USS Stargazer NCC-82893
The Sagan-class starship that carried the Stargazer name, Rios's command, and Borg-derived technology into the 25th century.
Service dossier
- Registry / identity
- NCC-82893
- Class / type
- Sagan-class Federation starship
- Picard's role
- Admiral and requested contact point for the anomaly; field-appointed Seven of Nine to command
- Recorded period
- Active in 2401
Why this ship matters
The USS Stargazer NCC-82893 was the third Starfleet vessel to bear the name and the first Sagan-class ship equipped with components derived from research on Borg technology recovered from the Artifact.
After helping save Coppelius in 2399, Cristobal Rios returned to Starfleet, was promoted to captain, and received command of the Stargazer.
In 2401, the ship investigated a newly appeared spatial anomaly. After picking up Agnes Jurati from Raritan IV, it found La Sirena and Seven of Nine already on scene, then received a message from the anomaly specifically asking for Jean-Luc Picard.
When the Borg Queen arrived to negotiate, her transporter penetrated the Stargazer's shields. She used the ship's Borg-derived systems to begin assimilating it and to gain command codes for the reinforcing Starfleet armada, prompting Picard to order auto-destruct.
After Q returned Picard from the altered 2024 timeline, Picard recognized the Queen as the Jurati-Borg Queen and cancelled the self-destruct. He allowed her to coordinate the fleet's shields against an approaching energy wave that threatened billions of lives.
With Rios choosing to remain in 2024, Picard gave Seven of Nine a field commission to captain and command of the Stargazer for the mission. Seven later became first officer of the USS Titan-A rather than staying aboard.
The Stargazer remained in service later in 2401 and participated in Frontier Day near Sol Station. Like the rest of the fleet, it was seized by the Borg signal transmitted through Jack Crusher, then freed when the restored USS Enterprise-D destroyed the transmitting cube.
Source records leave ambiguous whether the ship was completely new or a massive refit of Picard's original Stargazer. One later technical account describes it as endlessly repaired and upgraded, with the bones of Picard's old ship somewhere underneath the new technology.