Star Trek: 10 Things You Didn’t Know About Wolf 359
6. The Ships Not Bashed
Thirty-nine of forty leaves one, though exactly which one is still very much a matter of debate. There are, in fact, two (serious) contenders for 'sole survivor' ship of the Battle of Wolf 359.
Possibility number one is the USS Ahwahnee (registry number may vary), a kit-bash Cheyenne-class made of two Galaxy-class saucers and four marker pens for nacelles. It has been positively identified amongst the graveyard in The Best of Both Worlds, Part II by reference website Ex Astris Scientia.
An internal list of starships for Star Trek: The Next Generation, dated 26 September 1990, made available via trekdocs, gave the Ahwahnee as "destroyed by the Borg at Wolf 359". The third edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia (1999) by Michael and Denise Okuda noted only that the ship was "lost in the battle of Wolf 359". In the interim, however, the Ahwahnee had been visible on screen (in name only on an Okudagram) as part of the tachyon detection grid in Redemption, Part II. The fourth edition of The Star Trek Encyclopedia (2016) changed its entry, noting that the Ahwahnee was "damaged or destroyed by the Borg at the battle of Wolf 359; later salvaged".
Most recently, in 2024, the Wolf 359 Project, a vast fan oral history of the Battle of Wolf 359, included a comprehensive breakdown of the Ahwahnee's participation in, and salvage from, the conflict. It records the Ahwahnee as having been "deployed as part of the Third Wave," adding that, whilst none of the crew survived the battle, the ship itself "was found to be in relatively good condition".
Possibility number two for 'sole survivor' is the USS Endeavour, Nebula-class, also present in the Redemption tachyon grid. Whilst Ex Astris Scientia categorically states that "there is no evidence that the USS Endeavour was at Wolf 359," the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed, notes the opposite:
Captain Amasov [of the Endeavour] faced the Borg in battle at Wolf 359, and his ship was the only one to survive the encounter.
Later, the Encyclopedia qualifies its stance somewhat, and not without some shaky reasoning:
We know that the Endeavour was still around in 2373 because it was part of the armada that met the Borg in Star Trek: First Contact. Nevertheless, Amasov's first-hand experiences with the Borg (from which Janeway read in Scorpion, Part I) had to have been recorded before the Voyager departed from Deep Space 9 in 2371, which was before the Borg battle in Star Trek: First Contact. It therefore seems likely that the Endeavour (and Amasov) were also at Wolf 359 in 2367.
The Wolf 359 Project, on the other hand, gets around the debate rather nicely, stating that the Endeavour was "NOT a part of the battle," but that it did lead the "immediate rescue and recovery efforts".