Most of the Changed are caught in this new weapon, though several security officers are as well, and Nimur escapes. Sensing the danger, the Preserver obelisk sends out drones that combat the Changed, imprisoning them in a petrified shell that holds them in indefinite stasis. Those newly Changed can be brought down with enough firepower, though Nimur proves to be beyond such weapons. Nimur’s party attacks the combined Starfleet/Tomol group. The Starfleet personnel still on the surface meet with Kerlo and Tormog. He evacuates her to the Endeavour and conducts more medical tests on the Tomol genome. Anthony Leone leads another team to the Tomol village, where he meets Seta and deduces that she’s likely in danger from attack by the Changed, as she holds the key to combating them. Science officer Lt Commander Stephen Klisiewicz compares his scans of the Tomol to his secret and illicit copy of the Operation Vanguard database, gifted by the late Ming Xiong, and finds that the Shedai’s genetic alterations to Tomol DNA are irrelevant to the Change. They become aware of the nearby Sagittarius and intend to find and use the ship to escape their world.Īn Endeavour landing party beams to the surface to help the Sagittarius crew repair their ship. Upon awakening, Nimur heals her injuries by thought alone and conscripts more Tomol, including her foster sister Kintaren, into the ranks of her Changed army. Captain Kang is angered by the assault on his sister ship and attacks the Endeavour himself, though the Voh’tahk sustains more damage than the starship and withdraws to make repairs. The bird-of-prey is reduced to slag, the Changed Wardens are killed, but Nimur, though wounded, survives. Captain Terrell advises Captain Atish Khatami to obliterate the debris of the crashed IKS HomghorĪlong with any of the dangerously Changed Tomol in the vicinity. The crews of the USS Endeavour and the IKS Voh’tahk consider their options following Nimur’s decree that they withdraw from her territory, especially with the USS Sagittarius and scientist Tormog still trapped on the surface of Nereus II (known as Arethusa by the inhabitants). Sagittarius -which has crashed on the planet following a fierce battle with the Klingons- Captain Atish Khatami and the crew of the Starship Endeavour must now attempt a rescue mission…even as they are locked in battle with the evolving, increasingly malevolent Tomol who, if allowed to escape their home world, pose an imminent threat to the entire galaxy! Summary Answering the distress call of the U.S.S. But one of their clan has shunned this obligation, triggering a transformation into a new, powerful life form.
Their culture is an enigma, centered on every member’s commitment to a painful, fiery self-sacrifice upon reaching maturity. The Tomol are a primitive civilization occupying a lone island on a remote world. The Federation has sent in two of its finest starships on a quest to uncover the secrets it may yet hold.
Once the conquered realm of a powerful alien species, this region remains largely shrouded in mystery even as it brims with potential for exploration and colonization.