USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X)

For the mirror universe counterpart, see ISS Phoenix-X.

For past Phoenix ships in this line, see USS Phoenix (NCC-65420) starships.

"While the Phoenix has been in service, we've secretly tested and burned at least twenty-four Phoenix-named ships in a short timespan. The latest one has shown the most non-explodey tendencies."

— Captain Cid ("The Tiloniam System")

The USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X) (or Phoenix-X) was a Prometheus-class special operations Federation starship, in the late 24th and early 25th centuries, with working transwarp that operated in parallel to the original USS Phoenix and several others of the same registry. It was the twenty-fifth starship to bear the name Phoenix after a two-year transwarp-testing phase in which its predecessors, also in parallel, were near-destroyed one after the other. It was head of Task Force Epsilon, under the command of Starbase 55 and served both Starfleet and, for several years, Section 31. (Star Trek: Phoenix-X)

History

Development

In 2286, Section 31 covertly beamed components and copied alien data from the Whale Probe and, with Starfleet Intelligence, spent over 80 years attempting to decode it. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, "Experimentalism")

Sometime before 2367, Section 31 enlisted the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, under Admiral William Theseus, to decode the data, which appeared to be propulsion-based, and develop transwarp technology using the components. Partial construction of a transwarp drive began on the USS Phoenix, but was interrupted after a short stint in Cardassian territory where Captain Benjamin Maxwell had launched illegal attacks against the Cardassian Union. (TNG: "The Wounded", "Secret Occurrences")

Following that, development was moved to the Proxima Maintenance Yards, where, in a freak-two year experimental phase, twenty-three ships, each named Phoenix, were fitted with transwarp engines and destroyed during each test flight. It wasn't until the end of the line of Phoenix-ships that the engine was perfected and ready for final construction.

To take the project off Starfleet's radar, the final phase was extended over the following year. In 2370, the final transwarp-modified warp drive was constructed on Earth in a secret underground bunker by the small group of Starfleet Corps of Engineers; while the Prometheus-class USS Phoenix-X ship itself was covertly constructed in Cardassian territory in Section 31's attempt to start a working relationship with the Obsidian Order. After the engine was transported from Earth to Cardassian space and installed, the relationship fell through and the Phoenix-X was moved to Pakled Planet. ("The Recruited", "Mirrorlyness!", "Secret Occurrences")

Night Gotens in Engineering aboard the Phoenix-X in 2374.

In 2374, the Phoenix-X was moved to and launched from the Beta Antares Shipyards, with Section 31-altered records stating it was built there. After one final "test" of a transwarp engine, the project was deemed a failure and put to rest. The Phoenix-X was then launched as a regular starship.

Admiral Theseus, through Section 31, and eventually Section 31 themselves, would enlist a special relationship with the crew and use their influence to have the crew keep the transwarp engine (which worked) a secret, to make available for Section 31's own personal missions. ("The Tiloniam System", "Experimentalism", "Departments", "The Tilonian System", "Forbidden Crossing, Part I")

The enlisted group within Starfleet Corps of Engineers that worked on the transwarp drive had a few aliases' including "Tech-Team", "Transwarp Research Team" and "X-Team".

The production and testing phase of the transwarp drives were also code-named and known as the "X-Project".

As a Prometheus-class starship, the Phoenix-X had the ability to be divided into three separate pieces in multi-vector mode. Each piece had warp capability, but not necessarily transwarp capability. Aboard the Phoenix-X, these pieces were called "vectors", derived from the title "multi-vector mode" - and each vector was numbered: Vector 1, Vector 2, and Vector 3. The ship was occasionally known to separate into these vectors for missions instead of emergency situations. ("The Nega'Jem, Part I") In some cases, certain vectors have been stolen from the ship without authorization. ("Crash Bandicoots", "Secret Shuttles, Part II", "Secret Occurrences")

Exchange program

Red and another exchange officer on the Bridge aboard the Phoenix-X in the 2370s.

In 2373, after the Federation-Klingon War (2372-73), the USS Phoenix and the IKS Bochnah were initiated into the exchange officer program, in a way that took it a step further by exchanging half the crews of each. Several months later, in 2374, the crew of the Phoenix was moved to the Phoenix-X, and the exchanged-Klingons were a part of that move. Lieutenant Commander Red was the only Bridge officer a part of the exchange program. ("The Tiloniam System", "Betrayal and Honour")

In 2378, the exchange program was scheduled to end but, when both halves returned to their respective ships, they each found the quality of life more difficult. As such, the exchange program resumed and both halves returned to the others' ships. ("Destiny's Revenge, Part I, II & III")

In 2380, the exchange continued, unwavering, when the Bochnah was destroyed, the crew survived and replaced with the IKS B'Cnah. ("Forged in Something")

In 2386, both the Phoenix-X and B'Cnah became victims of a genetically enhanced tribble attack. More than three-quarters of the B'Cnah's crew were killed. ("Triple Tribble Sunday")

By 2399, the program was ended. ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Record", "Nightmare Anomaly", "The Xindi Paradox", "Old School Commerce")

Registry

From 2367 to 2369, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers enlisted and destroyed 24 separate Phoenix-ships to perfect the transwarp engine, partially starting with the USS Phoenix and fully starting with the NCC-65420-A to the NCC-65420-W. The final and remaining vessel was Phoenix-X with the registry NCC-65420-X.

