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series 3
What they found there Broadcast January 27th 1968

Mission date 2822, Decker is haranguing an aide to the Admiral assigned to looking after the Endeavour at the Tellurian Navy Headquarters. He is demanding that Spock and the other non-human members of his crew are returned at once. Decker and Reynolds have been making this demand hourly since they docked at headquarters several hours before. They keep getting the same reply “Visitors are not allowed to step foot on ships docked at headquarters”.

The poor aide gets a respite when Decker is signalled by Holmes who is acting Chief Science Officer in Spock’s absence and Decker hurries back to the Endeavour. Reynolds directs him into the briefing room where he is met by a very worried looking Holmes. Holmes has managed to break the Tellurian Navy’s encryption and has been monitoring messages which have been passing between Headquarters and Tellurian Naval Command on Tellus. He has also managed to access historical records from the Headquarters’ computer system.

He announces that they are in trouble. The Tellurians plan to seize the Endeavour and the Potemkin, seize the jump coordinates of Earth and the other Commonwealth planets from their computer systems and mount an invasion. Their history indeed shows that Tellus had been invaded by Visitors many times but that the Tellurians had defeated all but one invasion before it had succeeded in occupying more than a fraction of the planet. The one invasion that it had not been so successful in defeating had been by the Rhihannaun roughly 100 years before. It had taken them 50 years to defeat them and then another 50 years to recover enough to start hunting the Rhihannaun down.

Their views on Visitors make Hitler, Stalin and Khan look like founts of moderation, continues Holmes, they intend to conquer us, subjugate the Vulcanians, Andorians etc. (whom they will only not exterminate because we trust them) and then attack the Rhihannaun from all sides and destroy them completely. However I have found Spock and the others and we can beam them back without problems. Their shields cannot stop our transporters any more than ours can theirs.

The Endeavour crew prepare to make an escape bid. They wait until a Tellurian ship leaves headquarters and slip out with it. They then beam Spock and the others back from their holding cells and make a run for the jump point. The Tellurians react as quickly as Decker had feared and he is soon under attack from the Vengeance. Its Commander (guest star Andrew Keir) demands their surrender. Decker replies that they will self-destruct before surrender. To his surprise the Vengeance’s bridge crew stand up and salute! Their Commander states that it is a shame that they must be enemies but that they salute a brave foe. Reynolds mutters that they are more like the Klingons than the Klingons!

The Vengeance starts firing on the Endeavour and is joined by another ship. Suddenly the other ship is destroyed and the Vengeance is crippled by phaser blasts and torpedoes that seem to come from nowhere. It’s the M’ouk cries Holmes. The M’ouk suddenly appears as it turns off its stealth device. Quos signals Decker and tells him that the Potemkin managed to defeat the Vindicator but suffered damage and has left the Telllurian system. The Endeavour and the M’ouk make the jump point but not before they get a signal from the Vengeance “We will find you, defeat you and annex you to the Empire”. “In your dreams” replies Decker and they make the jump from the Tellurian system. They take a roundabout journey back to Earth after thoroughly checking their ship for tracking devices.

Decker worries that they will now search through the records that the Rhihannaun occupation force left and find the jump coordinates of Earth and Kh’Onnos. Quos replies that the Klingons will be ready and waiting for them. “As will we” replies Decker “but we now seem to have a war on our hands!”
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