Strange New World (TOS episode)

Strange New World is the 2nd episode of the first season in Starship Enterprise.
==Synopsis==
An Enterprise landing party believes T'Shara is conspiring with a species of rock creatures on a strange class M planet. 
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is at high warp.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MESS HALL
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-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the planet.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Seventeen percent oxygen, eighty one percent nitrogen. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS (Smiles): Sounds like home. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Any people? 
Commander T'Shara checks her sensors. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: The planet supports a diverse ecology, but there are no signs of humanoid life.
CAPT. MARTIN: Still, someone may have a claim on it. We don't want to go waltzing into their back yard. Scan for marker buoys, beacons, man-made satellites.
LT. MASON: None in range, sir. Looks like no one's planted a flag just yet.
CMDR. CHIN-RILEY: Sounds like we just made our first discovery in the Shackleton Expanse. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Yes we have.
Then Commander T'Shara chimes in.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Captain. There are a number of protocols you may want to consider.
Captain Martin turns to her.
CAPT. MARTIN: Protocols?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Vulcan ships would begin by sending automated probes down to collect more detailed scans. If the planet proved to be Minshara-class, we would then conduct a geophysical survey from orbit.
LT. MITCHELL: Minshara-class?
LT. CARLSON: Suitable for humanoid life.
CAPT. MARTIN: How long will that take?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Six or seven days.
Everyone has an annoying look on their faces.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: You expect us to sit up here for a week while probes have all the fun?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: This planet has been here a long time. It will still be here in seven days.
CAPT. MARTIN: I understand that you have a more cautious approach, but we didn't come out here to tip-toe around but I'd like you to put together the survey team. I assume that's not a violation of protocol?
[END OF TEASER, FADE OUT]
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Theme Song:
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CAPTAIN MARTIN [voice over]: Space The Final Frontier These are the Voyages of the Starship Enterprise its Five-Year 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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STARSHIP ENTERPRISE
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
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The Enterprise slowly leaves dry-dock.
Jarvis Davidson
 as
Captain John Martin
The Enterprise flies by a interstellar dust cloud.
Felecia Linkous
 as
Commander Una Chin-Riley
The Enterprise approaching a nebula.
Kevin Regan
 as
Lieutenant Jack Mason
The Enterprise approaches a planet.
Ferne Myers
 as
Lieutenant Commander Stephanie Williams
The Enterprise flies by a planetary system
Blake Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Tyson Mitchell
Delena "Dee" Lusk
 as
Lieutenant Kara Carlson
The Enterprise flies through a debris of planets as a rock smashes into a larger rock.
Sadie Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Julia Smith
The Enterprise flies next to a Federation Dreadnought.
Jacob Elliot
 as
Doctor Steven Carlson
The Enterprise departs from orbit.
Becky Elliot
 as
Lieutenant Commander T'Shara
The Enterprise pauses as her warp engines power up and she leaps into warp as particle streams emit from the backs of her nacelles.
CREATED BY:
JARVIS DAVIDSON & JEREMY REGAN
===Act 1===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
[EPISODE NOTES: OPENING CREDITS FALL OVER OPENING SCENES]
The Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM
The survey team are getting the gear prepared for the mission as Crewmen Cutler looks at Commander T'Shara.
CREWMEN CUTLER: I tried some plomeek broth this morning. It was very good. Vulcan food is interesting.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Did you sterilize the sample containers?
CREWMEN CUTLER: Yes, ma'am. Thanks for choosing me for this mission.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: You were selected because your specialty is entomology. This planet has a diverse insect population.
T'Shara walks to the transporter.
CREWMEN CUTLER [sotto]: Great.
She goes to join the rest as Commander Williams looks over at her.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: You'd have better luck making friends with a housefly.
CREWMEN CUTLER [sighs]: I know.
CAPT. MARTIN: Energize.
Chief Mackenzie activates the transporter as the survey team dematerialized.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, DAY
The survey team materialized.
CAPT. MARTIN: I almost forgot what fresh air smells like.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [re: tricorder]: The atmosphere contains trace elements of nitrogen dioxide, chloromethane.
CAPT. MARTIN: Put that thing away. Take a minute to enjoy yourself. The sky ever get this blue on Vulcan?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Occasionally.
