Story:Starship Archer/Grace Under Pressure/Act Two

ACT TWO

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The Archer is at high warp with a Federation Battlegroup comprised of Federation, Klingon, and Romulan ships around the Sovereign-Class vessel.

INT-ARCHER MAIN BRIDGE

The crew are at their stations as Captain Taylor walks out of her ready room.

TAYLOR Tactical status?

Lieutenant Mason inputs commands into the tactical console and reports.

MASON (Off his console) Shields are at one hundred percent, phaser banks are fully charged and on hot standby, and both quantum and photon torpedoes are fully loaded and ready to fire on your command Captain and Security detachments are posted on all decks and phaser rifles have been issued to every fire team.

Taylor tenses up a bit.

TAYLOR Ensign increase our speed to warp nine point seven, (to Ensign Martin) Ensign Martin order the fleet to do the same as well we've got to reach Minos Korva before the Dominion Fleet does.

ENS. MARTIN (Off her console) Aye, Captain the fleet has increase speed to warp nine point seven.

Commander Martin leans over to Captain Taylor.

MARTIN (to Taylor) Marcia we'll get there soon but not at the risk of destroying our warp coils.

TAYLOR (Sighs) I know John its just I'm worried about both Lieutenant Carlson and Commander T'Shar they've not been the best of friends since T'Shar married her brother.