The fifth ship with that registry? Impossible. The Enterprise was Starfleet's gleaming new flagship, elder only to Khan's. After the Narada incident, she'd barely--

The Narada. Khan's eyes abruptly narrowed. "What is the current stardate?"

Because it was possible. He'd read the classified report, the one that had been buried deep and kept from the press. Vulcan had been destroyed not by a band of renegade Romulans, but a band of Romulans from the future. This situation didn't match - there had been no 'lightning storm' when he'd brought down the Vengeance, but the possibility was there, however remote.