Final Shakedown Deployment

Earlier today, the Enterprise left McKinley Station for its final shakedown deployment before commissioning next month. It will be a short deployment -- we’ll be back in port on Thursday. We’re heading out beyond Pluto, in the outer reaches of the Sol System, to test some of our newest systems, while under our own power. If all goes well, the Enterprise can then spend the next two weeks bringing aboard crew and supplies, we will be commissioned on the 10th of March, and our first assignment could come shortly thereafter.

Right now, we’re still under the command of engineering crews from San Francisco Fleet Yards (in Earth orbit), but we should start seeing our assigned crew once we return to McKinley Station. I’ve even been told that we may find out who our captain will be as early as tomorrow. Rumor has it, he could be Captain Elias Guenther, the former captain of the USS Melbourne (Excelsior-class). We’ll see.

For now, this great Lady is almost ready. Nineteen more days until she becomes an active ship in Starfleet. Nineteen more days until we get to finally go, where no one has gone before.

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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February 19, 2363 -- (Original Devron Timeline // Devron Timeline w/ Temporal War Reset)

(Devron Timeline 3.0 // Devron Prime Timeline)