Ware

The Ware was the name of a group of automated maintenance/repair facilities that the United Earth Starfleet, and later the Federation Starfleet, encountered in the mid-22nd century.

History and specifications
The first encounter, in the year 2152, was the result of Captain Jonathan Archer's Enterprise being badly damaged by a Romulan minefield, which left the ship unable to exceed warp 1.5. This meant that it would have taken the ship about three months or so to reach Jupiter station. Thanks to a Tellarite freighter captain, they found an automated repair facility which seemed friendly, but Archer was suspicious, saying that "something doesn't smell right". It turned out that he was correct to be suspicious when the cost of the repairs was not just a simple container of warp plasma, but also the body of one of his crew members, Ensign Travis Mayweather. They ended up rescuing him and escaping and destroying the station, but then literally behind the Enterprise's back the repair facility began automatically repairing itself.

In 2165, the Federation starship USS Pioneer (NCC-63), under the command of Captain Malcolm Reed (a former Enterprise crew member), received an automated distress call from another freighter captain, which described her attackers. It sounded eerily familiar to Reed and his XO, fellow former Enterprise crew member Travis Mayweather, now a Lieutenant Commander.