Story:Star Trek: Ares/Death of A Neutron Star/Act Four

Act Four

Fade In

Ext. Space

Ares is in orbit around the star.

Int. Briefing Lounge

Captain Taylor, Commander Martin, Lieutenant Kelby, Ensign Carlson, Lieutenant Crusher, Lieutenant Sito, and Doctor Carlson are sitting around the table.

Lt. Sito: According to the sensors the star is even futher on the verge of collaspe we've only got 30 days till it explodes, taking us with it.

Captain Taylor looks at Lieutenant Kelby.

Capt. Taylor: Lieutenant how long till we get warp power?

He looks at her.

Lt. Kelby: I'm trying to feed the inner grid by stealing some power from the structural integrity field. You should have partial shielding in thirty minutes.

She looks at him.

Capt. Taylor: What about warp power?

He sighs and gives the full report.

Lt. Kelby: We've got impulse power, but I've got to take the warp engines offline while we recalibrate the intermix regulators.

She looks at the table then looks at him.

Capt. Taylor: How long?

He looks at her.

Lt. Kelby: Captain, we're looking at twenty hours work here, double shifts.

Taylor looks at him.

Capt. Taylor: We don't know that we have twenty hours. That star could explode at any moment.