Dedication Plaque - U.S.S. Warden

Displayed prominently in a position of pride on the bridge of every Starfleet vessel is the ship's dedication plaque. Not only acting as the "birth certificate" for a ship, naming the senior officers involved in designing and building the vessel as well as where and when she was launched, the plaque also contains a motto - a quote or saying that the ship's initial "plank-owner" crew suggest and the captain selects as a reminder of the ship's overarching mission statement. Famous examples include the motto of every Starship Enterprise since Kirk, a paraphrasing of part of a speech by Zefram Cochrane that was replayed at the launching of Earth's first deep-space explorer, Enterprise NX-01: "To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before..."  - or, more recently, that of the U.S.S. Titan: "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination."

For the crew of the Guardian-class cruiser U.S.S. Warden, the motto was a reminder for a crew just coming out of a grinding conflict with the Klingon Empire and unknowingly soon headed for conflicts with the Iconians and the Na'kuhl. Captain Johnathan MacReynolds explained it that he meant it to remind the crew that, even while the Federation attempted to return Starfleet to it's primary standing mission of exploration and discovery, that while that mission never would end, neither would the hazards that could appear from that ever-new frontier.

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