Editing STA-A Badge of Gold (section)

==Setting==
It is the year 2270, Stardate 6059 (about a year prior to the events as seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. It is a time of change within Star Fleet: new technologies are being introduced, new uniforms are slowly filtering out into the rank and file. The Fleet itself is growing and expanding quickly, equally quickly, ships are rotating through the various dockyards gaining upgrades and improvements, and the consequence of this is that the rest of the fleet is being spread perhaps more thinly than what could be considered prudent.

Nevertheless, this is the situation as we find it. Smaller ships doing the job of much larger vessels; task forces are being split apart to ensure fleet coverage where needed, and more junior officers are finding themselves on the proverbial edge of the sword, conducting necessary and needed diplomacy, and here needed, providing the defensive force where necessary throughout the Federation Borders.