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306 The Sum of All Our Memories
Horah-Morash, Veltr'a, Quayn, Peterson, and Shar recover consciousness in a runabout, with no idea why they are there. Lyranna is holding a PADD with the file on "Temporal Amentia", a disorder where memories are rolled back and can be recovered by active recall, open. Everyone's memory has been rolled back six months to a year, and the last thing they can remember is traumatic - Petersen's injury at the hands of Felan, Veltr'a's fight in the House Jej'vagh, and the news of Miriana Stadi's death.Investigation shows that the computer systems on the shuttlecraft have been badly damaged. When touched, the reconfigurable panels blank out. Multiply redundant systems, such as life support, have lost roughly half of their mulitple redundancies. A visual check discovers no-one else on the runabout, but a Tholian vessel a few hundred metres astern. While Shar and Veltr'a try to work on the communications device, the crew try to jog each others' memories.
During the conversations that follow, Lyranna and Petersen work through the ups and downs in their working relationship, as Lyranna remembers her old suspicions of Petersen and his alleged role in the psi-supressing attack on Ashok Quayn. And Petersen remembers his suspicions of Ashok.
Communications are fixed enough to send and receive communications from the Tholian ship. But the Tholian ship is only sending a repeated message - "Under article 5.7 of the Treaty of New Lhasa, we require your assistance." Although it does not admit it in plain terms, the Tholian vessel is in distress.
As the memories are recovered, Lyranna and Petersen also remember the time they worked together to defeat the virus engineered to kill telepaths. Lyranna is revisited by the sorrow of losing Ashok Quayn and Kal Orioli. Veltr'a also remembers the resolution to the Gorn Crisis, when the previous, less hostile, Gorn government was reinstated and the occupation lifted without a chance for action. A distress beacon is launched.
Veltr'a, Petersen, and Shar use the now-repaired emergency transporter to beam over to the Tholian ship. They make their way to the bridge, and find four unmoving Tholians, which they surmise to be dead. With difficulty, Shar manages to access the Tholian vessel's logs.
New Lhasa responds to the signal and informs the USS Aire of their situation. They are a rescue mission, responding to a Tholian distress signal. The Tholians were fleeing revolution by the Varex, but pursued by a creature described as a "subspace entity". New Lhasa informs them that the entity is heading for the Aire. The Aire attempts to hail it, without reply. Lyranna senses the mind of the entity. It reminds her of the mind of the Tholian, and is too difficult to understand.
Petersen and Shar suggest communications silence, in case that is drawing the entity, or detonating the warp core into it as a subspace weapon. Communications silence does not deter the creature. Lt. Shar beams back to arrange the detonation. Detonating the warp core kills the creature, but severely damages critical systems on the runabout, including artificial gravity. A courier shuttle heads out to collect the crew before life support gives out.
Once back on New Lhasa, the final reports turn up two pieces of speculation. That the Tholians did not use subspace propulsion, so had no defence against the entity. And that the Tholian internal architecture echoes that of the subterreanean chambers.
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