USS Titan (NCC-80102)
The USS Titan (NCC-80102) was a Federation  starship operated by Starfleet during the late 24th century.

Service history

2379 
In 2379, newly-promoted Captain William T. Riker became the commanding officer of the USS Titan. He transferred from the , along with his new wife, Counselor Deanna Troi. 

That year, the first assignment for the Titans crew was to head up the new task force investigating the possibility of peaceful relations with the Romulan Star Empire in the wake of the recent events involving the coup d'état of Shinzon of Remus. ()

2380 
By 2380, the Titan under Riker's command was considered a distinguished posting and a step up from ships such as the  . In this year, Ensign  was promoted and briefly assigned to the Titan from the Cerritos. Within six days, however, he had been demoted and fired for dumping garbage into the Titans warp core and was transferred back to Earth. ()

The Titan later engaged three Pakled Clumpships that had captured the Cerritos, forcing them to withdraw and saving the latter ship. Shortly afterward, Bradward Boimler accepted a promotion and transfer to the Titan. The Titan was then given the task to escort Commander Troi to Tulgana IV. ()

2381 

Three months later, the Titan was attacked by eight Pakled battle harpies. To escape, Riker ordered the ship into an anomaly, whereupon it experienced gluonic disruption. ()

The Titan crew also investigated the Pakled takeover of a Varuvian mining colony on Karzill IV but were unable to determine whether any other power was involved in the operation. During this mission, a transporter duplicate of Brad Boimler, William Boimler, was created. The duplicate remained on the Titan, while the original Boimler returned to the Cerritos.  ()

During the Command Conference later that year, the Titan was stationed on the far side of the star system from Starbase 25 to deter Pakled attack. ()

2401 
In 2401, Starfleet Academy cadet Rew P'Cott Claudia-Jean was assigned to the Titan. ()

Technical data

Embarked craft
The Titan carried a complement of Type 6A shuttlecraft, all named after 20th century jazz musicians, in its shuttlebay. ()

Barash's illusion 

In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, then-Commander Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's expectations of his future and constructed a holoprogram of the year 2383 from those elements.

A fictional service record, within the holoprogram, was displayed in Riker's quarters on the . According to his fabricated record, in 2370 on Stardate 47203, Commander Riker was promoted to the rank of captain, with his first command being the Titan. Under his command, the Titan was ordered to patrol the Romulan Neutral Zone, provide tactical support to Starbase 384, and prevented a Romulan preemptive strike into the Gamma Hydra Sector. ( okudagram)

Crew

Command crew 
Commanding officer
William T. Riker (2379–)
First officer
Titan first officer (2380s) 
Counselor 
Deanna Troi (2379–)
Conn officer
Bradward Boimler (2380–2381)
William Boimler (2381–)

See also: USS Titan personnel

Appendices

Appearances

Background information 

In the original script for Star Trek Nemesis, Wesley Crusher was to explain at the wedding scene that he was being assigned to the Titan under the command of William T. Riker. On the Titan, he became the assistant chief engineer with the rank of lieutenant commander. In a filmed but deleted scene, Crusher mentions he is on the night shift and that the Titan was equipped with a "double refracting warp core matrix with twin intermix chambers." 

In the "" episode of The Ready Room, that week's trivia question stated the USS Titan was a Luna-class starship, named after the moon of Saturn (see "Apocrypha" below).

In the "" Ready Room episode, prop master Jeff Lombardi stated a photograph of Jean-Luc Picard and Thaddeus Troi-Riker was taken aboard the Titan.

The ship's design was created by Sean Tourangeau and first appeared on the cover and in bonus pages of the 2007 novel Sword of Damocles of the Pocket Books Star Trek: Titan series. Tourangeau's design was the winning entry in a reader contest announced by the publisher in the first volume of the series, Taking Wing, in 2005. 

In the observation lounge of this starship, as seen in the Lower Decks episode "Kayshon, His Eyes Open", there were four images of spacecraft, including the Titan herself, suggesting a history of ships named Titan. The first image was that of the Titan II, the launch vehicle for Earth's first warp capable ship, the Phoenix. The second image was of a ship from an unidentified class, which was based on an early concept for the  by Matt Jefferies in the 1960s. The third image was of the  (NCC-2752), a  frigate, from FASAs Federation Ship Recognition Manual. 

This ship was listed, with other spacecraft, under "Assignment" on a PADD used by a Starfleet Academy officer. This PADD is seen in the  episode "Mercy".

Apocrypha 

While mentioned in , remastered TNG, and early episodes of , the Titan wasn't seen on screen until . The ship's class wasn't mentioned by name in the episode.

According to various apocrypha, Wesley Crusher, Sariel Rager, Alyssa Ogawa, Melora Pazlar, , and Tuvok also served onboard the Titan.

The supplement  released for the Decipher  states that the Titan was a brand-new  vessel. 

Pocket Books has released a series of novels, called Star Trek: Titan, which are based aboard Riker's ship. It was stated that the Titan was not the first ship of its class, with that honor going to the pathfinder of the class, the . The Titan was the most varied multispecies crew in Starfleet history; less than 15% of the crew is Human. The motto of the Titan according to the novels is "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" (IDIC), a maxim often associated with Vulcan philosophy. Due to Riker's love for 20th century Earth jazz and its varieties, he was compelled to have all issued shuttles christened with the names of musicians from the era. One, in particular, was named the Armstrong for Louis Armstrong; though it was mistaken to be named for Neil Armstrong by Tiburonian chief engineer Nidani Ledrah.

In a rare exception, the class and registry of the Titan from the novels were referenced in the fourth edition of the . Included with the entry, there was an image of the Titan. 

The USS Titan was released as a starship miniature by Eaglemoss/Hero Collector, as a Bonus issue within its Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection partwork.

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