USS Olympia - what a mission!

[T J]

So I'm watching DS9 Sound of her Voice and got curious about the Olympia. Apparently this ship was a Constitution class starship (ala Ent-A). It went on an 8 year mission to go exploring in the beta quad in 2363. I liked how they used the destroyed hull of the Enterprise from ST3 crashed on the planet in that episode.

Mind you this is the year the Galaxy class starships came off the. Sounds like a pretty hard mission for such an old class of ship.

You'd think Starfleet would want to send out a new/stronger ship to explore deep space. The Olympia did last 8 years out there but it sure ended bad... all hands lost.

There also can't be much prestige being assigned to such an old ship... but that's just me.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

I'd think some would find all the more prestige in such a thing.

Also, I lived in Mesa, Arizona for six months a while back. Visited Fiesta Mall every week. Small world, no?

 

[T J]

Indeed, there could be prestige in doing such a long mission in an older ship, doing more with less and that sort of thing.

Ah yes, the Fiesta Mall, nice mall. Hope ya enjoyed it.

 

[captcalhoun]

where'd you get the idea she was a Connie?

i find that hard to believe.

 

[Finn]

Memory Alpha says it was a constitution class TYPE starship judging from the wreckage. But it may be a 24th Century starship that just happens to have a similiar design to TOS movie era Connies, especially since all we were looking at was a wreckage. We don't know what it looked like before it crashed.

 

[Dukhat]

The Olympia filming model was just the destroyed Enterprise saucer from Star Trek III. We don't know what the rest of the ship looked like. It's possible that she performed an emergency saucer separation while the secondary hull exploded in orbit. That secondary hull could have been anything; just look at the myriad of FASA designs where a Connie saucer and nacelles were stuck to all kinds of different hulls.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Yeah, the Olympia could have been a kitbash with some Constitution-class components and some components from other designs.

Personally, I like to think the Olympia may have been away from home for eight years, but it probably periodically returned to a distant starbase for refueling, repairs, whatever. But with space being as big as it is, even some remote starbases may be out of touch with recent events back in the core Federation sectors, IMO. Even with subspace communications, it might take awhile for news to catch up with some distant outposts and ships...

 

[KJbushway]

I actaully read in the star trek book- ships of the line- that the NX-2 columbia was found wrecked on a planet in the gamma quadrant. But anyway the constution class starship has a very distinct hull config. the pointing upward hull.

 

[captcalhoun]

and Olympia crashed in the Beta, what's your point?

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

It's probably a Connie - the FASA bashes are lame anyways, and I doubt all the Connies were retired at once - just because the Ent-A was. Those things have 100-year lifespans, so what about the ones built between 2271 and the Ent-A getting canned?

It's like doing a recall on the 2010 Ford Taurus because somebodys 1989 Taurus broke down.

That, and most of those kitbashes are silly.

 

[KJbushway]

Well there is a good and a bad in the story.
She thought she was going to get picked up, but died. But atleast she talked to people at her last moments.