OPEN: EXT-SPACE: A large M-Class planet in the background with the daylight side facing camera. A sudden shadow is cast upon the planet. Small rivulets of energy pulse in it's direction. Then, a massive wave of fire tears the planet to dust. The wave of fire moves though space destroying the planet's two moons along with a space station.
CUT TO. EXT-SPACE: Three Federation starships are cruising at a medium warp speed. In the lead is the Starship REMINGTON, Sovereign Class followed by the starships SEOUL and HART, both Akira class.
CUT TO. INT-REMINGTON BRIDGE: The layout is that of a typical Sovereign class ship with a more blue colour scheme. At the lower right end of the bridge, a door opens. Captain DANIEL MACGREGOR enters the bridge. It is apparent that he has been behind a desk for far too long and needs a change of scenery. He is a tall well groomed man who commands respect and dignity from himself and his crew. Seated in the captain's seat is his first officer Commander YILLIM, a Bolian who's blue skin is highlighted in the blue nature of the bridge. Yillim stands.

YILLIM Captain on the bridge.

MacGregor moves to his seat. Yillim sits next to him, they move in close for a quiet chat.

MACGREGOR Any word?
YILLIM No Sir, she's still out of it.

MacGregor lowers his head in concern.

YILLIM Sir, I've seen her pull out of far far worse. She'll make easy work of this state.
MACGREGOR Sure as hell hope you're...

The ship shudders shakes and sends a few crewmen out of their seats.
CUT TO. EXT-SPACE: All three ships drop out of warp. Their engines go cold and they fly though space on inertia. CUT TO. INT-REMMINGTON, BRIDGE: The alert lights have lit up and the crew scambles to find their barings. There is a lot of chatter over the airways and between personelle.

MACGREGOR Report.
HELMSMAN We've lost power to our engines sir, we, and the other ships are drifting though space on our inertia.
YILLIM How fast are we going Liutenent?
HELM Damn fast sir. Approximately 9701 km/h.

MACGREGOR Damn. Are the inertial damperners holding?
HELM Yes sir they are.
(WOMAN'S VOICE)
Captain MacGregor, this is Captain VOLASS onboard the HART. We're trying to avoid collision, do you have thrusters?
MACGREGOR Do we?
HELM We do sir.
MACGREGOR Time to get these beasts on their feet. Captain Volass, contact Captain TENEEL onboard the SEOUL, we're all going to thrusters only.

CUT TO. INT-HART BRIDGE: Captain Volass is standing over her helm station. Volass, Vulcan, has a kind of middle eastern Elvish beauty and mystery about her. And her appearence is not hindered by a cut she suffered under her right eye. Her helm officer is being hauled away on a stretcher by some medics. Volass sits in her place.

VOLASS This is the HART contacting the U.S.S SEOUL, respond Captain Teneel.

The response is heared over a scratchy comm line.

TENEEL SEOUL responding, go ahead Captain Volass.

CUT TO. INT-SEOUL, BRIDGE: Identical to the HART bridge but with a little less damage. Captain Teneel sits in the captain's seat. He is a youngish Captain with Grecian features.

VOLASS Have your helmsman make his heading 564 by 001. TENEEL Understood, SEOUL out. Helm, you heared the lady.
HELM Yes sir.

CUT TO. INT-REMINGTON BRIDGE: The Helm controls light up.

HELM Both ships reporting readiness sir.
MACGREGOR Send the following to both ships. "564 by 001 mark".

CUT TO. EXT-SPACE: Cool heads prevail. All three ships were about 50 metres from slamming into eachother when they all make their course corrections and dodge out of eachothers' way. They are now, still on inertia, flying in formation.
CUT TO. INT-REMINGTON, BRIDGE: MacGregor rises from his seat. He walks over to one of the science stations.