Since the last ship took longer to develop, in 2370, while in construction, the Phoenix-X was given the temporary registry NX-00001 for its experimental transwarp engine which was based on the previous Phoenix-ships.

Before pre-launch, Pakled technician Kod, from a section of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers, mistakenly set the ship up with the false registry NCC-75948. ("Secret Occurrences") This registry wouldn't be adapted to the ship until 2383, when noticed by Commander Seifer and Captain Cell. ("Life 2") In 2390, the false registry was pointed out by Captain Aeris and was reset to NCC-65420-X. ("Into Harshness")

The Phoenix-X and a Borg cube.

Service

20th century

In 1937, a temporally displaced Phoenix-X from 2382 appeared, on mission, and in chase of the USS Atlantis-R, in front of a Skagaran vessel, who was en route to Earth, before the two ships then disappeared again with the Phoenix-X in pursuit. ("Temporal Doom! Part II")

23rd century

In the 2260s, the temporally displaced Phoenix-X from 2382 appeared, in chase of the Atlantis-R, again, just beyond the sensor range of the USS Enterprise, but within the sights of a Lethean starship, before disappearing in another time jump. ("Temporal Doom! Part II")

24th century

In 2374, the Phoenix-X was launched and crewed at Deep Space 9 before it partook in a fleet engagement with a Borg cube, involving the USS Enterprise-E, the USS Xena, the USS Defiant, the USS Prometheus and several other ships. It bore witness to at least one vessel, part of the fleet, being destroyed in the aftermath of the Borg cube exploding. ("The Tiloniam System", "Jello Cubes")

Returning to Deep Space 9, the Phoenix-X and the Xena were put to task in tractor beaming the station to remove it from the Bajoran wormhole; a situation aided by a Cardassian gravitational probe within the wormhole, put there in an attempt to destroy it. ("Deep Space Not So Much")

Later, the Phoenix-X discovered the USS Voyager, when it inexplicably returned to the Alpha Quadrant. Q, appearing on the bridge of the Phoenix-X, found this to be premature, and sent the intrepid crew back to the Delta Quadrant. ("Find Voyager? No Problem")

The Phoenix-X was then ordered to Flortarios III by Admiral Cloud to utilize BOB in the successful interception of a smokescreen weapons trade deal between a group of Ferengi, led by Kehmeh and Wenk, and the Dominion, led by First Ruk'Tenon. ("Flortarios III")

After a knocked unconscious crew by Ragon and Kotah was stopped by the Captain, two fleets of Drai fused with intentions on attacking the Federation by a last Maquis cell were discovered to have been building in secret. The Phoenix-X was then sent with a small task force and a Klingon and Vulcan fleet to stop them. ("Cookies")

The Phoenix-X and Jem'Hadar attack ships.

In the same year, a misguided Starfleet officer named Dawn Relic hijacked the Phoenix-X and set course to the Gamma Quadrant using the ship's experimental ultra-transwarp function. There, on a planet, the ship was split into its multi-vector-thirds and crashed landed on its surface, where the crew was forced to work together to get it back and operational. Dawn, having attempted to sell the Captain as a rare species to Professor Gast, was then confined to the Brig. ("Crash Bandicoots")

While attempting to traverse home, the transwarp broke down and deposited the ship in Dominion territory, where they and a Jem'Hadar warship became disabled within an anomalous purple cloud. Devising a way to use the cloud as a source of power, the crew worked to eject themselves free before another Jem'Hadar warship destroyed the cloud and the other ship inside. ("The Cloud Aloft")

The Phoenix-X at Flortarios III.

In 2375, the Phoenix-X, as part of Task Force Epsilon, was sent to patrol Flortarios III and its system. While during a meet and greet, the leaders of the task force and the leaders of the planet were taken momentarily hostage by Dominion agents Mellinook and Pablokinya who then kidnapped the Prime Minister of Flortarios III. After a fleet of Dominion ships moved in to invade the system and were defeated by Task Force Epsilon and a Bajoran trove virus, the Prime Minister was rescued and returned, unharmed. ("Homespun", "The Bajoran Trove")

After several Starfleet ships failed, the Phoenix-X took on the generational warship Gelomira whom, after 248 years, had been in transit to destroy Earth. Being rescued from the USS Jenova, Iviok took command of the Phoenix-X while Daniel and Gotens were on the Gelomira gaining control of their systems. Upon return, the Phoenix-X rescued the generational crew and then pulled the empty Gelomira into the sun. ("Bio Level 4")

Later, when investigating an Iso-star, the Phoenix-X accidentally brought what appeared to be a duplicate Phoenix-X into the Universe. The dopplegangers, in reality Mirror Universe counterparts, hid their evil natures until attempting a murderous strike, but failed when Daniel and crew caught on and destroyed them instead. ("Pure Evil") Pieces of the other Pheonix-X would be left in space to later be salvaged by James Gotens and Wayfar and put back together in 2394. ("Phoenix Meltdown", "Transgressables") As well, the mirror crew, while thought destroyed here, would later be brought back from this point in time to life in 2383 by a future Omni named Rein. ("Broken Pieces")

