The Battle of Wolf 359 was the Federation's disastrous first fleet action against the Borg. It was part of the Borg invasion of 2367.
In early 2367, (stardate 44002.3), a fleet of forty starships, under the command of Admiral J.P. Hanson, massed at Wolf 359, 7.8 light-years from Earth, in an attempt to halt a Borg cube en route to Earth. Using the knowledge of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who had earlier been assimilated and given the designation "Locutus", the Borg destroyed 39 ships. The one-sided battle cost the Federation over 11,000 lives. (TNG episodes: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II", "The Drumhead"; DS9 episode: "Emissary", plus story Final Entry and comic Second Contact)
See template below for ships known to have been lost in the Battle of Wolf 359, excepting the USS Endeavour (NCC-71805), which survived.
| Ships at the Battle of Wolf 359 | ||
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| 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 |  
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| Borg Collective | Cube 632 (Locutus's cube) | 
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External links
- Battle of Wolf 359 article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- The Wolf 359 Research Project, which identifies and reconstructs ships lost at the Battle of Wolf 359 from production photos, interviews, and analysis of screen captures from "The Best of Both Worlds" and "Emissary", at Ex Astris Scientia.