Twice In a Lifetime (episode)

Twice In a Lifetime is the 39th episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds TOS Season 3.
==Plot==
After Kyle Clarkson is sent to another space and time, it is up to the crew to save the timeline and rescue their friend.
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-SOL SYSTEM, EARTH ORBIT
Enterprise docks at the Federation Dockyard. 
EXT-EARTH SURFACE, MEMORIAL AREA, DAY
[Kyle walks over to the two tombstones of his and Anna's parents and kneels in front of the tombstones, unknown to him Marianna shows up as she walks over to him and puts her hand on his shoulder and kneels next to him.] 
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INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SCIENCE LAB IV
Commander Williams and Commander T'Lar are at a console as Captain Branson, Commander Ivanova enter.
CAPT. BRANSON: You said you wanted to see us?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Yes we did.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: We made a breakthrough in our studies of the Aronov device.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: First off, the projection radius of the field is about three orders of magnitude greater than Dr. Aronov's original device.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Meaning what?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Which means the temporal field expansion could theoretically encompass an entire ship.
CAPT. BRANSON: Whoa, that's a huge breakthrough good work you two.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Well, as novel as this is, it also means the Aronov device just became a lot more potent.
			
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah the Admirals should be notified.
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INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
[Vice Admiral Jason Brousseau is on the wall monitor.]
VICE ADM. BROUSSEAU [monitor]: It's undeniable they've achieved something extraordinary, but I have to admit, I wish they hadn't
CAPT. BRANSON: March of progress. Can't stop it.
			
VICE ADM. BROUSSEAU [monitor]: The weaponization of time travel has always been the unthinkable horror. If the Romulans or the Klingons ever achieved it, they could skip the galactic brinksmanship and simply destroy the Federation at its inception
CAPT. BRANSON: How do you want us to handle it sir?
VICE ADM. BROUSSEAU [monitor]: I'm going to recommend the immediate dispatch of a convoy to escort you to the maximum security research station on Sabik Three. You'll transfer the device and all data over to their care
CAPT. BRANSON: Aye, sir.
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EXT-WARP TUNNEL
A shot of the U.S.S. Venture a Korolev-Class heavy cruiser as it pans over to show the Enterprise between four Constitution-Class vessel.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Lieutenant Smith has two fingers on her ear piece turns to report.]
LT. SMITH: Captain, we're being hailed by the Venture it's Rear Admiral Branson.
CAPT. BRANSON: Put him on.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Venture a Korolev-class Heavy as Admiral Branson sits in the Captain's chair.
CAPT. BRANSON: Go ahead Admiral.
REAR ADM. BRANSON [viewer]: John, we've been hailing the station for the past five minutes, there's no response
[Commander Ivanova turns to Lieutenant Smith.]
CMDR. IVANOVA: Julia?
LT. SMITH: Hailing on all frequencies no response.
REAR ADM. BRANSON [viewer]: I'm ordering all ships to maximum warp
CAPT. BRANSON: We'll stay with you.
REAR ADM. BRANSON [viewer]: Branson out
[Transmission ends as Commander Ivanova turns from her station.]
CMDR. IVANOVA: John, I've got a bad feeling about this.
[Captain Branson can't help but feel the same way.]
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EXT-SABIK SYSTEM, SABIK THREE
The convoy emerges from warp one at a time.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Captain Branson slowly gets up from the Captain's chair.]
EXT-SABIK SYSTEM
The convoy approaches the planet but in orbit to find Sabik space littered with the wrecks of Federation and Klingon ships as well as a destroyed station.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Captain Branson remains standing behind the helm and navigational stations.]
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar scan for bio-signs.
[Commander T'Lar scans and reports.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: None, sir.
CMDR. IVANOVA: They knew we were coming.
[Everyone is shocked as T'Lar's console beeps and she checks and reports.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Captain, long range scanners detect a convoy of Klingon ships dropping out of warp.
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EXT-SABIK SPACE
A convoy of Klingon vessels emerge from warp approaching the Starfleet convoy.