T'Shara turns to the survey teams. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: You have your assignments. We'll rendezvous here at nineteen hundred hours.
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-DAY
Captain Martin, Commander Chin-Riley, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Carlson, and Lieutenant Commander Williams are walking by the stream.
CAPT. MARTIN [smiles]: I'm afraid my log entry isn't going to do this justice.
LT. MASON: A cabin in these woods would be nice. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Three weeks in deep space, you're ready to jump ship? 
LT. MASON [smiles]: Nah, and plus you guys would be lost without your tactical officer.
LT. CARLSON: It's beautiful all right, but I couldn't call a place home unless it came with engines.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [snickers]: Boomers.
They stop by a stream as Stephanie takes yet another photograph, and the communicator chirps as Captain Martin gets out his communicator and flips it open.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Martin here.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: Is there a problem Captain?
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: No, no problem.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BEAM DOWN SITE-DAY
The survey team had returned.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Why?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: We were scheduled to rendezvous fifteen minutes ago.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/BY A STREAM-DAY
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Sorry, we lost track of time. We'll be right there.
He closes the com device and they head back to the landing site.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BEAM DOWN SITE-DAY
Captain Martin, Commander Chin-Riley, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Carlson, and Lieutenant Commander Williams shows up as Commander T'Shara walks over to them.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: We've identified several nocturnal marsupials. I'd like to keep crewmen Cutler and Novakovich with me overnight to study them.
CAPT. MARTIN: I'm glad to see you're getting into the spirit of things. Pick you up in the morning.
LT. MASON: Captain, if it's all right with you, Stephanie and I'd like to stay as well. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: We would?
LT. MASON: When was the last time we got to campout under the stars? There's plenty of camping gear in the pod.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: This isn't shore leave, this is a research mission. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Why can't it be a little bit of both? Research isn't the only reason we're out here. Pitch your tent, Lieutenant.
LT. MASON: Thanks sir don't worry Commander we'll keep out of your hair.
T'Shara is annoyed.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, 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. Bioscans 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 comm. officers say they can still hear the echo of his distress call. Beep, Beep. 
(All laugh.) 
CUTLER (pointing up): That's it, to the left of that trinary cluster. 
JACK: What is? 
CUTLER: Our sun. 
STEPHANIE: Are you sure? 
CUTLER: 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. 
CUTLER: 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. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Certainly. 
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. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: A front is approaching from the south west. 
INT-TENT ONE
Both Jack and Stephanie are in their sleeping bags as the wind is whipping by their tent. 
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-TENT TWO
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. 
INT-TENT ONE
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-COMMANDER T'SHARA'S TENT
Commander T'Shaa picks up her communicator and opened it. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA (to com): T'Shara to Mason are you guys alright over there? 
INT-TENT ONE 
JACK (to com): Oh no, just an eight inch scorpion thing inside our tent. 
INT-COMMANDER T'SHARA'S TENT
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Do you need help? 
LT. MASON (com voice): No I think we've got it under control 
INT-TENT ONE 
JACK: No not there, it's over there. 
(The tent ropes start to come loose.) 
JACK (to com): T'Shara, you said you found a cave this afternoon. 
INT-COMMANDER T'SHARA'S TENT 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA (To com): About half a kilometers from here. 
INT-TENT ONE 
JACK (to com): I think we're going to need them. 
[END OF ACT ONE, FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-SHACKLETON EXPANSE PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
John is looking at a few reports when the doors chimed.
CAPT. MARTIN: Come.
Doors opened and Commander Chin-Riley enters.
CAPT. MARTIN: Una what can I do for you?
CMDR. CHIN-RILEY: A wind storm's moving across the northern continent. It looks like a nasty one. 
She hands him the PADD.
CAPT. MARTIN: The survey team?
CMDR. CHIN-RILEY: They've taken shelter, but I'd recommend pulling them out.
CAPT. MARTIN: Can we beam them out?
CMDR. CHIN-RILEY: Negative there's too much interference from the storm to get positive locks on them I've got a shuttle on standby.
They leave the ready room.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
They walk onto the bridge.
CAPT. MARTIN: Julia open a channel to the survey team.
LT. SMITH: Aye, sir.
