USS Hamilton (NCC-1765)

The USS Hamilton (NCC-1765) was a Constitution-class starship operated by the Federation Starfleet in the 23rd century.

In 2265, its crew abandoned ship when a test of a new tachyon based weapon malfunctioned and propelled the ship forward in time to the year 2339. Having been propelled forward in time, the ship's tachyon weapon was still active, causing numerous temporally related anomalies on the nearby Federation colony of Carina VII.

The USS Tempest (NCC-10535) was dispatched to investigate the anomalies and discovered the abandoned Hamilton in orbit around Carina X. The derelict ship had already been discovered and boarded by nearby Romulan forces. An away team from the Tempest boarded the Hamilton and managed to disengage the weapon and prevent the ship from exploding, which would've caused a saturation of tachyon particles in the Carina system that would've rendered it uninhabitable. After a brief confrontation and successful negotiation, Tempest captain Rye-jae Maddox convinced the Romulan commander Merrok to allow the plans and the prototype weapon to be destroyed in exchange for taking the Hamilton back to Romulan space for study. Its fate following its handover to the Romulan forces is unknown.

The Hamilton was named for Alexander Hamilton, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, architect of its first financial system, first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and founder of the country's Coast Guard.

Current Status
The Hamilton was taken by the Romulan forces present in the Carina system as part of an agreement brokered by Maddox and Merrok. Merrok had hoped to bring the Hamilton back for further study, but the ship broke up in transit in the Neutral Zone.

Appearances
Entropy's Demise

Command Crew

 * Commanding Officer
 * Tal'lek Shran
 * Chief Engineering Officer
 * Matis

Background Information
The original registry of the Constitution-class USS Hamilton as written in the These Are the Voyages... mission compendium book is recorded as NCC-1145. While there are other, canonical Constitution-class ships with registries lower than the USS Constitution (NCC-1700) herself, their existence complicates the theory that registry numbers are sequential. As a result, Brian chose to change the Hamilton's registry to NCC-1765, making it a sister ship to the USS Defiant (NCC-1764) featured in the episode "The Tholian Web" from the original series. While this change does nothing to address existing canon Constitution registries below NCC-1700, it does at least prevent the addition of another one.