Hello and welcome back to The LEGACY of Picard's Fleet !
This is a part 2 of a 2 part series, where we answer,
what are the legacies of the ships in this fleet ?!
We covered a lot of ships last time in part 1 which were mostly too damaged to
actually make it to the sector 9 incident after the borg ship
encounter… But there's still a whole bunch left to dig into !
We’ve collected More details, lore and Information you might not know!
So let’s beam in and check out the legacy of Picard’s sector 9 fleet!
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The USS Nathan Hale was an Inquiry Class starship,
and named after a famous 18th century American military officer and spy in the American
Revolution. This wouldn’t be the first time Nathan Hale is mentioned in Trek,
with the Doctor referring to himself as no Nathan Hale in Voyager’s episode “Basics, Part II”.
The USS Europa was a Luna Class starship, named after one of Jupiter’s moons; Europa.
However this was not the only Europa in trek, as the USS Europa was the flagship of Admiral
Brett Anderson in Star Trek: Discovery, where it led the fleet at the Battle of
the Binary Stars in negotiations against the Fractured Klingon Empire united by T’Kuvma.
Unfortunately the Europa, a Nimitz-Class starship, was one of the first casualties of this battle,
and the Klingon Federation War of 2256 to 2257, as a Cloaked Klingon Cleave ship was
able to Ram the Europa and the ship activated its self-destruct system.
The USS Almagest was also a Sutherland Class Starship, and seems to be named
after The Almagest, a 2nd century treatise on the motion of stars and planetary paths,
written by Ptolemy and was considered one of the most influential scientific texts in history
Our hero ship of the show, the SS La Sirena, has its name being Spanish for “The Mermaid”
or “The Siren”, with Rios showing a fascination for mermaids. This Kaplan
Freighter was manufactured at the Kaplan Schiffbau on the Hotzenplotz colony world,
and would help Admiral Picard in his mission to find Bruce Maddox in 2399.
The USS Helios was an Akira Class Starship, and was named after the Greek God of the Sun. In Beta
Canon, there would be a USS Helios during the 23rd century, with the Drexler-Class USS Helios,
which was a successor to the Daedlus Class. Interestingly enough, this USS Helios would
have onboard a young prime Gabriel Lorca serving as Security Chief on the vessel, before serving
a small stint at the Tarsus IV colony. And we all know what happened at Tarsus IV…
There was also a class of tug ship called the Helios Class,
which were seen in Star Trek: Discovery.
The Gagarin Class was a new starship and was the successor to the Shepherd Class from the
mid 23rd century. The first ship of this class was the USS Gagarin, and was named after the
Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to become the first Human to Journey into Outer Space.
The USS Rabin was another Akira class starship, and funnily enough was actually almost in the
film Star Trek: First Contact, as a backup for the USS Thunderchild. The Rabin was named
after Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who unfortunately was assassinated in 1995,
but became a symbol of the Isreali-Palestinian Peace Process, as he was elected on a platform
embracing the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and signed the Oslo Accords.
Yi Sun-Sin was a Korean admiral and military general famed for his victories against the
Japanese navy, with most of his military engagements being faced with low odds and
overwhelmed by superior numbers, yet still emerging victorious. The USS Yi Sun-Sin a
Ross Class Starship is named after him, though it is interesting that
the ship named after him is a Ross Class, a variant of the Galaxy Class,
a massive starship and not a smaller ship like a Defiant Class for example.
Those who have watched Trek before know very well the USS,
the Starship which originally was meant to have a transwarp drive as part of the Great Experiment,
but then went on to being captained by Captain Hikaru Sulu and would assist
in the Khitomer Accords between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire.
Not only would Sulu serve on the Excelsior, but Tuvok and Janice Rand. However this USS Excelsior
isn’t the same excelsior, as the USS Excelsior in the Picard Fleet had a different registry and
was part of the Excelsior II Class of Starship, the direcvt successor to the Excelsior Class.
Not only is the Excelsior well known, but everyone knows of Nyota Uhura,
and our next ship is the USS Uhura, named after famous starfleet officer Uhura,
who served on the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike as a Cadet, would serve under
Captain James T Kirk and would then go on to be captain herself, of the USS Leondegrance,
a Lancelot Class Starship which would have its own five-year mission to the Lesser Magellanic Cloud,
during which the ship participated in over one hundred first contact missions.
