The USS Centaur (NCC-42043) was a Federation Centaur-type starship operated by Starfleet. In 2374, the Centaur was under the command of Captain Charlie Reynolds.
History[]
2370s[]
In 2374, the Centaur mistakenly attacked a Jem'Hadar attack ship being commanded by Captain Benjamin Sisko for a covert mission. The Centaur pursued the attack ship into Dominion territory before being chased off by three additional Jem'Hadar ships. (DS9: "A Time to Stand")
While posing as Kamar, a Cardassian "loyal" to the Founders, Elim Garak claimed to have been taken prisoner by the Centaur and held aboard one of their shuttlecraft. (DS9: "Rocks and Shoals")
The Centaur was also part of the fleet that carried out Operation Return a few weeks later. (DS9: "Sacrifice of Angels")
2380s[]
The Centaur takes damage in 2384
Ten years later, in 2384, the Centaur was part of a Federation fleet sent to intercept the USS Protostar. There, it was infected with the Living construct, and damaged by friendly phaser fire. (PRO: "Mindwalk", "Supernova, Part 1", "Supernova, Part 2")
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Background information[]
The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 126 stated the starship was "named for the creature from Greek mythology, that had the head and torso of a man joined to the body of a horse."
Centaur detail
The third edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., p. 591 gave no registry number in its entry about this ship, although NCC-42043 was used in the Star Trek Fact Files, Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 6, p. 30, and Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 3, Issue 9, p. 36. The shooting model itself used that registry, but featured the name USS Buckner (illegible on screen.) [1](X)
Many years later, there was a side view of the Centaur in the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 127. The ship bore the registry NCC-42043.
A model of the Centaur was released as an issue of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection.
Apocrypha[]
The Centaur and its crew were featured in the Star Trek: The Dominion War novels Call to Arms and Sacrifice of Angels. The vessel was believed lost in Operation Return, as Captain Reynolds recorded a captain's log in the event the Centaur was destroyed. Reynolds survived, and retired several years later.
External link[]
- USS Centaur (NCC-42043) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works