I know, but the OP wanted to know about Trek Lit.
Battle of Wolf 359 in Trek Lit
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In addition to the list of ships involved in the task force, I was also looking for a short list of Trek literature in which the battle was described, more so I could get a larger tactical picture than that shown in the opening scenes of "Emissary", both the televised episode and the novelization. Stands to reason that it might have been broken down further in print.
Except maybe for the novelization of "Emissary," all I can think of in Trek Lit that pertains to the Battle of Wolf 359 is issue 10 of Marvel's Voyager comic, "Ghosts," in which Voyager encounters a spacetime warp that connects them with the time and place of the battle.
The Righteous in "Star Trek: Borg," at least, was a special case. It was destroyed in the battle, but in the course of the game/audio play, the main character goes back in time and saves the ship. Righteous is then brought ten years into the future to the main character's home date, so history can remain unchanged. I guess, in practice, it ends up being a bit like a cross between the Phoenix mission in "DS9: Millennium to change the past without "changing the past" and NF: Double Time," with a ship apparently being destroyed when it was actually just transported into the future, though I'm pretty sure "Borg" predates both of those.
In any event, at least some of those ships weren't proposed as the implied survivor of the battle. Now that I'm thinking about it, I also remember that the one from Shatner's The Return was mentioned in the context of spotting a Borg ship with the silhouette of a Miranda-class starship, and one of the characters remarking that a Miranda was sighted as simply disappearing at Wolf, not actually exploding, and guessing that it must've been assimilated during the battle and then split off to the Borg's home base.
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Hmm. I think I might actually have that one. Will go check it out.
We have no idea. Could have been all the battle damage. As I said, it's just guessing.
^That entry is partly in error, and self-contradictory. Yes, Mr. Scott's Guide identifies the E-A as the former Ti-Ho; no, it does not mention the Yorktown, not as far as I can find. Why would the same book offer two contradictory origins?
^ I dunno. 
There was also "Program 359," a short story in one issue of Malibu's DS9 run, in which Sisko simulated the battle in a holosuite to reassure himself that there was nothing more he could've done at the time to save his wife.
It's been a long time since I've read it, but that might provide a few more details about the battle itself.
Here's what I've gleaned from Memory Alpha, by ship name and class. Feel free to add to it (and give the source) if you've seen other references in Trek lit. I have not yet checked Memory Beta.
Ahwahnee/Cheyenne, Bellerophon/Nebula, Bonestell/Oberth, Buran/Challenger, Chekov/Springfield, Firebrand/Freedom, Gage/Apollo, Kyushu/New Orleans, Liberator/unknown, Melbourne/Excelsior, Princeton/Niagara, Roosevelt/Excelsior, Saratoga/Miranda, Tolstoy/Rigel, and Yamaguchi/Ambassador. That's 15 confirmed, out of the 40. And we did see an unknown Constitution-refit-class hull in the debris, making it 16.
Mention was made by another poster that the surviving ship may have been the Nebula-class USS Endeavour, as dialogue from the Voyager episode "Scorpion" quotes log entries by a Captain Amasov of the Endeavour, in which he described encountering the Borg at some point before Voyager was transported to the Delta Quadrant in 2370. However, we have no way of knowing if Amasov was commanding Endeavour in the engagement or if he was just another crewmember on another ship that fought the Borg and lived to tell the tale, or whether that encounter was indeed at Wolf 359 or was a completely separate situation. Absent any lit to the contrary, I was thinking that Endeavour was at Wolf 359, took a critical hit that tossed them some distance from the battle area and was not able to return to the engagement until after the Borg had left, whereupon they conducted recovery operations. Someone had to have recovered all of those escape pods and shuttles, beamed people out of crippled ships that still had survivors in them, the whole nine yards, before Enterprise arrived on the scene and pronounced it completely lifeless.
Regarding Trek Lit and related addenda, MA states that Nebula-class wreckage seen onscreen in the debris field was a second USS Melbourne, launched while still under construction.
Per the Shatnerverse novel The Return, the Miranda-class USS Hoagland was also present and destroyed.
Peter David's Vendetta makes mention of a Galaxy-class destroyed at Wolf 359, and MA suggests one was present as Admiral Hanson's flagship as he made his last contact with Enterprise from a Galaxy-class bridge. My thinking, without checking my copy of Vendetta was rather along the lines of Hanson transfered over to the Nebula-class Melbourne prior to the battle for better command-and-control facilities.
The Star Trek:Borg video game mentions the Excelsior-class USS Righteous, as mentioned by another poster, above.
