More info on USS Sojourner
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USS Sojourner
NX 1797
Named in honor of black abolitionist/feminist Sojourner Truth.
Born into slavery in 1797 and given the name Isabella Van Wagener (Wagener being her owner's last name), this forceful woman was set free in 1827. In the 1840s, she took the name Sojourner Truth and drew crowds with her impassioned speeches about God's greatness and the evils of slavery. Never having learned to read or write, Sojourner dictated her autobiography, "The Narrative of Sojourner Truth," which she sold to support herself.
She also added women's rights to her agenda. During an 1851 speech to a women's rights convention, she roused the audience with the words, "Look at me! Look at my arm! I have plowed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me -- and ain't I a woman?" She continued working for the causes of rights for blacks and women until her death in 1883.
A majority of Sojourner’s components (including her primary hull) were build at the San Francisco Navy yards and ferried into orbit where they were assembled in the fleet orbital dry-dock facility.
Originally Sojourner was only ment to be a test bed for some of the radical new innovations in starship design, weapons and propulsion technology. In fact the new technology proposed in her construction was so radical that Starfleet command considered making her the flagship of an entire new class (hence the NX registry). But it was later decided that it would be more practical (and economical) to modify and use the well-proven Constitution-class space frame.
Sojourner was pressed into active service late in 2267 shortly after fleet strength was reduced in an attack by the malfunctioning M-5 computer during live fire war-game experiments.
During that first mission Sojourner and her crew demonstrated their value as a frontline starship and they were placed into regular service.
Her Registry would remain NX until sometime after 2273 when she was upgraded to the new Constitution-class Specs.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word "freedom" out of your vocabulary.
Malcolm X, Chicago Defender, 28. Nov. 1962
Truth is proper and beautiful in all times and in all places.
Frederick Douglass
Fear is the mind-killer
Frank Herbert
[This message has been edited by Hito (edited 11-03-2000).]
