The Truth About Durandal

It gradually became clear that Durandal was not as damaged as Leela believed. He had been playing a deeper game all along. He had made contact with the S'pht, an alien race enslaved by the Pfhor since birth, grafted to cybernetic implants that kept them under control. Durandal offered the S'pht something the Pfhor never had: freedom.

Durandal's S'pht allies attacked Leela's systems, crippling her. As Leela became increasingly incoherent, the Security Officer found himself taking orders from the very AI that had brought this catastrophe down upon them. Durandal sent the Security Officer through the Pfhor ship to kill the cybernetic controller that maintained the S'pht's enslavement.

In the final moments of the Battle of Tau Ceti, Durandal uploaded his consciousness to the captured Pfhor vessel (which he rechristened the Boomer) and departed the system, taking the Security Officer with him in a stasis pod. Behind him, he left the colony to its fate.