USS Vortex
The USS Vortex was a starship that was the primary setting of The Doctor's fictional holonovel Photons Be Free. Though based on , it was much darker than its real counterpart, and was always at red alert. 

The Vortex was commanded by the war-like Captain  and populated by a distorted version of the Voyager crew, whose individual traits – particularly their negative ones – were exaggerated. 

The protagonist in Photons Be Free was the Vortex's under-appreciated and abused EMH who was forced to serve as the ship's chief medical officer following the death of the entire medical staff in the incident with the . ()

See also

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Vortex, USS