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historical figures including Abraham Lincoln, Kahless the Enterprise-B, the third Federation starship to bear that name. Unforgettable, and Surak of Vulcan. (“The Savage Curtain” Other Excelsior-class starships have included the Hood [TOS)). SEE: Yarnek. (“Encounter at Farpoint” [TNG]), the Repulse (“The Child" [TNG]), the Intrepid (“Sins of the Father” [TNG]), and the Gorkon Excalibur, U.S.S. Constitution-class Federation starship, Starfleet (“Descent, Part |" [TNG]) registry number NCC-1664, commanded by Captain Harris. The Excalibur was severely damaged and all crew personel killed in Exeter, U.S.S. Federation Constitution-class starship, 2268 during a disastrous war-game drill with the M-5 computer. ~~ Starfleet registry number NCC-1672. Commanded by Captain (“The Ultimate Computer” [TOS]). Ronald Tracey in 2268 when the ship was found orbiting planet Omega IV, its entire crew reduced to dehydrated crystals by an Excalibur, U.S.S. Federa- ancient bacteriological warfare agent from the planet. (“The a tion starship, Ambassador Omega Glory” [TOS]). = class, Starfleet registry | — 1 3 — — —t/ number NCC-26517. The Excalibur i x D __ —— - served in Picard’s armada to blockade I — Romulan supply ships supplying the Duras x = family forces during the Klingon civil war in 2367-2368. During adh > i'n this assignment, Commander William Riker served as its captain Eee — 3 and Commander La Forge was his first officer. (“Redemption, Part BP ilbiremanr § II" [TNG]). The Excalibur was a re-use of the Enterprise-C model. Exeter, U.S.S. Federation starship. Thomas Paris served aboard exceiver. Alien device used by Gary Seven when assigned to the Exeter prior to his stay in the New Zealand Penal Settlement. Earth in 1968. (“Assignment: Earth” [TOS)). (“Non Sequitur” [VGRY]). There was also a Constitution-class Exeter. (“The Omega Glory" [TOS)). Excelsior, U.S.S. The first starship of the Excelsior class, launched js Exo Ill. A barely habitable planet whose sun had been fading for in 2284 with the registry number - a half-million years, once the home of a technically advanced NX-2000. The ship served under the \ humanoid civilization. Exo III's inhabitants moved underground command of Captain Styles as the . as their sun dimmed. In doing so, they fostered a mechanistic, testbed vehicle for the unsuccessful dehumanized society. Eventually, they began to fear the sophistitranswarp drive development project. (Star Trek Ill: The Search cated androids they had built, but by that time the androids had for Spock). SEE: Excelsior-class starship. Under the command become advanced enough to develop the instinct for self-preserof Captain Hikaru Sulu, the ship began a three-year research mis- vation, so they eventually destroyed their makers. Noted archaesion in 2290, cataloging planetary atmospheric anomalies. Upon ologist Roger Korby disappeared there, and two expeditions successful completion of this mission, Sulu and the Excelsior failed to find him prior to the Enterprise rescue mission of 2266. played a key role in the Khitomer peace conference of 2293. Once (“What Are Little Girls Made Of?" [TOS]). the ship was awarded operational status, her registry number was changed to NCC-2000. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). exobiology. The study of alien life. An area of study in which the Just prior to the Khitomer peace conference, Captain Sulu took android Data excelled during his studies at Starfleet Academy. the Excelsior on an unauthorized mission to rescue Captain Kirk (“Encounter at Farpoint, Part I" [TNG]). Wesley Crusher also garand Dr. McCoy. On the way to Qo’'noS, the Excelsior encountered ~~ nered honors in the subject. (“The Host" [TNG]). several Klingon battle cruisers and sustained heavy damage and casualties, prompting Sulu to abort the rescue attempt. Serving Exochemistry. Required class at Starfleet Academy. (“Time's aboard the Excelsior during the Khitomer incident was future Arrow, Part I" [TNG]) Voyager crew member Tuvok. (“Flashback” [VGRY]). The Excelsior helm officer was portrayed by Boris Krutonog in Star Trek VI: The exocomp. Expenmental servomechanism Undiscovered Country and “Flashback” (VGR). In 2370, along with developed by Dr. Farallon for use in hazthe U.S.S. Nobel , the Excelsior took part in a search and rescue ardous engineering applications. The exomission for the U.S.S. Hera. (“Interface” [TNG]). The Excelsiorwas comps incorporated an advanced designed by Bill George and built at ILM. Although this was never ~~ microreplication system, providing the made clear on film, it is generally assumed that the transwarp drive device with the ability to fabricate specialbeing tested in Star Trek Ill was a failure, and that the ship was later ized tools for virtually any task, and ample outfitted with a more conventional warp drive. The Excelsior's onboard intelligence to make realtime bridge control panels and computer readout displays seen in Star repair decisions. The exocomps were later Trek VI tend to support this theory. We assume that the Excelsior found to have a sufficient degree of intellimentioned in “Interface” was the same ship first seen in Star gence to qualify as sentient life-forms. (“The Quality of Life” [TNG]). Trek ll because there is no evidence to suggest otherwise. (By The exocomps, designed by Rick Stembach, were inspired by the contrast, we know that one U.S.S. Intrepid [presumably a character Nammo from the animated s-f series The Dirty Pair. Constitution-class vessel) was destroyed in “The Changeling” (TOS), and that an Excelsior-class Intrepid was Sergey Rozhenko's ~~ exoscalpel. Surgical instrument used by Starfleet medical pership mentioned in “Family” (TNG). There had to be at least one sonnel to incise the skin and expose undertying tissue. (“Ethics" more Intrepid to serve as the prototype for the U.S.S. Voyager.) [TNG]). p——— — —————__ Exosia. To the Nacene civilization of extradimensional sporocys— . tian life-forms, Exosia is a subspace domain. Tanis, an inhabitant ——y of Suspiria's Array, described it as a place of pure thought, pure Se energy, a place of the mind. Suspiria routinely traveled there and sometimes took Ocampa from the Array. (“Cold Fire” [VGR)) Excelsior-class starship. Dubbed “the Great Experiment,” the first Excelsior-class vessel was launched in 2285 as a testbed for ~~ exothermal inversion. A dramatic upheaval in a planet's atmosthe unsuccessful transwarp drive development project. The phere caused by an external energy source. A cascading ship, later refitted with a standard warp drive, became the proto- ~~ exothermal inversion was a real possibility at planet Penthara IV type for the numerous Excelsior-class starships built over the in 2368 if a plan to vaporize large amounts of volcanic dust in the next several decades. Among these ships was the U.S.S. planet's atmosphere failed. (“A Matter of Time" [TNG]).