Act Four/Searching for Voyager

ACT FOUR

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

Calisto is at high warp.

CAPT. TAYLOR'S (Voice Over): ''Captain's Log Stardate 48939.5. We're on course for the Badlands to search for Voyager, let's hope we can find out what happened to them.''

INT-CALISTO MAIN BRIDGE

Ensign Carlson chimes in.

ENS. CARLSON: Approaching the outer edge of the Badlands Captain.

CAPT. TAYLOR (Tenses up): Drop out of warp.

Power hums down as Ensign Sito chimes in.

ENS. SITO: Voyager's warp trail leads into the field.

Martin chimes in.

CMDR. MARTIN: We could take the ship into the field?

Taylor thinks.

CAPT. TAYLOR: No too risky whatever took out Voyager could take us out.

Sito chimes in.

ENS. SITO: What about a shuttle?

Taylor thinks.

CAPT. TAYLOR: (Nods) Do it.

Both Martin and Sito head to the shuttlebay.

CUT TO: EXT-SPACE

A Yellowstone Runabout flies out of the shuttle bay.

INT-RUNABOUT CANOPY

Both Commander Martin and Ensign Sito are at the two consoles.

CMDR. MARTIN: Entering plasma field in five seconds.

Windows show the plasma field.

ENS. SITO: Starting to lose sensor resolution must be the plasma fields effects.

Commander Martin inputs commands into the helm station.

CMDR. MARTIN: Coming to course two-one-three mark fourteen, this is Voyager's last known position but no debris or any residue from her reactor?

Sensors beep.

ENS. SITO: Picking up something but sensors can't make it out the plasma field is screwing with them.

Runabout shakes.

CMDR. MARTIN: That's no plasma storm.

Sito filters out the interference.

ENS. SITO: It's a Cardassian Warship Galor-Class!

Commander Martin inputs commands into the helm station.

CMDR. MARTIN: Maybe you could do that for the Shields, (beat) cause we could use them right about now.

Ensign Sito inputs commands into the ops console working on getting the shields back on-line.

ENS. SITO: Working on it!

EXT-SPACE

The Danube-Class Runabout flees from the chasing Cardassian Warship as it fires its disrupter beam at the shuttle as it moves to port and then heads back to its entrance as the Warship keeps firing at the ship.

(End of Act Four, fade out)