Sleeping Dogs (TOS episode)

Sleeping Dogs is the 11th episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds SNW Season 1.
==Plot==
While exploring a gas giant, Enterprise finds the wreck of a Klingon scout vessel sinking into the atmosphere. 
==Script Chapters==
===Teaser===
FADE IN
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise soars at high warp.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE ARMORY
[A phaser was removed from the holder and the power cell put into it, as a holo-device attached to the bulkhead.]
LTJG. MASON [re: PADD]: You have a ten second firing window. Ready? 
LTJG. SMITH: Ready.
[Lieutenant Mason activates the holo-device and a holo-target appears as Lieutenant Smith fires the phaser at the moving target, as the training ended as she turns to Lieutenant Mason.]
LTJG. MASON: Time.
LTJG. SMITH: What's my time?
LTJG. MASON [sighs]: Your hit to miss ratio is still below fifty percent. If those had been live rounds, you'd have blown out two or three bulkheads. 
LTJG. SMITH [sighs]: I never had trouble with the laser pistol.
Lieutenant Mason takes the weapon from her.
LTJG. MASON: This weapon isn't like the 2240 hand weapon you don't have to compensate for particle drift. Just point straight at the target, and try and keep your shoulders relaxed. It's hard to aim accurately when you're tense. Ahem.
LTJG. SMITH: You alright?
LTJG. MASON: Yeah, fine. You'll get the hang of it. Let's try for twenty seconds this time. 
[The engine sound changes.]
LTJG. SMITH [confused]: I thought we were staying at warp for the next few days. 
[Mason checks the monitor.]
LTJG. MASON: We're approaching a gas giant. Class nine. 
LTJG. SMITH: So much for target practice. 
LTJG. MASON [smiles]: We'll pick it up tomorrow.
They leave the armory.
[END OF TEASER, FADE OUT]
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Theme Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZqTpbTsY70
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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 5 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: STRANGE NEW WORLDS
A STAR TREK FAN FILM PRODUCTION
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BASED ON STAR TREK CREATED BY: GENE RODDENBERRY
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A shot of the secondary hull of the Enterprise
JARVIS DAVIDSON 
 AS
CAPT. JOHN BRANSON
The Enterprise flies by an asteroid
FELECIA LINKOUS
 AS
LTCMDR. ZHASA IVANOVA
The Enterprise flies by Mars 
KEVIN REGAN
 AS
LTJG. JACK MASON
FERNE MYERS
 AS
LTCMDR. STEPHANIE WILLIAMS
USS Enterprise is flying next to a comet
DELENA "DEE" LUSK
 AS
LTJG. KARA CARLSON
JACOB ELLIOT
 AS
DR. STEVEN CARLSON
The Enterprise flies under a Pioneer-Class vessel
SADIE BRICKHOUSE
 AS
LTJG. JULIA SMITH
The Enterprise flies by a planet as the sunsets 
BECKY ELLIOT
 AS
LTJG. 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/KLINGON NEUTRAL ZONE BORDER
A probe approaches the planet.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTJG. T'LAR: The probe's entered the outer atmosphere.
Transparent viewer is fuzzy orange.
CAPT. BRANSON: Can we clear up the signal?
LTJG. SMITH: I'm trying, sir. There's a lot of EM interference. It sounds very strange.
LTJG. T'LAR: Intense magnetic fields often create unique waveforms. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Let's hear it.
[Electronic Jupiter-type music.]
LT. CARLSON [smiles]: Siren calls. That's what we called them when I was a kid. My dad would put them through the speakers whenever we flew by a gas giant. It gave me nightmares sometimes.
Lieutenant Smith shuts the com off.
LTJG. T'LAR: Other than keeping Lieutenant Carlson up at night, I'm not sure what we expect to accomplish here. There are four gas giants in your own solar system. 
Captain Branson leans over the rail.
CAPT. BRANSON: But none are class-9s. I think this one's worth a closer look. 
Then T'Lar checks her scanner scope and reports.
LTJG. T'LAR: I'm reading an anomalous power signature in the lower atmosphere, and several bio-signs.
CAPT. BRANSON: Move the probe closer.
[Transparent viewer shows the unknown vessel through the muck.]
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
[Mason sneezes.]
LTJG. MASON [stuffy nose]: We can travel faster than the speed of light. You'd think we could find a cure for the common cold. 