[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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 A shot over another Federation Starship as the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 is at Station keeping.
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STAR TREK: THE NEW VOYAGES
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
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BASED ON STAR TREK CREATED BY: GENE RODDENBERRY
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The Enterprise exits dry-dock berth. 
JARVIS DAVIDSON 
 AS
CAPT. JOHN BRANSON 
An underbelly shot of the ventral section of the Enterprise as the moon is in full view. 
FELECIA LINKOUS 
 AS
CMDR. ZHASA IVANOVA 
The Enterprise flying by an interstellar dust cloud. 
KEVIN REGAN 
 AS
LT. JACK MASON 
The Enterprise flying towards an M-Class planet. 
FERNE MYERS 
 AS
LTCMDR. STEPHANIE WILLIAMS 
Enterprise traversing a planetary debris field. 
JACOB ELLIOT 
 AS
DR. STEVEN CARLSON
Enterprise flying by a binary pulsar. 
DELENA "DEE" LUSK 
 AS
LT. KARA CARLSON
BLAKE WAYMIRE 
 AS
LT. TYSON MITCHELL
Enterprise heading towards Arcamon Science Station.
SADIE BRICKHOUSE 
 AS
LT. JULIA SMITH
JEREMY REGAN
 AS
LTCMDR. KYLE CLARKSON
Enterprise flying by a comet. 
BECKY ELLIOT 
 AS
LTCMDR. T'LAR
The Enterprise's warp engines power up and she leaps into warp. 
CREATED BY:
JARVIS DAVIDSON & JEREMY REGAN
===Act 1===
FADE IN
EXT-SABIK SPACE, SABIK THREE
[EPISODE NOTES: OPENING CREDITS FALL OVER OPENING SCENES]
The Klingon convoy opens fires on the fleeing Federation convoy as one of the interceptors collides with one of the ships in the convoy causing it to crash into a hulk, as the Enterprise is also fleeing.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
WHUMPH! Sparks fly from ceiling.
CAPT. BRANSON: Evasive pattern beta!
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir!
WHUMPH! Showers of sparks erupt again.
LT. MASON; Deflectors down to fifty percent!
CMDR. IVANOVA: Full auxiliary power!
EXT-SABIK SPACE, SABIK DEBRIS FIELD
Enterprise and two other Starfleet vessels are fleeing from pursuing Klingon vessels.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
WHUMPH! Another shower of sparks erupt from the MSD as screens flicker.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Klingon interceptors in pursuit.
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara, evasive pattern delta.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-DEBRIS FIELD
Enterprise maneuvers through the debris field of her comrades as one of the Starfleet vessels is destroyed.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
WHUMPH! Sparks flying from ceiling.
LT. MITCHELL: Navigational array is off-line!
WHUMPH!
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Explosive decompression on decks 7 and 14.
LT. SMITH: Captain, incoming hail from Rear Admiral Branson.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen!
[Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Venture as she's taking hits.]
REAR ADM. BRANSON [viewer]: Branson to All ships! We're taking heavy losses! I'm ordering a full retreat, bearing 1-6-7 mark 12. We'll try to lose them in the Veil nebula
[Transmission ends.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara?
LT. CARLSON: On it.
EXT-SPACE
A close up of the Venture as her deflectors flicker and she fires her phasers as the Enterprise flies over head fires a photon destroying a bird of prey, but is caught in a tractor beam.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: The Klingons have us in a tractor beam!
CAPT. BRANSON: All engines full reverse!
Lieutenant Carlson works at her console.
LT. CARLSON: No effect!
CAPT. BRANSON: Hail the Klingons!
LT. SMITH: Hailing!
[Transparent viewer shows the lead Klingon bridge.]
KLINGON COMMANDER [viewer]: Earth vessel, you will surrender the device
CAPT. BRANSON: Back off now or we'll destroy it ourselves!
KLINGON COMMANDER [viewer]: Surrender the device or die prepare to be boarded
[Transmission ends.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Jack, go to the lab. Destroy the Aronov device.
