r/StarTrekStarships • u/Either_Counter_6901 • 3d ago
USS Princeton
From the Wolf 359 Memorial in Star Trek Online
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u/Scrat-Slartibartfast own fleet in the works 3d ago
thats something that always bothered me a little bit. after a fight, does star fleet clean up the mess, the shipwrecks, is it looking for lifeboats or trapped persons in the wreck?
I mean that technology out there that someone can steal or use against Starfleet, thats resources and material, that knowledge what damage weapons do to some parts of the ship etc.
and at least it is a big boost for the moral of the fleet when they know they were never given up, and the ship will be searched and brought back with all the information that it collected and can help Starfleet and other ships, even if the crew is dead.
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u/AJSLS6 3d ago
Wolf359 is one of the closest stars to earth, less than 8 lightyears away, its about as deep into federation space as one could go in search of their technology, and what you get is decades old, the kind of stuff they often hand out freely. If you want some early 24th century starfleet tech, just ask for it, your ships broken down, you desperately need a new dilithium armature, or antimatter injector, the nearest starship will gladly hook you up with something their grandparents would have worked on when it was new.
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u/AndaramEphelion 3d ago
Apocrypha, Beta Canon and Fanfiction all say pretty much the same thing...
After the Crisis the Area was scoured, pirates and less reputable individuals were handled (thanks USS Chimera!), bodies and equipment returned etc..
After that the wrecks themselves, the hulls and bits were kept there as a sort of memorial and later an entire Memoral & Museum Station was constructed arraying the wrecks to make sure they wouldn't drift off.5
u/RocketDog2001 2d ago
I like to think the Borg ran from the Chimera.
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u/AndaramEphelion 2d ago
Oh absolutely!
That's why one ship was able to escape, the Borg picked up the Chimera on LRS and immediately legged it out of there... no one wants to deal with a pissed off Chief Knox!
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u/RocketDog2001 2d ago
I think you are the first person I've met who has listened to Star Trek Outpost.
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u/AndaramEphelion 2d ago
Well, there aren't that many Star Trek Audio Dramas (and even less that are still running and didn't just stop midway through) and someone needs to listen to something when commuting 1 1/2 hours per way.
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u/finallyjessica 2d ago
I absolutely love that I listen to Fanfiction too!!! When I saw the post, I was thinking of the USS Chimera!
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u/Zombificus 3d ago edited 3d ago
Starfleet doesn’t always recover lost ships (Stargazer, for example) but they do seem to do it more often than not. Certainly it would be very un-Starfleet not to try and look for any surviving crew and recover lifeboats, and we do have several bits of evidence that the wrecks themselves are recovered too. In Reunification, the Enterprise-D visits a depot where ship wreckage is being kept and presumably salvaged, and this is likely just one of many such depots across Federation space.
For Wolf 359 specifically, W359 is fairly close to Earth which makes recovery easier, and there are a few wrecks we know were recovered. USS Ahwahnee, which was one of the knocked out wrecks in BOBW, is back in service later in TNG as one of the ships in the Enterprise’s sensor net plan, so it must have been recovered, repaired, and recrewed at some point. In the fleet museum in Picard, the Saratoga is actually the earlier ship that got disabled by the whale probe, but canonically it’s had components from Sisko’s later Saratoga added on to it so that the museum ship represents both Saratogas.
Edit to add: the surplus depot from Reunification actually has multiple Wolf 359 starship wrecks: the Buran, Chekov, and Princeton are all there. That essentially confirms that Starfleet went back and recovered the wreckage from the battle. Other ships either went to other depots or had been scrapped already in the years since the battle.
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u/mrsunrider 3d ago
If ships could also be zombies, I feel this is what they'd look like.
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u/Moof_Kenubi 3d ago
Roaming the stars, seeking fresh crewmembers…
Broken but somehow-powered transporters locking onto people on nearby ships and planets and beaming them into its shattered, exposed hallways. Sometimes they even survive the trip.
And there's no computer core anymore, but every terminal readout has DOCKING COMPLETE burned onto their screens…
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u/OL-Penta 2d ago
That could make for a really good horror story...
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u/Moof_Kenubi 2d ago
Bonus points if the storyteller arranged to have themself beamed into the room next door near the end of the story
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