Breaking The Ice (TNG episode)

Breaking The Ice is the 8th episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation The Next Generation.
==Synopsis==
With a Vulcan ship on their tail, the Enterprise-E decides to investigate a comet.
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise is right next to a ice comet.
CAPT. MARTIN'S [voice over]: Captain's Log Stardate 53482.2, We picked up a ice comet three days ago and we are studying it
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the comet as Captain Martin is standing behind both ops and helm stations.
LT. SITO: The comet has a lot of magnetite deposits in it's core that we maybe able to extract and use for O2 scrubbers.
LTCMDR. KAL [smiles]: Sounds like we've got a digging mission.
CAPT. MARTIN: Looks like it.
Then Lieutenant Mason reports.
LT. MASON: Sir, sensors are detecting a vessel approaching us its not Romulans it reads as a Vulcan science vessel.
LTCMDR. KAL: Wonder why the Vulcans are here?
CAPT. MARTIN: I am not sure Jack open a channel. 
Captain Martin walks to the viewer as the screen changed to the Vulcan vessel. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Greetings I'm John Martin Captain of the Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is there something we can do for you? 
CAPT. VANIAK (viewer): I'm Captain Vanik of the Vulcan cruiser Ti'Mur may I ask what are you doing here Captain?
Captain Martin crosses his arms. 
CAPT. MARTIN: We're here to study this comet we picked it up three days ago. 
CAPT. VANIAK (viewer): Mind if we observe
Captain Martin does the throat slash gesture and Lieutenant Mason mutes the 
transmission, as he walks over to Commander Kal. 
CAPT. MARTIN: What do you think? 
LTCMDR. KAL: I say we wait and see what he has to say. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Resume audio. 
LT. MASON: Audio open. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Sure Captain you can observe. 
CAPT. VANIAK (viewer): Thank you Captain 
Transmission ends. 
Captain Martin sits in the Captain's chair and turns to Commander Kal.
CAPT. MARTIN: Jane, get me all information on Captain Vaniak.
LTCMDR. KAL: You got it.
Captain Martin is a bit tensed.
[END OF TEASER, FADE OUT]
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Theme music:
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Introduction:
CAPT. MARTIN'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!
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A shot of Starbase 1 and the USS Enterprise as she slowly departs from the base, as her warp engines powered up and leaps into warp.
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STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
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'BASED UPON STAR TREK CREATED BY:
GENE RODDENBERRY
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JARVIS DAVIDSON 
 AS
CAPT. JOHN MARTIN
The Enterprise flies by an asteroid
FELECIA LINKOUS
 AS
LTCMDR. JANE KAL
The Enterprise flies by Mars 
KEVIN REGAN
 AS
LT. JACK MASON
FERNE MYERS
 AS
LTCMDR. COURTNEY JAMES
USS Enterprise is flying next to a comet
DELENA "DEE" LUSK
 AS
LT. JAMIE KAYE
JACOB ELLIOT
 AS
DR. PETER LANGFORD
The Enterprise flies under a Pioneer-Class vessel
SADIE BRICKHOUSE
 AS
LT. SITO JAXA
The Enterprise flies by a planet as the sunsets 
BECKY ELLIOT
 AS
LTCMDR. T'MIR
The Enterprise flies by Earth and her warp nacelles power up and she leaps into warp.
CREATED BY:
JARVIS DAVIDSON & JEREMY REGAN
===Act 1===
FADE IN
(Episode Notes: Opening Credits fall over opening scenes)
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise is next to the ice comet along with a Vulcan science vessel.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Commander Kal hands Captain Martin the PADD with Captain Vaniak's profile on it.
CAPT. MARTIN: This is all you were able to get?
LTCMDR. KAL: The Vulcans didn't share much information on their personnel during Starfleet's early alliance with them.
CAPT. MARTIN: For someone who is such an enlighten race he has a funny way of showing it, fine. If Vanik is the kind of guy who likes to watch, let him anything else T'Lar?
She hands him another PADD.
LTCMDR. KAL: We're to record a message to the Princeton Elementary School at 1400 hours today.
CAPT. MARTIN: Right have Sito get to work on that and have the necessary officers report to the bridge when its ready.
LTCMDR. KAL: Speaking of Sito she's found something.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. MARTIN [surprised]: Eisilium? 
