470) stated that this starship was lost in battle and named for a Native American tribe.
However, and despite never having been firmly confirmed as such by production sources, due to the ship having been salvaged and re-used by Starfleet following that battle, the Ahwahnee was presumed by the fanbase to be the sole surviving vessel to emerge from Wolf 359 out of the forty combatant vessels on the Federation side, though the USS Endeavour (NCC-71805) has since then emerged as the more likely contender for that status. It was stated in the list that the ship was destroyed at the Battle of Wolf 359. The Ahwahnee was clasified as a Cheyenne-class starship in an internal list of starships, dated September 26, 1990. Subsequently, Picard ordered the fleet to proceed to Gamma Eridon at maximum warp, where the fleet would attempt to reestablish the net before the Romulans got there. When the network was disrupted by a high- energy burst released by the Romulans, the net was no longer effective in a radius of ten million kilometers around the USS Sutherland. Identified by its name and registry number, the ship's position in the network was monitored from the Enterprise-D. The ship was one of twenty-three assembled for the fleet and was one of the seventeen chosen for the tachyon network. ( TNG: " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")Īfter being salvaged, by early 2368, the Ahwahnee joined Captain Jean-Luc Picard's fleet that blockaded the Klingon-Romulan border during the Klingon Civil War. The heavily damaged ship was discovered by the USS Enterprise-D after the battle. The Ahwahnee, along with thirty-nine other starships, fought the Borg at the Battle of Wolf 359 on stardate 44002. The USS Ahwahnee (NCC-71620) was a 24th century Federation Cheyenne-class starship operated by Starfleet.