FADE IN:
INT. THE CELESTIAL TEMPLE- BRIGHT WHITE BACKGROUND
Colonel Kira Nerys unknowingly walks through the space of the Barjorian wormhole.
KIRA
Hello? Is someone there?
Kira immediately gets four flashing images in response. The images were of Captain Sisko, Odo, Commander Worf, and Chief O'Brien.
KIRA
Who are you?
Kira gets four more flashes, this time of Doctor Bashir, Lieutenant Nog, Ezri Dax, and Jake Sisko.
KIRA
Where am I?
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INT. RE-CREATION OF OPS
The Prophets, all in the form of Kira's fellow officers except Sisko, assemble around the main ops control panel.
BASHIR
Just like all corporal's, she arrives
with questions.
EZRI
Yes, many countless questions.
KIRA
It seems like a good start in trying
to find out where I am. You may look
like my friends but your not. So I'll
ask you again, where am I?
NOG
You are in our temple.
JAKE
The temple in the heavens that we
created.
Realizing what they meant, Kira puts down her guard.
KIRA
(in awe)
Oh my Goodness. The Celestial Temple,
I've been called. Prophets, forgive me
please. I had no idea that I was standing
in the Temple.
ODO
She is of Bajor.
WORF
Just like the Sisko is of Bajor.
Kira again realizing another fact about being in the Celestial Temple.
KIRA
Captain Sisko. I need to speak
to Sisko.
The Prophets look around at each other.
KIRA
If I'm permitted to speak to Captain
Sisko, I might be able to better
understand why I'm here and what
I'm suppose to do.
O'BRIEN
The Sisko is not among us.
KIRA
But, how is that possib--
BASHIR
He's already gone.
KIRA
What are you saying? Please…
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INT. RE-CREATION OF THE PROMENADE
They're all now in front of Quarks bar.
KIRA
I don't understand.
EZRI
We taught the Sisko about us--
NOG
And he in-turn taught us about you.
JAKE
He taught us all about the linear
existence corporals must endure.
ODO
A state of being completely unknown
to us.
WORF
What is before now is no different
than what is now or what is to come.
It is our state of existence.
KIRA
Are you saying that Captain Sisko's
work among the Prophets is done?
O'BRIEN
The Sisko has completed his studies
in the temple.
KIRA
Forgive me but, I'm not sure that I
fully understand.
BASHIR
Understand this. What the Sisko calls the
past will hold the stability to ensuring
all your futures.
KIRA
But how can the past do that?
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INT. PREFIX OFFICE
Colonel Kira lays asleep in the chair with her feet piled up on the desk. She's immediately startled awake by the red alert siren. The beeping panel on the desk catches her attention. She presses the button to see Nog's face in the small screen next to the panel.
KIRA
Yes Lieutenant?
NOG
Sir, I think you should get out here
and take a look at this.
KIRA
On my way.
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INT. OPS
Kira walks out the office staring at the view screen.
ANGLE: DAMAGED JEM HADAR SHIP EXITING THE WORMHOLE
NOG
The cruiser was attacked and has
taken heavy damage. I'm detecting
only one life sign, Changeling. It's
Constable Odo!
BAJORAN OFFICER
Sir, I'm reading a core overload!
KIRA
Get him out of there!
ANGLE: SHIP EXPLODING IN THE VIEW SCREEN
KIRA
Did you get him?
NOG
I got him. He's in the infirmary.
The officers in OPS take a sigh of relief.
KIRA
You have OPS Mr. Nog.
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INT. THE INFIRMARY
Colonel Kira walks into the Infirmary while Doctor Bashir attempts to stabilize Odo. In his gelatinous state, Odo is put in a small stasis chamber hooked up to a medical consol. The medical staff is in a hectic state as they try to save Odo.
BASHIR
Inoculate the chamber with ten
kilos of inaprovaline, quickly!
NURSE
Yes Doctor Bashir.
KIRA
Report Doctor?
BASHIR
I've detected biomimetic fluct-
uations all over his morphogenic
matrix, brought on by exposure
to antimatter radiation.
KIRA
Can you stabilize the fluctuations?
BASHIR
Before I can attempt to do that I
have to filter out his radiation
poisoning or else he could die. If
I'm allowed without any further
interruptions?
KIRA
Go ahead.
Bashir stations himself at the medical consol. It starts to beep in an erratic tone.
NURSE
His matrix is continuing to fluct-
uate. I'm losing him!
BASHIR
Repolarize the stasis unit to admit
a high intensity electrolyte burst.
That might make his cohesion stable
enough for his enzymes to naturally
realign themselves.
NURSE
Yes Doctor.
The Nurse executes his commands. The computer makes a humming sound as the flashing red light changes to a calm sky-blue color.
NURSE
It's working Doctor. His immune enz-
ymes are stabilizing his matrix.
Suddenly, the flashing red light returns as the consol once again begins to beep erratically.
NURSE
The enzymes are being suppressed
by the fluctuations of the matrix.
Instability at 25%!
BASHIR
Repolarize the unit!
NURSE
No effect. Instability now at 33%
and rising! We're loosing him.
ANGLE: ODO'S GELATINOUS FORM PRODUCES SMALL SLOW WAVES
Bashir looks at Kira who has a look of dread of her face. He then turns back his attention to the nurse.
BASHIR
Alright. Repolarize the unit to
send out a higher intensity
electrolyte burst with an equally
(MORE)
BASHIR (cont'd)
mixed dosage of tricordrazine,
inaprovaline, and tri-ox compound.
NURSE
(shocked)
Doctor that could kill him.
