Strange New Worlds

Strange New Worlds is second episode Star Trek: New Voyages
==Plot==
An Enterprise landing party discovers a Klingon outpost while being forced to go into a cavern during a massive stormfront approaching, can they survive or will they be captured and then executed by the Klingons!
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise approaches an M-Class planet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Captain Branson is standing behind both the helm and navigational stations, as Lieutenant T'Lar gives her report.
LTJG. T'LAR: Seventeen percent oxygen, eighty one percent nitrogen.
LT. WILLIAMS: Sounds like home.
Captain Branson turns to Lieutenant T'Lar.
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar full scans of the surface.
Lieutenant T'Lar works at her console and reports.
LTJG. T'LAR: The planet supports a diverse ecology, but there are no signs of humanoid life. 
Commander Ivanova turns to Lieutenant Mason.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: What about any vessels?
Lieutenant Mason checks and reports.
LTJG. MASON: Nothing on long or short range scanners ma'am.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Sounds like we just made our first discovery in the Shackleton Expanse. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah. 
LTJG. SMITH: We could be the first people to discovery a new planet. 
Captain Branson turns to Commander Ivanova. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander put together a survey team. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA (smiles): Aye, sir. 
She leaves the bridge as Captain Branson looks at the viewer. 
(END OF TEASER, FADE OUT)
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Theme Music:
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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 has gone before!
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STAR TREK: 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
The Enterprise flies by a interstellar dust cloud.
Felecia Linkous
 as
Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
The Enterprise approaching a nebula.
Kevin Regan
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
The Enterprise approaches a planet.
Ferne Myers
 as
Lieutenant Stephanie Williams
The Enterprise flies by a planetary system
Blake Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
The Enterprise flies through a debris of planets as a rock smashes into a larger rock.
Sadie Waymire
 as
Lieutenant Junior Grade 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 Junior T'Lar
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 One===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM
The survey team is gearing up as Captain Branson enters.
CAPT. BRANSON: You've got the coordinates Chief?
CHIEF MACKENZIE: Yes, sir the middle of the meadow seems to be a good place to beam you down at.
They step onto the transporter pad.
CAPT. BRANSON: Energize.
Chief Mackenzie inputs commands into the transporter console and activates the transporter and the survey team dematerializes.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, DAY
The survey team beams down as Captain Branson looks around the place as he turns to the survey team. 
CAPT. BRANSON: We're walking on an alien world light years from Earth or Vulcan. Doesn't that impress you? 
T'Lar turns to him. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Before I joined Starfleet I've been to thirty six Minshara class planets. This experience is only marginally different. 
T'Lar turns to the survey teams. 
LTJG. T'LAR: You have your assignments. We'll rendezvous here at nineteen hundred hours, unless the Captain wants us to pose for more pictures. 
John shook his head and they split up, Cutler examines eel-like fish in a lake. There are two crescent moons in the sky. Ethan picks a yellow flower in an alpine meadow. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, BY STREAM, DAY
CAPT. BRANSON (sighs): I don't think my report to Starfleet will do this justice.
LTJG. MASON: A cabin in these woods would be nice. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Three weeks in deep space, you're ready to jump ship? 
LTJG. MASON (Smiles): Nah, and plus you guys would be lost without your tactical officer.
ENS. CARLSON: It's beautiful all right, but I couldn't call a place home unless it came with engines.
LT. WILLIAMS (snickers): Boomers
They stop by a stream as Stephanie takes yet another photograph, and the communicator chirps, Captain Branson gets it out of the holster and flips it open as it beeps.
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Branson here.
LTJG. T'LAR (com voice): Is there a problem Captain?
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): No, no problem. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, DAY
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): Why?
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): We were scheduled to rendezvous fifteen minutes ago. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, STEAM, DAY
Captain Branson looks at the others.
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Sorry we lost track of time we'll be right there.
He closes the communicator and they head back to the beam down area.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, DAY
Captain Branson, Lieutenant Mason, Ensign Carlson, and Lieutenant Commander Williams shows up, as T'Lar walks up to them and gives Captain Branson her report.
LTJG. T'LAR: We've identified several nocturnal marsupials. I'd like to keep crewmen Cutler and Novakovich with me overnight to study them. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Alright, but remember we're on the edge of the Klingon Neutral Zone so be careful.
LTJG. MASON: Captain, if it's all right with you, Stephanie and I'd like to stay as well. 
LT. WILLIAMS: We would? 
LTJG. MASON: When was the last time we got to campout under the stars? There's plenty of camping gear in the pod. 
LTJG. T'LAR: This isn't shore leave, this is a research mission. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Why can't it be a little bit of both? Research isn't the only reason we're out here. Pitch your tent, Lieutenant. 
