STAR TREK
STRANGE NEW WORLD

Based on 'Star Trek' 
created by Gene Roddenberry

STARRING

Evangeline Lilly as COMMANDER MYRA SHAW

Jai Courtney as LT. COMMANDER CARL KELHAM

Jack Harrer as LT. FINLEY McKENCHIE

Marc Ruffalo as LT. PERRY ALLEN (R.N.)

Temuera Morrison as COMMANDER ALDRED 

WITH 

Cobie Smulders as COMMANDER T'MUR

TBA as LIEUTENANT LESTER

TBA as ENSIGN FORRESTER

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Produced by Sojournerverse Productions

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2x03 - "Fire Storm"

Written By Alex Matthews

Shaw is able to divert enough power to get the Cornwell airborne with it's thrusters, and uses it's own shield to 'patch' the hole near to Kelham. This gives him the necessary time to finish the repairs and restore the shield to full strength. Thankfully, the brunt of the storm has passed them by, so the assault on the shields has lessened significantly. 

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T'Mur and Perry continue to face down the Tholian scout. The scan finishes, but nothing more seems to happen. T'Mur decides to hail it, and does so, but gets no response. She repeats her hail and explains some of their situation, but is again ignored. She starts to take an active scan, when the scout suddenly heads off at full impulse. 

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Aldred manages to uncover what he believes is the main data-core of the ship's computer and thanks to its crystalline nature, is able to easily remove it. As he returns to the shuttle, the Pryce arrives with Kelham and Forrester, with repair parts for the Bridger. They are needed back at Alpha Site straight away - there are developments.

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The senior officers discuss the Tholian situation. Aldred examines his find, but he is unsure if he will be able to access its contents, let alone understand it. T'Mur brings up the strange readings she got from the Tholian scout, which Aldred realizes matches the residual readings from the crashed ship. He realizes it is chroniton residue, which adds to his developing theory that the Tholians may have time-travelled, after explaining what he found on the crashed Tholian ship. Given the evidence, he concludes they are from the future, but what their reasons for travelling back to this time, he is clueless. 

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Shaw orders Aldred and McKenchie to take up one of the shuttles to perform intensive scans of the area where the Tholian ship was encountered, try to locate where it went and if there are any more Tholian ships in the vicinity. She also wants everyone prepped to leave at short notice, although T'Mur cautions that they don't know the Tholians have hostile intent - being from the future, they may just be explorers. But Shaw doesn't hold out much hope. 

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Their scans reveal the area the Tholian retreated through is the same area T'Mur detected earlier. It is in an extreme state of quantum/temporal flux, more so then usual. Aldred believes the Tholians are deliberately causing the phenomenon, harnessing the unusual properties of the planet's core and energy field to move from one time period to another. Similar to how the field randomly creates unstable wormholes that reach across hundreds, if not thousands, of light-years, instead moving through time, not space. 

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Aldred also picks up rather worrying fluctuations within the energy field, which could be a reaction to whatever the Tholians are doing to it to enable time-travel. However, further thought on the matter is pushed aside when another, larger breach appears to be forming. From it punch through three Tholian scouts - which immediately open fire on the shuttle! Only McKenchie's skill keeps them from being shot out of the sky

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Going over tactical options if they have to face the Tholians in combat, the options seem limited until they can get more information to base their decisions on. But Shaw is emboldened when Kelham makes her see that everyone has her support, and they are willing to go down fighting, if needed. 

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Tholians attack Camp Ascendant, destroying much of what has been built, including the hydroponics garden and the abandoned escape pods, while battering the already weakened shields. The Cornwell, Shanthi and Morrow do what they can to keep the Tholians at bay, but they're grossly outmatched, even with the Borg cutting beams they have. 

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Knowing they need more information, T'Mur, on the Morrow, her co-pilot killed by an exploding console, runs a series of intensive scans in close range. The Morrow takes a beating despite the others, including the arriving Bridger, trying to take off some of the heat. 

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With the sensor data they just got, Kelham reprograms the deflector to emit a proton burst that causes the Tholian shields to start phasing at an inverse frequency. This allows the Borg cutting beams to do more damage, forcing the Tholians to retreat, realizing this is not as easy as it appeared. 

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As they head through the vortex, though, the energy field undergoes a severe bout of instability, with every one of the Tholians ships becoming ensnared in it, before exploding! This causes a servere temporal polarization effect within the field itself, as the field becomes infused with massive amounts of anti-tachyons. It collapses the Tholian vortex as well, seemingly cutting off their incursion. 

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The crew celebrate their victory, but are aware it may not be long before they come back with reinforcements. Aldred believes though that the sheer amount of anti-tachyons within the field will prevent that, at least until it subsides. So, Shaw allows the crew to have their win, even as they try to pick up the pieces - the solar array and hydroponics farm have been totalled, and they have burned out most of their Borg cutting beams and deflector generators.

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Aldred does have some good news. He believes what has happened to the field could actually work in their favour. It might not only lessen the interference their distress beacon has been getting within the field, but also boost the power of the signal itself to reach one of the Starfleet listening posts. Shaw believes all they can do now is hope...

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To Be Continued...

in

2x04: "When We Rise" [Part 1]