This is an exploration vessel, not a battleship, remember?

Ships, even exploration vessels like theGranite , didn't land in moving water if they could avoid it.

They are exploration vessels that are often required to explore dangerous and unknown territory.

We're a scientific exploration vessel, not a warship.

Nayfack was addicted to the popular press and had seen enough vids that mentioned the famous exploration vessel.

After all, the Stargazer was a deep-space exploration vessel, its mandate to push out the boundaries of known space.

"The data comes almost entirely from exploration vessels," she said with a dry smile that only those who knew her well would recognize.

"From the design, it looks like a Nova-class exploration vessel," Chakotay said.

Streaker had been built from a modified Snark hunterclass exploration vessel.

The department was very small--Voyager had not been built as an outbound exploration vessel.