[As Lieutenant Mason gets up to head to the turbo-lift a Federation vessel is destroyed, as a large piece of the saucer section approaches the Enterprise.]
LT. MITCHELL: Oh god hang onto something!
[Everyone braces.]
EXT-SPACE
A close up of the piece of debris skidding along the saucer section of the Enterprise as the deflectors absorb the impact.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
A huge shower of sparks erupt sending Lieutenant Mason over the railing.
CMDR. IVANOVA: JACK!
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Medical team to the bridge.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: John, I'll go.
CAPT. BRANSON: Go Kyle!
[Kyle leaves the bridge.]
INT-USS ENTERPRISE DECK SEVEN CORRIDOR [RED ALERT]
Kyle rushes to the armory to get a phaser as crewmen are rushing as well.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE ARMORY [RED ALERT]
Kyle enters and grabs a phaser and heads to the science lab.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Doctor Carlson and Nurse Chapel are treating Lieutenant Mason.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Captain, Klingon vessel is activating docking clamps.
LT. CARLSON: I can't shake us loose Captain!
CAPT. BRANSON: Options!
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Sir. A forced overload of the deflector array could disrupt their tractor beam.
[Captain Branson toggles the com panel.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to Williams! We're gonna use the warp core to overload the deflectors!
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INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: On T'Lar's command
LTCMDR. WILLAMS [to com]: Aye, sir re-routing power now.
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INT-USS ENTERPRISE SCIENCE LAB IV [RED ALERT]
Kyle enters the lab and faces the Aronov device.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Core output 60%. Core output 76%. 98%. Core overloading.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE SCIENCE LAB IV [RED ALERT]
Kyle powers up the phaser to maximum and takes aim at the device, but just as he is about to fire, the core overloads and part of the surge of extraordinary power enters the device and erupts. Kyle is thrown back then seems to split into many copies of himself before disappearing.
EXT-SPACE
A wave emits from the Enterprise and disrupts the tractor beam.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]'
LT. CARLSON: We're loose.
CAPT. BRANSON: Get us out of here maximum warp.
LT. CARLSON: Gladly.
Lieutenant Carlson works on the helm and engages the warp drive.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise flies over the Klingon carrier and leaps into warp.
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EXT-VEIL NEBULA
Enterprise exits warp flies through the cloud.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTCMDR. T'LAR: No sign of pursuit.
CAPT. BRANSON: Stand down from red alert.
[Lights brighten up.]
CMDR. IVANOVA: That was close.
CAPT. BRANSON: Yeah it was.
[Captain Branson toggles the com panel.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to Clarkson, Kyle stand down we've escaped.
[Nothing over the com.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Kyle do you read?
[Nothing over the com.]
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar scan the science lab?
Commander T'Lar works at her console.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: No bio-signs in the lab sir.
Captain Branson is worried.
[END OF ACT 1, FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-VEIL NEBULA CLOUD
Enterprise is in the nebula cloud.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE SCIENCE LAB IV
[Engineering team is going over the lab with a fine toothcomb, as Captain Branson enters.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Steph report?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: We've not found a trace of him.
CAPT. BRANSON: It doesn't make since he was here when we were attacked.
[Commander Ivanova walks into the Science lab.]
CMDR. IVANOVA: John, there's something you should see.
[She hands him the PADD.]
CAPT. BRANSON [re: PADD] What?
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INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
[Wall monitor shows Kyle's death certificate Kyle Clarkson Born: March 22nd, 2233 Death July 12th 2269, as the senior staff is around the table.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Are you sure this is accurate? 
CMDR. IVANOVA: Yes it is correct I checked.
LT. MASON: I'm confused how did he die on Archanis IV he was nowhere near system?
CAPT. BRANSON: What confuses me is why is there any record of him at all? He knows the law. If you find yourself displaced in time, you make yourself as invisible as you can. You do everything in your power not to interfere.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Now that I can't answer.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I believe I have a theory.
