USS Hathawayedit
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| USS Hathaway | |
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| Class: | Constellation-class |
| Registry: | NCC-2593 |
| Affiliation: | Federation/Starfleet |
| Status: | Decommissioned (2364) |
The USS Hathaway (NCC-2593) was a Constellation-class Federation starship in service during the 23rd and 24th centuries. It was launched in 2285 from the Copernicus Ship Yards on Luna.
By 2364, the Hathaway had been decommissioned and abandoned in the Braslota system, in orbit of Braslota IV. The ship was temporarily reactivated for a Starfleet battle simulation in 2365, in which USS Enterprise-D first officer William T. Riker commanded the obsolete star cruiser against the state-of-the-art Galaxy-class starship. Although the Hathaway was running on minimum power, had only a few shards of dilithium, and no antimatter fuel, Riker's away team managed to reactivate the ship and place it in sufficient condition for simulated combat in only 48 hours.
Unfortunately, the battle simulation was interrupted by the intrusion of the Ferengi Marauder Kreechta, whose DaiMon believed he had stumbled into a Starfleet internal conflict. Thinking that the Hathaway must be of great value to be fighting against a modern starship (and not realizing the battle was simulated), the Ferengi demanded the Hathaway's surrender. The two Starfleet crews coordinated a ruse, however, in which it was made to appear as if the Enterprise destroyed the Hathaway to prevent it from falling into enemy hands. In reality, the Hathaway had merely made a split-second warp jump the instant before the photon torpedoes detonated. Its potential prize destroyed, the Ferengi retreated. Following the exercise, the Hathaway was towed to the nearest starbase. (TNG: "Peak Performance")
| Constellation-class starships |
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| USS Constellation • USS Hathaway • USS Stargazer • USS Victory • NCC-7100 |
[edit] Background
The Constellation-class model labeled USS Hathaway was re-used to represent one of the ships in the task force sent to blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War, in early 2368, in the episode TNG: "Redemption II". As no ship named Hathaway appeared in the computer graphic of the ships in the tachyon detection grid, the Contellation-class ship was presumably not intended to be the same old and decommissioned USS Hathaway.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Hathaway may have been named for Anne Hathaway, William Shakespeare's wife.
The Hathaway appeared as one of four playable Constellation class vessels in the video game Star Trek: Legacy.
