Starship mission status Starship mission status report s were a computer display available to Starfleet officer s used to brief them on the activities of other Federation starship s and installations . A readout of this nature for various sector s was often displayed on a screen in the observation lounge or bridge of the starship and on the communication relay station Relay Station 47 during the 2360s . " The starship mission status readout was displayed in the observation lounge in an alternate timeframe when Jean - Luc Picard found himself time travel ing to his first mission on the " Enterprise " - D . " ( ) The status readout was displayed on a computer screen on the bridge in 2367 when Data took over the ship . ( ) Background information . The mission status readout was devised by Michael Okuda ' s art department , and featured the registry numbers , classes and assignments of many Federation starships mentioned during TNG ' s run . was one of its many appearances . This display was never clear on screen in the DVD release of TNG , but has been reproduced in other media , and the info within has been adhered to by many later works including the " Star Trek Encyclopedia " as well as the Blu - ray release of TNG . Okuda has noted in this regard in 2000 , " " During TNG and DS9 , I ( or others in my department ) occasionally made up a number of Starfleet operations status charts for use on background computer display screens . One such chart was often seen on one of the large screens in the " Enterprise " - D briefing room during the sixth and seventh season s . Anyway , I populated those display graphics with lists of ships that had ( mostly ) been mentioned in episodes , and added registry numbers and class designations that seemed consistent with whatever we knew about the ship . Those charts were a source of a lot of the info in the " Encyclopedia " . ( For whatever it ' s worth , I have been doing this a lot less of late , simply because the last few seasons of DS9 introduced so many new ships that it became nearly impossible to keep track of them all . ) " " Like similar on - screen graphics used on the sets , these back - lit translites were constructed from black colored molded resin , wood , and plastic components , with a clear acrylic screen that , when back - lit revealed a graphical application which depicts the mission status of multiple Federation starships . They were typically attached to an internal electronics set - up that was powered by twelve 1 . 5V AA - sized battery packs . One of these , , or at least a very similar okudagram , was sold on 25 February 2008 in a " It ' s A Wrap ! sale and auction " on eBay for US $ 4 , 400 . It is essentially the same as the " bridge version " shown above , but corrects the USS " Trieste " from " Yosemite " - class to the " Merced " - class , and does not include the " Victory " and " Zhukov " . A second one , which " did " include the latter two ships , measuring 48×36 inches and originating from Doug Drexler ' s personal collection , was sold as Lot 83 on 8 August 2010 in Propworx ' " The official STAR TREK prop and costume auction " for US $ 840 ( including buyer ' s premium ) , having had an estimate of US $ 600 - $ 800 .