Following the rescue of Captain Spock and the loss of the USS Enterprise in 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk and his command crew prepared to depart Vulcan and return to Earth to face the court martial. Realising the signal the probe was broadcasting was the song of a Humpback whale, a ...Following the rescue of Captain Spock and the loss of the USS Enterprise in 2285, Admiral James T.
Kirk and his command crew prepared to depart Vulcan and return to Earth to face the court martial. Realising the signal the probe was broadcasting was the song of a Humpback whale, a species long since extinct on Earth, Kirk and his crew travelled back in time to retrieve a mating pair of the creatures. How they achieved this remains classified by the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations, but on their return, the Bounty crash-landed in San Francisco Bay.
The two Humpback whales were released to commune with the probe, which subsequently departed.