LTCMDR. KAL: It's an extremely rare mineral. This comet appears to contain large quantities of it. 
CAPT. MARTIN: I've never heard of eisilium.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Romulan chemists have only obtained small amounts. They've never been able to study it in detail.
CAPT. MARTIN [smiles]: This could be your chance. Can we collect a sample with the transporter?
LT. SITO: Most of the eisilium deposits are at least twenty meters beneath the crust. 
LTCMDR. JAMES: That's too deep to get a lock. 
LT. MASON: We've got the portable drilling rig, sir.
LT. KAYE: The comet's certainly big enough to land on. We could take a shuttle. 
LTCMDR. T'MIR: I'd advise setting down near one of the two poles. If you're out of direct sunlight, the surface ice will be more stable. 
CAPT. MARTIN: How long would you need? 
LT. MASON: Shouldn't take more than three or four hours. 
CAPT. MARTIN: You up for a little comet walk? 
LT. MASON: By all means. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Get started. 
Both Lieutenant Mason and Lieutenant Kaye leave the bridge to head to the shuttle bay.
LT. SITO: What do we do about our guest?
CAPT. MARTIN: We let them watch us work oh and I'll need these people for the recorded message we'll be sending to Earth at 1400 hours.
He hands out the PADDs to Commander James, Doctor Langford, and Lieutenant Sito.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise and the Vulcan cruiser are next to the comet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN SHUTTLE BAY
In the shuttlebay shuttlecraft Copernicus is being prep for take off as Captain Martin walks over to the landing party. 
LT. MASON: Captain we were just about to call you.
CAPT. MARTIN: Luckily I saved you the call I was just in the area and wanted to see how it was going.
LT. MASON: We're loading the drill up now.
LT. KAYE: And we should be finished before the comet is out of range.
CAPT. MARTIN: Well remember we've got the Vulcans watching us so be careful.
LT. MASON: We will sir.
Captain Branson leaves as both Lieutenant Mason and Lieutenant Kaye enter the shuttle.
EXT-SPACE
The shuttle bay doors opened and the Danube-class runabout leaves the heads towards the comet.
INT-COPERNICUS CANOPY
Lieutenant Kaye is at the pilot station as Lieutenant Mason is at the co-pilot station.
LT. KAYE: Wasn't expecting the turbulence to be this tough we should be in the eye of it.
LT. MASON: I wished I skipped lunch today.
Then the runabout stopped shaking.
LT. KAYE: We're through the worst part of it which is a good thing, now all we need to do is to find a landing spot got one its about a kilometer from to Lieutenant Sito's ore.
Lieutenant Kaye inputs commands into the helm station.
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The runabout lands and the door opened and both Lieutenant Mason and Lieutenant Kaye are in their EVA Suits and have the gear and are heading towards the drill site.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
The people that are going to answer the questions are on the bridge.
LT. SITO: We're coming at 1359 sir.
LTCMDR. JAMES (at Jack's station): You sure you want me here for this? I've got a lot of work to do.
CAPT. MARTIN: You stay there Commander.
LT. SITO: Whenever you're ready sir.
CAPT. MARTIN (Sighs): Let's do this then Sito start.
LT. SITO: Channel is open and we're recording.
CAPT. MARTIN (to com): To Mrs. Mullins class of Princeton Elementary in Princeton New Jersey, This is Captain John Martin aboard the starship Enterprise. On behalf of the entire crew, I'd like to thank you for your transmission. We all got a real kick out of your drawings and letters. You asked a lot of interesting questions. I wish we had time to answer all of them, but if we did that, we wouldn't get much exploring done. So I've selected a few, and hopefully our answers will give you a better idea of what life is like out here. Liam Brennan asks 'what do you eat?' For the most part, the same things you eat at home. Our Chef can make anything from a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to turkey with all the trimmings. We have a hydroponic greenhouse onboard where we grow fruits and vegetables, and we can also replicate certain foods with our protein resequencer. Here's one from Geoff Miles. 'Is dating allowed on Enterprise?' Well, it's not discouraged, but there isn't a lot of privacy on a starship. Most of our crew share quarters with at least one other person, so it wouldn't exactly be practical. But if two crewmembers decide that they really like each other, there are a lot of places they can go to look at the stars. Chloe O'Shannon wants to know, 'how do we talk to aliens?' I think I'll give that one to my Chief Operations Officer Lieutenant Sito Jaxa.
