The USS Titan was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet.
History
In 2379, newly-promoted Captain William T. Riker became the Captain of the USS Titan. He transferred from the USS Enterprise-E, along with his new wife, Counselor Deanna Troi. For their first assignment, the Titan crew was to head up the new task force investigating the possibility of peaceful relations with the Romulan Empire in the wake of the recent events involving the coup d'état of Shinzon of Remus. (Star Trek Nemesis)
Barash's Illusion
Fictional information about the USS Titan
In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, Commander William T. Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's expectations of his future and constructed a holoprogram of the year 2383 from those elements.
In a fictional service record, within the holoprogram, displayed in Riker's quarters on the Enterprise-D. Supposedly, on stardate 47203, Commander Riker was promoted to the rank of captain, with his first command being the Titan. Under his command, the Titan was ordered to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone, provide tactical support to Starbase 384, and prevented a Romulan preemptive strike into the Gamma Hydra Sector. (TNG: "Future Imperfect", okudagram)
Command crew
- Commanding officer
- Captain William T. Riker (2379–)
- First Officer
- Commander Christina Vale (2379–)
- Counselor / Diplomatic Officer
- Commander Deanna Troi (2379–)
Appendices
Background information
In the original script for Star Trek Nemesis, Wesley Crusher was to explain at the wedding scene that he was being assigned to the Titan under the command of William T. Riker. On the Titan, he became the assistant chief engineer with the rank of lieutenant commander. In a filmed but deleted scene, Crusher mentions he is on the night shift and that the Titan was equipped with a "double refracting warp core matrix with twin intermix chambers."
For the remastered edition of "Future Imperfect", the original okudagram was replaced by a new graphic that mentioned this starship. Information on this ship's career under Captain Riker was, also, from that graphic.
Apocrypha
Apocryphal depiction of the USS Titan on the cover of Sword of Damocles
Apocryphal depiction of the USS Titan from Star Trek Magazine issue 147
It was never canonically revealed what type of ship the Titan was supposed to be, and it was never shown on screen. In non-canon source, the supplement Starships released for the Decipher Star Trek Roleplaying Game states the Titan was a brand-new Prometheus-class vessel. In the novel series Star Trek: Titan, it was stated that the Titan was not the first ship of its class, with that honor going to the pathfinder of the class, the USS Luna, and that all Luna-class (β) ships were named for moons in the Sol system (in Titan's case, a moon of Saturn). The novels also give the ship's registry number as NCC-80102.
In a rare exception, the class and registry of the Titan were referenced in the fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 2, p. 401). Included with the entry, there was an image of the Titan.
Pocket Books has released a series of novels, called Star Trek: Titan, which are based aboard Riker's ship. A competition to design the new vessel was held. Despite early conjecture that the Titan would be as large as its name suggested, the stipulations of the contest revealed that the ship was approximately 450 meters long, which was notably smaller than the last two starships Enterprise, and was only slightly bigger than the Intrepid-class. The contest rules established that within the novels' continuity, the Luna-the class had a crew complement of 350 and was intended as an extended-mission, deep-space explorer, apparently as a result of Starfleet's efforts to get back on an exploration standing following the Dominion War.
The winning design appeared similar to the Sovereign-class, but on a smaller scale, and with a "roll-bar" above the saucer section, similar to that found on the Akira-class. See the winning illustration on the [1](X) .
For more information on the Titan design contest, which ended on 15 August 2005, see Pocket Books' Starship Titan Design Contest Rules(X) .
USS Titan bonus issue
The Titan was released as a bonus issue by Eaglemoss Collections for their Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection.
External links
- USS Titan (NCC-80102) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- USS Titan(X) – the winner of the Titan design contest