USS Eridanus (NCC-T117)

The USS Eridanus (NCC-T117) was a Constellation-class (2182) transport operated by the Federation Starfleet in the late 22nd century (not to be confused with the Constellation-class explorer starship that entered service in the late 23rd century).

It was named for the constellation visible from Earth's southern hemisphere.

22nd Century
The Eridanus entered service in 2284 and made multiple supply runs to various colony worlds and facilities during its first three years of service.

In 2287, the Eridanus was returning from a supply run to a newly established colony near the Romulan border when it disappeared. It was assumed that the ship was destroyed by Romulan forces, though no debris or other evidence was ever found.

24th Century
In 2339, an old-style distress call was received and investigated by the USS Tempest (NCC-10535). The Tempest first discovered a Type-1 shuttlecraft belonging to the Eridanus landed on a planet. Shortly after, the Tempest discovered the Eridanus itself inside the event horizon of a temporal distortion. While over 150 years elapsed outside the distortion, only two years elapsed within it.

While trapped within the temporal distortion, time passed at a substantially different rate compared to the outside galaxy. As a result of an encounter with an alien life form and the crew becoming infected with a paranoia inducing compound, the Eridanus ' crew descended into sectarian violence. Multiple crew members were killed in various attempts at jockeying for control of the ship's systems.

The Eridanus was freed when the Tempest crew managed to cure the paranoid psychosis and help the alien, who had inadvertently caused the temporal distortion, neutralize the distortion and return home in the process.

Current Status
Following the conclusion of the incident, the Eridanus was mothballed in the Galnor II surplus depot, where it remains.

Crew

 * Executive Officer
 * Caitlin Mallory
 * Operations Officer
 * Shiro Takahashi
 * Chief Medical Officer
 * Alejandro Martinez
 * Chief Engineer
 * Darlene Phillips
 * Armory Officer
 * John Kearney
 * Ed Parish (acting)
 * Other
 * Lou Mendola
 * Engineer

Appearances

 * A World With A Bluer Sun

Background Information
The Constellation design and the Eridanus name come from the history developed by the fan site starfleet-museum.org. The original vessel featured in the These Are the Voyages... book is the NX-class Atlantis, the same design as the NX-01 Enterprise from the television show Star Trek: Enterprise. Brian dislikes that design and so chose to replace it with one detailed at the Starfleet Museum fan site, whose existence predates the production of the Star Trek: Enterprise show.