Story:Starship Archer/Bound/Act Three

ACT THREE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The small Dominion fleet fires at the Starbase and the fifteen Federation Starships and the Archer as the ship fires phasers and photons at the fighters destroying them.

INT-ARCHER BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Seriously damaged... plasma leaks, smoke...

MASON Shields at sixty percent, damage to the secondary power couplings on decks five-seven!

CLARKSON (COM'S VOICE) ''Engineering to Bridge. We're burning deuterium down here...''

CUT TO: INT-ENGINEERING

Impulse engines smoking... engineers spray coolant foam over them to keep the temperatures from red-lining.

CLARKSON We're going to blow ourselves up... we won't need any help from the Dominion.

INT-ARCHER BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Another shower of sparks erupt from the ceiling as the ship takes another huge jolt.

CARLSON (Helm Officer) Going to evasive patter delta two!

Another jolts rocks the ship hard.

ENS. MARTIN Hull breaches on decks ten-fourteen forcefields are in place and holding Captain!

Lights flickering as klaxons are blaring.

MARTIN (off XO Console) Sickbay is reporting causalities!

Sensors beeping rapidly.

ENS. MARTIN (Off her console) Picking up tachyon surges aft!