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| Name: | USS Kongo |
| Registry: | NCC-1710 |
| Class: | Constitution |
| Type: | heavy cruiser |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | various |
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USS Kongo (NCC-1710) was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser active in the 23rd century. (Star Fleet Technical Manual)
Kongo was commissioned in late 2249 and refit to the Constitution (II) configuration in 2272-73. (Ships of the Star Fleet)
Nomenclature[]
The ship was named after the Japanese battleship Kongō, the lead ship and prototype of its class. It was a warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy during Earth's World War I and World War II. Other seagoing vessels named Kongō were an ironclad ship of the IJN in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and JS Kongō, lead ship of a class of destroyers in the 1990s.
Those ships were named after Mount Kongō in Japan. The word "kongō" means "indestructible diamond".
Licensed Sources[]
Decipher RPG[]
At one time, Kongo was commanded by Commodore Dan Stack. In 2269, she successfully observed the primitive civilization on Muldoon IV, located between the twin suns of Loki and Thor. (Decipher RPG: Starships)
Pocket Books continuity[]
Captain Chandra commanded the Kongo in the mid-2260s. (TOS novel: The Captain's Oath; TOS: "Court Martial")
Ca. 2273, Kongo clipped a cosmic string near Perseus, resulting in containment field breach. A total of 143 personnel died – including an old Academy classmate of Pavel Chekov's, Robert Cecil – and a whole section of the ship was lost. (TOS novel: Death Count)
Prime Team[]
A Prime Team called the "Cavaliers" was assigned to Kongo. (Task Force Games: UFP: The Federation Sourcebook for Prime Directive)
Alternative continuities[]
Delta Dynamics[]
The original configuration of the Constitution class heavy cruiser
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Constitution Flight II configuration
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The original configuration of the Bonhomme Richard subclass
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Constitution Flight III
The USS Kongo (NCC-1710) was a Constitution-class heavy cruiser in Starfleet service during the mid- to late-23rd century. After a few years, the ship had gone through an extensive upgrade period to achieve full parity with the ten other ships of the Flight II standard. By 2260, it had been further upgraded to the Type 1 Bonhomme Richard standard. By 2265, all Bonhomme Richards (of the three types) had been upgraded to the Constitution Flight III standard. (Star Fleet Starship Recognition Manual: Report #298: Constitution Heavy Cruiser)
Epiphany Trek[]
The USS Kongo (NCC-1710) served from 2251 to 2307. She began her career as one of the queens of the fleet and ended as a Command School training ship. She has since been restored by her former captain, Jerold Ryan LaSaille, and stored at the Starbase 222 (El Nanth) spacedock, fleet dock A 137.
The USS Kongo was named after a Japanese battleship. The word kongo was the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese translation of vajra in Sanskrit.
List of captains[]
- Captain Rodrego Esperato Diaz – Launch to 2261
- Captain Jerold Ryan LaSaille – 2261 to 2273
- Captain Martha Raligh – 2273 to 2280
- Captain T'lur – 2280 to 2291 (science ship)
- Captain Vesupi Kalaact – 2291 to 2307 (Starfleet Training Command)
Orion Press[]
Prior to 2252, Kongo's commanding officer was Captain Terfel.
Captain Matterson commanded Kongo in 2284, with Commander Pavel Chekov as exec. During an encounter with a seemingly abandoned Romulan ship that year, the boarding party from Kongo was attacked by three survivors. Matterson was killed. (Orion Press: "Until We Meet Again")
Kongo was hulled during Starfleet's first encounter with the Kelvan invasion armada in 2285. The ship was repaired and rebuilt, and recommissioned two years later. ("It's Not Fair", "Return to Xantharus", "The Trainer", In Harm's Way)
Project Potemkin[]
in 2267, two officers from the Kongo -- Commander Nora Stacey and Lieutenant Keith Meyers -- were separated from the rest of their landing party while on a planetfall. 31 years later, the USS Potemkin picked up a distress call that seemed to be from the missing officers. (Project Potemkin: "Frazier's Angels")
Star Fleet Command (Grayslake, IL)[]
On stardate 8502.04, during an engagement between Federation and Tholian forces in the Cobol Epsilon Tau system, Kongo immobilized a Tholian destroyer but was destroyed by a Tholian battleship. There were no survivors. (Research Anthology: "Cross Fire: The Tholian Slaughter")
Star Trek Continues[]
Kongo was hijacked by Espers who used it to pass through the galactic barrier. The Espers evaded capture by both the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and a Romulan Bird-of-Prey and then headed deeper into the Federation. The Espers managed to trick two the USS Exeter and the USS Potemkin starships pursuing the Kongo into firing on each other. However, the Enterprise was able to defeat the Kongo with the aid of sabotage by Barbara Smith, but with the loss of Elise McKennah. (STC: "To Boldly Go, Part I", "To Boldly Go, Part II")
The Starfleet Museum[]
Kongo was restored to her original 2248 appearance and put on display at the Starfleet Museum.
Starship Exeter[]
The USS Kongo (NCC-1710) was an Achernar-subclass of the Constitution class under the command of Captain Kosnett.
While in the vicinity of Starbase 16, Kongo reported that she was under attack. USS Exeter was responding to assist. When Exeter arrived at planet Corinth IV, the location of the starbase, a landing party, led by Captain John Quincy Garrovick, discovered that the starbase had been completely obliterated. The wreckage of Kongo's saucer section was also discovered nearby on the surface of the planet. After a brief search, the badly damaged stardrive section was located, adrift in space. The ship was destroyed, presumably, by Tressaurian forces. There were no survivors. (EXT: "The Tressaurian Intersection")
Tales from the Neutral Zone[]
Kongo was commanded by Captain Jack Manning in the 2260s. Her first officer was named Greensboro. (Endosymbiosis)
| Officers of the starship Kongo | |||||||||||
| CO | XO | HELM | NAV | SCI | ENG | COMM | SEC | CMO | |||
| NCC-1710 | Manning | Greensboro | TBA | TBA | Kavura | Jameson | TBA | Ferraro | Grasso | TBA | Jameson | ||
| NCC-1710 | |||||||||||
Other realities[]
In one possible reality, the USS Kongo had the registry NCC-1850, as one of the last Tikopai-subclass starships launched in 2252. It served with distinction until its eventual retirement in the 2340s. It also fought during the Four Years War alongside the USS Yamato and the USS Republic (NCC-1371/1711).(Citation needed)
See Also[]
| Starships named Kongo |
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| USS Kongo (WS-164) - USS Kongo (NCC-180) - USS Kongo (NCC-1710) - USS Kongo (NCC-10455) - USS Kongo (NCC-101710) |
Background information[]
The name Kongo was on Gene Roddenberry's list of possible Constitution-class ship names. It made the final cut as seen in The Making of Star Trek (page 165) which details the memos that added the Japanese battleship IJN Kongo as a source for one of the 12 ships of the original Constitution class. Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual attached the registry "NCC-1710".
External link[]
- USS Kongo (NCC-1710) article at Memory Beta, the non-canon Star Trek wiki.
- Jackill's: Starfleet Heavy Cruiser Constitution-Class (2nd Pilot) (1999)
- Star Fleet Starship Recognition Manual: Report #298: Constitution Heavy Cruiser (2020)
- Strategic Design: Constitution-Class NX-1700 Starship Prototype (2009)
- USS Enterprise Heavy Cruiser Class Star Trek (TOS): Profile, Cutaway, and Deck Plans (2020)