LTJG. MASON: Thanks sir don't worry T'Lar we'll keep out of your hair. 
T'Lar raises an eyebrow.
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAMPSITE, NIGHT
Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Williams, Crewmen Cutler and Crew Novakovich are around the fire while T'Lar is a few meters away working on some scans.
JACK: Keep in mind those cargo vessels weren't equipped for rescue operations, so the Captain wasn't sure what to do when he picked up the distress call. But it wasn't a ship that sent the signal. It was a life-pod from one of the old Y-500-class freighters. 
STEPHANIE: Those were retired when we got the more powerful warp drive system. 
JACK: Exactly. The pod had been drifting in space for sixty three years. Bio-scans showed one life-sign inside the pod. Human. The assistant engineer, George Webb, a friend of my father's, was assigned to open it. Took him over an hour to cut through the hull. He said the metal felt strange, cold to the touch. 
STEPHANIE: Of course it was cold. It was floating in space for sixty years. 
JACK: He could hear a tapping noise coming from inside, but when he finally got it open the pod was empty. No body, nothing. A few days later, Webb started acting strange, getting into fights with the crew, muttering to himself in some sort of alien language. Then one day he locked himself in Engineering and overloaded the sub-light engine reactors. He almost destroyed the ship. Then he sealed himself in a life pod and ejected it. 
CUTLER: I assume the Captain went after him. 
JACK: No the engines were too badly damaged to attempt a retrieval of the pod, some people say it was an alien life form that got into him, others think it was the ghost of a dead crewman. I never knew what to believe, but Webb is still out there, drifting. When the subspace noise is real low, some com officers say they can still hear the echo of his distress call. Beep, Beep. 
(All laugh.) 
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. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Certainty I don't want my best officer to have a headache while we're observing some new life. 
He heads to one of the tents. 
CUTLER: Wait a minute. You notice something? Fireflies are gone. 
STEPHANIE: Nice going, Jack, you scared off the bugs. 
CUTLER: Maybe it's the ghost of George Webb. 
(A gust of wind suddenly blows through the camp.) 
JACK: Looks like we might have ourselves a little weather. 
LTJG. T'LAR (re: Tricorder): A front is approaching from the south west. 
INT-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-LIEUTENANT T'LAR'S TENT
T'Lar sees what's going on at Jack and Stephanie's tent and picks up her communicator and flips it open as it beeps.
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): T'Lar to Mason is everything alright?
INT-TENT ONE
LTJG. MASON (to com): Oh no, just an eight inch scorpion thing inside our tent. 
INT-LIEUTENANT T'LAR'S TENT
LTJG. T'LAR: Do you require assistance?
LTJG. MASON (com voice): 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'Lar, you said you found a cave this afternoon. 
INT-LIEUTENANT T'LAR'S TENT
LTJG. T'LAR (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 Two===
FADE IN
INT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit of the planet.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK FIVE CORRIDOR
Commander Ivanova is at the doors and presses the door panel. 
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): Come in 
Doors opened. 
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
Doors opened and Commander Ivanova enters. 
JOHN: What can I do for you Z? 
ZHASA (re: PADD): A wind storm's moving across the northern continent. It looks like a nasty one. 
She hands him the PADD.
JOHN (re: PADD, worried): The survey team?
ZHASA: They've taken shelter, but I'd recommend pulling them out. I've got a shuttle on standby. 
John toggles the com panel.
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Branson to bridge get me T'Lar.
LTJG. SMITH (com voice): Aye, sir
A few seconds later T'Lar comes over the com.
LTJG. T'LAR (com voice): T'Lar here go ahead
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): What's your status? 
CUT TO:
INT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
The survey team are getting their gear down as T'Lar explains.
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): We have relocated into a cavern. 
CAPT. BRANSON [OC]: Commander Ivanova thinks we should come down and get you
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): Sir a landing under these circumstances might be difficult. We'll be protected until the winds diminish. 
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S QUARTERS
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): We'll keep an eye on the storm. Let us know if you need anything. 
LTJG. T'LAR [OC]: Understood
CAPT. BRANSON: Keep the shuttle on standby, just in case. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Aye, sir. 
She leaves the captain's quarters as Branson is a bit worried about his officers on the surface.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
The survey team sets up lights so they can see where to go so they don't get hurt badly.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Well we might as well start scanning this cavern to have something to do while we wait for the storm to die down and the Captain to come and pick us up, Cutler and Novakovich start running soil analysis.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Yes, Ma'am.
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Aye, Lieutenant.
They open the survey gear up again and start getting to work Lieutenant Mason gets out the type-III phaser rifles out of the box he brought with him as well and hands one to his wife, the type-II compression phaser rifle is a single, two-handed phaser weapon.
CREWMEN CUTLER: Isn't that a bit overkill Lieutenant?