CAPT. BRANSON: What's your theory.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Mister Clarkson was close to the Aronov device when we overloaded the deflectors. The burst of energy from the warp drive amplified the temporal field before it collapsed, and he got caught in the displacement wave.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: He was a bit off before the attack by the Klingons.
CAPT. BRANSON: Today marks the anniversary of his parent's death at the hands of the Klingons during the Archanis IV Massacre.
CMDR. IVANOVA: What are you getting at John?
CAPT. BRANSON: I might be off base, but my bet is that his subconscious picked that destination point: the late 2260s before he joined the Enterprise.
LT. MITCHELL: Then how do we remember him then shouldn't we all have no memory of him being onboard?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I might have an answer to that I been going over Doctor Aronov's research and I believe that this device protected us from the changes in the timeline when Commander Clarkson was struck by the wave.
[com does the boatswain whistle]
BRIDGE OFFICER [com voice]: Bridge to Captain
[Captain Branson toggles the com panel on the table.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson here go ahead.
BRIDGE OFFICER [com voice]: Sir, we're being hailed by Commander Clarkson
[They look at each other in confusion.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Transfer the signal to the briefing room.
[Julia looks at the PADD on the table.]
LT. SMITH: It matches Mister Clarkson's communicator frequency.
CAPT. BRANSON: Where did it come from?
[Wall monitor shows the Archanis System.]
CMDR. IVANOVA: Archanis IV but how its been a smoking cinder since the massacre.
CAPT. BRANSON: Let's hear it.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [com voice]: Clarkson to Enterprise. I'm sending this message to you from the year 2269. I've been here for six month and I'm in case it reaches you. I've encoded my temporal coordinates within this message. Uh I'm trapped here. if you can. I know it's a long shot, but if you're able send help. I miss you guys. End transmission
[Transmission end.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Steph, can we use the Aronov device to go back in time to retrieve Kyle?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Its possible but it could burn up all the anti-matter we got.
CAPT. BRANSON [sighs]: He's calling out to us from the past, asking for our help. And temporal law compels us to try.
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EXT-VEIL NEBULA CLOUD
Enterprise is position.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Captain Branson toggles the com panel.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to Williams report?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [com voice]: We're ready down here sir
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Temporal coordinates have been encoded and locked.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Engage Commander.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [nods]: Acknowledged. All power couplings are linked. Jones, ramp up the plasma injectors. Take us to 100% flow-field density.
LT. JONES [nods]: Aye, Commander.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Warp core power output at 110%
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Ship is rattling.]
CAPT. BRANSON: T'Lar?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I will require additional power to increase chronon energy levels.
[Captain Branson toggles the com panel.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Steph, give T'Lar as much as you can spare
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise is surging with temporal energy.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Temporal field is weakening.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [to com]: The core's destabilizing!
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE			
LT. SMITH: All sections reporting structural integrity alarms!
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [com voice]: Captain, we're hitting the ceiling down here!
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: T'LAR!
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Standby, Commander Williams transfer emergency power reserves to the warp core on my mark. Three, two, one, mark.
[WHUMPH!]
CAPT. BRANSON: Report?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I believe that we made the transition.
CAPT. BRANSON: Let's find out Kara set a course for Archanis IV maximum warp.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-ARCHANIS SYSTEM
Enterprise approaches the system.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Transparent viewer shows the planet.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Scan the fourth planet.
Commander T'Lar runs her scans and reports.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I am detecting Outpost 9 and both Salazar and Elzaber
CMDR. IVANOVA: So we made it?
CAPT. BRANSON: That class-K moon we passed put us behind it.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
[Lieutenant Carlson inputs commands into the helm station.]
EXT-MOON ORBIT
Enterprise enter orbit of the Moon.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTCMDR. T'LAR: They didn't detect us entering the system.
CAPT. BRANSON: Alright, locate Kyle's bio-signs.
Commander T'Lar works at her console and reports.
