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Tomorrow's Endeavour Broadcast January 6th 1968

The programme starts with the scene from the end of the last episode which appears to show the Endeavour disappearing in a flash of white light whilst suffering massive phaser and torpedo strikes. The credits then roll. The scene then shifts to the bridge of the Endeavour which has suffered great damage with bodies strewn everywhere.

There are then people beamed on board. They appear to be Vulcanian and Andorian with one human (guest star Patrick Allen). Their uniform appears to be a black jumpsuit with coloured arms (the colours being similar to the tunic colours of the Endeavour’s crew).

The human approaches Decker who is sat in his chair with blood running down his face and tells him that they are the crew of a Commonwealth Starship and that they have responded to the Endeavour’s distress signal. Decker looks bemused especially when the Vulcanian Doctor (guest star Anthony Nicholls) tells the human that Decker has internal bleeding and should be immediately beamed to the medical centre on the Endeavour! When Decker tries to query this statement the human tells him not to worry. Decker is then beamed off the bridge with the doctor.

An Andorian Engineer (guest star Paul Daneman) scans the navigation console and then turns to the human and tells him that that the damage isn’t as bad as it looked but that they will need to restore life support quickly. The human tells him to do so, the Andorian grins and says only if Scotty and O’Gorman are out of action! Of course the human replies “You served on this ship didn’t you”. The engineer nods and tells damage control team one to meet him in engineering.

Decker is in a medical centre and is looking more bemused. This medical centre is far in advance of any that he has seen before even on Earth. Medical staff are helping his crew on and off medical beds. The Vulcanian Doctor tells Decker that he should rest when the captain of this ship comes into the Medical Centre. It is Spock but he looks 20 years older with some wrinkles and grey hair.

In a briefing room Spock and his Exec, Moran (Patrick Allen) brief Decker, Reynolds, Scott and M’Beke (the senior staff left on the Endeavour) on what has happened. The Endeavour has been pushed 23 years into the future by the concentrated energy released by the Tahlurian phaser and torpedo bombardment of the Endeavour. The Endeavour was reported destroyed and since then the Commonwealth has been fighting a losing war against the Tahlurians with the remnants of the Klingon Empire. Earth was conquered 3 years ago and basically the Commonwealth has been reduced to Vulcanis, Andor and a few of their colony worlds.

However the Endeavour’s appearance has given Spock an idea. The new Endeavour DE 001 has finally discovered a weakness in the Tahlurian ships which even the ships of EE003’s era can exploit. If they are hit by a phaser immediately followed by a torpedo on their engine nacelles then the ships explode because of a negative energy feedback cycle. Spock’s plan involves using the EE003’s warp and jump engines to create a time warp back to their era. He was beginning to plan doing it in his vessel but Spock is much happier to have Decker’s Endeavour carry out the attempt to reduce chronal contamination.

Scotty, O’Gorman and the Andorian engineer, who is now revealed to be Tohrryk get the engines repaired and prepare to make the attempt. As they are doing so a Tahlurian battleship appears and demands their surrender. Spock’s Endeavour heads towards the ship to delay it whilst Decker and his crew make a run for the star to make the attempt to time jump. They make the attempt and end up back just as the bright flare causing them to make the original jump dies down. More by luck they are able to strike both the Tahlurian ships before they realise what has happened and they are both destroyed.

Decker contacts the fleet and as he expects is ordered back to earth to be debriefed by the DTI.

PS Yes this is TTL's version of Yesterday's Enterprise but written from the point of view of the ship going forward rather than the ship in the future. Decker and his crew know that they have changed the future as they have no longer been destroyed but they don't know how the war with the Tahlurians is going to work out.