LTJG. MASON: You heard the Captain Romulan forces might be here and these have been modified to handle them easier, I'm going to go have a little bit of a recon scouting. 
He turns the flashlight on the rifle on and heads deep into the cavern. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Is he always like that? 
LT. WILLIAMS: Sometimes. 
INT-DEEPER INTO CAVERN
Lieutenant Mason is reconning the place out to make sure that no one is in there, when he hears something and sees that there's Klingon warriors in the cavern and he slowly walks back to the main cavern. 
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LT. MASON (com voice): I only saw two of them sir I think they were forced into the caverns as well but I can't be sure
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Have they detected you guys any? 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
LTJG. T'LAR (re: Tricorder): No, sir I do not believe that they have detected us.
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): Alright I'm coming down with a well armed strike team and we're getting you guys out of there
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): Captain I would not recommend it. 
CAPT. BRANSON (com voice): I'm not leaving you guys down there so they can attack and kill you guys
LTJG. T'LAR (To com): The wind is still going. 
CAPT. BRANSON (Com voice): We're....not.... 
LTJG. T'LAR (to com): Captain? Survey team to Enterprise, Enterprise come in Enterprise respond? 
(END OF ACT TWO, FADE OUT)
===Act Three===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
The survey team are in the caves. 
LT. WILLIAMS: Let's not panic alright seeing how we've lost communications the Captain will come down and extract us. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: He's crazy. 
LTJG. MASON: Well we better arm up. 
They arm up and power the rifles up. 
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (YELLOW ALERT)
Yellow lights are flashing as Captain Branson is pacing about worried about the survey team on the surface. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Anything? 
LTJG. SMITH: No, sir I've ran five diagnostics on the communications array nothing is wrong with it. 
Captain Branson thinks. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Could it be coming from the surface? 
LTJG. SMITH: Its possible. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA The storm must be blocking communications. 
ENS. CARLSON Strange though. 
Captain Branson sits in the Captain's chair as Commander Ivanova sits in the XO chair. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Julia get me Starfleet Command. 
LTJG. SMITH (nods): Aye, sir. 
Lieutenant Smith gets to work on he station.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: If we're not going to be able to contact the landing party.
CAPT. BRANSON (sighs): I know Z.
INT-PLANET SURFACE, CAVERN
The survey team is gathered together so the Romulans doesn't know that they're in the cavern. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: We've got to get out of here. 
LT. WILLIAMS: How we don't have a shuttle Crewmen. 
Lieutenant Mason has his tricorder in his hand checking to see if the Romulans are heading towards them. 
LTJG. MASON: So far we're in the clear they've not detected us. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Logic dictates that we wait for the Captain to return with a security force. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Till we're dead? 
LTJG. MASON: Calm down Crewmen. 
Ethan looks worried and distraught. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: I've heard that Klingon torture isn't a fun thing to endure. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: We don't need to panic. 
LTJG. MASON: She's right. 
Then they hear something and Jack aims his weapon at where its coming from. 
LTJG. MASON: Its time to move. 
They back up. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE HIGH WINDS, NIGHT
The survey team are heading towards the shuttle. 
CREWMEN NOVAKOVICH: Commander I hear something? 
Then he's shot by a red energy bolt and falls over dead. 
CREWMEN CUTLER (Shocked): ETHAN!!!!! 
The team takes cover as green energy bolts fly by them and Lieutenant Mason fires his phaser rifle as orange energy bolts lance out of the barrel. 
(END OF ACT THREE, FADE OUT) 
===Act Four===
FADE IN
EXT-PLANET SURFACE HIGH WINDS
Orange and green energy bolts whiz by as a Klingon soldier is taken down along with another one. 
LTJG. MASON: We need to get out of here! 
They fall back as Lieutenant Mason covers their escape. 
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/CAVERNS 
The survey team is avoiding Romulan patrols. 
LTJG. MASON: So far we're safe. 
CREWMEN CUTLER: Oh yeah we're safe but we lost Ethan! 
LT. WILLIAMS: Back off. 
Cutler leaves and rubs her forehead distraught at what happened to her friend. 
LTJG. MASON: Crewmen I'm sorry for what happened to Ethan but he wouldn't want us to fight each other as we're trying to survive. 
Then they're surrounded by a squad of Klingon soldiers and are disarmed and have their communicators removed from their holsters
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Enterprise is in orbit. 
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (YELLOW ALERT)
Commander Ivanova and Captain Branson walks over to the science station. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Sensors detected weapons fire on the surface both Starfleet and Klingon. 
CAPT. BRANSON: So our survey team could be under attack and we can't do anything to help them. 
Then sensors rapidly beeped. 
LTJG. SMITH: Klingon warbird decloaking off the port bow! 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: RED ALERT, DEFLECTORS UP! 