LTCMDR. T'LAR: I have located Commander Clarkson he's alive and I am picking three more bio-signs with him as well.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Wonder who the bio-signs belong to?
CAPT. BRANSON: No clue but we've got to go get him before he messes up the timeline T'Lar you've got the bridge Z you're with me.
[The pair enters the lift as Commander T'Lar sits in the Captain's chair.]
EXT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE MAIN COLONY, DAY
An establishing shot of the Federation colony as Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova materialized on the surface.
CMDR. IVANOVA: John look.
[An establishing shot of the Federation colony of how far its come along.]
CAPT. BRANSON: That's impossible according to Anna her parents were making progress but not this much progress, let's check it out and if anyone asks we're making an inspection of the colony.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Got it.
[They head to the colony.]
EXT-CLASS-K MOON ORBIT
Enterprise is behind the moon.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN ENGINEERING
[Commander T'Lar enters.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: Your call sounded urgent Commander.
[Stephanie leads her to the main console.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I got some bad news. The time jump ate up the last of our matter/ant-matter reserves before we reached the temporal coordinates Kyle sent us.
[T'Lar raises an eyebrow.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: So we did not make it?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: No we did but I think we overshot the mark.
EXT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE, MAIN COLONY, DAY
[Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova are walking through the colony as its buzzing with life.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: So we can't return to 2271?
LTCMDR. T'LAR [com voice]: According to Commander Williams there is no way for us to make the time jump when we retrieve Commander Clarkson
CMDR. IVANOVA: We can't remain here if the Klingons attack.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: T'Lar according to Doctor Clarkson's research the moon we're currently orbiting should have some dilithium deposits, take a shuttle team to the surface and extract as much of it as you can we'll need it if we're going to make it back home.
LTCMDR. T'LAR [com voice]: Aye, sir T'Lar out
[John closed his communicator and puts it back in the holder.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Come on let's go find Kyle.
[They continue to walk through the colony.]
EXT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE, MAIN COLONY, REPAIR BAY
[Kyle is wearing civilian clothes and hands a PADD to one of the crewmen.]
KYLE: Get started on reconfiguring the power transfer conduits.
CREWMEN: Yes, sir.
[He leaves as Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova show up.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Kyle?
KYLE [shocked]: My god.
CMDR. IVANOVA: How are you?
KYLE [shocked]: I'm I can't believe this is happening. You're here. You're actually You're actually here.
CAPT. BRANSON: We kinda overshot the mark a bit.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Are you okay?
KYLE: I-I'm fine I just can't believe it that you guys are here.
CMDR. IVANOVA: Well we're here to take you home.
KYLE: You wanna tour of the colony?
[They look at each other and follow him.]
KYLE: As you can see we've made a lot of progress with this colony.
JOHN: I can see that Kyle do you remember what happened on the Enterprise?
KYLE: Yeah, after the disruption wave hit me I awaken in my parent's house and mom cared for me and I warned her of a Klingon attack so she informed Starfleet Command and they dispatched a battlegroup to protect the colony.
[Both John and Zhasa look at each other as they approach his home.]
INT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE, KYLE'S COLONY HOUSE
[They enter and are amazed by what they're seeing in the house.]
JOHN: Kyle, I don't know why you would try to save your parents after they "abandoned" you at Arcamon.
[Then they see Jamie heavily pregnant.]
JAMIE: Oh, John hi and?
ZHASA: Commander Zhasa Ivanova we're making a quick inspection of the colony.
JAMIE: Ah, well welcome to our home.
[Then they see a young boy.]
KYLE: This is Ethan my son.
[Both John and Zhasa are shocked by the sight.]
[END OF ACT TWO, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
EXT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE MAIN COLONY, DAY
An establishing shot of the main colony.
INT-KYLE AND JAMIE'S HOUSE LIVING ROOM
[John, Zhasa, and Kyle are alone while Jamie is getting stuff prep for dinner.]
KYLE: I've gotten comfortable here. You know, when no one came for me, I had to make peace with the fact that this was home now. Hell, I didn't even know if the Enterprise survived the battle with the Klingons.
