Nicholas

A private Federation registered Warp 3 freighter with limited defenses.

In a Starfleet Academy simulator scenario, the freighter had to go from Miraz to Alca. Worried by the unexplicable destruction of ships through the Miraz passage, the USS Excalibur (Miranda) had to escort it. However once more, Nicholas was detroyed mysteriously.

The crew traced a subspace signal from a hidden Klingon starbase responsible for the destruction, equipped with an extensive subspace radio array used as a long range weapon.