Captain's log, USS Titan

The Captain's log on the USS Titan (NCC-80102) was the method used by the Starfleet commanding officer to record the course of events and circumstances the Federation starship and crew encountered.

Log entrants

 * William T. Riker

2382

 * From the year 2382.

''So far, I have only questions. Has someone else found something significant here just before our arrival, such as the extremely powerful ancient terraforming artifact that our science team suspects may once have been used to create so many life-capable worlds throughout this sector of space? And more importantly, has somebody recently dragged such an artifact away from this system?''
 * Captain's log, stardate 59641.5. : The second "Doornail" we've run across since our return to the Vela OB2 Association - this one located in the system officially designated Vela OB2-396 - has proved to be every bit as dead as the first one, but perhaps a little more habitable. Our close-range scans and surveys turned up two other important differences as well: one is the presence of traces of sentient-manufactured alloys and artifacts in orbit around this dead-yet-likely-artificially-engineered world; and the other is evidence that someone else has visited this place recently. Titan's'' sensors have picked up strong impulse signatures and vestigial warp trails,along with particle emissions consistent with the use of a puwrful tractor beam. Unfortunately, factors such as the local system's intense solar wind and the powerful local planetary magnetic fields have effectively scattered most of these emissions, making it difficult, at best, to determine the heading of these visitors when they left the system.