Story:Star Trek: Voyager/The Romulan Incident/Prologue

In orbit around Earth is Earth Space Dock where Federation Starships come in for repairs and maintance or just to resupply, recrew, and Rearm there are several classes of Starships in the Starbase Sovereign, Galaxy, Intrepid, etc. and one Ship is sitting in the Starbase is the USS Voyager a Intrepid-Class Starship design for exploration and tactical missions.

In the Transporter Room Commander Mackenzie is standing in front of the transporter pad as her niece Kelly Martin beams aboard the ship, Kelly looks around and is excited to be Commanding the Intrepid-Class vessel she walks down the steps on the pad and hugs her aunt.

Those four pips look good on you Kelly Sarah says as she looks at her niece.

Kelly looks at her and nods.

Thanks Aunt Sarah I'm proud to get them, after four years at the Academy and field training at DS9 I'm ready for Command of a starship Kelly says as she looks at her aunt Sarah.

They walk through the corridors as officers are working on the bulkheads of the ship replacing damaged relays and conduits.