Capt. James Kirk has set off on a bold mission to seek out new life, explore strange new worlds and boldly go where no man has gone before – as commander of the U.S. Navy’s most advanced destroyer.

In a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction moment, the Navy has given a man bearing the name of the famed, fictional captain of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise real command of the USS Zumwalt, an advanced, $3 billion dollar, 610-foot destroyer equipped with advanced missiles and stealth technology.