When the Klingon Empire seemingly declared Red a traitor, the IKS Bochnah rondesvoused with the Phoenix-X so that Dorwin could kill Red but, instead, Dorwin was apprehended and Red's accusations were proven falsified by those scheming for the Duras family. ("Betrayal and Honour")

Later, the Phoenix-X was lured into a meeting with Female Changeling Anna from the Jem'Hadar Dreadnaught Hyperion-047 of which Daniel immediately destroyed, assuming she was once again harassing him to return to the Great Link. Instead, Anna transported to the Phoenix-X to see Daniel one more time before her own Jem'Hadar soldiers, who had also beamed over, attempted to kill everyone, including her. The Phoenix-X then discovered the Enterprise-E nearby was also disabled and boarded by Jem'Hadar, as a method by Feylou to keep the Phoenix-X in one place for an incoming fleet of Dominion attack ships. As a way out, the Phoenix-X, split into multi-vectors, and Enterprise-E attempted a joint-transwarp jump. But an attack by Anna disrupted the process, leading to the eventual destruction of Vector Beta, Vector Gamma and the Enterprise-E, to which Q reversed, allowing Wesley Crusher to appear earlier in the timeline to convince Daniel not to dismiss Anna. Due to this, Anna called off the invasion of both ships. Fearing her new outlook may hurt the Q Continuum somehow, Q recalled Anna from the timeline. This time able to recover systems quickly, the Enterprise-E and Phoenix-X left before the Dominion fleet arrived. ("The Links' Traitor")

In 2375, Admiral Rebola of the USS Mythril had the Phoenix-X test out experimental slipstream torpedoes but, in transmitting, the schematics were intercepted and simultaneously built aboard the Romulan starship Konsugon under Plutark. With the help of Gul Meloneus of the Cardassian starship Isotope, the two adversaries took on the Phoenix-X and their ships were destroyed by a demonstration of elaborate deconstruction by the torpedoes, including that of accelrating a nearby star into a supernova. The violation of the Khitomer Accords then became apparent and the torpedoes were removed from the Phoenix-X to the Mythril. ("Warfare")

Later, an attempt at initating a transwarp conduit through the Carthaginian's home's ion storm shield caused the Phoenix-X to be trapped in said-conduit. While there, the joining IKS Hou-Ling was destroyed by the Carthaginian starship Hannibal before the crew of the Hannibal were forced to be rescued. ("Lost Aquarius")

First Mothballing

In 2376, Commander Avery followed up with his intent of revenge and had the Phoenix-X decommissioned. When Theseus discovered this, during the Gordarion-abducting crisis, he had the ship recommissioned in order to help save those abducted. ("Experimentalism")

24th century cont'd

In 2376, the Phoenix-X was saved from destruction by the Enterprise-E after being disabled by a volatile nebula. Recovered from the nebula was an Omni sphere, which they released X from and who transferred his life and power to Captain Daniel. Becoming quickly aware, Klokian and Sonan confronted the Phoenix-X with the intent on capturing Daniel; Klokian time-traveling to Ancient Greece to fix the Omni sphere, and Sonan distracting Daniel. When Klokian returned and captured Daniel, the Phoenix-X collected Sonan's deteriorated matter and followed them, with the help of the Klon, to the 39th century Klokian system. After recovering Captain Daniel, the Phoenix-X, having repurposed Sonan's deteriorated matter into a weapon and using it, returned back to 2376. ("The X Continuum", "Fight Bringers")

In 2377, after harvesting a stolen trans-dimensional skull-shaped device from the Fragma Alliance starship Carbonyte, the Rockono Galaxy starship Xoleras shifted its cross-dimensional attacks unto the Phoenix-X until Red transported the Phoenix-X to the other plane and returned the device. Captain Cell then used his Omni powers to bring the Phoenix-X back to its home plane of existence. ("Ghosts of the Beyond")

In 2379, a time-displaced BOB brought the Phoenix-X into a partially successful mission to capture and stop Sayjan from creating an Omni Nest in the Tilonian system, resulting in his vessel, the USS Atlantis-R, time-jumping to 2404. ("Celestial Dynamics")

In 2382, the temporal displacement drive from Berlinghoff Rasmussen's stolen ship was temporarily installed on the Phoenix-X for a mission to go to the 29th century and capture the rogue Section 31 Agent, Rave. Upon traveling to the future, the Phoenix-X contended with Na'kuhl, Sayjan, again, and a time travel chase to several eras until, finally, the Guardian of Forever before he sent them home without Rave. ("Temporal Doom! Parts I, II & III")

In 2383, during another Borg encounter, the Phoenix-X was sent into the Destiny-timeline, where they emboldened them to build the Frontier-class Deep Space 9 (II). The result, in the Prime timeline, stunted the crew's rank advancement. ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Record")

In 2384, the ultra-transwarp function had finally been ready and prepared on the Phoenix-X. Admiral Theseus joined the crew for a trip to the Andromeda Galaxy, in which they passed through the galactic barrier. Upon arrival, they encountered members of the Kelvan Empire in chase of one of their own, Ramat, who proceeded to steal the damaged Omega from the Phoenix-X and transfer Omega's consciousness into a new Andromeda android body. In the new body, Theseus found an opportunity to place an acquired Omega molecule inside for safe keeping. When the Phoenix-X returned home, the ultra-transwarp function was removed from the ship. ("Forbidden Crossing, Parts I, II & III")

In 2390, Captain Cell successfully initiated an anomaly in an attempt to see if he could view a future Phoenix-X from 2410. ("Nightmare Anomaly")

Later, the Phoenix-X covertly helped androids Beautiful Flower and Jana make first contact with the USS Ibn Majid where they would later be the victims of a black flag directive. The darkness of the situation led to another non-rank advancement for the crew of the Phoenix-X. ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Record")

Night Seifer and Gewdeque aboard the Phoenix-X in the 2390s.