MACGREGOR Now, someone going to tell me what the hell that was?
OFFICER Well sir, the best way to describe it is that is was a subspace pressure wave. It origionated from this point (touches screen and the image zooms in) radiated outwards and crossed paths with our warp fields collapsing them.
MACGREGOR What is this system?
OFFICER It appears to be a planetoid system devoid of any M-Class planets. Rumour has it though that the Tellerites sometimes use it for illegal mining operations.

As MacGregor digests this information Yillim scrolls the screen down. He seems a little peterved at what he sees.

YILLIM It's in the Romulan Neutral Zone.

The Science officer looks.

OFFICER So it is.
MACGREGOR I thought talks were going on to bring that down.
YILLIM I've been to one of those conferences. Hardline Romulans would rather commit genocide on their own than see it come down.
MACGREGOR Some just don't like change.
(WOMAN'S VOICE)
Captain, this is the doctor, could you come down to sickbay?
MACGREGOR I'm there. Commander, you're in charge up here. Transmit this info to the nearest starship and have them relay it to headquarters.
YILLIM I'll take care of it sir.

MacGregor leaves the bridge.
CUT TO. INT-REMINGTON, SICKBAY: MacGregor practically runs in to the room. A woman with red/aubern hair wound tightly into a bun stands in the room with a PADD. She turns to MacGregor as he enters.

MACGREGOR What's the good word Doc?
DOCTOR Well, it's unusual. She has too much going on in her head to make sense of anything and yet she seems to be wide awake.
MACGREGOR Did she say anything?
DOCTOR She would speak only to the one in command, her words sir.

MacGregor seems forelorn. He walks over to a bio bed where a tall brunette beauty lies. Her eyes are wide open and have an inhuman malveolence to their appearence. This is Commander Sasha MacGregor. Captain MacGregor approaches the bed with trepidation. He leans over the bed and looks deep into her eyes which are now black pools of nothingness. He reaches down and holds her hand.

MACGREGOR Sasha?
He stares at her for a while waiting for his wife to respond. He turns his attention back to the doctor.

MACGREGOR I have to back to the bridge doc, inform me of...

At that moment, Sasha's other hand lashes out and grabs hold of MacGregor's windpipe. She looks up at him, into his eyes. The Doctor taps her commbadge.

DOCTOR Sickbay to security, get down here right now!

Sasha's expression would say that she is enjoying seeing her husband struggle against her power.

SASHA (distorted)
Just as we had always known, just another weak, diseased, pathetic carbon based waste of life.

She gives one little squeeze and MacGregor's windpipe is crushed. He falls to the floor dead. She stands up and faces the doctor.

SASHA Photonic life isn't all that better.

Sasha then drops to the floor. The doctor races to her. She rolls her over and sees that her eyes have been burned out of her head. At that moment, the ship is rocked by an external attack.
CUT TO. EXT-SPACE: All three ships are under heavy attack from and unseen foe. All have numerous hull breaches because the enemy's shots are tearing right through the ship's shields. CUT TO. INT-REMINGTON BRIDGE: Yillim is sturggling to stand against the shots as the bridge is being blown apart around him.

YILLIM Who's doing this!

OFFICER I don't know sir, they aren't appearing on scanners!
YILLIM (to himself)
Romulans. Tactical, prepare a full...

The bridge is engulfed in a sea of fire then, nothingness, total silence.
CUT TO. EXT-SPACE: The starship REMINGTON spirals away and is then blown to pieces by a reactor breach. The starships HART and SEOUL suffer the same fate. In the wake of the massacre a small point of light appears. It grows and grows until a whirling, shining vortex appears. A huge, dark silouhette looms at the bottom of the sea of light. A malevolent mass who's size is beyond scope. The dark mass then begins to turn into a perfect circle, and the light from and ungodly orange to a vibrent green. The darkness of space becomes white with streaks of red. We now see that it is a human eye, wide open. Slow zoom out to see a man with an extremly descheveled appearance about him having been awoken from some deep sleep.