And the video game Star Trek
eep Space Nine-Crossroads Of Time mentions that the Ambassador-class USS Kadosca was destroyed at Wolf 359.
So, adding the Endeavour, Nebula-class Melbourne, Hoagland, the unknown Galaxy-class, Righteous, and Kadosca, that brings the total of known and suspected ships at Wolf 359 to 22.
Any more?
Ahwahnee/Cheyenne, Bellerophon/Nebula, Bonestell/Oberth, Buran/Challenger, Chekov/Springfield, Firebrand/Freedom, Gage/Apollo, Kyushu/New Orleans, Liberator/unknown, Melbourne/Excelsior, Princeton/Niagara, Roosevelt/Excelsior, Saratoga/Miranda, Tolstoy/Rigel, and Yamaguchi/Ambassador. That's 15 confirmed, out of the 40. And we did see an unknown Constitution-refit-class hull in the debris, making it 16.
Mention was made by another poster that the surviving ship may have been the Nebula-class USS Endeavour, as dialogue from the Voyager episode "Scorpion" quotes log entries by a Captain Amasov of the Endeavour, in which he described encountering the Borg at some point before Voyager was transported to the Delta Quadrant in 2370. However, we have no way of knowing if Amasov was commanding Endeavour in the engagement or if he was just another crewmember on another ship that fought the Borg and lived to tell the tale, or whether that encounter was indeed at Wolf 359 or was a completely separate situation. Absent any lit to the contrary, I was thinking that Endeavour was at Wolf 359, took a critical hit that tossed them some distance from the battle area and was not able to return to the engagement until after the Borg had left, whereupon they conducted recovery operations. Someone had to have recovered all of those escape pods and shuttles, beamed people out of crippled ships that still had survivors in them, the whole nine yards, before Enterprise arrived on the scene and pronounced it completely lifeless.
Regarding Trek Lit and related addenda, MA states that Nebula-class wreckage seen onscreen in the debris field was a second USS Melbourne, launched while still under construction.
Per the Shatnerverse novel The Return, the Miranda-class USS Hoagland was also present and destroyed.
Peter David's Vendetta makes mention of a Galaxy-class destroyed at Wolf 359, and MA suggests one was present as Admiral Hanson's flagship as he made his last contact with Enterprise from a Galaxy-class bridge. My thinking, without checking my copy of Vendetta was rather along the lines of Hanson transfered over to the Nebula-class Melbourne prior to the battle for better command-and-control facilities.
The Star Trek:Borg video game mentions the Excelsior-class USS Righteous, as mentioned by another poster, above.
And the video game Star Trek
eep Space Nine-Crossroads Of Time mentions that the Ambassador-class USS Kadosca was destroyed at Wolf 359.So, adding the Endeavour, Nebula-class Melbourne, Hoagland, the unknown Galaxy-class, Righteous, and Kadosca, that brings the total of known and suspected ships at Wolf 359 to 22.
Any more?
Thanks much. I have several issues of that run; will check to see if that story is in one. If you know what issue that was, that would help.
Somewhere I have an old fanfic titled Of Forty Starships, written from the somewhat traumatized perspective of an officer who survived the battle, but lost his (her?) ship and many crewmates. The ship is given the name USS Myrmidon with no registry and said to be Ambassador class, and the protagonist managed to separate the saucer section from the rest of the ship and escape that way. Something along those lines.
USS Hood from the TNG comic Friends and Other Strangers, USS Victory from Starship Creator, a Second McQuarrie from Echoes of Time, a trio of regular Mirandas, the TNG comic Second Contact shows a portion of the battle with two unknown looking ships at the battle, the TNG comic Worst of Both Worlds shows the battle, Laura served on an unknown vessel and she was assimilated during the battle who was shown on Unimatrix Zero.
Has anybody read "Revenant" in the Seven Deadly Sins anthology? Was the Nebula-class U.S.S. Reston in that story involved at Wolf 359 and declared missing after the battle, later to be found by privateers aided by Nicholas Locarno from TNG "First Duty"?
Reston fought at the Battle of Sector 001 from First Contact
Thank you, sir.
Mention had been made of Hood before, but that ship had also appeared in another TNG episode after Wolf 359, so unless that ship was the only survivor, it wouldn't work. I don't know if we saw the Victory again in another episode.
Well, if the Endeavour can be accepted as a survivor, so can the Ahwahnee, the Hood, and the Victory (which fought at Sector 001 according to the same source)
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