McCoy, Montgomery Scott, and a damage control party to the transporter room. There are no other ships detected in the area, however, and Kirk orders the ship's status dropped to yellow alert. Subspace interference is preventing further sensor readings, as well as any communications beyond the distress signal. All of its power plants are dead, and the bridge is uninhabitable. Sensor scans show the Constellation to be running with minimal life support, using its reserve energy banks. As there is no apparent natural cause for the planetary destruction and the condition of the Constellation, Captain Kirk assumes that they were attacked and orders the Enterprise to go to red alert. In L-374, the Enterprise also finds her sister ship, the USS Constellation, commanded by Commodore Matt Decker, now a powerless wreck, drifting and apparently abandoned. All of the systems in the sector have been destroyed except for the two inner planets in L-374. Proceeding to system L-374, they find the same thing: debris where there were once healthy planets the previous year.
The Enterprise enters system L-370 and finds that all seven planets in the system have been destroyed, smashed to rubble. At the same time, the Enterprise also encounters heavy subspace interference, which prevents the crew from reporting their discoveries to Starfleet Command. It is apparently a starship's disaster beacon, but Palmer is unable to make out any words aside from "Constellation". On the USS Enterprise, Lieutenant Palmer receives a faint and garbled distress signal.
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