http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/12/us/navy-launches-largest-destroyer-with-captain-kirk-at-the-helm.html 2016-09-12 14:25:42 Navy Launches Largest Destroyer, With Captain Kirk at the Helm The U.S.S. Zumwalt, a stealth ship that cost about $4.4 billion, is part of a class of destroyer ships focused on sea-to-land attacks. === Who better to handle the The country’s largest destroyer, the 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 The stealth ship cost about $4.4 billion and is operated by a crew of 147 officers and sailors, about half the personnel of other current destroyers. “The three things this crew exemplifies is high level of technical expertise, great teamwork and then the toughness to get done what needs to get done,” Captain Kirk said at a ceremony in Bath, Me., last week before the Zumwalt maneuvered down the Kennebec River to sea. It began a three-month journey to its new home port in San Diego. The Zumwalt class of destroyer ships focuses on sea-to-land attacks and is part of a $ Named in honor of