Gorn Assault

Gorn Assault is the fourth episode of Star Trek: The New Voyages Season 1.
==Plot==
While on a routine supply mission to a colony planet, the USS Enterprise comes under an attack from an unknown malevolent force. Branson brings all his heart and experience to bear in facing the crisis, but the security officer warns him that the enemy cannot be dealt with by conventional Starfleet means. 
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-FEDERATION SPACE
The Enterprise is at impulse speed.
LTJG. MASON'S (voice over): Chief Security's log Stardate 7854.3, The Enterprise is currently en route to deliver an atmospheric processor upgrade to Finibus III. Without our assistance, the air on this remote colony will become unbreathable in a matter of weeks. As we prepare for our arrival, we pause to remember Starfleet Remembrance Day
INT-USS ENTERPRISE LIEUTENANT MASON AND LIEUTENANT JUNIOR GRADE WILLIAMS'S QUARTERS'''
Jack looks at the pin of the USS Johnson as Captain Branson's voice comes over the com.
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): All hands this is your Captain speaking we pause to remember those who lost their lives in the line of duty, friends, family, brother's sisters husbands wives
INT-USS ENTERPRISE VARIOUS DECKS
The crew are wearing different pins of the ships they served on when they lost a fellow officer as Captain Branson's speech continues.
CAPT. BRANSON'S (com voice): Today we remember the friends and comrades we lost. Exploration can exact a heavy toll. As captain, there is no loss more devastating than that of a crew member. Remembrance Day is about them. Those of us left behind wear the insignia of past ships on which we served together. As we honor the lives that have been given, let us also be grateful to be still on the journey
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Captain Branson sits in the Captain's chair wearing the Starfleet pin of the USS Excalibur.
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): We will not forget their sacrifice and we will honor them continue to remember them Branson out.
He ends the ship-wide.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK EIGHT CORRIDOR
Lieutenant Williams and Smith are heading towards the cargo bay.
LTJG. WILLIAMS: Thanks for coming with me to check on the atmospheric processor.
LTJG. SMITH: You're welcome Steph I find it weird that Commander Pierce isn't taking the chance to see this device for himself.
LTJG. WILLIAMS: He would if it wasn't in the Cargo bay and so large.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Doors open as Lieutenant Mason walks onto the bridge and assume his station.
ENS. CARLSON: We're approaching Finibus III now sir.
CAPT. BRANSON: Standard orbit.
ENS. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-FINIBUS III ORBIT
The Enterprise enters orbit of the planet.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the planet.
CAPT. BRANSON: Where's the welcome wagon?
Ensign Christina turns to report.
ENS. CHRISTINA: Sir, Finibus Three is still not responding to any hails.
Captain Branson feels a bit unsettled.
CAPT. BRANSON: When was their last transmission?
She checks the log and reports.
ENS. CHRISTINA: According to the log three days ago.
T'Lar turns to report.
LTJG. T'LAR: I have been monitoring radio wave interference emanating from a large brown dwarf in close proximity.
Captain Branson turns to her.
CAPT. BRANSON: Is that what's jamming the signal?
LTJG. T'LAR: Possible. Let me adjust sensors. The brown dwarf does not appear to be the problem, Captain. Finibus Three is not responding because the colony's communications satellite has been destroyed.
Captain Branson gets up from the command chair and walks over to her station.
CAPT. BRANSON: What do you mean destroyed who would want to destroy a communications satellite?
LTJG. T'LAR: Unknown.
Captain Branson turns to his crew.
CAPT. BRANSON: All right. Report it to Starfleet. Protocol now is we investigate, make contact on the ground. Go slow. No assumptions until we gather more intel.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (nods): I'll prep an Away Team Mister Mason you're with me. 
Lieutenant Mason follows Commander Ivanova into the turbo-lift. 
CUT TO:
EXT-FINIBUS SURFACE, NIGHT
The away team materializes and they activate their flashlights on their phaser rifles and head out. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Anything Mister Todd? 