BASHIR
Well his system is more enhanced
than ours so it just might not.
Besides, we've ran out of options
and not doing anything will kill
him for certain so repolarize the
unit.
NURSE
Yes Doctor.
As the Nurse executes the Doctors commands, the unit makes a humming sound as the consol beeps softer sounds.
NURSE
Oh my God, it worked! Stability
is decreasing by 5.2% per second.
Bashir looks at Kira as they exchange smiles of relief to one another. Bashir then performs a scan.
BASHIR
(to Kira)
His morphogenic matrix has begun
to stabilize on it's own. But I'm
reading strands of quantum based
energy signatures throughout his
system. It's preventing his molec-
ules from merging to take solid form.
KIRA
Can you filter out the strands?
BASHIR
I can install a Type-7 phase discri-
minator within the unit that would
produce a small subspace force field.
While in the field, he will be able
(MORE)
BASHIR (cont'd)
to counter-act the quantum strain on
his morphogenic molecules. It'll
take sometime but he'll eventually
take shape sooner or later.
KIRA
How soon?
BASHIR
There's no way to know for sure.
KIRA
To think, we almost lost two of our
own today.
NOG
(over the COM)
Nog to Colonel Kira.
KIRA
Go ahead Lieutenant.
NOG
Sir, it's time.
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EXT. DEEP SPACE NINE DOCKING RING- DEFIANT-A
The Defiant backs off at slow impulse from the docking latches that attach her to the docking ring of Deep Space Nine.
ANGLE: CENTER-LIGHT SHINING ON, REVEALING THE SHIP'S NAME
The Defiant clears away from the station as it jumps into warp.
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EXT. SPACE- DEFIANT AT WARP
The Defiant is on course to Earth for a, rather disheartening, rendezvous.
KIRA (o.s.)
Defiant log, Colonel Kira Nerys
in command. Stardate 5xxxx.x. By
the orders of Starfleet command,
the Defiant will be returning to
Earth to have a new system called
"Armor Technology" installed. An
advanced tactical system the U.S.S.
Voyager brought back with them from
the Delta Quadrant. But on a sadder
note, the old crew is being brought
back together for a not so happy
reunion.
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INT. DEFINAT BRIDGE
Kira sits in the command chair while talking to Miles O'Brien over the view screen.
KIRA
How is Jake holding up?
O'BRIEN
Not so good.
KIRA
Well, I could only relate. He gets
a message that his grandfather has
taken ill only to get on a transport
that takes him all the way to back
Earth, just to find out he's dead.
O'BRIEN
Yes. He's been pretty strong organ-
izing the funeral arrangements and
all but if you ask me, he's just
waiting 'til after the funeral to
let go.
KIRA
It's completely understandable.
Joseph Sisko will be missed.
O'BRIEN
Yes he will.
KIRA
It was really nice of you to
take time off from the academy
to help Jake through this.
O'BRIEN
It's more than alright. He's not
only the Captain's son, but in a
way, I feel like he's our son too.
KIRA
Yes, I feel the same way. We'll
see you soon Miles. Give my best
to Keiko and the kids.
O'BRIEN
Will do. We'll be waiting when you
get here. O'Brien out.
The view screen goes off. Kira gets up from her chair and approaches Nog as he begins to talk.
NOG
I hope Jake is alright when we get
there. The past two years have been
really difficult for him, what with
Captain Sisko joining the Prophets
and all. I hope we're able to cheer
him up.
KIRA
Right now Jake needs time to process
and take it all in. The best thing to
do right now is to show our support
and be there for him to lean on if
he wants. But for now, let's just
give him some space until he says
otherwise, understood?
NOG
Yes sir.
At the communications station of Ezri Dax, her panel lets out a series of beeps that don't sound very optimistic.
DAX
Colonel, we're receiving a gargled
transmission on a badly delievered
Starfleet emergency channel. The
computer can't be sure but I think
it's from Commander Worf.
KIRA
Worf? Put him through.
Dax opens the static filled channel full of distortion and gargled sounds.
DAX
I'll try to clear it up.
Dax programs her panel to filter out some of the interference. Along with some static we hear the Klingon red alert beacon and loud sounds of what might be explosions.
WORF
(badly gargled)
We need reinforcements…(interference)
Unidentified…(interference) came out
of nowhere. They…(interference) so
we engaged them. Their firepower…
(interference) and technology
advanced. Repeat, all ships within
range, we need… (interference).
The transmission cuts off.
DAX
There was too much quantum inter-
ference.
KIRA
Can you localize the source of the
transmission?
DAX
(performing scan)
By the degradation of the carrier
wave, Worf programmed the distress
signal to bounce of a star nearest
(MORE)
DAX (cont'd)
to his location to better send it
through subspace traffic. It looks
like he's somewhere in the Barnard
System.
KIRA
That's only 1.8 light years from the
Proxima Centauri System. What could
keep the Rotarran from getting to
our rendezvous point when it was so
close to it?
DAX
It sounded to me like they were under
attack. I mean, Worf did ask for
reinforcements.
KIRA
Who would be able to mount an attack
inside Federation territory?
Dax responds to Kira with a worried stare.
KIRA
Mr. Nog, how long until we enter
Sector 001?
NOG
We just did sir. Now clearing the
Ross 154 System.
KIRA
What's our ETA to the Barnard System?
NOG
At our present course and speed,
62 hours.
KIRA
Increase speed to warp 9.6.
NOG
Aye Sir.
Kira walks back to the command chair.
KIRA
Yellow alert. Secure all systems.
Dax, send a copy of the distress
call to Starfleet command. Tell
them to get some ships out to the
Barnard System immediately.
