Decommission

A decommission is the term used for the removal of a ship from the service of her governing body. This event usually involves a decommissioning ceremony.

Once decommissioned, a ship remains in mothballs, either awaiting breaking up or a recommission into service.

The decommissioning ceremony is a somber occasion, it has little of the elaborate ceremony of ship commissioning, but carries significant tradition.

Decommissioning ceremonies vary from fleet to fleet. There has been no signifigant information about Starfleet decommissioning ceremonies in canon.

At this time, neither Canon nor Fanon has featured a starship decommissioning, though ships have been decommissioned during many various story arcs.

Notable ships that have been decommissioned

 * Enterprise (NX-01) - 2161 after serving 10 years.


 * Discovery (NX-04) - early 23rd century.


 * USS Tamerlane (NCC-510) - 2272 after serving 28 years.


 * USS Arcturus (NCC-1807) - 2369


 * USS Hathaway - 2264 after serving 68 years.


 * USS Rittenhouse (NCC-3851) - Unknown.


 * USS New Reliant (NCC-39801) - Sometime in the 25th century.


 * USS Westphalen (NCC-15691) - 2370


 * USS Wildfire (NCC-33467) - Sometime before 2375 (Though the Wildfire was later recommissioned and returned to service)


 * USS Ragronok (NCC-74134) - 2377 after serving 5 years.