Story:Starship Archer/Invasion of Sector 345/Act One

ACT ONE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

Archer is at high warp.

TAYLOR

(Voice Over)

''Military Log Supplemental. We're on course for sector three hundred forty-five, after picking up a distress call from the USS Euderion we can only hope we can reach them and their fleet.''

INT-BRIEFING ROOM

The Senior Staff is listening to Vice Admiral McElroy's distress call, Taylor presses the panel and it ends.

TAYLOR

That's all we were able to get from the Euderion.

Commander Martin chimes in.

MARTIN

(Re: PADD)

She's an Akira-Class cruiser, and she's heavily armed to the teeth.

Lieutenant Sito picks up the ball, she moves to the wall monitor and taps a control. And the schematics of the USS Euderion comes onto the screen.

SITO

She's armed with 6 type-X phaser arrays, 20 torpedo launchers,

(beat)

chain reaction pulsar weapon. These torpedoes can go from one target to the next and gets more powerful as it gets stronger with each hit.

Taylor leans forward on the table.

TAYLOR

(To Senior Staff)

She's leading a task force defending sector three hundred forty-five from the Dominion attack we don't know the threat that they're facing but if it's a Dominion attack I wanna be ready for them and we don't lose another system to those Dominion monsters dismissed.

The senior staff leaves the briefing room.

CUT TO:

EXT-SPACE

The Archer drops out of warp as her nacelles go to the flatten position and approaches the nebula.

INT-ARCHER BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Klaxon blares as the crew are at their battle stations.

CARLSON

(Helm Officer)

Slowing to full impulse Captain.

Taylor is leaning on the rail behind the helm station.

TAYLOR

Tactical?

Sito inputs commands into the tactical console.

SITO

Shields are at full power and phasers are fully charged and both photons and quantum Torpedoes are fully loaded and armed.

Ensign Martin chimes in.

ENS. MARTIN

Picking up a nebula cloud bearing one-five-six mark eight-one-five.

Taylor is still leaning on the rails.

TAYLOR

On screen.

Ensign Martin inputs commands into the ops console and the nebula appears on the viewer.

ENS. MARTIN

(Off her console)

Long-chain polymer webs.

Carlson remembers learning about this nebula cloud in the Academy.

CARLSON

(Helm Officer)

That's the Witch Head nebula.

Taylor turns to Ensign Martin.

ENS. MARTIN

Confirmed and sensors are picking up the fleet's ion trail in the nebula.

Taylor goes back to her chair and sat in it.

TAYLOR

Lieutenant take us in full impulse speed.

Lieutenant Carlson inputs commands into the helm.

EXT-SPACE

The Archer heads into the nebula cloud, to search for the USS Euderion and her taskforce.

INT-ARCHER BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Everyone is tensed up.

ENS. MARTIN

(Off her console)

Picking up a fleet of allied ships.

Kara looks at her console.

CARLSON

(Helm Officer)

Got it Captain.

Taylor leans forward in her chair.

TAYLOR