NOG
Yes Colonel.
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EXT. SPACE- A HUGE DEBRIS FIELD
The Defiant slows to impulse in front of a massive scattering of, what looks like, starship debris.
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
Kira is positioned next to Nog as they, along with Dax, stare in shock at what they see of the view screen.
KIRA
Life signs, homing beacons, anything?!
DAX
I'm not picking up any energy signa-
tures. No faint bio readings, no
form of life whatsoever.
NOG
Colonel, I'm detecting two residual
energy signatures in the debris. One
is Federation… (stares down at his
consol)
KIRA
Go on Nog! What is the other signature?
NOG
The other matches none of the energy
signatures in the computer database.
But I can tell you this, the signature
is neutron based. Which means who ever
(MORE)
NOG (cont'd)
did this, has firepower equivalent
to the only other one species we've
ever encountered with this magnitude…
the Borg.
KIRA
Was it the Borg who did this?
NOG
Unlikely. Even if their energy sign-
ature became different through newly
assimilated technology, we would have
still known who it was. Besides, we
have the means to protect ourselves
against them now. Whoever did this
caught us completely by surprise.
KIRA
Which means whoever's behind this must
have advanced technology we've never
encountered before.
DAX
Colonel, I think you should take a look
at this.
Kira walks over to Dax's station.
KIRA
What is it Lieutenant?
DAX
I've just performed a scan wave analysis
on the debris field and according to the
computer, that debris field was once a
fleet of 57 starships.
KIRA
57 starships?!
DAX
Yes. Worf wasn't just ambushed, a battle
was fought here.
Dax's consol starts to beep.
DAX
Sir, I'm detecting a faint Klingon
energy signature. It's the Rotarran!
She's on the other side of this system.
KIRA
Take us there Mr. Nog, full impulse.
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EXT. EMPTY SPACE
The Defiant slowly pulls up to an empty part of space.
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
Kira looks at the space in the view screen.
KIRA
I thought you said you detected the
Rotarran?
DAX
I did. These are the computer coord-
inates.
NOG
Hold on. I'm detecting the bulk of a bird
of prey with a faint energy signature.
KIRA
Life signs?
NOG
One, Klingon adult male. It's
Commander Worf!
KIRA
Apparently that's what's left of the
Rotarran. Lock a tractor beam on to
the bulk. I guess even Klingon ships can
be out gunned. Dax your with me. Have
Doctor Bashir bring a medical team to the
transporter bay. Mr. Nog, you have the
Bridge.
ANGLE: TURBO-LIFT DOORS CLOSING
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INT. TRANSPORTER BAY
Kira, Dax, Bashir, and a medical team come into the transporter room. Kira looks at the transporter chief.
KIRA
Energize.
Worf materializes within seconds on the transporter panel but then collapses.
DAX
Worf!
Dax rushes to his side and picks up his head putting it on her lap. Bashir and Kira kneel down beside him while Bashir scans him with a medical tricorder.
KIRA
Worf, what happened.
WORF
There's no time. We must go now before
they reach Earth!
KIRA
Who are these people? Aliens?
WORF
We don't know. All that is known is that
they destroyed us without any hesitation
and will do the same to Earth if they
reach it in time.
Kira taps her com badge.
KIRA
Mr. Nog, divert all secondary and non
essential power to the warp engines and
set a course for Earth, maximum warp!
NOG
(over the COM)
Yes Sir.
BASHIR
That's strange.
KIRA
What?
BASHIR
These are the exact same readings
of radiation poisoning the Constable
was brought in with.
KIRA
But Odo came straight from the Gamma
Quadrant. How can Worf have the same
readings?
BASHIR
I don't know. But I'm also detecting
the same quantum strain on Worf's cells
as was the Constables molecules. That's
why his pain receptors are being
stimulated.
Bashir takes out to different cells of hypo sprays.
BASHIR
I can treat him now since his injuries
were not as prolonged as the Constables
but we need to get him to sickbay.
Bashir injects the first hypo spray and then the second.
WORF
That will not be necessary. (Worf
gets up) Colonel, request permission
to report to the bridge?
DAX
Worf, you need rest.
BASHIR
I agree. Your body needs time to
recuperate from these injuries.
WORF
(to Kira)
Sir, I would prefer to take my station
on the bridge. We must have any and
every officer at their post if we're
going to fight these invaders
KIRA
Request granted Commander. But if I see
for any reason that your unable to
perform your duty in anyway due to your
medical conditions, you will report to
sickbay. Understood?
WORF
Aye sir.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
Kira, Worf, and Dax enter the bridge. Dax takes her communications station, while Worf takes tactical and Kira sits in the command chair. Dax's panel begins to beep.
DAX
Sir, I'm receiving a transmission on
a Starfleet emergency channel. It's
coming in on Starfleet upper EM
emissions only.
KIRA
Put Starfleet frequency 2-5-9-7 on audio.
Nog executes the command. The channel is opened.
FIRST MAN
Bozeman to the fleet, hold your positions
at one-quarter impulse and prepare to
engage the enemy at my command.
SECOND MAN
We have them in visual range-- a squadron
of 11 unidentified alien warships bearing
0-2-1 Mark 4. Speed warp 9.2.
FIRST WOMAN
Shields to maximum! Stand by all weapons.
THIRD MAN
The lead ship is transmitting a message
on all subspace frequencies. Its--
TRASMISSION
We are the Hun. We come as conquers of
the universe and now lay claim on your
territory. Our technology and firepower
is far superior to your own. A counter
attack is hopeless as we will annihilate
your forces. Surrender, and you will be
allowed to live under the wisdom of our
iron hand. Fail in obedience, and each
and any attempts to deceive us will result
in an immediate eradication of one of your worlds. We await your decision.