DR. CARLSON: It's still a mystery but at least its mild I once had a patient with the Kamaraazite flu. He sneezed so violently he nearly regurgitated his pineal gland. 
LTJG. MASON: I don't see how I could actually catch a cold on a hermetically sealed starship. 
DR. CARLSON: Oh, you may have picked up the virus from a piece of equipment. It could have been lurking inside a sealed container. 
Jack thinks.
LTJG. MASON: Well I did open a container of plasma coolant.
DR. CARLSON: Whoever packed that case was probably nursing a cold. 
LTJG. MASON: But that was at Spacedock 5 months ago.
Doctor Carlson goes get a hypo.
DR. CARLSON: You underestimate the tenacity of a virus, Lieutenant. It can lay dormant for months, adapt to whatever environment it finds itself in. This should ease the symptoms.
[Doctor Carlson gives Mason a hypo.]
DR. CARLSON: But the only cure I know of involves bed rest.
LTJG. MASON: No, that'll have to wait. The Captain wants me on the team investigating that shipwreck.
DR. CARLSON: Well, you won't be contagious inside an environment suit. Just try not to sneeze in your helmet. 
LTJG. MASON [nods]: I'll do my best.
He leaves sickbay.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE LOCKER ROOM
Lieutenant T'Lar, Commander Williams, and Lieutenant Mason are getting ready as Lieutenant Smith is working on her EVA suit.
LTJG. T'LAR: I thought you were acquainted with the environmental suit. 
LTJG. SMITH: I am. I'm just brushing up on the backup systems. I wouldn't want the emergency oxygen to fail during a hull breach.
LTJG. MASON: Trust me, Lieutenant. If there's a hull breach the pressure will crush you to something about this big. 
(He holds up a clenched fist.) 
LTJG. T'LAR: I requested you for your skills as a translator, but if you're uncomfortable. 
LTJG. SMITH: I'm perfectly comfortable. I used to find the suits a little claustrophobic, but I'm getting used to them. I'll see you in the shuttle.
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
The shuttle heads to the unknown vessel.
INT-SHUTTLE CANOPY
Lieutenant T'Lar is at co-pilot and Lieutenant Mason is at the helm station as Lieutenant Smith is at the com station, Commander Williams is at engineering.
LTJG. MASON: It's one hundred kilometers below us, still descending.
LTJG. T'LAR: Gravity's pulling it deeper into the atmosphere. At their current altitude the pressure is fifteen thousand gsc.
LTJG. MASON: That's well within our hull tolerance. 
LTJG. T'LAR: For the moment. But at the rate that vessel is sinking, we'll have an hour at most.
LTJG. SMITH: You sound uncomfortable T'Lar.
LTJG. T'LAR: I'm merely stating facts. 
LTJG. MASON: We'll be on our way back well before we're in any danger. I for one have no interest in imploding a valuable shuttle.
LTJG. SMITH: Or three valuable officers. 
EXT-GAS GIANT SURFACE
Runabout approaches the vessel.
INT-ALIEN VESSEL CORRIDOR
The boarding party wearing EVA suits enter the corridor.
LTJG. T'LAR [re: tricorder]: Nitrogen-oxygen atmosphere. Carbon dioxide levels are high, but nothing's toxic. It's breathable.
LTJG. SMITH; You first.
[Jack removes his helmet and nods then T'Lar opens hers and nearly gags.]
LTJG. T'LAR: Perhaps we should leave the helmets on.
LTJG. MASON: What is it?
LTJG. SMITH [coughs]: Don't you smell that?
LTJG. MASON: No. This damn cold.
LTJG. SMITH: Count your blessings.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Lieutenant?
They shine the light of their SMI beacons on a figure and they walk over to the figure and Julia rolls him over and its a Klingon warrior.
LTJG. MASON: That's not good.
[END OF ACT 1, FADE OUT]
===Act 2===
FADE IN
EXT-FEDERATION/KLINGON NEUTRAL ZONE BORDER, GAS GIANT ORBIT
Enterprise is in orbit.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Klingons what are they doing across the border?
LT. T'LAR [to com]: We're not sure but we'll continue searching the vessel for survivors I had Smith and Williams take the Klingon to the Runabout for further examination.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: I've informed Command
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Alright, we'll head to the bridge to see if we can download their logs and possibly help the crew.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Alright, we'll remain up here to see if we can trace their course before they ended up here Enterprise out
LTJG. T'LAR: Let's go.