John walks to the Captain's chair and toggles the com panel.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Enterprise to survey team.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: T'Shara here
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: What's your status? 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE CAVERN
The survey team puts their gear down.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: We've relocated into a cavern.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Commander Chin-Riley thinks we should come down and get you
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: Captain beaming down or up under these circumstances might be difficult. We'll be protected until the winds diminish.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: We'll keep an eye on the storm. Let us know if you need anything.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: Understood
John ends the com call as he looks at Lieutenant Carlson.
CAPT. MARTIN: Kara keep the shuttle on standby just in case.
LT. CARLSON [nods]: Aye, sir.
John sits back in the Captain's chair as he's worried about the survey team.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
The survey team is around the gear.
LT. MASON: Anyone got the food packs? 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Not me. 
LT. MASON: Steph? 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Nope. 
LT. MASON: I'll go get it. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Be careful. 
Lieutenant Mason leaves to go get the food pack. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAMPSITE, NIGHT
Jack pounces on a food pack blowing in the wind, then sees a figure walking in the trees. 
LT. MASON [confused]: Steph? Hello? 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
Jack returns with the food pack. 
LT. MASON: Was anybody outside just now? 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Just you why? 
LT. MASON: There's someone else out there. (hands over sole food pack) 
CREWMEN CUTLER [confused]: What? 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Alright, I think we have had enough ghost stories. 
LT. MASON: It's not a story. I saw three people.
CREWMEN CUTLER [worried]: Three? What did they look like? 
LT. MASON: It was too dark. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: We've scanned the planet, it's uninhabited. 
LT. MASON: Its the truth. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Commander?
[T'Shara runs her scans on her tricorder.]
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [re: tricorder]: Other than ourselves, there are no humanoid life forms here. 
LT. MASON: There could be something wrong with your scanner. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: It's functioning perfectly. Perhaps you imagined seeing them. 
LT. MASON: They looked pretty real to me. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Calm down Jack come here get something to drink. 
She takes her husband over get some water. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: You've been up for over an hour since we've had to relocate to the caverns and its a bit toasty in here, you're sweating up a storm. 
LT. MASON: I'm sorry that you are down here seeing me like this Steph. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [smiles]: It's alright Jack I wanted to spend time with you. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Ethan? 
(Ethan is very tense and swinging his torch around.) 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: There's someone back there. I heard voices. Are you going to tell me I'm imagining things too? It's not safe here. 
LT. MASON: We don't know that. They could be friendly. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Then why are they hiding? Why don't they come out and say hello? We should leave. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Where do you propose we go, back out into the storm? 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: It's better than being trapped in here. 
LT. MASON: Calm down Crewmen. 
Novakovich dashes out. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: ETHAN! 
LT. MASON: Stay here we'll be back. 
Lieutenant Mason walks over to a container and opens it and it has type-2 phasers he gets one and he hands one to Commander Williams and they both set out to search for Novakovich, Commander T'Shara gets the third phaser.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I'll be back shortly. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Where are you going? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: If there's someone back there, I intend to find them.
(She heads deeper into the cavern. Cutler takes the final phaser.) 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, NIGHT
Both Jack and Stephanie are searching for Crewmen Novakovich. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [tricorder]: ETHAN! 
LT. MASON: ETHAN! 
[They continue to search for him as Commander Williams shines her SIM Beacon on a rock as she sees a figure emerge from it.] 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: JACK!
Lieutenant Mason rushes over to her.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I saw one of them.
She scans the rock.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [re: tricorder]: Tricorder scans just show a regular rock face let's keep searching.
They keep searching.
CUT TO:
INT-CAVERN
[Cutler hears voices and goes deeper into the tunnels to investigate.]
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, NIGHT
As they continue searching for Novakovich Jack nearly goes off a cliff face but Stephanie grabs him in time.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: It's too dangerous Jack let's head back.
They head back to the cavern.
CUT TO:
INT-CAVERN
[Cutler follows the voices and sees T'Shara talking to two aliens who then merge into the rocks.]
CREWMEN CUTLER: Who were they? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Excuse me? 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Well, who were you talking to? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Talking to? There's no one here. 
T'Shara heads back to the main cavern as Cutler follows her as well.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LT. MASON [com voice]: We've lost Novakovich and we're apparently not alone. There's some kind of lifeform down here
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Can you make it back to the cavern?
