U.S.S. William Ockham

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U.S.S. WILLIAM OCKHAM
INTREPID CLASS // STARFLEET REGISTRY NCC-76591

These are the voyages of the USS William Ockham. Its ongoing mission; to discover new life, in all its forms. To venture forth and expand our knowledge of the galaxy. To boldly go where others dare not follow.

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"When you have eliminated all that is impossible, then whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Arthur Conan Doyle

The U.S.S. William Ockham is an Intrepid-class vessel that serves as a long-range exploratory and scientific ship. Her keel was laid at Utopia Planitia in 2368 and her construction was completed in late 2371, when she was launched. Her initial service was unremarkable; a series of workup missions designed to thoroughly test the ship for service after the sudden disappearance of her sister ship, the U.S.S. Voyager. Successful in these missions, the U.S.S. William Ockham was commissioned in early 2372.

While predominantly an exploratory vessel, the Ockham, like other ships in Starfleet, participated in the Federation-Klingon war. The William Ockham’s extremely fine sensor suite allowed her to track movements across the border with uncanny accuracy by sensing tachyon wakes left behind by cloaking devices. While she wasn’t able to directly locate a specific ship unless they were already in combat range, the Ockham’s ability to plot warp trails of enemy vessels and calculate their probable deployment trajectories gave the Federation a distinct advantage during the war.

The Dominion war begins in 2373. During the Battle of the Tyra System, her port nacelle joint assembly was struck by concentrated polaron beams and failed. With the nacelle completely separated from the ship, the Ockham managed to retreat from combat on impulse power and was towed off the front lines. Brought to Utopia Planitia once more, she spent the majority of the war undergoing repairs

After the return of Voyager, the Ockham was similarly refit with an astrometrics laboratory, transwarp coils, warp core improvements, and upgraded launcher systems capable of supporting more advanced torpedoes. The improvements the crew made to the U.S.S. Voyager were considered excellent for a science ship, and it became primarily a long-term, long-distance exploratory and scientific vessel.

The William Ockham’s current tactical complement includes thirteen Type-X phaser arrays, each capable of sustained fire at full power across all arcs against up to three targets. Preprogrammed targeting and power division subroutines can allow for more simultaneous targets at reduced efficacy. Befitting a science ship, the phaser arrays are outfitted with high resolution fire control packages, allowing them the benefit of precision applications of directed energy even at extreme range.

Similarly, the Ockham’s five projectile launch systems were designed with a fairly extreme degree of flexibility in order to support the countless varieties of scientific probe and package designs. Incidentally, this allowed her launchers to natively support a vast array of options including (but not limited to); Photon Torpedoes, Quantum Torpedoes, Tricobalt Devices, Spatial Charges, Photon Charge/Burst, and Gravimetric Charges.

Her most powerful tool is of course the oversized deflector dish. Tied directly into her scientific suites, the deflector can be reconfigured to emit or at least detect almost any known energy or particle. While most configurations only require computer commands and program packages to be loaded, even some of the most complex ones only require up to a few days of field refits to the dish. While the Intrepid class is often chided for the look of its ‘big nose’, it is in fact this extremely sensitive ‘nose’ that gives them such impressive recon and science capabilities.

* See bio-neural gel packs and their unique capability to apply predictive projections with unclear variables. Chaos logic, seeing patterns among mathematically insignificant results.

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LAID DOWN:2368LAUNCHED:2371COMMISSIONED:2372

Overall Length: 344.4 m
Overall Beam: 118 m
Overall Draft: 64.4 m
Displacement: 700,000 mt

Habitable Decks: 15
Avg. Crew Compliment: 140

Avg. Cruising Speed: Warp 6
Max. Cruising Speed: 9.75 (12 hours)
Maximum Speed: Warp 9.975
Atmospheric Flight Capable

13x Type-X Phaser Arrays
5x Torpedo Launchers

Multiphasic and Multispectrum Shields
Duranium Hull

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Designed for long-term exploration missions, the Intrepid-class starship entered service in the 2370's. At the time they were commissioned, they were given state of the art innovations, including: tricyclic input manifold of the warp core and variable geometry pylons. This was also the first class to incorporate the bio-neural gel packs and the Mark 1 Emergency Medical Hologram system.

Development and construction of the Intrepid class took place at the facilities at Utopia Planitia, Mars. At the time of its introduction, the Intrepid-class was considered to be the most technologically advanced of all of Starfleet's starship classes, although it would be superseded the following year.