Lieutenant Mason gets out his phaser and they head towards the bridge.
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
They find some of the crew unconscious on the bridge.
LTJG. MASON: Are they alive?
LTJG. T'LAR [re: tricorder]: Yeah, they seem to be unconscious but they look like they're dead but I am reading bio-signs. We should leave before they regain consciousness. 
LTJG. MASON: And what if they don't? The atmosphere's going to crush this ship like an eggshell pretty soon. 
Then Commander Williams enters.
LTJG. MASON: How's our guest?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Still unconscious I've transferred the medical scans to the Enterprise via the probe.
(In the Klingon galley, there are carcasses hanging from butcher's hooks, some green stuff in bowls. A woman walks out of a storage area,) 
INT-KLINGON MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: How many?
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Three on the bridge, but I'm detecting at least nine more bio-signs on board.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
LTJG. T'LAR [com voice]: I'm detecting residual amounts of an carbon dioxide based neurotoxin, but it seems to have dissipated. There's not enough to affect us
Doctor Carlson is at one of the consoles.
DR. CARLSON [to com]: I've gone over the medical information you sent back it seems to be some sort of toxin but I don't recognize the sequence.
Captain Branson looks at Lieutenant Carlson.
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara status on the Runabout's hull?
Lieutenant Carlson checks her console and reports.
LT. CARLSON: At their present rate of descent, half hour, give or take. 
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: T'Lar.
LTJG. T'LAR: [com voice]: Go ahead
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: You've got twenty minutes to see if you can do anything for that crew, then I want you out of there. 
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: I don't believe there's anything we can do in twenty minutes. I suggest we leave now.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: You have a margin of safety
[His transmission starts to crackle.]
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: Captain? T'Lar to Enterprise.
INT-KLINGON VESSEL CORRIDOR
(The Klingon woman moves towards the voices.) 
LTJG. MASON [OC]: Damn interference. 
LTJG. T'LAR [OC]: Or we've dropped out of comm. range. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS [OC]: We still have twenty minutes. 
LTJG. T'LAR [OC]: It doesn't make sense to place ourselves at risk when they'd rather die. 
LTJG. MASON [OC]: There must be something we can do. Maybe they have a distress beacon we can activate. 
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
(The woman sees them then retreats.) 
LTJG. T'LAR: I doubt you'll find one. Klingons don't call for help. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: What if we carry some of them into the shuttle? We could save three or four.
LTJG. T'LAR: And if they wake up on the return trip to the ship?
(The sound of a bulkhead closing. Mason pulls his phaser and goes to investigate. The woman jumps him and escapes.) 
INT-KLINGON CORRIDOR
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: What was that?
LTJG. T'LAR: Our runabout leaving.
LTJG. MASON: Just great.
Then Julia comes out of a room rubbing her head.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Are you alright?
LTJG. SMITH: Yeah, I got jumped by a Klingon and dragged in there.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON: Try it again.
ENS. PETERSON: Try it now sir.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Enterprise to Tennessee do you read me?
ENS. PETERSON: The com is still working sir.
Then a few hours later they hear a familiar language over the com.
BU'KAH [com voice]: Duj-to! Chak wa kah Deesh paklah! kah Deesh paklah!
CAPT. BRANSON: Klingon.
Ensign Christina inputs commands to work the translator.
BU'KAH [com voice]: Chak wa kah Deesh paklah! kah Deesh paklah! 'kiv Duj in range. Respond. We've been attacked by a Federation Starship designation Enterprise NCC-1701. Any warships in range, respond
CAPT. BRANSON: Set a pursuit course.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise moves towards the Runabout.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
Transparent viewer shows the aft section of the Runabout.
CAPT. BRANSON: target the runabout engines five percent power fire when ready.
EXT-SPACE
Enterprise fires a phaser beam that disables the runabout's engines.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON: Bring it aboard and have a security team meet me in the shuttle bay.
Captain Branson leaves the bridge.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN SHUTTLE BAY
[Captain Branson and two security officers enter the bay The runabout hatch is open, and Bu'kaH jumps the guard who goes to look inside. It takes stun shots from both Branson and a guard to knock her out.]
