Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Saturday, 10 Oct 1992 16:18:30 MST
From: <ICSCH@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: alt.startrek.creative
Subject: STORY: "Timesync"

Copyright Scott Hume 1992

In Counselor Troi's cabin, we see her sleeping as the camera dollies around
her bed.  We shift our point of view to the Bridge where Data and a small
complement of Bridge crew work. Suddenly a 'shudder' happens, causing the
sensors to start 'going off.'  We cut to Troi's cabin, and she wakes with
a start bolt up-right in bed.

On the Bridge, Data orders...

DATA: Mr. Tomkins, please deactivate alarm audio.  Lt. Selagua, what is
the cause of the sensor alarm.

SELAGUA: Whatever 'hit' the ship, Mr. Data, registers as a seismic shock
wave affecting the 'fabric' of space.

Doors to the Turbolift open and Picard in his sleeping attire emerges.

PICARD: Report, Mr. Data.

DATA: A shock wave of undetermined origin registering 7.1 on the Richter
Scale came in contact with the ship, Captain.

PICARD: Lt., ask Sick Bay for casualty reports-

Turbolift doors open and Troi enters the Bridge wearing a long robe.

PICARD: Counselor - I appreciate your concern for the situation, but your
presence is not needed...as of yet.

TROI: There is an intruder aboard the Enterprise, Captain, and what we
experienced is the physical shock of his arrival.  I sense we could be in
grave danger!

Music rises to climax, fade to black, and begin opening credits.
After we come back from commercials...

We see a man looking confused who stumbles along a corridor.  Two security
guards see him, pull weapons, and command: "Stay where you are...hands at
your sides."  "I won't put up any fight."

We cut to a view of the man behind the electronic field door of the Brig.

Picard, Riker, Troi and Crusher are outside the door looking in.

PICARD: Well, Counselor, it appears we have your intruder.

TROI: I know this sounds strange, but I feel that he is not a threat.

RIKER: You're right...that does sound strange.

PICARD: Go on-

TROI: I sense that the man feels a sense of helplessness and panic.  This is
defintely not a situation that he is under control of.  Oddly enough, it is
an experience he has had before.

RIKER: Who ARE you?!

MAN: I'm Dr. Stephen A. Becherell.  I'm time-sensitive. What time is this?

PICARD: We're time-sensitive, too...it's 0-330.

STEPHEN: I MEANT, what YEAR is it?

PICARD: (gives date in which Star Trek-TNG is taking place)

STEPHEN: That's a little farther than usual. I wish I knew where he was...
I just can't seem to focus.

We cut to Dr. Crusher's Office in Sick Bay.

CRUSHER: I wondered what he meant when he said that he was time-sensitive, so
I checked it with the computer. Jean-Luc, listen to this: computer: replay
medical prognosis of "Time-Sensitivity," and cross-relate entry of "Time-Sync
Device."

COMPUTER: Time Sensivity...a physiogenic abnormality in the brain cortex in an
extremely small portion of humans which was discovered during the later half
of the Twentieth Century by the Royal British Conservatory of Medicine. The
condition exists as a dual organic dysfunction in which the areas of the brain
which control psychic ability hyperfunction and are linked to emotional
perception centers.  In the presence of fear, stress or violent emotional
states, victims will often physically transport themselves for a short period
of time to different time and space coordinates.  Nearly all victions return to
original time and space coordinates after the emotional state is subsided,
unless the subsequent disorientation is too violent.  Early victims responded
to enzamatic treatments mixing L-Dopamine and L-Lysene with small
concentrations of L-Trophotamine. Currently, victims are provided with a
Time Sync Device which monitors current emotional state and produces a varied
Alpha and Beta Wave Sequence during times of perceptable stress.

PICARD: Interesting.  So we have a sick man here-

CRUSHER: More than that.  Computer, who was the inventor of the Time Sync
Device.

COMPUTER: The Time Sync Device was invented by Dr. Stephen A. Becherell.

Crusher and Picard look 'freaked,' as we fade to black with appropriate
music and continue to a set of commercials.