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.

USS Diligent

Alita-class • NCC-97314 • Polaris Advanced Research Squadron • Fourth Fleet

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 Advanced Research Squadron

Polaris Squadron is a mission unit that principally supports the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity (ASTRA), a specialized cross-functional unit that exists to fuel Starfleet’s innovation engine through discovery, investigations and interactions on the frontier.

Under the command of Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes, ASTRA Executive Director, 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.

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24 March 2025

Risk Calculus

S2E7. Blackout

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

“Will this actually work?” Captain Jake Lewis asked as he stared at numerals and symbology that meant absolutely nothing to him. “Can we actually use this to get home?” The Underspace had brought them here, and now, it might get them home. If the Romulan was right, and that [...]

23 March 2025

From the Blackout, Returned

S2E7. Blackout

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

The USS Polaris, headquarters of the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity, had a sensor suite capable of mapping the most complex spacetime topologies, detecting the most obscure exotic particles, and analyzing the slightest fluctuations in subspace. None of that mattered though. Not [...]

23 March 2025

In An Instant, Everything Changed

S2E7. Blackout

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

Forward movement. Always forward. One light year at a time. That had been his mantra ever since they’d found themselves stranded on the far side of the Beta Quadrant. It was the only way he’d ever get these crews home. But now they sat motionless, unable to advance. They were stuck. Neither [...]

22 March 2025

Deja Vu

S2E7. Blackout

USS Diligent, USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy, USS Polaris and USS Serenity

“It’s moments like these when I miss Dr. Lockwood the most,” Lieutenant Akil al-Qadir offered. The eccentric astrophysicist would have seen what they were not. But he was dead now, having given his last breaths to save the rest of them from the Dominion bioweapon, a relic of the [...]