FOURTH MAN
All units, converge on target.
Explosions are heard in the background.
SECOND WOMAN
Their course and heading are unaffected.
FIFTH MAN
Our lines are beginning to crumble!!
THIRD WOMAN
Bozeman to command, we need reinforcements! Repeat, we need--
A second explosion disrupts the channel with static.
KIRA
Mr. Nog, how long until we reach the
scene of the battle?
NOG
We should be reaching the Mars defense
perimeter in less than three minutes.
KIRA
Understood. Red alert! All hands to
battle stations.
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EXT. MARS DEFENSE PERIMETER- THE BATTLE
ANGLE: ALIEN WARSHIP FLYING WITH MARS IN THE BACKGROUND
The sleek black hull armor of the alien ship reflects the dim light of space as it makes its way through the Starfleet battle lines. A crimson bright photon torpedo suddenly breaches the armor. Three, more torpedoes strike the ship.
The USS Akira dodges phaser and torpedo fire as it shoots seven phaser blasts and seven photon torpedoes at the alien ship. The alien ship manages to strike the Akira with a thick blue phaser strike from its cannon before the Akira flies off. We also see Starfleet vessels engage in fire exchange with the other alien ships.
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INT. AKIRA BRIDGE
The bridge is a total wreck. Scorched burn marks every where, consoles blown out of their stations, blown out conduits, and the ship buckling under system breached stress. The red alert siren blares in the background and the commanding officer, Commander Mark Nieves, struggles to climb on his chair.
NIEVES
Report!
HELMSMAN
Primary systems are fried! Life support
is failing and structural integrity is
down to 48%!
NIEVES
Fine. Take us within fifteen meters of the
lead ship and set the auto destruct
sequence on an eight second count down!
HELMSMAN
Sir, there's another starship approaching…
it's the Defiant!
Nieves slowly gets up from his chair.
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EXT. SPACE
The alien ship shoots a glowing green torpedo at the Akira's saucer section. The Defiant flies in and shoots down the enemy's torpedo tube with their phaser banks. The alien ship shoots three blue phaser shots at the Defiant.
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
WORF
Shields down to 90%.
DAX
Colonel, the Akira is down to emergency
power only and its grid is fluctuating.
KIRA
Kira to transporter bay, beam the Akira
crew directly to sickbay.
NOG
Sir, our forces are spreading thin. Four
ships including the Bozeman have been
destroyed. The nine that remain are
moderately damaged and functioning on
their power reserves.
The Defiant buckles two more times. A consul in the back blows out on the second buckle.
WORF
Shields down to 77%.
KIRA
Mr. Nog, what can you tell me about the
enemy fleet?
NOG
Our sensors are unable to penetrate the
hull of their ships. Our firepower is
enough to pierce their hull but not
enough to stop them. Their shields are
fortified the most around their nacelles.
KIRA
Mr. Worf, report.
The ship buckles again, hard.
WORF
Shields down to 69% and one of our ships
have just been destroyed. Their phasers
are quantum based and their torpedoes are
neutron based. I've scanned the ships
and our weapons were able to make
multiple micro fractures along their
hulls outer and infrastructure.
KIRA
Is there anyway we can use that to
our advantage?
WORF
I do not see how. Unless we can deter-
mine the power source to their systems,
we could damage their internal force
field grid and turn the fractures into
hull breaches. But with our sensors
unable to penetrate their hull, we will
have to find another way to inflict damage.
KIRA
Maybe not.
The ship buckles very hard.
NOG
Main power is off-line! Switching to back
up processors.
DAX
We have plasma leaks on decks two, three,
and four. And we've lost power to our
deflector array.
The ship buckles and three consuls on the bridge blow out.
WORF
Shields down to 53%!
KIRA
Mr. Worf, arm 44 quantum torpedoes and
deploy them to close proximity of each
enemy ship. I'm betting since they think
they have the upper hand, they'll ignore
them.
WORF
Colonel, I do not think--
KIRA
Carry out my orders Commander!
WORF
Aye Sir.
Kira walks to Dax's station as the ship buckles from firepower again.
KIRA
Dax, open a secure channel to all
Starfleet ships.
DAX
Channel open sir.
KIRA
This is Colonel Kira Nerys of the
Defiant, I'm taking command of the fleet.
Remodulate your shields (enters the
frequency) to the following frequency.
Prepare to fire on my command.
DAX
The fleet is standing by Colonel.
KIRA
Mr. Worf, detonate the torpedoes in a
wide-scale shock wave.
WORF
Aye sir.
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EXT. SPACE
The torpedoes disperse a crackling blue shock wave from their positions. The Starfleet vessels shields fluctuate from the wave but stand their ground. However, the alien ships are caught completely off-guard as they're pushed away from their positions and suffer fiery breaches to their hulls. As the shock wave dissipates, the alien ships float adrift in space with blue energy crackling around the exteriors of the ships.
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
NOG
All ships have suffered major hull
braches. Their shields are off line
and all but one ship are adrift.
KIRA
All weapons fire at will.
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EXT. SPACE- TURNING POINT OF THE BATTLE
The Starfleet vessels converge on their targets. Each vessel taking one alien ship. They targeted the points of the alien's hull where the breaches made it the weakest. Each ship shot fifteen phaser blasts and thirteen photon torpedoes at their alien target. The Starfleet vessels moved out of range as each ship exploded in blue flames.
