The USS Valiant was a Federation starship active in the 23rd century.
In 2259, the Valiant was located in the Alpha Quadrant near the Gorn border when the USS Enterprise discovered a subspace fissure. (SNW: "Subspace Rhapsody", display graphic)
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Background information[]
At the start of second season of Star Trek: The Original Series, the producers composed a fourteen ship list belonging to the Constitution-class, then still referred to as Starship-class by them, including Valiant. It should be noted that the inclusion of Valiant was a late addition and that it was not even considered in the first two proposals. This, canonically speaking at least, constituted somewhat of a conundrum, an observation not lost on Greg Jein, writer of the below-mentioned article, who noted that the ship in question was already destroyed in 2217 (as later firmly established in canon in the Enterprise episode), whereas the Constitutions only became operational a decade later as far as was established by the production staff. (The Making of Star Trek, p. 203; [1]) While another, new ship would have made more sense, the intent of the producers was clear, the class designation was retro-applied to the lost ship. All three lists were published in the The Making of Star Trek, pp. 164-165.
For his influential "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, published in the April 1973 issue 27 of the T-Negative fanzine, future Star Trek model maker Jein accepted the producer's intent and endowed Valiant with the appropriately lower conjectural registry number NCC-1623. [2] But unlike many of his other conjectural Constitution-class registry numbers, the 2006 remastered version of the series afforded no opportunity to bring this ship to canon.
Apocrypha[]
The 1975 apocryphal reference book Star Fleet Technical Manual also listed a Constitution-class starship with the name Valiant but assigned with the registry NCC-1709. The Valiant, using this class and registry, features in the prologue of the 2016 novel trilogy Star Trek: Prometheus, wherein it is commanded by Captain Jeremy Haden, an old friend of James T. Kirk from Starfleet Academy.
Both role playing games from Last Unicorn and Decipher list the Valiant as a member of the Ranger-class (β), a design based on a rejected NCC-1701 design by Matt Jefferies in the pre-production of the Original Series.
External link[]
- USS Valiant (NCC-1709) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works