SS Bonaventure

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The Bonaventure in Elysia in the 2260s.

The USS Bonaventure (10281NCC) was a Terran starship in service in the late 21st century. She was the first starship equipped with Zefram Cochrane's second generation warp engines. (TAS episode: "The Time Trap", SCE eBook: Where Time Stands Still)

Service history and disposition

Unlike future Earth starships, the registry number of the Bonaventure consisted of a five-digit number followed by NCC. (TAS episode: "The Time Trap")

The Bonaventure was lost in the year 2079, on her third mission. At the time, it was believed that it had suffered a failure due to a design flaw in its warp engines. Cochrane disputed this theory, and the loss of the Bonaventure pushed him to establish the Warp Five Complex. (SCE eBook: Where Time Stands Still)

In the late 22nd century, Federation Starfleet commissioned a new USS Bonaventure (NCC-1000), which operated as the prototype of the Bonaventure-class. (TOSC Issue Bonus 12: "Bonaventure")

Star map showing the loss of the Bonaventure.

At the Starfleet Air and Space Museum.

Daniel Okagawa, as a young boy, read about the loss of the Bonaventure and other famed lost ships, creating a lifelong fascination with the subject. (SCE eBook: Where Time Stands Still)

Beckett Mariner was likewise taken by the Bonaventure and its unique design, building several models of the ship in her youth. (LD - Lower Decks comic: "Issue 1")

In 2269, the USS Enterprise discovered the Bonaventure trapped inside a "pocket dimension" called Elysia in a region known as the Delta Triangle, in which ships had been mysteriously disappearing for centuries, being transported to Elysia. (TAS episode: "The Time Trap")

By one account, the Bonaventure was displayed for public access in the Starfleet Air and Space Museum, alongside the decommissioned USS Enterprise-A and the prototype interstellar vessel USS Enterprise (XCV-330) in the late 23rd century. (SOTL calendar: Ships of the Line 2022 month: October)

By another account, the Bonaventure spent months recreating Kirk's method of escape, managing to escape the Delta Triangle and set course for Earth at maximum warp once its dilithium crystals had reconstituted. As the escape of the Enterprise had altered the rift, the Bonaventure emerged in the 24th century. Finding that their communication channels were now outdated, the Bonaventure set course for Earth at maximum warp only for the engines to begin to overload. The crew were saved by a passing Choksi craft which the Bonaventure quickly outpaced.

On stardate 59010.2, in 2382, the USS Cerritos discovered the Bonaventure intact but derelict. Commander Jack Ransom led an away team aboard to determine the crews' whereabouts. Accessing the logs, the Cerritos crew found that the ship's warp drive had failed, leaving the computer to continue its course for Earth on automatic before the ship suddenly went to warp, all of the crew, save Ransom, being beamed off by nearby Excalbians who kept only the lower deckers. With the command crew returned to the Bonaventure, they were met the by the Cerritos and the Choksi craft, managing to bring the Bonaventure under control. Though the Cerritos offered to speed up the journey back to Earth, the Bonaventure's crew decided to remain with their ship. (LD - Lower Decks comics: "Issue 1", "Issue 2")

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Background

The Bonaventure was established in the TAS episode: "The Time Trap" and described as the first Earth ship to have warp drive installed. It was depicted as extremely similar in appearance to the Constitution-class, with a registry of 10281NCC. This would seem at odds with what was later established in the movie Star Trek: First Contact, and by the depiction of the 22nd century in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Appearances and references

Appearances

• TAS episode: "The Time Trap" (first appearance)
• SCE eBook: Where Time Stands Still
• ST reference: The Official Guide to The Animated Series
• TOSC Issue Bonus 12: "Bonaventure"
• SOTL calendar: Ships of the Line 2022

External link

• SS Bonaventure article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.