U.S.S. Bozeman NCC-1941 Deep Dive
Seen only once in "Cause and Effect", the U.S.S. Bozeman is one of my favourite Trek ship designs. It takes the U.S.S. Reliant/Miranda class design seen first in Wrath of Khan and bolts 4 giant forward facing gun turrets on, pops new TOS-style domes on top and beneath the saucer and adds a third shuttlebay in the rear. And Fraiser Crane himself is her captain.
A rare look at the entire Bozeman bridge set, from @trekcore
The bridge was the standard TNG guest ship set, which with minor or major adjustments stood in for everything from the Enterprise-D battle bridge to the Stargazer, the U.S.S. Hathaway, the Enterprise-C and with non-Starfleet graphics, Picard's "Gambit" pirate ship. As the Bozeman, and to go with her TOS-style bridge dome, the railing along the back is painted the same red as on the TOS bridge, and the rear consoles are all modified to look like a mix of the classic movie and TOS panels.
Of course, a novel was written to flesh out the backstory of Captain Morgan Bateson and the U.S.S. Bozeman. Written by Diane Carey and published in 1997, Ship of the Line gives the Bozeman a crew, a squidlike pet/mascot thing and a rich backstory. And it has lots of colourful details about the ship itself:
She's not an exploration starship like 90% of Trek ships, she's an armed-to-the-teeth border patrol cutter, answering not to Starfleet Command but the Starfleet Border Service. She even had flashing red and yellow police lights!
The novel does have some pretty noticable continuity issues with "Cause and Effect", most notably an all-male crew when the episode itself shows Bateson on the bridge with two women, but it's still one I am very fond of.
One of Jackill's Star Fleet Reference Manuals (unofficial publications, note "Star Fleet" as two words), calls the Bozeman an "attack frigate" and runs wild, calling those huge canons "multi-phasic mega phasers", and the turrets on the lower dome "particle accelerators". Don't mess with the Bozeman, she'll fuck your shit up real good.
The recent Eaglemoss publication Star Trek Starships 2151-2293 (2018) covered the Bozeman, and took a far more conservative approach, calling those turrets "sensor pods" which according to old BTS interviews was always their intended function, much to my disappointment.
So there's your exhaustive guide to the U.S.S. Bozeman NCC-1941. She was also mentioned in radio chatter in the movie Star Trek: First Contact and appeared briefly in a few other novels, comics and games.
