The following is a partial list of the Federation starships that participated in the Battle of Wolf 359. A fleet of 40 Federation starships was mobilized for the assault. In all, 39 starships were lost, at a cost of nearly 11,000 lives. (TNG: "The Drumhead", "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")

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 (β)	Unknown	Unknown
USS Saratoga	NCC-31911	Miranda-class
USS Tolstoy	Unknown	Unknown (β)
USS Yamaguchi	NCC-26510	Ambassador-class

Appendices Edit

Background Edit

Ship Name	Registry	Class
USS Endeavour	NCC-71805	Nebula-class
USS Gage (β)	NCC-11672	Apollo-class
Unknown	Unknown	Constitution-class
Unknown	B-24-CLN	Unknown
Unknown (Admiral Hanson's ship)	Unknown	Galaxy-class
Unknown	Unknown	Unknown

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 unknown skirmish with the Borg prior to 2371. Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed. p.135, 604) states the ship was a Nebula-class starship and states it was likely involved with the Battle of Wolf 359 and the sole surviving ship of the battle.

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", but the presence of both in said scene has yet to be confirmed in the aired episode.

As to the ship listings of the participants in the battle Michael Okuda remarked,"The various "mystery" ships in the BOBW2 listings in the Encyclopedia were all ships that were either referred to in dialog, or were models that were filmed for the "graveyard" scene. We did not make up any specifically to flesh out the Encyclopedia, although we (the production staff) did NOT come up with a definitive list of ships in the battle. I was tempted to try to develop one, but it occured to me that future episodes might need to "remember" a previously forgotten Wolf 359 ship for as-yet-unwritten storylines, just as the DS9 pilot did with Sisko's ship, the Saratoga."[3]

Apocrypha Edit

Ship Name	Registry	Class
USS Hoagland (β)	Unknown	Miranda-class
USS Hood	NCC-42296	Excelsior-class
USS Kadosca (β)	NCC-1994-C	Ambassador-class
USS Melbourne (β)	NCC-62043	Nebula-class
USS Potemkin	NCC-18253	Excelsior-class
USS Reliant (β)	Unknown	Miranda-class
USS Righteous (β)	NCC-42451	Excelsior-class
USS Victory	NCC-9754	Constellation-class
USS Yorktown	NCC-61137	Zodiac-class (β)

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 also mentions that one Galaxy-class ship was destroyed in the battle.

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. The canonical Kyushu was a New Orleans-class ship. 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. According to the video game Starship Creator, the USS Victory also participated in the Battle of Wolf 359. She was able to escape total destruction but suffered heavy damage. Her first officer was killed.

External links Edit

• Starship overview at Wolf 359 at Ex Astris Scientia
• Interview Michael Okuda on Wolf 359 at Ex Astris Scientia