Patrick Stewart's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose, updated from the original to represent an open-ended "mission", and to be gender-neutral:

Normally when a foreign-policy issue involves 20,000 U.S. troops, a $4 billion price tag and an open-ended mission it has all the makings of a great election-year debate.

So he was the sort of man we could send on a long, open-ended mission.

And Western European nations do not appear to have the will to send large numbers of additional forces on an open-ended mission of garrison duty.

But this time security officials said troops would remain in the fields of northeastern Gaza in an open-ended mission to suppress rocket fire.

The message to the American Congress, officials said, is that the United States is not in an open-ended mission with undefinable goals.

I'm not even half way through so I am hoping that there are a few open-ended missions without too many constraints coming up.

This is an open-ended mission.

Mr. Wolfowitz vigorously endorsed the decision in late 1992 to send American troops on an open-ended humanitarian mission in Somalia.

"This is an open-ended mission," Martok said, looking at each of the twelve captains in turn.