USS Bonchune

The USS Bonchune (NCC-70915) was a Federation starship that was in service with Starfleet in the late 24th century.

In 2374, the Bonchune was assigned to pursue the prototype vessel USS Prometheus (Prometheus class) after it was commandeered by Romulan agents. The ship was quickly overpowered by the Prometheus's superior firepower resulting from its multi-vector assault mode. 

In 2378, the Bonchune was in the Sol system and was part of the fleet gathered to respond to an anticipated Borg incursion. It later escorted the USS Voyager back to Earth upon its return from the Delta Quadrant through a Borg transwarp conduit. 

Background
The Bonchune was named for Foundation Imaging visual effects supervisor Rob Bonchune, with the registry being his birthday (9/15/1970). The ship was not identified in dialogue and its on-screen appearance was the first time a computer-generated effect was used of the ship class (rather than a physical model). Its presence in "Message in a Bottle" was confirmed by Rob Bonchune, who built the CGI model, and one of the Nebula-class ships seen in "Endgame" carried its registry. As Bonchune tells it, its appearance in "Message in a Bottle" was "kind of" a mistake. The ship was definitely used, but it was interchangeably used with the USS Honshu in the episode. It may have thus been the original intent that the Honshu be the only ship seen, but as the Bonchune can be identified on-screen and does not conflict with any other element of the episode it was considered to be a canon ship for Memory Alpha purposes. Close-ups of a later rendering of the Bonchune were published in several works such as the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar and the Ships of the Line book, in which the ship was identified as the USS Ranger.

In the PC game Star Trek: Legacy, the name USS Bonchune is a possible name for a starship.

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