Captains Log


Captains log, Stardate 43920.6.

The Enterprise has just completed an 8 day retrofit of its long range sensor array at starbase Alpha Sigma. Starfleet command has selected the Enterprise to receive an experimental upgrade of its long range sensor array which is expected to increase sensor resolution by approximately 6% and range by up to 13.72%. We are to test the upgrades in the nearby, yet largely still uncharted, Toisich nebula. What follows should be a fairly straight forward charting mission. I expect little trouble.

As such, since we are well within the protection of Federation space and so close Alpha Sigma, I thought the crew would be well served with a little shore leave. The senior staff will remain aboard, as will the Astrometrics lab and much of engineering to monitor our new equipment. Much of the rest of the crew have chosen to go ashore at Alpha Sigma or retire to their quarters. We will be operating with a skeleton crew for the next 16 days as we chart this unusually large nebula with our new equipment.

On a side note, the crew of the Enterprise has performed admirably of late and I will be recommending several of them for commendation and promotion in my next scheduled report to Starfleet. They have performed with cunning and valor under extraordinary circumstances during our last 3 assignments and I regret not being able to grant leave to all. But, all the same, our current assignment should allow for a more relaxed pace that I'm certain many of them will appreciate.

I, for one, am looking forward to catching up on my Charlemagne.

Picard, out.