The New Mission Statement of Starfleet

Now that the Dominion War has come to an end, and the Federation-wide recovery is underway, Starfleet Command has updated the official mission statement of Starfleet. It better reflects the new post-war era:

"Space: the final frontier. This is the continuing mission of Starfleet: to defend our home from hostile aggression; to maintain peace and freedom within our Federation borders; to explore strange new worlds; to seek out new life and new civilizations; and to boldly go where no one has gone before."

The war has taught us many things. Moving forward, Starfleet is no longer just an organization focused upon science and space exploration. An active military focus -- on a level never seen before in the Federation -- has become a part of everyday life. It is the hope of all in Starfleet that this continued military deterrence will lower the odds of us ever having to fight another galactic conflict on the scale of the Dominion War.

-Sam