CAPT. BRANSON: Is everyone alright?
The guard nods as the guards get up again Captain Branson goes to the com panel and presses it.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Branson to Bridge do you have a fix on the ship wreck.
LT. CARLSON [com voice]: Yes, sir
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Transfer the coordinates to the launch bay. I'm going back for the boarding party. 
LT. CARLSON [com voice]: Captain, sensors have shown that the alien ship sunk another two thousand meters. It's below the shuttle's safety limits
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Raise deflectors we'll take Enterprise down.
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
The boarding party are trying to figure out how to get out of their current situation.
LTJG. MASON: There's got to be another way off this vessel?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: What about escape pods?
LTJG. MASON: I don't know about the structural integrity of Klingon escape pods. My guess is we're better off in here.
LTJG. T'LAR: It's irrelevant, Lieutenant. Klingons don't use escape pods. It would be considered an act of cowardice to abandon ship. 
LTJG. SMITH: Maybe we can use their comm. system to contact Enterprise.
LTJG. T'LAR: I doubt their comm. will penetrate the EM field any better than our own. If we can access their helm controls we might be able to put this vessel into a stable orbit. 
Then Captain Branson's voice comes over the com.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Enterprise to boarding party come in
Lieutenant Smith opens the communicator.
LTJG. SMITH [to com]: We read you, Captain. 
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: How are you holding up? 
LTJG. SMITH [com voice]: We're doing okay, sir. It's nice to hear your voice
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: What's your status?
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE'
LTJG. T'LAR [to com]: We've been attempting to restart their engines, but they appear to be offline. 
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: Don't worry about that we're coming to get you
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara how much further?
LT. CARLSON: Ten thousand meters, but I'm having a hard time getting a fix on them. Too much interference. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Ty, is our probe still working? 
LTJG. MITCHELL: Barely.
CAPT. BRANSON: See if you can use it to get a fix on their position.
Lieutenant Mitchell gets to work.
EXT-GAS GIANT
The probe implodes.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTJG. MITCHELL: The probe's gone.
[The hull starts to groan.]
LT. CARLSON: Sir, external pressure's at maximum. 
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: I'm afraid we've got a bit of a hitch in our rescue plan.
[Big metallic groan.]
LTJG. MITCHELL [worried]: Deflectors are failing.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: We'll be back for you as soon as we can.
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: In the meantime, just sit tight
(He dissolves into static.) 
LTJG. SMITH [to com]: Captain you're breaking up, Captain!
Julia looks at the others.
[END OF ACT 2, FADE OUT]
===Act 3===
FADE IN
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
Bu'Kah is struggling against the bio-bed restraints.
BU'KAH: Release me. Cowards! Let me die on my feet.
DR. CARLSON: T'Lar was right. There's a neurotoxin in her bloodstream. Untreated, it could kill her within a day or two.
CAPT. BRANSON: Can you help her?
DR. CARLSON: I'm working on something right now with Christine she's currently in my office right now.
LTJG. MITCHELL: Its strange when we boarded the vessel the Klingons were all unconscious. Why is this one so lively? 
Chapel shows up.
NURSE CHAPEL: She's showing the effects of hypothermia. My guess is she took refuge in a low temperature environment aboard her ship. The cold would have delayed the effects of the toxin.
BU'KAH: I demand to speak to your Captain.
Captain Branson walk over to her.
CAPT. BRANSON: I'm John Branson commanding officer of this vessel.
BU'KAH [scoffs]: You raided my vessel, infected my crew the Klingon High Council will respond with a strike on the Federation!
CAPT. BRANSON: We didn't infect your crew.
BU'KAH: Liar!
CAPT. BRANSON: Look, I don't know what happened to your crew but we had nothing to do with it. Now your vessel is sinking deeper into the atmosphere and unless we do something, it'll be destroyed. 
BU'KAH: Better that than let it fall into your hands. 
CAPT. BRANSON: Bu'kah, I've got four very capable people on your ship. Let them help. If you tell them how to get the engines running, they can fly it out of there. 
BU'KAH: And fly it where? Back to your world to steal our secrets? 
CAPT. BRANSON: No.
BU'KAH: When our Birds of Prey arrive, your ship will be destroyed. 
John leaves sickbay.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Wall monitor show the schematics of the vessel.
