Commissioning Day D-1

Tomorrow, the USS Enterprise-D will be commissioned into the fleet. There will be admirals, dignitaries, flags and music. Our crew will report aboard, we will receive our orders, and when the ceremony concludes, we will drift out of our moorings at McKinley Station, and enter open space. From that point onward, we will be the USS Enterprise-D, the sixth Starfleet ship to bear the name, Enterprise.

Upon departure, we will resume the footsteps of our immediate predecessor, the Ambassador-class, USS Enterprise-C, lost 19 years ago while defending the Klingon outpost on Narendra III. For the first time in nearly two decades, there will be an Enterprise in the fleet.

For those who wish to attend the ceremony, the McKinley Station public viewing deck will open at 1100 hours, and the ceremony will begin an hour later. The event will also be broadcast on the Starfleet Commissioning Channel, viewable, in real time, by anyone located on Earth. Video highlights will be sent out to the rest of the Federation aboard the afternoon comship departures, and I will post a written recap from my office in the evening.

Many of us have been looking forward to this day for years.

We're ready, we're eager.... let's do this!

-Lieutenant Sam Archer

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March 9, 2363 -- (Original Devron Timeline // Devron Timeline w/ Temporal War Reset)

(Devron Timeline 3.0 // Devron Prime Timeline)