MAIN BRIDGE
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MAIN ENGINEERING
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COMMANDING OFFICER
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CAPTAIN
Ailes, Beylara
FIRST OFFICER (ACTING CAPTAIN)
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COMMANDER
Dantes, Liam
SECOND OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Xan, Pira


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OPERATIONS
CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
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ENSIGN
Niraj, Alexandra
ASSISTANT CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER
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SUBCOMMANDER
tr’Zakal, Jerenzik (Officer Exchange Program)
QUARTERMASTER
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CHIEF PETTY OFFICER
Prenixx

ENGINEERING
ACTING CHIEF ENGINEER
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LIEUTENANT
Visynth, Rizar
ASSISTANT CHIEF ENGINEER
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LIEUTENANT
Kolwyn, Trevor

TACTICAL
CHIEF TACTICAL OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Collins, Edward
ASSISTANT CHIEF TACTICAL OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Haar, Quilok (Officer Exchange Program)
MASTER-AT-ARMS
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ENSIGN
Mlynarz, Kamila

SECURITY
CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
Reiver
ASSISTANT CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Nakamura, Ichiei

MEDICAL
CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
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COMMANDER/DOCTOR
Reddon, Diana
ASSISTANT CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Vendrin, Lita
HEAD NURSE
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ENSIGN
Burns, Heather

SCIENCE
CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
Galanodel, Elora
ASSISTANT CHIEF SCIENCE OFFICER
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LIEUTENANT
Syth, Myllan
ASTROMETRICS SPECIALIST
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LIEUTENANT
T'Dren


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HELMSMAN
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LIEUTENANT COMMANDER
Mae, Ashlynn


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ORIGINS OF A NAME

William of Ockham (also spelled Occam, from the Latin: Gulielmus Occamus) was a human born in the late 13th century of Earth, specifically, 1287. He was believed to have originated in a small village named Ockham, which is located in the territory of Earth that was once known as England. He became a Franciscan friar (an avowed religious figure of a mendicant order of the Catholic Church) and scholastic philosopher.

He is most commonly recognized for the methodological principle “Occam’s Razor,” formulated by the man himself as: “For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.”

However, William of Ockham was also condemned by the same Catholic Church he served because of his destruction of the “great medieval synthesis” of faith and reason by Thomas Aquinas (a rival philosopher and theologian). In addition, he argued that Pope John XXII was a heretic for attacking the doctrine of Apostolic poverty (the Franciscan belief that the Christian messiah, Jesus, and his apostles owned no property either individually or in common). On June 6, 1328, William was officially excommunicated for leaving Avignon (where he had been summoned to answer to charges of heresy) without permission.

He became a leader of a group of dissident Franciscans living in exile, dying on April 9th, 1347. William was officially rehabilitated by the Catholic Church, specifically by Pope Innocent VI in 1359.

OCCAM’S RAZOR

Stated by Ockham himself as above: “For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture,” the concept is also known as the “Law of Parsimony.” It is a problem-solving principle that--in essence--means that among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.

The Occam’s Razor was considered justified in several different methods. Aesthetically speaking, there is an appeal to simplicity of thought. Mathematically, it is a result of basic probability theory. All assumptions made introduce possibilities for error; if an assumption does not improve the accuracy of a theory, its only effect is to increase the probability that the overall theory is wrong.

However, not only was William Ockham not the only philosopher to discuss the Law of Parsimony, he was also not the first. Aristotle was the first documented philosopher to introduce a statement to that effect, “We may assume the superiority of ceteris paribus [other things being equal] of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypothesis.” Ptolemy, “We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.” In addition, other early philosophers such as Maimonides, Robert Grosseteste, and John Duns Scotus addressed the subject.

After William Ockham, such minds as Isaac Newton, Betrand Russell and Ray Solomonoff derived from Occam’s Razor. There is a modern variation used in medicine referred to as the “Zebra,” where a doctor should look to a more commonplace explanation over an exotic diagnosis when possible. That is derived from Theodore Woodward’s dictum, “When you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras.”

Ernst Mach is responsible for a stronger version of Occam’s Razor in physics, referred to as the Principle of Economy. “Scientists must use the simplest means of arriving at their results and exclude everything not perceived by the senses.”

It has become such a widespread formulation in layman’s terms, that while not the original intention of Occam’s Razor, most everyone is familiar with the idea of parsimony or simplicity when deciding between theories, “the simplest explanation is usually the correct one.”


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((A big thank you to Kermit who unwittingly helped with this post and to Bill Steele whose template I shamelessly stole from. And thanks to Katriel for making the ship's plaque! I'd like to add a thank-you to Viktor for helping write up technical information and history! Please note this is always a work in progresss. Thanks to Rosewood for the amazing picture with readout/quote and music!))
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Updated to have new beginning image/quote/mission statement with link to theme song--Richard Strauss, "Of Science." Thank you Rosewood for making that possible and beautiful!
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