Lights dimmed and klaxons blare.
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
A Klingon D7-class warbird decloaks in front of the Enterprise.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)
Klaxons blare.
LTJG. MITCHELL: Phaser banks are fully charged and deflectors are powered and all torpedo bays are fully loaded sir.
CAPT. BRANSON: Julia open hailing frequencies.
Lieutenant Smith works on her console.
LTJG. SMITH: Their responding sir.
Captain Branson gets up from the Captain Chair and walks to the transparent viewer.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Klingon warbird's main bridge.
CAPT. BRANSON: I am John Branson Captain of the Federation Starship USS Enterprise you are in violation of the Federation-Klingon Organian peace treaty of 2266.
CMDR. KOR (viewer): Captain Branson, I hardly expected to see you again so soon
CAPT. BRANSON: Commander Kor what are you doing this far in Federation Space? 
CMDR. KOR (viewer): Why else would we be here but to conquer a planet
CAPT. BRANSON: Far from Klingon Space?
CMDR. KOR (viewer): We have a right to as it states in the treaty that was forced upon us by godlike beings
CAPT. BRANSON: If no one lays claim to it but this is neutral space Commander.
Then Lieutenant Hansen reports.
LTJG. HANSEN: Incoming warp signatures.
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
14 Starfleet vessels emerge from warp.
INT-USS ENTERPISE MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)
LTJG. HANSEN: Fourteen Starfleet vessels being led by the USS California.
Then Lieutenant Smith turns to report.
LTJG. SMITH: We're being hailed its Fleet Admiral Ozawa.
Captain Branson still facing the screen.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Federation-Class Dreadnought cruiser USS California.
CAPT. BRANSON: Fleet Admiral good for you to be here.
FLEET ADM. OZAWA (viewer): Sorry we're late Captain we had to assemble while on route what's your status?''
CAPT. BRANSON: We've got a survey team on the surface and we've lost contact with them I have reasons to believe that they may have been captured by the Klingons.
FLEET ADM. OZAWA (viewer): We're detecting your survey team it looks like the Klingons have them
CAPT. BRANSON (to com): Branson to Bravo Team meet me in transporter room 2. 
CUT TO:
EXT-PLANET SURFACE/CAVERN
The survey team is surrounded by a squad of Klingon soldiers. 
CMDR. KOR: You see Lieutenant T'Lar once we've extracted every bit of precious information you and your officers have I intend to have a public execution so it would inspire our soldiers for generations to come and prevent the Federation from expanding into our space whenever they feel like it. 
The survey team is put in a firing squad line. 
LT. WILLIAMS: I thought you were going to interrogate us? 
CMDR. KOR: Oh you misheard me Lieutenant we're going to extract them from your brains and in order to do that you all must not be living. 
Then phaser beams lance out as Captain Branson and Bravo Team shows up and Captain Branson walks over to Commander Kor. 
CAPT. BRANSON: You have been stopped here today Kor, Branson to Enterprise beam us up. 
The survey team and Captain Branson's rescue team dematerializes in front of Kor who isn't happy. 
EXT-PLANET ORBIT
The Federation forces depart and enter warp one at a time.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Captain Branson is reading the reports from Lieutenant T'Lar who's in front of the desk.
CAPT. BRANSON: This is a good report T'Lar.
LTJG. T'LAR: And also here is my report on what happened to Crewmen Novakovich.
Captain Branson looks at the PADD.
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar take some time off to meditate you need it.
LTJG. T'LAR (nods): Very well sir.
T'Lar leaves as John is worried.
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
The Enterprise soars at warp.
(END OF ACT FOUR, FADE OUT, ENDING CREDITS)
==Cast==
===Starring===
*Jarvis Davidson as Captain John Branson
*Felecia Linkous as Lieutenant Commander Zhasa Ivanova
===Also Starring===
*Kevin Regan as Lieutenant Junior Grade Jack Mason
*Ferne Myers as Lieutenant Stephanie Williams
*Blake Waymire as Lieutenant Junior Grade Tyson Mitchell
*Sadie Brickhouse as Lieutenant Junior Grade Julia Smith
*Jacob Elliot as Doctor Steven Carlson
*Delena "Dee" Lusk as Ensign Kara Carlson
*Becky Elliot as Lieutenant Junior Grade T'Lar
===Guest Stars===
*TBA as Nurse Christine Chapel
*TBA as Security Officer Joshua Holiday
*TBA as Transporter Chief Kayla Mackenzie
*TBA as Crewmen Elizabeth Cutler
*TBA as Crewmen Ethan Novakovich
===Special Guest Stars===
*TBA as Commander Kor
*TBA as Fleet Admiral Alice Ozawa
===Special Guest Stars===
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===