosevelt - USS Tempest - USS Tirpitz - USS Valkyrie - USS Venture - USS Warpite - USS Yorktown |
| Black Hawk subclass: USS Black Hawk-A |
| Mirror universe: Enterprise |
| Beverly Crusher Investigates: USS Grissom - The Devastating Discoveries: USS Anne Frank - USS Beast - USS Behemoth - USS Ravana - USS Sathanas - USS Violet Baudelaire - Fleet 31: USS Cebu |
| Starfleet International: USS Alba - USS Andromeda - USS Antares - USS Appomattox - USS Archangel - USS Aries-B - USS Asclepios - USS Atlantis - USS Black Hawk - USS Black Hawk-A - USS Caledonia - USS Chicago - USS Columbia - USS Constellation - USS Constitution - USS Hadfield - USS Judgord - USS Liberator - USS Liberty - USS Liberty Belle - USS Narragansett - USS Neptune - USS Ohio - USS Olympus - USS Protector - USS Reginald Mitchell - USS Reprisal - USS Reuben James - USS Russell Camp III - USS Silver Moon - USS Sovereign - USS Theresa Sylvester - USS Tiberius - USS Vandalia - USS Veritas - USS Versailles - USS Victorious - USS Wildhorse |
| Star Trek: Black Hawk: USS Black Hawk - USS Black Hawk-A - Star Trek: Constance: USS Khitomer - Star Trek: Crusader: USS Federation - Star Trek: Dauntless: USS Dauntless - Star Trek: Distant Horizons: USS Pir - Star Trek: Excelsior: USS Excelsior-C - Star Trek: Hidden Frontier: USS Independence - USS Saratoga - Star Trek: Independence: USS Independence - Star Trek: Liberty: USS Excelsior-B - USS Freedom - USS Liberty - Star Trek: New Order: USS Prince of Wales - Star Trek: Omega Force: USS Yagami - Star Trek: Pendragon: USS Advantage - USS Alhambra - Star Trek: Phoenix-X: USS Zephyra - Star Trek: Remington: USS Kyle Fitzgerald - Star Trek: The Adventures of Argus: USS Argus - USS Challenger - USS Excelsior - USS Freedom - USS Independence - Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: USS Advantage - Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles: USS Gibraltar - Star Trek: Unity: USS America - USS Hawk-A - USS Incipiens - To Boldly Go: USS Monarch - Trekmania: USS Excelsior - USS Baldwin: USS Edmund Fitzgerald |
Fan organizations[]
The USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004-A) -- also known as the Black Hawk-A -- is a Star Trek fan club based in Rockford, Illinois. Formerly the USS Shiloh out of Henderson, Tennessee, the Black Hawk-A is a chapter of Starfleet International and was the flagship (i.e., Region Coordinator's chapter) of Region 12 from 2009-2015.
The members of the chapter successfully staged the 2014 International Conference at the Clock Tower Resort in Rockford. The Black Hawk-A is also affiliated with the Cha'ouw Empire, as pseudo-Klingon/Romulan Star Trek Fan Association, the Federated Alliance and is the home of the 263rd Marine Strike Group, SFMC, also known as "The Hawk's Talons". The members of the USS Black Hawk-A will celebrate its 25th anniversary as a premier chapter of STARFLEET in 2021. In 2015 the Black Hawk-A also celebrated their 20th anniversary since the establishment of the Shuttle Shiloh on February 28th of that year.
USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004-A) mission patch.
The group that would become the Black Hawk-A was created on 28 February 1995 in Henderson, Tennessee as the shuttle (i.e., chapter-in-training) Shiloh. The chapter was commissioned on 23 March 1996 at MidSouthCon 15 in Memphis, Tennessee as the USS Shiloh (NCC-74683). The chapter moved from their original city of charter of Henderson to Rockford, Illinois, on 15 August 1997. The Shiloh changed its name to Black Hawk in December 1999 and changed its class from Intrepid class to Sovereign class, necessitating a change in their NCC number in January 2001.
To celebrate their 20th anniversary in 2015 an "A" was added to the registry.
The longtime chapter president of the Black Hawk-A is Jeffery Higdon.