Strange New Worlds (TOS episode)

Strange New Worlds is the second episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 1.
==Plot==
An Enterprise landing party discovers a Klingon outpost while being forced to go into a cavern during a massive storm-front approaching, can they survive or will they be captured and then executed by the Klingon!
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is at warp.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE OFFICER'S MESS
ETHAN: How can you eat that stuff? 
(She is eating soup and reading about termites.) 
ELIZABETH: It's healthier than that. 
ETHAN: At least this tastes like something. 
CUTLER: I guess it just takes a more discriminating palate to appreciate Vulcan cuisine. Do you know there are over five thousand subspecies of termites on Loracus Prime? 
(A glow comes in through the window, every one gets up and looks at a beautiful blue planet.) 
ETHAN: I thought we were headed for a nebula. 
CUTLER: Anybody hear about this? 
CREWMAN: Not a word. 
CUTLER: I wonder if somebody lives there? 
ETHAN: There's a lot of plant life. It might be an oxygen atmosphere. 
CUTLER: What do you think, first contact? 
CREWMAN: I don't see any cities or agriculture. 
ETHAN: Maybe they live underground or in the water. 
CUTLER: Is that snow on those mountains? 
ETHAN: You'd think the Captain would make an announcement or something. 
CUTLER: Well, call him. 
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the planet. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Seventeen percent oxygen, eighty one percent nitrogen. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS (Smiles): Sounds like home. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Any people? 
Lieutenant T'Lar checks her sensors. 
LTJG. T'LAR: The planet supports a diverse ecology, but there are no signs of humanoid life. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Sounds like we just made our first discovery in the Shackleton Expanse. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah. 
LTJG. SMITH: We could be the first people to discovery a new planet. 
Captain Branson turns to Commander Chin-Riley. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander put together a survey team. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (smiles): Aye, sir. 
She leaves the bridge as Captain Branson looks at the viewer. 
[END OF TEASER, FADE OUT]
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Theme Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0MFmhCS08A
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INTRO:
CAPT. BRANSON'S (voice over): Space The Final Frontier These are the Voyages of the Starship Enterprise its Continuing Mission: To Explore Strange New Worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations to boldly go where no one has gone before!
The Enterprise leaps into warp.
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STAR TREK: THE NEW GENERATION
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
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BASED UPON STAR TREK CREATED BY: GENE RODDENBERRY
The Enterprise flies over a gas giant's rings.
STARRING
Jarvis Davidson 
 as
Captain John Branson
Felecia Linkous
 as
Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
Enterprise flies next to a Pioneer-Class vessel
Kevin Regan
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
Ferne Myers
 as
Lieutenant Stephanie Williams
USS Enterprise flies by a Watchtower Starbase
Jacob Elliot
 as
Doctor Peter Langford
Sadie Brickhouse
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Julia Smith
Blake Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
USS Enterprise flying through an Asteroid field
Delena "Dee" Lusk
 as
Ensign Kara Carlson
Becky Elliot
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Lar
USS Enterprise flies by Earth as the ship's warp engines power up and she leaps into warp.
CREATED BY:
JARVIS DAVIDSON & JEREMY REGAN
===Act 1===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
[EPISODE NOTES: OPENNG CREDITS FALL OVER OPENING SCENES]
Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
'INT-USS ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM
The survey team is gearing up as Captain Branson enters.
CAPT. BRANSON: You've got the coordinates Chief?
CHIEF MACKENZIE: Yes, sir the middle of the meadow seems to be a good place to beam you down at.
They step onto the transporter pad.
CAPT. BRANSON: Energize.
Chief Mackenzie inputs commands into the transporter console and activates the transporter and the survey team dematerializes.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE
The survey team beams down as Captain Branson looks around the place as he turns to the survey team. 
CAPT. BRANSON: We're walking on an alien world light years from Earth or Vulcan. Doesn't that impress you? 
T'Lar turns to him. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Before I joined Starfleet I've been to thirty six Minshara class planets. This experience is only marginally different. 
T'Lar turns to the survey teams. 
LTJG. T'LAR: You have your assignments. We'll rendezvous here at nineteen hundred hours, unless the Captain wants us to pose for more pictures. 
