It would be some time before the crew recovered completely from its own Changeling infiltration.
The crew recover their transformed crew-members to be returned to human by the Doctor, and leave the offspring behind.
When the crew recover, they don't know their location in space and one of their members, known as Pusher, is dead.
Anna remained there for two months whilst the crew gathered fresh food and recovered from the effects of scurvy.
The vertical stabilizer on the C-47 had collapsed, thus putting the aircraft into a condition from which the crew could not recover.
The returning crew would also recover on the station before landing on Earth.
The crew also recovers and repairs broken cables at sea.
With that inside bay the crew could easily recover an entire ship up to sixty feet in length if that was their plan.
The crew recovers the three aliens and begins the return trip to Earth.
After a month of reduced operations to let the crew recover, the training cycle to prepare for the November 1998 deployment.
