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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

#OnThisDay, 2135: The United Earth Star Fleet Space Academy opened its doors to cadets for the first time, under the leadership of founder and Superintendent Stavros Niarchos VII. It shared its grounds with the UESF HQ on the Marin Peninsula, and would later become UFPSFA's Main Campus in 2161.

United Earth Star Fleet Headquarters, which included the grounds of the Space Academy.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Book One – "2063-2135: Laying The Foundation" — now being written. Stay tuned.

“Guess I’ll have to pick up the slack, huh?”
Zefram Cochrane, 13 April 2063

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

"If we want the best and the brightest of all the Federation to represent us in the Fleet, we cannot simply sit on our hands and expect every member world to send their best and brightest to Earth." — Vice-Admiral Tvarishan Ch'dar, Superintendent of SFA, on the need for satellite campuses (c.2284)

A sketched portrait of Vice-Admiral Tvarishan Ch'dar, an Andorian who served two decades, from 2280 to 2300, as the longest-running superintendent of Starfleet Academy. He is seen wearing the maroon uniform of Starfleet of that particular era.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Over the years, the Elm has become a popular spot on the grounds. It is a place to gather, to study, to reflect on the past -- or in the case of a young cadet named Jean-Luc Picard, it was the perfect canvas on which to carve the initials "A.F.", much to the ire of SFA's Head Groundskeeper, Boothby.

Now-Captain Jean-Luc Picard (left) talking to Boothby (center-right), the El-Aurian groundskeeper of Starfleet Academy's San Francisco Campus.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

The Susquehanna Elm, airlifted from Safe Harbor, PA, is a living memorial to the Hammer Incident of 2135 located north of the Central Gardens of the San Francisco Campus. Sitting in a circular green ringed with benches, the pavers on the path are etched with the names of the victims of the disaster.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Portrait of Stavros Niarchos VII (2095-2187), c. 2135 The seventh in a lineage descended from the Greek petroleum tycoon of the 20th century, Stavros VII was the first Commandant of the Star Fleet Space Academy, the modern SFA's immediate predecessor. While his father ran one of the last bastions—

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

U.N.S.S. Hammer was a Susquehanna-class destroyer built for the United Earth Stellar Navy in 2101. Built in response to an increase in pirate raids against ECS freighters, Susquehannas like Hammer saw frequent action during the Earth-Kzinti Conflicts (2112-2134). (Concept sketches included below)

Sketched concept artwork of a Star Trek-style starship known as a “Susquehanna-class destroyer”. It has a long, straight forward section flanked by torpedo silos, and a broad, squat-postured engineering section toward its aft built around a spherical component housing the warp core which tapers at the back end. Astride that, on two thickly-built wing-like pylons, are two large warp nacelles with red-orange bussard bulbs.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

To top it off, the failure of Handshake engendered a notion within the Vulcans that humans could not be trusted with their own safety and had to be held back. In the words of V'lon, diplomatic attaché to Ambassador Soval: "If they cannot temper their own recklessness, we must temper it ourselves."

A picture from "First Flight", Episode 24 of Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, depicting two Vulcan advisors expressing their displeasure with the results of a human warp-speed test flight.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

While the move was roundly criticized internally, Operation Handshake moved forward regardless. The politicians, blinded by their own ambition, were confident in their plan, and human opinion swayed in their direction. The destruction of the U.N.S.S. Hammer changed all that.

"Artist's Impression" of the explosive destruction of the UNSS Hammer, an old Earth starship, through a catastrophic warp core breach.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Sometimes, the greatest developments are spurred by the worst tragedies. In 2135, the United Earth Star Fleet was formally established through a merger of much of the operational hierarchy of the scientifically-minded UESPA and the defense-oriented United Earth Stellar Navy.

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

From The Bay To The Beyond ("FB2B") will be divided into seven volumes, neatly breaking up the 350-year history of Starfleet Academy and its direct predecessors into digestible chunks. Suffice it to say, there's a lot of ground to cover, but I'll do my darnedest to deliver what I can!

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

For centuries, the Golden Gate has held its doors open to new opportunities. Ever since First Contact, those opportunities have stood among the stars. And from the stars, comes knowledge. "From The Bay To The Beyond" is a 350-year chronicle of the history of Starfleet Academy. Stay tuned, cadets!

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From The Bay To The Beyond @fb2b.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

The Golden Gate has held its doors open to opportunities beyond the horizon. Ever since First Contact, those opportunities have stood among the stars. And from the stars, comes knowledge. "From The Bay To The Beyond" is a 350-year chronicle of the history of Starfleet Academy. Stay tuned, cadets!

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