In 2391, Commander Night Seifer took command of the Phoenix-X when Captain Cell joined the Traveling Link and, despite recieving a new senior staff, would frequently recall the old senior staff for missions and the long-term development of an anti-Omni Nest cocktail. ("The Needs of the Plenty", "Celestial Dynamics")

In 2393, the Phoenix-X was rondesvoused with the IKS B'Cnah and IRW Ketaryn, having invited their commanding officers over to share a meal. Later, the Phoenix-X would succeed in launching the shuttle Dracon into Warp 10, causing it to occupy all points in the Universe at once, as well as probabilities. ("Cultural Exchanges")

Later, an interdimensional attack by an entity known as the Hiss caused the Unreliable from 2365 of its divergent timeline to converge with the Phoenix-X in 2393, where they both devised a plan to use chronitons against their attacker after traveling to 2365 of the Unreliable's timeline and then the Lost Void. There, the Phoenix-X and Unreliable were successful in defeating the Hiss and freeing the Voidlings of the Lost Void before each ship returned to their timeline. ("Convergencies")

When the Phoenix-X was tasked to investigate the polaron pulses interfering with the weather management system for Covalesence, they unintentionally joined Arlene, BOK and Zeta of the Jade Fox in an ancient artifact hunt for the Breen Amakun. Upon discovery, they released the Amaku entity inside, stopped the pulses, and the crew from the Jade Fox stole the artifact for themselves before escape. ("Archaeological Anarchy")

During a week of trying to do things story-worthy, rogue Klingon Sigon snuck onto the Phoenix-X to run the Kobayashi Maru scenario but was snatched away by the USS Oberon to later be deposited onto the shuttle Hendrix. In an inspired attempt at running the Kobayashi Maru scenario themselves, Elly and Tong came close to beating it. ("Tales of Recollection")

When Hachi activated the Moore hologram to learn about humour, he unintentionally enabled Moore freedom of power over Phoenix-X systems, allowing Moore to transfer himself off the ship in escape from holographic captivity. Later, the Phoenix-X was attacked by Silaran Prin's Prin hologram through a cluster of self-replicating Cardassian hunter probes. ("Grievous Obscurity")

Later, the Phoenix-X defended Starbase 55 from a siege by the Augment-hijacked USS Vincennes. ("Face/On")

After the inhabitants of Arloff IX called for help during a conflict with a group of Omni, the crew of the Phoenix-X answered and attempted to navigate both sides until the USS Phoenix-H mysteriously appeared and stole an ancient artifact and several Omni. ("Triple Phoenix")

In 2397, during a recall of the old crew, Seifer was promoted to Captain, momentarily, causing his symbiont to go mad and make him steal the Iroh and time travel to the past, where he would create a clone of himself before dying. Back in the present, Aeris called upon the USS Atlantis to bring the clone Night aboard to join with the preserved Seifer symbiont. The new Seifer then was given command of the Phoenix-X. ("Partial Recall")

Destruction & rebirth

In 2397, Kruran attempted to run the Phoenix-X's transwarp drive through quantum slipstream, causing the ship to crash land and be destroyed upon a planet covered in ice. During a recall of the old crew, they were then transferred to the California-class USS Phoenix-Y. Hating the new ship, Commander Seifer employed Wayfar to transform the vessel back to a Prometheus-class and have the registry reverted to its previous ship letter. ("Reverse Metallurgy")

24th century cont'd

Later, in 2397, during another recall of the old crew, the Phoenix-X became trapped in a double void for five months with a void entity and several Fantome creatures. They escaped the first void by replicating a polaron modulator and warping through a funnel into a spatial vortex. Then, the second, by doing the same thing, but exploding the vortex behind them. ("Double Void")

In 2398, during an old-crew recall, the Phoenix-X and the Roltekk were tricked into becoming the lure to reveal several Horace T. Mudd androids on Miranda-class ships. When they showed themselves, Mudd was quick to remote-hijack his android's ships and self-destruct them. ("I Ain't Callin' You a Truther")

In 2399, during an old-crew recall, Seifer was working by proxy for Admiral Theseus as a remote intern for fleet reassignments, resulting in the Phoenix-X diverting nothing but Inquiry-class starships to the stand-off between the USS Zheng He and a Romulan fleet at Coppelius. ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Record", Star Trek Picard)

25th century

In 2400, the Phoenix-X attempted to stop the Atlantis-R from modifying the Sacred Disorder in the Tilonian system but, instead, helped the Atlantis in its efforts before unintentionally sending the Atlantis and BOB back in time to 2379. ("Celestial Dynamics")

