STARSHIP
SS Botany Bay
Class:	DY-100
Affiliation:	Augments led by Khan Noonien Singh
Launched:	1996
Status:	Unknown

SS Botany Bay was a Terran DY-100 class sleeper ship. The ship was used by Khan Noonien Singh and his followers to escape Earth at the conclusion of the Eugenics Wars, in January 1996.

The ship was developed under top secret conditions by the United States of America in the 1990s. The technology was taken in part from the Ferengi shuttle that belonged to Quark-after it had traveled back in time and crashed on Earth in 1947. Some technology, such as the specifications for the impulse engines, were provided by Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

On January 5, 1996, Shannon O'Donnell and Roberta Lincoln launched the Botany Bay from its secret launch facility into Earth orbit. Roberta instructed O'Donnell to maintain that she was under Ferengi mind control when questioned, and then tranquilized her. On January 11, 1996, Khan and his followers were taken on-board the ship from an orbiting facility. After Khan named the ship, he and 84 of his followers were put into stasis while Gary Seven placed the ship on course for an uninhabited class M world approximately 100 light years from Earth. (TOS novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)

The ship was found adrift, 20 light years from Earth, by the USS Enterprise, in 2267. (ST reference: Star Charts) Khan was the first to be revived when the Botany Bay detected the landing party from Enterprise. Further examinations revealed that 12 of the stasis pods had malfunctioned during the ship's long journey, leaving 42 men and 30 women alive. Khan revived the remainder of the crew in an attempt to commandeer the Enterprise, but he ultimately failed. (TOS episode: "Space Seed") The personal effects of Khan's people, which were aboard the Botany Bay, were then transferred into Starfleet cargo containers on Ceti Alpha V, the planet where Khan and his followers were sent into exile. (TOS movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan). The Botany Bay itself was left adrift in space after Khan commandeered the Enterprise; its final fate is unknown.

Alternate timelineEdit

In an alternate timeline in which Khan was victorious in the Eugenics Wars, Shannon O'Donnell, Shaun Geoffrey Christopher, Rain Robinson and about 100 of Earth's top scientific minds launched the Botany Bay in November 2010. Their intention was to escape the horrors of Khan's conquests and settle a habitable planet in the Eta Cassiopeiae star system. Unfortunately, the ship went off course and was eventually discovered in June 2376 by Princeps Julian Bashir of the Khanate of Earth starship Defiance. The crew of the Botany Bay would learn that Khan had forced Earth's entire population to undergo genetic engineering and had gone on to create a brutal and despotic interstellar empire known as the Khanate of Earth. (Myriad Universes novel: Seeds of Dissent)

ConnectionsEdit

DY series spaceships
DY-100 ships	Botany Bay • Iberville • Lyons Creek • Monticello • Salisbury • San Juan • Santa Maria • Shenandoah • 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 • Toledo Sun • Yacona • Yakima
DY-700 ships	Alerica	DY-732 ships	New Zealand • Yuri Gagarin
DY-950 ships	Eagle Valley	DY-1200 ships	Velikan

External linkEdit

• SS Botany Bay article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.