Who better to handle the United States Navy’s new futuristic destroyer than a captain named James A. Kirk?

The country’s largest destroyer, the U.S.S. Zumwalt, deployed from its home at General Dynamics Bath Iron Works in Maine on Wednesday and set sail with the smallest crew in naval history since the 1930s.

While the 610-foot, 15,000-ton warship technologically resembles the Starship Enterprise from the television series “Star Trek” — with a captain’s bridge hemmed by 360 degrees of video monitors and automated weapons, fire and flood control systems — there is no relation.

“Certainly, I have been ribbed every now and then with someone saying, ‘You’re going where no man has gone before on this class of ship,’” Captain Kirk told The Associated Press.