Ware

2152

The "Ware" was there name of a group of automated repair/maintenance facilities that the Earth Starfleet, and later the Federation Starfleet, encountered in the mid-twenty second century. The first encounter was the result of Captain Jonathan Archer's Enterprise being badly damaged by a Romulan minefield which left them unable to exceed warp 1.5 which meant that they were about three months or so from 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 their 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.

Flash Forward(2165)

The Federation Starship USS Pioneer under the command of Captain Malcolm Reed receives an automated distress call from another freighter captain which described her attackers. It sounded eerily familiar to Reed and his XO Commander Mayweather. (More information to be provided at a later date.)