USS Oberth-A

Following the retirement of the USS Oberth (NCC-602) ship in 2373 during the Dominion War a new Intrepid Class Starship was commissioned and would bear the name and registry number of the venerable starship. During the Dominion War, the Oberth was tasked with conducting scientific research of a tactical or strategic nature. Captained by Evana Marquez the ship served admirably in its role during the war, though little combat was seen by the ship and the mostly inexperienced crew. Most of the reserach performed by the ship remained classified after the war, and it is unknown how and in just what ways the Oberth and her crew assisted in the war effort.

Nara Nueva found her first posting on the USS Oberth NCC-602-A, This was one of the few ships during the Dominion war tasked with actual scientific research. As it happened, the Oberth was tasked with studying energetic particles and their interaction with local space and sub-space. The goal of this research was part of an objective to better track fleet movements by detecting the unique particle signatures from the phased polaron beam weapons equipped on Dominion ships. It was hoped that by tracking local fluctuations in Polaron signatures that Dominion ships could be detected even if actively dampening their emissions. The research managed to bear fruit only in specific situations, however. The science department's work determined that the phased polarons emitted by the dominion weapons gave off a particular resonance when interacting with metaphasic particles usually found in stellar nurseries. While the line of research wound up not being particularly useful, the method of detection developed during the one-year project earmarked Nara as a rising star in the field of particle physics within Starfleet, showing that she hadn't peaked at 24.