The ship would then become a training vessel, and Uhura would remain captain
assisting in the training of Starfleet cadets, including a Cadet Jean Luc Picard.
So obviously Uhura would get a ship named after her, and this ship is a Reliant Class Starship.
We’ve talked slightly about the Ross Class Starship, but where would we be without the
first ship in this class. Now the interesting thing about the USS Ross is that its history
starts off as the ship of a Table Top Role Playing Game Series set in the Star Trek
Universe called “Clear Skies” In this show they had their hero ship being the USS Ross,
and this ship would be designed by Thomas Marrone.
In universe, the USS Ross was a one-of-a-kind variant of the
galaxy class, and originally had an NX registry, though by the time of Picard,
it would gain a NCC registry and be the first ship of an entire class, no longer one-of-a-kind.
The Ross originally launched in 2381 and began a mission in the Shackleton Expanse. The ship
was named after Mary G. Ross the first known native American female engineer.
And talking of the Shackleton Expanse, we also have the USS Shackleton, named after
British Explorer Ernest Shackleton, who was one of the principal figures of the
Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The USS Shackleton was an Inquiry Class ship.
The USS Ibn Al-Haytham was named after the famous Arab Polymath Ibn Al-Haytham who
is regarded as the “Father of Modern Optics”, with his most influential work being the Kitāb
al-Manāẓir (Kit-ab Al-Man-Ear) a seven-volume treatise on optics and other fields of study.
The USS Ibn Al-Haytham was a Sutherland Class, and probably named due to the scientific capabilities
of the Sutherland Class, most notably the Sensor Dish on top of this ship class.
The USS Okuda is a sovereign class starship and this ship was named
after notable trek creatives Denise and Michael Okuda, Denise being a scenery
artist and Michael most notably being the one who came up with the Okudagrams.
The USS Christopher is a Gagarin class starship with probably the least knowledge about its
legacy. This ship could possibly be named after Christopher Columbus,
the Italian Explorer who is known for finding America, but mostly found the west indies.
The USS Magellan was a Inquiry class starship named after the
explorer Ferdinand Magellan who was the first person on earth to circumnavigate the globe.
Now the USS Thunderchild was actually seen in the film Star Trek First COntact, and was an Akira
Class starship which had previously served at the Battle of Sector 001 where a Borg Cube was moving
through Federation Space towards Earth and a Fleet of Federation starships was sent to intercept it.
The Thunderchild was one of these ships, and helped to destroy the
Borg cube alongside other ships and the Enterprise E. The name thunderchild came
from the HG Wells novel “War of the Worlds” where the HMS Thunderchild helped divert
Martian Fire to save transport ships evacuating civilians out of London.
The USS Clark is an interesting one by its name. This could mean to be the USS Clarke with an E,
with a previous USS Clarke being a Malachowski-class starship in the
mid-23rd century, which took part at the Battle of the Binary Stars.
However as it isn’t with an E, this ship could be named after Mark W. Clark,
the youngest four star general in the US Army and the man who led
the fifth army to capture Rome in 1944 during the Second World War.
If there is another more obvious Clark which this ship may be named
after please let us know in the comments below.
Another Sovereign class was the USS Hutchinson, named after presumably
the most famous—or infamous—English woman in colonial American history,
Anne Hutchinson. She is known for representing religious freedom in England's American
colonies and the history of women in ministry, challenging the authority of the ministers.
Again, whether there is another famous Hutchinson which this
ship might be called after please let us know!
The USS Tiro, a Reliant class starship, was named after Marcus Tullius Tiro,
a Freedman of Cicero and a writer in rome. He wrote a considerable number of books,
and is believed to have invented an early form of shorthand writing, the Tironian Notes. He wrote
books on grammar, the scripts, speeches and even jokes of Cicero and many other writings.
Now the next ship has a very interesting name, and that is the USS Firesword with a badass
sounding name for an akira class starship. Now what is interesting is that a flaming sword has
been present in numerous legends and myths for thousands of years. From Sumerian mythology, with
"Asaruludu"?
who "ensures the most perfect safety" in Norse mythology with
Surtr to even Christianity and Buddhism to name a few.
