Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The USS Dauntless You Need To Know

10. The Numbers

While these figures may well be the work of fiction and specifically Arturis, the Dauntless from Hope and Fear manages to traverse the galaxy (apparently) from Earth to the Delta Quadrant in three months while on auto-navigation.

Launched on stardate 51472 this would place its fictional launch around the time of Voyager's Waking Moments and Message in a Bottle. In terms of DS9 this would line up approximately with its sixth season and Waltz or Who Mourns for Morn?. Given the timeline that's nearer to seven months from commissioning to being located by the Voyager crew. That would allow for the 47 trial runs (a favourite Star Trek number in itself) as well as the lengthy trip. Looks like Arturis did his homework. When the Dauntless does jump to slipstream power for a few moments it takes Voyager two days to catch up.

The reverse engineering wouldn't have to wait until Voyager returned to the Alpha Quadrant as fans would see the crew attempt to make it work in the following season.

Voyager's 100th episode, Timeless would double down on the point made in Hope and Fear that the Intrepid Class ship was not designed for such stresses or navigation, relying on a shuttle flying ahead to make course corrections. Even then it couldn't be sustained.