Status: The USS Rio Grande (NCC-72452) was a Danube-class Federation runabout assigned to Deep Space 9 in the 2360s and 2370s. The Rio Grande was one of three runabouts offloaded to DS9 by the USS Enterprise-D in 2369, and the only one of the more than a dozen such ships to have not been destroyed from that time. (DS9 episode: "Emissary", ST reference: Encyclopedia) In the DS9 novel: Warpath, Kira Nerys experienced a vision where Jamin rides a zhom named Denigarro, which is an anagram of Rio Grande.