LT. CARLSON: I found these schematics in the Vulcan database. It's a Raptor Class scout vessel. 
CAPT. BRANSON: How long will it last down there?
LT. CARLSON: Its hull's at least twice as thick as ours, reinforced with some kind of coherent molecular alloy.
LTJG. PAYNE: Yeah, it's a tough little ship but it can't hold up under that pressure forever. What if we use duratanium braces to reinforce the ship's hull? It won't look pretty but, it might hold up long enough for us to get our people out. 
LT. CARLSON: Our only other option is for T'Lar and Jack to fix a broken-down Klingon ship and fly it out themselves. 
CAPT. BRANSON: I don't think we're going to get any help from our guest in Sickbay. Get started on those braces. 
Lieutenant Payne leaves.
CAPT. BRANSON: keep an eye out for Klingon vessels.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
The boarding party are in their pre-EVA suits, as Stephanie is working on an open panel.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: The one time I ask to get out more and stretch my legs I get stranded on a Klingon vessel that's about to be crushed.
LTJG. SMITH: Come look at this. 
(She gets a recording playing on a screen in front of the captain's chair.) 
KLINGON CAPTAIN [monitor]: OonoS Thrott! Nej joS mIch ka Xanant 'ach pagh Q'tahL Class planet. We destroyed their ship, but we've sustained damage in our port fusion injector. We've descended into the outer atmosphere of a Q'tahL Class planet to make repairs in case there are other Romulan ships in the area. My crew is falling ill and I have been unable to determine why. If we had died when the Romulans attacked our honor would be secure, but to fall victim to some disease, to be crushed into nothing in the depths of this miserable planet. 
Transmission ends.
LTJG. MASON: Sounds like we need to find the port fusion injector. 
LTJG. SMITH: Wait, I saw that somewhere. Here. One deck below us. It's in the reactor pit.
LTJG. MASON: Reactor pit could it be Engineering?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Only one way to find out.
They leave the bridge.
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN ENGINEERING
They walk into the room and walk over to one of the consoles.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Yeah, their port fusion injector is off-line.
LTJG. T'LAR: Can you repair it?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I believe so.
She opens a panel and gets to work.
CUT TO:
EXT-GAS GIANT ORBIT
Enterprise is in orbit.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE JUNCTION TUBE 12 [RED ALERT]
John is working.
CAPT. BRANSON: I think I might have made a tactical error dealing with the Klingon woman. I asked her for help. She could see that as a sign of weakness. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: You been honing up on your Klingon psychology?
CAPT. BRANSON: We've run into them three times, and every time they've wanted to destroy us. I'd love to figure out why.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Well, maybe the best thing is just to steer clear of them.
CAPT. BRANSON: That may not be so easy. We could use their help right now. If we can re-establish a com signal with T'Lar and the others, the Klingon woman could probably talk them through the repairs, but she's got a thousand generations of instinct telling her not to trust me.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Maybe it's time you started thinking like a Klingon. 
Then the com activates.
DR. CARLSON [com voice]: Carlson to Captain Branson
John presses the panel.
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Go ahead.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY [YELLOW ALERT]
DR. CARLSON [to com]: You'll be pleased to know we've developed an antitoxin. There's an interesting wrinkle, though. When you have a moment I'd like to share it with you.
CAPT. BRANSON [com voice]: I'll be down there soon
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN ENGINEERING
Commander Williams stands up staggers and burns her hand.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Argh!
T'Lar and Lieutenant Mason go to her.
LTJG. MASON: Are you alright?
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Yes. I seem to be getting a little light-headed. Must be the heat. 
LTJG. T'LAR [re: tricorder]: You're dehydrated you need some water.
LTJG. MASON: Here you go.
He hands her a water container.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Thanks.
[The ship jolts hard as sparks erupt and coolant spews.]
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
A shot of the hull caving in.
[END OF ACT 3, FADE OUT]
===Act 4===
FADE IN
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN ENGINEERING [RED ALERT]
Coolant is venting as Julia has a fire extinguisher and using it to put out a fire.
LTJG. MASON: It'll work.
LTJG. T'LAR: If you're wrong, you could destroy the ship.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: T'Lar, even with Julia's help it could take hours just to find the fusion injector in here. We're out of time. 
LTJG. T'LAR: Will it work?
LTJG. MASON: If there's one thing on board this ship I ought to be able to figure out, it's the torpedoes.