LT. MASON [com voice]: We're heading there now, sir
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: I'm on my way now.
He ends the com call.
CAPT. MARTIN: Kara, you're with me Una you've got the conn.
Both Captain Martin and Lieutenant Carlson enters the lift as Commander Chin-Riley sits in the Captain's chair.
CUT TO:
INT-MAIN CAVERN
Both Stephanie and Jack return. 
LT. MASON: The Captain's coming down to get us. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: But what about Ethan? 
LTCMDR. JAMES: We couldn't find him. 
LT. MASON: From what I saw, these things live inside the rock.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I performed a geological analysis. The rocks are composed of limestone and cormalite, nothing more.
CREWMEN CUTLER: She's lying, Lieutenant. I saw her talking to them. 
LT. MASON: Crewman? 
CREWMEN CUTLER: In there. There were two of them. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: She's mistaken. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: No, I'm not. Why won't you tell us what's going on? What do they want? 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE
The Class-F shuttle Gardner descends down to the landing site. 
INT-GARDNER CANOPY [RED ALERT]
Both Captain Martin and Lieutenant Carlson are at the pilot and co-pilot stations.
LT. CARLSON: I've got a fix. Twenty kilometers north east.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Martin to Novakovich. Ethan, respond. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE-STORMY & NIGHT
Crewmen Novakovich is huddled on a rock freaking out.
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH [to com]: Who's there? Who is that?
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: It's Captain Martin we're attempting to land I need you to get back to cavern with the others.
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH [to com]: GO TO HELL!!!
INT-MAIN CAVERN
The survey team is gathered.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I have no reason to deceive you.
LT. MASON: Neither does she. You keep claiming these creatures don't exist, but the rest of us have all seen them. That's a little strange, don't you think? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I can't explain what you've seen, but I assure you I didn't speak to anyone.
LT. MASON: I'd like to believe you, but you Vulcans don't exactly have a spotless track record when it comes to being honest with us.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Your point?
LT. MASON: You've held things back before. You might be doing it again.
Jack's communicator chirps as he gets it out and flips it open.
LT. MASON [to com]: Mason here.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: We're closing in on your position, Jack. There's a clearing a hundred meters from the cave entrance. Get to it. 
They leave the cavern.
CUT TO:
INT-GARDNER CANOPY
LT. CARLSON: I'm reading them. Two kilometers due west. 
Captain Martin inputs commands into the helm station. 
CAPT. MARTIN: I'm taking us down. There's a lot of wind shear near the surface. Activate the auxiliary landing thrusters. Altitude seventy meters, forty meters. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BEAM DOWN SITE, NIGHT
The survey team shows up and sees the shuttle attempting to land.
INT-GARNDER CANOPY [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN: I'll have to try a different vector.
LT. CARLSON: To starboard!
CAPT. MARTIN: I see it.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE
The starboard nacelle grazes a rocky outcrop.
INT-GARDNER CANOPY [RED ALERT]
WHUMPH! Sparks erupt from the ceiling.
LT. CARLSON: Thruster four's down. We're leaking plasma coolant. 
CAPT. MARTIN: Seal it, we're almost down.
LT. CARLSON: Sir, we can't safely land in this wind with a thruster out.
Captain Martin realizes this and inputs commands into the helm.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BEAM DOWN SITE, NIGHT
The shuttle leaves as the landing party looks up as Jack's communicator chirps as he gets it out and flips it open.
LT. MASON [to com]: Mason here.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: We're going to have to wait
INT-GARDNER CANOPY [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Until the wind dies down. Try to manage till then. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CLEARING [NIGHT, WINDY]
LT. MASON [to com]: We'll do our best, sir. 
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: If you run across
INT-GARDNER CANOPY [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN: Anymore of these aliens, try to make contact. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CLEARING [NIGHT, STORMY]
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: See what you can find out about them
LT. MASON [to com]: Aye, sir.
Jack look over at Commander T'Shara.
[END OF ACT TWO, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
INT-MAIN CAVERN
[Sitting against the wall.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: You alright?
CREWMEN CUTLER: Never better.
Lieutenant Mason looks at T'Mir.
LT. MASON: You heard the Captain. He wants to know about your friends. What are you going to tell him? What are you going to tell him? 
