USS Essex (NCC-173)
Facts
- Name: USS Essex
- Registry: NCC-173
- Class: Daedalus
- Fleet: UESPA, Starfleet
- Originally part of Earth Starfleet prior to Federation incorporation
- Complement
- October 2165: 116 (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
- Commissioned: 2141
- Launched: 2152
- Initial refit: 2156
- Second refit: 2161
- 2161: Assigned to Starbase 8 operating fleet (ENT Novel: Uncertain Logic)
- September 2165: Transferred to Starbase 12 operating fleet (ENT Novel: Live by the Code)
- Lost: 2167; wreckage discovered by USS Enterprise, 2368 (TNG: "Power Play")
- Vessel caught in electromagnetic storm in orbit of Mab-Bu VI A during attempted prison escape, lost with all hands
Crew
Command crew
- Commanding officer
- - 2162 - 2167: Bryce Shumar
- Executive officer
- - 2162 - 2166: Caroline Paris
- 2166 - 2167: Steven Mullen
Department heads
- Armory officer
- - 2162 - 2165: Ahn Chung-hee
- 2165 - 2167: Morgan Kelly
- Chief medical officer
- - 2165 - : Doctor Mazril
- Chief science officer
- - 2162 - 2166: Steven Mullen
- 2166 - 2167: Alvaro Coelho
Bridge staff
Alpha shift
- Communications officer
- - 2162 - 2165 - : Miguel Avila
- Helmsman
- - 2165: NFN Ling
- 2165 - : Melissa Moy
Gamma shift
- Armory officer
- 2165 - 2166 - : Jamala Mahendra
Science division
- Supervising lab technician
- - 2166: Alvaro Coelho
Service division
- - 2165 - 2166: Melina NLN - Chef
Unknown
- - 2166 - : NFN Roget - Pilot