They head to the bridge.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM [YELLOW ALERT]
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: A report from Lieutenant Payne.
CAPT. BRANSON: Qapla'.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA [surprised]: Come again?
CAPT. BRANSON: Success. I decided to take your advice about thinking like a Klingon. The Vulcan database has about nine hundred pages on them. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Learn anything?
CAPT. BRANSON: Plenty. They're driven by a warrior mentality. They tend to view anyone they meet as a potential enemy. 
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Explains our guest in sickbay.
CAPT. BRANSON: Listen to this they also have a strong sense of duty. Er, Heh CHo' mruak tah. Death before dishonor. Finish up that diagnostic. I'll be in Sickbay.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Going to put your homework to the test?
CAPT. BRANSON: Something like that.
He leaves the ready room.
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE SICKBAY
Doctor Carlson injects Bu'Kah with a hypo.
DR. CARLSON: Please relax. If you strain against the straps you might hurt yourself. 
BU'KAH: What's that? Is that what you used against my crew? 
CAPT. BRANSON: Doctor Carlsonn has developed an antidote to the neurotoxin in your system.
BU'KAH: Is this how you plan to gain my trust? First poison me, then miraculously cure me?
CAPT. BRANSON: Have you had a drink lately?
BU'KAH: What?
CAPT. BRANSON: The bio-agent that affected you and your crew was consumed, apparently in alcohol.
DR. CARLSON: Specifically, the toxin was bonded to a molecule unique to Xarantine ale.
BU'KAH: There was a raid we were successful the Romulans were no match for us.
CAPT. BRANSON: So, you attacked the Romulans.
BU'KAH: Yes.
CAPT. BRANSON: Did your whole crew drink it? 
BU'KAH: The triumph belonged to all. 
CAPT. BRANSON: I'll take that as a yes. It was that ale that infected you, not us. Think about it. When did your crew start getting sick? Was it right after the raid? After you celebrated your victory? 
BU'KAH: This is a trick.
CAPT. BRANSON: Is it? How do you feel? Better or worse since the injection? We can make enough of this for your entire crew, if it's not too late. What if this isn't a trick? What if we're telling you the truth? You'd be letting your crew die a very dishonorable death when you could have saved them. Can you live with that?
CUT TO:
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
A photon torpedo has been fired down into the lower atmosphere.
INT-KLINGON MAIN BRIDGE
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: One thousand meters. Two thousand. Three thousand.
(Detonation, the ship shakes.) 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: No, effect we're still sinking.
LTJG. T'LAR: The shock wave dissipated before it reached us. 
LTJG. MASON: We'll need to detonate one closer next time. 
(The hull groans) 
LTJG. T'LAR: The ship's hull is under enough pressure already. If you detonate a torpedo too close.
LTJG. MASON: And if I don't? We need to generate a large enough shock wave to push us into a higher orbit. To do that, the blast has to be big and it has to be close. 
T'Lar nods.
LTJG. MASON: You heard her. Load two this time.
Commander Williams works at the console.
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
Enterprise descends down.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Bu'Kah is on the bridge with two security guards watching her.
LTJG. MITCHELL: Sensor resolution's dropping off. 
BU'KAH: This was your plan? To grope in the darkness and hope to stumble across my ship? 
CAPT. BRANSON: That's how we found it the first time.
[Ship jolts]
CAPT. BRANSON: What was that?
Lieutenant Mitchell checks his console read out and reports.
LTJG. MITCHELL: Weapons fire.
CAPT. BRANSON: Where?
LT. CARLSON: Bearing 297 mark 261, down about two kilometers.
CUT TO:
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTJG. T'LAR: Did it work?
LTJG.SMITH: We've moved up, but only 200 meters.
LTJG. MASON: That's all?
[Hull groans.]
LTJG. SMITH: A compartment just collapsed, deck three, green sector.
LTJG. MASON: This whole damn ship is falling apart. How many torpedoes do we have left? 
LTJG. SMITH: Six.
LTJG. MASON: Load two more.
LTJG. SMITH: It won't be enough. 
LTJG. MASON: Load the weapons. 
LTJG. SMITH: We already tried. It didn't work. 
LTJG. MASON: Julia.
LTJG. T'LAR: She's right. We'll never reach a safe altitude climbing a few hundred meters at a time. 