T'Shara looks at him.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: This is pointless. 
LT. MASON: Is it? We're stuck down here for God knows how long with a bunch of rock people who, for all we know, are staring at us from these walls right now. Not to mention a crewman out there who probably won't last the night. Now if we're going to get through this, I need to know what the hell's going on. You beginning to see my point?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I share your concern for crewman Novakovich, but as I told you...
LT. MASON: You couldn't care less about him or any of the rest of us. That would require some of those useless human emotions.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Your emotions are beginning to affect your judgment. You're becoming irrational. 
Jack gets in her face.
LT. MASON: You've never seen me irrational.
Then Elizabeth looks at him.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Sir. I hate to add to our problems, but we're running low on water. 
LT. MASON: Great. We'll have to conserve what's left. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: That won't be necessary. 
[She points further into the cavern.]
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I detected water about sixty meters in that direction.
LT. MASON: How do we know you're not going in there to talk to your friends?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Join me if you'd like. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: It could be a trap, Lieutenant. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I can survive without water for several days. Can you?
Then he aims his phaser at her as the light turns from blue to red.
LT. MASON: Sit down.
He takes her phaser from the holster and tosses it to the ground.
LT. MASON: You heard me.
T'Shara sits down as Stephanie is a bit worried about her husband.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Captain Martin walks onto the bridge and walks over to communications.
CAPT. MARTIN: How is he?
LT. SMITH: Not good his bio-signs are erratic.
CAPT. MARTIN: Try him again.
LT. SMITH [to com]: Enterprise to Novakovich.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, NIGHT
Crewmen Novakovich is in a ball curled up scared not even acknowledging Smith's voice.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Ethan's screams come over the com.]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Bridge to Transporter room Mack do you have a lock on him.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM [YELLOW ALERT]
CHIEF MACKENZIE [to com]: Yes, sir.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Looks like our only choice
CHIEF MACKENZIE [to com]: Understood standby.
[She begins to beam Ethan up.]
CHIEF MACKENZIE [to com]: There's a problem, sir. There are contaminants in the matter stream. The phase discriminator can't seem to isolate the debris. 
[Crewmen Novakovich finally materializes with twigs and leaves stuck on him.]
CHIEF MACKENZIE [to com]: Mackenzie to sickbay medical emergency transporter room.
She checks his pulse.
INT-CAVERN
Commander T'Shara is working on her tricorder.
LT. MASON [pacing]: What are you doing?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Working.
LT. MASON: Find anything you want to tell me about?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: There's nothing of scientific interest on this planet. Our mission here was a waste of time. 
LT. MASON: That's what you'd like us to think. Let me see that thing. 
[takes scanner off her.]
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: The readings are in Vulcan. You won't understand them. 
LT. MASON: No, but Julia would. This could be evidence. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Of what? 
LT. MASON: Your little conspiracy. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I was wrong. There is something of interest here. I've learned a great deal about human behavior. 
LT. MASON: Oh? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Under stress, you become volatile. You're a far more dangerous species than I previously believed.
LT. MASON: Your people have been telling us that kind of crap for a hundred years. Looks like you finally found a way to put us back in our cage.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Jack?
LT. MASON: Imagine the news back home, Court. Enterprise crew found dead. Six weeks into their historic voyage, the bodies of all four hundred and thirty crewmembers were located on an uninhabited world. A Vulcan ship made the unfortunate discovery. Cause of death remains a mystery. But what the Vulcans won't say is they know exactly who attacked us. In fact, they arranged the whole thing. They lured us down here so they could sabotage our mission. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: You were the one who found these caves, and it was your idea to stay overnight.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: I didn't ask you or Mister Mason to join us.
LT. MASON: We know you're here. Why don't you show yourselves? You're not afraid of us, are you? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: There's no one there, Lieutenant. 
LT. MASON: Maybe you're waiting for the others to come down so you can kill us all at once. Did you see that?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: ALL I SEE IS A DELUSIONAL TACTICAL OFFICER!
LT. MASON: Sounds like you're getting a little volatile yourself, Commander. I thought you had your emotions all locked up. Having a little problem, are you?
Stephanie sees something slither across the rock roof.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: JACK!
