ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B)

The ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)-B was a Terran Excelsior-class battle cruiser that was in service to Starfleet in the late 23rd century.

Under Harriman
John Harriman was a relatively unambitious military officer. He was chosen as Captain of the latest starship Enterprise because he was not regarded as a threat by the Emperor. His career was dominated by the Klingon-Cardassian War. Sensing weakness after Chekov's rebellion, and retaliating over the actions of the ISS Doomsday Machine against the Alliance, the Klingons massacred many worlds along the Imperial border, and re-took their homeworld. The Empire destroyed the moon of Praxis in a scorched-Earth campaign as they retreated, and the war intensified. In 2297, the Aliance fleet is defeated by the ISS Enterprise and several other imperial ships in the Battle of Rigel, narrowly saving the Terran Empire. The victory was achieved when the Imperial cloaking devices were upgraded with technology Kirk had extorted years earlier from the Ornithoids.

The Enterprise continued to serve on the front lines, battling the Alliance forces, and occasionally conquering new worlds. The Empire was pushed to it's greatest limit by the Alliance in the Battle of Worf 359, in which Harriman fought. Tragically, just after the Empire began to turn the tide and drive the Alliance back, Harriman was killed in action in 2311.

Under Sulu
Penda Sulu assumed command after Harriman's death. Her tenure as captain was a distinguished one, marked by many victories against the Alliance. By 2318, the Empire had regained all their lost territory, and routed the Alliances forces after the Battle of Dalvos IV. In 2325, the Enterprise supervised the re-conquest of Qo'nos and the complete subjugation of the entire Klingon people.The Enterprise was also present at the capture of Rura Penthe. During the conquest of the Klingon Empire, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott discovered a Klingon superweapon, a reverse-engineered and reconstructed Doomsday Machine warship. He mutinied, seized control of the weapon, and tried to use it to take over the Empire. However, the Enterprise defeated him in the Battle of Vulcan, and Scott was executed for treason. For her accomplishments, Sulu was promoted to Admiral, and Saavik was made Captain of the Enterprise.

Under Saavik
After several long years of truce, forced on the Empire by their war with the Alliance, it was decided to reopen hostilities with the Romulan Empire. Saavik was ordered to lead the Enterprise into some of the first major engagements of the war. About a year into her command, the Enterprise was given a secret mission by Imperial Intelligence. They were ordered to test an experimental Transwarp drive, created by using Ornithoid technology to try and fix the problems with the Transwarp drive they stole from the Federation in 2285. The Drive malfunctioned horribly, and the ISS Enterprise-B was lost for over 30 years.

In fact, the drive had catapulted the Enterprise into the Delta quadrant. Saavik ordered the ship to lay in a course for home, while bringing all her scientific skills to bear on trying to fix the drive. The ship wared with many hostile cultures in the Delta Quadrant, before they encountered the Borg in 2339. They mangaed to escape the Borg, but the ship was badly damaged, and Saavik was assimilated. Her first officer, Xon, made the decision to abandon ship. The ISS Enterprise-B was parked in orbit over a desolate moon of an uninhabited planet, where it would keep orbit for 134 years. All power was shut down, except the cloak, in case the crew ever wanted to come back for it. Then, the surviving crew took all the small craft and headed out to make home for themselves in the Delta Quadrant.

Recovery by Voyager
The ISS Enterprise-B was discovered in 2373 by the ISS Voyager, stranded in the Delta Quadrant 3 years earlier. Captain Janeway ordered the ship completely stripped for parts and supplies, the database copied for information about the Delta Quadrant, and the entire Transwarp drive carefully re-installed onboard Voyager. She then began here own attempts to finish Saavik's work and perfect the drive.

Commanding officers

 * John Harriman (2293-2311)
 * Penda Sulu (2311-2332)
 * Saavik (2333-2339)