Story:Starship Archer/Pria/Act Three

ACT THREE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The Archer is at high warp heading for it's new course.

INT-BRIEFING ROOM

WILLIAMS: I've tried to remove it with everything I could think of I've tried beaming it into space and it overloaded the transporter buffer.

Taylor walks around the staff.

TAYLOR: We can't let her defeat us here and now.

Martin chimes in.

MARTIN: If she's from the future then why didn't she go back to the Battle of Tyra and tried to take the Archer then or Operation Return?

Taylor is at the front of the table and she sat in her chair.

TAYLOR: Whatever the case is we have to figure out how to get the ship free from her control, (beat) and if we can't I'll destroy the Archer before I hand her over to whoever wants her.

INT-PRIA'S QUARTERS.

The doors chimed.

PRIA: Come.

The doors open and Commander Martin comes into her quarters.

MARTIN: Pria you need to release the Archer now what possible use could the Archer be to you in your time?

PRIA (Smirks): Oh Commander Martin your file really did say that you wouldn't listen nor would be able to understand, (beat) John I'm a dealer in artifacts. Mint condition. Mostly I sell to private collectors.

Martin stands there.

MARTIN (Shocked): What you sale ships that are still able to fly?

She sips her drink.

PRIA: Shocked aren't you I, and others who do what I do, travel back to a specific time and place in which, say, a ship like yours was destroyed. I prevent the destruction, then I take the ship into the future and I sell it to the highest bidder.