[Mason fires his phaser as sparks erupt from where the beam hit.]
LT. MASON: You think I'm going to wait around here for you to slaughter us? I'll blow this whole cave apart if I have to. I know you hear me! 
He keeps his phaser trained on T'Shara.
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INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
Captain Martin and Commander Chin-Riley walks into sickbay and over the surgical bio-bed as Doctor Carlson is treating Crewmen Novakovich he sees them and he walks over to them.
DR. CARLSON: We were able to remove the debris from his body he'll make a full recovery.
CAPT. MARTIN: Can I talk to him?
DR. CARLSON: Yes, but I doubt he'll make much sense. Have you ever heard of tropolisine.
Commander Chin-Riley chimes in.
CMDR. CHIN-RILEY: In 2151 the crew of the Enterprise NX-01 encountered it on a world in Federation Space.
DR. CARLSON: Well, Mister Novakovich's bloodstream was filled with it.
CAPT. MARTIN: Will this stuff effect T'Shara?
DR. CARLSON: There's no way to know. It might affect her to a lesser degree, or a greater degree.
John walks over to the com panel and toggles it.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Enterprise to T'Shara.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
Commander T'Shara opens her communicator.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: T'Shara here.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]:We've got Crewmen Novakovich
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: And I have a phaser pointed at my head. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: What?
LT. MASON [com voice]: Our chief science officer is working with the Romulans Captain she was the reason we came down here
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Jack put the phaser down.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [com voice]: This Commander Williams sir, he's not responding he seems to be infected by something
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Listen to me. You've all been exposed to a psychotropic compound. It causes heightened anxiety and possibly hallucinations. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: The compound comes from the pollen of a flower. We think it was blown down from the mountains when the wind started. The doctor's run tests on Novakovich. He thinks he's going to be okay in a few hours. So if you can get As deep as you can into the caves, your symptoms should dissipate around the same times.
LT. MASON [to com]: Are you telling me those creatures aren't real? 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: You dealt with simulations very close to this in Starfleet training. You're familiar with mind-altering agents. We'll be down to get you as soon as the winds let up. 
LT. MASON [com voice]: You're not down here, Captain
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
LT. MASON [to com]: You don't understand what's going on.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Put your weapon down, Jack. That's an order. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
Lieutenant Mason slowly lowers his weapon.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: T'Shara?
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: He has lowered his weapon sir.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Have you been affected? 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: Yes, but only slightly.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Try to hang on Martin out
[Lieutenant Mason sits down.]
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN: Get back to the bridge I want a weather report.
[Chin-Riley leaves as John's worried about the survey team.]
[END OF ACT 3, FADE OUT]
===Act 4===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
Lieutenant Mason gets worse.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Jack, can you hear me?
Jack still watching T'Shara.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: [speaking Vulcans]
LT. MASON: I have no idea what you just said, but it didn't sound very nice. You're making a mistake working with her. She'll stab you in the back first chance she gets. Tell you what. Come out and we'll settle this peacefully. Whatever she told you about humans, it's not true. You can see for yourself. Say something! 
(He fires his phaser at the wall just past T'Shara. She doesn't flinch.) 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: JACK, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD STOP YOU'RE GOING TO BRING THIS WHOLE CAVERN ON TOP OF US!
[Jack turns to Stephanie has his phaser trained on her as she backs up worried he's going to shoot her, as T'Shara goes for the other phaser.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [worried]: Jack, you're better then this don't do something you're going to regret later on down the road.
Jack quickly turns to face T'Shara who has the other phaser but its on the stun setting.
LT. MASON: They're trying to kill us. 
(Mason sees her with the pistol, and they face off.) 
LT. MASON: Nice try. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: [Speaking Vulcan]
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
Captain Martin, Commander Chin-Riley are at the science station watching the weather pattern as Lieutenant Hansen is at the science station giving them his report.
LT. HANSEN: The center of the storm's already passed over them, but the system spans some five hundred kilometers. We won't be able to beam down to the surface.
CAPT. MARTIN: How long will that be?
LT. HANSEN: Nine hours.
[Com activates.]
DR. CARLSON [com voice]: Carlson to Martin
Captain Martin toggles the com panel on his command chair's right arm.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Martin here.
