Yeoman, stay with us for the second shift. Send the lower ranks up first.

RAND

Yes, sir. Pickup commencing.

CAMERA ANGLE EXPANDS as the six enlisted personnel group together. They begin to shimmer as we have seen previously, then vanish.

RAND

Captain?

Kirk looks at her.

RAND (CONT’D.)

What’s happened up there, sir?

KIRK

(distant)

Beckwith may have killed again…

DISSOLVE TO:

30 INT. TRANSPORTER CHAMBER—CLOSE ON KIRK & SPOCK

in the last stages of materialization. Rand behind them. As they appear corporeally, suddenly we see Kirk’s face assume a BROAD EXPRESSION of disbelief and consternation. Rand’s eyes widen in total confusion. Even Spock is momentarily set back. Rand gives a small YELP of anxiety.

31 REVERSE ANGLE—PAST KIRK IN EXT. F.G.

(NOTE: this must be shot past the three people in the transporter to show the entire chamber before them.)

WHAT THEY SEE: the six enlisted personnel herded into a corner, being held at bay by men and women with weapons totally unlike those used by the Enterprise crew. The captors are RENEGADES. Their dress is not regulation uniforms, but motley garb, each one wearing what he or she feels like. They are unkempt, and as vicious-looking as a crowd of free-booters can look. There are as many in the group as needed to hold the Enterprise crew at bay.

In the forefront of the group stands the RENEGADE CAPTAIN whose evil nature is so evident on his face that no one could doubt for a moment that this man is the vilest scum of a million worlds. He has a weapon of extreme ugliness pointed at Kirk and Spock and Rand. His smile is the smile of an animal.

RENEGADE

(with chill warmth)

Welcome to the Condor.

HARD CUT TO:

32 CLOSE ON KIRK

his expression of—yes, possibly—fear and bewilderment and then dawning realization that he has, indeed, wandered helplessly into a world he never made. HOLD ON THAT thought as we

FADE OUT.

END ACT ONE

Act Two

ACT TWO

FADE IN:

33 INT. TRANSPORTER CHAMBER—ESTABLISHING

the renegades holding the Enterprise patrol at bay. Kirk and Spock make a slight move, but guns come up, and they settle back. The Renegade Captain seems perplexed, but still a threat.

RENEGADE

Whoever you are, you shouldn’t have come aboard.

34 CLOSE 2-SHOT—KIRK & SPOCK (RAND IN B.G.)

Kirk’s bewilderment has passed. He speaks in an undertone to Spock.

KIRK

He was right. Time’s been altered.

SPOCK

Renegades.

KIRK

This isn’t the Enterprise anymore.

35 PAST RENEGADE CAPTAIN TO THEM

on the Transporter stage. Beside the Renegade is a TECHNICIAN who is operating the complex Transporter console.

RENEGADE

Now step down off that stage slowly.

36 SAME AS 34

Kirk frantically seeks an escape route. We see it in his face.

KIRK

(to Rand, softly)

Yeoman…give that console full feedback!

37 CLOSE ON JANICE RAND