Ezri Dax was only with us for the final season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, but she had such an impact on the star trek universe that eventually,
she was given one of the most important ships in the fleet!
Today, we’ll take a look at that ship and what makes it so special in the Star Trek Universe!
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Ezri Dax would eventually be known as the Commanding Officer of the USS Aventine,
a Vesta-class starship that played a vital role in the not only the future of Starfleet, but also the defence against the Borg Invasion of 2381.
Originally a multi-mission explorer, the ship and crew would find itself in the middle of many precarious situations in history!
Let’s explore some details of the ship and where it takes us!
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The Vesta-class starship was active from the 2380s, in the service of Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets.
The ship was constructed as a testbed for a Quantum Slipstream Drive, derived from technology recovered by the USS Voyager, which was an advanced form of faster than light travel which could break the conventional warp speed barrier.
Alongside the Quantum Slipstream drive, the ship was equipped with a new form of navigational computer, a chroniton integrator;
which could be used to take sensor readings several seconds into the future when the ship was using its slipstream drive.
Useful for when travelling at warp 9.999999+ and wanting to know what is in your path.
The Vesta class starship comes to a length of 672 meters, and its design features the common starfleet layout of saucer section, secondary hull and 2 warp nacelles.
The Vesta however is a much more flat starship design compared to other starfleet ships, similar to that of the Intrepid Class starship,
with its elongated saucer section directly connected to the secondary hull, with little neck structure between the two.
The Aventine was outfitted with type-12 phasers and quantum torpedo launchers.
These torpedo launchers would be modified to fire transphasic torpedoes to help with the Borg Invasion of 2381!
The ship carried both your standard starfleet shuttles, but also runabouts, allowing it to operate in that multi-role mission even more.
Now, In terms of lore!
As previously stated, the USS Aventine was launched in 2380 as a testbed for the quantum slipstream drive,
but the ship would get its first major incident a year later in 2381 during the Borg invasion of Acamar.
During this Battle, the Aventine’s Captain and First Officer would be killed, leaving Ezri Dax in command.
Because of Dax taking command, Starfleet would officially promote her to Captain only a week after the battle, and officially make her Captain of the USS Aventine.
What is fascinating is that this idea of Dax taking command of a starship is something that could have happened if DS9 continued.
In the DS9 documentary “What we left behind”, when they theorised what an eighth season of Deep Space Nine might have been, Ezri would be captain of the USS Emmett Till.
In the year 2382, the USS Aventine would prove instrumental in the effort against a Borg Invasion.
The year would start with a mission to the gamma quadrant, where Dax and her ship would come across the wreckage of the NX-02 Columbia,
the second warp 5 ship in Starfleet, under the command of Captain Erika Hernandez.
The Borg invasion of 2382 would see several worlds and fleet destroyed by a Borg armada of over seven thousand borg cubes.
The aventine would use its quantum slipstream to hatch an ambitious plan of ambushing a borg cube and planting a fake borg queen onboard,
which allowed them to take control of a borg armada and prevent the further destruction of several Federation worlds.
The Borg Invasion would be stopped by an ancient alien species known as the caeliar, the ones responsible for the out of place NX-02 Columbia in the gamma quadrant
and the Borg as well, which is another story for another time.
Alongside the USS Enterprise and USS Titan, the Aventine would witness the end of the Borg collective, within the azure nebula,
with the Borg hive mind being integrated into the Caeliar’s gestalt consciousness.
In 2383 the Aventine would be supporting a mission of Julian Bashir and Sarinna Douglas, who had learned of a new prototype Breen quantum slipstream drive,
and were ordered to destroy it, to make sure that the new alliance called the “Typhon Pact” an anti-Federation made up of the Federation’s enemies, would not get too powerful.
Though the Aventine and by extension Ezri Dax, were on good terms with Julian Bashir, only 2 years after their work together,
the Aventine was ordered to intercept Bashir on his way to Andor, thinking he was leaking information to the Typhon Pact.
Dax however sides with Bashir, knowing he has the cure to an Andorian Reproductive Crisis that was currently happening, which was why the Andorians had left the Federation.
For going against orders and helping Bashir, Dax would be interred on Jaros II, a federation stockade.
Who became Captain of the USS Aventine is unknown at this point.
But later that year it was found out that the Federation President Pro Tempore was actually not who he claimed he was, and was working with a Cardassian fringe group known as the True Way.
With this discovery, Dax was cleared of her crimes and regained her captaincy of the USS Aventine.
In 2387 the USS Aventine was one of the main ships vital in trying to mount a defense against the Devidians.
Unfortunately during a Devidian attack, one of the Devidians serpents, a being in temporal flux, hit Ezri, which caused her to rapidly age and turned to dust.
Alongside Ezri, many members of the Aventines crew shared the same fate. Sam Bowers then takes command of the USS Aventine.
Though not for long as eventually, the entire timeline, known as the “First Splinter” is collapsed, in order to defeat the devidians.
The USS Aventine would be active in 2409, which is where the video game Star Trek: Online takes place.
As such, the following information takes place in the in-game canon universe and is not to be confused with the extended content we have been talking about.
By 2409, the Aventine underwent an extensive refit and became the prototype of the Aventine-class Multi-missiob reconnaissance explorer.
This would lead the ship to being involved in even more complex missions, such as Dax and Bashir investigating the mycelial network, as well as helping time-displaces space stations back to there own time.
The Vesta-class was designed by digital artist Mark Rademaker, however this was not the first design Rademaker had made,
and it was in part, fans who helped to get the Aventine made.
Rademaker has previously made a ship called the USS Spirit, for the 2009 ships of the line calendar.
This ship, just like the Aventine, was a testbed for quantum slipstream technology, so many fans speculated that this ship was what the Aventine would look like.
This fan-idea inspired Rademaker, so he got in touch with the editors of the star trek books and asked if he could design the Aventine.
In order for the design to be ready for the 2010 ships of the line calendar, Rademaker was given 4 months to design the Aventine.
Rademaker was told that the ship should look very different from that of the USS Titan designed two years earlier for the books, with the pylons sweeping up instead of down, and a different profile as well.
Voyager would then be the main inspiration for the Aventine, with its blended shape being the reason it could also use slipstream, as well as looking like a “shark moving through subspace” as the aventine creator David Mack would describe it as.
Book authors David Mack and Keith R.A DeCandido noted that the class of ship, Vesta, is named after the Roman goddess of hearth and home.
The ships of the class were to be named after the seven hills of rime, such as Aventine, Palatine and Viminal for example.
Only the Caelian and Paltine are yet to appear as Vesta-class starships in the Star Trek Universe.
That’s a wrap on our breakdown and expiration of the Vesta-class Starship, the USS Aventine for today!
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