Pots

Short story about authorities and scientists in the far future.
Their civilization has found Voyager and her "Golden Record", and are trying to discover their origin.
First published in 1985, the year before "Star Trek: The Voyage Home".
(Note: In "The Big Book of Science Fiction" (Ann & Jeff Vandermeer, eds), the story is 17 pages long, so that's the page numbers I entered in the details here.)