LT. SITO: Well, Chloe, that's a very good question. We use a device called the universal translator. It's like an alien dictionary with hundreds of languages programmed into it, and it can learn new languages very quickly, but it doesn't always work, and when that happens it's up to me to try to translate. I'm sure I don't have to tell you it can be really hard sometimes. One wrong word can mean the difference between saying 'take my hand' or 'take my life'. So far I have managed to do pretty well. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Thank you Sito.
He looks at the PADD.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Alright then Here's one from Molly McCook. 'When you flush the toilet, where does it go?' That sounds like an engineering question, so we'll ask Commander Courtney James our Chief Engineer. Court.
LTCMDR. JAMES: Pause will you.
Lieutenant Sito pauses.
LTCMDR. JAMES (A bit confused): A poop question, sir? Can't I talk about the warp reactor or the transporter? 
CAPT. MARTIN: I think its a very valid question Stephanie.
LTCMDR. JAMES [sighs]: Alright resume, The first thing you've got to understand is we recycle pretty much everything on a starship. That includes waste, and the first thing that happens to the waste is it gets processed through a machine called a bio-matter resequencer. Then it gets broken down into. Hold on. 
Sito pauses recording.
LTCMDR. JAMES: They're going to think I'm the sanitation engineer. 
CAPT. MARTIN [smiles]: You're doing fine Commander.
The recording is resumed.
LTCMDR. JAMES: So the waste is broken down into little molecules and then they get transformed into any number of things we can use on the ship. Cargo containers, insulation, boots, you name it. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Very enlightening, Commander.
He reads the next question.
CAPT. MARTIN: Gabrielle Witty wants to know if germs can live in space, and for that I am going to hand that off to my Chief Medical Officer Doctor Peter Langford.
DR. LANGFORD: Thank you Captain hello children now Gabrielle that's a very valided question germs. They may be tiny but they are among the most resilient organisms known to medical science. They can survive almost anywhere, on your kitchen counter, under your fingernail, in the vacuum of space. Over two hundred million space-dwelling microbes have been catalogued. One of the most virulent species lives inside grains of interstellar dust. Polycocyx astris. They can drift in a dormant state for millions of years and still cause a nasty cold. I once discovered a peculiar colony of spores on the hull of a.
CAPT. MARTIN: Thank you Peter I'm sure that you can record a class for them yourself when you have the time but I believe we've taken too much of their classtime, we miss home but we know that we're doing alot of good out here keeping the bad guys from getting to Earth and discovering new and different lifeforms and we're currently studying a comet the biggest one seen from anyone in the Alpha of Beta Quadrants Captain Martin out.
LT. SITO: Channel closed.
CAPT. MARTIN: That was fun.
Commander James leans on her husbands station.
EXT-SPACE
Unknown to them they're being watched.
[END OF ACT 1, FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The landing party is getting set up.
LT. MASON: I wish Courtney could see this.
LT. KAYE: I'm not sure she'd enjoy being on a comet in these damn EVA suits.
LT. MASON: True ah damn it.
LT. KAYE: What?
LT. MASON: The ore is 20 meters deep we'll have to use charges in order to get to it.
LT. KAYE: Lieutenant.
LT. MASON: Yes?
LT. KAYE: What do you think?
She built a snowman.
LT. MASON: Impressive hang on.
Mason picks up a plasma torch and gives it two eyes and a smiling mouth, and sticks the charge in as a nose.
LT. KAYE: Now all we need is a top hat and a pipe.
Then the com activates.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Enterprise to Away Team.
LT. MASON [to com]: Mason here go ahead.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: How is it going?
LT. MASON [to com]: Just fine sir we're having a bit of fun before we work.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the Away Team and the snowman.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: I'm sure I don't need to remind you we're being observed.
LT. MASON [com voice]: No, sir
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: We want this to go as smoothly as possible. 
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The pair are facing the snowman.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Make a good impression
LT. MASON [to com]: Right. 
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: So tell me,
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Who's the designer?
EXT-COMET SURFACE
LT. MASON [to com]: It won't be here for long sir.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Martin out.
Captain Martin looks over at Commander Kal who has a smile on her face.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE DOCTOR LANGFORD & COMMANDER T'MIR'S QUARTERS
T'Mir is working on the sensor data from the asteroid when the computer beeps and she walks over to the desk and the desktop monitor and activates it and Romulan symbols appear on the screen as T'Mir studies the message.
