Well the US would like her to pay taxes on all the money she likely hid in the church so I guess everybody is even ? <| sep |> try calling schedule method instead of start . ask on stackoverflow as well . <| sep |> Space is huge . Like really really big and space travel , while the safest it ' s ever been , still isn ' t 100 % safe . From time to time a ship will go missing , a search party goes out and looks around the area it went missing or along it ' s flight path , when they can ' t find it they just give up and claim it missing . The USS Heraalpha . wikia . comwikiUSSHera for example , shortly lost contact with a near by space station before disappearing without a trace . A search was mounted but after awhile they declared it missing presumed destroyed and held a memorial service . As for the centuries old ships those were from an era when the Federation was still in it ' s infancies and people just went off all willynilly to carve out their own part of the galaxy . It ' s not uncommon to find these ships or their remains floating in deep space or wrecked on a planets surface . Heck , from time to time , the decedents of their crews can be found after starting a brand new civilization .