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The Conference Broadcast March 9th 1986

On mission date 4042.3, the Endeavour has been recalled to Earth so that the senior crew can be involved in a conference about both the Tellurians and the Rhihannaun. It has rendezvoused with a Vulcanian transport and has beamed on board a Vulcanian delegation headed by the legendary Savek (guest star Anthony Quayle) who was the Vulcanian who initiated first contact with Earth, after the flight of the Phoenix.

Savek is, to the crew’s intense surprise, Mr. Spock's grandfather. Decker is also taken aback by how coldly Savek views his grandson, apparently because Spock chose to devote his life to the Fleet instead of the Navy or Diplomatic service, against Savek's wishes.

The conference is to take place in a secure building at Woomera which is easy to keep secure. However Savek insists on hearing first-hand about the expedition to Tellus from the crew of the Endeavour but not Spock. Savek explains that it is the humans’ impressions that he wishes to discuss not Spock’s as Spocks report is as thorough as he would expect and he believes it without any further explanation.

On arrival at Earth Savek and his delegation beam down to the conference at Woomera as do Decker, Spock and Holmes. Meanwhile, Stein has detected a fast-moving vessel at the extreme edge of sensor range. Soon similar reports are coming in from all Fleet and navy Vessels in the Solar System and from planetary based sensors as well. There seem to be a plethora of small fast moving ships darting in and around the Solar System. Several Navy ships are ordered to intercept and identify.

Meanwhile, at the conference, they are hearing from the Quos (Earl Cameron) that the Klingons have sent scouts into the space controlled by the Rhihannaun but have discovered only wrecked Rhihannaun and Tellurian ships. They reached the Rhihannaun home world but found it completely devoid of life with no evidence that there had ever been any! It was as if the planet had been completely scoured. They discovered a track of scoured worlds that led from an edge of Rhihannaun space that butted onto an area never explored by any member of The Commonwealth nor the Klingons and which headed straight towards Tellus. Eventually the expedition had found some surviving Rhihannaun colonies but they had fired on the Klingons and had refused to communicate.

The Klingons had been unable to make sense of any information that they had found on any of the wrecked ships and had forwarded that information to the Commonwealth. Savek now spoke, the Vulcanians had managed to interpret some of the data that they had received from the Klingons. There were multiple refernces to an absolutely massive energy field which just brushed past the Rhihannaun as if they did not exist and treated any Tellurian ships it met the same way. It appeared that this Energy field paused at planets and afterwards there was just no evidence of there ever having been life on them. (Backing the Klingon evidence). What Savek then says shocks all the delegates at the conference “This has happened before!”

It would appear that millennia ago when the Vulcanians first ventured into space that they had found scoured worlds in a straight line. They had seeded the worlds with Vulcanian life but before they could colonise those worlds that civilisation had destroyed itself in a holocaust. When they had finally climbed back to civilisation and had passed the equivalent crisis they had found the worlds that they had seeded occupied by other races such as the Kllngons and Andorians.

Just then the alarms go off in the conference centre. The Commonwealth defences have been overwhelmed as hundreds of the small scout ships appear in orbit above all outposts. A signal is then received that overwhelms all others. “The situation has become critical it is time that we introduced ourselves”. On all view screens appears a hooded face. A gloved hand reaches up and pushes back the hood. The face revealed is that of Spock!