John shook his head and they split up, Cutler examines eel-like fish in a lake. There are two crescent moons in the sky. Ethan picks a yellow flower in an alpine meadow. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BY A STREAM
Captain Branson, Commander Ivanova, Lieutenant Williams, and Lieutenant Mason are looking around. 
CAPT. BRANSON: I don't think my report to Starfleet will do this justice.
LTJG. MASON: A cabin in these woods would be nice. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Three weeks in deep space, you're ready to jump ship? 
LTJG. MASON (Smiles): Nah, and plus you guys would be lost without your tactical officer.
[John's communicator beeps.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson here go ahead.
LTJG. T'LAR [com voice]: Is there a problem Captain?
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: No, no problem. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BEAM DOWN POINT, DAY
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Why?
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: We were scheduled to rendezvous fifteen minutes ago. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BY A STREAM
Commander Ivanova rolls her eyes.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Sorry, we lost track of time we'll be right there Branson out.
[He closed his communicator and they head back to the beam down coordinates.]
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, DAY
Captain Branson, Commander Ivanova, Lieutenant Mason, and Lieutenant Williams shows up.
LTJG. T'LAR: We've identified several nocturnal marsupials. I'd like to keep crewmen Cutler and Novakovich with me overnight to study them.
CAPT. BRANSON: Alright but remember the Klingons might be here so be on the look out for them. 
LTJG. MASON: Captain, if it's all right with you, Stephanie and I'd like to stay as well. 
LT. WILLIAMS: We would? 
LTJG. MASON: When was the last time we got to campout under the stars? There's plenty of camping gear in the containers.
LTJG. T'LAR: This isn't shore leave Lieutenant.
CAPT. BRANSON: Why can't it be both work and fun exploring isn't the only reason we're out here pitch your tent Lieutenant.
Both Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova beam back to the Enterprise.
LTJG. MASON: Don't worry we'll keep out of your hair Lieutenant.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, SURVEY TEAM CAMPSITE, NIGHT
JACK: Keep in mind those cargo vessels weren't equipped for rescue operations, so the Captain wasn't sure what to do when he picked up the distress call. But it wasn't a ship that sent the signal. It was a life-pod from one of the old Y-500-class freighters. 
STEPHANIE: Those were retired when we got the more powerful warp drive system.
JACK: Exactly. The pod had been drifting in space for sixty three years. Bio-scans showed one life-sign inside the pod. Human. The assistant engineer, George Webb, a friend of my father's, was assigned to open it. Took him over an hour to cut through the hull. He said the metal felt strange, cold to the touch. 
STEPHANIE: Of course it was cold. It was floating in space for sixty years. 
JACK: He could hear a tapping noise coming from inside, but when he finally got it open the pod was empty. No body, nothing. A few days later, Webb started acting strange, getting into fights with the crew, muttering to himself in some sort of alien language. Then one day he locked himself in Engineering and overloaded the sub-light engine reactors. He almost destroyed the ship. Then he sealed himself in a life pod and ejected it. 
CUTLER
I assume the Captain went after him. 
JACK: No the engines were too badly damaged to attempt a retrieval of the pod, some people say it was an alien life form that got into him, others think it was the ghost of a dead crewman. I never knew what to believe, but Webb is still out there, drifting. When the subspace noise is real low, some com officers say they can still hear the echo of his distress call. Beep, Beep. 
[All laugh.]
LTJG. T'LAR: It's highly doubtful that a distress beacon could function continuously for sixty three years. 
JACK [groans]: Let me guess. No ghost stories on Vulcan. 
ELIZABETH [pointing up]: That's it, to the left of that trinary cluster.
JACK: What is?
ELIZABETH: Our sun. 
STEPHANIE: Are you sure? 
ELIZABETH: Yeah, positive. Just another speck of light no different than any other. 
JACK: When I was a kid I'd go camping with my buddies. We'd spend half the night looking up at the stars wondering what our own sun would look like from this far away. 
STEPHANIE: Now you know. 
Crewmen Novakovich starts feeling strange as Cutler looks at him.
ELIZABETH: Are you okay? 
ETHAN: Headache. If it's all right with you, I'd like to lie down for a while before we get back to work.
LTJG. T'LAR: Certainly I don't want my best officer to have a headache while we're observing some new life.
