Help. Helphelphelp.

So here's the funny thing. Back in... yegads, I was in elementary school (!!) back when I came up with a ReallyCoolIdea and wrote a story about a bunch of people waking up on a distant planet much like our own. I had some kind of silly premise that bang, they were kidnapped by the government while they were in college, frozen in time, then shipped to this distant planet without their knowledge or consent. They just wake up there wondering what happened (like, that must have been a hell of a party!!), they're the last survivors of earth, it was these crazy scientist people who tried to put them on there because Earth was destroyed. I didn't really care about the premise because my point was to write the story about how they founded their civilization. For all it mattered to me at the time, they could have been dropped off in Alaska. (And actually I had a brief variation where these were high schoolers on a plane trip and they crashed in northern Canada... kinda Hatchet and Lord of the Flies mix.)

Fine. Whatever. I was just playing around with the back-story, it had a lot of versions to it, sometimes the scientists came back to tell them it was a cosmic joke, sometimes they were stranded forever, whatever. I didn't actually need the spaceships so sometimes they just "woke up there" in a big field. Sometimes the space ship self-destructed leaving no traces. I was writing for fun, so the logic loopholes didn't matter. I just wanted a bunch of people in the woods, basically, without technology, no hope of rescue. Fine.

Fast forward to now... I am writing now mostly about the descendants of those people, a few hundred years in the future. There are different countries that have formed, expansions have happened, etc. The thing is, I have a fantasy world built around these people, their history, etc.

But considering all that... it's a good old fantasy, but fantasies don't typically start off with spaceships. The two don't mesh, for me. I need the people to be dropped off on a new planet without having volunteered for it. I need some of the people to run off with the earthly knowledge. I need them to have the dynamic of strangers-who-just-met-and-are-the-same-age-and-must-make-society-from-scratch. But.. spaceships? Really? I don't want spaceships. I have dwarves and ghosts and priestesses and elves and a magic mountain and deities. I don't want a freaking space ship too. It throws me off.

Is there any other way that the people could have come to this planet, that is much like earth? From earth? With earthly knowledge but little personal knowledge? (As in, they can read and such and have basically a glorified encyclopedia of humanity's collective wisdom, but they're barely more than kids, none of them are doctors or scientists... they're undergrads.)