The SS Botany Bay

The SS Botany Bay is a spaceship in the fictional universe of Star Trek. It is a pre-warp, DY-100 class, cargo vessel modified as a sleeper ship that was in operation during the time of the Eugenics Wars of late 20th century Earth. Botany Bay image from Star Trek This work is copyrighted. ... Botany Bay image from Star Trek This work is copyrighted. ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta probe on 2nd of March, 2004. ... A fictional universe is a cohesive fictional world that serves as the setting or backdrop for one or (more commonly) multiple works of fiction. ... This article is being rewritten at Star Trek/temp. ... The Enterprise-D goes into warp. ... The DY-100 is an interplanetary cargo ship for use within the Solar System. ... A sleeper ship is a type of manned spaceship in which most or all of the crew spends the journey in some form of hibernation or suspended animation. ... The Eugenics Wars are a backstory event in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ...

In 2268 the Starship Enterprise found the Botany Bay damaged and adrift in space. The dictator known as Prince Khan Noonien Singh who is a genetically modified human, and 72 of his surviving followers were found in stasis aboard the ship. Khan was revived and taken aboard the Enterprise for medical examination. Enterprise crew member Lt. Marla McGivers, a specialist on Earth's 20th Century era, became infatuated with Khan, who in her eyes was a living relic from a time of Earth's history she was obsessed with. Khan easily charmed McGivers into helping him escape, and relive his plans of ruling mankind once again. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), following the 2270-2272 refit In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 was the ship in the original NBC TV series Star Trek, which chronicled the vessels most famous assignment, a five-year mission of exploration and dipomacy under... Khan Noonien Singh is a fictional villain in the Star Trek universe. ... In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Lieutenant Marla McGivers was the historian aboard the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), however she rarely had active duties to perform. ...

Later, Khan, with the help of McGivers and several of Khan's revived followers, forcibly took control over the Enterprise in an attempt to steal the ship and kill Captain Kirk. Khan was later defeated and his followers captured, but Captain Kirk agreed to allow Khan and his people to live in exile on the planet Ceti Alpha V, a lush world where Khan could rule over in peace. Instead of standing court-martial for attempted mutiny, Lt. McGivers was allowed to join Khan in exile. James Tiberius Kirk, a fictional character in the Star Trek television series, was the captain of the Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A). ... In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, Ceti Alpha V is the fifth planet in the Ceti Alpha star system, consisting of a Class M, or Earth-like environment. ... A court-martial (plural courts-martial) is a military court that determines punishments for members of the military subject to military law. ... Mutiny is the crime of conspiring to disobey orders that the mutineer is legally obliged to obey, for example by crew members of a ship. ...

This story was the premise behind the second Star Trek movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Paramount Pictures, 1982; see also 1982 in film) is the second feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series. ...

The ship made an appearance in the Star Trek episode "Space Seed." The model of the ship has also been reused several times and seen as background elements in various other Star Trek episodes. The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... Space Seed is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, that was first broadcast on February 2, 1967 and repeated on August 24, 1967. ...

The vessel may have most likely been named after the Australian suburb Botany Bay, the originally intended site for the penal settlement established in Port Jackson and which remained a colloquial term for penal transportation for some time. This etymology was speculated by Kirk and Spock in the actual episode. Botany Bay is a bay in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a few kilometers south of the central business district. ... Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge located on Port Jackson Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney, Australia, also known as Sydney Harbour and is the largest working natural harbour in the world. ...

External links

• SS Botany Bay article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki