Commendation

A commendation was an official award usually given as a formal statement of a heroic or monumental accomplishment.

Captain Janeway put Lieutenant Tom Paris in for a commendation for breaking the transwarp threshold in 2372. 

The Order of the Bat'leth was the highest commendation a Klingon could receive. In 2373, Gul Dukat, added the cover names of Benjamin Sisko, Odo, Worf and Miles O'Brien (undercover as Klingon warriors) to the commendation list as part of an undercover operation to expose a Changeling in the Klingon leadership. 

The Klingon High Council issued a commendation to the entire crew of the after their destruction of a Jem'Hadar starship and subsequent rescue of 35 Klingon warriors stranded in Dominion space in 2373. 

Lieutenant Tuvok noted in his mission report a special commendation for "endurance and bravery" for Neelix after heroic actions he took on a Nezu colony in 2373.