[END OF ACT TWO, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise and the Vulcan ship are next to the comet.
'INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING
Lieutenant Sito enters Engineering and walks over to Commander Williams office.
LT. SITO: You wanted to see me?
LTCMDR. JAMES (nods): With my husband off the ship I guess that makes you acting Chief Security officer.
LT. SITO: If you say so what's up?
LTCMDR. JAMES: Take a look at something, will you? I've been running diagnostics and I found some kind of power surge in the transceiver array. 
Lieutenant Sito looks at the screens read out.
LT. SITO: Its not a power surge or it would of overloaded by now, it looks like a encrypted transmission sent from an unknown location.
LTCMDR. JAMES: Who was it sent to?
She checks.
LT. SITO: Deck eight section A-5 quarters 809.
LTCMDR. JAMES [shocked]: Son of a bitch that's both Peter's and T'Mir's quarters.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Captain Martin reads the PADD.
CAPT. MARTIN: Are you sure it was sent to their quarters?
LTCMDR. JAMES: I wish we were wrong sir but it appears that it was sent to their quarters.
CAPT. MARTIN: Sito I want you to decrypt it.
LT. SITO: Aye, sir.
She leaves the ready room.
LTCMDR. JAMES: My question is why would anyone send a encrypted transmission to T'Mir they know they can go through official channels.
CAPT. MARTIN: Who knows why all I know is that we've got a Vulcan ship out there watching our every move and now a encrypted signal sent to my science officer without my knowledge.
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise and Vulcan vessel are following the comet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Captain Martin is pacing about as he's trying to determine who or what sent the encrypted signal to T'Mir, when the doors chimed.
CAPT. MARTIN: Come.
Doors opened and T'Mir enters.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Lieutenant Commander T'Mir reporting as ordered sir.
CAPT. MARTIN [smiles]: Still as loyal as ever huh T'Mir?
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Yes, sir Romulan officers are dedicated to their duties aboard the ships they serve on.
CAPT. MARTIN: I know it's been hard for you serving aboard the ship of your people's enemy.
T'Mir looks at him.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: It has been somewhat challenging sir but you and this crew have been good to me since I came aboard.
He picks up a PADD.
CAPT. MARTIN: Then ask me this why was an encrypted transmission sent to your quarters?
She looks at him.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: It was from my father R'Lok he serves in the Romulan Star Navy as a Commander he was the one who sent me and my mother away from Romulus in 2379 when Shinzon overthrew the Imperial Senate.
Captain Martin walks over to her.
CAPT. MARTIN: T'Mir has your father ever sent an encrypted message before now?
LTCMDR. T'MIR: His message was a strange he never sent me an encrypted message before it was always visual something must of happened to him, but what I don't know.
John understands her reactions he'd feel the same way if his dad did this strange thing.
CAPT. MARTIN: Hey, T'Mir remember this crew is a family you're never alone if you need to talk my door is always open.
LTCMDR. T'MIR [smiles]: Thank you Captain.
She leaves the ready room as John is still worried about his Chief Science Officer.
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise and the Vulcan ship are next to the ice comet.
EXT-COMET SURFACE
(The snowman has gained a large pair of pointy ears.) 
LT. KAYE: The ears are a nice touch. 
LT. MASON: I thought so. 
LT. KAYE: We should get out more often. 
LT. MASON: Don't get too comfortable. This landscape is about to change. Mason to Enterprise. 
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Go ahead
LT. MASON: Charges are set. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the Away Team's position.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Standby, Sito inform the Vulcans that its about to get loud.
LT. SITO: Aye, sir.
LTCMDR. KAL: You think they'll care?
CAPT. MARTIN: I'm not sure Jane, Enterprise to Away Team.
LT. MASON [com voice]: Go ahead sir
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Blast away.
CUT TO:
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The pair gets behind cover.
LT. MASON [to com]: Aye, sir fire in the hole.
He flips the switch and the charges go off and they inspect the crater.
LT. KAYE: Impressive.
LT. MASON: I was hoping for a little more symmetry.
LT. KAYE: I'll get the drill.
She goes to get the drill.
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise and Vulcan cruiser is next to the comet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM'''
Captain Martin is looking over reports and crew status reports when the doors chimed.
CAPT. MARTIN: Come.
