From: andres@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (Andy C) Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek,alt.startrek.creative Subject: The Once and Future Starship - Scene 2 Keywords: ASCII Text Date: 9 Aug 91 23:34:18 GMT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs Star Trek: "The Once and Future Starship" 8/9/91 - Scene 2 1. SCENE 2 FADE IN: EXT. SPACE - THE TWO ENTERPRISES (OPTICAL) The two Enterprises continue to orbit the planet as we begin the voice over. PICARD (V.O.) Captain's Log, supplemental. We have made an amazing discovery in System 591 of the Klingon Exploration Zone. The starship Enterprise, NCC-1701-C, the immediate predecessor to our own starship. Not only the vessel, but survivors of crew as well, including an alternate version of a member of my crew whom I had thought dead these past three years . . . Tasha Yar. INT. BRIEFING LOUNGE PICARD, RIKER, YAR and CASTILLE sit in comfortable chairs in the briefing lounge (not the main bridge briefing room). PICARD (V.O.) They tell an amazing story of a temporal rift that brought them forward in time to an alternate reality in which the Federation had been at war with the Klingon Empire for over twenty years. A timeline in which Tasha Yar never died at the hands of the Armus entity and one in which my Security Chief Worf never served on the Enterprise. Camera closes on Picard. PICARD So it was Guinan who knew that something was wrong and convinced the alternate Picard to send you back. YAR Yes, Sir. And I went back with them because I wasn't even supposed to be alive in this timeline. RIKER It's all so incredible. What I want to know is how in hell you survived the battle. CASTILLE It wasn't easy, Commander. If it wasn't for Tasha we might not have made it. TASHA smiles and almost blushes at the compliment. PICARD So how did you do it, Tasha? YAR Well, we came out of the temporal rift within seconds of having left, but we were traveling in the opposite direction. CASTILLE And we were in much better shape. We had our shields and weapons repaired with your crew's aid while in the alternate timeline. FADE TO: EXT. SPACE - ENTERPRISE-C AND ROMULANS Show the scene from the end of the teaser with the creation of the time rift and the Romulans veering off. As we close on the rift suddenly the ENTERPRISE-C comes back out traveling at a high velocity. Show Romulans regrouping, but too late to stop Enterprise-C from destroying one of the ships caught off guard. We hear Castille's voice over the action. CASTILLE (V.O.) The Romulans had veered off from the violence at the formation of the rift. The next thing they knew we were on them again. We got one with a lucky shot, leaving only two to deal with, we had destroyed the fourth before we entered the rift. (a beat) That's where Tasha's tactical knowledge came in. INT. BRIEFING LOUNGE CLOSE-UP on CASTILLE, he has just finished his speech. Zoom out to MEDIUM SHOT of RIKER, PICARD and TASHA as well. Riker is engrossed, he is really enjoying the lesson in tactics. RIKER So, what did you do next, Tasha? YAR Well, it wasn't very original, except no one in that time had ever heard of it. RIKER What do you mean? How can that be? YAR I used the Picard Maneuver. (a beat) I knew about it, but Captain Picard hadn't even invented it yet! PICARD SITS UP at this point and half smiles at the irony. CASTILLE We were on top of the Romulans before they knew what was going on. They picked the wrong "starship" image and we let them have it at close range. We managed to severely damaged one and destroy the other, but not before we took some massive damage of our own. YAR By the time we managed to finish off the last one we were dead in space and drifting. We drifted for weeks before we got the impulse engines back on line. (a beat) We had to make a decision then, would we try to make it back to the Federation or try to make it on our own. PICARD But why? I was wondering why you came out here. Why couldn't you just go back home? RIKER Time, Sir. (a beat) They knew about the future, even if it was an alternate timeline, it was still a lot like our present circumstances. They couldn't take the chance that their knowledge of our time would affect the future. YAR Exactly, Commander. Not to mention the effect on my future as