MANEUVERS
Episode 27
Part A

 

USS Voyager, cruising at warp speed.

Chakotay and Torres enter a turbolift. Chakotay: "Whatever she wants us for it had better be good." To the turbolift: "Bridge." They talk as the turbolift travels. He says to Torres: "I had you right where I wanted you." Torres: "What are you talking about? I was ahead. 19:7."

Chakotay, deadpan but enjoying winding her up: "I was just lulling you into a false sense of security." Torres: "Sure you were." Chakotay: "I'll win the next couple of points then you'll start to tense up." Torres: "I do not tense up." Chakotay: "Easy, B'Elanna. It's only hoverball." They exit the turbolift at Deck 1, the Bridge.

There is a conference going on at Tuvok's tactical/security station as Tuvok and Janeway look at the monitor display. Chakotay: "You wanted to see us, Captain?" Janeway: "Yes, Commander. We picked up an intriguing transmission." Tuvok: "I have a source on the signal." Janeway: "A ship?" Tuvok: "Negative. It appears to be a beacon of some kind." Chakotay: "A beacon?" Tuvok: "We are being hailed by someone using a Federation signal." Torres: "How could someone be transmitting a Federation signal from the Delta Quadrant?"

Paris: "Maybe Starfleet found a way to get a probe here. Maybe they're looking for us." Janeway: "I'd like to believe that too, but let's not jump to conclusions."

Chakotay: "See if you can authenticate the signal." Tuvok: "The carrier wave frequency does correspond to standard Starfleet security codes." Janeway: "As of when?" Tuvok: "According to the encryption key, this particular code was not scheduled for implementation until stardate 48423."

Kim: "That's a month after we left Deep Space 9. They must be looking for us." Janeway: "Your optimism may be premature, Mr Kim." Kim: "Sorry, Captain." Janeway: "But it's also infectious." Kim smiles. "Mr Paris, lay in a course for the beacon." Paris: "Yes, ma'am."

Paris: "We're approaching the beacon's co-ordinates, Captain." Kim: "It's drifted inside an ionised hydrogen cloud. The cloud's interfering with our sensor readings."

Janeway: "Can you get any information from the beacon?" Kim: "Afraid not. Should I beam it aboard?"

Chakotay: "I'd advise against bringing it on board before we've gotten a look at it, even if it is emitting a Federation signal." Janeway: "Agreed. And I don't want to fly blindly into a hydrogen cloud either. Mr Tuvok, tractor the probe into sensor range." Tuvok: "Aye, Captain. Targetting scanners locked. Initiating tractor beam."

Something impacts the hull. Janeway: "Report!" Tuvok: "We are taking fire from inside the cloud." Janeway: "Source?" Tuvok: "Unknown." Janeway: "Battle stations." The lights dim and klaxons sound as the ship goes to red alert. Tuvok: "A Kazon raider is closing at 158 mark 9." Janeway: "Hail them, Mr Kim." Kim: "They're not responding, Captain."

Janeway: "Warp three, Mr Paris. Get us out of here." Paris: "Aye. Warp engines are offline, Captain." Janeway: "Initiate evasive pattern omega-three. Mr Tuvok, return fire." Tuvok: "Aye, Captain." Kim: "Kazon ship is in pursuit."

Tuvok: "An opening is forming in the starboard shields, 72 centimetres in diameter."

Janeway: "See if you can close it, Commander. Try rotating the shield harmonics." Tuvok: "They are continuously matching their weapons frequency to our shield frequency." Janeway: "How the hell can they do that?" Chakotay: "I don't know!" Tuvok: "The diameter of the opening has widened to approximately two metres."

Chakotay: "Set the shield harmonics to rotate continuously." Tuvok: "Aye, Commander. Diameter of the opening is now approximately four metres." Chakotay: "It's as if they know our access codes!"

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Tuvok: "Captain, I am picking up a smaller vessel emerging from the hydrogen cloud. It is heading directly toward the opening in our shields." Janeway: "All hands brace for impact!"

The ship jolts as the Kazon torpedo ship penetrates Voyager's hull. Computer: "Warning. Hull breach on Deck 4, Cargo Bay 2." Tuvok: "Structural integrity is at fifty per cent and dropping. The hull is starting to buckle!" Janeway: "We're losing life support on Deck 4!" Tuvok: "I am trying to initiate an emergency containment field. However, the collision has caused a power failure on Deck 4." Kim: "Re-routing power to compensate." Tuvok: "Containment field activated."

Computer: "Warning. Intruder alert in Cargo Bay 2." Janeway: "Mr Tuvok!"

Tuvok moves to the turbolift, signalling via comms as he does so: "Tuvok to security. Meet me outside Cargo Bay 2." Security officer, via comms: "Aye, sir."

Three Kazon-Nistrim, led by First Maje Culluh, emerge from the torpedo ship.

Tuvok arrives with his security team. Aiming phasers down at the intruders, Tuvok calls: "Drop your weapons."

The Kazon open fire.....

.....at Tuvok and his security team.

Tuvok and his security team down one of the Kazon but the others fire at the door controls, and escape through the opening doors.

Bridge. Paris: "It's no use. We're not going anywhere with that shuttle sticking out of our side. It's totally destabilising our warp field."

Chakotay, reading his instrument panel: "Mr Kim, did you re-route power to Transporter Room 2?" Kim: "No, sir." Chakotay, via comms: "Bridge to Tuvok." Tuvok, via comms: "Tuvok here." Chakotay, via comms: "There may be intruders in Transporter Room 2."

Tuvok, via comms: "I'm on my way." He leaves the clearing up to his officers and hurries out of the cargo bay.

The Kazon, led by Culluh, take a transporter module from Transporter Room 2, set auto-initiating transport and beam out. transporter

Tuvok arrives there immediately after the Kazon beam out.

Tuvok hurries over to the open systems drawer and investigates. He taps his combadge. combadge Via comms: "Tuvok to bridge." Janeway, via comms: "Go ahead." Tuvok, via comms: "The Kazon have beamed away, Captain, and they've taken one of our transporter modules with them."

 

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