Would appreciate any ideas as to a name for her, and maybe an identy NCC number...
Here's my idea for what we're looking at here:
This ship is the freighter/escort U.S.S. Khitomer, NCC-2293, Kamarag-Class. The class is named after Klingon Ambassador Kamarag who, along with Klingon Ambassador Kang and Federation Ambassador Curzon Dax, supposedly sponsored the cooperative Federation/Klingon project to design and construct the ship shortly after the event of Star Trek VI. History shows, however, that while Kamarag
did put his name to the project after the Khitomer Conference, the idea had already been worked out by Kang and Dax during their 2289 negotiations at the Korvat colony, which had experienced supply shortages on numerous occasions due to piracy.
The intention behind the design was to provide both political entities with a way to safely transport government cargoes, such as colonial and base supplies, in space lanes that had recently seen increases in pirate activity, particularly from the Orion Syndicate. The large, heavily armored cargo hull in the fore of the ship separated from the remainder of the vessel, which could then act as defender. The defender portion would not be a match for a ship of the line from either major power, but had power to spare to handle most of the vessels that pirates used.
The original eight ships of this class - four of which bore NCCs 2290 - 2293, four of which bore various IKS designations - were all equipped with simple cloaking devices for the cargo hulls. Again, these were not of a quality that would serve to hide the hull from the sensors of major space navies, but would serve to make the cargo difficult for pirates to locate. The Federation discontinued this in later construction of Kamarags for its use, pursuant to the Treaty of Algeron signed in 2311.
Eventually, both governments began providing ships of this class to trusted civilian cargo-carrying services. Additionally, the Klingons began building Type-B Kamarags, with an updated, more heavily armed, and cloak capable defender section, and a troop transport hull in place of the cargo hull.
The names and registries of the first four, cloak capable, Federation Kamarag-Class ships:
NCC-2290 U.S.S. Kamarag
NCC-2291 U.S.S. Kang
NCC-2292 U.S.S. Ursula
NCC-2293 U.S.S. Khitomer
The names of the first four Klingon-built Kamarag-Class ships:
I.K.S. Curzon Dax
I.K.S. James T. Kirk
I.K.S. Nyota Uhura
I.K.S. Korvat
(It should be noted that the story of Uhura's deception in getting the Enterprise to Rura Penthe
as a freighter - which became fleet scuttlebutt despite any efforts to contain it - was
very popular with both the Klingon and the Federation engineers on the design team.)
Well, whatya think?