ANGLE: A SINGLE ALIEN SHIP GETTING AWAY
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
WORF
Sir, the lead ship is proceeding to
Earth.
KIRA
Pursuit course Mr. Nog, pattern theta.
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EXT. SPACE
The Defiant pursues the alien ship. It fires three phaser blasts and two quantum torpedoes at it. The alien ship fires three neutron torpedoes at the Defiant.
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INT. DEFIANT BRIDGE
The ship buckles and consuls blow out from the impact of the torpedoes.
WORF
Shields down to 29%!
Bashir enters the bridge with Commander Nieves.
BASHIR
I have yet another patient who demands
to be on the bridge.
KIRA
Welcome aboard the Defiant-A Mr. Nieves.
NIEVES
Thank you Colonel Kira. How did my ship
hold up?
KIRA
Damaged but in one piece. Nothing that a
month docked at DS9 won't cure.
NIEVES
Good. As long as I'm here, reporting for
duty sir.
KIRA
If you insist, we could use a had at the
Science Station.
NIEVES
Aye sir.
NOG
Sir, the alien ship has put itself on
self-destruct. But its course and heading
are unchanged.
KIRA
What? Mr. Worf, shoot it down!
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EXT. SPACE
The Defiant shoots three torpedoes and eight phaser blasts at the alien ship. The alien ship increases its speed and enters Earth's atmosphere. A huge blue explosion is seen from space. The waters turn black, the clouds turn ash gray and the land turns dark brown.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
Everyone on the bridge stares at the view screen in shock.
KIRA
Report.
NOG
The ship exploded 100 kilometers
above land. It sent out a level
nine nuclear shock wave that devastated
the eco system and eradicated the
population.
WORF
Colonel, I'm detecting a wave of two
hundred enemy ships entering this sector.
NIEVES
Sir, the Earth's core is loosing its
stability! Explosion immanent!
KIRA
Nog, get us out of here!!
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EXT. SPACE- DEFIANT GOES TO WARP
The Earth explodes taking the Moon with it.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
DAX
What do we do now?
Kira sits in the command chair wiping both her hands over her hair.
KIRA
I don't know.
Worf gets up from his station.
WORF
Dax, send out a message on all subspace
frequencies. Inform the entire territory
of the nature of the distress.
DAX
Yes sir.
WORF
Lieutenant Nog, set a course for the
Procyon-A system, warp nine. Adapt the
sensors to alert us at the first sign
of an enemy ship in our proximity.
NOG
Aye Sir.
WORF
Commander Nieves, assemble a damage repair
unit. Split them into repair squadrons and
begin repairing the primary systems.
NIEVES
I'll get right on it.
WORF
Doctor, your services will no doubt be
needed. Convert any and all-available
space into medical triage facilities.
This battle will no doubt hold the key
to ensuring our futures.
BASHIR
Yes sir.
Kira gets up from her chair as a realization came over her from Worf's last sentence.
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INT. FLASH BACK- THE CELESTIAL TEMPLE
Kira remembers the word of the Prophet in the form of Bashir.
BASHIR
Understand this. What the Sisko calls
the past, will hold the stability to
ensuring all your futures.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
KIRA
Mr. Nog, set a course for Bajor, maximum
warp.
NOG
(in confusion)
Sir?
KIRA
You heard me.
NOG
Yes sir.
WORF
Colonel, I must object. With the alien
fleet entering the Procyon system--
KIRA
Your objection is duly noted Commander.
WORF
With all due respect sir, as strategic
operations officer of the Defiant, I
must insist that we head the front lines
in the war against these aliens.
KIRA
Mr. Worf!, you will follow my orders or I
will relieve you from the station that I
have given you.
WORF
Aye sir.
Worf takes his station.
KIRA
Dax, open a priority one distress signal
to the chamber of ministers. Tell them I
need to speak with First Minister Shakaar
immediately.
DAX
Yes sir.
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EXT. SPACE- DEFIANT AT WARP
KIRA (o.s.)
Defiant log, second entry, stardate 5xxxx
point x. In the burst of clarity that has
come to me from the word of the Prophets,
I am now about to attempt to try my plan.
My the Prophets protect us if I fail.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
Worf has the bridge.
BASHIR
Somebody tell me why we aren't at Procyon?
WORF
The Colonel has ordered it. She believes
that she has a plan that might buy us
significant time in overcoming these aliens.
DAX
Who's to say that her plan will even work?
NIEVES
After what she did back at the Terran system,
there's no doubt that she's a very resourceful
officer. And after what happened today, we'll
need every resourceful officer we can get.
WORF
The Colonel and I have not always seen eye to
eye on many things. But, in the years I have
served with her, she has proven to be an
officer of remarkable skill. I believe her
plan to be valid.
DAX
If only we knew what her plan is.
NOG
Now approaching the Bajoran wormhole.
WORF
Take us in at one-quarter impulse.
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INT. KIRA'S DEFIANT QUATERS
Kira meditates in prayer to the Prophets. In front of her lays the brown case containing an Orb. She opens it and the glowing purple color of this Orb fills the room.
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INT. INSIDE THE WORMHOLE
The Defiant rides through the rapids of the wormhole.
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INT. THE BRIDGE
Nieves' panel beeps erratically.
NIEVES
Sir, I'm reading a massive surge in
chronoton radiation.
The view screen shows the Defiant rapidly increase in speed as the bridge is engulfed in a bright bronze color and the systems beep erratically. As everything dims down, the systems alarms turn into light chirping.
WORF
Report.
NOG
According to my readings, we're back Deep
Space Nine. And the Akira is docked in
docking port five.
