inbound.
Vector three-seven-four,
attack formation.
WILSON: Status!
OFFICER: Forty Kilrathi ships
coming to bear, Admiral.
They're powering weapons.
The Iowa's gone! And the Kobi.
MAN: We have a station breach!
Levels seven, eleven,
and thirteen.
They're headed towards
command and control!
Destroy the Navcom A.I. Now.
COMPUTER:
Self-destruct malfunction.
TECHNICIAN: Command codes
have been overwritten.
COMPUTER:
Station breach, level six.
Station breach, level two.
COMPUTER:
Command center breach imminent.
WILSON: Prepare a drone.
Get me a coded channel.
This is Admiral Wilson...
Pegasus station
commanding officer.
Forty Kilrathi capital ships
are closing.
Station has been breached.
They want the Navcom.
Repeat--they want the Navcom.
The station has been breached.
They want the Navcom.
Repeat--they want the Navcom.
The Pegasus Navcom.
My God, if they have it...
TOLWYN:
What's the fleet's position?
RICHARD: We're spread out
all over the sector.
The earliest our advanced
elements can reach Sol...
is forty-two hours...
and that is taking risks
with the jumps, sir.
TOLWYN: Give me
the Vega and Sol sectors.
COMPUTER: Estimated Kilrathi
fleet's position.
Projected time of travel
to Earth, forty hours.
Locating
main Confederation fleet.
Estimated time to Earth space,
forty-two hours.
A mere two hours could decide
the outcome of this war.
Signal all ships
to mark our course...
and make full speed for Earth.
I need to know what
the Kilrathi are up to, Richard.
Do we have any more ships
left in Vega?
Just one, sir.
The Tiger Claw.
But she's beyond the range
of our communications...
and a drone will take
two days to reach her.
TOLWYN: Who's this?
RICHARD: It's a requisitioned
merchantman...the...
Diligent.
The Diligent.
RICHARD: Yes, sir.
Captained by James Taggart...
at present en route
to the Tiger Claw...
with two replacement pilots--
First Lieutenants Todd Marshall
and Christopher Blair.
Open a secure channel
to the Diligent immediately.
I want to speak
with her captain...
and with this
First Lieutenant Blair.
[Door opens]
MARSHALL: Hey, Captain wants you
on the bridge.
Say's it's top priority.
Sir?
I don't know
who you know, Lieutenant...
but you got a Confed code one...
secure communication
from Admiral Tolwyn.
COMPUTER: Waiting.
Waiting.
Transmission nominal.
Long distance...connected.
At ease, Lieutenant.
-Yes, sir, Admiral.
-Good.
You are currently outbound...
to the Vega sector
and the Tiger Claw.
I need you to hand-deliver...
an encrypted communications chip
to her captain.
Why not send it by drone
to the Pegasus, sir?
That'd be quicker.
The Pegasus is gone...
destroyed by a Kilrathi
battle group...
twelve and a half hours ago.
See that Captain Sansky
gets that chip.
Why me?
I fought alongside your father
in the Pilgrim wars.
He was a good man.
Godspeed.
TAGGART: Well, guys...
we have to jump
into the Vega sector...
a little sooner than planned.
Set a course for beacon 147,
one-quarter impulse...
and be subtle.
Setting course
for beacon one-four-seven.
One-quarter impulse.
[Beeping]
MARSHALL: I'm reading that
as a 100,000-kilometer...
no-fly zone, sir.
Just put in beacon 147.
It's a shortcut.
Aye, Captain.
[Knock on door]
Yeah?
We're holding steady
on the beacon.
Marshall has the helm.
Those must be antiques.
They were made by the first
explorers in this sector...
just like the cross
you wear under your shirt.
May I see it?
There was a time long ago...
when people looked up
to the Pilgrims.
The stars were their destiny.
Since the Pilgrims
were defeated...
not a single new quasar
has been charted.
COMPUTER:
Increasing thrust...
Stupid...
COMPUTER: Main engine
now at ninety percent.
TAGGART: Out! You get out!
Get out, get out!
MARSHALL: Ow. Jeez!
What's your problem?
-What?
-Did you change course?
MARSHALL:
No, I didn't change course.
I just boosted the