ENS. TODD (re: Tricorder): No, ma'am. 
ENS. HOLIDAY: How is that possible there was over 1,234 people on this colony? 
CREWMEN JOHNSON: An evacuation? 
LTJG. MASON: Rushed evacuation these are burn marks. 
Then they hear something Commander Ivanova gives them the military hand gesture to spread out and search for it, they head somewhere and she continues the silent hand gestures and the strike team moves quietly. So far they've not found anyone just destruction everywhere then they get to where there's nothing but blood streaks. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (shocked): What the hell happened here? 
LTJG. MASON: Whatever happened it was quick and brutal. 
Commander Ivanova's communicator beeps and she gets it out and flips it open as it beeps.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (to com): Ivanova here.
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): Commander prepare to beam back to the ship
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows an unknown vessel on an intercept course.
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): We've got an unidentified ship on approach.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (com voice): Aye, sir
T'Lar reports.
LTJG. T'LAR: Away Team has beamed back.
CAPT. BRANSON: Yellow alert deflectors up.
Light change to yellow and start flashing.
ENS. CHRISTINA: We're being hailed sir.
Captain Branson gets up from the center chair.
CAPT. BRANSON: Cancel yellow alert on screen.
The lights change from yellow alert to regular status as the Transparent viewer changes to the inside of the Cargo vessel.
DR. THADIE (viewer): Thank God. You're Starfleet
CAPT. BRANSON: I'm John Branson Captain of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise and you are?
DR. THADIE (viewer): Professor Thandie of Finibus Three. My apologies, but I needed to be sure.
CAPT. BRANSON: What's your status?
DR. THADIE (viewer): Most of us are injured. This is a cargo vessel. Life support is overextended.
CAPT. BRANSON: Prepare yourselves to transport aboard the Enterprise.
DR. THADIE (viewer): Uh, Captain, this ship is used for hauling radioactive ore. The hull is transport resistant.
LT. T'LAR: Confirmed sir.
CAPT. BRANSON: Mister Zuniga, attach the deep space transport tube.
LT. ZUNIGA (nods): Aye, sir.
EXT-FINIBUS SYSTEM
The cargo vessel docks with the Enterprise's transport tube. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK NINE CORRIDOR AIRLOCK (YELLOW ALERT)
A medical team is helping the survivors as Commander Ivanova and Lieutenant Mason are talking. 
PROFESSOR THANDIE: A blast from the sky took out our main colony structure. We then all heard a loud ringing sound. Everything gets blurry after that. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Well you're safe now Doc go get that arm looked at.
She nods as both Commander Ivanova and Lieutenant Mason are confused.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: What do you think Jack? 
LTJG. MASON: No residual warp signature no ion trail. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: That is strange. 
Then a little girl rushes back to the cargo vessel. 
YOUNG MOTHER (O.S): Fig come back here no. 
LTJG. MASON: Hey, hey what's wrong? 
FIG (scared): We have to hide the monsters are going to get us. 
YOUNG MOTHER: Sweetie there's no monsters here. 
CAPT. BRANSON: What monsters? 
FIG (scared): The ones that took daddy. 
YOUNG WOMAN: It was awful. 
LTJG. MASON: What did you see Fig? 
Fig looks at her mother who nods. 
FIG: I-I couldn't see them it was dark but they made a noise like this.
She starts clicking her tounge and the hairs on the back of Jack's neck raise as he's stunned by what he's hearing.
LTJG. MASON (to com): Mason to bridge sir, we need to scan for any polarized EM signatures. 
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (YELLOW ALERT)
LTJG. MASON (com voice): Now
Captain Branson turns to T'Lar and nods. 
Lieutenant T'Lar works at the console. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Sensors are detecting a slight optical distortion near the second moon a hologram, sir. 
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Bridge to Mason, Jack we found something behind the second moon it appears to be a hologram of some sort. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK NINE CORRIDOR AIRLOCK (YELLOW ALERT)
The camera pans in on Jack's face. 
