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| Name: | USS Chicago |
| Registry: | NCC-75011 |
| Class: | Sovereign |
| Type: | explorer |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | decommissioned (2389) |
The USS Chicago (NCC-75011) was a Sovereign-class heavy cruiser in Starfleet service during the 2380s.
Ship's History[]
Many of Chicago's senior staff had been part of a training cadre aboard the USS Bortas in the early 2380s.
USS Chicago mission patch.
In 2384, Chicago was deployed to the Starfleet Twelfth Fleet, under the command of Captain Jay Hurd. The acting executive officer was Commander Stephen Whyat.
Captain Hurd was formerly Gul Ja’Hurd of the Cardassian Union. He had defected to the Federation after growing disagreements with the Union’s policies. Jayden Tyronian, a Bajoran, volunteered to serve as Ja’hurd’s XO, not so much to for the position but to keep an eye on the Cardassian. Ja’Hurd’s wife, Amaree, was assigned to serve as the ship’s intelligence officer.
Rumors persisted that Ja’hurd and Amaree both may have been cover identities themselves, and that Ja’hurd could in fact be Malkavius Marcet, an eccentric Gul of the fabled Ajem’Dasis. (The Ajem'Dasis had been an order of knights in the Union believed extinct.) Ja’hurd, for the most part, had dismissed these rumors as the idle suspicions of those who have yet to heal from the wounds of the Dominion War.
Chicago was briefly on temporary assigned duty (TAD) to the Starfleet Eleventh Fleet under the command of Commander Jayden Tyronian, while Hurd took an extended leave of absence.
Captain Hurd, in late 2384, resumed command of Chicago. Tyronian was then transferred to Starfleet Tenth Fleet’s USS Atlantis. In mid-2385, Commander Otilio Puente was assigned as executive officer of the ship, relieving the second of two temporary execs.
In 2385, USS Chicago took part in a fleet exercise that pitted ships of the 12th Fleet against each other, acting out a scenario that involved the invasion of Terran Imperial Naval Forces. Starfleet Intelligence, as part of the exercise, instructed Captain Hurd to "reveal" that he and much of his senior staff were Cardassian (a fact that was actually true at least for the commanding officer and the ship’s chief intelligence officer). The Starfleet Intelligence scenario called for "Gul Ja’hurd" to "steal" the USS Chicago and go rogue. Gul Ja’hurd then employed a sleeper agent aboard the USS Bortas to send back data on 12th Fleet plans and strategies.
The scenario eventually ended in an undeclared draw when other more pressing matters arose. No clear winner was ever declared in the scenario.
| Sovereign-class starships |
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| Prototype (2370): USS Sovereign - Block I (2372): USS Black Hawk - USS Enterprise-E - USS Honorius - USS Independence - Unrevealed (after 2372): USS Arsinoe - USS Atlas - USS Bozeman-A - USS Chancellor - USS Constellation - USS Erebus - USS Gibraltar - USS Gilgamesh - USS Hrothgar - USS Hutchinson - USS Igraine - USS Musashi - USS Okuda - USS Pachacuti - USS Roosevelt - USS Tempest - USS Tirpitz - USS Valkyrie - USS Venture - USS Warpite - USS Yorktown |
| Black Hawk subclass: USS Black Hawk-A |
| Mirror universe: Enterprise |
| Beverly Crusher Investigates: USS Grissom - The Devastating Discoveries: USS Anne Frank - USS Beast - USS Behemoth - USS Ravana - USS Sathanas - USS Violet Baudelaire - Fleet 31: USS Cebu |
| Starfleet International: USS Alba - USS Andromeda - USS Antares - USS Appomattox - USS Archangel - USS Aries-B - USS Asclepios - USS Atlantis - USS Black Hawk - USS Black Hawk-A - USS Caledonia - USS Chicago - USS Columbia - USS Constellation - USS Constitution - USS Hadfield - USS Judgord - USS Liberator - USS Liberty - USS Liberty Belle - USS Narragansett - USS Neptune - USS Ohio - USS Olympus - USS Protector - USS Reginald Mitchell - USS Reprisal - USS Reuben James - USS Russell Camp III - USS Silver Moon - USS Sovereign - USS Theresa Sylvester - USS Tiberius - USS Vandalia - USS Veritas - USS Versailles - USS Victorious - USS Vimy Ridge - USS Wildhorse |
| Star Trek: Black Hawk: USS Black Hawk - USS Black Hawk-A - Star Trek: Constance: USS Khitomer - Star Trek: Crusader: USS Federation - Star Trek: Dauntless: USS Dauntless - Star Trek: Distant Horizons: USS Pir - Star Trek: Excelsior: USS Excelsior-C - Star Trek: Hidden Frontier: USS Independence - USS Saratoga - Star Trek: Independence: USS Independence - Star Trek: Liberty: USS Excelsior-B - USS Freedom - USS Liberty - Star Trek: New Order: USS Prince of Wales - Star Trek: Omega Force: USS Yagami - Star Trek: Pendragon: USS Advantage - USS Alhambra - Star Trek: Phoenix-X: USS Zephyra - Star Trek: Remington: USS Kyle Fitzgerald - Star Trek: The Adventures of Argus: USS Argus - USS Challenger - USS Excelsior - USS Freedom - USS Independence - Star Trek: The Cantabrian Expeditions: USS Advantage - Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles: USS Gibraltar - Star Trek: Unity: USS America - USS Hawk-A - USS Incipiens - To Boldly Go: USS Monarch - Trekmania: USS Excelsior - USS Baldwin: USS Edmund Fitzgerald |
Fan organizations[]
The USS Chicago (NCC-75011) was a chapter of Starfleet International, based in Steger, Illinois and founded 28 January 2007. (STARFLEET Vessel Registry, May 2011) The chapter began as a correspondence chapter, but eventually transitioned to a meeting chapter and held its monthly meetings at The Zone Comics in Homewood, Illinois.
In 2007, USS Chicago was the Region’s Shakedown Chapter of The Year, accepted by chapter president Jay Hurd on behalf of the chapter at the 2007 Region 12 Summit in Champaign/Urbana, Illinois.
The Chicago was decommissioned in 2012.