Launch of the Galileo (March 7, 2015)

As the USS Enterprise is on its way New Paris on Marcus III, it encounters a strange natural phenomenon. Commissioner Ferris wants Kirk to hurry on to New Paris, but Captain Kirk is under orders to study all quasars and quasar-like phenomena and so stops the Enterprise in order to do so. Kirk launches the shuttlecraft Galileo (NCC 1701/7) with Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Boma, Latimer, Gaetano, and yeoman Mears aboard.