For other uses, see USS Lakota.

STARSHIP
USS Lakota
Class:	Excelsior
Registry:	NCC-42768
Affiliation:	Federation Starfleet
Status:	Destroyed (2379)

The USS Lakota (NCC-42768) was an Excelsior-class explorer in service during the 24th century.

In 2372, the Lakota docked at Deep Space 9 in order to transport Captain Benjamin Sisko and Constable Odo to Earth to confer with Starfleet Command over security concerns regarding the Dominion. While the Lakota was orbiting Earth she received a brief refit and placed under the command of Erika Benteen. A few days later, when Earth's power-grid failed and Earth feared a Dominion invasion, the Lakota's transporters were used to place Starfleet troops on Earth. (DS9 episode: "Homefront")

When the grid failure was revealed to be part of a plot by Admiral James Leyton to declare martial law on Earth, Leyton ordered the Lakota to intercept the USS Defiant to stop it reaching Earth with vital evidence against Leyton. After a brief battle, the Lakota stood down and escorted the Defiant to Earth. Following the incident, Captain Benteen was removed from command and demoted. (DS9 episode: "Paradise Lost")

In 2373, the Lakota travelled to a Maquis asteroid in the Terikof Belt to transport the remaining Maquis members to new planets. (DS9 novel: The Badlands, Part IV)

Later during the war the ship was destroyed. When the Enterprise-E's chief engineer, Geordi La Forge, was looking to replace a cracked injector his friend Whis, chief engineer of the USS Nautilus, suggested contacting Ranzz from the Bartlet, as the secondary hull and at least one nacelle were reported to have still been intact and the Bartlet had recently collected a lot of debris in the area where the Lakota had been destroyed. Ranzz promised to ask his captain to return to the wreck to pick up the remaining injectors and send one to La Forge. (TNG novel: A Time to Hate)

Nidani Ledrah had served on the Lakota prior to the USS Titan. (TTN novel: The Red King)

ConnectionsEdit

• USS Lakota article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.

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