Kyle/Delete (episode)

Kyle/Delete is the 52nd of (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) TOS Season 4.
==Synopsis==
"File D", a PADD that can erase people's minds, is in the hands of a Romulan father. One has a weapon which can eliminate higher brain function, whereas the. other has her sister hostage, with Enterprise and Lieutenant Commander Clarkson trying to prevent its activation.
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-FEDERATION-ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE BORDER
Enterprise is next to a Federation Starship.
INT-U.S.S. MAGELLAN MELRO DECK SEVEN CORRIDOR
[Commander Ivanova, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Commander Williams, and Doctor Carlson are walking through the corridor.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: This could have been us so many times.
LT. MASON: Still can be.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Let's just get what we came for and get out of here.
They continue to the nearest turbo-lift.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. MAGELLAN MELRO MAIN BRIDGE [BATTLE DAMAGED, DARKEN]
[The Magellan crew are still there, but not moving.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: These poor people.
CMDR. IVANOVA [re: tricorder]: Well, lucky for us, zero radiation, and atmosphere is normal.
LT. MASON: Never occurred to me there'd be crew left. If you call dead being left.
DR. CARLSON [re: Medical Tricorder]: They're not dead. Not physically. But mentally, spiritually, and emotionally, they're gone. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I was able to restore the Captain's Log entry.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Play it.
MAGELLAN MELRO CAPTAIN [voice over]: Captain's Log Stardate 5784.5, We've just completed our three month patrol along the Federation-Romulan Neutral Zone and are on course for Starbase 157 for some well deserved R&R
CMDR. IVANOVA: Can you download their sensor logs?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: In the process of it now.
Doctor Carlson scans the crew with his medical tricorder.
CMDR. IVANOVA: What can you do for them?
DR. CARLSON: Not much I am reading pulse and heartbeats but their minds are just blank.
CMDR. IVANOVA: What could of done this?
DR. CARLSON [confused]: I'm not sure Commander but whatever it is I can tell you that I am glad we've not encountered it yet.
Her communicator beeps.
CMDR. IVANOVA [to com]: Ivanova here go ahead.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Z, sensors just picked up a squadron of Gorn cruisers on an intercept course!
CMDR. IVANOVA [com voice]: We're on our way back now sir have a medical team standby we're bring over the crew
CAPT. BRANSON: Chapel is waiting in the transporter room now.
LT. MITCHELL: Gorn vessels range is 20,000 kilometers and closing.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Away team has beamed back.
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara come to course 2-3-3 mark 12.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise moves away from the Magellan Melro as the Gorn squadron starts firing at the Enterprise.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Commander Ivanova and Lieutenant Mason walks onto the bridge as Lieutenant Mason takes the tactical station.
CAPT. BRANSON: Torpedoes full spread.
LT. MASON: Aye, sir.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise unleashes a volley of photon torpedoes at the Gorn vessels as the energy blots destroy the vessels.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. MASON: Enemy vessels destroyed.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Tell me that was the last of them.
CAPT. BRANSON [sighs]: That was just the first wave. We're not the only ones after that weapon. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
The Magellan crew are laying on the bio-beds as Captain Branson enters.
CAPT. BRANSON: Report?
DR. CARLSON: I've done everything I can think of to wake them but they're not waking up.
CAPT. BRANSON: Are they dead?
NURSE CHAPEL: No, sir they've got a pulse and heart beat and respiration but brain functions are just not there.
Captain Branson looks at the crew on the bio-bed.
CAPT. BRANSON: We'll arrive at Starbase 157 soon.
DR. CARLSON: I'll have them ready for transfer.
Captain Branson leaves sickbay.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise is at impulse.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
CAPT. BRANSON: The weapon you sent us to recover from the Magellan Melro was stolen. Romulans pirated the wreck before we got there.
ADM. AUSTIN [monitor]; Who are the Romulans?
CAPT. BRANSON: We're not sure but whoever it was in and out before we got there.
ADM. AUSTIN [monitor]: It is imperative we get the weapon back
CAPT. BRANSON: Acknowledged sir before the Gorn come back and attempt to take it.
ADM. AUSTIN [monitor]: I'll inform 157 of the Enterprise's arrival
CAPT. BRANSON: Very well, of Admiral? I'll need every Commonwealth record that you have on that weapon.
He nods.
[END OF TEASER, FADE OUT]
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INTRO:
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 as go before! 
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STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
BASED UPON STAR TREK CREATED BY:
GENE RODDENBERRY
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The Enterprise flies over a gas giant's rings.