NIEVES
What?!
WORF
How is that possible? The Akira and the
other heavily damaged ships were caught
in the Earth's explosion shock wave.
NIEVES
Sir, according to my readings, we've
arrived ten days into the past. Hows
that possible?
WORF
There can be only one explanation--
KIRA (o.s.)
The Orb of time.
Kira just walks on to the bridge tugging on the waist of her uniform with a sigh of relief.
KIRA
I'll explain later. Mr. Nog, clear us for
docking and report to the wardroom.
END OF ACT ONEACT TWO
INT. DEEP SPACE NINE- DOCKING PORT ACCESS
Kira, Worf, Nog, Dax, and Nieves walk out the docking port and into the station corridor.
KIRA
Mr. Worf, put the station on yellow alert
for the time being. Let everyone know
this is not a drill. The rest of you,
report to the wardroom. We need to work
fast if we're to stop the Hun. For all
we know, they're already some where in this
sector.
The officers follow her orders.
BASHIR (o.s.)
Colonel, I think there's someone here who
might help us with our investigation.
Kira looks back to see Odo walking beside Doctor Bashir.
KIRA
(softly)
Odo!
Kira and Odo rush up to each other and kiss in reunification.
ODO
(stroking her cheek with his index finger)
I thought it would be years before I
saw you again Nerys.
KIRA
I've missed you so much Odo.
ODO
Are you alight? Is there someone--
KIRA
There's no one.
BASHIR
I'm sorry to cut the reunion short but
we must not forget that Odo came in with
identical injuries as Worf and they were
both in separate quadrants at the time.
KIRA
He's right. Odo, do you know anything about
the aliens who attacked you?
ODO
Some. But I'm afraid the information I have
is not very encouraging. It seems even more
grim since Dr. Bashir briefed me on what
happened in the Terran System.
KIRA
We could use every edge. Come on. The senior
staff is meeting in the wardroom.
BASHIR
(shocked)
Miles!
Chief O'Brien turns to enter the corridor of the docking port access. Kira, Bashir, and Odo rush up to him and Bashir scans him with a medical tricorder.
KIRA
Miles, are you alright?, where did you
come from?
O'BRIEN
I'm fine just a little confused. I remember
being on Earth in Mr. Sisko's funeral.
Then I heard a huge sonic explosion. I
went outside to see a shockwave destroying
everything in it's path. I blinked and
found myself on a Bajoran transport docking
at the station. What the hell is going on?
BASHIR
It's alright Miles. We saw the same thing.
KIRA
You've just traveled back in time along with
the rest of us.
O'BRIEN
What? How is that possible?
KIRA
We were on the Defiant when it happened. I
used the Orb of Time to bring us back so
that we can prevent what we saw ten days
from now.
O'BRIEN
But I wasn't on the Defiant. How was I able
to time travel if I wasn't anywhere near the
orb?
KIRA
What can I say? The Prophets work in
mysterious ways.
O'BRIEN
*gasps* I'll say.
KIRA
Come on.
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INT. WARDROOM
ODO
Virtually nothing is known about the Hun.
Gamma Quadrant records show that they're
technologically advanced and that
advanced status rivals the Dominion.
Territory disputes and confrontations in
space have been occurring between the Hun
and the Dominion for over a hundred and
eighty years. No one knows where they came
from but the Hun have a territory in the
Gamma Quadrant over 9000 thousand light
years in diameter. Dominion forces try to
steer clear from them whenever they can and
as a result, we have very little information
about them. But it's safe to say that the Hun
are vicious and dangerous. Unfortunately the
option to avoid them is not a suitable one at
the moment.
NIEVES
How could the Hun know about the existence
of the Federation or the location of the
wormhole for that matter?
ODO
We're not sure. Since the conclusion of the
war between the Federation and the Dominion,
we've felt it necessary to seal off our
boarders. Our educated guess would be that
either the Hun captured one of the Federation
ships that disappeared in the Gamma Quadrant
a couple of years ago or they somehow got a
hold of Dominion computer files that revealed
Federation information. The Hun are very
skilled in computer infiltration. They
recently attacked a Dominion outpost in
Gamma sector 875 to obtain power distribution
nodes but we were able to counter their ships
attack with a modified graviton pulse that was
initially created to neutralize threats of
massive energy waves. It's still in the
experimental stages. We were able to obtain
a data module from one of the boarding parties
that was badly damaged during the attack. We
were only able to retrieve five gigaquats of
of information from the module and that's
what led me to warn the Federation about the
Hun invasion force but by the time my ship
reached the wormhole, I was attacked and left
for dead.
KIRA
Lucky your ship was able to drift into the wormhole
or we wouldn't have been able to help you. So
the question now remains, what are we going to
do about the Hun?
O'BRIEN
Well, we could begin upgrading our weapons systems
but since we've only encountered the Hun once, our
knowledge on what effect the enhanced weaponry will
have on them will be extremely limited.
BASHIR
And what made them come up with the name Hun?
ODO
Doctor?
BASHIR
The Hun were a tribe of nomadic warriors of Turkish
descended Asians who spread from the Caspian steppes
to make repeated incursions into the Roman Empire
during Earth's 4th and 5th centuries AD. They nearly
brought the Empire to destruction. They clearly adopted
a human facade. The question is, why?
DAX
Maybe they read up on the Hun from the data
base of one of the captured Federation ships
and chose to adopt their battle tactics as a
symbolic message to the Federation that our
reign in this region is about to come to a
close.
