Story:Starship Challenger/Believer/Act Four

ACT FOUR

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

TAYLOR'S (VO)

''Captain's Starlog Supplemental. We're planning to use our photonic torpedoes to cure the Romulan plasma torpedoes, we can only hope that we can help them.''

Challenger and Republic are in orbit around the M-Class planet.

INT-BRIDGE

Taylor gets up from her chair.

TAYLOR

(Sighs)

Alright let's get ready,

(beat)

TACTICAL ALERT!

Lights dimmed.

RUBIN

(Off his console)

Torpedoes are armed and ready.

Taylor sits in the Captain's Chair.

TAYLOR

Ensign take us in.

Carlson inputs commands into the helm console.

CARLSON

(Helm Officer)

Aye, Captain.

EXT-SKY

Challenger enters the clouds.

INT-BRIDGE (TACTICAL ALERT)

Ship rocks and shudders.

CARLSON

(helm officer)

We're ten thousand meters into the troposphere.

Ship jolts hard.

TAYLOR

Fire the first sequence.

Rubin presses the fire button on his console.

CUT TO:

EXT-SKY

Challenger fires two torpedoes and it clears the sky of the radiation effects, as the ship moves forward five colony fighters are following the NX-Class ship and fires at the ship.

INT-BRIDGE (TACTICAL ALERT)

Ship jolts as sparks erupts from the ceiling.

RUBIN

That was weapons fire, from a colony fighter.

CUT TO:

EXT-SKY

Colony fighters fire at the Challenger making it's hullplating flicker on the hull.

(End of Act Three, Fade out)