When he got the order to investigate a rouge Star Fleet call signal, he wasn't really sure what to expect. All he could really do was expect the unexpected and hope for the best, which with the way things usually went for them, was asking quite a lot. The first relief was actually seeing a Star Fleet vessel - or at least one that bore the symbol and an appropriate naming scheme.
The design though - that wasn't anything he had ever seen before. And she had taken a hell of a beating from the looks of it. So that distress beacon wasn't fake, at the least. Through a bit of trail and error, it was determined that their comms were damaged in whatever had happened, so signals and old school coded messages was all they could manage. But it worked.
And after much deliberation and quite a few protests, he chose Spock and Bones to come with him to the ship - which by the looks of it was called Disocvery. Interesting. They could assess the damage better on the ship for who needed what, and if it was a threat. Though his gut told him it was no threat, but he had Sulu at the con, just in case. The man knew how to bluff.
At least the beaming went all right. There was that moment of the world right itself, puzzle pieces slamming back together rapidly, and then - he was inside the Discovery, meeting the faces of the transporter techs, all decidedly human and though the uniform was not what he was used to, the symbol was that of the Fleet.
"My name is Captain James Tiberius Kirk, U.S.S. Enterprise, of the United Federation of Planets. This is my First Officer, Spock, and my CMO Leonard McCoy," he said. "And I believe we were expected."
The Discovery Lands in AOS-verse
The design though - that wasn't anything he had ever seen before. And she had taken a hell of a beating from the looks of it. So that distress beacon wasn't fake, at the least. Through a bit of trail and error, it was determined that their comms were damaged in whatever had happened, so signals and old school coded messages was all they could manage. But it worked.
And after much deliberation and quite a few protests, he chose Spock and Bones to come with him to the ship - which by the looks of it was called Disocvery. Interesting. They could assess the damage better on the ship for who needed what, and if it was a threat. Though his gut told him it was no threat, but he had Sulu at the con, just in case. The man knew how to bluff.
At least the beaming went all right. There was that moment of the world right itself, puzzle pieces slamming back together rapidly, and then - he was inside the Discovery, meeting the faces of the transporter techs, all decidedly human and though the uniform was not what he was used to, the symbol was that of the Fleet.
"My name is Captain James Tiberius Kirk, U.S.S. Enterprise, of the United Federation of Planets. This is my First Officer, Spock, and my CMO Leonard McCoy," he said. "And I believe we were expected."