JARVIS DAVIDSON 
 AS
CAPT. JOHN BRANSON
The Enterprise flies by an asteroid
FELECIA LINKOUS
 AS
CMDR. ZHASA IVANOVA
The Enterprise flies by Mars 
KEVIN REGAN
 AS
LT. JACK MASON
FERNE MYERS
 AS
LTCMDR. STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
BLAKE WAYMIRE 
 AS
LT. TYSON MITCHELL
USS Enterprise is flying next to a comet
DELENA "DEE" LUSK
 AS
LT. KARA CARLSON
JACOB ELLIOT
 AS
DR. STEVEN CARLSON
The Enterprise flies under a Pioneer-Class vessel
SADIE BRICKHOUSE
 AS
LT. JULIA SMITH
The Enterprise flies by a planet as the sunsets 
BECKY ELLIOT
 AS
LTCMDR. T'LAR
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
EXT-FEDERATION-ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE BORDER
Enterprise approaches Starbase 157 a newly constructed Starbase a watchtower starbase.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
[EPISODE NOTES: OPENING CREDITS FALLEN OVER OPENING SCENES]
[The senior staff is around the table.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: It's called File D, a planet range sub-theta radiation generator. 
DR. CARLSON: It deletes consciousness in organic sentients by destroying neuron-linking functions of the brain, leaving the autonomic system intact. 
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Planet range, huh? That's huge. Gives me a headache just neuron-linking about it. 
CAPT. BRANSON: What caused it to activate?
LT. MASON: It appears a torpedo strike.
CMDR. IVANOVA: A rocking motion activated it.
CAPT. BRANSON: So a rocking motion set it off and it spread throughout the Melro?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Yes.
Captain Branson leans back in the chair.
CAPT. BRANSON: A device that kills the mind but not the body. No wonder the Gorn want it. 
CMDR. IVANOVA: Yeah, it delivers a protein source that won't fight back. 
LTCMDR. T'LAR: It was confiscated from a Gorn outpost by Starfleet, and studied briefly before the decision was made to relocate it. 
CAPT. BRANSON: That is what the Magellan Melro was doing with it?
CMDR. IVANOVA: Yes.
Then Lieutenant Smith walks into the ready room.
LT. SMITH: Captain, as requested, I've been monitoring all communication on Decia, and just now have decoded a message sent from a military compound on the opposite hemisphere to Calleb Voth. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Show us.
The wall monitor activates.
NONIA [monitor]: Father, I've been kidnapped by your sister, Malea. The price of my return is a ransom. Something called File D. Please, Father, give it to her. She says it matters not that we're flesh and blood. She will harm me
MALEA [monitor]: And you, above anyone, know how good I am at harm, dear brother
Transmission ends.
CAPT. BRANSON: Wow makes me glad that Brie isn't like that Kara set a course warp seven.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise goes into a great arc and leaps into warp.
[END OF ACT ONE FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-CALLEB VOTH SYSTEM, CALLEB VOTH IV ORBIT
Enterprise emerges from warp and enters orbit.
EXT-CALLEB VOTH IV SURFACE-DAY
The landing party materialized.
CAPT. BRANSON: As sensitive as File D is, they wouldn't have moved it far.
LT. MASON [re: tricorder]: It's a few minutes away.
They head out.
EXT-CALLEB VOTH IV SURFACE-DAY
[Slaves are carrying the cargo from camouflage netted areas.]
ROMULAN GUARD: Keep moving!
[From afar the landing party is watching.]
LT. MASON: I see the device.
They move out as they slowly move to where they located the device.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: A drone transport's internal gravity can be zeroed out. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Smart, can you deactivate it?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Yeah.
He enters the transport as John moves out.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT
Kyle sees the file and puts his engineering kit down and starts to work.
INT-U.S.S ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Captain Branson walks onto the bridge from the turbo-lift.
CAPT. BRANSON: Report?
CMDR. IVANOVA: We were able to beam up Nonia she's being escorted to guest quarters.
Captain Branson sits in the Captain's Chair.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Enterprise to Clarkson report.
CUT TO:
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Clarkson here.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: We're assuming no news is good news?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Sorry. I lost track of time. You guys should see this thing. File D is like a news PADD with a supersized power source attached. It's so unimpressively simple and inconspicuous, it's a work of art. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Well, just keep us posted
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Any problems, we'll be back in a hurry.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Sensors are detecting a tachyon emissions.
EXT-SPACE
Three Romulan warbirds decloak facing the Enterprise.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. MASON: Three Romulan stormbird-class cruisers their disruptors are armed!
