The USS Intrepid is the 3rd Federation warship available (after the Mayflower and Saladin) in Star Trek Fleet Command. It’s a battleship that despite its shortcomings, can be an extremely valuable ship to have in your arsenal.
What the USS Intrepid Is Good At
Destroying hostile ships. And with the Pike Moreau Chen crew on board, you’ll be able to knock off high-level hostiles all day. This is the best faction rep grinders I’ve used so far (just a hair ahead of the B’Rel, which has other advantages). The Intrepid’s Ship Ability is “Frontline Defender,” which increases the ship’s armor, shield deflection, and dodge by 40% right out of the box, and gets up to 130% when you’ve maxed it out at level 45.
Here you can see my Intrepid with the PMC taking out a 4.8 million strength Federation hostile.
Looking at the battle log, you can see that this ship and crew took only about 15% hull health damage each round.
What It’s Not Great At
It’s not a great PvP ship. The firing pattern is the Achilles heel in this regard. The time it takes to get its weapons charged means you’re going to take a lot of damage before inflicting any, especially in shorter battles.
This same disadvantage is going to hurt you when attacking a station. It doesn’t mean that you can’t use it as a base-cracker, but don’t be surprised when it’s not the monster you might hope it would be.
How You Get the USS Intrepid
You’ll need 120 Intrepid Blueprints, and a level-32 Shipyard to construct the ship. They cost 500 Federation Credits in the Faction store. You’ll need an Associate reputation with the Federation to unlock them. You can also get them in Rare and Epic Armada chests. And you can grind them out in level 32+ Federation space. I managed to grind mine out while I was working on building my Romulan reputation in the Wolf and Sirius systems.
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Background
The USS Intrepid as seen in Star Trek Fleet Command doesn’t actually appear onscreen anywhere in any Star Trek. Rather, it’s a stripped-down version of the Newton-class, which appears in the 2009 film. (The Newton also appears in STFC, as a much more advanced ship.)
It duplicates the half-saucer section, and nacelle configuration, but loses the dual lower hulls.
Previous Ships Named Intrepid
The first USS Intrepid was mentioned in the TOS episode Court Martial. It appeared on-screen as a Constitution-class ship with an all-Vulcan crew in The Immunity Syndrome, when it was destroyed.
The next time we heard called Intrepid, it was as the ship that responded to the Khitomer massacre that killed Mogh (Worf’s father) in The Next Generation episodes Sins of the Father and Redemption. It was never seen on screen, but we know from Sergey Rozhenko that it was an Excelsior-class ship.
The next Intrepid we heard about was the one that Geordi LaForge reported having power conversion efficiency tests within the episode, Force of Nature.
Next, the USS Voyager was an Intrepid-class starship, and finally, there was the Intrepid from the Enterprise episode, The Expanse (pictured below.)
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