USS Diligent (NCC-97314)
While research and development activities typically occur on starbases and outposts within Federation territory, sometimes the greatest discoveries are made amongst the stars. This is the mission of the Polaris Squadron.
While research and development activities typically occur on starbases and outposts within Federation territory, sometimes the greatest discoveries are made amongst the stars. This is the mission of the Polaris Squadron.
The USS Diligent is an Alita-class heavy escort that augments Polaris Squadron with significant tactical capabilities to defend the research unit from threats that lurk on the frontier. Typically, the USS Diligent deploys alongside the USS Polaris to safeguard the flagship, but it may deploy as tactical support for the USS Ingenuity when the smaller research vessel breaks away to conduct independent missions.
The stories of Polaris Squadron are rated 2-2-2 for mature subject matter, including violence, language and sexual content.
Polaris Squadron is a multi-mission flag squadron under the command of Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes that supports two specialized units and three overall mission profiles:
The flagship of Polaris Squadron is the USS Polaris, an Odyssey-class heavy explorer that hosts the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity, and the headquarters of Polaris Squadron is Archanis Station, a Canopus-class starbase from whence sector operations of the Archanis Sector are managed.
Commanding Officer
Executive Officer
Chief Tactical Officer
Chief Security Officer
Chief Flight Control Officer
Chief Operations Officer
Chief Engineering Officer
Chief Medical Officer
Chief Counseling Officer
Small Craft Wing Commander
Diligent Alpha-One
Small Craft Weapons and Systems Officer
Diligent Alpha-One
12 May 2025
S2E9. Nightmares When Night Falls
Archanis Station, SS Lucre, USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Juno, USS Lincoln, USS Polaris and USS Vesta
The stars raced by impossibly fast, the USS Juno pushing warp 9.99, a speed the cruiser was built to maintain only in short bursts, but that they’d been pushing for three days straight. A lithe chief petty officer with beady eyes stood at the back of the bridge, quietly observing the others [...]
11 May 2025
S2E9. Nightmares When Night Falls
Archanis Station, SS Lucre, USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Juno, USS Lincoln, USS Polaris and USS Vesta
“Pick the folks best at insurgency ops, the ones that’ll blow shit up and won’t balk at collateral damage,” Fleet Admiral Reyes said as she thought back to Captain Kioshi’s warning. Ten for one, he’d said. That’s how many they promised to kill for each of [...]
11 May 2025
S2E9. Nightmares When Night Falls
Archanis Station, SS Lucre, USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Juno, USS Lincoln, USS Polaris and USS Vesta
“Alright, what’ve we…” Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes began to say as she strode onto the bridge. But she stopped at the sight of Captain Kurayami Kioshi on the forward viewer. The old man was the intelligence chief for Archanis Station, but he was very much not on the station [...]
10 May 2025
USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Juno, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity (Archive)
If he hadn’t already suspected something was wrong, he knew it the moment the doors of the briefing room opened. If it was an operational meeting, Lieutenant Commander Grace Ellander wouldn’t have been sitting there. He could feel it too, raw pain and grief slamming his Betazoid senses, [...]