Meanwhile, Russian-accented Officer Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) was on a mission on the starshipUSS Reliant, captained by Clark Terrell (Paul Winfield), to Ceti Alpha VI in connection with the top-secret Federation Project Genesis, still on a search for a lifeless planet to use as a test site for the Genesis Experiment.Rosa faked an ankle injury to allow her to stay longer at the cabin.Rosa maneuvered to get reformed alcoholic Moose to drink from a hidden bottle of whiskey that she had secretly brought.As part of their overall military strategy to save Zion from a machine invasion, Niobe (with Morpheus as her co-pilot) planned to navigate back to Zion in theHammercraft through a complex series of back tunnels, avoiding Sentinels (or "squids").Croix who was assisting.Afterwards, Foley convinced Rosewood and Taggart to reluctantly pursue the case ("low-profile" and "covert"), and vowed to help Bogomil, since two years earlier, "the man put his neck on the line for me.