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without undoing the dream of the Federation.

Hope!

For myself, I have but one fear:

Destroying the dream of the Federation.

Compared to such a loss,

I DO NOT FEAR THE KLINGON EMPIRE!

It was a good speech.

Until I heard Admiral Ramirez speak,

I had not foreseen the possibility of a peace

between the Federation and the Klingons.

Nor had I foreseen the possibility

that the Federation might win.

The battle-cry of Admiral Ramirez

sweeps across the Federation.

The first goal was to create a class of ship that could

spring Starfleet back into action, back into battle!

We had to leapfrog Klingon technology.

It was called the Ares class.

It was exactly what we needed.

We had over a dozen other worlds working on it.

It was the first pure warship that Starfleet had ever built.

As for Vulcans...,

though we had limited our contribution to propulsion,

environmental and defensive technologies,

there were many who wanted us to end

our participation in the war, altogether.

The Vulcan's going to do, what a Vulcan's going to do.

But the Andorians, they were

happy to supply us the phasers.

Stardate 2244.1, near the planet Signus III.

There will always be,

detractors who think you are taking the initiative

too soon. That you are rushing the offensive.

I disagreed.

The leadership of Admiral Ramirez is a welcome change.

But his grand plan has yet to be tested in battle.

We had the ships,

and we had a core of battle-tested commanders.

it was time to take the initiative.

Well that was Ramirez's first roll of the dice.

and they landed exactly the way we wanted

them to, the way we needed them to.

The codename was Operation Pegasus.

Pegasus was the first test of the Ares class

against the ship it was designed to defeat,

the D6.

The Ares class looked good in simulations, real good.

But data can only take you so far.

The only true test for a combat vessel, is combat.

The new Federation ships were, unexpected.

And then there was Garth. [Laughs]

That mad Izar and son-of-a-b*tch.

That was his day.

Garth likes to play down his

contribution, don't you believe it.

What he did that day, no captain had ever done.

We got lucky!

It was Sonya's maneuver that gave me the opening.

Sonya pulled a feint to starboard.

Garth just went for it.

It was like a Klingon maneuver.

It was a new ship.

they said she was tough, I wanted

to see what she could take.

After the battle of Signus III,

our ship captains started giving the

Federation its due as a worthy adversary.

and for the first time, we took notice of Garth of Izar.

It was a Klingon that gave me that name.

I guess there are a lot worse things,

that a Klingon could call you.

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