USS Bajor

"A Galaxy-class starship. My ship. I'm in love."

- Captain Kanril Eleya

The USS Bajor (NCC-97238) was a Federation starship launched on 9 August 2409 under the command of Captain Kanril Eleya.

Construction and launch
Last of the Galaxy-class starships, the Bajor was ordered as part of a stopgap series of 28 such ships to cover combat losses until the could enter full production in 2410. Each of the Series 23 Galaxys was named after a Federation homeworld, giving rise to the nickname Planet-class.

The Bajor was placed under the command of Kanril Eleya and launched on 9 August 2409. The shakedown cruise was interrupted by the receipt of a distress signal from the freighter SS, and over the objections of Admirals Taurik and Harnett Kanril ordered her ship to the rescue. The Bajor easily defeated the three Orion corvettes and deployed prize crews and rescue teams.

The crew of the Bajor decided on the motto "Morituri Nolumus Mori" by popular vote soon after launch. Kanril never bothered to look up a translation.


 * The motto is in fact a reference to the novel  by, wherein Rincewind gives a potential translation as "We who are about to die don't want to."

Technical data
"Increased endurance, firepower and speed, quantum-reinforced superstructure, a meter of ablative armor and the toughest shields this side of a starbase. She’s half-explorer, half-battleship, sir, to replenish losses against the Klingons."

- Commander Tesjha Phohl

In contrast to early vessels of the class the Bajor and her sister ships were designed with warfare as a primary purpose. The ship carried a complement of 180 quantum torpedo es. It was also equipped with ablative armor and was much faster and had greater endurance.

In addition to those features being common across Series 23, the Bajor, along with the USS Trill, USS Coridan, USS Benzar, and USS Zakdorn, was equipped with an experimental Vector Industries X-223 warp core which did not use dilithium crystals, instead confining the matter/antimatter reaction by means of artificial gravity fields.

Crew
The Bajor 's nominal crew complement was 82 officer s and 963 enlisted personnel for a total of 1,065 crew members. Approximately 15% of the initially assigned crew were Bajorans, in keeping with a theme used with the Series 23 Galaxy-class ships. (: Bait and Switch, "Shakedown Shenanigans")

Senior staff

 * Commanding officer
 * Captain Kanril Eleya (2409-pres)
 * First officer and tactical officer
 * Commander Tesjha Phohl (2409-pres)
 * Operations officer
 * Lieutenant/Lieutenant Commander T'Var (August-December 2409; reassigned to command USS Olokun)
 * Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra (December 2409-pres)
 * Chief engineer
 * Lieutenant Commander Bynam Ehrob (2409-pres)
 * Chief medical officer
 * Lieutenant (JG) Warragul Wirrpanda (2409-pres)
 * Chief of security
 * Lieutenant Dul'krah, Clan Korekh (2409-pres)
 * Science officer
 * Commander Birail Riyannis (2409-pres)