plaques

The dedication plaque is a long standing navel tradition where a plaque located on the bridge of a ship gives the details of that ship’s construction. We currently list information on 27 plaques.

The LCARS Computer Network
“…to boldly go where no site has gone before.”

The United Federation of Planets
Starfleet HQ

Deep Space Nine
This dedication plaque was not screen used but was rather a gift given to the cast
and crew of Deep Space Nine for their work during the third season, 1994-1995.
“…to boldly build what no one has built before.”

USS Brattain NCC-21166
“…a three hour tour, a three hour tour.”

USS Dauntless NX-01A
– A simulated Federation Starship encountered by the
Starship Voyager on stardate 51978.2
“Hope is a waking dream.” – Aristotle

USS Defiant NX-74205
“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.” – John Masefield

USS Enterprise CVAN-65, Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
World’s first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, nicknamed The Big E.
There are no other ships in her class.

Enterprise NX-01
“…to boldly go where no man has gone before!”

USS Enterprise NCC-1701

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A
“…to boldly go where no man has gone before.”

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B
“…to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

No Image of Plaque Available

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-C
“…to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D
“…to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E
“…to boldly go where no one has gone before.”

NCC-1701-E Captain’s Yacht: Cousteau
“The future is in the hands of those who explore … and from all the beauty they
discover while crossing perpetually receding frontiers, they develop for nature
and for humankind and infinate love.” – Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau

USS Excelsior NCC-2000
“No matter where you go, there you are.”

No Image of Plaque Available

USS Odyssey NCC-71832
“It’s origin and purpose, still a total mystery.”

Artist’s Rendition

USS Pasteur NCC-58928
“I swear by Apollo the physician, and Aesculapius, and Health
and all the powers of healing…”

No Image of Plaque Available

USS Phoenix NCC-65420
“There will be an answer, let it be.”
(This is also on the USS Sutherland NCC-72015)

USS Prometheus NX-74913
(The Dedication Plaque varies from the actual ship which shows NX-59650)
“All the World’s a stage and all the men and women merely players,
they have their exits and their entrances and one man in his life plays
many parts, his act being seven stages… ” – William Shakespeare

Artist’s Rendition
USS Relativity, NCV-474439-G
“The only reason for time is so everything doesn’t
happen at once.” – E.M. Rauch

USS Sao Paulo NCC-75633
“Give me liberty or give me death…” – Patrick Henry

No Image of Plaque Available

USS Stargazer NCC-2893
“To bring light into the darkness.”

USS Sutherland NCC-72015
“There will be an answer, let it be…”
(This is also on the USS Phoenix NCC-65420)

Artist’s Rendition
USS Tsiolkovsky NCC-53911
“The Earth is the cradle of the mind,
but one cannot remain in the cradle forever.” – Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

USS Valiant NCC-74210
“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained
and new rights to be won.” – John F. Kennedy

USS Voyager NCC-74656
“For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see;
Saw the Vision of the World, and all the wonder that could be…” -Alfred Tennyson

USS Vulcan, AR-5
Although not a Star Trek ship, the USS Vulcan, a veteran of World War II,
easily ranks as one of the U.S. Navy’s most historic repair vessels.