Stardate 4785.3 was much like any other stardate in the galaxy. Captain James T. Kirk was on the bridge of the starship Enterprise as usual, when nothing happened. Baffled, captain Kirk asked his crew for reports, but one scan of the area confirmed his suspicions: a few kilometers off the starbord bough there was no Klingon vessel decloaking, on port side there was no space-time anomaly causing a rift between parallel dimensions. Ahead there were no unknown objects from alien civilisations, on the subspace radio, there was no prerecorded distress signal - nothing. For captain Kirk and the crew of the starship Enterprise, this was not the start of any dangerous mission, which would under no circumstance have led him accross no neutral zone, never to beam down to a deserted planet, which would, had he not been uninvolved, have led to nothing but the overload of the warp core.
James Kirk sat down on the command chair in the same manner he always did.
Spock: Good morning, captain.
Kirk: Good morning, mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock's keen eyes couldn't help noticing the complete absence of unusual tricorder readings from the captain. Nor did he notice anything unusual that date in the captain's behaviour.
Kirk: Has Scotty installed the new dilithium crystals, mr. Spock?
Spock: Yes, captain.
Kirk: Good.
Kirk presses a button: "Captain's log. If it weren't for the total lack of challenges around us, and our sworn obedience to the prime directive, today, we would have surely contacted a mysterious alien entity, which would have led us to the one place where all star ships go: where noone has gone before."