Story:Starship Calisto/Pria/Act Five

ACT FIVE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

Calisto is at high warp on course for its new destination.

INT-GUEST QUARTERS

CAPT. TAYLOR WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Pria explains.

PRIA (Sighs): I'm a dealer in artifacts. Mint condition. Mostly I sell to private collectors I, and others who do what I do, travel back to a specific time and place in which, say, a ship like yours was destroyed I prevent the destruction, then I take the ship into the future and I sell it to the highest bidder.

They look at each other as Lieutenant Mason chimes in.

LT. MASON: And what about the crews of those ships?

Pria sips her whiskey.

PRIA: Well, they're free to live out their lives as they see fit in the 29th century.

Captain Taylor chimes in.

CAPT. TAYLOR: We'll fight you and we'll regain control of our ship.

Pria says nothing as the trio leaves her quarters.

INT-OUTSIDE GUEST QUARTERS

CAPT. TAYLOR: Lieutenant post your men here she's not to leave her quarters if she does shoot her that's an order.

LT. MASON (Nods): Aye, Captain.

Ensigns Pierce and Wilson stand guard.

INT-BRIEFING ROOM

Commander Williams closes the hatch.

LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I've disabled both audio and visual systems no one can hear us.

Captain Taylor is pacing about.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Alright we've got an hour before we enter Romulan Space and with the war going on I don't want to fight my way out of their space, so I want options to how to disable the object without damaging our navigational array.

Williams chimes in.

LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: I've tried everything but nothing is working it's wedged in tight.

Captain Taylor chimes in.

CAPT. TAYLOR: We need options?

Commander Williams chimes in again.

LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: What about an EMP burst I could rig up a generator to emit a consternated burst of energy on the same signal of the device.

T'Lar chimes in.

LTCMDR. T'LAR: The frequencies of the burst and the device will need to be focused on it or it will destroy our navigational array.

CAPT. TAYLOR (to Williams): How long will you need to set it up Steph?

William think.

LTCMDR. WILLIAMS: Ten minutes max.

Taylor nods.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Get started on it.

Williams leaves the briefing room.

Captain Taylor leans back.

CAPT. TAYLOR: What about her ship?

T'Lar inputs commands into a panel on the table.

The monitor shows Pria's ships.

LTCMDR. T'LAR: I've been running scans on the ship, the hull has a Starfleet signature on it, And its more advance then any ship we've encountered.

The MSD shows Pria's ship as a diagram.

LTCMDR. T'LAR (Continues): It's Logical its unlike anything I've seen Captain.

Then the com activates.