Episode 13: Far From Home

107.  After the Aenar is brought aboard, Captain Aldrin receives a communication from Admiral Hebert in his ready room.

108.  Meanwhile, Dr. McHenry has the EMH examine the Aenar. She’s got some quantum fuckery going on, as well as hypoxia, but the ship has the equipment to treat both and her prognosis is good.

109.  Commander Zodd and Lt. Kykul go to sickbay to check on the patient, and Kykul is ordered to watch the Aenar. McHenry asks to see Prell to check for damage from the telepathic intrusions.

110.  Zodd returns to the bridge and sends Prell to sickbay where he finds Kykul and McHenry playing cards. Prell chastises Kykul, who has a subordinate relieve him and returns to the bridge. McHenry’s scans reveal no damage to Prell from the telepathy.

111.  On his way back from sickbay, Prell catches a glimpse of a telepathic projection of the unconscious Aenar, and reluctantly returns to sickbay to make contact. The two have a brief telepathic conversation during which Prell updates the Aenar, who introduces herself as Talar, on her situation and the status of her crew, and asks her not to distract him with further communications.

112.  Some time later, Talar regains consciousness, and Zodd and Kykul discuss the situation with her, reiterating most of Prell’s conversation. She puts names to the faces in the visions:  The Andorian was called Andy, and the Gorn was named Arku. Talar reveals that they were searching for Andy-the-dead-Andorian’s sister, Vera. Kykul postulates, based on nothing, that Talar’s crew, or Vera, might still be alive but somehow displaced in spacetime or something. Again Kykul has no basis for this, but seems to be trying to give Talar hope that her ill-fated expedition may not have been a total loss.

113.  After finishing his call with Admiral Herbert, an agitated Aldrin returns to the bridge, and, after receiving a brief update regarding Talar, he takes Kykul to his ready room to confront him about the incident during the Nightingales departure from Narendra. Kykul lies to Aldrin, telling him that he simply didn’t want to take the time to stop and identify himself, leaving out Ramerez’s involvement.

114.  Kykul is suspended from duty and confined to quarters for the trip back to Narendra. Ramerez is also confined to quarters, but was never on duty to begin with.

115.  Upon reaching Narendra, Aldrin finds a security team waiting to escort Kykul to the brig. Kykul complies, and is taken into custody. Ramerez is also escorted, by Zodd, to Dr. Joanna McHenry’s lab.

116.  Aldrin is summoned to a meeting with Admiral Herbert and General Kargan. Hebert is, understandably, upset with Aldrin and his crew. She shows him security footage of Kykul’s attack, revealing both Ramerez’s involvement and Kykul’s earlier lie. The two discuss what is to happen to Kykul, and the admiral tells Aldrin that she’ll try to have Kykul tried on Narendra, despite her lack of judiciary personnel. Aldrin visits Kykul in the brig, and, after confronting him about lying to him during their original confrontation, agrees to represent him in the upcoming trial.

117.  Meanwhile, Lt. Commander Prell, after running diagnostics on the Nightingale’s ostensibly malfunctioning transporter, discovers that the cause of the transporter accidents was poor configuration thanks to the incompetence of Excelsior Jones and his brother Flavius Thompson. Prell fixes the issues, and locks both brothers out of the configs. Skeek is surprisingly pleased with Prell, and invites him to engineering.

118.  Three days later, Aldrin is once again summoned to meet with Admiral Herbert, this time without the General present. She informs him that the trial is to take place on Narendra, though Admiral Klein will be presiding. He is due to arrive in about a week. She also informs him that quantum torpedoes will be loaded onto the Nightingale.

119.  Ramerez receives a summons to appear at the trial as a material witness, and McHenry receives a summons to appear as an expert witness. McHenry discovers that Galar will be prosecuting the case, though is unsure why. I think there is someone else McHenry knows who got involved, but I can’t remember.