Antaresedit
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| Antares | |
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| Class: | Antares-type |
| Registry: | NCC-501 |
| Affiliation: | Federation |
| Status: | Destroyed (2266) |
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- This article refers to the Federation starship. For other meanings, please see Antares (disambiguation).
The Antares (NCC-501) was a Federation Antares-type starship that was in service during the mid-23rd century. During the 2260s, the Antares was commanded by Captain Ramart, under whom served his first officer and navigator Tom Nellis. It had a crew of twenty.
In 2266, the crew of the Antares discovered a young man, named Charles Evans, on the planet Thasus.
On stardate 1533.6, the Antares transferred Evans to the USS Enterprise to further transfer him to Earth Colony 5.
On Stardate 1535.8, the Antares was destroyed when young Charlie used his psychokinetic powers to "remove" the ship's baffle plate, causing a warp core breach. According to Evans, the Antares was not well-constructed and the baffle plate on its energy pile shield was already warped, so that the ship would have blown up anyway. (TOS: "Charlie X")
| Antares-type starships |
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| Antares • Woden • Yorkshire • NCC-G1465 |
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[edit] Background
According to the Encyclopedia, the Antares was named after Antares, one of the brightest stars in the northern night sky.
The crew of the Antares wore old-style Starfleet uniforms left-over from the original pilot episodes. One of these uniforms was worn by an individual appearing in "The Trouble with Tribbles".
The second edition of the Star Trek Concordance, by Bjo Trimble, lists the USS Antares as NCC-717, along with an original design illustration from Brian Pimenta.
In the Star Trek Encyclopedia, a registry number of NCC-501 was given to the Antares based on speculation by Michael Okuda. Okuda later used this registry number in the remastered version of "Charlie X". In this remastering, the Antares is essentially seen as a CGI model of the robot grain ships seen in TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles", with an addition of a "crew module." The prefix "USS" was never mentioned in dialog nor appears on the ship's hull. [1]
Additionally, in the second edition of the Encyclopedia, the Antares was listed in the list of Federation starships as the prototype ship of the Antares-class starship, with the USS Hermes also stated to be of this class.
[edit] Apocrypha
A science vessel, also named, USS Antares was part of the Star Trek: Orion Rendezvous planetarium show, produced in 1992 and authorized by Paramount Pictures in conjunction with the Star Trek: Federation Science exhibit. The ship was commanded by Captain Katryana DiChario, and left Neptune Station on a mission to explore a recently discovered, artificially-constructed wormhole interstellar transit system that had "jump points" throughout the Milky Way Galaxy at real-life scientific phenomena, such as the Orion Nebula, the Crab Nebula, a flare star, etc. Geordi La Forge was a temporary crewmember during the expedition, along with a group of Starfleet cadets (the audience).
[edit] External link
- USS Antares (NCC-501) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Antares-class at the Advanced Starship Design Bureau - includes a fan-made reconstruction of Brian Pimenta's illustration from Star Trek Concordance of this ship