DR. CARLSON [com voice]: Please report to sickbay right away
John looks over at Commander Chin-Riley and leaves the bridge.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [distraught]: I thought you said he was going to be fine.
DR. CARLSON [distraught]: I did, but each tropolisine atom contains a stray neutron. When it started to break down in his bloodstream it released an undetectable toxin. I've injected him with inoprovalene but I think it may be too late. If I'd run a sub-molecular scan I might have anticipated the complication, but there was no reason to. At least, there didn't seem to be. I can't tell you how sorry I am, Captain. 
John turns to face him.
CAPT. MARTIN: What about the others?
DR. CARLSON: They spent less time exposed. 
CAPT. MARTIN: I've got four people down on the surface, Doctor. I need to know if they're going to be dead when we get there in the morning.
Captain Branson leaves sickbay as the camera moves down and is at a wounded Novakovich.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
[Lieutenant Mason and Commander T'Shara have their phasers aimed at each other.]
LT. MASON: Stay awake, Steph. I can't afford to have you going out on me. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I'm trying Jack.
LT. MASON: Cutler, you okay? (to T'Shara) If you're waiting for me to pass out, you're wasting your time. You might as well have your friends come out now, do whatever they're going to do.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: Drop the phaser Lieutenant that's an order.
LT. MASON: I don't take orders from traitors.
T'Shara's communicator chirps and she gets it and flips it open.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [to com]: T'Shara here.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: How are you doing?
LT. MASON: Who the hell is that?
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Its the Captain Jack, are you guys alright?
LTCMDR. T'MIR [to com]: He's irrational, sir. Williams and Cutler are nearly unconscious''
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Both of you listen to me very carefully. Novakovich may be dying
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Turns out the pollen contains some kind of toxin our sensors hadn't detected. He's responding to medication, but his odds of recovery would be a hell of a lot better if we'd treated him sooner. The Doctor and Christine are synthesizing ampoules of inoprovalene. We're going to have to use the transporter to get it to you, but it's imperative that you inoculate yourselves as soon as possible. Do you understand what I'm saying? 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE CAVERN
LT. MASON [to com]: Taking an injection isn't going to change a damn thing, don't you see that? They're planning something, Captain. First us, then all of you. 
LTCMDR. T'SHARA: [in Vulcan]
 CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: (in Vulcan)
LT. SMITH [to com]: (in Vulcan)
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [ com voice]: (in Vulcan)
John walks over to her.
LT. SMITH: She says Trip's going to kill her, and I don't think she's imagining it. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE CAVERN
LT. MASON: Say one more word of that gibberish and I'm going to split you in two. 
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Jack, listen to me
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: The pollen's affecting her too. Think about it. You've heard of people suffering from dementia who revert to their native language. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: She can't help it
LT. MASON: The only thing that's affecting her are those rock people. If I can stop her now, I can save Enterprise. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Jack, there's no bio-scans on the surface we've ran several scans and we've not detected any of them.
[Then Jack sees two rock people stand up behind T'Shara.]
LT. MASON [to com]: Too late, Captain. I'm not going to die with a hypospray in my hand.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Jack!
LT. MASON [to com]: No! It's not going to happen.
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Alright!
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Forget the medicine. I think it's time I explain what's really going on, but just stand by for a minute. I need Commander Chin-Riley to target your position.
EXT-PLANT SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Then I'll give you your orders
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Martin to Carlson its now or never.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM II [YELLOW ALERT]
DR. CARLSON [to com]: Understood.
[Doctor Carlson puts the case of hyposprays on the platform.]
DR. CARLSON: How close can you get it to them?
CHIEF MACKENIZE: I think I can safely place it two meters inside the mouth of the cave. 
DR. CARLSON: Good.
Chief Mackenzie works at the transporter console and activates the transporter as Steven is worried about his wife.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, MAIN CAVERN
Lieutenant Mason and Commander T'Shara are the only two awake and standing aiming phasers at each other.
LT. MASON [to com]: Captain? Hello? I'm waiting for that order.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
LT. MASON [com voice]: But I can't wait much longer
CAPT. MARTIN: Alright, Jack. This is a major breach of security, but I'm going to have to trust you. 
