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Ghosts of Illyria

Translated: Duchovia Iliria

Label: S01E03

Category: SNW - Strange New Worlds

Premiere: 19.05.2022

Dubbing: Yes

Year: 2259

Stardate: 1224.3


in SNW 3 of 20

in Star Trek 846 of 918


Description:

Stardate 1224.3: A landing party investigates a former Illyrian colony on Hetemit IX, whose inhabitants have mysteriously disappeared. The Illyrians are known for their genetic modifications. This made them outcasts in the Federation, whose laws were created under the impression of the Eugenics Wars on Earth. As an ion storm approaches the colony, Pike orders all personnel to assemble for beam-up immediately. Chief Kyle only manages to transport them with additional power provided by Hemmer. Pike and Spock have to stay on the surface and seek shelter. In the meantime on the Enterprise, crew members are showing signs of a curious illness that makes them seek the proximity to light sources, even if they get hurt. Dr. M'Benga says that this goes along with a vitamin D deficit. Una Chin-Riley too is affected for a moment but doesn't mention it. When M'Benga scans her, he doesn't find any symptoms. As it is unknown how the disease spreads, Chin-Riley orders the ship to go into a lockdown. Hemmer appears in sickbay, and M'Benga is visibly on edge when the chief engineer begins to shut down the section's systems to run a diagnostic. As most crew members are confined to their quarters, Uhura's fellow cadets contract the disease, while she herself doesn't. Since she was in her dark bunk bed, Chin-Riley concludes that the epidemic propagates with light. She orders all lights to be switched off. The first officer then receives an alert from the transporter room, where Hemmer has beamed up a piece of the planet's mantle in order to expose himself to its immense and definitely lethal heat radiation. She stuns the chief engineer and takes him to sickbay. She now reveals that she is actually an Illyrian and asks M'Benga if this may help him, but his scans reveal that she doesn't have antibodies because her immune system has completely wiped out the infection. On the planet, Spock comes to the conclusion that the Illyrians living there were going to de-engineer themselves in order to be accepted into the Federation. As the storm is intensifying, strange energy creatures break through the door and cover Pike's and Spock's bodies, saving their lives. Spock surmises that these are the Illyrians. Driven by the "light madness", they ran into the storm, where their biosigns somehow became pure energy. As time is running out on the Enterprise to fight the epidemic, Chin-Riley receives a warp core containment warning. It turns out that La'an Noonien-Singh has deactivated it against all reason. Chin-Riley manages to disable her, and additionally provide a sample of Noonien-Singh's newly formed antibodies for M'Benga to synthesize a cure. Chin-Riley offers Captain Pike to resign her commission for lying about her genetic modifications, but he declines because he thinks she is the best example that prejudices need to be overcome. A little later in sickbay, she confronts M'Benga with what Hemmer found in his diagnostic. Something is hidden in the pattern buffer of the medical transporter, which inhibited the biofilters to work properly and caused the crisis in the first place. M'Benga admits that his terminally ill daughter Rukiya is stored there, in the hope of some day and somewhere finding a cure. He requests to spend time with his daughter after shutting down the transporter, which Chin-Riley declines. She allows him to keep the pattern buffer running, with an extra power source.


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