Does interesting/weird stuff happen on ships we never hear about?

[martok2112]

There is also a possibility that we may have seen the broken hull of a Constitution in the wreckage at the Battle of Wolf 359 in Best of Both Worlds II, although from what I understand, I don't think any Connies were in service around that time. I could be incorrect on that scpre though.

 

[The Wormhole]

Isn't it part of the lore that James T. Kirk was the only commander of a Constitution class starship to return from his five year mission with both ship and crew largely intact?

That comes from Roddenberry's TMP novelization, but isn't canon. Let's just say that novelization has several ideas in it that haven't quite made their way to Trek canon. Like love instructors...

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Super weird and interesting stuff does happen on other ships as well, it's just that they blow up in the end, which is why it gets shown/mentioned on the show.

Yeah, judging by TOS, other starships also get into to crazy adventures. They just all end with their ships dead in space.
(The Ultimate Computer, The Omega Glory, Tholian Web, The Doomsday Machine.)

 

[Ithekro]

Which just places Enterprise as the lucky ship (much like her World War II namesake). Beat up a lot, got into plenty of trouble, but always came back and always made it home.

 

[SPCTRE]

Super weird and interesting stuff does happen on other ships as well, it's just that they blow up in the end, which is why it gets shown/mentioned on the show.

Yeah, judging by TOS, other starships also get into to crazy adventures. They just all end with their ships dead in space.
(The Ultimate Computer, The Omega Glory, Tholian Web, The Doomsday Machine.)

True. Shit tends to go bad, even if the actual ships don't blow up.

 

[Cyke101]

Not a ship, but I've always wondered just who had to clean up the mess in Starfleet HQ's transporter room in TMP.

"What we got back didn't live long... fortunately.

Wellp, time to get that wood powder that we use to clean up vomit."

 

[Captain Rob]

Link to Metryq's video.

Am I alone in thinking that even this would be awesome?

I think this video is from the day that Mr Sulu discovered the Force.
And is obviously using it to make Captain Kirk sit down.

 

[plynch]

several ideas in it that haven't quite made their way to Trek canon. Like love instructors...

That's in my head canon.

See what I did there?

On topic - every other starship we meet in TOS also has weird stuff happen: attacked by E in wargames, eaten by doomsday machine, finds planet with Yangs and Coms and captain goes native . . .

 

[Kor]

Not a ship, but I've always wondered just who had to clean up the mess in Starfleet HQ's transporter room in TMP.

"What we got back didn't live long... fortunately.

Wellp, time to get that wood powder that we use to clean up vomit."

In real 21st-century life, there are companies that do this kind of "biohazard cleanup". It can take a toll on you to see those things all the time, and people tend to quit those kinds of jobs fairly quickly.

Anyway, Excelsior spend two years cataloging gaseous anomalies. Every time I hear Sulu's voiceover Captain's log at the beginning of TUC, I think Sulu must have done something to make the admiralty mad, if he got command of Starfleet's most advanced ship, but had to to take it out to the middle of nowhere to survey gas for two years.

Kor

 

[T'Girl]

Excelsior spend two years cataloging gaseous anomalies.

I've made the personal assumption that "cataloging gaseous anomalies" is a euphemism for "spying on the Klingons."

 

[Jedi_Master]

If a tree falls in a forest and on one is around - does it make a sound?

I guess we will never know the adventures of the U.S.S. Schrodinger.

 

[Captain Clark Terrell]

I think most of the ships in the fleet have carry out fairly regular assignments keeping both the Federation and Starfleet in operation. That doesn't mean boring necessarily, but not on a "save the Universe" nature. But even with that, there are probably lots of ships that have adventures just as exciting and as important as those of the Enterprise (DS9's Defiant and the Voyager are two immediate examples).

Just because we don't hear about those other great "hero ships" don't mean they don't exist, IMO. I would imagine that on most ships, the exploits of the Enterprise are never mentioned unless it's something relevant to a current mission or something really big like the mission to stop the Xindi superweapon, taking down Nero, or halting the Borg after Wolf 359 (can't really ignore those incidents).

Right. One of the things I like about the new Seekers series is that it features crews from other ships having adventures similar to those of the Enterprise. Some of Kirk and company's exploits are mentioned, but only as tie-ins with the Sagittarius' and the Endeavour's missions. The Enterprise crew is highly respected, but they're treated as colleagues by their peers, not gods.

--Sran

 

[Relayer1]

I guess we will never know the adventures of the U.S.S. Schrodinger.

But we do know that they did, or didn't, make it back...

 

[JirinPanthosa]

Sure interesting stuff happens on other ships.

Just the rules of statistics apply normally on other ships, so they usually end up dead.

 

[Search4]

You must be a Thermian from the Klaatu nebula. I hate to let you down, but these are not "historical documents." It's fictional TV and movies.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2CvCZbqlJg[/yt]​

Nice.

 

[Cyke101]

Not a ship, but I've always wondered just who had to clean up the mess in Starfleet HQ's transporter room in TMP.

"What we got back didn't live long... fortunately.

Wellp, time to get that wood powder that we use to clean up vomit."

In real 21st-century life, there are companies that do this kind of "biohazard cleanup". It can take a toll on you to see those things all the time, and people tend to quit those kinds of jobs fairly quickly.

Oh dear lord, I really hope that those types of transporter malfunctions aren't routine!

 

[F. King Daniel]

We've seen the most interesting and bizarre space stuff happen with all of the crews of the different Enterprises, the Voyager, and DS9 (basically every week).

But for the crews of ships we never hear about, what do you think life in space is like for them? Do you think they run into weird and bizarre stuff nearly as much as, say, the Enterprise does?

Or do you think they mostly just map stars, study nebulae and aid in boring diplomatic stuff with only interesting/weird stuff happening very rarely?

I kinda wonder if Q or some other powerful entity intentionally made it so that the different Enterprises, Voyager, and DS9 would get to see the vast majority of the interesting/weird space stuff so that the viewers at home watching them on TV would be entertained (if you know what I mean).

Read the New Frontier novels - much of the stuff that happens to the crew of the Excalibur makes the adventures of the Enterprise seem positively tame in comparison!

 

[The Wormhole]

Not a ship, but I've always wondered just who had to clean up the mess in Starfleet HQ's transporter room in TMP.

"What we got back didn't live long... fortunately.

Wellp, time to get that wood powder that we use to clean up vomit."

In real 21st-century life, there are companies that do this kind of "biohazard cleanup". It can take a toll on you to see those things all the time, and people tend to quit those kinds of jobs fairly quickly.

Oh dear lord, I really hope that those types of transporter malfunctions aren't routine!

By the 24th century, transporting was considered "the safest way to travel." (TNG Realm of Fear)

Of course, that's the same episode where Barclay is attacked by tai chi slugs within the transporter matter stream.

 

[golddragon71]

From DCs Star Trek (1st series) issue 24 (set between Star Trek III and IV)

 

[Ithekro]

Somehow I'd love to see that story animated.