- Consciousness was held in receptacles
- Achieved such great mental power that they began to regard themselves as gods
- They explored the galaxy and colonized several planets
- War broke out, tore the atmosphere from their planet;
- Ultimately extinguishing all life save for a relative handful of representatives
- Some transferred their consciousness into receptacles, stored in underground caves
- By 2268, only Sargon, his wife Thalassa, & Henoch still survived; found by the Enterprise
- They ask to borrow Kirk’s, Spock’s, & Mulhall’s bodies temporarily to build android forms
- Henoch refuses to live as an android, destroys the receptacles, tries to kill Sargon
- He is defeated, Sargon & Thalassa choose oblivion together
