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{{Sidebar\starship
| ship name = USS SS Yeager, NCC-65674
| allegiance = United Federation of Planets
| image = Yeagerflight.jpg
| image4 =
| class = Yeager-type
| registry = NCCNAR-65674
| CO = Captain [[Braggins, Jennifer|Jennifer Braggins]]
| fleet =
}}
The USS SS ''Yeager'' is a starship in service in the Starfleet Federation Reserve Fleet, having officially been decommissioned and struck from the Starfleet registry in the late 2380s. The USS ''Yeager'' is named for Chuck Yeager, the first Human to break the sound barrier in level flight.
===History===
With a deadline to meet, the ''Yeager'' was rushed through testing and acceptance trials to be commissioned in 2373, assigned to [[Deep Space Nine]] as a guard ship. The ''Yeager'' served honorably during the war, taking part in several key engagements as an outrider or scout, and survived until the end of hostilities. Though the remaining ships of similar construction were either cannibalised for parts to repair main-line vessels or scrapped outright and despite its quirky and unpredictable systems, the SCE kept the ''Yeager'' in commission for their own purposes. The ''Yeager'' was used to test several new tactical and propulsion systems, and was one of the first ships to be armed with the experimental Type-G Phaser. When not testing experimental weapons systems, it served as a guard ship for several key outposts during the 2380s, especially as the fleet was reshuffled following the synth attack on Mars.
''Yeager'' was eventually relegated to rear area duties and all-but forgotten even by the SCE personnel who had kept her operational well beyond her expected service life was over. Officially struck from the register and placed in mothballs, with the name reassigned to more modern starships, the ''Yeager'' soon found herself crewed by volunteers guarding the Federation Surplus Depot at [[Qualor II]] as the dawn of the 25th Century approached.
====2403 - Present====
The ''Yeager'' was hastily reactivated , although not recommissioned, in 2403 in order to conduct what was alleged to be an important medical supply run to a beleaguered world in what was once the Romulan Neutral Zone; assigned to Captain [[Braggins, Jennifer|Braggins]], who had found herself out of favour following the events of the Philadelphia's mission to [[Jateran]], the mission was soon discovered to be a set-up. Not only were the crew made up of the dregs of Starfleet, those officers and crew that no Captain in their right mind would want on their ship, illegal weapons had been stored on board, bound for separatist movements on the border. The ship had also been sabotaged so that it would drop out of warp and conveniently be discovered by Starfleet patrols in the area. With the deception discovered, the Yeager was repaired before it could be apprehended and the weapons were instead diverted to a local group of Fenris Rangers where Braggins had contacts.
For the next six weeks, the ''Yeager'' operated in the territories along the Romulan and Cardassian borders; escorting convoys, conducting anti-piracy patrols, and responding to emergency situations both large and small. Eventually the worst of the misfit crew were rotated off the ''Yeager'', and the crew readied themselves for more important missions.
