Story:Starship Helena/The Savage Empire/Act Four

Act Four

Fade In

Ext. Space (Nebula)

The Helena is flying through the nebula.

Int. Main Bridge

The night shift is on duty as Lieutenant Mitchell is sitting in the Captain's Chair.

Lt. Mitchell: Steady as she goes Sasha.

She smiles and turns to him.

Lt. Mitchell: You're enjoying this too much are you?

Daniel snickers a bit.

Lt. Mitchell: Sasha yes I am.

The doors opened and Lieutenant Commander Smith walked onto the Bridge.

Ltcmdr. Smith: I couldn't sleep and I was working on something in my quarters trying to decode this Romulan signal I picked up earlier but couldn't make it out.

Daniel walks over to her station as she's working decoding the transmission.

Ltjg. Mitchell: It's strange just picked something up on the long range scanners, now it's gone.

Daniel goes to the Captain's Chair and sat down.

Lt. Mitchell: Since there is no known natural phenomenon capable of space flight, there are but two possibilities. Either it is a sensor malfunction, another ship is following us covertly.

Ltcmdr. Smith: It's not a sensor malfunction but I'm not the science officer we'd need to call T'Shar up to the Bridge.

Daniel folds his arms.

Lt. Mitchell: Agreed Lieutenant, continue monitoring the precise position of the echo. Any sudden change in its behavior, initiate Yellow Alert.

Ext. Space (Nebula)

Helena is at impulse speed through the nebula.

Int. Main Bridge

Ltcmdr. T'Shar: Captain we've completed our transfer of sirullium in the chamber on deck three.