[John is leaning on the couch while Zhasa is sitting on the couch.]
JOHN [sighs]: Look, Kyle, I can't imagine how hard this has been for you. But, Jesus Christ, you're a Starfleet officer. And I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't point out...
KYLE [interrupting John]: Don't say it John please don't say what you're going to say.
JOHN: You violated the Temporal Prime Directive. Stay invisible. Don't interact with anyone. If we make it back, you're gonna have to answer for this. You know that.
KYLE: I'm not going back John here I am respected here I can help people here I am not known as the Wey'tahn murderer like I am in our timeline.
ZHASA: Kyle, you know this isn't the actual record of history this colony is a smoking cinder by the Klingons only fourteen colonist survived the massacre.
[Both John and Zhasa are shocked by Kyle not listening to them.]
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EXT-LUNAR SURFACE
[Commander Williams and a survey team are extracting a deposit of dilithium from the surface.]
LT. JONES: I believe I have located the nearest dilithium deposit. It appears to be six kilometers below the crust.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [re: tricorder]: Let's get started I rather be in 2271 then here.
[The survey team gets started.]
INT-KYLE & JAMIE'S HOUSE, KID'S BEDROOM
[John and Kyle are in there.]
JOHN: I can't believe that you're not coming back with us.
KYLE: John, you know how it is for me in our timeline I am hated by the Andorians they want me dead, and Jamie wants nothing to do with me after I nearly killed her.
JOHN: Kyle you violated the temporal prime directive by changing the timeline, Starfleet temporal department is going to make you answer for the violation.
KYLE: You don't get it John you never got what it was like being on the Jamestown, receiving looks from the crew and the Captain during my time aboard the cargo vessel.
[John rubs his head pacing about as he looks around the bedroom.]
JOHN: Kyle, I understand how you felt after the trial I kept tabs on you being on the Jamestown, you remember the bar fight at Starbase Six and Commodore Austin wanted to press charges on you for it?
KYLE [nods]: Yeah?
JOHN: I had him drop them I told him that you already had enough baggage on your mind.
KYLE: And what about Jamie she hates me!
JOHN: Look, I understand that you got a raw deal, I really do. But I want to hear a goddamn good explanation for what's happening, because the way I see it, we oughta haul your ass back to the ship right now and throw you in the brig.
KYLE: Shut right now John, just shut the hell up!
JOHN: Excuse me Commander?
KYLE: No. No, I'm not your lieutenant commander. I'm not your assistance chief engineer, I'm not your crew. I'm Kyle Clarkson, and this is my house.
JOHN: Kyle, You're guilty of about 50 counts of temporal contamination. You broke the law, and god knows what the consequences...
KYLE [interrupting John again]: SCREW THE LAW! I spent three years obeying the law. I hid in an abandoned cabin in the woods of the colony and I did my goddamn duty. I stayed invisible. I didn't see anyone, I didn't go anywhere. You know what I ate? Animals. Yeah. I was holding my weapon when I got sent back, and I used it to kill animals. You wanna talk about breaking the law? Here it's no big deal, but in our time? I'm a serial murderer, folks. You know what that does to your head? So after three years, I said the hell with it. Temporal law can blow me.
[Jamie enters the bedroom.]
JAMIE: Please stop arguing you guys are friends, brothers you guys would give your lives for each other twice over.
KYLE: I want you both out of our house now.
[Kyle grabs his phaser and powers it up.]
ZHASA: John its still set to kill if he shoots us we're good as dead.
[They leave Kyle and Jamie's house.]
[END OF ACT THREE, FADE OUT]
===Act 4===
FADE IN
EXT-LUNAR SURFACE
[Commander Williams and her team are extracting the deposit.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [to com]: Williams to Enterprise.
LTCMDR. T'LAR [com voice]: T'Lar here
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [to com]: We just finished extracting the crystals and are returning to the ship now.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTCMDR. T'LAR [to com]: Good work Commander I will inform the Captain.