Captain Branson tenses up.
[END OF ACT TWO, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise is facing three Romulan Stormbird-class cruisers.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. SMITH: We're being hailed.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the lead Romulan vessel.
CAPT. BRANSON: I'm John Branson Captain of the Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise.
CMDR. DECIA [viewer]: I'm Commander Decia commanding officer of the IRW Stormbird
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander you're in Federation Space care to explain your reasoning for violating the Neutral Zone?
CMDR. DECIA [viewer]: I am here to retrieve my sister from our father
Captain Branson walks in front of the helm and navigational station and walks to the viewer.
CAPT. BRANSON: And that gave you the reason for violating the treaty between our two governments?
CMDR. DECIA [viewer]: I won't leave without my sister Captain!
Commander T'Lar reports.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Captain, sensors are detecting a launch its the drone transport vessel.
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander Decia standby for now show me.
Transparent viewer shows the transport leaving the surface.
CMDR. IVANOVA: That's not good.
CAPT. BRANSON: No it's not.
[END OF ACT THREE, FADE OUT]
===Act 4===
FADE IN
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise pursues the drone transport as the Romulan vessel is also following.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Stay with the transport Kara.
LT. CARLSON: That was my plan.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Are you sure Kyle is onboard?
CAPT. BRANSON: He would of contacted us to beam him aboard.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I am still reading his bio-signs.
LT. SMITH: Does he know where he is?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: It's doubtful. The drone's motion cancelling capabilities prevent him from sensing its movement, and are likely keeping him protected.
CMDR. IVANOVA: John, if he finds out he's in orbit and he starts to panic, he could set it off. 
LT. MASON: And how do we prevent that?
CAPT. BRANSON: We don't tell him.
Then T'Lar reports.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I have been able to open the locked file per Commander Clarkson's request. In it, File D's additional activation parameters are outlined.
CMDR. IVANOVA: A secondary trigger? 
CAPT. BRANSON: Give it to me.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: In addition to being activated by a disturbance, File D also has a sensor which registers electrochemical signals from the sinoatrial node. It then synchronises a delayed activation sequence to those signals. 
CMDR. IVANOVA: Sinoatrial node signals. Heartbeats. File D syncs to a heartbeat. 
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Then File D will go off after a predetermined number of beats. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Does it say what sets off the countdown?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Exposure to neutron radiation.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Kyle used N-rays on it.
CAPT. BRANSON: Then it's already started.
LT. MITCHELL: Let's hope that he doesn't find out.
CAPT. BRANSON: Same here.
LT. SMITH: He's calling again.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Kyle what do you have to report?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: I'm about a third of a way through to disable this thing.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: We're on our way, Kyle. Why don't you just take it easy.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [com voice]: Take it easy?
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: And nice for a change. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Enterprise out
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Finally, a little respect for the old Commander Clarkson. Just had to snuggle up to the universe's most dangerous weapon to get it. Ha! 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Ty, anticipate its course.
LT. MITCHELL: Anticipating sir.
LT. CARLSON: This thing's got major acceleration. I know, faster, faster. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: We accelerate any faster we risk blowing the main impulse manifolds.
CAPT. BRANSON: We've got to keep up with it.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I'll see what I can do.
She leaves the bridge to go to engineering.
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise is continuing it's pursuit of the drone transport vessel.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
Kyle gets out his communicator.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Clarkson to Enterprise, It's your friendly but freezing engineer here. It's getting a little cold. I think I'll crack the hatch just a little. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
ALL: NO!
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Don't take any risks. We don't want to blow your cover.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: I just want to open my cover enough to let in a few rays. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Kyle, that's a direct order.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Alright, well it was nice while it lasted. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Captain, picking up another tachyon surge it is Romulan.
CAPT. BRANSON: Another one?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: It's an older model.
LT. SMITH: We're being hailed its from Commander Calleb.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
CALLEB [on monitor]: Captain, have you been avoiding me? I'm anxious to make arrangements regarding my daughter
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah, why don't you send that drone back my way, and then we'll have a discussion.
CALLEB [on monitor]: No discussions, Captain. We play by my rules. I have a transport ship waiting orders to capture the orbiting drone and bring File D to your beloved capital, Earth, at which point it will be programmed to run into a bit of turbulence and released
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EXT-PLANET SURFACE-DAY
CALLEB: I don't think I need to tell you that anyone within planetary range will be killed. And when I go to retrieve my precious device, I do think that I will occupy your capital. It's not as if anyone will be left to stop me. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CALLEB [on monitor]: I hope we understand each other, Captain
(Transmission ends.) 
