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series 3
The Message Broadcast January 13th 1968

On mission date 2756 the Endeavour is at CSS Archimedes a joint Fleet/Navy repair facility where it has been repaired after the damage caused by the Tahlurian ships and its trip to the future. The crew that had journeyed into the future have been extensively interrogated by the DTI including Admirals Pike and Campbell-Foreman (guest stars Christopher Plummer and Peter Cushing) and have been released back for duty (very reluctantly on the DTI’s behalf!).

Spock on returning, along with the other crew members who had been transferred to the Klingon ship M’ouk, is perturbed to find a computer file that could only have been written by him but of which he has absolutely no recollection. On opening it he is stunned to discover a message from his future self which gives the coordinates of the Tahlurian homeworld. The future Commonwealth had only just discovered those coordinates but was in no condition to send any ships. Future Spock hoped that Spock’s Commonwealth could do something with this information.

The DTI is very disturbed on this discovery especially as the Endeavour’s return should have removed that future history and so the recording should not exist. However exist it does and the Navy wants to send a punitive expedition before the Tahlurians become the menace that they did in that future.

A lot of offscreen politicking takes place during which Reynolds is reconciled with his brother (guest star Shane Rimmer).

In the end it is decided to send a taskforce comprising of the Dreadnought CSS Potemkin commanded by Admiral Haus (guest star Oskar Homolka) and the Endeavour and the Klingon ship the M'ouk. The Endeavour will try to initiate contact and negotiations with the Tahlurians. The Potemkin is to ensure that messages get back to the Commonwealth and is to have no contact with the Tahlurians except through the Endeavour.

After extensive preparations the Endeavour, M'ouk and the Potemkin make the jump to the Tahlurian homeworld. They are stunned at first they think that they have just jumped to another jump point within the Sol system. Decker and Quos (guest star Earl Cameron) wonder just how many copies of Earth's Solar System exist in the galaxy! However the comm traffic is VERY different from usual although to their amazement it is in an understandable version of English!

Then they make the discovery that the Tahlurians call their homeworld Tellus and themselves Tellurian. Then the Endeavour, M'ouk and Potemkin are confronted by two Tellurian Ships
To be continued
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