A New Orleans-class Federation starship that joined Admiral Hanson's fleet against the Borg cube in 2367 and was destroyed with almost all the others at Wolf 359.
The USS Kyushu was a New Orleans-class starship of the mid-24th century, one of the forty vessels assembled under Admiral J.P. Hanson to stop a Borg cube on its way to Earth.
The fleet met the cube at Wolf 359 in early 2367 and was annihilated. In The Best of Both Worlds, Part II the Enterprise-D arrives too late and finds only a field of drifting wrecks; Commander Shelby identifies the Kyushu by name along with the Tolstoy and the Melbourne, and the burnt hull bearing its name and registry can be seen on the viewscreen.
The ship is remembered chiefly as one of the handful of casualties of the battle to be named on screen, a reminder of the roughly 11,000 lives lost there.