NOG
Maybe we're all looking at this in the wrong
way. I've found that alien technology can
reflect the abilities and the inabilities
of a species mental or physical capabilities.
If the constable could provide us with a
description of the Hun along with any physical
and mental abilities, we may be able to figure
out how aspects of their technology are put together
thus figuring out a way to counter their attacks.
KIRA
How about it Odo?
ODO
I'm afraid that's not possible. When the Hun
send away teams and attack parties, they wear
protective leather isolation suits and sleek
jet-black helmets. There are no records of
their physiology on file.
KIRA
Your offal quiet Worf. Any thoughts?
WORF
Well there is one question that has yet to
be explained. If we have time traveled, why
are we occupying our proper points in space
time instead of interacting with our past counterparts?
NIEVES
Perhaps the chronoton radiation surge merged
our future bodies with our past bodies.
WORF
That still doesn't explain how station
personnel didn't notice our bodies
disappear and then reappear on a battered
Defiant.
BASHIR
Perhaps the timeline was adapted by the
chronoton surge of the Orb to account for
any inconsistencies that might arise at
our return to the past. After all, we were
sent here by the Prophets.
KIRA
If you ask me, it's all well and good. Now,
instead of convincing our past selves to
take certain action, we can directly interact
in the timeline ourselves to prepare for the
task at hand. The original DS9 crew has been
reunited for this mission. So it stands reason
to believe that the Prophets want us to handle
the Hun and not just any other Starfleet crew.
With Commander Nieves as an addition to the
senior staff, of course.
O'BRIEN
Who are you anyway?
NIEVES
Lieutenant Commander Mark Nieves of Starfleet
Intelligence. I was sent to this station three
weeks after the disappearance of Captain Sisko
and the departure of Commander Worf, Constable
Odo and you Chief. I was sent to determine if
the station could stay functioning as the chain
of command altered when some of you departed.
KIRA
It's because of the Commander we were all able
to keep our posting. He's become a valued friend.
WORF
Which leaves the only option left to take
if we ever hope to achieve a victory against
these aliens.
KIRA
Which is?
WORF
We must take the Defiant into the heart of
Hun territory in a reconnaissance mission.
Everyone in the room looks around at each other in question.
BASHIR
Worf, are you feeling alright?
WORF
(surprised)
Yes, I feel fine.
DAX
Worf I don't think a reconnaissance mission
is a good idea. I mean, we barely got out
our last battle with the Hun with our systems
salvageable. A covert mission into Hun
territory has very little chance at success.
BASHIR
Besides we still haven't away to properly
protect ourselves against them. All we know
is that their technology surpasses our own
and that their ships are vulnerable to
quantum energy shock waves if their ships
suffer from micro fractures on their hull.
Now sooner or later, they're going to be able
to protect themselves from tactical maneuver.
WORF
The Hun do have an advantage over us. But
we must not examine our enemy too closely.
(MORE)
WORF (cont'd)
If we upgrade our tactical systems according
to simulations on protecting ourselves
against massive energy fronts, like the
Dominion graviton pulse, then that could be
our defense against high yield intensity
neutron and quantum strikes.
BASHIR
That might take care of our defenses but what
about our firepower? We need to be able to disable
them the way they disabled us in the Terran system.
O'BRIEN
Maybe the key to damaging their ships doesn't
lay in what kind of energy signature is equipped
with our torpedoes but in the reconfiguration
in the yield.
KIRA
Chief?
O'BRIEN
When mines are deployed, their programmed to ignite
the collision of unstable molecules to produce a
massive nuclear reaction. I can program the
torpedoes to collide with antimatter waste that
can be extracted from the warp core. With
additional enhancements to the explosive yield,
that ought to put out a blast that could rival
any known space station phaser cannon.
DAX
Even if these upgrades work, maybe we should concentrate
our efforts into finding out where the Hun enter the
quadrant instead of going behind enemy lines.
WORF
If we do that, we will only be giving the
aliens a chance to adapt their systems to
our strikes, which will give them the
opportunity to attack again.
KIRA
He's right. Our best chance to winning against
the Hun is to find out as much as we can about
them so that further counter strikes are successful
until they fall back into their territory.
Besides Dax, this time we're the ones who have
the element of surprise in our favor. And I plan
to exploit that advantage to the fullest degree
possible. Mr. Worf, you and the Chief get started
on those tactical upgrades to the Defiant. Odo,
you and Nog should start working on away to access
the Hun's central computer core. You can start by
running simulations on combined systems of the most
heavily guarded systems of any alien species on
record. Commander Nieves, you should have a few
Intelligence tricks up your sleeve. Assist Odo and
Nog. Dax, you and I will take care of the attack
plan scenarios we'll need against the Hun. We'll
all reconvene in sixteen hours. Dismissed.
They all exit out the wardroom.
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INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE THE WARDROOM
Kira walks down the corridor of the habitat ring. She hears a moaning sound. She slightly tilts her head back but resumes walking thinking it was nothing. She hears the moan again but louder this time. As she walks back toward the sound she hears it again. She turns the corner to see a man wearing traditional garment of a Bajoran nobleman. She rushes up to the man, turns him over, and uncovers a shocking revelation.
KIRA
(eyes wide open in shock)
Captain Sisko?!
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INT. THE INFIRMARY
Bashir, Kira, and Jake stand over the bed of Captain Sisko who is now in a light blue infirmary gown. Jake holds his fathers hand and Bashir places a neuro sequencer over Sisko's forehead.
JAKE
Have you figured out what's wrong with him?
BASHIR
When the Colonel brought your father in,
his neural tissue had begun to degrade.
