Survey team
A survey team or survey party was a specialized group sent to survey a planet on a survey mission, often prior to colonization. They took note of geological and biological oddities. ()

A.E. Hodgkin first visited Loracus Prime as part of a science survey mission. ()

In September 2152 Captain Jonathan Archer planned to lead a survey team to the surface of an uninhabited planet but had to abort the mission due to a neutronic storm. ()

In 2369,  compared Jean-Luc Picard, who was on a survey mission, to a Roman centurion patrolling for the Empire. ()

In early 2373, Captain Benjamin Sisko led a survey team from Deep Space 9 to the cormaline-rich Gamma Quadrant planet Torga IV. ()

Deanna Troi told Zefram Cochrane that the Vulcans who made the First Contact with the Humans in Bozeman, Montana in 2063 were on a survey mission and had no interest in Earth, finding it to be too primitive. ()

See also 
 Surveyor
 Engineering team
 Observation team

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