For other uses, see Columbia.

The USS Columbia (NCC-71102) was a 24th century Federation starship, a Galaxy-class explorer in Starfleet service in the 2360s decade. In the year 2367, the Columbia took part in the Battle of Wolf 359. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")

Service history and disposition[]

The USS Columbia was part of the fleet of 40 ships assembled by Vice Admiral J.P. Hanson to waylay Borg cube 632^[4] at Wolf 359. Hanson's fleet engaged Locutus' cube in battle and hoped to stop it from reaching Earth in Sector 001. Locutus of Borg, the assimilated Starfleet captain Jean-Luc Picard, used his tactical knowledge to decimate the Federation fleet. The Columbia was wrecked and effectively destroyed in the battle. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")

In the 2410s, the Columbia was one of the 31 shipwrecks on display along a docking arm of the Wolf 359 Memorial Station in the Wolf 359 star system. (STO - Both Worlds mission: "Omega Molecule Stabilization")

In 2411, Captain Ezri Dax oversaw a Khitomer Alliance training simulation wherein Alliance starships re-enacted the battle on the holodeck to prepare for combat with the Borg Kingdom from the mirror universe. The Columbia was one of the ships recreated holographically for the operation. (STO - Task Force Operation mission: "Battle of Wolf 359")

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Background information[]

The initial script for the 1990 episode "The Best of Both Worlds" called for Admiral Hanson to hail the Enterprise from a Galaxy-class ship just before dying. In the finalized episode, Hanson's actor instead appeared on the set of a Galaxy-class battle bridge, leaving the circumstances of his flag unclear. It would not be until the 2024 Star Trek Online mission "Battle of Wolf 359" that Hanson's flag was finally depicted from an exterior view as a Galaxy-class ship, the Columbia.

Connections[]

Galaxy-class class XVI explorer/exploration cruiser starships
Federation, Starfleet	early series	Galaxy (I) • Yamato (I) • Enterprise-D • Columbia
	various series / standard configurations	Bolivar • Breedlove • Challenger • Cheyenne • Constitution • Crockett • Dauntless (I) • Dauntless (II) • Excalibur-A • Galaxy (I) • Galaxy (II) • Harriman • Idaho • Intrepid • Lhasa • Madison • Magellan • Marquette • McGinley • Mukaikubo • Musashi • Odyssey (I) • Odyssey (II) • Oraidhe • Phlox • Renown • San Francisco • Sequoia • Syracuse • Trident • Venture • Yamato (I) • Yamato (II) • unnamed Galaxy-class starships
	Dominion War fleets	Agrippa • Asgard • Magellan • Odysseus • Ronald D. Moore • Sorak • Trinculo • Venture • Victory • Yamato (II) • Zhurkov
	command cruiser fleet expansion	Adelaide • Argonaut • Asigara • Bermuda • Blake • Bolzano • Canarias • Cervera • Columbus • De Ruyter • Galicia • Gloucester • Hurutaka • Kinugasa • Lazarev • Makarov • Molotov • Murmansk • Navarra • Ning Hai • Ontario • Renown • Salem • Swiftsure • Sumatra • Tikuma • Trieste • Tyokai • Wichita • Worcester
	post-war 2370s decade fleet expansions	Allegheny • Andromeda • Argo • Berry • Citadel • Dominance • Formidable • Frontier • Geronimo • Goodman • Jubei • Malevolent • Oregon • Pequod • Perseus • Persia • Renown • Reverant • Reverent • Rylander • Scimitar • Taylor • Ulysses • Valhalla • Vindictive
		Bonhomme Richard • C. Lewis • Constellation • Defiance • Eagle • El Dorado • Endeavor • Essex • Excalibur • Exeter • Farragut • Galaxy • Hood • Hornet • Kongo • Krieger • Lafayette • Lexington • Merrimac • Monitor • Odyssey (II) • Republic • Saratoga • Tori • Valiant • Wasp • Yorktown
	First Splinter timeline and other alternate realities	Canterbury • Challenger • Enterprise-D • Excalibur-A • Hedderjin • Jefferies • Magellan • Robinson • Trident • Trinculo • Venture
	variant configurations	Andromeda-subclass: Andromeda • Birmingham • Celestial-subclass: Celestial • Envoy-subclass: Envoy • Galaxy X-subclass • Monarch-subclass: Monarch • Samson (variant) • Ross-subclass: Ross • Vanguard • Yi Sun-Sin • Venture-subclass: Samson (variant) • Venture-A • Venture-B • World Razer-subclass: Brazos • World Razer-D • Yamato-subclass: Madrid
Terran Empire, Starfleet (mirror universes)		Enterprise-D • Galaxy • Venture-subclass: Galaxy • Andromeda-class/Cygnus-class: Pegasus
Confederation of Earth, Corps (alternate timeline)		World Razer-subclass: World Razer		Borg Collective (mirror universe)		Assimilation Target Prime

Ships Named Columbia
United States of America	Columbia (CM-107, Apollo 11's command module) • Columbia (N4A) • Columbia (OV-102, space shuttle)		United Earth (civilian registry)	SS Columbia
United Earth Starfleet	Columbia (NX-02, NX-class) • USS Columbia (NCC-163, Minuteman-class, aka Minuteman)
Federation Starfleet	USS Columbia (NCC-621, Hermes-class) • USS Columbia (NCC-2002, Excelsior-class) • USS Columbia (NCC-2200, Columbia-class) • USS Columbia (Steamrunner-class) • USS Columbia (NCC-97000, Odyssey-class) • USS Columbia (NCC-170147, Galaxy X-class) • see also: Columbia-class
Terran Empire (mirror universes)	SS Columbia (mirror)

Ships at the Battle of Wolf 359
Federation, Starfleet	USS Ahwahnee • USS Anderson • USS Bellerophon • USS Bonestell • USS Buran • USS Chekov • USS Columbia • USS Constance • USS Dunkerque • USS Endeavour • USS Endurance • USS Firebrand • USS Gage (Apollo-class) • USS Gage (ShiKahr-class) • USS Galatea • USS Garrett • USS Gora bim Gral • USS Hoagland • USS Hood • USS Ibn Sina • USS Kadosca • USS Kaneda • USS Konom • USS Kumari • USS Kyushu • USS Liberator • USS Melbourne (Excelsior-class) • USS Melbourne (Nebula-class) • USS Mjolnir • USS Porksauce • USS Princeton • USS Righteous • USS Roosevelt • USS Saratoga • USS Seleya • USS Sha Ka Ree • USS Sonak • USS Star League • USS T'Shen Kovil • USS T'Pau • USS Thy'lek Shran • USS Tolstoy (Centaur-class) • USS Tolstoy (Rigel-class) • USS Victory • USS Yamaguchi • USS Yorktown • unnamed by class: Constitution • Nova
Borg Collective	Cube 632 (Locutus's cube)

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