Starships at Wolf 359
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The following is a partial list of the Federation starships that participated in the Battle of Wolf 359. In all, 39 starships were lost, at a cost of nearly 11,000 lives. (TNG: "The Drumhead", "The Best of Both Worlds")
| Ship Name | Registry | Class |
|---|---|---|
| USS Ahwahnee | NCC-71620 | Cheyenne-class |
| USS Bellerophon | NCC-62048 | Nebula-class |
| USS Bonestell | NCC-31600 | Oberth-class |
| USS Buran | NCC-57580 | Challenger-class |
| USS Chekov | NCC-57302 | Springfield-class |
| USS Firebrand | NCC-68723 | Freedom-class |
| USS Kyushu | NCC-65491 | New Orleans-class |
| USS Liberator | NCC-67016 | Unknown |
| USS Melbourne | NCC-62043 | Excelsior-class |
| USS Princeton | NCC-59804 | Niagara-class |
| USS Roosevelt | Unknown | Unknown |
| USS Saratoga | NCC-31911 | Miranda-class |
| USS Tolstoy | Unknown | Unknown |
| USS Yamaguchi | NCC-26510 | Ambassador-class |
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[edit] Background
The script of "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" states Admiral J.P. Hanson's ship was a Galaxy-class starship. [1] This would be supported by the fact that his message to the crew of the USS Enterprise-D came from a Galaxy-class battle bridge.
A scene cut from the aired episode DS9: "Emissary" mentions the USS Gage in dialogue, ordered to attack the Borg Cube with the Melbourne and the Kyushu. [2] Star Trek Encyclopedia states she was an Apollo-class starship with the registry NCC-11672. The USS Roosevelt is stated to be an Excelsior-class starship with the registry NCC-2573 and the USS Tolstoy is stated to be a Rigel-class starship with the registry NCC-62095. The statement quoted by Captain Kathryn Janeway in VOY: "Scorpion" from Captain Amasov leaves it open to interpretation if the USS Endeavour was involved in this battle or another skirmish with the Borg prior to 2371. Star Trek Encyclopedia speculates it was in fact the Battle of Wolf 359.
Text commentary on the Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Special Edition) DVD states that the models built for the auto-destruct scene of the USS Enterprise were re-used to portray some of the wreckage. The Art of Star Trek states the concept models used to portray the B-24-CLN and a ship first seen on-screen at Earth Spacedock in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock were also photographed as part of the debris field seen in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"
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According to the short story Trust Yourself When All Men Doubt You in the novel The Sky's the Limit, the Nebula-class wreckage seen in the debris field in "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II" and "Emissary" was in fact a second USS Melbourne, launched early while still under construction. This Nebula-class Melbourne was the ship offered to Commander Riker. According to William Shatner's novel The Return, one starship at the battle was the Miranda-class USS Hoagland. Peter David's novel Vendetta mentions that a Galaxy-class ship was among the destroyed vessels.
In the 1994 Malibu Comics Star Trek: Deep Space Nine issue #6 the USS Kyushu and the USS Melbourne were depicted as an Excelsior-class and a standard configuration Nebula-class starships. It was not stated which was intended to be which. Also starships USS Hood, USS Potemkin, USS Reliant and USS Yorktown were stated to having been at the battle. In the 1997 Marvel Comics Star Trek: Voyager issue #10 three Miranda-class ships (one with "roll bar"), one Nebula-, one Galaxy-, one Excelsior-, and a dozen or so unidentifiable class Federation starships were depicted at the battle. Also at least one Klingon Bird-of-Prey, at least three K't'inga-class and one Vor'cha-class starships were seen fighting the cube. The USS Melbourne was stated to having been Admiral Hanson's ship.
According to the video game Star Trek: Borg, the Excelsior-class USS Righteous was also in the battle, and was assumed at the time to have been destroyed. According to the video game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Crossroads of Time, the Ambassador-class starship USS Kadosca was destroyed in the battle.