LT. MASON [com voice]: Standing by now sir
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Starfleet sent us here to make contact with a silicon-based life form. T'Shara was the only person granted clearance.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: To speak with them. Seems they've met Vulcans before
LT. MASON [to com]: Why didn't you tell me as I am the ship's chief security officer.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: When a mission's classified top secret, I don't ask why.
LT. MASON [com voice]: If it was so top secret, then why'd you let us all come down to the surface? Let us spend the night?
LT. SMITH [sotto]: The winds.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: We never thought the storm would drive you into the caves. That's where these people live. They didn't want anybody in there except for T'Shara, so they're not too happy right now. I'm sure you can understand that. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: They've even threatened to destroy Enterprise. Now, T'Pol needs to explain to them why you're all there, but she's not going to have much credibility with you pointing a phaser at her
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [YELLOW ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: If they agree to listen to her, you'll need to lower your weapon. If they don't, I'm going to have Ty destroy the cavern. Sacrificing four more crewmen is a small price to pay to save Enterprise.
LT. MASON [com voice]: I understand
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: Now, I'm going to ask Julia to tell T'Shara everything I just told you in Vulcan. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: Do you have an issue with that?
LT. MASON [sweating and shaking, to com]: G-Go ahead.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. MARTIN [nods]: Go ahead.
LT. SMITH [to com]: (in Vulcan)
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: (in Vulcan)
LT. SMITH: She says play-acting isn't exactly a Vulcan tradition, but she'll do her best.
LTCMDR. T'SHARA [com voice]: [in Vulcan]
CAPT. MARTIN: Hope she knows the difference between stun and kill.
He goes to the Captain's chair and toggles the com panel.
CAPT. MARTIN [to com]: They've agreed to talk to her, Trip, so lower your weapon.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
CAPT. MARTIN [com voice]: And act real friendly
[Lieutenant Mason begins to lower the phaser, and looks around, then T'Shara fires at him and he falls. She goes to the mouth of the cave to collect the hyposprays and injects Mason and Cutler. Williams resists.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: No.
[T'Shara nerve-pinches her and injects her anyway, before finally injecting herself.]
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
The Enterprise soars at warp.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
Jack wakes up and looks over at Captain Martin and Doctor Carlson.
LT. MASON: C-Captain?
He slowly gets up but Carlson puts his hand on his chest.
DR. CARLSON: Easy there Lieutenant.
LT. MASON: She shot me didn't she?
CAPT. MARTIN: Yes she did.
DR. CARLSON: Thanks to the meds you five will make a full recovery after we get you all checked out at Starfleet Medical Outpost 12.
LT. MASON: And Crewmen Novakovich?
DR. CARLSON: He's responding well to treatment but he'll have a little more time to recover.
CAPT. MARTIN: Get some rest Jack.
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is on course for Starfleet Medical outpost 12.
[END OF ACT FOUR, FADE OUT, ENDING CREDITS]
==Cast==
===Main Cast===
Character 	Actor(s) 	Rank 	Position
John Martin 	Jarvis Davidson 	Captain 	Commanding Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Una Chin-Riley 	Felecia Linkous 	Commander 	Executive Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Jack Mason 	Kevin Regan 	Lieutenant 	Chief Tactical/Security Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Stephanie Williams	Ferne Myers 	Lieutenant Commander	Chief Engineer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Tyson Mitchell 	Blake Waymire 	Lieutenant 	Chief Navigational Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Kara Carlson 	Delena "Dee" Lusk	Lieutenant 	Chief Conn Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Steven Carlson 	Jacob Elliot 	Lieutenant Commander	Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Julia Smith 	Sadie Brickhouse 	Lieutenant 	Chief Communications Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
T'Shara 	Becky Elliot 	Lieutenant Commander	Chief Science Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
===Guest Stars===
Character 	Actor(s)	Rank 	Position
Harris Payne 	TBA 	Lieutenant Junior Grade	Assistance Chief Engineer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Kayla Mackenzie 	TBA 	Lieutenant Junior Grade	Transporter Chief, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Christine Chapel	TBA 	Lieutenant Junior Grade	Assistance Chief Medical Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Peter Johnson 	TBA 	Lieutenant Junior Grade	Security Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Ethan Novakovich	TBA 	Crewmen second class 	Science division, U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Elizabeth Cutler	TBA 	Crewmen first class 	entomologist,
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===