USS Hood (NCC-42296)

For other uses, see Hood.

USS Hood
Class:	Excelsior-class heavy cruiser
Registry:	NCC-42296
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Commander:	Murakami (2381)
Launched:	reference stardate 2/3512
Status:	on display (2411)

The USS Hood (NCC-42296) was a 23rd century Federation starship, an Excelsior-class heavy cruiser in Starfleet service from reference stardate 2/3512 to sometime before the 2410s decade. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual)

Service history and disposition

23rd century

The Hood entered service on reference stardate 2/3512. (FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual)

24th century

Prior to Robert DeSoto assuming command, the ship was commanded by Captain Ledbetter. (TNG comic: "Thin Ice")

When DeSoto replaced him, Ledbetter assumed command of the USS Yorktown. (TNG novel: Fortune's Light)

In 2359, the Hood was ambushed in a surprise attack by several Sindareen raiders, but managed to destroy them all. The Hood was heavily damaged in the attack. Repairs were expected to take two to three months in dry dock, but were finished over a month ahead of schedule. At that time, Lieutenant William T. Riker was transferred to the ship to become its first officer. (TNG - Imzadi Forever novel: Imzadi)

2360s

Robert DeSoto assumed command of the USS Hood in 2361. His tenure as Hood's captain would last five years. (Decipher RPG module: Starfleet Operations Manual)

In that same year the Hood responded to a call for humanitarian assistance from Altair III after a revolution broke out. (TNG comics: "Friends and Other Strangers", "The Bajoran and the Beast", "Dreams Die", "The Last Verse")

In 2364, the Hood traveled to Deneb IV to deliver several replacement crewmembers to the USS Enterprise-D, including Commander Riker who had accepted a position as first officer. (TNG episode & novelization: Encounter at Farpoint)

Also aboard the Hood was Admiral Leonard McCoy, who had been invited on a tour of the medical facilities aboard the new Enterprise. (TOS - Crucible novel: Provenance of Shadows)

In 2366, the Hood transported Betazoid mediator Tam Elbrun to the Enterprise-D so that Elbrun could participate in the mission to communicate with the Gomtuu lifeform. (TNG episode: "Tin Man")

The Hood at the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367.

The Hood was part of the fleet of 40 ships assembled by Vice Admiral J.P. Hanson to waylay Borg cube 632 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 Hood was the only Starfleet vessel to survive the battle intact. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")

In 2369, while exploring the Derren sector, the Hood under Captain DeSoto picked up a distress signal from the lost runabout USS Patuxent on Rogun II. Officers were tasked with extricating a survivor, Ensign Frank Davis, who had involved himself in planetary affairs. (Last Unicorn RPG module: The Crusoe Effect)

In 2369, Benjamin Sisko created a holoprogram at Deep Space 9 that included the Hood as part of an attempted strategy to defeat the Borg Collective in a recreation of the Battle of Wolf 359. Sisko, theorizing new attack patterns he hoped might change the results of the battle, ordered the Hood to concentrate weapons fire with three other starships to allow a boarding party to gain access to Locutus's cube. (DS9 comic: "Program 359")

2370s

In 2371, the Hood responded to a distress call from USS Voyager when that ship suffered a propulsion malfunction during their shakedown cruise. During their rendezvous with Voyager, both ships detected a Malkus Artifact in possession of the Maquis. Lieutenant Tuvok temporarily transferred to the Hood before infiltrating the Maquis in order to recover the artifact. The Hood followed the Artifact energy signature to Slaybis IV, where Maquis leaders Chakotay and Cal Hudson surrendered the powerful weapon to Starfleet. The Hood transported the Artifact to the Rector Institute on Earth, and from there traveled to Starbase 96 to pick up supplies for Brackin's Planet. (VOY - The Brave and the Bold, Book Two novella: The Third Artifact)

Also in 2371, the Hood proceeded to Deep Space 9 to investigate the loss of communication with Bajoran system, along with the USS Potemkin, USS Exeter and the Klingon vessel IKS N'Gat. The task force found and engaged the Cardassian Galor-class Rugg'l in the system. The Hood helped in securing the Bajoran system. (DS9 novel: Station Rage)

Following an encounter between the crew of the USS Defiant and a Calderisi raider, the Hood was ordered to the Calderisi homeworld to investigate a weapon the Calderisi had developed that had crippled the Defiant. (DS9 novel: Objective: Bajor)

In 2372, the Hood docked at Deep Space 9 for repairs. (VOY short story: "Letting Go")

The Hood during Operation Return in 2374.

