The Enterprise's Other Battles

The Republic starship USS Enterprise's first engagement of the five-year mission, against the deceptively powerful starship Fesarius, ended with a amicable first contact with the First Federation in 2266. After this, the Republic colony on Antaris III was destroyed by a Jem'Hadar battle cruiser. The Enterprise pursued the vessel and after a game of cat and mouse, managed to disable it before it entered the Bajoran Wormhole.

The Enterprise played fox to the hounds of four sister starships in a war game exercise. Equipped with the new M-5 computer, developed by Dr. Richard Daystrom, the inventor of the duotronic computer system, and stripped of most of her crew, the Enterprise became a killing machine. She disabled the USS Excalibur, killing her entire crew, and severely damaged the USS Lexington. The Republic Starfleet almost ordered the destruction of the Enterprise in self-defense, believing Captain Kirk was engaging in a rampage, but in reality, the computer had spun out of control. Kirk managed to disable the computer and reassert control on the Enterprise before further trouble took place.