He heads to one of the tents.
CUTLER: Wait a minute. You notice something? Fireflies are gone. 
STEPHANIE: Nice going, Jack, you scared off the bugs. 
CUTLER: Maybe it's the ghost of George Webb.
(A gust of wind suddenly blows through the camp.) 
JACK: Looks like we might have ourselves a little weather. 
LTJG. T'LAR [re: Tricorder]: A front is approaching from the south west.
INT-JACK & STEPHANIE'S TENT
They're both in separate sleeping bags.
JACK: It must be gusting at eighty kph.
STEPHANIE: I remember the time on our honeymoon the place got hit with a seventy-one mile wind.
JACK: Trying being on a ship traveling through an ion storm with deflectors up.
INT-CREWMENS CUTLER & NOVAKOVICH'S TENT
Ethan gets up quickly. 
ETHAN: Did you hear that? 
CUTLER (Groggy): What? 
ETHAN: Someone's out there. 
CUTLER (groggy): It's the wind. 
She falls back to sleep as the young officer looks around. 
CUT TO:
INT-JACK & STEPHANIE'S TENT
JACK (leaping up): Ow! Son of a bitch! 
STEPHANIE: What's wrong? 
JACK: Something is in by bag. 
They see something strange. 
STEPHANIE: What is that? 
JACK: I don't know where's your boot. 
STEPHANIE: Are we allowed to step on bugs? 
JACK: Yeah if they're crawling in your sleeping bag, wait where did you put the phasers? 
STEPHANIE: You're going to shoot a bug? 
JACK: I'm just going to stun it and get it out of the tent. 
INT-LIEUTENANT T'LAR'S TENT
[T'Lar is seeing the couple move around and she picks up her communicator and flips it open.]
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: T'Lar to Mason.
LTJG. MASON [com voice]: Mason here
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Are you guys alright over there? 
CUT TO:
INT-JACK & STEPHANIE'S TENT
JACK [to com]: Oh no, just an eight inch scorpion thing inside our tent. 
INT-T'LAR'S TENT
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Do you require assistance?
LTJG. MASON [com voice]: I think we've got it under control
INT-JACK & STEPHANIE TENT
JACK: No not there, it's over there. 
[The tent ropes start to come loose.]
JACK [to com]: T'Lar, you said you found a cave this afternoon. 
INT-T'LAR'S TENT
LTJG. T'LAR: [to com]: About half a kilometers from here. 
INT-JACK & STEPHANIE'S TENT
JACK [to com]: I think we're going to need them.
[END OF ACT ONE, FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK FIVE CORRIDOR
Commander Ivanova is at the doors and presses the door panel.
 
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): Come in 
Doors opened. 
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
Doors opened and Commander Ivanova enters.
CAPT. BRANSON: What can I do for you Z?
LTCMDR. IVANOVA [re: PADD]: A wind storm's moving across the northern continent. It looks like a nasty one.
CAPT. BRANSON: The survey team?
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: They've taken shelter, but I'd recommend pulling them out. I've got a shuttle on standby.
[John walks over to his desk and toggles the com panel.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to bridge, Julia get me the survey team.
LTJG. SMITH [com voice]: Aye, sir
LTJG. T'LAR [com voice]: T'Lar here go ahead sir
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar what's your status?
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/CAVERNS
The survey team is in the cavern. 
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: We've relocated into a cavern. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Commander Ivanova thinks we should come down and get you 
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Sir a landing under these circumstances might be difficult. We'll be protected until the winds diminish. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
JOHN [to com]: We'll keep an eye on the storm. Let us know if you need anything. 
LTJG. T'LAR [OC]: Understood
CAPT. BRANSON: Keep the shuttle on standby, just in case. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Aye, sir. 
She leaves the quarters as Branson is a bit worried about his officers on the surface. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERNS
LTJG. T'LAR: Well we might as well start scanning this cavern to have something to do while we wait for the storm to die down and the Captain to come and pick us up, Cutler and Novakovich start running soil analysis.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Yes, Ma'am.
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Aye, Lieutenant.
