The SS Mariposa (NAR-7678), was a DY-500 class colony ship launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Earth on 27 November 2123. The vessel took its name from the Spanish word for butterfly. (ST website : StarTrek.com)
Service history and disposition[]
The Mariposa was commanded by Captain Walter Granger, and carried two groups of colonists to settle planets in the Ficus Sector: a group of Irish Neo-Transcendentalists, who established a low-tech colony on the planet Bringloid V, and a group of scientists, who settled on a planet half a light year away dubbed Mariposa.
Tragically, the hull of the Mariposa was breached during planetary descent, and only five of the original colonists survived. Those survivors used cloning technology to build the society of the Mariposa colony. (TNG episode: "Up the Long Ladder") A memorial to the 289 casualties of the Mariposa was created within one of the survivors' early shelters, and was preserved into the 24th century. (SCE eBook: Out of the Cocoon)
Daniel Okagawa read about the loss of the Mariposa as a young boy, along with stories of other famed lost vessels. (SCE eBook: Where Time Stands Still)
- StarTrek.com indicates the vessel may have been "from the old European Hegemony."
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DY series spaceships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DY-100 ships | Botany Bay • Copernicus • Iberville • Lyons Creek • Monticello • Salisbury • San Juan • Santa Maria • Shenandoah • Terrapin • Wacosta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DY-245 ships | Hatteras | DY-430 ships | Urusei Yatsura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DY-500 ships | Conquest • Courageous • Hastings • Heart of the Storm • Hokule'a • Lord Nelson • Malaspina • Mariposa • Sylvania • Tiller • Toledo Sun • Wheeler • Yacona • Yakima | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DY-700 ships | Alerica | DY-732 ships | New Zealand • Yuri Gagarin | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DY-950 ships | Eagle Valley | DY-1200 ships | Velikan |
External links[]
- SS Mariposa article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.