LTJG. MASON (to com): Raise shields! Now! 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (YELLOW ALERT) 
CAPT. BRANSON: Red Alert, raise deflectors.
ENS. CARLSON: We can't the transport tube is still extended.
LTJG. MITCHELL: We can't raise the deflectors with the transport tube extended sir.
Captain Branson still standing.
CAPT. BRANSON: Oh, no.
EXT-FINIBUS SYSTEM
A high speed Gorn cruiser approaches the Enterprise.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE TRANSPORT TUBE
Jack sees the vessel.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Jack move!
LTJG. MASON (shocked): Its the Gorn.
She grabs him quickly.
EXT-FINIBUS SYSTEM
The Gorn cruiser fires at the Enterprise scoring deadly hits on the vessel's port side causing explosions to erupt and then destroys the transport tube along with the cargo vessel and it flies over the Enterprise.
(END OF TEASER, FADE OUT)
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Theme Music:
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CAPTAIN'S OATH:
CAPT. BRANSON'S (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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STAR TREK: THE NEW VOYAGES
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
BASED ON STAR TREK CREATED BY: GENE RODDENBERRY
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Jarvis Davidson
 as
Captain John Branson
Felecia Linkous
 as
Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
The Enterprise flying through an asteroid field.
Kevin Regan
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
Delena "Dee" Lusk
 as
Ensign Kara Carlson
The Enterprise approaching a Watchtower Starbase.
Blake Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
Sadie Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Julia Smith
The Enterprise passing by a planetary system.
Jacob Elliot
 as
Doctor Steven Carlson
Ferne Myers
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Stephanie Williams
The Enterprise flying under a comet as bits of its dust trail breaks apart from the port nacelle.
Becky Elliot
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Lar
The Enterprise comes to a stop as her warp nacelles power and she leaps into warp.
CREATED BY:
JARVIS DAVIDSON & JEREMY REGAN
===Act 1===
FADE IN
FADE IN 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK NINE CORRIDOR (RED ALERT) 
The camera has a close up of Jack's face who starts regaining his bearing as he sees Nurse Chapel with a medical tricorder and scanner. 
NURSE CHAPEL: You're all right next. 
She helps an officer to sickbay as Jack gets up from the bulkhead and sees Doctor Thadie on the floor bleeding badly.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: She's dead.
LTJG. MASON: The kid?
She shakes her head that she doesn't know where Fig ran to then Jack sees Zhasa wounded. 
LTJG. MASON: Commander? 
Commander Ivanova sees her wound. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (groans): I'm fine its just a scratch. 
LTJG. MASON: I-I'm sorry I froze up. 
CMDR. KAL: Its all right Jack the Captain needs you on the bridge. 
LTJG. MASON: Aye, Commander. 
Jack leaves deck nine. 
EXT-FINIBUS SYSTEM
The Gorn cruiser continues its assault on the Enterprise hitting her deflectors making them flicker.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)
WHUMPH! Captain Branson activates the ships com.
(EPISODE NOTES: OPENING CREDITS FALL OVER OPENING SCENES)
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Branson to engineering warp is down Jay!
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING (RED ALERT)
LTCMDR. PIERCE (to com): The port nacelle took damage it will take time to get it back on-line, Pierce to main cargo bay Steph I need you to get back up here on the double.
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN CARGO BAY (RED ALERT)
LTJG. WILLIAMS (to com): Securing the processor first, Commander. It's not safe under fire.
LTCMDR. PIERCE (com voice): Alright, be careful and get here as soon as you can
Will do Williams out Julia I need you to secure those lines there. 
LTJG. SMITH: On it. 
Then an explosion erupts. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)
WHUMPH! Sparks erupt from the ceiling as the turbo-lift doors opened and Lieutenant Mason takes the tactical console. 
LTJG. MASON: Deflectors are down to forty-seven percent!
 CAPT. BRANSON: Anything?