Doors opened and Commander Kal enters.
LTCMDR. KAL: The Away Team has started drilling they should be done in a few hours.
CAPT. MARTIN: As soon as we're done we'll set course for Starbase 216 hopefully the Starfleet Science Division can use these ores for something.
LTCMDR. KAL: Same here.
CAPT. MARTIN: And soon we'll get rid of our spectators.
Then the doors chimed.
CAPT. MARTIN: Come.
Doors opened and Sito enters.
LT. SITO [re: PADD]: Captain we've got a problem.
She hands him the PADD.
CAPT. MARTIN [re: PADD]: Are you sure Sito?
LT. SITO: I've gone over my sensor readings five times I've even had T'Mir review it and we've got at least two minutes before the Away Team's position is exposed to the sun.
Both Martin and Kal are shocked by this discovery.
[END OF ACT THREE, FADE OUT]
===Act 4===
FADE IN
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The pair are still drilling as the com activates.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Enterprise to away team
LT. MASON [to com]: Mason here go ahead sir.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Report?
LT. MASON (to com): We hit a layer of magnesite and cracked a drill bit, but we've replaced it.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Well you may want to pick up the pace a bit.
LT. MASON [to com, confused]: Sir?
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: The comet's rotational axis shifted when you set off those charges. In about two hours the runabout will be facing the star
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: The temperature's going to shoot up by a couple of hundred degrees. I want you out of there before then.
EXT-COMET SURFACE
LT. MASON [to com]: We'll be done with time to spare, sir.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Be sure you are Martin out
They get back to work.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the Away Team picking up the pace a bit.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Bridge to transporter room 2 do you have a lock on the away team?
CHIEF MACKENZIE [com voice]: The comet's rotating axis is making it tough to get a solid lock on their bio-signs sir
Then Sito looks at her console.
LT. SITO: Captain, the comet is turning.
CAPT. MARTIN: Damn it.
EXT-COMET SURFACE
As the Away Team is packing up Jamie slips and falls back into the crater.
LT. KAYE: AHHHHHH!!!!
Jack goes to her.
LT. MASON: You alright?
LT. KAYE [groans]: I think my foot is broken.
[He helps her up from the crater and grabs the ore they extracted and heads to the runabout as a white dawn is looming below the horizon.]
LT. MASON: We're almost there.
LT. KAYE: It might be faster without the suits. 
LT. MASON: Yes, and a lot colder. 
[The sun has risen. There's a cracking sound.]
LT. MASON: What was that?
[They look down to see a network of cracks appearing in the ice in front of them. As they approach the runabout, the cracks start to become crevasses.]
LT. KAYE: I hope I never see snow again.
[They enter the runabout.]
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY
They sit at the consoles as Lieutenant Kaye quickly bring the engines on-line.
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The runabout powers up and starts to lift off.
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY
Alarms goes off.
LT. MASON: What's wrong?
LT. KAYE: We're having trouble lifting off!
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The runabout falls into the crevasses.
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY [RED ALERT]
Sparks fly from the ceiling and console screens fizzing in and out as red lights flash.
LT. MASON: You alright? 
LT. KAYE [groans]: We should have never ignited the thrusters. 
LT. MASON: Well, it's not like we had a choice. 
It rumbles a bit.
[END OF ACT FOUR, FADE OUT]
===Act 5===
FADE IN
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The Runabout is in the creavess that it fell in.
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY [RED ALERT]
Sparks are still raining down as Lieutenant Mason goes to one of the consoles as the screen says incoming transmission he presses the button.
LT. MASON [to com]: This is Lieutenant Jack Mason does anyone read?
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: You two okay?
LT. MASON: More or less how far did we fall?
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: About eighteen meters. We'll get you out of there.
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Just sit tight
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. SITO: It'll be tough with the tractor beam they're in a narrow part of the cavern.
Captain Martin gets up from the Captain's chair and walks to the helm station.
CAPT. MARTIN: I'll take it from here Ensign.
The relief conn officer vacates the helm station as Captain Martin sits down at it and inputs commands into the helm station.
EXT-ABOVE COMET SURFACE
The Enterprise flies over the runabout's former landing site.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Captain Martin is at the helm station as Lieutenant Sito is studying her console.
LT. SITO: Bring us in another fifty metres.
CAPT. MARTIN: Got it.
