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Revision as of 01:32, 15 November 2016
AT: "ar" The attack on Starbase Yorktown was an engagement between Starbase Yorktown, the USS Franklin, and a massive fleet of 250,000 swarm ships commanded by Krall.
Prelude
After the United Federation of Planets was formed, Balthazar Edison was given command of the USS Franklin and sent on exploratory missions, something he despites as he was a soldier and he wanted war, not peace. Eventually, in 2164 while on a mission in the Gagarin Radiation Belt, the Franklin disappeared, presumably through wormhole displacement and crash-landed on Altamid. While Edison and his surviving crew sent out a distress call, the Federation never responded and Edison believed them to have been abandoned. Driven insane by the Federation's believed abandonment and his desire for revenge, Edison used the Ancient Ones energy transference technology to survive and became known as Krall with the two surviving members of his crew becoming known as Kalara and Manas. The three mutated so that they no longer looked human and repurposed the drones and ships left behind by the Ancient Ones for their own purposes.
Learning of the Ancient Ones weapon the Abronath, Krall, Kalara and Manas spend "lifetimes" searching for the two halves. They are eventually able to locate one half and capture a Magellan probe which they use to hack into Starbase Yorktown and learn that the USS Enterprise posseses the other half. Kalara is sent to Starbase Yorktown pretending to need help for her distressed crew and is able to successfully lure the Enterprise into the Necro Cloud and to Altamid. In the battle that follows, the Enterprise is destroyed but Captain Kirk is able to keep the Abronath out of Krall's hands.
Having captured the Enterprise crew, Krall is able to force Ensign Syl to reveal she has the Abronath. After testing it on Syl, Krall and his forces prepare to depart for Starbase Yorktown to use the Abronath on the population and then to possibly use Starbase Yorktown as a base from which to launch further attacks upon the Federation. Before he can, Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Jaylah and Spock are able to rescue the Enterprise crew and kill Manas, but Krall gets away with the Abronath and his Swarm ship fleet. Knowing of his intentions, the Enterprise crew repairs the Franklin and uses it to follow Krall to Starbase Yorktown.
Battle
Krall's Swarm ships emerge from the Necro Cloud and are detected by Starbase Yorktown. The Swarm ships target Yorktown's defense satellites and begin destroying them while the satellites and Yorktown fire phasers at the Swarm ships to little effect.
Emerging from the Necro Cloud behind the Swarm ships, the Franklin detects the attack along with distress signals from Yorktown on all frequencies. Scotty reports that the Franklin is armed with pulsed phase cannons and spatial torpedos and Captain Kirk orders them to "lock and load". However, Jaylah objects, stating that they can't defeat "the bees." As Kirk attempts to figure out a way to buy the Yorktown time to evacuate, Spock realizes that the Swarm is too organized not to be communicating with each other and coordinating their movements. Spock and Lieutenant Uhura suggest figuring out a way to disrupt the communication between the Swarm ships which would enable them to defeat the Swarm.
After a brief discussion, Spock decides to beam onto one of the Swarm ship with McCoy in order to locate the cyberpathic connection between the ships. After hijacking a Swarm ship, McCoy takes over piloting while Spock locates the cyberpathic connection and sends it to the Franklin. Discussing options, Spock suggests that they send a disruptive communication signal into the cyberpathic link which would sever the Swarm's ability to coordinate and destroy them. Scotty suggests the Swarm might be vulnerable to VHF radio signals and Kirk decides to send "something loud and distracting" to the Swarm causing Scotty to come up with the idea of using classical music from the Franklin's archives.
As Scotty and Jaylah rig the Franklin to emit the signal, the Swarm ships start attacking the door to the Yorktown's docking port with 60 seconds to break through. With the signal ready, Uhura reports that they have to get very close to the Swarm for the signal to work so Kirk orders the Franklin flown into the middle of the Swarm. Following Kirk's commands, Sulu flies into the Swarm firing the Franklin's pulsed phase cannons. Noticing the attack from his old ship, Krall has the Swarm double-back to destroy the Franklin instead.
Once the Swarm is nearly on top of them, the Enterprise crew starts broadcasting a song at 57.7 megahertz causing the Swarm ships near them to start to explode. The Franklin then flies through the Swarm, broadcasting the signal and destroying all ships near them. Seeing the success of their plan, Uhura sends the disruption signal to Yorktown which broadcasts it as well, attacking the Swarm from two sides. The disruption signal destroys all of the Swarm except Krall's ship and two other Swarm ships which are able to break through the damaged door and into the Yorktown.
