Mission Accomplished; Heading Home

The Enterprise has left the Neutral Zone, and is currently heading back to Earth. The commship we sent ahead of us (last weekend) -- with news of our appearance in the Devron System -- won’t arrive at Earth until Monday. As of right now, no one other than the crew of the USS Excalibur, the stations and facilities near where we were along the border, and all of you reading this, know that we have traveled through time and are, very much, alive.

Earth will, of course, know of our survival by the time we get there in eight days, but for now, we’re still dead to most of the Federation. It takes a long time for news to travel through the depths of space.

Onboard the Enterprise, most of the crew is acclimating to their lost memories, as well as their younger age. It hasn’t been easy for us, but we have also been given a new lease on life, and that, in and of itself, can be a blessing. We have lost much, but we also have the opportunity to correct mistakes we’ve made in recent years. We truly have gone “where no one has gone before” – and where no one is likely to ever go again.

As much as I hate to say this, we are all going to be in the science books with this mission.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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May 18, 2364 -- (Original Devron Timeline)