He inputs commands into the helm.
LT. SITO: Two meters starboard. A little more. 
Captain Martin presses the panel that has the maneuvering thrusters and brings the ship a bit more to starboard.
LT. SITO: There, right there. Synchronize to the rotation. Almost got it. 
She works on the console to get a solid lock then T'Mir reports.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Captain, detecting another vessel entering the system it's Starfleet.
CUT TO:
EXT-FEDERATION SPACE
The newly constructed U.S.S. Horizon emerges from warp and approaches the ice comet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. SITO: We're being hailed by the Horizon its Captain Murno.
CAPT. MARTIN: Take a message I'm busy.
LT. SITO: He wants to know if we need help.
CAPT. MARTIN: No, tell him we've got everything under control.
He works on the helm station.
EXT-ABOVE THE COMET SURFACE
The Enterprise's ventral section fires a tractor beam, that locks onto the runabout and starts to lift it up but then it starts fizzing in and out of phase.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. SITO: I'm losing the tractor lock!
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Those eisilium deposits are disrupting the tractor lock.
CAPT. MARTIN: Compensate with emergency power.
LT. SITO: It's not working!
EXT-COMET CAVERN
The tractor beam fizzes out and the Runabout falls.
INT-RUNABOUT CANOPY [RED ALERT]
More sparks erupt and Lieutenant Mason falls to floor.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Martin turns to Sito.
CAPT. MARTIN: Where are they?
LT. SITO: They've fallen another nine meters.
CAPT. MARTIN: Reset the tractor we'll try again.
LTCMDR. T'MIR: Captain, they're moving out of the sunlight. The surface ice is recrystallizing.
LTCMDR. KAL [worried]: In less than an hour that chasm will be sealed up again. 
CAPT. MARTIN: We'd better hurry then.
LTCMDR. KAL: John, there is another way Captain Munro.
CAPT. MARTIN: I rather leave him out of this.
LTCMDR. KAL: John I know that you have something called pride every Captain has it even Captain Hunter but you've got to learn to ask for help when you can't get the job done.
Captain Martin thinks.
CUT TO:
INT-RUNABOUT TENNESSEE CANOPY [RED ALERT]
[A big jolt.]
LT. KAYE: They've got us.
Console beeps as he presses it.
LT. MASON [to com]: Go ahead Enterprise?
CAPT. MUNRO [com voice]: This is Captain Munro of the U.S.S. Horizon, stand by to ignite your engines and return to your ship
EXT-COMET SURFACE
The Runabout's engines come to life and it flies back to the Enterprise and enters the shuttle bay.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Horizon.
CAPT. MARTIN: I thought you might want to take a look at the data we collected. You helped us bring it back, it's the least we can do. 
CAPT. MUNRO [viewer]: Thank you Captain we'll be able to get this back to Starfleet Command and the science division, how's your helm officer?
CAPT. MARTIN: She's got a broken knee but she'll make a full recovery.
CAPT. MUNRO [viewer]: Well, we better get back on course for the edge of Federation Space for our three year mission
CAPT. MARTIN: Then I won't keep you much longer see you in three years.
CAPT. MUNRO [viewer]: Safe travels Captain Martin
CAPT. MARTIN [nods]: Same to you and your crew.
Transmission ends.
Captain Martin sits in the Captain's chair as Commander Ivanova joins him in the XO Chair.
LTCMDR. KAL: Impressive ship.
CAPT. MARTIN [smiles]: Yeah.
EXT-SPACE
The two ships depart.
[END OF ACT FIVE, FADE OUT, ENDING CREDITS]
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Jarvis Davidson as Captain John Martin
*Felecia Linkous as Lieutenant Commander Jane Kal
===Also Starring===
*Kevin Regan as Lieutenant Jack Mason
*Ferne Myers as Lieutenant Commander Courtney James
*Jacob Elliot as Doctor Peter Langford
*Delena "Dee" Lusk as Lieutenant Jamie Kaye
*Sadie Brickhouse as Lieutenant Sito Jaxa
*Becky Elliot as Lieutenant Commander T'Mir
===Guest Stars===
*TBA as Lieutenant Junior Grade Harris Payne
*TBA as Transporter Chief Kayla Mackenzie
*TBA as Nurse Laurel Takahashi
*TBA as Captain Vanik
===Special Guest Star===
*TBA as Captain James Munro
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===