[T'Lar ends the hail and contacts Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova on the surface.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR [to com]: Enterprise to landing party.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Branson here go ahead T'Lar
LTCMDR. T'LAR [to com]: Captain Commander Williams and her team has finished their survey mission and are returning to the ship.
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EXT-ARCHANIS IV SURFACE, MAIN COLONY, DAY
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Good work T'Lar let me know when she's installed the crystals into the warp core.
LTCMDR. T'LAR [com voice]: Aye, sir
[John closed the communicator.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Z return to the ship and prepare her for the time jump.
CMDR. IVANOVA: What are you doing?
CAPT. BRANSON: I'm going to plead with Kyle one last time.
[They split up.]
INT-KYLE & JAMIE'S HOUSE, LIVING ROOM
[Kyle, Jamie, and Ethan watches television when the doorbell rings. Kyle is outraged to see John.]
KYLE: What the hell are you doing here.
JOHN: My job as a Starfleet officer you know I will haul your ass out of here kicking and screaming if I have to and I will stun you if I have to as well you know I was a tactical officer on the Excalibur before the M5 incident and how quick I am with my phaser.
KYLE: I'm not going back to that hell hole you call a life John!
JOHN: I need you I need my assistance chief engineer I need my best friend the godfather to my daughters!
ETHAN [scared]: Dad what's going on?
JAMIE: Its alright sweetie daddy's friend was just leaving.
JOHN: Jamie you know this timeline can't continue you are a good Captain, alright then have it your way we're bringing you home.
[John gets out his communicator.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to Enterprise one to beam up.
[John dematerialized as Kyle can't believe his friend is screwing his life over just to have him return to the Enterprise.]
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
[Turbo-lift doors opened and Captain Branson walks onto the bridge.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Status report?
CMDR. IVANOVA: All systems are in the green Commander Williams has finished installing the crystal deposits into the warp core.
[Commander Williams walks onto the bridge and takes the engineering console.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: We're all set sir.
CAPT. BRANSON: Let's try this again.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Opening anti-matter injectors now.
EXT-ARCHANIS SYSTEM
Enterprise surges with temporal energy.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON: Engage in three, two, one mark.
[Ship stops rattling.]
LTCMDR. T'LAR: We have made the jump.
LT. CARLSON: According to the astrogational charts we've arrived about two months ago.
CMDR. IVANOVA: That's when Kyle arrived.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Bridge to transporter room lock onto Mister Clarkson's signal and beam him up.
CHIEF MACKENZIE [com voice]: Aye, sir.
[Captain Branson and Commander Ivanova leaves the bridge to greet him.]
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INT-USS ENTERPRISE TRANSPORTER ROOM
[Kyle materialized onto the pad.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Welcome back Kyle.
[Kyle looks around the transporter room.]
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [sighs]: Ahhh, man. It is good to be back.
CAPT. BRANSON: How do you feel?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Like a man who walked through someone's grave but I never doubt you guys for a second.
CAPT. BRANSON: Same here.
LTCMDR. CLARKSON [confused]: What?
CAPT. BRANSON: We'll talk later let's get back to 2271.
[They leave the transporter room as Kyle is a bit confused.]
INT-USS ENTERPRISE SCIENCE LAB IV
[The Aronov temporal device is in shambles.]
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [re: tricorder]: It's completely shot. Fried from the inside out.
CAPT. BRANSON: Can it be repaired?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [sighs]: If we had six months, maybe. This isn't a warp drive we're talking about. This is cutting-edge temporal technology.
[Kyle puts the engineering tool down.]
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: I've got a crazy idea that just might work.
CAPT. BRANSON: What is it?
[Kyle leads them to one of the computer terminals.]
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: If we want to travel back to 2271 why not we use the warp drive, I mean got a built-in method right here. We've had it the entire time.
CMDR. IVANOVA [confused]: I am not sure I follow?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Whenever we're using the warp drive, we're moving faster than light. But the warp field creates a bubble around the ship, isolating us from the normal space-time continuum.
