USS Frontier

The USS Frontier.
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The USS Frontier was a 24^th century Federation Galaxy-class starship operated by Starfleet.

The Frontier was commissioned in 2375. It was the first of a third set of Galaxy class vessels constructed by Starfleet. Unlike the second set of Galaxys whose keels were laid ahead of time, the Frontier and its later sister ships were constructed from the ground up, and the Frontier was the only one of the new set of Galaxys commissioned in time to participate in the Dominion War.

The Frontier would find itself in numerous conflicts with the Dominion during her early months in service, including both the Second Battle of Chin'toka as well as the Battle of Cardassia, the final battle of the war.

In 2375, Lieutenant T'Less of Vulcan accepted the position of Assistant Science Officer aboard the Frontier in time to attend its commissioning ceremony.

After the Dominion War was officially over, the Frontier was tasked with helping delivering supplies to various colonies and stations that suffered during the war. Six months later in 2376 with things slowly returning to normal, the Frontier was one of the first ships to return to Starfleet’s original mission of deep-space exploration. Two months later during the same year the ship was called upon by Starfleet to investigate the loss of communication with a listening post along the Romulan Neutral Zone. Starfleet suspected that despite their alliance during the war, the Romulan’s were responsible and were planning an incursion into Federation space, taking advantage of both sides weakened states. The Frontier was the closest ship at the time and was sent to determine the truth of the matter.

Upon their arrival, the outpost was discovered to be entirely without power and the eight member crew all to be dead, some by exposure to the vacuum of space, others by hypothermia when the station lost temperature after life support failed. Further exploration of the station led to the discovery of a mostly intact torpedo resting near the station's power generation unit. Incredibly, it appeared that the torpedo had somehow made its way through the entire outpost without detonating. The weapon casing was brought aboard the Frontier where Lieutenant T'Less was assigned to examine it, believing it to be deactivated. Before she could begin a proper analysis the device powered up and latched on to a warp coupling. Unbeknownst to the crew, the weapon was not an ordinary torpedo design and began emitting psionic radiation. The longer the device remained on, the farther and worse the effects spread. The effects of the radiation induced hallucinations to the entire crew, who were only just able to save the ship.

Afterwards, it came to light that it had, indeed, been a Romulan plot, with the discovery of a cloaked Romulan Warbird for confirmation. There was an official complaint submitted by the Federation's Ambassador to Romulus, who decried the entire incident as the act of a rogue ship and her crew unhappy with the Federation’s current aid efforts to the Romulan people since the end of the war. On a personal level, Lieutenant T'Less’ mesiofrontal cortex had been permanently damaged by her exposure and she lost her people’s ability to control her emotions. T'Less, unable to cope with her now freed emotions, was forced to her commission and accept a medical discharge.

In 2380, the Frontier was on an exploratory mission in the Gamma Quadrant.