In 2404, the Phoenix-X was opposed by a fleet of starships in the Tilonian system when William Theseus attempted to use the transformative Atlantis-R for Omni power. Instead of using a doomed anti-Omni Nest cocktail, Seifer ordered the Phoenix-X to interfere with the Atlantis transformation in such a way that would cause a molecular reversion field and ion storm. Such an event then caused all crews in the vicinity to undergo a reduction in age and severe memory loss, as well as the death of the Night Seifer (clone) host. It would also lead nearly everyone involved to retake Starfleet Academy. ("Delta Recruit", "Celestial Dynamics")

In 2409, a second, temporally displaced Phoenix-X from 2382 momentarily appeared, in a time travel chase of the Atlantis-R, to the detriment and witness of Ambassador Alexander Rozhenko and Fleet Admiral Alynna Necheyev on the USS Excelsior. ("Temporal Doom! Part II")

Oroku Seifer in command of the Phoenix-X.

In 2410, the Phoenix-X was in command by Captain Oroku Seifer and again crewed by the same personnel from the 24th century (excluding the Klingon Defense Force-exchange officers), having retaken Starfleet Academy. ("Nightmare Anomaly", "Delta Recruit", "Teaching the Next Generation")

When the ship was disabled by an anomalous energy field, the crew used an inverse tachyon pulse to reveal the anomaly was being caused by Captain Cell of the Phoenix-X from 2390, and Captain Ensign Dan from an alternate-future-Phoenix-X from 2450. ("Nightmare Anomaly")

While at Deep Space 9, the Phoenix-X underwent modifications to its deflector, accidentally sending the ship to tribble space upon meeting the Bajoran wormhole. There, Seifer lied to Troblor about the success of tribble in the prime universe and was promptly returned to the prime universe, unknowingly bringing back a spaceborne tribble. ("The New Frontier")

Over an unexplored planet in the Delta Volanis Cluster, the Phoenix-X detained DiaMon Cide and the Jade Fox in orbit for having launched several imperfect Genesis torpedoes at its surface, trying to convert as much of it as possible into algea for Slug-o-Cola. Unfortunately, when the remaining torpedoes abaord the Jade Fox explode and caused a spatial isturbance, Seifer and Kayl were unintentionally transported into the Gender Bent Universe and Lox and Kugo were sent to the Borg-infested Universe. After returning, Seifer ordered he, Kayl, Kugo and Lox to the Mirror Universe in order to prove the point that he engourages regular visits to there. ("Gender Swap")

During their time away, Armond accepted a mission, on behalf of the ship, to investigate a break-in at Facility 4028. Upon returning, Seifer and the crew tracked down and stopped the Children of Khan in the Briar Patch, where they had been attempting to reassemble the stolen Lore. ("Myths and Lore")

After a rondeszvous with the USS Oberon, Seifer intended to allow documentary director Jeffrey Jacob to have free reign aboard the ship to record the Phoenix-X crew, but quickly decided against it when discovering his past time traveling misdeeds. ("Movie Night")

Later, a time traveling Daniels was aboard the Phoenix-X and tried to convince the crew to stop a temporal mishap in the early 21st century Xindi home world. But, when attempting to manipulate a comet for time travel, the Phoenix-X accidentally sent the IKS B'Cnah in its place. ("The Xindi Paradox")

After taking aboard the criminal Avery, previously captured by the IKS B'Cnah and during the Phoenix-X's fall harvest festival, the entire crew of both the Phoenix-X and B'Cnah fell victim to an undead-like viral infection from Calibus VII, delivered by Avery himself. It wouldn't be until Captain Aeris and the USS Zephyra found them not too long later that a cure would be implemented. ("STO Halloween") During thier recovery, Seifer (as well as Aeris and Menchez) were temporarily transported off ship and into Qu's Winter Wonderland in order to take part in its festivities. ("Winter Wonderland Celebrations")

When a series of strategically space-time warping Nibiru-forewarned artificial micro black hole clusters, one group in Federation, another in Klingon and another in Romulan territories, opened up, the Phoenix-X became targetted with psionic energy coming from said-black holes. ("Nibiru")

This psionic energy would unknowingly cause Seifer and the crew to have their Calibus VII virus infection mysteriously reactivated, intermittently appearing some days, enough to immobilize the crew and ship, and some days allowing them to be perfectly fine. Seifer was unsuccessful in getting Qu's help after by revisiting the now-jungle'd Qu's Winter Wonderland. ("Winter Wonderland Celebrations", "Nibiru")

Starfleet next put the Phoenix-X on task with Mayhem to investigate and start disabling the newly appearing artificial black holes, using purple matter. To the grouping in Federation space, in the Azure sector, the Phoenix-X was successful in closing most of them, while realizing the black holes as the source for their Calibus VII re-transformations, as well as the fact that the closing of them was not enough to stop the psionic effect.

During this, the Phoenix-X was ambushed and hit by an over-clocked energy dissapator by the Breen Chel Grett-class starship Darkseid from a Breen crew that was just looking for supplies to get home. Now desiring a "reboot" from all the suffering the Phoenix-X crew had gone through, Seifer and his crew hijacked the Darkseid, abandonning the damaged Phoenix-X, and began a search for the next cluster of artificial black holes, in the Qo'Nos sector, with the intent to approach with different colored matter, for a different, time-traveling-outcome.

