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U.S.S. Bozeman NCC-1941

Soyuz-class Federation starship commanded by Captain Morgan Bateson, a contemporary of Admiral James T. Kirk and Captain Spock. In 2278, three weeks after leaving its home starbase, the Bozeman disappeared near the Typhon Expanse. It re-emerged in a near-collision with the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D in 2368. The Bozeman had been unknowingly stuck in a temporal causality loop with the Enterprise-D; while the Enterprise crew lost only 17.4 days, the crew of the Bozeman effectively skipped over 90 years. In alternate realities, the two ships had actually collided and destroyed each other, an occurrence which repeated numerous times in the causality loop, until the Enterprise crew became aware of the anomaly and found a way to avert the disaster and break the loop. After a near-collision once the loop had been broken, Bateson—unfamiliar with the design of the other ship—hailed the Enterprise to offer assistance, but was informed by Captain Picard that he and his crew were now in the year 2368.^[1]

The Bozeman was subsequently recertified for Starfleet service. In 2371, the Bozeman was forced to make a course correction due to gravitational changes caused by the destruction of the Amargosa star. This minor fact helped Picard realize that Dr. Tolian Soran‘s reason for destroying that star was to alter the trajectory of the Nexus energy ribbon.^[3]

In 2373, the Bozeman returned to the Typhon sector to join the Starfleet armada mobilizing against the invading Borg cube heading toward Earth. At one point, the Bozeman and the U.S.S. Defiant NX-74205 were ordered to fall back to “mobile position one.”^[4]

In an anti-time reality created by the Q Continuum for Picard, the Bozeman was deployed with 15 other starships to the Neutral Zone to investigate a Romulan military buildup.^[2] Named for the city of Bozeman, Montana.

References

• 1. “Cause and Effect.” Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode 218. Television. 23 March 1992.
• 2. “All Good Things…” Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episodes 277-278. Television. 23 May 1994.
• 3. Star Trek: Generations. Film. 18 November 1994.
• 4. Star Trek: First Contact. Film. 22 November 1996.