USS Dauntless
The Story so far…
In 2374, while the USS Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew encountered the Dauntless, a fake Federation starship with a never before seen quantum slipstream drive. After escaping the clutches of its pilot, desperate to make Voyager's crew suffer for his own people being slaughtered by the Borg, Captain Janeway secretly began work on upgrades to Voyager, hoping to implement them at some point during the journey home.
Three years later Voyager returned home, without the upgrades ever having been completed. Janeway was promoted to Admiral and sent the upgrades were sent to Starfleet Research & Development for testing. In early 2378, when the new Intrepid-class starships were being outfitted for exploration into the far reaches of known space, the upgrades were approved and implemented in the new upgraded starships. The first of the new production-line models was the USS Dauntless, NCC-80951. Along with a combined stellar cartography and astrometrics laboratory, the Dauntless also boasted a state-of-the-art sensor probe array and phaser strips on the nacelles.
Commander Leza Astar, one of the few joined Trills still left in Starfleet, is promoted to Captain and assigned to the Dauntless, against her own objections...