Nighthawk

Nighthawk began life in 2000 as Stealth at Paramount's Great America in California, a Vekoma Flying Dutchman prototype marketed as "the world's first true flying coaster" — riders boarded seated, then reclined face-down beneath the track once the train left the station. The prototype's train-mounted electrical box proved unreliable, and by August 2003 the park announced it would remove the ride to make room for a water park expansion.

Rather than scrap the coaster, Paramount trucked it across the country to Carowinds, redesigned the troublesome electronics, and reopened it in March 2004 as BORG Assimilator — the first roller coaster in the world themed to Star Trek. The relocation filled the site of the shuttered Smurf Island children's area, and the ride's 115-foot lift hill and five-inversion flying layout became one of the park's signature attractions under Paramount ownership.

When Cedar Fair bought Carowinds in 2006, it declined to renew the Paramount licensing deal and stripped every movie and TV reference from the park, including Star Trek. For the 2008 season the ride was renamed Nighthawk — a placeholder name with no new theme attached — and it ran that way, repainted yellow and blue, for the rest of its operating life. Nighthawk closed for good after the 2024 season and was later scrapped, ending a 24-year run across two parks and three names.