They open the survey gear up again and start getting to work Lieutenant Mason walks over to one of the containers and inputs his security code and it unlocks and he opens it and it reveals type-III Phaser rifles and the type-II hand phasers, and starts passing the hand phasers out to the landing party.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Isn't that a bit overkill Lieutenant? 
LTJG. MASON: You heard the Captain Klingon forces might be here and these have been modified to handle them easier, I'm going to go have a little bit of a recon scouting. 
He turns the flashlight on the rifle on and heads deep into the cavern. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Is he always like that?
 
LT. WILLIAMS: Sometimes.
INT-DEEPER IN THE CAVERN
Lieutenant Mason is reconning the place out to make sure that no one is in there, when he hears something and sees that there's Klingon soldiers in the cavern and he slowly walks back to the main cavern.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTJG. MASON [com voice]: I only saw two of them sir I think they were forced into the caverns as well but I can't be sure 
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Have they detected you guys any?''
CUT TO:
INT-CAVERNS
LTJG. MASON [to com]: No sir they haven't yet. 
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: As long as we are not detected we should be safe. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Alright I'm coming down with a well armed strike team and we're getting you guys out of there
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Captain I would not recommend it. 
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): I'm not leaving you guys down there so they can attack and kill you guys 
LTJG. T'LAR [To com]: The wind is still going. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: We're....not.... 
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Captain? Survey team to Enterprise, Enterprise come in Enterprise respond? 
[END OF ACT 2, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
Enterprise is in orbit.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
[Yellow lights are flashing as Lieutenant Smith are working on her console trying to get ahold of the landing party on the surface, and turns to Captain Branson.]
LTJG. SMITH: Still nothing sir.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: The storm must be blocking communications.
ENS. CARLSON: Strange though.
Captain Branson sits in the Captain's chair as Commander Ivanova sits at her XO station.
CAPT. BRANSON: Julia get me Starfleet Command.
LTJG. SMITH (nods): Aye, sir.
INT-CAVERN
The survey team is gathered together so the Klingons doesn't know that they're in the cavern.
CREWMEN CUTLER: We've got to get out of here.
 
LT. WILLIAMS: How we don't have a shuttle Crewmen. 
Lieutenant Mason has his tricorder in his hand checking to see if the Klingons are heading towards them. 
LTJG. MASON: So far we're in the clear they've not detected us. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Logic dictates that we wait for the Captain to return with a security force. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Till we're dead? 
LT. MASON: Calm down Crewmen. 
Ethan looks worried and distraught. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: I've heard that Klingons eat their enemies when they run out of food.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Oh come on Ethan.
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: It's true!
LT. WILLIAMS: We don't need to panic. 
LT. MASON: She's right. 
Then they hear something and Jack aims his weapon at where its coming from. 
LT. MASON: Its time to move. 
They back up. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE HIGH WINDS 
The survey team are heading towards a Klingon shuttle that's in the clearing. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Lieutenant I hear something? 
Then he's shot by a red energy bolt and falls over dead. 
CREWMEN CUTLER [Shocked]: ETHAN!!!!! 
The team takes cover as green energy bolts fly by them and Lieutenant Mason fires his phaser rifle as orange energy bolts lance out of the barrel. 
LTJG. MASON: We need to get out of here! 
They fall back as Lieutenant Mason covers their escape. 
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT] 
Commander Ivanova and Captain Branson walks over to the science station. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Sensors detected weapons fire on the surface both Starfleet and Klingon. 
CAPT. BRANSON: So our survey team could be under attack and we can't do anything to help them. 
Then sensors rapidly beeped. 
ENS. SHERIDAN: One Klingon D7 warship decloaking directly ahead.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
A Klingon battle cruiser decloaks facing the Enterprise.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
[Transparent viewer shows the Klingon cruiser.]
CAPT. BRANSON: RED ALERT, DEFLECTOR'S UP!
[Lights dimmed and red lights flashing and klaxons blare.]
(END OF ACT THREE, FADE OUT) 
===Act 4===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
Enterprise is facing the D7 cruiser.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
[Crew are at their battle stations.]
ENS. JOHNSON: Phaser banks are fully charged torpedo launchers are fully loaded and deflectors are at full power.
CAPT. BRANSON: Julia hail them.
[Lieutenant Smith works at her console and turns to report.]
LTJG. SMITH: They're responding.
