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Reset Broadcast March 16th 1968

The episode starts in the conference room in Woomera. There are now two Spocks in the room. One is the Science Officer of the Endeavour, the other is the hooded and cloaked version seen at the end of the last episode. It is this Spock that is addressing the startled and frightened conference.
He tells them that he is an android from a society called “The Rememberers”. It is their chosen role to record and remember as much as possible that happens in the galaxy. They have been carrying out this task for hundreds of thousands of years.

To the horror of the conference he announces that the energy field is the harbinger of the end of this history! It has reappeared several times since the Rememberers started recording. Each time it heads for a version of Earth scoring planets along its path. When it finds an Earth it sends a signal if it does not receive the expected reply that Earth is scoured and the whole galaxy is reset back by about 10 000 years. As a side effect another Earth also appears in the galaxy! The Rememberers strongly suspect that this had happened even before they were created, in a previous pass of history. It is as if this energy cloud is trying to recreate the Earth from which it originated has become the accepted theory. Only once did history not get reset as the version of Earth that it then visited was then in a preindustrial age and it was as if it knew that the time was not right so history was allowed to continue. It was this pass of the cloud that Savek (Anthony Quayle) had referred to earlier.

However this time it was heading towards Tellus which had reached an appropriate level of industrialisation and history was going to be reset again. The Android Spock tells them that each pass of history follows the same basic path but the details are different. There has been a United Planets, an Association of Planets, a Federation of Planets, once there was a Terran Empire! The time before the reset is longer when the USA was the leader in creating a United Earth which then led the creation of the galactic community. As this time it was the German Empire on Tellus, the Rememberers expect history to be reset quickly.

They had announced themselves to the Commonwealth as they had interacted with the Rememberers before, albeit with certain rogue elements for example on Gemini III and its environs. Android Spock tells them that it is possible to save the records of their history and perhaps even the Commonwealth itself, if enough of their ships are in jump space when history is reset. They can show the Commonwealth how to reengineer their jump engines to achieve that.

Decker gathers his Spock and Holmes and beams back to the Endeavour. Back on board he has a meeting of his command crew. They agree that they have to attempt to stop the Energy Cloud. Scotty and O’Gorman look at the recordings of the cloud and say that they can come up with a way to neutralise it but then it depends on what is creating the cloud. Just as they are preparing to break orbit three people beam on board. One is Admiral Pike (Christopher Plummer) the previous Captain of the Endeavour, one is Quos (Earl Cameron) and the other is the Android Spock.

Pike tells Decker that he suspected what he was going to attempt as he would have done it himself and wanted to offer his help as did the Android Spock. Quos has brought schematics of the Klingon Stealth Device which they will need to evade the Tellurian Navy. Scotty and O’Gorman begin to build a Stealth Device and Decker orders the Endeavour to prepare to jump to the Tellus system.

PS Does anyone know haow to change the date in the title of my last episode from 1986 to 1968?