The USS Repulse (NCC-2544) is an Template:ShipClass Federation starship, commanded by Captain Taggert in the 24th century. Medical officer Katherine Pulaski served aboard this vessel before she was transported by shuttlecraft D'Alison (Repulse shuttlecraft 10) to her new assignment, the USS Enterprise-D in 2365. (TNG: "The Child")
Captain Taggert valued Pulaski as an officer, despite her idiosyncratic preference to shuttles instead of matter-energy transportation. Taggert told Captain Picard that there were no recent records of her using a transporter, since over a year previous. (TNG: "Unnatural Selection")
In status displays received by the Enterprise around 2367, the Repulse was continuing her exploration of Sector 22036. (TNG: "Brothers")
- This information appeared on the Starship Mission Status screen.
In casualty lists received by Deep Space 9 around 2375, the Repulse filed reports of many officers being missing, wounded or killed as part of an operation with the Ninth Fleet during the Dominion War. (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight" casualty readout)
Background
The Repulse was a reuse of the USS Excelsior studio model first built for Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. The Repulse was later listed on the mission status chart seen on screens from TNG Season 4 onward. The casualty report seen on Deep Space Nine contains many double names of personnel being killed or wounded on multiple ships. It seems more likely that each officer died only once and that the reports were filed multiple times. In this case it is unclear which officers listed under Repulse actually served on this vessel.
According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Repulse was "named for the British battle cruiser that fought in Earth's Battle of Midway in World War II" (which is odd, seeing as the Repulse was destroyed roughly six months before Midway).
Apocrypha
USS Repulse is the name of a Template:ShipClass starship that appeared in the game Star Trek: Tactical Assault.
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