Star Trek Generations Page #9

RIKER:

Data! See if you can get to Geordi!

Data looks up at him with a terrified look on his face.

DATA:

I...cannot, sir. I believe I am... afraid.

Suddenly Soran's communicator beeps. Soran reaches down and grabs the

unconscious La Forge by the collar and the two of them dematerialize.

(Soran has the VISOR in his hand.) Riker, Data and Worf react.

75 EXT. SPACE- THE KLINGON SHIP (VFX-I)75

The Bird of Prey cloaks and vanishes.

76 INT. BRIDGE76

As before.

TRANSPORTER COM VOICE

Transporter room to Bridge. I have the Away Team aboard, sir.

PICARD:

(to Con)

Helm, warp one, engage.

77 EXT. SPACE- ENTERPRISE & OBSERVATORY (VFX-I)77

The Enterprise warps away just as the shock wave reaches the observatory

and vaporizes it in a fiery explosion.

CUT TO:

78 INT. KLINGON BIRD OF PREY- BRIDGE78

On a monitor where we can see a graphic depiction of the darkening

star and shock wave. Move to reveal the inside of the old Klingon ship.

It's beaten up and patched in several places, obviously not a first-line

model.

Watching the viewscreen are LURSA and B'ETOR, two powerful-looking

Klingon women. They are sisters; aggressive, seductive and very

dangerous. Several N.D. male Klingons man the various stations.

The sisters stare at the image of the destroyed sun in awe.

B'ETOR

Toh-pak-cha=8A (Glorious=8A)

LURSA:

HoS qorDu. (A great power.)

Soran now ENTERS the Bridge. His expression is dark and angry. He is

clearly not a prisoner here and strides up to the sisters.

B'ETOR

(excited, to Soran)

You've done it, Soran.

But without warning, Soran hits B'Etor squarely in the jaw, knocking her

back over a console. Several Klingons leap to their feet, drawing their

weapons, but B'Etor holds up a hand as she gets to one knee.

B'ETOR

Wait!

She dabs a trickle of blood at the corner of her mouth. Her expression

is angry and threatening.

B'ETOR

I hope for your sake that you are initiating a mating ritual.

SORAN:

You got careless. The Romulans came looking for their missing

trilithium.

B'ETOR

Impossible. We left no survivors on their outpost.

B'Etor has now gotten to her feet in the b.g.

SORAN:

They knew it was aboard the observatory. If the Enterprise hadn't

intervened, they would have found it.

LURSA:

But they didn't find it and now we have a weapon of unlimited power.

SORAN:

I have the weapon, Lursa. And if you ever want me to give it to you, I

advise you to be a little more careful in the future.

B'Etor grabs Soran and holds a wicked-looking knife to his throat.

B'ETOR

Perhaps we are tired of waiting.

Soran is unfazed by this threat.

SORAN:

Without my research, the trilithium is worthless, as are your plans to

reconquer the Klingon Empire.

Lursa reaches out and calmly pushes her sister's knife away.

SORAN:

Set course for the Veridian system. Maximum warp.

LURSA:

(to Helm)

Bosh-ta-JaH Veridian (Set course for Veridian)

A KLINGON GUARD ENTERS dragging the unconscious La Forge.

KLINGON GUARD:

What shall I do with this?

Soran moves toward La Forge, a grim look on his face.

SORAN:

Bring him with me. I need some answers from Mr. La Forge.

Soran EXITS.

CUT TO:

79 OMITTED 79

80 INT. CORRIDOR 80

Riker and Worf are on the move down the corridor.

WORF:

I have spoken to the Klingon High Council, sir. They identified the Bird

of Prey as belonging to the Duras sisters.

RIKER:

(surprised)

Lursa and B'Etor? This doesn't make any sense. A renowned stellar

physicist somehow uses a trilithium probe to destroy a star, kidnaps

Geordi and escapes with a pair of Klingon renegades. Why? What the

hell's going on?

They EXIT to

81 INT. SICKBAY81

Worf and Riker ENTER. Crusher is closing a panel on the back of Data's

head. He is sitting on a biobed, scanning himself with a tricorder.

RIKER:

How is he?

CRUSHER:

It looks like a power surge fused the emotional chip into his neural

net.

WORF:

Will that be a danger to him?

CRUSHER:

I don't think so. The chip still seems to be working. I'd feel better if

I could take a closer look, but I can't remove it without completely

dismantling his cerebral conduit.

RIKER:

(to Data)

Looks like you're stuck with emotions for a while. How do you feel?

DATA:

I am quite...preoccupied with concern about Geordi.

RIKER:

We all are, Data. But we're going to get him back.

DATA:

I hope so, sir.

Data's expression is still one of concern. Crusher pulls Riker aside.

CRUSHER:

Will, I checked into Doctor Soran's background.

Crusher activates the wall monitor and a picture of Doctor Soran along

with some biographical information appears.

CRUSHER:

He's an El-Aurian, over three hundred years old. He lost his entire

family when the Borg destroyed his world. Soran escaped with a handful

of other refugees aboard a ship called the Lakul. The ship was destroyed

by some kind of energy ribbon, but Soran and forty-six others were

rescued by the Enterprise-B.

RIKER:

(reacts)

That was the mission where James Kirk was killed.

CRUSHER:

I checked the passenger manifest of the Lakul. Guess who else was on

board?

She hits a control and suddenly Guinan's face appears on the screen.

Riker reacts to the image.

CUT TO:

82 INT. GUINAN'S QUARTERS82

Close on Guinan as she looks up, surprised.

GUINAN:

Soran? That's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Move to reveal Guinan's quarters, which are unlike any of the others on

the Enterprise. None of the standard furniture, consoles or decoration

are present. The floor is made of tile, not carpet; the walls are draped

in exotic fabric. The lighting is moody and subdued.

Picard is standing before Guinan, who is sitting cross-legged on the

floor. They talk to each other with an easy familiarity; two old friends

who know each other well.

PICARD:

Do you remember him?

GUINAN:

Oh yes. I remember everyone who was on the Lakul, every face. Even the

ones who didn't make it.

Guinan stands and begins to move about the room. She's clearly troubled

by the memories. She hesitates, looks off into the middle-distance for a

few moments. Picard moves to her.

PICARD:

Guinan. It's important that you tell me what you know. We think Soran's

developed a weapon...a terrible weapon. It might give him enough power

to-

GUINAN:

Soran doesn't care about power or weapons. All he cares about is getting

back to the Nexus.

PICARD:

What's the "Nexus"?

Guinan moves to a table and begins to shift around some exotic-looking

alien artifacts, distracting herself. This is difficult for her to

discuss.

GUINAN:

It's a place I've tried very hard to forget.

She makes the decision to plunge ahead.

GUINAN:

That ribbon isn't just some random energy phenomenon travelling through

space. It's a doorway. It leads to another place- the Nexus. It doesn't

exist in our universe and it doesn't play by the same rules either.

PICARD:

What happened to you?

GUINAN:

I can't remember very much - what it looked like or how long I was

there. But I do remember how it felt.

She turns to him and her face is filled with some kind of awe at the

memory.

GUINAN:

It was like being inside...joy. As if joy was a real thing that I could

wrap around myself. I've never been so content.

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