"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
-- T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"
The maps are incomplete.
Beyond the borders of Federation space lie countless stars that have never been charted, civilizations that have never been encountered, and mysteries that have waited centuries—or millennia—to be discovered.
The USS Eventide was built for a single purpose... to go there.
Commissioned during the Federation's first great age of exploration, Eventide is not a warship searching for enemies or a patrol vessel guarding established frontiers. She is an expeditionary vessel, carrying a crew of Starfleet officers, scientists, scholars, and civilian specialists into regions where no Federation ship has ever traveled. Every mission presents new questions, new discoveries, and the possibility of finding something no one has seen before.
Life aboard Eventide is driven by curiosity. One week the crew may be excavating the ruins of a civilization lost to history; the next they may be establishing first contact with a species unlike any previously encountered or investigating a phenomenon that challenges everything they thought they knew about the universe. The answers are rarely simple, and the greatest challenges often come not from hostile forces, but from the mysteries themselves.
Latest Mission Posts
» A Pilot's Reflective Thoughts
Mission: Outward Trajectory
Posted on Sun Oct 18th, 2026 @ 7:28pm by Lieutenant Sean Hope
Hope's Personal Log. September sixteenth, 2181.
This is the adventure. I just want to fly. No other distractions. No boundaries, nor holding back. Go forward. No turning back.
Sean exhaled, tapping his console. Routine checks. Power flow monitoring. Keeping the lane steady. He looked up, staring at the viewscreen. Stars danced by in silence. Shifting in his seat, he leaned forward stretching his back muscles. His hearing device muted the background noise while keeping the sensor on standby if someone wanted to speak to him directly. So far, no one spoke so he sat in silence. Musing. Thinking. Tapping the…
» Food for Thought
Mission: Outward Trajectory
Posted on Sat Oct 10th, 2026 @ 9:20pm by Lieutenant Tyler Hunt & Dr. Rita Mehta
Rita Mehta entered the mess hall, which was currently filled with Starfleet personnel. Typically she would grab her meal and return back to the quarters she shared with her roommate. But today the doctor decided to change the routine she had developed since arriving on the Eventide. Grabbing a tray and plate, Rita added the food and a drink. Looking around the room, she spotted someone familiar. Lieutenant Hunt who appeared to be sitting alone with his food in front of him but focused on the PADD in his hands.
She walked and stood in front of the table, unnoticed.…
» The Routine Check
Mission: Escape Velocity
Posted on Tue Oct 6th, 2026 @ 10:30pm by Lieutenant Tyler Hunt & Lieutenant Gabriel Calhoun
It was officially down to a little over a week before the Eventide would officially launch. As for the extensive list of things that Tyler had to get done beforehand. He was satisfied that things were on track and that any issues that popped up was quickly resolved. But the one thing on his list of things to do was his initial check up. It was difficult to hold your people accountable when he hadn't gotten it done yet. Stepping into sickbay, he watched the staff working, still trying to get things set up. Among the medical who was unloading…
» Diagnostics, Interrupted, Part II
Mission: Escape Velocity
Posted on Wed Sep 30th, 2026 @ 3:32pm by Captain Percival "Percy" Tapper
Previously...
Percy grinned. "Through personal experience, yes. However, that hardly lends itself to command. I find I must surround myself with people I can trust to solve the more technical issues when it comes to starships, and those are even further afield from simple solutions."
He watched the Denobulan work and still felt a sense of calm around the officer. Despite his messy coif of hair, the Lieutenant seemed efficient in his work and easy to interact with.
'Hmm,' the Denobulan hummed absently as he half-listened to the answer, engrossed in the technical readouts the PADD as he was. 'It's…
» Diagnostics, Interrupted, Part I
Mission: Escape Velocity
Posted on Wed Sep 30th, 2026 @ 3:31pm by Captain Percival "Percy" Tapper & Lieutenant Malax
The final round of propulsion diagnostics has consumed almost all of Percy's morning, which was impressive when one considers that the warp engines were completely static and that Percy himself had simply assumed an observer role.
Commander Kikuchi and his team of engineers had examined and calibrated just about every subsystem throughout Main Engineering. Percy was convinced there hadn't been one component of the engines they hadn't laid their hands upon.
Now into the early hours of the afternoon, Percy had found himself back aboard Cochrane Shipyards and enjoyed a solitary lunch in the vast commissary before wandering down to…