![]() Science Officer Masada reports the fourth planet seems to be breaking up. Exceptionally heavy subspace interference still prevents our contacting Starfleet to inform them of the destroyed solar systems we have encountered. McCoy gives him an injection with his hypospray and he starts to come around, eventually recognizing Kirk.Īs he begins to recover, Scott plays back Decker's log: There, Kirk finds Commodore Decker, the sole survivor aboard, in a fugue state. When Scott, after giving his report on the condition of the engines to Kirk, suggests that they might play back the tapes of the captain's log, they proceed to the auxiliary control room. Wondering if the crew might have beamed down to one of the remaining planets, Spock (on the Enterprise) informs Kirk that the planets could not possibly sustain Human life: the inner planet having a surface temperature close to the melting point of lead and the second's atmosphere is simply too toxic to support Human life. Kirk and McCoy, examining the rest of the ship, find no signs of the crew and no bodies. The Constellation has clearly fought a pitched battle and lost. Scott and his team examine the engine room and find the warp engines totally destroyed, the impulse engines heavily damaged, and the phaser banks completely exhausted. The landing party beams aboard a corridor on the Constellation and begins investigating. ![]() He intends to board the Constellation, and leaves Spock in command of the Enterprise. McCoy, Montgomery Scott, and a damage control party to the transporter room. There are no other ships detected in the area, however, and Kirk orders the ship's status dropped to yellow alert. Subspace interference is preventing further sensor readings, as well as any communications beyond the distress signal. All of its power plants are dead, and the bridge is uninhabitable. Sensor scans show the Constellation to be running with minimal life support, using its reserve energy banks. As there is no apparent natural cause for the planetary destruction and the condition of the Constellation, Captain Kirk assumes that they were attacked and orders the Enterprise to go to red alert. In L-374, the Enterprise also finds her sister ship, the USS Constellation, commanded by Commodore Matt Decker, now a powerless wreck, drifting and apparently abandoned. All of the systems in the sector have been destroyed except for the two inner planets in L-374. Proceeding to system L-374, they find the same thing: debris where there were once healthy planets the previous year. The Enterprise enters system L-370 and finds that all seven planets in the system have been destroyed, smashed to rubble. At the same time, the Enterprise also encounters heavy subspace interference, which prevents the crew from reporting their discoveries to Starfleet Command. It is apparently a starship's disaster beacon, but Palmer is unable to make out any words aside from "Constellation". ![]() On the USS Enterprise, Lieutenant Palmer receives a faint and garbled distress signal. ![]()
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