well. Can you imagine what might have happened if I went back and confronted myself? CASTILLE There was some dissension, but we finally decided it was best to strike out on our own. After some long months at impulse speed, and some very fancy engineering work, we were able to get warp drive back on line, if only minimally. It took us years to reach this planet at that. YAR In that time, Richard and I were married and had a child. (a beat) I have a daughter down their, Captain, her name is Rachel. Picard and Riker exchange a look and smile at Tasha's news. RIKER Well, well, congratulations, Tasha! (a beat as he looks at Castille) May I kiss the bride? CASTILLE GESTURES his OK and RIKER MOVES over to where TASHA is seated, SHE RISES and they embrace and he kisses her on the cheek. CAMERA ZOOMS to a CLOSE SHOT of Riker and Yar. RIKER (a whisper) Oh, Tasha, I can't believe it's really you. YAR (a whisper) It's me, Commander, not that dead after all. They embrace again. Just then GUINAN and DATA ENTER the room through a DOOR upstage. TASHA RUNS over to Guinan. Data looks as shocked as an android could possibly be given he lacks emotions. He walks out of picture to Riker. Camera closes to a TIGHT SHOT of GUINAN and YAR. YAR Guinan, it's so good to see you again! GUINAN Tasha? Tasha Yar, right! I had a feeling I'd meet you again, for the first time. YAR What do you mean? YAR (CONT.) (a beat) Oh, I see, we were never meant to meet, isn't that what you told me? GUINAN I suppose so . . . that sounds like something I would say. (a beat) Anyway, I feel like I know you. Geordie has told me so much about you. Tasha smiles. Cut to a MEDIUM SHOT of DATA and RIKER, PICARD walks into the shot as Data speaks. DATA Is that really Lt. Yar, Sir? RIKER Apparently it is a version of Yar that we may not know as well as we think, Data. Data shakes his head, as he often does when he does not fully understand a situation. Picard cuts into the conversation. PICARD What have you learned on the Enterprise-C, Commander? DATA Apparently someone had set the automatic beacon to start emitting a signal as soon as twenty two years had elapsed from the time of the battle at Norendra III. The Enterprise-C had just enough power left to obey that last command. (a beat) I have disabled the beacon and made a slight course correction to keep the Enterprise-C in orbit indefinitely. She will need major repairs before she will be able to leave orbit, however. PICARD Very well, Commander, good work. (a beat) And now, if you'll excuse me, I think it is time I reported all this to Star Fleet. PICARD NODS and WALKS away and EXITS the room. Guinan and Yar drift over to Riker and Data. EXT. PLANET SURFACE - NIGHT (OPTICAL) ESTABLISHING SHOT of a SMALL VILLAGE on the planet surface, obviously a poor excuse for a place to live. Thrown together structures made out of bits and pieces of a starship and her stores. A few people can be seen walking about. Close on a single wooden structure. A young version of Tasha Yar (her daughter Rachel Garrett Castille) opens the front door, steps out into the night air and looks up to the sky. She is 21 years old, has long flowing dark brown hair closer to the shade of her father's hair than her mother's. RACHEL What are you up to now, Mother? Plotting to keep me on this forsaken planet the rest of my life no doubt. (a beat) Well if Poppa can't stop you, then I'll have to do it myself. One way or another I'm getting off this pile of detritus and back to civilization. Suddenly we hear a commotion off screen, a group of people have gathered in the center of town and are having a heated discussion. Rachel walks over to the group. There are about six or seven villagers, male and female standing around. They are definitely star fleet types who have aged not too gracefully given the harsh life on the planet. Two men seem the main antagonists. MALE VILLAGER #1 What I want to know is why are they up there speaking for all of us! MALE VILLAGER #2 Castille is our Captain! What more reason do you need. MALE VILLAGER #1 Come on, you must have a better argument than that! We haven't been in Star Fleet in over twenty years. MALE VILLAGER #2 Yes, perhaps you are right, but this is our home now. Our children were born here, why must we leave! VILLAGER 1 spots RACHEL in the