Archon (starship)
The Archon was a 22nd century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. 

In 2167, the Archon disappeared while investigating the planet Beta III. The fate of the Archon would remain a mystery for a hundred years, until the  visited Beta III in 2267 and learned that the sentient computer  had destroyed the ship and had murdered or absorbed her crew. The Archons visit became an apocryphal tale to the s, who mixed it in with their quasi-worship of Landru; her crew became known as the s. ()

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Background information 
In the , the Archon was depicted with the Daedalus-class model with no visible registry. According to Michael Okuda, the authors "[...] speculate that the Archon was a  starship, since it was contemporary with the  from ." For , the Archon entry showed a drawing of the  (NCC-173), though the Archon was elsewhere listed as NCC-189. (p. 470) The  listed and depicted the registry as NCC-189.

Apocrypha 

In "The Return of the Archons, Part 2, an issue of IDW's Star Trek: Ongoing comic series set in the alternate reality, the Archon is depicted in a  as an  but with the nacelles of the  and had the registry NCC-189. The story revealed that Landru (first name ) was the head of Starfleet's Advanced Research Division and was apparently creating an artificial intelligence to assist in colony development. His true intentions were more sinister: he was attempting a means of population control. The crew of the Archon attempted to stop him, but the ship was destroyed: the ship's crashed remains were built into a  by the descendants of the crew's survivors. After the computer was removed, Admiral  was admonished by an unseen superior for not keeping a tighter leash on his protege  after the captain exposed the secret experiment that had lasted for decades.

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