USS Calhoun (NCC-78546)

The USS Calhoun (NCC-78546) is a starship built by the United Federation of Planets' Starfleet and launched in 2390. It was the first Federation ship equipped with a transwarp drive, and its inaugural mission consisted in a flight to the Delta Quadrant to re-establish Federation contact with the Talaxians.

The Calhoun is currently the flagship of the Frontier Fleet. Now commanded by Captain Jennifer Su, it has, over the past four years, explored the Delta Quadrant, seen its crew thrown through time, revived a friendly species dormant for centuries, encountered its double from a parallel universe plagued by war, and had many other adventures.

The crew's primary mission is one of exploration. It is also tasked with establishing diplomatic relations with new warp-capable species.

Current command personnel

 * Captain Jennifer Su, commanding officer
 * Commander Dawn Summers, first officer
 * Commander Luke Callahan, second officer and chief of CONN
 * Lieutenant j.g. Jonathan Edward Ditch III, chief of operations
 * Ensign Kar'off, acting chief of security and tactical
 * Doctor (Ensign) Dean Arlian, acting chief medical officer
 * Lieutenant-commander Alastriona de Troyes, chief of science
 * Ensign V'toth, assistant chief of science

List of captains past and present

 * Captain Sera Vaun (2390)
 * Captain Fox D. Main (2390)
 * Captain Rovan Bren (2390)
 * Captain Jennifer Su (2390-2394/present)

Season 1

 * 1x01 "Into the Unknown". (Vaun) The USS Calhoun begins her maiden flight, and encounters her first difficulties when the transwarp drives refuses to disengage.
 * 1x02 "Maiden Voyage". (Vaun) The ship collides with a creature in the transwarp conduit, and suffers damage. The crew make contact with the Talaxians, who come to their aid. First officer Commander Fox D. Main begins to behave erratically, and his mind is found to have been infected with a parasite.
 * 1x03 "Main's Brain". (Vaun) Brain surgery is required to save Commander Main's life.
 * 1x04 "Shoreleave". (Main) The crew enjoy shoreleave, soon cut short by news of the disappearance of two ships: the USS Odyssey and the USS Carolina. The Calhoun embarks on a search and rescue operation.
 * 1x05 "The Parting of the Ways". (Main) The search and rescue mission continues, in somewhat uneasy cooperation with Cardassian ships.
 * 1x06 "On the Frontier". (Bren) The ship returns to the Delta Quadrant, where the Talaxians have built a starbase, Delta One, to be rented to Starfleet.
 * 1x07 "Diplomatic Roundup". (Su) The crew ferry a group of Klingon, Romulan, Cardassian, Ferengi and other diplomats to Delta One. Tensions run high when Kazon ships appear at the starbase.
 * 1x08 "The Search for Dawn". (Su) A rescue mission to find two kidnapped crewmembers, whose time is running out as they struggle to survive the natural dangers of an inhospitable world.
 * 1x09 "Summer Darkness". (Su) The dangers of being isolated in the Delta Quadrant become all too apparent when Captain Su, First Officer Logix and Second Officer Dawn Summers are all disabled through injury or more mysterious causes.
 * 1x10 "Gagarin's Bubble". (Su) The USS Gagarin, a Soyuz class vessel from the 2240s, appears, adrift, near Delta One. Its crew is alive, but unconscious. How can the Calhoun crew deal with people from the past, interact with them and send them home without violating the Prime Directive?
 * 1x11 "Sleep of death". (Su) An away team exploring an uncharted, uninhabited world in the Delta Quadrant send out a distress call, then disappear. The Calhoun rushes to their aid, only for its crew to find itself trapped in bizarre, terrifying and sometimes lethal hallucinations.
 * 1x12 "Through the looking glass". (Su) The crew have their first encounter with what the call the Parallel Reality - a parallel universe in which a warlike, expansionist Federation is at bay, fighting a losing war against a coalition of its former targets. The crew come face to face with their own doubles - disturbing images of what they would have become in this universe.
 * 1x13 "Jailbreak". (Su) Sentenced to a life stranded on a parched, desert, uninhabitable world for having trespassed on a forbidden moon, a six-person away team strugge to survive, while their crewmates strive to find and rescue them - even if it means violating the laws of their jailers.
 * 1x14 "Into the Dark. (Su)The ship crashes into a dormant, ancient Borg vessel.
 * 1x15 "Old Friends". (Su) The crew encounter a Cardassian ship in the Delta Quadrant. It was pulled there twenty years earlier by the Caretaker, and its crew have survived by establishing a colony on a world inhabited by pre-warp societies. Captain Su struggles with the ethics of the Cardassians imposing their values on the indigenous people, but tensions soon run much higher than an ethical debate when a Starfleet officer murders a Cardassian.
 * 1x16 "Shadows of Time". (Su) The ship and its crew are splintered between four time periods - 2390 (past), 2391 (present), 2392 (future) and 4202 (distant future). The crews from the different times must work together to set things right.
 * 1x17 "The Trial". (Su) A being from an advanced and isolationist species calls upon the Calhoun crew to decide the fate of a Borg drone. Should he be severed from the Collective and returned to his people, or sent back to the Borg? Unless three Calhoun officers agree to plead the case for his return to the Collective, the alien will immediately hand him back to the Borg.
 * summaries of episodes 1x18 onwards coming soon.