crowd and points to her. He knows she is on his side. MALE VILLAGER #1 Why not ask her why? Rachel is the oldest child born here. (a beat) What do you say, Rachel? RACHEL I was not born on this planet, I was born in space, and proud of it! But I have lived most of my life on this so-called planet and I have hated almost every minute of it. Silence comes over the crowd, they listen intently to her speech. RACHEL (CONT) My father has always told me stories about the splendor of life in the Federation. The planets of green and blue, of gold and amber. No one ever wants for anything and one can make of oneself what they will. (a beat) I want those worlds, I want those advantages. We mustn't let my mother convince us again. INT. ENTERPRISE-D GUEST QUARTERS Yar and Castille are alone in their quarters. They are relaxing and enjoying the comforts of the Enterprise. YAR She is a magnificent ship, Richard, how I did miss her. CASTILLE Yes, but it isn't us anymore, Tasha, we've made a new life for ourselves. YAR Yes, I know. The ENTRY SIGNAL BEEPS and Tasha answers. YAR Come in. The DOOR SLIDES OPEN and DATA ENTERS slowly. DATA Am I intruding? YAR No, of course not, Data, come in. Data takes a few more steps into the room until he is fairly close to Yar. DATA May I speak with you, Lt.? YAR Call me Tasha, Data, I'm not in Star Fleet anymore. DATA Of course . . . Tasha. May I speak with you . . . (looks to Castille) Alone. Yar and Castille are taken aback but they concede. YAR Of course, Data. Richard, you'll excuse us won't you. CASTILLE NODS and EXITS to an adjoining room. DATA I have been trying to understand the circumstances of your arrival in this timeline . . . Tasha. YAR Sure, Data, what do you need to know? DATA I am trying to ascertain the exact point of divergence in the two timelines. (a beat) I know we were never to speak of it, but given the current circumstances, I thought we could . . . explore the Tsilokovsky incident. YAR Tsilokovsky, wasn't that an old battle frigate? (a beat) We never had an encounter with that ship, Data. What are you trying to get at? DATA In this timeline the Tsilokovsky was a research vessel. We boarded her and brought a peculiar disease aboard the Enterprise that . . . loosened the normal human inhibitions. DATA (CONT) (a beat) We were quite close at that time. In fact, we were intimately close. Yar is caught off guard, she is shocked at the thought of intimacy with Data. YAR Listen, the Data I knew was all business, created as a tool of war, not the obviously sensitive being you are. I'm sorry, but that incident never happened in the past I remember. Data is hurt, or as much hurt as an android can be. DATA I am sorry, Tasha. I did not mean to offend. I merely wanted to know. (a beat) If you will excuse me, I will leave you now. Before she can answer Data turns and leaves the room. Tasha is left alone, a concerned look on her face. INT. ENTERPRISE MAIN BRIDGE Picard is seated in the center chair. Riker at his right and Troi at his left. Worf is at his station, two extras person the OPS and HELM stations. DATA ENTERS from the turbo lift nearest his station and relieves the person at OPS. WORF Captain, we have a message coming in from Star Fleet Command. PICARD On screen, Lt. Shot reverses to a scene over Picard's shoulder of the main viewer as it switches from a scene of the planet to the Star Fleet insignia. Then a graying old man appears. He is humanoid, but not human. He is Admiral Colltear. COLLTEAR To Jean-Luc Picard, Captain USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, from Admiral Colltear, Star Fleet Judge Advocate General's office. (a beat) We have received your report on the Enterprise-C and her crew. You are hereby ordered to arrest all remaining crew of that vessel and place all of their offspring in protective custody pending a General Court Martial on the charge of mutiny. Formal charges and specifications are appended to this transmission. Enterprise acknowledge. Admiral Colltear, out. The screen goes blank and then is replaced by the planet. Picard, Riker, and Data are shocked, Worf is outright pissed. PICARD (deadpan) Mr. Worf, acknowledge that transmission. The camera pans from Picard to Riker and then settles on a CLOSE UP of Worf. WORF Aye, Sir! FADE TO BLACK. END OF SCENE 2