When the ships from Task Force Espilon came to investigate, the ships became disabled and suspended between the remaining artifical blackholes allowing Mayhem, alone on the Phoenix-X, to beam the Captains over to help get the Phoenix-X back online and go after Seifer. For this mission, Harley Menrow took command of the Phoenix-X, with Yuffie Samya, Michael McCary, Iviok and Andrea Reynolds as crew, along side Mayhem. Due to the psionic targetting of the ship, McCary's previously tribble-transformation began to show itself again.

Confronting the Darkseid in the Qo'NoS sector, Seifer hit the Phoenix-X again with the energy dissapator before ejecting his prepared cannister of now blue matter into the cluster of artifical black holes, forcing them together and opening a large tunnel in space-time to the Kelvin timeline. Before the Darkseid went through, Mayhem transported himself and all the Epsilon Captains aboard, where the Darkseid crash-landed on planet Nibiru. There, the group conflated with the natives and ended the psionic transmissions through timelines. They then repared the Darkseid and returned to the Prime timeline to tow the paralysed Phoenix-X to the Azure sector and rescue the other Epsilon ships. ("Nibiru")

Second Mothballing

In 2410, the Phoenix-X was decommissioned at Earth Spacedock, but not totally dead for previously being hit twice by Breen energy dissipators. The decommissioning put Oroku Seifer in a holding pattern aboard Spacedock where he took temporary command of station security. He would later take command of the USS Ragnarok. ("Nibiru", Earth Spacedock, "Tabletop Beginnings")

26th century

In 2554, the Phoenix-X was still in service and was commanded by Captain Siken. The ship had enough refits that it looked nothing like a Prometheus-class starship. Captain Siken encountered the time-traveling Phoenix-X, originating from the 24th century, and successfully scared off the bullying Lethean starship Mikonikoff, at which point Captain Cell warned of an upcoming invasion by a trans-dimensional species called the Sphere Builders. ("Temporal Doom! Part II")

29th century

In the 29th century, the Phoenix-X time traveled here from 2382, in an effort to track down and capture Section 31 Agent Rave. While here, the Phoenix-X unwittingly accepted the time traveling Vorgon as allies to Starfleet in the Temporal Cold War conflict with the Na'kuhl. When Rave, on the Atlantis-R, was knocked unconscious by Sayjan, the Atlantis-R initiated a time travel chase, in which the Phoenix-X, also equipped with a temporal drive, persued. ("Temporal Doom! Part II")

39th century

In the 39th century, from 2376, and after recovering a kidnapped Captain Daniel, the time-displaced Phoenix-X repurposed the artificial Sonan's matter into a weapon against a temporally distorted, attacking fleet of Klokian craft. Such an act unintentionally time-displaced both the Klokian fleet and the entire Klokian planet to an unknown time. After this, the Phoenix-X, with the help of the Klon, returned to 2376. ("Fight Bringers")

Unknown time

In an unknown time, where the Guardian of Forever was, the Phoenix-X from 2382 ended its time travel chase of the Atlantis-R before the Vorgon timeship Yolanda took over. The Guardian of Forever then sent the Phoenix-X back to 2382. ("Temporal Doom! Part II", "Celestial Dynamics")

Layout by multi-vector sections

Due to the angled cross-cut, several decks between Vectors Alpha and Beta overlapped each vector.

Vector Alpha

Vector 1/Alpha of the Phoenix-X

Vector Alpha (or Vector 1) was the top portion of the ship. Of many other rooms, it contained the Bridge, the Captain's Ready Room and the Conference room. This vector covered Decks 1 to 9.

• Deck 1
  • Main (Vector Alpha) Bridge
  • Captain's ready room
  • Conference room (or Observation lounge)
  • Alpha nacelle compartment
  • Ventilation control, Jefferies tube 17
• Deck 2
  • Alpha Warp core
• Deck 3
  • Transporter room
  • Officers and VIP quarters
• Deck 4
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 5
  • Alpha deflector control
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 6
  • Holodeck
  • Armory
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 7
  • Battle arena
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 8
  • Crew quarters

Vector Beta

Vector 2/Beta of the Phoenix-X

Vector Beta (or Vector 2) was the middle portion of the ship. It contained transwarp functionality when all three vectors were separated. This vector covered Decks 3 to 9.

• Deck 4
  • Beta Deuterium fuel tanks upper section
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 5
  • Vector Beta Battle Bridge
  • Messhall (or Bar and Lounge)
  • Beta Deuterium fuel tanks lower section
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 6
  • Holodeck
  • Sickbay
  • Beta engineering
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 7
  • Brig
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 8
  • Beta deflector control
  • Science laboratory
  • Astrometrics
  • Shuttlebay
  • Cargo bay upper
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 9
  • Airponics bay
  • Cargo bay lower
  • Crew quarters

Vector Gamma

Vector 3/Gamma of the Phoenix-X

Vector Gamma (or Vector 3) was the bottom portion of the ship. This vector was used outside of its emergency mode on several occasions and would often be the choice for missions or unauthorized separation. This vector covered Decks 10 to 15.

