USS Benjamin Franklin (NCC-013)

In 2179, the Benjamin Franklin was launched under the command of Captain Iwasaki Ikushima. The Benjamin Franklin defeated a fleet of pirate vessels in Sol’s Asteroid Belt, called the Battle of the Belt. In 2181, an accident with the Benjamin Franklin’s engine core occurred and Capt Ikushima was killed. In 2354, the Benjamin Franklin was a training vessel under the command of Bernado Sanchez. The Benjamin Franklin took a training cruise with Cadet Geordi La Forge as an engineer to the Asteroid Belt. The Benjamin Franklin surveyed asteroids and found an old derelict ship that projected images on passing starships. (TNG novel: Starfleet Academy: The Haunted Starship).

The Benjamin Franklin’s registry was NCC-013, which was way too low for a ship newly commissioned in 2179, especially with the Essex NCC-173, which was lost in 2167.