So an akira class named after the Firesword to “ensure safety” makes a lot of sense,
and is a very apt name for an akira class, and not just because it makes it badass.
A ross Class starship would be named the USS Archer, probably after notable starfleet officer,
diplomat and Federation President Jonathan Archer, who was captain of Earth's first warp five capable
ship the NX-01 Enterprise and for bringing all the disparate alien civilisations together to form the
coalition of planets which would eventually become the United Federation of Planets.
Now this isn’t the first Federation ship to be named after Archer. With a Saladin-class
looking ship the USS Archer NCC-627 a small starfleet ship captained by Una Chin Riley,
better known as Number One, during the Kiley 274 incident in 2259. We did a breakdown of
this ship recently if you are interested in this little small starfleet ship.
A second USS Archer, NCC-44278 of an unknown class was part of Battle Group
Omega, a group of Federation Starships sent to intercept the USS Enterprise E
and the Reman Warbird Scimitar before the Scimitar could use its Thalaron Weapon to
destroy Earth. However this battle group was ultimately un-needed, as the E was able
to destroy the Scimitar within the Bassan Rift with some good ol 'ramming manoeuvres!
The USS Hrothgar, a Sovereign class starship, is named after the Semi-Legendary Danish Sovereign
of the same name. This king would appear in two poems, notably Beowulf
and also Widsmith. In Beowulf he was shown as the builder of the legendary mead hall,
and the one whose kingdom was under attack by Grendel, and freed by Beowulf.
Interestingly enough, King Hrothgar has appeared previously in Star Trek as a
character in the Beowulf Holonovel in the Voyager Episode “Heroes and Demons”
where Grendal was actually a Photonic lifeform which the Doctor managed to
peacefully stop terrorising the mead hall and in turn, the USS Voyager.
Our next ship is the USS Huygens, a Sutherland Class Starship, named
after notable Dutch Mathematician Christiaan Huygens who is regarded as one of the greatest
scientists of all time and a major figure in the scientific revolution. Huygens as an astronomer
is chiefly known for his studies of the rings of Saturn and the discovery of its moon Titan,
where there would eventually be a colony in the star trek universe.
Again, having a ship like the sutherland, a very scientific vessel compared to other
vessels in starfleet, it is very apt to name it after such an important scientist.
And talking about moons, we have the USS Luna, a Luna Class Starship, and therefore the first
ship of its class. This is obviously named after Earth’s own moon, which in the 25th century has a
thriving colony on it, with famous Starfleet Officers like Jack Ransom being born there.
This isn’t the only first ship of its class, with the USS Akira also appearing in the fleet,
obviously as an Akira Class Starship. This class of ship was designed by
Starfleet during the height of its concern about the Borg, it was a tactical vessel
built in mind to combat the Borg Threat after the disastrous Battle at Wolf 359.
We recently did a video on these borg combative ships designed by the Federation,
so if you want to learn more head over there, with the link on screen now!
And finally we have the USS Enkidu, a Reliant Class,
with its name being derived from the Epic of Gilgamesh, and probably a sister ship
to the USS Gilgamesh. Enkidu was a rival to king Gilgamesh, who tyrannises his people,
but they become friends and together slay the monster Humbaba. If this sounds familiar,
then it is, as the iconic Trek episode “Darmok '' with it literally being mentioned in the episode,
as Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra is like Gilgamesh and Enkidu at Uruk.
And this literally is the story of that episode, two rivals who become
close friends and slay a beast. What a fitting name for a Federation starship,
and hopefully a legacy this ship goes on to honour, turning rivals into allies.
And that concludes this video talking about the legacy that is the fleet in the second season of
Star Trek: Picard. Many starfleet starships have legacies, whether they be in universe or outside
of the universe in our own history, but shining a light on both, can be very illuminating indeed.
But which of these ships is your favourite and why? Whether it be the new Sagan Class
USS Stargazer for its legacy in universe as the continuation of the Stargazer line,
to any of these ships named after notable myths, legends,
or scientists. Because as always, if you are talking trek, we would love to hear about it!
What was your favourite ship in Picard’s second-season fleet? Let us know in the
comment section below, because if you're talking about Star Trek, then we want to hear about it!
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