USS Polaris

USS Polaris
General Information
Registry	NCC-80001
Class & Type	Odyssey-class
Affiliation	Starfleet
Status	Active
Commissioned	2385
Assignment
Task Force	Task Force 93
Role	Explorer
Key Personnel
Commanding Officer	Fleet Admiral Allison Reyes
Executive Officer	Captain Gérard Devreux
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All we known is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown.

~ William Harvey

While research and development activities are traditionally conducted from starbases and outposts within the Federation’s core territories, not all research occurs within a lab. Sometimes, the greatest discoveries are made amongst the stars. The USS Polaris is the Osiris Initiative’s direct acknowledgement of this, hosting not just a few science officers but an entire specialized, cross-functional agency known as the Advanced Science, Technology and Research Activity (ASTRA) that fuels Starfleet’s innovation engine through exploration of strange new works, interactions and negotiations with alien species, and crisis response to some of the stranger realities on the rim of known space.