• Deck 10
  • Holodeck
  • Cloaking control (2374-2390)
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 11
  • Vector Gamma Battle Bridge
  • Cargo bay
  • Transporter room
  • Crew quarters
  • Consumables storage
• Deck 12
  • Main (Gamma) Deflector control
  • Gamma Deuterium fuel tanks upper section
• Deck 13
  • Main (Gamma) Engineering
  • Gamma Deuterium fuel tanks lower section
  • Crew quarters
• Deck 14
  • Cetacean Ops

Technology

See also: Star Trek: Phoenix-X (technology)

Transwarp

• Transwarp - The base-technology installed aboard the Phoenix-X in 2370 at an in-kind Cardassian space station, after all previous Phoenix-ships were destroyed in test trials. ("The Recruited"; "Secret Occurrences")
• Ultra-transwarp - A function augmenting the transwarp components in a way that it multiplies a ship's speed faster than transwarp. In 2374, it was in an untested phase, prematurely initiated by Dawn Relic, sending the Phoenix-X into a Gamma Quadrant, only to crash-land on a planet. ("Crash Bandits") In 2384, it was formally ready for testing, in which the Phoenix-X used it to travel to the Andromeda Galaxy. Upon return, it was dismantled by the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. ("Forbidden Crossing, Part I")

Cloaking device

• Klingon cloaking device - Transferred from the USS Phoenix, which originally was donated by the IKS Bochnah in 2373 to go in-hand with the exchange program. ("Betrayal and Honour") It was later destroyed in 2383. ("These Aren't the Voyages...")
• Phasing cloaking device - Based on the one installed on the USS Pegasus, Section 31 had one installed aboard the Phoenix-X in 2383. It was soon found to be sabotaged, trapping the Phoenix-X in an asteroid at Regula I, and was uninstalled after the ship escaped. ("These Aren't the Voyages...")

Time travel

• Temporal displacement drive - In 2382, Berlinghoff Rasmussen's temporal drive was installed on the Phoenix-X where they would be sent on a mission to the future to recover Agent Rave. When the Phoenix-X returned, the drive was uninstalled and returned to Section 31. ("Displacement Syndrome")

Torpedoes

• Slipstream torpedoes - A subspace weapon by Section 31, constructed onboard in 2375. Despite being ordered dismantled, they were kept. ("Warfare") In 2379, the Mark II version instead would sling-shoot the target vessel about a lightyear away. ("Responsible Delinquent") In 2383, the system was revamped for the transphasic torpedoes. ("Transphasic Meltdown")
• Transphasic torpedoes - Installed in 2383 by order of Section 31 at Teketekon station. ("Transphasic Meltdown") In 2390, the supply ran out during a battle with an old man named Mudd. ("Into Harshness")

Deflector dish

• Tri-focal array: Siphon - An energy siphon, included in 2378 by Section 31, in which the dish emits a thick white beam capable of absorbing another vessel's power to be converted for use on the Phoenix-X. ("Jumpers, Part I")
• Tri-focal array: Convergence beam - Another function as an attack beam during multi-vector mode in which all three vectors emit deflector beams to converge into one point and fire from that point as a more powerful offensive energy beam. ("Cookies", "Warfare")

Auxilliary craft

• Roche, Class-2 shuttle (2374-2377 (time-looped in 2375))
• Klon (locked down) (2376-2377)
• Paroga (2377)
• Angel Wing (2377-2383)
• Iroh, Type-11 shuttlecraft (2384-)
• Haruko, Type-11 shuttlecraft (2390-2391)
• Dracon, Class-2 shuttle (Type 9 shuttlecraft) (2390-)
• Edward, Chaffee type shuttlepod (Type-10 shuttlecraft) (2390-2393)
• Tengu, Chaffee type shuttlepod (Type-10 shuttlecraft) (2390-)
• Hendrix, Type-4 shuttlecraft (2393-)

Command crew

Crew of the Phoenix-X in 2386.

See also: USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X) personnel

• commanding officer (CO)
  • Captain Cell (2374-2391)
  • Commander Night Seifer (2391-2397)
  • Commander Night Seifer (clone) (2397-2404)
  • Captain Oroku Seifer (2409-2410)
  • Captain Siken (26th century)
• first officer/executive officer (XO)
  • Commander Night Gotens (2374-2379)
  • Commander Night Seifer (2379-2391)
• special counselor
  • BOB (2374-2400)
• operations manager
  • Lieutenant Kayl (2374-2379, 2383-2391, 2409-2410)
  • Lieutenant Briggs (2391-2404)
• chief engineer
  • Lieutenant Commander Kugo (2374-2391, 2409-2410)
  • Lieutenant Commander Gewdeque (2391-2404)
• tactical officer
  • Lieutenant Commander Armond (2374-2379, 2382-2391, 2409-2410)
  • RaeLuna (2379-2383)
  • Lieutenant Commander Tong (2391-2404)
• security chief
  • Lieutenant Commander Wallace (2374-2377)
  • Lieutenant Elly (2391-2404)
• chief medical officer (CMO)
  • Lieutenant Commander Lox (2374-2391, 2409-2410)
  • Lieutenant Commander Xyrenia (2391-2404)
• flight controller (conn)
  • Lieutenant Commander Red (2374-2379, 2382-2391)
  • Lieutenant J.G. Amp (2379-2384)
  • Lieutenant Hachi (2391-2404)
  • Ensign Dan (2409-2410)
• science officer
  • Ensign Dan (2374-2391)
  • Lieutenant Commander Veker (2391-2404)

USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X) senior staff
2374-2377 (Season 1)	Daniel/Cell	Night Gotens	Armond	Kugo	Red	Kayl	Lox	Shane	Wallace		Ensign Dan
2377-2379 (Season 2)		Night Seifer
2379-2383 (Season 3)			RaeLuna		Amp			Trunks
2383-2391 (Season 4)			Armond		Red	Kayl		Omega	Mayhem	Wallace
2391-2397 (Season 5/6/7)	Night Seifer		Tong	Gewdeque	Hachi	Briggs	Xyrenia	Veker	Elly
2397-2404 (Season 6/7)	Night Seifer (clone)
2410 (Season 4/5/6)	Oroku Seifer		Armond	Kugo	Ensign Dan	Kayl	Lox

Task Force Epsilon

In 2375, the Phoenix-X was placed in command of a small seven-ship squad. The squad was posted in the Flortarios sector to protect against the Dominion threat. The war soon ended in the same year. ("Home", "The Bajoran Trove")

In 2390, several ships from the squad were attacked and nearly destroyed by divergent Hirogen, requiring those ships to be re-launched as different classes. The Phoenix-X took command of those ships, under the title Task Force Epsilon, and with the help of Task Force Zeta, confronted the Hirogen. ("Into Harshness", "For the World is Worldly and Such")

Task Force Epsilon
USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X) Cell (2374-2391) / Night Seifer (2391-2397) / Night Seifer (clone) (2397-2404) / Oroku Seifer (-2410)
USS Dropzone Yuffie Samya	USS Hijinx Andrea Reynolds	USS Jenova Iviok	USS Tsunami Michael McCary	USS Crucial Menrow / Hatcha	USS Ixion (2374-2380) Aries Wasyati

Alternate Phoenix-Xs

In an alternate 2400, two crew members from the Phoenix-X traveled to a future where Section 31 had taken over the Federation and the Phoenix-X was part of a rebellion against the new organization. ("Secret Shuttles, Part IV")

Gender-bent universe

In 2410 of the Gender-bent universe, Seifer and Kayl were accidentally transported to its Phoenix-X. They assisted their counterparts in saving themselves from an angry, alternate-gendered DaiMon Cide, named Cida. ("The New Frontier, Part II")

Borg-infested universe

In 2390, of the Borg-infested universe, the Phoenix-X was on a mission to free Borg drones from the collective and was successful in freeing the Prime universe crew of the USS Hijinx. ("Hijinx")

In 2410, in an attempt to evacuate an entrapping layer of subspace, the Prime Universe Phoenix-X fired an inverse tachyon pulse which happened to converge with two other pulses from other timelines. One of the others was from the Borg-infested universe of this year's Phoenix-X in which Ensign Dan was Captain. ("Nightmare Anomaly")

Memorable quotes

"Damn you Phoenix-X! Now the Vulcan's aren't the clown-like outgoing race we all knew them to be! And we're Section 31... we know all the changes to the timeline."

— Elena, "Forbidden Crossing, Part I"

Appendices

Ships commissioned

Prometheus-class starships
Prototype: USS Prometheus - USS Prometheus (PDN) - USS Prometheus (Prometheus)
USS Aegis - USS Alaska - USS Bell - USS Black Knight - USS Cerberus - USS Constitution - USS Gerentaika - USS Hercules - USS Interstellar - USS Mawson - USS Milan - USS Niagara - USS Olympus - USS Ottawa - USS Pandora - USS Phoenix-X - USS Praetorian - HMS Prometheus - USS Titan - USS Tombstone - USS Zealous
Mirror Universe: ISS Phoenix-X
Constar Completed: USS Raincross
Starfleet International: USS Blackstone - USS Jaresh-Inyo - USS Panther - USS Resolute - USS Typhon
Trekmania: USS Ariel - USS Earnest - USS Guardian - USS Miranda - USS Nirvana

Starships named Phoenix
USS Phoenix (Daedalus class) - USS Phoenix (NCC-1245) - USS Phoenix (NCC-65403-C) - USS Phoenix (NCC-65420) - USS Phoenix (NCC-65420) starships - USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-H) - USS Phoenix (NCC-65420-X) - USS Phoenix (NCC-89331) - USS Phoenix (NCX-101138)

Background information

• The class of the Phoenix-X, as based on the Prometheus-class starship, wasn't revealed until the Season 1 episode "Cookies". The class wasn't named as a Multi-Vector-class starship until the Season 3 episode "New Beginnings". The class would be revealed as being a Prometheus-class starship all along, and as being previously mislabeled by a Pakled engineer, in the Season 4 flashback episode "Secret Occurrences".
• The history of the ship would periodically be adjusted throughout the run of the series and posted on the website. Its history wasn't clearly explained in the early episodes. The Phoenix-X's actual connection to any sort of secrecy wasn't clearly explained until "Experimentalism". Its connection to Section 31 wasn't explained until the third season.

External links

• USS Phoenix-X on the Star Trek: Phoenix-X website
• USS Phoenix-X: BOff lists on the Star Trek Online forums
• USS Phoenix-X on TrekBBS.net