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Captain, sensors are detecting a swarm of Gorn vessels.
CAPT. BRANSON: Crap, not good.
LT. CARLSON: If Commander Clarkson finds out.
CAPT. BRANSON: I know, Enterprise to Clarkson.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [com voice]: Fifty, fifty one. Okay, I'm back
CMDR. IVANOVA [to com]: I'm terrified to ask, but Commander, what were you doing?
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Push-ups to stay warm.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
ALL: NO PUSH-UPS!
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Enough with the micromanagement.
EXT-SPACE
A Gorn swarm approaches the drone transport vessel as well as the Enterprise and the two Romulan warbirds.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Ready weapons.
LT. MASON: Torpedoes ready along with phaser banks are fully powered.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Bridge to transporter room do you have a lock on Commander Clarkson?
CHIEF MCKENZIE [com voice]: Yes, sir ready to beam him aboard on your command
LTCMDR. T'LAR: The drone is turning around.
CAPT. BRANSON: Perfect.
EXT-SPACE
The drone transport vessel heads back to the three vessels.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT AREA
Kyle continues to work as he then checks and is shocked about what he just figured out.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [worried]: Ah, crap.
He quickly gets to work.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Branson to Clarkson come in
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Clarkson here.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: What's your status?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: I'm doing well John.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Things have just gotten a little complicated.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [com voice]: You're telling me. But nobody said this was going to be a cakewalk, right, boss?
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Yeah.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [com voice]: Er, without going into details
CUT TO:
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [to com]: Whatever it is, I'm sure you'll handle it like you always do. I don't mean to cut you off, boss, but I'm kind of in the middle of something here. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [surprised]: He figured it out.
CMDR. IVANOVA: We need to figure out how to make sure that he doesn't get his brain turned into mush.
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT VESSEL
Commander Clarkson works on disabling the device.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: My heartbeat is like the Divine. It is the air, it is the water. My heartbeat is like the Divine. It is the air, it is the water. My heartbeat is like the Divine. 
EXT-SPACE
The Enterprise turns to port as the transport vessel enters the shuttle bay.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. CARLSON: Got it.
CAPT. BRANSON: Take them out.
Lieutenant Mason works on the tactical console.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise unleashes a phaser volley as well as a torpedo volley that destroy the swarm.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LT. MASON: Gorn swarm destroyed.
Captain Branson leaves the bridge.
INT-DRONE TRANSPORT VESSEL
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: It is the water. 
[The holographic schematic Commander Clarkson is working on shrinks into 1s and 0s and back into the PADD. He takes it from its null gravity holder.]
The hatch opened and Kyle walks out of it.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN SHUTTLE BAY [RED ALERT]
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Hey guys what's up?
DR. CARLSON [re: medical tricorder]: He's alright.
CAPT. BRANSON: Did you get it deactivated?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Yeah I did.
CAPT. BRANSON: Get it behind a level-10 force field and program a null gravity field.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: You don't have to tell me twice.
EXT-FEDERATION-ROMULAN NEUTRAL ZONE BORDER
The Enterprise is escorting the two Romulan vessels to the border.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LT. SMITH: We're being hailed.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the IRW Stormbird.
CMDR. DECIA [viewer]: Thank you for protecting my sister Captain
CAPT. BRANSON: Your welcome now let's not have you cross the border unprovoked.
She nods.
EXT-SPACE
The two warbirds leap into warp as the Enterprise enters warp on it's next adventure.
[END OF ACT FOUR, FADE OUT, ENDING CREDITS]
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Jarvis Davidson as Captain John Branson
*Felecia Linkous as Commander Zhasa Ivanova
===Also Starring===
*Kevin Regan as Lieutenant Jack Mason
*Ferne Myers as Lieutenant Commander Stephanie Williams
*Jeremy Regan as Lieutenant Commander Kyle Clarkson
*Delena "Dee Lusk as Lieutenant Kara Carlson
*Blake Waymire as Lieutenant Tyson Mitchell
*Sadie Brickhouse as Lieutenant Julia Smith
*Jacob Elliot as Doctor Steven Carlson
*Becky Elliot as Lieutenant Commander T'Lar
===Guest Stars===
*TBA as Nurse Christine Chapel
*TBA as Lieutenant Joshua Holiday
*TBA as Transporter Chief Kayla Mackenzie
===Special Guest Stars===
*Josh Irwin as Admiral Joseph Austin
*TBA as Commander Decia
*TBA as Sub-Lieutenant Nonia
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===