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The USS Appleton (NCC-97001) was an Odyssey-class starship in service during the early 25th century.

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USS Appleton mission patch.

She was assigned to the Starfleet Twentieth Fleet under the command of Fleet Captain Smith. After an initial 5-year mission, Smith handed command to Captain Walker.

Nomenclature[]

The ship was named after Edward Victor Appleton (1892-1965) an English physicist who won the Nobel Prize in 1947 for proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments he conducted in the 1920s.

Fan organization[]

The Appleton is also the name of a Starfleet International chapter based in Bradford, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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