LTJG. MASON: The longer we stand around arguing the more ground we lose. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Fire them all. What if we detonated all the torpedoes at once? 
LTJG. T'LAR: We may gain enough altitude, but I doubt we'd make it in one piece. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I don't know about you but I'm willing to take the chance. 
LTJG. MASON: We'll detonate at eight hundred meters. 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I was thinking more like five hundred. 
Both Mason, Smith, and T'Lar look at her.
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS; Look, I didn't come all this way to get crushed in the atmosphere of some anonymous gas giant. Loading ports one through six. 
LTJG. MASON: Brace yourselves. 
LTCMDR WILLAMS: Torpedoes armed. 
(as she presses the launch button, circuits explode on the bridge)
CUT TO:
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
LTJG. MITCHELL: Another explosion. There's a shock wave this time. Hang on.
WHUMPH! Debris flies past the saucer section.
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
Enterprise approaches the vessel.
INT-KLINGON VESSEL MAIN BRIDGE
Pattern enhancers have been set up and Captain Branson who's wearing a tactical vest along with Bu'Kah beam over.
CAPT. BRANSON: What have you been shooting at? 
LTJG. T'LAR: We used the shock waves to gain some altitude but it's only temporary. We'll start sinking again unless we can come up with a way to get this ship out of here. 
CAPT. BRANSON: I believe you've all met Officer Bu'kaH. What's the status of their engines? 
LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: The Klingon crew made most of the necessary repairs before they were overcome, but the port fusion injector is still damaged. 
BU'KAH: I will tend to my own ship. 
CAPT. BRANSON: I didn't bring you down here just so you could die with your shipmates. My crew risked their lives to get this ship out of danger. I don't intend to leave until the job is finished.
EXT-GAS GIANT ATMOSPHERE
Both the Enterprise and the Klingon vessel emerge from the gas giant.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE [RED ALERT]
Captain Branson and the boarding party walk onto the bridge.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: Kept your chair warm for you.
CAPT. BRANSON: Thanks, Get ready to break orbit, Kara. I think we've had about enough of this place. 
Then Lieutenant Smith turns with two fingers on the ear piece.
LTJG. SMITH: Captain, its the Raptor they're hailing us.
CAPT. BRANSON: Probably to say thank you?
LTCMDR. IVANOVA: I doubt it.
CAPT. BRANSON: On screen.
Transparent viewer shows the bridge of the Klingon vessel as Captain Branson walks to the viewer and puts his hands behind his back.
CAPT. BRANSON: What can I do for you?
CAPT. K'DOK [viewer]: Prepare to surrender your vessel
CAPT. BRANSON: Maybe your engineer neglected to tell you, but we just saved you and your crew.
CAPT. K'DOK [viewer]: You violated our ship, accessed our weapons
CAPT. BRANSON: It was either that or stand by and watch you get crushed.
CAPT. K'DOK [viewer]: Disruptors!
LTJG. MASON: They're charging weapons!
CAPT. BRANSON: K'Dok, you wouldn't last ten seconds in a battle with us. You've got multiple hull breaches, your shields are down, and from what I'm told you're fresh out of torpedoes. If I were you, I'd take what little honor I had left and go home. Fire one shot and I'll blast you right back to where we found you. 
K'Dok snarls and transmission ends..
LTJG. T'LAR: Their moving off.
CAPT. BRANSON: Kara get us out of here before any of their friends show up.
LT. CARLSON: Aye, sir.
EXT-WARP TUNNEL
Enterprise is at warp.
INT-U.S.S. ENTERPRISE CAPTAIN'S READY ROOM/SITUATION ROOM
Captain Branson is reviewing crew status reports when the com activates.
LTCMDR. IVANOVA [com voice]: Bridge to Branson we're receiving an encoded transfer of data it's from the Harrison
CAPT. BRANSON [to com]: Patch it to my ready room.
John looks at the monitor reviewing the data as well as the sensor logs that were backed up by Captain Towe.
[END OF ACT 4, 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 Commander 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 Lieutenant 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 Lieutenant Junior Grade Angela Martine
*TBA as Ensign Dana Christina
*TBA as Lieutenant Samuel Kirk
*TBA as Ensign Elias Sheridan
*TBA as Bu'kaH
*TBA as Captain K'Dok
==Trivia Notes==
===Background Information===