WAKING MOMENTS
Episode 81 : Part D
| Voyager's Sickbay.
Doctor: "Wake up, Ensign." Groggily, Kim wakes. He is bemused. "What's going on?" Doctor: "You were napping." Kim: "In Sickbay?" Doctor: "We had to move you here when we couldn't wake you." Kim: "How long?" Doctor: "17 hours. I take it you experienced nightmares like the rest of the crew." Kim: "Oh I had nightmares alright." Doctor: "Tell me about them." Kim: "Well, I was in the corridor-" He breaks off as Seven, whom he dreamt about so vividly, enters Sickbay. Seven gives the Doctor a PADD, telling him: "Captain Janeway asked me to bring you the results of our Astrometrics scan. She thought they might be helpful in determining the precise cause of the crew's somnolence." Doctor: "Thank you." Seven to Kim: "Now that you are awake, I require your assistance in Jefferies tube 21-beta." This reminds Kim of his nightmare, in which Seven lured him to a Jefferies tube with a similar request for assistance. "Is something wrong?" Kim: "No, I er, I'm still feeling a little groggy." Seven: "Then I will wait until you are fully recovered." Doctor: "Now then, Ensign, you were telling me about your nightmare." Kim definitely does not want to relate his dream about Seven in front of her! "You know what, Doc, I'm....." he tries to think of an excuse, "famished. I haven't eaten in at least 17 hours, right?" Doctor: "Very well, go eat, get some clothes on and report back in an hour." Kim: "I'll see you later. You too, Seven." Awkwardly he gives her a cheery wave. Seven and the Doctor exchange glances, puzzled by his odd behaviour. |
Messhall.
Neelix: "And the next thing I knew, I was being boiled alive in a pot of my own leola root stew."
Torres: "Talk about a nightmare."
Neelix: "Well, it was perfectly seasoned."
 | Kim enters.
Torres: "Well, if it isn't Sleeping Beauty." |
 | Kim is very cheerful. "I do look well rested, don't I?"
Neelix: "Is everyone awake now?" The Doc checked us all out, says we're fine." Torres: "Have a seat." Kim sits down. "We were just trading dream stories." |
 | Neelix: "Tell us yours."
Kim: "Oh. It was nothing very interesting, just the usual, you know-" Torres: "Who was she, Harry?" Kim fobs them off with: "The woman of my dreams." They laugh. He diverts attention away from himself: "What I'd like to know is what Tuvok dreamt about." |
 | Neelix: "Yes, Commander, tell us: what do Vulcans dream?"
Kim: "Aren't you supposed to have horrible nightmares?" Torres: "I wonder what a Vulcan nightmare would be like." Neelix: "Alone, exiled, on a planet where the only form of communication is laughter." He, Torres and Kim laugh at this, but Tuvok is unamused. |
 | Torres: "Oh come on, Tuvok."
Tuvok: "I won't dignify this inquisition with a response." |
Suddenly the ship trembles and there is the sound of something impacting the hull. Immediately Janeway's voice is broadcast shipwide over the comm. system. "Red alert. All hands to battle stations." At once everyone hurries to their post.
 | Bridge.
Janeway broadcasts a shipwide message to the crew. "Red alert. All hands to battle stations." (This is the comms. call which Neelix, Kim, Torres, Tuvok and everyone in the Messhall has just heard.) Paris: "They're coming around for another pass!" |
 | Tuvok and Kim enter the Bridge, lurching as the ship is jolted by weapons fire. They take their posts.
Janeway: "Auxiliary power to the shields. Return fire." Chakotay: "No damage to the alien ship. Our phasers can't penetrate their shields." |
 | Janeway: "Arm photon torpedoes. We seem to have a knack for provoking strangers these days."
Tuvok: "Shields are offline." Janeway: "Fire." Chakotay: "I've lost power to the torpedo launchers." Janeway: "What's happening?" Tuvok: "Power is being drained from all systems." Kim: "We're being hailed." |
 | Janeway: "On screen."
The alien leader's image appears on the main viewscreen. He is the same alien that Chakotay talked to, and the one the crew have seen in their nightmares. "Captain, Ensign Kim, Commander Chakotay, I'm glad to see you all up and about." |
 | Janeway, via comms: "Janeway to Engineering. We need auxiliary power to the engines NOW."
Alien leader: "I think you'll find that impossible." |
| Janeway, via comms: "B'Elanna, report."
Torres, in Engineering, via comms: "There's a localised dampening field around the ship, Captain. I can't give you engines, weapons, shields." Chakotay to the alien leader: "Everything you told me was a lie. This was all an elaborate trap to get Voyager here." Alien leader: "It appears you're learning more about my people after all. Prepare to surrender your ship." |  |
 | Tuvok: "Three more alien vessels are approaching. They are powering weapons."
Janeway: "You've gone to so much trouble to commandeer this ship, I don't think you're going to destroy it." Alien leader: "I won't need to." |
 | He closes contact and immediately an alien boarding party materialises on the Bridge, with weapons aimed at the Bridge crew. |  |
 | Tuvok raises his phaser but he is outnumbered. |
 | Janeway, via comms: "Janeway to the crew. We're under attack. Implement defence procedure omega." |
 | Alien leader: "It's no use. We've taken every deck. The ship is ours." |
 | The aliens herd the captured crewmembers into Cargo Bay 2. A female crewmember asks Janeway: "Captain?" but Janeway indicates that no questions should be asked. |  |
 | Once gathered in the cargo bay, the senior staff hold a council of war.
Chakotay: "All the time I thought I was negotiating they were just setting us up to fly right into their web." Janeway: "You couldn't have known it was a trick." |
 | Kim: "I don't understand. They exist in dreams and in reality." |
 | Tuvok: "Apparently entering our dreams was their way to learn about us, perhaps to probe our weaknesses." |
 | Paris: "Not to mention: lure us into an ambush."
Chakotay: "We need to retake the ship." Janeway: "That means getting out of this cargo bay." |
 | Torres: "I checked the Jefferies tubes. They're sealed." |
 | Janeway: "Maybe we can open them manually." |
 | Chakotay: "That's not going to be easy. They've got people everywhere." |
 | Tuvok: "We'll have to create a diversion."
Janeway: "Any ideas?" Seven: "I have one, Captain." |
 | At once Seven goes up to Kim, grasps hold of a fistful of the uniform in the area of his chest and shoves him to the ground!
Kim: "What the hell are you doing?!" Seven: "Creating a diversion." She pulls him to his feet and says loudly: "Ensign Kim, it is your fault we have been captured!" She strikes him across the face. |
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