***you are on the main ramp of the drydock, looking at the Enterprise. You just have been promoted to First Officer and you are here to oversee the repairs. You seem very focused…

Isn’t she a beauty? And what a beauty she will become after we will finish repairs. I am really confident the new warp engines will make this ship faster, better.

New saucer, new warp engines… and, of course, new weapons… New weapons which we will need in order to defend ourselves.

*** you look down, as the floor trembles a bit. The new saucer is towed inside the docks.

Our latest reports came in and it seems whoever attacked the klingons destroyed our outpost near Setlik 4. Our scientists collected some strange materials from the debris. Something we have never seen before. So, God help us.

*** you look again at the ship. You want to smile, but then you become very serious again.

When the time comes, the Enterprise might be the last one standing against this unknown threat.

But until then, ain’t she a beauty?