Prologue/Not abandoning ship

(Earth, John and Paige's apartment, year 2248)

In the living room both John and Kelly are working on a model together of the Enterprise (NX-01) as she's reciting the words of Doctor Cochrane spoke the day of the first warp five vessel departed Earth space.

Where No one has gone before, says Kelly who is at the age of as she's looking at her father.

John smiles at her amazed by how she said it.

Sure, it was the paint brush, but it made the perfect sound of the soft whisk of the Starship's super engine, just the way Kelly who's at the age of 19 heard it in her head, over and over the way her father described it.

You know if Doctor Cochrane was alive still he's be very proud of you for remembering the words John says as he looks at his daughter.

She smiles at him.

I know the whole speech by heart its required at the Academy to graduate Kelly says as she looks at her father.

He looks at her and nods.

Hmm, don't remember that when me and your uncle went there John says as he looks at Kelly.

She then looks at the model their working on.

I heard that the Constitution version of this vessel has been launched already Kelly says as she looks at her parents and Uncle who's visiting his sister.

(Federation Space, sector 798)

The USS Enterprise flies through a nebula cloud badly damaged with plasma venting from the starboard nacelle housing and several hull breaches along the ship's outer hull.