A Federation starship with quantum slipstream drive from which Vice Admiral Kathryn Janeway hunted the missing USS Protostar and her former first officer Chakotay.
The USS Dauntless was the lead ship of its class, fitted with a quantum slipstream drive developed from what Voyager learned in the Delta Quadrant. Its name and shape recall the false Starfleet ship built by Arturis to trap that crew.
In the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy, Vice Admiral Janeway takes the Dauntless to find the Protostar, lost with Captain Chakotay. Her officers include the Andorian Commander Tysess and the Tellarite Doctor Noum. Finding the ship in the hands of unknown youngsters, she takes them at first for thieves.
The chase is steered from within by Ensign Asencia, a Vau N'Akat agent, who brings the Dauntless and the Protostar together so that the weapon hidden on the latter can turn Starfleet's ships on each other.