USS Hood (Excelsior class)

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USS Hood
USS Hood
Class:	Excelsior-class
Registry:	NCC-42296
Affiliation:	Federation/Starfleet
Status:	Active (2379)

See USS Hood for other vessels baring this name.

The USS Hood (NCC-42296) was an Excelsior-class starship in service in the 24th century.

Contents 1 History 1.1 Service from 2364-2368 1.2 Dominion War service 1.3 Postwar service 2 Appendices 2.1 Background 2.2 Apocrypha

[edit] History

The Hood, under the command of Captain Robert DeSoto, was William T. Riker's assignment after he left the USS Potemkin some time after 2361. Riker served as First Officer.

During that same year, Geordi La Forge also took a post on the Hood.

In the course of his duties on the Hood, Will Riker refused to allow Captain DeSoto to transport to the surface of Altair III for an away mission. Riker felt the mission was too dangerous to expose the ship's CO to such a risk. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint", "The Pegasus")

[edit] Service from 2364-2368

In 2364, the Hood rendezvoused with the USS Enterprise-D in orbit of Deneb IV, to transfer crew and equipment, including the ship's new first officer, William Riker, CMO Beverly Crusher, Geordi La Forge as well as Admiral Leonard McCoy, who inspected the medical outfit of the Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint")

In 2366, the Hood was dispatched to the Romulan Neutral Zone in order to counter a possible Romulan sneak attack emanating from a cloaked Romulan base on Nelvana III with the goal to retake the Neutral Zone. (TNG: "The Defector")

A few months later the Hood was due to assist the USS Enterprise-D on a terraforming project on Browder IV. (TNG: "Allegiance")

The Hood rendezvoused with the Enterprise-D again a couple of weeks later to drop off Tam Elbrun for the "Tin Man" mission. (TNG: "Tin Man")

This was the first and only on-screen appearance of Captain DeSoto. Ensign Nog's line in DS9: "Treachery, Faith and the Great River" suggests that DeSoto was still a captain in 2375, but it is unknown whether he was still in command of the Hood in the ship's later history after "Tin Man".

In 2367, the Hood underwent a major systems upgrade at Starbase 174. (TNG: "Brothers")

This information appeared on the Starship Mission Status screen.

The Hood was also part of Captain Picard's task force in 2368 to blockade the Klingon-Romulan border in order to cut off the Duras family from Romulan supplies. It served as a focal point and anchor in the tachyon detection grid, as it was linked to twelve other starships during the grid's initial deployment. (TNG: "Redemption II")

[edit] Dominion War service

The Hood fought in several engagements during the Dominion War. In early 2374, it was part of the task force that participated in Operation Return, the attempt to retake Deep Space 9. (DS9: "Favor the Bold", "Sacrifice of Angels")

In late 2374, the Hood participated in the First Battle of Chin'toka, flying in close formation with the USS Defiant. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")

[edit] Postwar service

In 2379, the Hood was part of Star Fleet Battle Group Omega, a group of starships assigned to Sector 1045 near the Romulan Neutral Zone to intercept the Scimitar. (Star Trek Nemesis)

Battle Group Omega starships
USS Archer • USS Aries • USS Galaxy • USS Hood • USS Intrepid • USS Nova • USS Valiant

Excelsior-class starships
USS Berlin • USS Cairo • USS Charleston • USS Crazy Horse • USS Enterprise-B • USS Excelsior • USS Farragut • USS Fearless • USS Fredrickson • USS Gorkon • USS Hood • USS Intrepid • USS Lakota • USS Malinche • USS Melbourne • USS Potemkin • USS Repulse • USS Valley Forge • Unnamed

[edit] Appendices

[edit] Background

There has been some controversy regarding the registry number of the USS Hood. The ship was first seen on-screen in TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint" in effect shots created by ILM. No registry number was visible in these shots, but on pictures available on-line, [1] [2] the model is clearly labeled "USS Hood, NCC-2541".

Another registry number, NCC-42296, was devised later and used consistently in various LCARS graphics, for example the Starship Mission Status and the screen showing Star Fleet Battle Group Omega.

The Hood's appearance in "Tears of the Prophets" was confirmed by John Gross and Karen Sickles of Digital Muse in a 25 June 1998 post by DS9 Visual Effects Supervisor David Stipes on the newsgroup alt.tv.star-trek.ds9. He noted that during the labeling of the CGI model of the USS Hood, a typographical error was made, mistakenly giving it the registry of the "NCC-42768." [3]

USS Hood, like its Constitution-class predecessor, was named after HMS Hood, a British battle cruiser sunk by the German battleship Bismarck during World War II.

[edit] Apocrypha

In the TNG PC game A Final Unity, if the Enterprise-D is destroyed, a message plays where a Starfleet admiral says that the USS Hood has been dispatched to investigate.

The USS Hood is one of the playable Excelsior-class starships in skirmish mode in Star Trek: Legacy.