- For other uses, see Ahwahnee.
The USS Ahwahnee (NCC-71620[4] and NCC-73620) was a 24th century Federation starship, a Cheyenne-class heavy cruiser in Starfleet service from the 2350s[3] to the 2410s[2] decade. In the year 2367, the Ahwahnee took part in the Battle of Wolf 359. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds")
Service history[]
24th century[]
The wreck of the Ahwahnee at Wolf 359.
The USS Ahwahnee entered service in the 2350s. (ST video game: Starship Creator)
Cheyenne-class were named after vast, open spaces on Federation members's worlds. (Star Trek Adventures RPG module: Utopia Planitia Starfleet Sourcebook)
The Ahwahnee was named after the Native American name for the Yosemite Valley on Earth. (TOSC Issue 108: "Cheyenne Class")
In the year 2358, Ensign Erika Benteen was assigned to the vessel as a flight controller officer. (TNG video game: Starship Creator)
The USS Ahwahnee was part of the fleet of 40 ships assembled by Vice Admiral J.P. Hanson to waylay Borg cube 632[5] at Wolf 359. Hanson's fleet engaged Locutus' cube in battle and hoped to stop it from reaching Earth in Sector 001. Locutus of Borg, the assimilated Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard, used his tactical knowledge to decimate the Federation fleet. The Ahwahnee was wrecked in the battle. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")
The wreck of the Ahwahnee was floating in space as the USS Enterprise-D passed by the battle site. (TNG episode: "The Best of Both Worlds")
In 2368, USS Ahwahnee, now with the NCC registry number NCC-71620, was active and became part of the 23 starships that formed the rehabilitated Captain Picard's tachyon detection grid network placed on the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. Starfleet deployed the fleet to prevent the Romulan Star Empire from interfering in the Klingon war. The Ahwahnee was one of the ships, identified by name and registry number, monitored on a display aboard the Enterprise-D. On stardate 45020.4, the Romulans disrupted the network. Picard ordered the fleet to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp for redeployment, but the Romulans were detected regardless, ending the Star Empire's involvement in the war and cutting the conflict short. (TNG episode: "Redemption")
Around stardate 73XX.6, circa 2377, the Ahwahnee was rated a level 4 battle group light cruiser. It featured room for four officers and slots for five weapons or additional systems. Its deflector shields were rated 430, while the structural integrity field, or hull strength, topped at 585. As part of Federation Starfleet operations in the Trexelian Expanse, the USS Ahwahnee participated in the war games conducted by Starfleet and allied vessels from the 23rd and 24th centuries. (ST video game: Trexels mission: "Skirmish")
The Ahwahnee also saw action in conflicts with the Klingon Empire, Cardassian Union and Breen Confederacy. (ST video game: Trexels missions: "Events", "Breen Barrier")
25th century[]
The Ahwahnee (2nd left) at the Wolf 359 Memorial Station.
From 2410 onwards, the Ahwahnee represented the Cheyenne class on the shipyards interfaces operated by New Romulus Shipyards, Klingon Defense Force Order of Builders and Starfleet Shipyards Operations at Khitomer Alliance facilities across the Milky Way Galaxy. The Ahwahnee was rated a tier 3 heavy cruiser and heavy cruiser retrofit, alongside the Constellation-class USS Stargazer replica, Dakota-class USS Dakota and Stargazer-class USS Stargazer-A. (STO - The Iconian War missions: "Explore the Flotilla", "The Hunt is On", "Welcome to Earth Spacedock")
Flag officers of the Alliance could deploy the Ahwahnee alongside other spacecraft for assignments across the galaxy's quadrants as part of Operation: Delta Rising's four-quadrant strategy. (STO - New Dawn mission: "Admiralty System")
In 2411, Captain Ezri Dax oversaw a Khitomer Alliance training simulation wherein Alliance starships re-enacted the battle on the holodeck to prepare for combat with the Borg Kingdom from the mirror universe. The Ahwahnee was one of the ships recreated holographically for the operation. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")
In that year, Starfleet commissioned the Ahwahnee-class command carrier prototype USS Ahwahnee (NCC-91620), a modern starship that was part of the quad-nacelled Cheyenne- and Constellation-class line of ships. (STO website: 14th Anniversary Bundle!)
The tier 3 heavy cruisers were upgraded to tier 6 command carrier rating, including the Cheyenne-class Ahwahnee. (STO - Both Worlds mission: "Welcome to Earth Spacedock")
Personnel[]
- flight control officer:
Appendices[]
Connections[]
| Ships named Ahwahnee | ||
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USS Ahwahnee (NCC-2048, Constitution-/Enterprise-class) • USS Ahwahnee (NCC-71620/-73620, Cheyenne-class) • USS Ahwahnee (NCC-91620, Ahwahnee-class) • see also: Ahwahnee-class | 
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| Ships at the Battle of Wolf 359 | ||
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| Federation, Starfleet | USS Ahwahnee • USS Anderson • USS Bellerophon • USS Bonestell • USS Buran • USS Chekov • USS Columbia • USS Constance • USS Dunkerque • USS Endeavour • USS Endurance • USS Firebrand • USS Gage (Apollo-class) • USS Gage (ShiKahr-class) • USS Galatea • USS Garrett • USS Gora bim Gral • USS Hoagland • USS Hood • USS Ibn Sina • USS Kadosca • USS Kaneda • USS Konom • USS Kumari • USS Kyushu • USS Liberator • USS Melbourne (Excelsior-class) • USS Melbourne (Nebula-class) • USS Mjolnir • USS Porksauce • USS Princeton • USS Righteous • USS Roosevelt • USS Saratoga • USS Seleya • USS Sha Ka Ree • USS Sonak • USS Star League • USS T'Shen Kovil • USS T'Pau • USS Thy'lek Shran • USS Tolstoy (Centaur-class) • USS Tolstoy (Rigel-class) • USS Victory • USS Yamaguchi • USS Yorktown • unnamed by class: Constitution • Nova |
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| Borg Collective | Cube 632 (Locutus's cube) | 
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| Ships forming the tachyon detection grid in 2368 | ||
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USS Ahwahnee • USS Ajax • USS Akagi • USS Aries • USS Charleston • USS Endeavour • USS Enterprise-D • USS Excalibur • USS Goddard • USS Hood • USS Hermes • USS Hornet • USS Merrimack • USS Sutherland • USS Thomas Paine • USS Tian An Men • USS Trieste |
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| Cheyenne-class cruiser starships | |||
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| Federation Starfleet | standard configuration | USS Ahwahnee • USS Cheyenne • USS Constellation-A • USS Corinth • USS Emperor • USS Marauder • USS Porksauce • USS Rapid • USS Takahashi |
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| variant configurations | Dakota-subclass: USS Dakota • USS Groveland • Stargazer-subclass: USS Stargazer-A | ||
| Terran Imperial Starfleet (mirror universe) |
ISS Cheyenne • Dakota-subclass: ISS Dakota | 
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Background[]
| This section is written from the Real World point of view. |
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- According to the tachyon detection grid schematic, the Ahwahnee had a registry number of NCC-71620. Mike Okuda has said that the previous registry number of NCC-73620 was a mistake.
- In The Official Starships Collection, the model is labelled NCC-73620.
References[]
External link[]
- USS Ahwahnee (NCC-73620) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.