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Cumbria: The final frontier. This appears to be the latest voyage of the Starship Enterprise.
Its mission: To seek out a stricken teenager on a hillside in the Lake District and boldly pluck her to safety.
And, as the captain's log will no doubt record, it was a triumph. With spinning rotors and flashing lights against the night sky mimicking Captain Kirk's spaceship, this Coastguard helicopter was called in by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team to winch up a girl who had fallen, injuring her knee and head.
She is now recovering well. The team leader of Keswick Mountain Rescue Team (MRT) Chris Higgins captured a dramatic shot of the Coastguard's search and rescue helicopter on Saturday night.
With spinning rotors and flashing lights against the night sky mimicking Captain Kirk's spaceship, this Coastguard helicopter was called in by the Keswick Mountain Rescue Team to winch up a girl who had fallen, injuring her knee and head
After sharing a snap of the late-night rescue on Facebook, stunned users flooded the comments section saying they thought they'd spotted the famous fictional spacecraft from Star Trek - joking they needed their eyes tested.
The 55-year-old joked that although 'beaming' people to safety like Scotty would save the team from scrambling to late-night calls, the technology is still some way off.
Chris said: 'It would be fantastic if we had a spaceship that could just beam people up from any trouble in the mountains and transfer them to safety.
'I think that technology is a bit of a way away yet,
