Following the Borg Invasion of 2381, the Massachusetts was assigned to Vulcan. While there, ship's counselor Kaimi Pumehana helped care for a number of civilian Vulcan patients from a hospital in Vulcana Regar, following the murder of a Vulcan counselor there. Captain Long, distrusting the security situation at the hospital, had Pumehana's new patients transferred up to the Massachusetts during their treatment. (ST novel: A Singular Destiny)