The USS Venture (NCC-71854) was a 24th century Federation Galaxy-class starship operated by Starfleet. Its captain was a friend of Benjamin Sisko.
In 2372, the Venture led a task force under the command of Admiral Hastur to reinforce Deep Space 9 when it was threatened by a Klingon attack. Sisko offered to talk to the captain of the Venture to secure Worf a position aboard, although Worf preferred to stay on Deep Space 9. (DS9: "The Way of the Warrior")
The Venture visited DS9 again in 2373. (DS9: "Doctor Bashir, I Presume")
The Venture destroys a Cardassian orbital weapon platform
In 2374, the Venture participated in Operation Return, protecting the flank of the USS Defiant. The Venture was one of the first ships to arrive at Deep Space 9 after the Dominion retreat. (DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels")
The Venture saw action again later that year when it fought as part of the Federation Alliance fleet that invaded the Chin'toka system. (DS9: "Tears of the Prophets")
By 2401, this ship had been superseded by a Sovereign-class USS Venture. (PIC: "The Star Gazer")
| Galaxy-class starships |
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| USS Challenger • USS Enterprise-D • USS Galaxy • USS Odyssey • USS Syracuse • USS Venture • USS Yamato • Unnamed |
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Appearances[]
- DS9:
Background information[]
The Venture in "The Way of the Warrior" (and episodes which reused that footage) was the four-foot USS Enterprise-D model built for the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Although it was mostly unchanged from the Enterprise-D, the Venture retained the phaser arrays on the dorsal sides of its nacelles from when the model was modified into the future Enterprise from TNG: "All Good Things...", but they were turned around for the Venture. This was the last use of the four-foot physical model to represent the Galaxy-class, although AMT kits would be used later as well as computer generated versions that did not have the extra phasers.
The Venture'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.
The Venture was also the first Galaxy-class ship to have its full name emblazoned below the registry number on the ventral side of its saucer section, [1](X) which was carried over to other Galaxy-class ships such as the USS Challenger from VOY: "Timeless".
Apocrypha[]
In the strategy game, Star Trek: Bridge Commander, the USS Venture was one of the ships the player has to rescue from a Cardassian attack.
In Star Trek Online, the Venture has been destroyed or decommissioned by 2409 and replaced by a Venture-class (β) starship, NCC-71854-A (β); this ship was subsequently lost attempting to halt a Borg incursion into fluidic space.
External link[]
- USS Venture (NCC-71854) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works