[Captain Branson gets up from the Captain's chair and walks up to the transparent viewer, as the screen shows the bridge of the Klingon cruiser.]
CAPT. BRANSON: I am John Branson Captain of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise.
CMDR. KOR [viewer]: I am Commander Kor commanding officer of the IKS Vorn Enterprise you have violated treaty
[John turns to Commander Ivanova then back at the viewer.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander Kor this is neutral space you can't claim any planets.
CMDR. KOR [viewer]: I am aware that you have a landing party on the surface of this planet
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah, we were surveying it as you know Starfleet explores as well as fight.
CMDR. KOR [viewer]: YOU LIE YOU'RE HERE TO ESTABLISH A MILITARY BASE!''
CAPT. BRANSON: Well this is here in Federation Space so yeah you do, so what I want is for you to beam up your people and get out of Federation held Space or I'll use the full might of my ship to make you leave. 
Transmission ends. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: You enjoyed it didn't you John? 
CAPT. BRANSON (smiles): Yes I did. 
He sits in the captain's chair.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/CAVERN
The survey team is avoiding Romulan patrols. 
LT. MASON: So far we're safe. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Oh yeah we're safe but we lost Ethan! 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Back off. 
Cutler leaves and rubs her forehead distraught at what happened to her friend. 
LT. MASON: Crewmen I'm sorry for what happened to Ethan but he wouldn't want us to fight each other as we're trying to survive. 
Then they're surrounded by a squad of Romulan soldiers and are disarmed and have their combadges removed. 
EXT-PLANET ORBIT 
The Enterprise is nose to nose with the Romulan vessel. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM 
COMM. PICARD (Monitor): What's your status John? 
CAPT. BRANSON: So far the Romulan vessel hasn't fired their disruptors but I wouldn't put past them to open up on us if it comes to it. 
COMM. KIRK (monitor): I'll speak to the Council in the meantime John don't provoke the Klingons 
CAPT. BRANSON: Aye, sir. 
COMM. KIRK (monitor): Kirk out 
Transmission ends and John turns the desktop monitor off and thinks about the survey team and toggles the com panel. 
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Branson to Bravo Team meet me in transporter room 2. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/CAVERN
The survey team is surrounded by a squad of Klingon soldiers. 
CMDR. Kor: You see Lieutenant T'Lar once we've extracted every bit of precious information you and your officers have I intend to have a public execution so it would inspire our soldiers for generations to come and prevent the Federation from expanding into our space whenever they feel like it. 
The survey team is put in a firing squad line. 
LT. WILLIAMS: I thought you were going to interrogate us? 
CMDR. KOR: Oh you misheard me Lieutenant we're going to extract them from your brains and in order to do that you all must not be living. 
Then phaser beams lance out as Captain Branson and Bravo Team shows up and Captain Branson walks over to Commander Kor. 
CAPT. BRANSON: You have been stopped here today Kor, Branson to Enterprise beam us up. 
The survey team and Captain Branson's rescue team dematerializes in front of Kor who isn't happy. 
EXT-SPACE 
The Enterprise pulls away from orbit and enters warp.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
Doctor Carlson and his medical staff are treating the survey team as Captain Branson walks in and walks over to him.
CAPT. BRANSON: How are they?
DR. CARLSON: They're lucky to be alive some has a few bruises but they'll make a full recovery they just need time to recover, and Crewmen Novakovich didn't make it back.
[Captain Branson isn't happy about losing an officer.]
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is traveling at warp.
[END OF ACT FOUR, FADE OUT, ENDING CREDITS]
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Jarvis Davidson as Captain John Branson
*Felecia Linkous as Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
===Also Starring===
*Kevin Regan as Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
*Ferne Myers as Lieutenant Stephanie Williams
*Blake Waymire as Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
*Sadie Brickhouse-Waymire as Lieutenant Junior Grade Julia Smith
*Jacob Elliot as Doctor Steven Carlson
===Guest Stars===
*TBA as Nurse Christine Chapel
*TBA as Security Officer Joshua Holiday
*TBA as Transporter Chief Kayla Mackenzie
*TBA as Commander Kor
*TBA as Crewmen Elizabeth Cutler
*TBA as Crewmen Ethan Novakovich 
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===