			
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [snaps her fingers]: Otherwise, we'd be subject To Einsteinian relativity: time dilation.
			
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: The closer we get to the speed of light, the faster time passes outside the ship.
			
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Well, don't you see? We just shut down the field. The very thing it's supposed to prevent, we just allow to happen. We push the ship as close as we can to the speed of light and let Einstein take care of the rest.
CAPT. BRANSON: But wouldn't be subjecting the Enterprise to the particles that the bubble is suppose to be protecting us from?
LTCMDR. CLARKSON: Yeah, we would be risking hull breaches but we have to try something.
EXT-ARCHANIS SYSTEM
Enterprise is in position.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
[Klaxons blaring as the crew are at their stations.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Report?
LT. CARLSON: Helm ready sir.
LT. MITCHELL: Navigational systems ready as well.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Engineering systems ready.
[Captain Branson sits in the Captain's chair.]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: All hands this is the Captain speaking we're going to attempt a time jump without the Aronov temporal device, I want damage control teams on standby let's go back to the 2270s.
[John ends the ship-wide.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara hit it.
[Lieutenant Carlson engages the warp drive.]
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise starts traveling at warp that lasts for about a few seconds.
EXT-ARCHANIS SYSTEM
Enterprise emerges from warp.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Report?
LTCMDR. T'LAR: We have arrived in 2271 sir.
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara set course for Earth warp factor seven hit it.
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is at warp.
INT-USS ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN BRANSON'S QUARTERS
[Kyle, John, and Zhasa are having drinks.]
KYLE [shocked]: I don't even know what to say. It must have been the hardest thing you've ever had to do in your life.
JOHN [sighs]: That's an understatement.
KYLE: I just I can't believe I would be that selfish. I mean, to risk the timeline, to threaten you.
JOHN: You were tested to a degree that none of us have ever been. Who's to say that we wouldn't have done the same? A family does powerful things to a person.
[John walks over to a table and picks a box up and hands it to Kyle.]
KYLE [confused]: What's this?
JOHN: Doctor T'Ver gave this to me when we were at the Sanctuary planet.
[Kyle opens it up.]
KYLE: A data chip?
JOHN: It contains a message addressed to you and you only.
CUT TO:
INT-USS ENTERPRISE COMMANDER CLARKSON'S QUARTERS
[Kyle is sitting at his desk and inserts the chip into it as the screen shows the office of Doctor Anna Clarkson at Archanis IV colony.]
ANNA [monitor]: Hey Kyle I know you're probably busy with whatever it is you are doing on the Harrison, hopefully this message finds you and that you're doing great. You're probably wondering why we left you at Arcamon with Doctor T'Ver besides her being a friend of the family we have some very, very important information that can't fall into the wrong hands
[Kyle is surprised by this.]
ANNA [monitor]: I know you're mad about us leaving you at Arcamon but please understand why we did it, we couldn't risk those who are very, very bad in the higher status of Starfleet would use you we love you and no matter how you feel about us we will always, always love you
ROBERT [monitor]: Anna come on we've got to get prep for the Enterprise's arrival with the medical supplies
[Anna ends the recording.]
EXT-SOL SYSTEM, EARTH ORBIT
Enterprise docks at the Federation Dockyard.
EXT-EARTH SURFACE, MEMORIAL AREA, DAY
[Kyle walks over to the two tombstones of his and Anna's parents and kneels in front of the tombstones, unknown to him Marianna shows up as she walks over to him and puts her hand on his shoulder and kneels next to him.]
MARIANNA: I am so sorry for your lost Kyle.
[They hug as Kyle just breaks down.]
[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===
*Michael L. King as Rear Admiral James Branson
*TBA as Jamie Towe
*TBA as Ethan Towe
*TBA as Doctor Anne Clarkson
*TBA as Doctor Robert Clarkson
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===
*Inspired by The Orville New Horizon episode of the same name.
*Relives the season 1 episode: The Massacre of Archanis IV.
*Marks Kyle making amends with his parents.