In Star trek history they have a holiday known as Federation Day. This day is the day the Federation was formed and the constitution drafted. Rik spoke to me about this and I thought it’d be a good thing for an IC celebration. There are three dates which are listed so I chose August 12, the second of the 3 dates. We will hold this in 2 ways, first with the initial opening and some speeches on Friday august 12th. Then on Saturday the 13th there will be an event on IRC starting at 6 pm EST in #Trek-IC then can continue for a few days in #Ten-Forward.
The second way is logging can be going on over trek-sim for those who cannot come on IRC. CO’s, you are encouraged to send any logs your sim may do for that week about the Federation day on your sim and they can be included on trek-sim. If you’d like also do a log summarizing events on your sim and we can post those to trek-ic, which is the division wide universe list. OOC this will all last until 19 august to allow for as many to participate as possible.
We encourage everyone to participate in this where you are able. We’ll even be having the Head of the MACOs and some MACOs performing the Men in Tights song from the Robin Hood movie 
. This is completely open and you are welcome to contact us for joint logs or NPC game booths etc., just have fun with it Below is an article that I found about it that they did for Star Trek Generations but it never made it on screen:
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SOLAR NEWS NETWORK HARD COPY EXTRACT
IT’S FEDERATION DAY!
5 sign new UFP Constitution
SAN FRANCISCO, Earth (SNN) – Declaring it a landmark day in the history of each of their worlds, five envoys today breathed life into the fledgling United Federation of Planets with the signing of the new organization’s Constitution amid much pomp and circumstance.
“We are truly entering a brave new world of peace, exploration and security with the establishment of this Federation, declared Earth ambassador Thomas Vanderbilt, whose remarks were echoed by representatives from Vulcan, Andor, Tellar, and Alpha Centauri.
“Following the end of your world’s war with the unseen Romulan enemy, such a union as we create here today is the most logical course of action any of our peoples can take,” added Ambassador T’Jan of Vulcan.
UESPA Maj. Gen. Georges E. Picard, an aide to Vanderbilt, noted afterward the irony of the conference – which met in exactly the same fashion as the founders of the Earth’s old United Nations, who came together only 215 years earlier in the same city in the aftermath of the horrors of another costly war.*
“What is occurring here today is one sign that some good can come of such a scourge,” Picard noted.
“We defy anyone, even the Romulans, to test our resolve now for collective security,” declared Ambassador Natha Kell of Tellar, while Sarahd of Andor spoke of future greatness for the infant union and predicted rapid expansion. Ambassador Titus Oleet signed for the newly independent Centauri system.
Today’s events were but the ceremonial endgame for the often-tumultuous negotiations, which began in earnest after the defeat of hostile forces at Cheron effectively ended the Romulan War only a little more than a year ago. Even today, some sources reported a later fracas involving the Tellarite Kell and Sarahd.
Although those taking part today waived off revealing many specific details, the five after signing immediately convened the first-ever meeting of the UFP Council long enough to elect Vanderbilt as president, with Sarahd as vice president.
Also, the Council sources unanimously voted to continue meeting in San Francisco, with an all-new building in the design stages near the historic old Presidio fort and Golden Gate Bridge. Council sources predicted at least three months would be needed before the fledgling UFP bureaucracy would be ready for business.
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