Category:Captain's Log

The captain's log was an official record of a Federation Starship's journeys, recorded in the voice of the ship's commanding officer, usually her captain. These logs were regularly transmitted to Starfleet Command, in San Francisco, on Earth, along with the Ship's Log, Departmental Logs, and the personal logs (or diaries) of the ship's crew. Eventually, the recordings of logs made their way to Memory Alpha on Pluto, where they were stored for all time. (It is presumed that other libraries exist; Memory Beta was presumably on Vulcan, and Memory Gamma on Andoria.  Thus, duplicates of all the Federations records, literature, and music, were copied and kept in various locations, in order to preserve them for future generations.)  These libraries were able to be accessed via subspace radio; as the years went by, and a starship's logs were declassified, the records became available to all Federation citizens.