USS Repulse The USS " Repulse " ( NCC - 2544 ) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet . In 2364 and 65 , Captain was the commanding officer of the " Repulse " . Medical officer Katherine Pulaski served aboard this vessel before she was transported by shuttlecraft " D ' Alison " ( " Repulse " shuttlecraft 10 ) to her new assignment , the , in 2365 . ( ) Captain Taggert valued Pulaski as an officer , despite her idiosyncratic preference to shuttles instead of matter - energy transportation . Taggert told Captain Picard that there were no recent records of her using a transporter , since over a year previous . ( ) In 2367 , the " Repulse " was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 22036 . The ship was named on the chart " Starfleet Operations - Sectors 21166 - 23079 " on the bridge . ( " okudagram " ) In 2369 , the " Repulse " was on a deep space exploration mission in Sector 22358 . The ship was named on the chart " Starfleet Operations - Sectors 21538 - 23079 " in the " Enterprise " - D observation lounge . ( " okudagram " ) In 2374 , the starship reported numerous casualties to Starfleet Command . The reporting ship ' s name and registry and its casualty list were named on the " Personnel Status Update " chart in the Deep Space 9 wardroom . ( , " okudagram " ) Appendices . Background information . " Repulse " was a reuse of the studio model first built for . " Repulse " was later listed on the mission status chart seen on screens from TNG Season 4 onward . The casualty report seen on " Deep Space Nine " contains many double names of personnel being killed or wounded on multiple ships . It seems more likely that each officer died only once and that the reports were filed multiple times . In this case it was unclear which officers listed under " Repulse " actually served on this vessel . USS " Repulse " was the only established operational " Excelsior " - class vessel still sporting a four digit registry number in the 24th century , suggesting she was a close contemporary of the 23rd century original and thus one of the oldest vessels of the class still in service . Originally , " Repulse " was to be paired with , which had been given the registry number NCC - 2541 in . Apparently the original labeling was forgotten about or ignored later by the production staff and as she was endowed with a new , much higher registry number , leaving " Repulse " the only four digit registered " Excelsior " - class vessel in the 24th century . According to the , " Repulse " was " named for the British that fought in Earth ' s World War II " . In the first edition of the " Encyclopedia " ( p . 274 ) , it was incorrectly stated that she fought in the . The " Repulse " had been sunk by the Japanese Navy off the coast of Malaya nearly six months before on 10 December 1941 . This was only three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor , which marked America ' s entrance into the war . As for the ( with whom she was slated to be paired in fiction ) , she had been sunk in the on 24 May 1941 by the . Apocrypha . USS " Repulse " was the name of a starship that appeared in the game " " . In FASA ' s " " , the " Repulse " was a " Miranda " - class starship with the registry number . The " Excelsior " - class " Repulse " , with and Katherine Pulaski back as CMO , fights the Borg in the novel " Vendetta " .