USS Repulse

The USS Repulse (NCC-2544) was an starship in service to Starfleet from 2357 until its destruction in 2409.

History
The Repulse had a legacy name, previously held by several vessels named that served in the pre-21st century  on Earth. Her unusually low registry number for the 24th century was the result of a clerical error in Starfleet's bureaucracy, producing a gap five registry numbers wide during the initial construction runs of the. As a tribute to the long, distinguished run of the Excelsiors as Starfleet's workhorse, those five numbers were assigned to the last five such vessels ever constructed.

Destruction
On 14 February 2409 the Repulse docked at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards for a scheduled overhaul. On March 2 two dozen Klingon Defense Force Birds-of-Prey launched a bold raid on the shipyard. Captain H'Rori scrambled to get the ship underway and fleeing but her deflector shield generators and one impulse engine were in pieces. The hapless ship, still struggling to detach from drydock, was set upon by two Birds-of-Prey. The IKS fired a salvo of quantum torpedoes, one of which penetrated the drydock's shield and detonated against the hull of the Repulse amidships, obliterating the ship instantly and doing significant damage to the drydock.