I've just performed a neuropathway induction
to repair his neural pathways. I'm now in
the process of stabilizing his neurotrans-
mitters with a neuro sequencer and applied
dosages of Neuroleptics.
JAKE
Neuroleptics? Isn't that used for mental
illness?
Bashir gives a troubling sigh to Kira as he prepares to deliver Jake some difficult news.
BASHIR
Jake, your father has come back with a
neural chemical imbalance that has left him
with an acute form of schizophrenia.
JAKE
Are you saying my father's insane?!
BASHIR
Not totally. The treatment is having a
gradual effect but before I can enable
other forms of treatment, I must run tests to
figure out how that chemical imbalance was
caused in the first place.
KIRA
Do you have any theories Doctor?
BASHIR
I think it has something to do with they way
he returned. My scans were able to determine
that a quantum energy surge through whatever
subspace vent the Prophets sent him through
caused his neural pathways to destabilize. I've
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BASHIR (cont'd)
corrected the instability with a neuropathway
induction. As for the chemical imbalance, it
could be a result of his dimensional change.
JAKE
I don't understand.
BASHIR
Captain Sisko has been in the Celestial Temple
of the Prophets for over four years now. An
atmosphere of the utmost order, will, and
bliss can cause a significant amount of
physical and mental stress when forced to
integrate into a different dimension.
KIRA
But Captain Sisko has traveled back and
forth between this dimension and the inner
dimension of the Celestial Temple several
times. How come this hasn't happened before?
BASHIR
He was never there for more than ten minutes
before. Prolonged exposure to the dimension
of the prophets on someone from this dimension
could cause their neurotransmitters to function
differently in order to adapt to that dimensions
laws of physics. My scans did pick up odd synaptic
potentials all over his neural system. It's very
likely Captain Sisko was induced with post neural
shock syndrome. Whether it was done by the Prophets
or by the environment of the dimension, his brain
receptors were adapted to function in that dimension.
Here, post neural shock syndrome would've killed
him within four or five days.
JAKE
Isn't that what he had the day he discovered B'Hala?
BASHIR
Yes it was.
JAKE
Then you can treat it can't you?
BASHIR
Yes, with neuropolaric induction. But you have
to understand Jake, neuropolaric induction is
a very serious, almost life threatening operation.
It's always used as a last resort and I have to
see if Captain Sisko's neural pathways will stabilize
on its own before I proceed with the operation. Otherwise,
he could end up with schizophrenia permanently
or worse, he could die.
JAKE
How was he able to get schizophrenia in the
first place?
BASHIR
Your father is one of those rare few who's biologically
predisposed to the disease. Most likely through genetics.
JAKE
Does that mean that I could be predisposed
to it too?
BASHIR
Possibly. Since medical science is now able
to identify and neutralize the schizophrenic
gene, it most likely wouldn't have been passed
on to you. But our ability to completely purge
the gene without causing neural damage hasn't
come to pass as of yet. This means that the
gene can active under certain pressures of
extreme emotional or physical stress. The gene
most likely activated when the Captain passed
through to our dimension. So far he's been
responding well to treatment.
JAKE
I've waited what seems like decades to get
my father back just for his coming to turn
out this way.
BASHIR
Don't you worry. Neurophysiology and neurogenetics
are specialties of mine. I promise that I won't
rest until I have your
(MORE)
BASHIR (cont'd)
father up and running again. In the mean
time, lets see if the present treatment
will speed up the brains healing process.
JAKE
Why would the Prophets let their own emissary
come back to his people like this? If their
suppose to be all knowing, how could they not
know that sending him back without fixing his
brain receptors would do him harm.
BASHIR
Maybe it wasn't the Prophets.
JAKE
What?
KIRA
Doctor, could I speak to you alone for a
moment?
Kira pulls Bashir arm as they walk to the other side of the room.
KIRA
I think you should lay off telling Jake
about what happened. At least until this
whole thing with the Hun is over with.
BASHIR
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
KIRA
That we were the ones who brought Captain
Sisko back when I initiated the chronoton
surge from the orb?
BASHIR
My thoughts exactly.
KIRA
I brought Captain Sisko back before I gave
the Prophets a chance to fix whatever they
did to him so that he could function properly
in their dimension.
BASHIR
What I don't understand is how come he appeared
after the meeting of the senior staff and not
on the Defiant when the surge hurtled us back
in time?
KIRA
The Prophets told me that they exist in a plain
where time has no existence. Obviously temporal
variance flows differently between this dimension
and the plain of the Prophets. But this is all
beside the point. What happened to the Chief did
not happen to Jake. The Jake in that infirmary is
the Jake from this timeline and not from the future.
So I think it best that we avoid telling him that
his grandfather will be dead eight days from now
being that he still has to get through his fathers illness.
BASHIR
I'll try to make every effort with the
Captain.
All of the sudden, screaming is heard in the infirmary. Kira and Bashir rush in to find Captain Sisko standing on top of the bio-bed ranting.
SISKO
The walls are burning! Fire is raining
down on us!!
JAKE
Dad, listen to me! We're on the station.
Everything is safe and you're surrounded by
your friends!
SISKO
The source will be destroyed! The source
of dignity and respect will be destroyed!!
BASHIR
Captain, please calm down!
Sisko jumps off the bed and runs screaming toward the wall and starts banging on it.
SISKO
(banging on the wall)
Noooo! Noooo! Nooooo!!!
Doctor Bashir immediately comes from behind and gives him a hypo-spray. Sisko gently falls to the floor. Jake drops his head over his father's stomach sobbing uncontrollably as Kira and Bashir exchange signs of worry.
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