USS Exeter (Constitution class)
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| Name: | USS Exeter |
| Class: | Constitution |
| Type: | heavy cruiser |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | active |
The USS Exeter was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser on active duty in Starfleet from the mid- to at least the late 23rd century.
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[edit] History
Exeter and USS John F. Kennedy helped establish the Federation colony on Gamma Hydra IV in 2254. (Orion Press: The Mindsweeper)
Captain Ronald Tracey commanded the Exeter in the 2260s until 2267, when an infection form the planet Omega IV killed the entire crew, apart from Tracey, who survived on the planet until arrested by James Kirk six months later for violation of the Prime Directive. (TOS: "The Omega Glory")
A mission was later put together by Starfleet Command to recover the vessel led by Commander John Quincy Garrovick. The vessel was successfully retrieved, decontaminated and returned to service under Garrovick's command. (Starship Exeter: "The Savage Empire")
Ben al-Faisal was in command of Exeter beginning in 2282. (Orion Press: "The Captain's Bars") As part of Task Force Four in 2285, Exeter survived the onslaught of Kelvan invasion forces and joined up with Task Force Six. (Orion Press: In Harm's Way)
[edit] Alternate continuities
In the continuity of a Starfleet International chapter USS Exeter (NX-1706), an Enterprise subclass Exeter was one of the many heavy cruiser testbeds for transwarp drive ca. 2285. "The Great Experiment" failed and the ship was retrofitted with conventional warp drive. (Starfleet International: Starfleet Communiqué, May 1985)
[edit] Assignment patch
Like other ships in the 23rd century, the Exeter had a distinctive assignment patch, worn on the left breast of the crew uniform.
- The badges used in "The Omega Glory" were made from a cut-up hand bag. The Starship Exeter costumes used gold fabric embroidered with black.
[edit] Command crew (Starship Exeter)
- Commanding officer: John Quincy Garrovick
- Chief Science Officer: Jo Harris
- Security Chief/Tactical Officer: Paul Cutty
- Communications Officer: B'fuselek
[edit] Trivia
Different chapters in Starfleet International used the fictional metaphor of the Constitution-class USS Exeter in the early years of the parent organization. The Constitution-class was a popular one, so there was more than one chapter named Exeter, Intrepid II, Lexington, Saratoga, etc.
[edit] Registry
Several publications (most notably Stephen E. Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek and Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual) list Exeter with the registry NCC-1706. This is the registry shown in Starship Exeter and Star Trek: The Animated Series Comics.
More recently, official sources, including the official Star Trek web site and Michael Okuda’s Star Trek Encyclopedia and Star Trek Chronology, list the ship's registry as NCC-1672. This registry was assigned by Greg Jein, a model maker who worked with Okuda on TNG and the later incarnations of the Star Trek franchise. The number was derived from a chart in the office of Commodore Stone at Starbase 11 in "Court Martial". “Star Trek: Remastered” consistently uses the Jein registries, and in the remastered version of "The Omega Glory" the Exeter's registry is clearly visible as NCC-1672.
[edit] Appearances
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- Star Trek fan films:
- Star Trek: The Animated Series Comics:
- Issue #6 "Home is not a Place"
- Special #1 "For Death or Glory"
- Orion Press
- The Mindsweeper
- In Harm's Way
| Starships named Exeter | |
| USS Exeter (NCC-1706) - USS Exeter (NCC-26531) | ||
[edit] External links
- USS Exeter (NCC-1672) article at Memory Alpha, the canon Star Trek wiki.
- USS Exeter (NCC-1672) article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
- Starship Exeter official website
