The series follows the voyages of the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), captained by Christopher Pike, during its second five-year mission (2259-2264), which precedes Captain James T. Kirk's five-year mission narrated in the television series Star Trek. The series picks up on stardate 1738.12 (2259), a couple of years after the events that occurred in the second season of the television series Star Trek: Discovery, when Pike temporarily captained the USS Discovery.