The Flying Dutchman was a ghost ship in old-Earth folklore, a ship that could never return home, and was doomed to sail the seven seas for eternity.
In the 22nd century several of the MACOs on the starship Columbia (NX-02) nicknamed their ship the flying dutchman in reference to the folktale after Captain Hernandez made the decision to travel at sub-warp speeds using the time dilation effect to get to the planet Erigol. (ST - Destiny novel: Gods of Night)
In 2264, Captain James T. Kirk compared the mysteriously disappearing planet M-155 to the Flying Dutchman. (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky)
Later the nickname was also applied to the USS Enterprise-B by some members of Starfleet, as a reference to the starship's maiden-voyage in which Captain Kirk was believed killed. (TOS novel: The Captain's Daughter)
During Rokan's "interrogation" of John Harriman in 2296, he mentioned the "Flying Dutchman" nickname in an attempt to break Harriman's will. (ST - Enterprise Logs short story: "Shakedown")
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Rikkard Rynders was a Dutch professor of applied sciences from Holland. During the 1960s, he came to the United States where he accepted a teaching position at Vandermeer University. Rynders staged many protests in defiance to armed authoritative figures, particularly military personnel on college campuses. He inspired many students to act in defiance to the known establishment.
At this time, Rikkard also believed he could pierce the barriers of the fourth dimension through astral projection and psychedelic drugs. His lover and assistant Emily Littela Rice helped him to create a device designed to record his neural impulses so that others could witness what Rynders experienced. The experiment met with horrible results, and Rynders' consciousness was thrust into the timestream. Forced to travel the tributaries of his own timeline, Rynders adopted the name the Flying Dutchman. He explored branches of time outside his own lifespan and even witnessed the creation of the Multiverse.
Several decades later, Rynders astral visage began making appearances at Vandermeer University. One of the witnesses, student reporter Bree Daniels, contacted Emily Rice who had since the Dean of Arts and Sciences. Rice told Daniels about her involvement in Rikkard's experiments during the sixties.
Rynders' essence meanwhile managed to make contact with the Firestorm matrix. The core of the Firestorm entity at this time was the former professor Martin Stein, though Stein no longer had any memory of his former life. Rikkard wanted Firestorm to use his powers to alter the past, thus saving him from the experiments that cast him into the timestream. He brought Firestorm back to the 1960s on the day that he performed the experiment. Blocked from re-entering his own body, he needed Firestorm to take possession of his corporeal being to set it free. Firestorm refused, but Rikkard forced him to inhabit his old body.
The Flying Dutchman was the name of a truck that Dutch drove while he was living on Mars, and trying to pay for tuition.[1]
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