USS Banshee

Sovereign Class Federation Starship belonging to Section 31, registry number NCC-9561-C. Launched at the beginning of the Dominion War under command of Commander Charlotte Burns. The Banshee was later placed under the command of Captain Jad Vorezze and put into full service. ("Tolkien III" [REJ]). The Banshee features many amenities that most military starships do not have, including health clubs, bowling alleys, holodecks that seldom malfunction and a five star bar, The Twilight Zone. After a rough start to the mission, the Banshee was drafted into the secret organization Section 31, after accidentally stumbling upon the USS Gorgon, a damaged Section 31 vessel. ("Section Thirty-One" [BAN]). Shortly thereafter, the Banshee led the disastrous first contact effort with the ever unpleasant Voran Imperium. The ship was extremely damaged and the command crew killed, though a picky afterlife sent them back. The Banshee and her crew were instrumental in winning the war and reestablishing peace. ("The Dark Fleet, Parts I, II and III" [BAN]). While being repaired, the Banshee was used as a testbed for a new form of transwarp. While this experiment proved successful, the technology still had many flaws. ("Travelers" [BAN]). Later that year, while under attack by the Dominion battleship Veraka, the Banshee, with the USS Explorer and the USS Secondprize, were hurled back in time to the year 1997. After repairing all damage to the time line, all vessels were returned to the present. ("Only a Matter of Time" [BAN]). While hosting a scientific experiment, the Banshee had to be evacuated when several viscous alien creatures escaped, leaving a few sparse crewmembers behind to fend for themselves. Thanks to efforts for the USS Explorer's crew, the Banshee was cleared of the aliens and towed back to a starbase for repair. ("Things That Go Bump In The Night" [BAN]). The Banshee's computer systems were affected by a computer virus of Cardassian origin in late 2375. The virus was delivered along a particle backwash that traveled up one of the Banshee's phaser beams. The ship believed itself to be a Cardassian warship and tried to subdue the crew, which it believed to be a group of intruders, and sped off to Cardassian space. Lieutenant Carn was successful in switching to the backup computer core and purging the virus from the system before the Banshee crossed the Cardassian border. ("Shatterframe" [BAN])/ In 2376, the Banshee was attacked and taken over by Dominion troops who worked for the Deimos Cult. Only a few of the command crew remained onboard, but they were successful in retaking the ship and stopping it from crashing into the planet Mordor ("Where Angels Fear to Tread, Part Three [BAN]). The Banshee's Section 31 identity was nearly revealed to the Federation public by a reporter from the Federation Times named Paul Hoerbelt and a cult like group known as the Society for the Pursuit of Truth. ("The Truth Is Out There" [BAN]) The Banshee was again almost hijacked, this time by mirror counterparts of the ship's crew who sought to escape the Klingon-Cardassian alliance. ("Two of a Kind" [BAN]) The Banshee was named after a spirit in Celtic mythology that is said to wail outside a home when death is coming. One can see how that applies to the ship.