Ensign Christina checks her console read out.
ENS. CHRISTINA: No response to hails.
CAPT. BRANSON: How fast can you push impulse?
Ensign Carlson is checking her read out.
ENS. CARLSON: The Starboard nacelle is half damaged so I say about half impulse speed.
CAPT. BRANSON: Take us to Patten Echo Zeta.
Lieutenant Mason looks up from his console.
LTJG. MASON: Sir that's an offensive pattern.
CAPT. BRANSON: I know.
LTJG. MASON: No, sir we have to retreat we can't fight them.
He walks over to him.
CAPT. BRANSON: Confirmed sightings are rare, and they have never ventured - into Federation sp...
LTJG. MASON: Its the Gorn.
Everyone on the bridge is quiet.
LTJG. MASON: Its the Gorn sir its them.
WHUMPH! Lights flicker along with console screens.
CAPT. BRANSON: Why would they venture this far into Federation Space it makes no sense?
LTJG. MASON: This was a trap. The hologram, the colonists as bait they waited for us to be vulnerable. We're too damaged to stand and fight. It's what they do first run you down, use up your resources.
CAPT. BRANSON: Tire us out smart tactic.
Lieutenant Mason is leaning on his console.
LTJG. MASON: And deadly.
WHUMPH!
LTJG. MASON: Deflectors are down to forty percent!
Captain Branson walks over to T'Lar.
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar That brown dwarf that you mentioned before it's, uh, pretty much a gas giant, right? Where exactly is it?
T'Lar checks her scanners and reports.
LTJG. T'LAR: 200 kilometers from our present position. But Captain, it is tethered in orbit around a black hole. 
Ensign Carlson turns to T'Lar at science.
ENS. CARLSON: How big of a blackhole? 
Captain Branson looks at her. 
CAPT. BRANSON: One problem at a time. Can we maneuver inside the brown dwarf? 
LT. T'MIR: While technically possible, there are a number of dangers involved. 
WHUMPH! 
LTJG. MASON: Deflectors down to thirty-seven percent! 
Captain Branson looks at T'Lar. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Bottom-line it for me. 
LTJG. T'LAR: The central mass of the brown dwarf has a density that will crush the entire ship. Surrounding that is a volatile gas cloud. 
CAPT. BRANSON: How volatile? 
LTJG. T'LAR: Enterprise will need to lower its electrical output. Primary and auxiliary systems need to go off-line. We will lose sensors, optics, long-range communications and, most importantly, the deflectors. 
CAPT. BRANSON: We'll be running dark. 
ENS. CARLSON (worried): That sounds. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Perfect. Anything following us will have to do the same. If you're right, it's our best shot. You're the acting Number One again. Do you concur? 
LTJG. MASON: Yes, sir. 
Captain Branson walks to his command chair. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara set a course. 
ENS. CARLSON: Aye, sir full impulse. Into a giant gas cloud of death. Why not? 
She inputs commands into the helm station as Captain Branson gives her a look. 
===Act 2===
===Act 3===
===Act 4===
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Jarvis Davidson as Captain John Branson
*Felecia Linkous a Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
===Also Starring===
*Kevin Regan as Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
*Ferne Myers as Lieutenant Junior Grade Stephanie Williams
*Blake Waymire as Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
*Delena "Dee" Lusk as Ensign Kara Carlson
*Sadie Brickhouse as Lieutenant Junior Grade Julia Smith
*Jacob Elliot as Doctor Steven Carlson
*Becky Elliot as Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Lar
===Guest Stars===
*TBA as Nurse Christine Chapel
*TBA as Security Officer Joshua Holiday
*TBA as Lieutenant Sean Hansen
*TBA as Transporter Chief Kayla Mackenzie
===Special Guest Stars===
*TBA as Doctor Thadie
*TBA as Lieutenant Parker
*TBA as Ensign Todd
*TBA as Ensign Dana Christina
*TBA as Captain Alan Austin
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===