Story:Starship Archer/Battle Lines/Act One

ACT ONE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

Archer is a high warp heading to Deep Space Nine.

TAYLOR (Voice Over) ''Military Log Combat date 53894.1. We're on course for Deep Space Nine for some repairs and rest, after the destruction of the Warbird IRW T'Para. The crew is having doubt that we can win this war I just hope we can win this war.''

INT-CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM

A Holo-image of Commodore Taylor is in front of Captain Taylor's desk in her ready room as she's not happy about what happened to the Romulan Warbird.

TAYLOR Dad Where were the other ships patrolling this sector? Why were we the only Allied vessel able to render aid?

CMDR. TAYLOR (Holo-image, sighs) ''The T'Para's squadron were simultaneously ambushed along with the T'Para, all were destroyed with the same weapons as what we faced in Chin'toka system. Marcia how many vessels were equipped with the energy dissipator torpedoes?''

Taylor turns to the holo-image of her father.

TAYLOR (Sighs) The Breen ships and the Jem'Hadar Destroyer.

CMDR. TAYLOR (Holo-image, Sighs) Damn Intel mentioned that the Dominion/Cardassian/Breen Alliance were equipping their ships with those dissipator torpedoes, but never knew it would be this quickly.

Marcia leans on her desk.

TAYLOR (Sighs) The crew is taking it pretty hard, (beat) we need a break from the war is there anyway I can....

Commodore Taylor raises his hand to cut his daughter off.

CMDR. TAYLOR (Holo-image) I'm sorry Marcia but the Archer is ordered to meet up with the Seventh, Tenth and Thirty Seventh Fleets with Romulan Star Navy and Klingon Defense Force outside the Betazed system.

TAYLOR (Confused) Why?