500 years have passed since the USS Enterprise was last seen or heard from after it mysteriously disappeared, both Starfleet and the Federation had disbanded, and the galaxy had fallen into disarray, years of peace and unity between star systems had devolved to war and chaos. Until a young scavenger, living and struggling to survive on a backwater junkpile planet, makes an incredible discovery when he finds the Enterprise itself hidden amongst the mountains of garbage. Fascinated by the various stories of the legendary ship and seeking a new purpose in life free of the state of disarray, he restores the ship to barely full working order with the help of a ragtag crew made of various beings from the furthest reaches of the universe, only for their actions to draw into a conflict with a tyrannical intergalactic warlord.