USS Polaris (NCC-80001)

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 Polaris

Odyssey-class • NCC-80001 • Polaris Advanced Research Squadron • Fourth Fleet • Managed by FADM James Neidlinger

The USS Polaris is an Odyssey-class heavy explorer that serves as the flagship of Polaris Squadron and home of the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity. The Polaris is equipped with cutting edge laboratories, sensor suites, and analysis cores that give it near-parity with top-of-the-line R&D facilities, while having a degree of mobility such facilities do not have.  It is also well appointed for frontier diplomatic duties, but it has some tactical drawbacks due to its size and purpose that are augmented by Polaris Squadron’s other vessels.

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 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.

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19 October 2025

We Were Here

S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy and USS Polaris

“She breathes again,” Captain Cora Lee offered as they stood together at the front of the Kennedy‘s bridge, looking at the planet below. The blight was in full remission, and the planet’s natural ecology was well on its way to recovery. “And they live again too,” [...]

18 October 2025

Inoculation of Belief

S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy and USS Polaris

As they crossed the plaza, a shuttle flew overhead, one of a half dozen tracing wide arcs over Lepia IV on a mission to disburse the payload that would free this world from its blight. The irony was not lost on Ambassador Drake that the solution had not come from futuretech and technobabble, but [...]

18 October 2025

Dynamics of Survival

S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy and USS Polaris

Their world would die. That’s how Ensign Lunaire had put it. A bit melodramatic for his tastes, but not wholly inaccurate. Slumped at his desk, Dr. Karl Verhoeven stared blankly at his terminal. There had to be a way. There always was. But how? And then it dawned on him.  There was something [...]

17 October 2025

Limits of Remedy

S3E1. Seeds of Skepticism

USS Ingenuity, USS Kennedy and USS Polaris

“We certainly cooked it,” Lieutenant Josh Brunell grumbled as brittle stalks crunched beneath his boots. “Too bad the crops went with it.” Just like the other four test plots, by the time the soil reached temperatures high enough to kill the mycopathogen, the natural flora [...]