"Get the engines running as much as possible! Watch for intruders aboard!"
James T. Kirk stared at the screen before him, his expression grim. They had received a distress call and come here to search for a crashed research vessel and its crew. But they had never expected to be attacked by unidentified objects the moment they arrived. Not only were those formations numerous, but they were also extremely dangerous. After just one exchange, the Enterprise had been riddled with holes by their assault.
Although Captain Kirk wanted the Enterprise to break away immediately, the enemy seemed to have seen through that plan and directly disabled their Warp Engine. Worse still, those bizarre metal fighters pierced into the Enterprise like needles. Soon, fully armed aliens emerged from them and attacked the Enterprise's crew.
Captain Kirk was still directing his subordinates, trying to escape these enemies who had appeared from nowhere. But at that moment, an operator suddenly cried out.
"Captain, another warship has been trapped!"
"Oh?"
Hearing this, Kirk hurriedly turned to look into the distance. Sure enough, he saw a strange, oddly shaped spacecraft suddenly appear. At the same time, the metal fighters spotted their new target and immediately changed course, charging toward it.
Kirk had originally thought the other ship would be skewered into a porcupine by those metal fighters just like his own. Yet to his surprise, the instant the metal fighters approached that strange warship, a pale blue shield suddenly appeared around its exterior, blocking their encirclement.
"What kind of technology is that?"
Kirk's eyes widened at the sight. The Enterprise also had shields, produced by a device known as a deflector. It could generate a deflector field around a starship to protect it from damage. But even the Enterprise did not possess a shield with