Realizing that Krall is continuing his mission to use the Abronath on the Yorktown, Kirk orders Spock and McCoy to follow the three ships and stop them at any cost. Spock and McCoy's hijacked ship and the Franklin follow Krall's ships through the docking door, damaging the Franklin further. After encountering three policing vessels, Krall flies his ships from the docking tube into the interior of the Yorktown by crashing through a pool, followed by Spock and McCoy who unsuccessfully attempt to stop them while the Franklin follows in the docking tubes. Checking the Yorktown schematics, Kirk realizes that Krall is headed for Yorktown Headquarters. After Sulu and Chekov determine that Yorktown Central Plaza is being cleared, Kirk orders McCoy to make sure Krall heads for the plaza and orders Sulu to get the Franklin to the plaza. By flying straight at Krall's ships, McCoy forces them closer to the ground and as the three ships fly into the plaza, the Franklin emerges from the docking tubes below right in front of them, causing Krall and his ships to crash into the Franklin's hull. The Franklin then comes to a final rest in the plaza.
Chekov detects three hull breaches from the impacts of the Swarm ships and Sulu, Chekov, Kirk and Uhura split up to check them out. Near one of the breaches, Kirk and Uhura find a crewman dead and Uhura recognizes it as being the energy transference Krall uses. Believing that Krall is still onboard as they would've seen him leave, Kirk orders Chekov to contact Yorktown Security to help secure the ship. However, as they pass through the mess hall, Uhura spots an old recording of the Franklin crew playing and recognizes Captain Balthazar Edison as Krall. Kirk has Scotty search the ships database for information on Edison. Scotty learns that Edison was a soldier in the United Earth Military before the Federation was formed and he was given command of the Franklin. Checking Edison's last captain's log, they discover that his belief that the Federation has abandoned him has driven him insane and he intends to use the Ancient Ones technology to survive and get revenge. Kirk realizes that Krall is looking for a place to inflict maximum damage with the Abronath and Scotty informs him of Yorktown's atmospheric processor and the maintenance tower at the station's gravitational hub that Krall will have to use to access it. Kirk heads to stop Krall while sending Uhura to contact Yorktown to get the processor shut down until the situation is resolved and Scotty and Jaylah to ensure it.
Meanwhile Krall, having resumed the majority of his human appearance as Balthazar Edison, escapes the Franklin in a stolen Starfleet uniform with the Abronath and makes his way to the maintenance tower. While Scotty and Jaylah work on disabling the processor, Kirk makes his way to the top of the tower where he confronts Krall with a phaser and asks what happened that turned Edison into Krall. Krall admits that he and his crew lost their former selves but believes that with the Abronath, they have found a way to bring the galaxy back to the struggle that made humanity strong. Krall explains that he is disgusted that he fought in wars that cost millions of lives and was then forced to break bread with those former enemies as the captain of a Federation ship. Kirk insists that they have to change with the times, but Krall attacks him and attempts to deploy the Abronath. Fighting Krall, Kirk knocks them both out of the glass chamber they are in and into open air.
Krall and Kirk land on a nearby roof where Kirk attempts to convince Krall to stop as he won the war he was fighting and gave them peace. However, Krall feels that all he is meant for is war and launches himself into the gravitational slipstream to return to the maintenance tower followed by Kirk. Krall activates the weapon before Kirk can stop him, but Kirk is able to subdue Krall. Scotty informs Kirk that the only chance of saving Yorktown is for Kirk to flip four switches in the chamber that will open a sealed construction hatch in the processor. If Kirk can open the hatch in time, the Abronath will be vented into space but if he fails, it will be sucked into the processor and everything in Yorktown will die. Kirk is able to flip three of the switches, but the last one gets stuck and Krall recovers and attempts to kill Kirk with a shard of glass. Kirk kicks Krall back into the Abronath cloud moments before processor cycles. Before the Abronath and Krall can reach the processor, Kirk flips the final switch before getting sucked out into open air. Krall and the Abronath are harmlessly vented into space where Krall is consumed and killed by the Abronath while Spock and McCoy rescue Kirk in their stolen Swarm ship.
Aftermath
Following the attack, the case regarding the Franklin is officially closed and Kirk is offered a promotion to Vice Admiral. Kirk, who had previously sought the position, declines. After the USS Enterprise-A is finished, the crew of the Enterprise resume their five-year mission in their new ship. (Star Trek Beyond)
Appendices
Appearances
- Star Trek films
- Star Trek Beyond (first appearance)
External link
- Attack on Yorktown at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works