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Adam T. Kirk is the youngest man to be marketed to the rank of captain in Federation background. His crew consists of a 1st officer who discovers him impetuous; a chief engineer who finds him arrogent; a main medical officer who finds him trifling; and a helmsman who wants a transfer.

But the young crew, which would later become the legendary space explorers, quickly puts aside their distinctions whenever a monstrous starship shows up on their nascent flight path.