Story:Star Trek: Challenger (fan film)/Times/Act Two

ACT ONE

FADE IN

EXT-SPACE

(Notes: Opening Credits falling over opening scenes.)

Challenger and Valiant are next to each other in orbit around the planet.

INT-BRIDGE (TACTICAL ALERT)

Everyone is shocked by this.

BISHOP (over com) This is Captain Jack Bishop of the Federation Starship USS Valiant to the unknown vessel claiming to be the Challenger, (beat) We've locked our weapons on you.

Taylor gets up from the Captain's Chair.

TAYLOR Open Channel Ensign.

Sutherland inputs commands into the console.

TAYLOR (sighs) Valiant this is Marcia Taylor Captain of the United Earth Starfleet vessel Challenger, (beat) we've encountered some kind of rift it pulled us two hundred years into your time. We just want to go home to our timeline.

A few moments of silence when it beeps.

Sutherland (off her console) Their responding.

BISHOP (on viewer) Captain Taylor we'll deactivate our weapons.

Rubin's console beeps.

RUBIN Their Phasers are powering down Captain.

TAYLOR Now that we're not being targeted let's talk face to face.

BISHOP (on viewer) Agreed, there's a planet five light-years from here we'll escort you to it.

Carlson looks at her console.

CARLSON (Conn Officer) (off her console) I've got it bearing two-one-five mark seven-five-zero and it's five light-years.

Taylor leans back in the Captain's Chair.

TAYLOR Alright lead the way Captain.

Bishop nods.

CUT TO: EXT-SPACE

Both Challenger and Valiant approaches the M-Class planet.

INT-CORRIDOR

Ensign Carlson, Commander Martin, Lieutenant Rubin, and two MACOs are heading to the launch bay.

EXT-SPACE

The underbelly of the Challenger opens and Shuttlepod One leaves the launch bay and heads towards the planet.

EXT-PLANET SURFACE

The Shuttlepod lands on the ground as the landing party gets out of the pod and walks to the meeting point with the Valiant landing party, when Captain Bishop, Lieutenant Commander Minard, Lieutenant T'Vor and two security officers beam down.

MARTIN Captain Bishop I'm Commander John Martin first officer of the United Earth Starfleet ship Challenger, (beat) Captain Taylor wanted to be here but she had somethings onboard the Challenger to handle.

They walk along the lake.

BISHOP Understandable Commander so where the hell did you come from?

Martin stops.

MARTIN We come from the year twenty-one fifty-five.

BISHOP We were on patrol along the Federation-Klingon Border, (beat) that's when we picked up your ship on our scanners.

CUT TO: EXT-SPACE

All of the sudden a Klingon D-7 Battlecruiser decloaks facing both the Valiant and the Challenger.

INT-BRIDGE (TACTICAL ALERT)

TAYLOR Polarize the hullplating standby all weapons prepare for evasive maneuvers (beat) Sutherland hail the landing party.