STARSHIP
USS Rodger Young
Class:	Defender-class
Affiliation:	Federation, Starfleet
Status:	active (2275)

The USS Rodger Young was a Defender-class Federation starship in service to Starfleet in the 23rd century.

After the USS Enterprise returned from the inversion drive test trial in 2275, the Rodger Young greeted the Enterprise back to the galaxy. (TOS novel: The Wounded Sky)

The ship was named after Rodger Wilton Young, a United States American infantryman in the US Army during World War II. This ship has the same name as the troop transport vessel TFCT Rodger Young (No. 176) that carried the protagonist and his compatriots of the Mobile Infantry in the novel and film versions of Starship Troopers, named by author Robert Heinlein for the same individual.

Defender-class starships
	Arizona • Bismarck • Dataphda • Divine Wind • Inaieu • M'hasien • Rodger Young