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In 2368, after having their memories temporarily submerged, the senior staff of the USS Enterprise-D read the ship's dedication plaque to figure out the name of the ship. ( TNG: " Conundrum") For I dipt in to the future, far as Human eye could see; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be…" – Alfred Tennyson The following plaque templates have been modified by me and can be used to replicate DS9-VOY-NEM era Dedication Plaques. The names have been taken from the screen used Prometheus Dedication Plaque. I’ve always loved the dedication plaques on Star Trek. After I decided to join an RP fleet in STO, one of the first things I wanted was a dedication plaque for my ship. I searched online and found a few templates, but found them all wanting. They looked too much like drawings, rather than physical objects, and not one of them was of a resolution high enough to avoid looking blurry on Retina displays. Not so with this file, which I think almost looks like it could be a photograph and even remains sharp on higher-resolution displays.IMHO in the era of TOS any civilian or Starfleet spaceship that traveled between stars was a starship in the usual sense of the word, but in the eyes of Starfleet members the word starship was reserved for large powerful ships made for exploring and protecting the far frontiers of the Federation. Not just spaceships or starships but STARSHIPS.

This template can be used to represent any ship built between around 2290 and the present time in STO, which (as of this writing) is either 2410 or 2415, depending on how your roleplaying group rolls. If the Constitution class starships were the first starships to be built they might have been listed as Starship class Starfleet vessels until the next class of starships was introducted, and then they might have been renamed Constitution class starships without changing the plaques on the bridges. During World War II the US Navy had four Iowa class battleships, two North Carolina class battleships, four South Dakota class battleships, three Colorado class battleships, two Tennessee class battleships, three New Mexico class battleships, two Pennsylvania class battleships, and so on. When the script for " The Visitor" describes the state of the USS Defiant in the early 2400s, it notes that the " dedication plaque is probably gone… an exhibit in a museum somewhere."

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The Stargazer dedication plaque was illegible on screen, and according to Doug Drexler, the plaque art had been lost. However, the plaque was found and was used as set decoration in the observation lounge of the USS Stargazer (NCC-82893). A picture of this plaque can be seen in one of Star Trek: Picard production designer Dave Blass tweets tweets (X). Michael Okuda commented, in 2009, on the class name: After earlier being made to wait for quite some time by the Sheliak, Captain Picard took his time answering their hail, inspecting the ship's dedication plaque in 2366. ( TNG: " The Ensigns of Command") A dedication plaque was made for the bridge set of the USS Kelvin in Star Trek. However, due to camera angles and lighting conditions, it was illegible. The plaque was located adjacent to the turbolift. The Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 192) contains a graphic of this plaque, which includes the ship's name, registry number, commissioning stardate of 2225.5 at San Francisco, California, and the motto " All glory comes from daring to begin." The plaque does not include the ship's class. For example there are hundreds of cruise ships operating today, but only three operating ships of the largest class, the Oasis class, and three of the next largest class, the Freedom class.