Story:Star Trek: Four Years War/In the Line of Duty/Act Two

ACT TWO

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The Procyon flies over the Hood and hooks to it with her tractor beam and tows it out of the nebula.

INT-BRIEFING ROOM

Screen shows the damage to the Hood.

LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Both her phaser banks are exhausted, torpedo launchers are empty and warp engines are trashed.

Taylor chimes in.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Doctor causalities?

Carlson reports.

DR. CARLSON: Hood has fourteen wounded, twenty-one dead, five missing I've set up a triage area in Cargo bay one.

Branson chimes in.

CMDR. BRANSON: What attacked them that's the question of the day?

Commander T'Lar chimes in.

LTCMDR. T'LAR: Scans of the Hood's outer hull indicates that she was engaged by Klingons.

Commodore Branson walks into the briefing room, as they stood at attention.

COMMODORE BRANSON: As you all were.

They sat back down.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Its good that you have fully recovered sir.

Branson chimes in.

CMDR. BRANSON: Its good to see that you're alive father, mom stated you were killed by the Klingons.

COMMODORE BRANSON: I almost did die son, (beat) we got word that a fleet of Klingon ships were massing in this sector to attack one of our starbase. But we were ambushed I ordered the fleet to fall back while we covered their escape I lost half my crew I'm just glad that the Procyon showed up.

T'Lar chimes in.

LTCMDR. T'LAR: Commodore I did a scan on your ship and picked up some unusual readings on deck fourteen.

Branson looks at her.

COMMODORE BRANSON (Sighs): Radiation leak during the last attack we took heavy damage to deck fourteen, and we had to seal it off to prevent the rest of the ship from being poisoned I lost five crewmen.

Taylor chimes in.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Well we can figure it out when we get to Starbase twenty-two.

The Senior Staff leaves the briefing room.

EXT-SPACE

Procyon towing the Hood.

INT-PROCYON MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Ensign Carlson chimes in.

ENS. CARLSON: ETA we're an hour and forty minutes away from Starbase twenty-two.

Commander Branson hands a PADD to the young Ensign.

CMDR. BRANSON: Julia let the Starbase know our ETA.

LTJG. SMITH: Aye, sir.

Sensors beep.

LTCMDR. T'LAR: Picking up a cloaking field, its a Klingon battlecruiser D7!

EXT-SPACE

Klingon warship decloaks in front of the Procyon and the Hood.

INT-PROCYON MAIN BRIDGE

The crew is shocked.

CMDR. BRANSON: RED ALERT!

Lights dimmed and klaxon blares.

(End of Act Two, fade out)