Story:Star Trek: Archer (fan film)/Over the Horizon/Act One

ACT ONE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

The Archer is at high warp.

INT-BRIEFING ROOM

The wall monitor shows the Rumdar system.

CAPT. TAYLOR: (To Senior Staff) We're to meet up with the fourth battlegroup, (beat) our orders are to keep the system from falling to the Dominion at all cost.

Martin chimes in.

CMDR. MARTIN: Our forces were pushed out of that system a few weeks ago by the Dominion, (beat) don't know why though.

Cadet Martin chimes in.

CADET MARTIN: The Dominion think that the sector can provide a place to build a wormhole to bring in reinforcements from the Gamma Quadrant after Captain Sisko and the crew of Deep Space Nine mined the entrance of the Bajoran Wormhole before they were forced to evacuate.

Taylor chimes in.

CAPT. TAYLOR (Smiles): Good thinking Cadet, (beat) we'll drop out of warp half a light-year so we don't tip them off and we'll wait for the fourth battlegroup.

Lieutenant Mason chimes in.

LT. MASON: I've got security teams posted on all decks, (beat) the phasers are primed and charged.

CAPT. TAYLOR: Let's get to work now let's....

A huge jolt rocks the ship hard.

CAPT. TAYLOR: STATIONS EVERYONE NOW!

They leave the briefing room.

EXT-SPACE

The Archer is under attack by a Dominion Heavy cruiser as it hits the Intrepid-Class's shield bubble.

INT-ARCHER MAIN BRIDGE (RED ALERT)

Ship rocks hard as sparks erupt.

ENS. SITO: (Off her console) One Dominion Heavy Cruiser off our port bow.

Another jolt ROCKS the ship as power hums down.

ENS. CARLSON: We're dropping out of warp.

Camera closes up on Taylor.

EXT-SPACE

The Archer slows to impulse with a Dominion Heavy cruiser firing at the ship.

(End of Act One, Fade out)