The Hood fought in many battles during the Dominion War, including Operation Return. (DS9 episode: "Sacrifice of Angels")

During the First Battle of Chin'toka, the Hood first officer Dina Voyskunsky was killed in action. (DS9 episode: "Tears of the Prophets")

Battle Group Omega composition in 2379.

In the year 2379, the Hood was assigned to the task force Star Fleet Battle Group Omega, and was ordered to rendezvous with the USS Enterprise-E in Sector 1045 in order to intercept the Reman warbird IRW Scimitar. (TNG movie: Star Trek Nemesis)

2380s

In orbit of Jengus IV in 2381.

In the 2380s, command had passed onto Captain Murakami. In 2381, the Hood visited Jengus IV after receiving a distress call issued by Outpost 76. Captain Murakami successfully brokered a tentative peace agreement between the hitherto undiscovered indigenous Scrubble species and the civilian outpost scientists on stardate 58256.2. The Hood departed the planet and left the California-class support ships USS Cerritos and USS Carlsbad behind to coordinate cleanup efforts and relocate the outpost in situ. (LD episode: "Mining the Mind's Mines")

25th century

A decommissioned Hood in 2411.

The Hood had been decommissioned by the early 25th century. In the 2410s, the Hood was the sole intact starships among the 31 shipwrecks on display along a docking arm of the Wolf 359 Memorial Station in the Wolf 359 star system. (STO - Both Worlds mission: "Omega Molecule Stabilization")

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 Hood was one of the ships recreated holographically for the operation. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")

Alternate timelines

First Splinter timeline

The Hood suffered heavy and repeated losses during the war with the Dominion, including the death of surgeon Keith Hughes's wife and young daughter during one battle; the loss pained Doctor Hughes enough that he decided to leave Starfleet in order to escape the violence. (TNG - A Time to... novel: A Time to Heal)

The Hood was to visit Deep Space 9 in 2376 to pick up an industrial replicator bound for Cardassia. (DS9 - Gateways novel: Demons of Air and Darkness)

In January 2380 of the First Splinter timeline, the Hood visited planet Gorak IX, where it discovered undescribed ancient machinery. Later that year, the Hood escorted representatives of the Trinni/ek to a second attempted meeting with President Nanietta Bacco. (ST novel: Articles of the Federation)

Following the Borg Invasion of 2381, the Hood responded to a distress signal from a planetoid which turned out to originate from a crashed Borg scout ship, and its newly-liberated ex-drones. Deputy chief of security Ensign Dmitri Nakahara killed the survivors, as revenge for the deaths the Borg had caused during the invasion. (ST novel: A Singular Destiny)

Personnel

• Captain Benderrek, commanding officer (?-?)
• Captain Ledbetter, commanding officer (?-2359)
• Captain Robert DeSoto, commanding officer (c. 2359-2381)
• Commander William T. Riker, executive officer (2359-2364)
• Lieutenant Commander Dina Voyskunsky, executive officer (2370-2374)
• Commander Buonfiglio, executive officer (2376)
• Lieutenant Manolet Dayrit, security chief (2371)
• Ensign Dmitri Nakahara, deputy/acting security chief (2381)
• Ensign José Kojima, operations officer
• Lieutenant Baifang Hsu, conn officer
• Lieutenant Tara Czierniewski, chief engineer
• Doctor Catherine Papadimitriou, chief medical officer
• Doctor Keith Hughes, surgeon
• Roberta Holverson (2360s)

See also: USS Hood personnel roster

Auxiliary craft

• Manhattan (lost, 2371)

Appendices

Background

The Excelsior-class Hood is an oft-mentioned TNG-era vessel, with differing details depending on the sources involved. When ILM's original Excelsior model was refurbished to be filmed for the pilot TNG episode: "Encounter at Farpoint", the decals were changed to read "USS Hood NCC-2541", although this feature was never visible on screen. By later seasons of TNG, the same USS Hood was often shown in computer readout screens as "NCC-42296", a registry that was also featured in the ST reference: The Star Trek Encyclopedia and other licensed sources. By the next time the Hood appeared onscreen, in DS9, a modeler's error showed the vessel had not had its decals updated, and the hull bore the registry of the USS Lakota, the last ship that model had been used to represent. When the Hood was mentioned in the FASA RPG module: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual, it was sequentially numbered in the list as "NCC-2017".

External link

• USS Hood (NCC-42296) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.