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| Name: | USS Leonov |
| Registry: | NCC-648 |
| Class: | Gagarin |
| Type: | science scout |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
| Status: | Active |
USS Leonov (NCC-648) was a Gagarin-class science scout on active duty in Starfleet during the last quarter of the 23rd century. Leonov was commissioned in the late 2270s.
Stephen Penik was Leonov's commanding officer in the early 2290s. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Crash")
Background[]
Leonov was named after both the Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov and the spaceship Leonov from Arthur C. Clarke's 2010: Odyssey Two (filmed as 2010: The Year We Make Contact [1984]).
| Gagarin-class starships |
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| USS Bluford - USS Bondarenko - USS Christa McAuliffe - USS Cooper - USS Grissom - USS Leonov - USS McCandless - USS McKay - USS Ride - USS Shepard - USS Tereshkova - USS Thagard |