Cleponji

The Cruiser Cleponji

The Cleponji was a Promellian Cruiser commanded by Captain Galek Dar during the 14th century.

Following the destruction of the planet Orelious IX, the Cleponji fell victim to a booby trap of several thousand aceton assimilators planted by their enemy, the Menthars, concealed in the rubble surrounding the ship.

While in this booby trap, the Cleponji would be stripped of all propulsion and weapons systems from the energy drain caused by the assimilators. This would leave the Promellians to be unable to move or fight. The ship would continue to be lashed with lethal radiation from the assimilators, eventually causing the deaths of her crew, which would succumb to radiation poisoning. The ship would remain in the planet's debris field, preserved in near perfect condition, for the next millennia.

In 2366, the Cleponji was discovered by the USS Enterprise-D, while exporing the remains of Orelious. The crew explored the ship, and later arranged to have it towed to the museum at the Astral V Annex. It was later discovered that the Enterprise, was also trapped in the same booby trap that the Cleponji fell victim to. Following the Enterprise's narrow escape from the assimilators, the Cleponji and surrounding asteroids were destroyed to prevent any further entrapments. (TNG: "Booby Trap")