UFPF Challenger

The salvaged starship and defender of the colony Belle Terre.

To defend the colony from the Kauld, Nick Keller constructed the USS Challenger from the wrecks of the USS Peleliu and other vessels. When the Enterprise departed for Federation space, Captain Kirk left Keller in command of the Challenger on picket duty at Belle Terre.

Twenty years ago, in the space near Belle Terre, a caravan of alien vessels disappeared into a gigantic Gateway. The descendants of those aliens returned, armed with incredible new weapons and abilities, leaving Challenger the sole starship to defend the colony.

Challenger was made of sections of the USS Peleliu a Chesapeake-class Federation starship, these included the hastily-repaired saucer section and part of the engineering section, mainly the bottom half.