The Current star-date is 2361: Captain Jean-Luc Picard has yet to take command of the Enterprise-D, it's only one year before the Invasion of Naboo and eleven more years before the intergalactic spanning conflict known as the Clone wars has yet to kick off. The Federation-Cardassian War still rages on and starfleet expenses further into wild space, tensions are rising and dark forces work in secret amongst the shadows... Yet this is not the Enterprise's story, Commander Jackson Kretschmer has recently been promoted to the rank of Captain and now awaits for his first Commission to be completed at earth's Space docks, USS Nautilus, NCC-31910, an improved Miranda-Class Heavy Frigate with a eager crew they all now prepare to adventure out into the stars unaware of the events that is about to take Space. the collision of two different worlds is about to take place as the crew of the Nautilus makes an unlikely discovery abroad an unknown pirate vessel; amongst it dark and grimmest holds a wayward alien vistor is found, Zelada ,an Twi'lek slave-girl no older then six years old now finds herself abroad the Nautilus with a new family to call her own and loving father to help guide her through the most dangerous time period in galactic history as Zelada hold an ancient force within her that bring Nautilus crew to blows with an ancient order of monks upon the Far Side of the Galaxy. Space... The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Nautilus. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.