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304 Ghol Ndena'ath
Stardate 51749.5After the crippling of the Stephenson by terrorist action, Petersen stays aboard to supervise repairs. Dr. Torrelan stays in, going over medical textbooks and giving herself a hard time. Several others - including Cmdr. Quayne - are recovering in a ward of the Schweitzer Memorial Hospital that Starfleet has taken over.
A probe decloaks, and breams a small 12-sided polyhedron into the Captain's ready room, before exploding. When Sila scans it, it self destructs. Sila deduces it is a communications device. A second self-destructing probe delivers another device.
Petersen uses it to communicate with someone claiming to be from the rumoured Andorian intelligence organisation the Am Tal. The speaker gives him a lead - a sighting of Son'eff Aniri in an Andorian Cafe in Parentha province. Petersen has the probes tracke to a putative launcher in an asteroid's sensor shadow, and orders it left well alone. The kidnapping Andorians become increasingly fraught after the disappearance of Son'eff, and their mood doesn't improve on his return. They explain a little more of his family history - how his late mother described him as Ghol Ndena - the man who brings history, thus giving them the strong impression that he would be the key to uncovering the secrets of Andorian history.
Over the next few days, Petersen's interrogation of the Tioboid smugglers succeeds in getting a description of the purveyor of the chronomoter and public communicator that faked Andorian life signs on the Tioboid. Elsewhere, Marann calls Mariella to tell her not to be too hard on herself, and to tell her that she herself is planning on quitting the Starfleet position. She points out that whereas she had the status of a hired auxiliary, Starfleet's relationship with the civillian forces gives Mariella the status of an exchange officer. Mariella says that she will go where the civillian security forces send her.
Son'eff leaves the Andorians again. Later, two of the Andorians stage an argument in the principal Andorian langague Graalen in Veltra'a's cell to test his claimed ignorance of his homeworld. He passes.
When Lyranna is well enough to return home, Petersen pays her a visit. There are no pictures of Ashok Quayne, and an altar with a picture of her MIA Imzadi, Kal Orioli. She tells Petersen that her unborn child would have been born mentally handicapped because of her beating by the Jem Had'ar, and she had expected to resign from Starfleet to care for it. Petersen was unaware that she had miscarried. He suggests that she might want to go on the stakeout of Son'eff, thinking that it would be better than her sitting in her room dejected. She is appalled at his insensitivity to her grief. He tries to put a comforting arm around her. She is further appalled by his insensitivity and asks to be left alone.
The "Am Tal" spokesman asks to be able take part in, or observe, the rescue attempt. Petersen denies him, aware of the possibility that this was a ruse to get to, and assasinate, Veltr'a. Son'eff is tracked to where he - and his NLS-infected companion - go underground, and their life signs disappear.
In the Andorian bolthole, Son'eff wants to kill Veltr'a, and the Andorian break out into a fight. One of the more sympathetic ones, Phell'nun, approaches Veltr'a with a knife and cuts his bonds. Son'eff's companion, Rimshi, a telekinetically enhanced martial artist, outfights Veltr'a whilst Son'eff himself - with one of the phasers Veltr'a distributed to the population - tries to shoot him. Veltr'a wins the fight by grabbing a phaser from the floor and shooting the martial artist in one smooth action, while Petersen arrives in the nick of time and shoots Son'eff in the back before Son'eff shoots Veltr'a. Veltr'a, in his more brusque style, starts ordering the civillian security personnel to pick up the stunned. "Welcome back", sighs Petersen.
Ghol Ndena'ath means "The man who brings a terrible understanding of history".
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