Chapter 1

The Enterprise, in all its glory, warped through space covering years of distance within minutes. Even after a year of deep space, it zoomed through the universe without a glitch. And the crew of said ship worked as efficiently as the ship itself. The deck was buzzing with activity. But the same could not be said about the Captain James T. Kirk, who lounged on his chair like a king on his throne, staring at nothing. He was deep in thought, reminiscing on all he and his crew, his family, had accomplished through the course of their voyage. But he couldn't help feeling let down. Sure they discovered a new species in a different corner of the universe every now and then, a civilization if they were lucky, but most of the time it was just empty space. And Kirk found that boring.

"ETA 2 minutes Captain!" Checkov reported with his usual Russian enthusiasm.

Dragged back to reality, Kirk straightened and said.

"Shields up. Can never be too careful now can we Mr. Sulu?"

"Aye Captain" The pilot of the Enterprise responded.

The familiar tension that the crew felt every time they reached a new destination, started to build up and those 2 minutes passed in a blink of an eye. Sulu was already counting down.

"3...2...1.."

And the Enterprise was greeted to a sun to their left. This lifted Kirk's spirits.

"Okay people, you know the drill. Prepare th-Ah"

Before Kirk could finish,there was a bright flash of blue and the ship was thrown backward caused by an immense explosion in front of it.

Everything after that, was chaos. The officers were yelling reports, Sulu was maneuvering the ship around the debris and other commanders were reporting damages to the helm.

"Are we under attack?" Asked Kirk.

"No, Captain. I detect a discontinuity in spacetime." Reported the Science officer and best friend, Spock from his station.

"Wormhole?"

"It appears to be the case."

"Sulu get us to a safe distance from this place. And scan for any incoming ships. If any pop up, Uhura get ready to hail them immediately." Ordered Kirk.

With expert steering of Mr. Sulu, they managed to get the ship away from the debris. From their current location they got a clear view of the wormhole, which still kept flushing chunks of gravel and metal out of its mouth. Away from immanent danger, the Enterprise watched as wave after wave, things kepts comming through to their dimension, seemingly out of nowhere and getting pulled towards the Sun to their left. But after a few minutes, the wormhole disappeared just as suddenly as it had appeared, minus the light show.

"System shows no ship in sight Captain." Checkov reported.

"Was this a natural phenomenon?" Asked Kirk.

"The readings do not match any type of wormhole created as a byproduct of any dying star. This was clearly artificially created. Sir, the debris mostly constitutes of Earth based materials." Replied Spock.

Earth?

"Sir, you might want to see this. It looks like a humanoid robot." Said Sulu, magnifying the image of the said black and gold robot.

This keeps getting weirder.

"Looks mostly intact. Beam it onboard to the Engineering." Pressing the com link, the Captain continued " Mr. Scott you have a package. I need you to crack it open and salvage whatever data you can, Dr. Marcus will be there to assist you." Said Kirk, nodding to Carol who immediately made her move to the elevator.

"What package!? And what the hel- oh wow! That's a beautif-" Kirk disconnected link before his Scottish friend could finish exclaiming at a piece of machinery.

Okay. That just happened. Hopefully the robot will give us some answers.

Down in Engineering, Scott had moved the "package" to a better place to study it himself. He couldn't stop marvelling the design. Using gold-titanium was so old school. Ancient even. Components aside, the thing was a beauty. He was so giving it upgrades after he gave Jim all the data it contained

The elevator doors of Engineering opened and Dr. Marcus stepped out and marched to Scott's office. She caught her colleague enthusiastically studying the battered robot. He clearly didn't need her assistance but she supposed Jim wanted the process sped up so he could figure out what just happened.

"Commander" Acknowledged Carol.

"Dr Marcus. Isn't he a beauty?"

Carol couldn't deny that. It was a work of art.

The robot whined and its lights came on making both Carol and Scott jump back in surprise. Then it started to move. Not wanting to get attacked, Carol grabbed Scott and stepped out of the office and immediately put up a force field between them. The robot began to stand with a lot of sparking and twitching but eventually succeeded. Then it let out the most human like groan and swayed but held it's ground and to their utter horror, started to deconstruct. Parts fell on the floor with noisy clangs and within seconds, there was a handsome man with a goatee standing where the robot once stood.