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Darker than the Void on VOY. 
In addition, things which would have been named after her as a result of her tragic death might still be, due to her tragic disappearance - the Institute, for instance, would (re)name a building/aquatic theater after her. Her alma mater might grant a marine biology scholarship.
Heck, if any future Trek revisits 21st century San Francisco have the Cetacean Institute renamed the Gillian Taylor Center for Cetacean Studies or something like that. No verbal acknowledgement of who Gillian was, just a sign on the building.
By the 24th century, it could be the site of Starfleet's Cetacean Ops Lab and Learning Center.
goes well with my other "secret tragedies of ST4" theory, which has the crew of the Yorktown suffocating to death. No one wants to serve on a "ghost ship" so they rename her the Enterprise A. Kirk isn't going to be picky.
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There's an idea for a series/episode - a ship with a whole new crew after the old crew died mysteriously. Maybe a few old crew members who, for whatever reason, weren't on the ship that day, assigned to the new crew. A continuing story arc might be investigating, intrigue, cover-ups, etc.
No mystery boxes, thank you.
Or perhaps not. It's impossible to really know.
Perhaps she never created something contributable herself, and she never had children, but she said something to someone else (during, say, a meeting) that gave that other person an important idea (s)he later worked out. You can never know for sure.
A few people vanish without a trace every year. Some of those mysteries are solved, some are never. I guess she'd just be shoved under that category, ultimately.
I sincerely doubt Starfleet would be so cruel as to force survivors of such an incident to serve in the instrument of their colleagues' death.
That's not a setup for a Star Trek series, it's a terrible low-budget Sci-Fi Channel horror movie.
Some might have requested the assignment - to investigate, to process the deaths emotionally, because they know the ship and want to prevent others from a similar fate? The rest are new crew - it's a perfectly good ship otherwise.
Maybe those survivors requested to be assigned so they can find out on their own what happened.
Been done: Babylon 5 Legend of the Rangers.
Not up to the standards, in my opinion of the quality of the writing.
Not up to the standards, in my opinion of the quality of the writing.
This is pretty much the exact premise of the Starship Exeter fan series.
Everyone on the Exeter died, but the ship was in completely good condition. Starfleet decontaminated the ship and assigned a new crew.
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Given how the few Constitution class ships were around at the time, I can see why Starfleet might do that.
Miranda class is obviously greater in number by TNG's time, since Picard destroyed the Lantree instead of letting Starfleet decontaminate it and return her to service.
Miranda class is obviously greater in number by TNG's time, since Picard destroyed the Lantree instead of letting Starfleet decontaminate it and return her to service.
Playing "Would You Rather" with Kirk and Spock is pointless. Kirk would always think of a 3rd/4th/5th, etc. option (Kobayashi Maru) while Spock would calculate the statistical likelihood of being given both choices at the same time to 20 decimal places.
So, what would've happened to Earth's royal families in 24th century Federation? Were they deposed? Did they retreat voluntarily? Are they still nominally in function as figureheads? (In the EU countries, there are still several royal houses, so an overarching unity need not necessarily exclude that).
(We know there's still aristocracy on other worlds, such as Betazed, so to me it's not a foregone conclusion they have been abolished).
(We know there's still aristocracy on other worlds, such as Betazed, so to me it's not a foregone conclusion they have been abolished).
Perhaps they lead colonies on other planets.
What was the first official Star Trek ship mentioned on screen that had the cetacean ops section?
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