Olympic Class History
The USS Biko,NCC-50331, was also listed as an Olympic Class vessel. It was a Federation supply ship that was scheduled to rendezvous with the Enterprise-D on stardate 46271 at Deinonychus VII (TNG episode: "A Fistful of Datas". The Biko was named after was named for African civil rights activist Steven Biko who was martyred in 1977.
The next mention of an Olympic Class vessel was in the TNG episode, "All Good Things." In an alternate or anti-time timeline created by Q, Captain Beverly Crusher commands the USS Pasteur,NCC-58928, which was designed to be a mobile hospital. The Pasteur was named for Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), the French chemist who founded the science of modern microbiology, invented the process knows as pasteurization, and developed several vaccines.
We got our first good look an an Olympic class ship in "All Good Things", when the USS Pasteur was commanded by Captain Beverly Picard. At that time I took it to be a completely new future design, but I'm assured by several sources that Olympics are already in service in TNG times. I've made them fairly new designs to explain why they are apparently still front-line ships in the 2390+ timeline of "All Good Things". The idea that the Olympic picked up survivors after Wolf 359 is to explain the discrepancy between "Best of Both Worlds" and "Emissary". The former had the E-D pass through the battle area some hours after the battle with Data reporting no sign of survivors, while the latter showed Commander Sisko and many others escaping in pods or shuttlecraft of some sort. If a regular starship picked up the survivors you'd expect it to have headed off after the Borg; if an unarmed Olympic did the job it would head for the nearest Starbase, leaving the area deserted when the E-D passed by.Type : Medical Vessel Unit Run : NCC 55012 USS Nobel NCC 58928 USS Pasteur (98 others have been built. 80 have been lost in all. The class remains in production) Commissioned : 2366 - present Dimensions : Length : 239 m Beam : 90 m Height : 96 m Decks : 23 Mass : 400,000 metric tons Crew : 360, 1360 evacuation limit Armament : 2 x Type VI phaser arrays, total output 750 TeraWatts Defense Systems : Standard shield system, total capacity 310,500 TeraJoules Standard Duranium/Tritanium Single hull. Standard level Structural Integrity Field Warp Speeds (TNG scale) : Normal Cruise : 6 Maximum Cruise : 8 Maximum Rated : 9 for 12 hours. Strength Indices (Galaxy class = 1,000): Beam Firepower : 15 Torpedo Firepower : - Weapon Range and Accuracy : 200 Shield Strength : 115 Hull Armour : 50 Speed : 792 Combat Manueverability : 6,230 Overall Strength Index : 124 Diplomatic Capability : 3 Expected Hull Life : 100 Refit Cycle : Minor : 1 year Standard : 1 year Major : 25 years Notes : The Olympic class stems from a starfleet requirement issued in 2360 for a new class of medical vessel to replace the ageing Nightingale class. The new ship was to improve on the Nightingales in every respect; it would incorporate a complete Starbase level mobile hospital capable of caring for up to 1,000 patients, compared to the Nightingale's 560. The warp and impulse drives, computer systems, etc. were also to be up to the latest standards. Starfleet chose the Olympic from several proposals in 2363, and construction began on the first of the class in the same year. The ship was launched in November of 2365 and completed its shakedown successfully in 2366. Series production began at once, and sixteen ships have now joined the fleet. The Olympic has proved very successful in service, and is highly popular with its crews. Their early careers where relatively uneventful, although the USS Olympic herself rescued several hundred survivors from the immediate aftermath of the battle against the Borg at Wolf 359. With the Dominion war, the Olympics have seen a great deal of active service, and have been responsible for saving many hundreds of lives.
