Summary: While Sisko beams to the USS Defiant from the pursuing Enterprise
to recapture it from the Cardassians, Picard and the crew of a crashed runabout
contend with the Jem’Hadar on a harsh desert planet.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
USS Enterprise
Riker
Troi
Geordi
Ensign Perim
USS Defiant
Sisko
Dax
Bashir
O’Brien
Worf
Porter
Gleason
Gul Evek
Glinn Telle
14 random Cardassians
882 Cygni V
Picard
Data
Cmdr. Shelby
Lt. Barclay
Lt. Daniels
Ro Laren
Kilana (Vorta)
First Talak’Talan
Several Jem’Hadar
Riker’s Log Entry
USS. Defiant stolen from Starbase 375 when
Cardassian/Dominion forces briefly overran the base.
O’Brien and Bashir were able to stow away.
Defiant is warping toward 882 Cygni
V where there’s a small Dominion force
Enterprise Transporter Room
Sisko, Worf, Dax, Porter, Jackson, and Gleason are
waiting on the transporter pad for O’Brien to open a window in the Defiant’s shields
so they can beam in.
The word comes through that a
window has opened, and Sisko’s team beams in.
Defiant
Sisko’s team materializes in the shuttlebay, and
they’re whisked into the Jefferies Tubes by O’Brien and Bashir.
The Cardassians used devices supplied by the
Dominion to bypass some of the Defiant’s command lockouts.
O’Brien has managed to keep
internal sensors offline so the Cardassians don’t know they’re there, but the
intruder control systems are still locked down.
Bashir has fixed it so the sensors
will only register the presence of Threat vessels, like Dominion ships, and
ignore friendly vessels. So the Cardassians have no idea the Enterprise is following them.
Sisko’s plan is to get to
Engineering, lock themselves in, and route command functions there, thus
retaking the ship.
882 Cygni V-near the Badlands
Shuttle carrying Picard, Data, Beverly , Cmdr. Shelby,
Reg Barclay, and Lt. Daniels is shot down while escaping from the destruction
of the USS Rutledge
They land in a rocky desert area
Rocks and dirt are laced w/
kelbonite, which impedes sensors.
They know the Jem’Hadar will be
along soon, so they get their stuff together and prepare to vacate the area.
Ro Laren pulls up in a one-person
speeder-bike thing and warns them that the Jem’Hadar battalion on the surface
has been alerted to their presence and it starting to search for them.
Ro and her band of ex-Maquis have been fighting the
Jem’Hadar since the Jem’Hadar started exterminating the Maquis.
She was stranded on this planet
when the Jem’Hadar showed up and her people had to make a quick getaway, but
they’ll be back for her.
The Jem’Hadar have taken over a
nearby mining colony, and they’ve commandeered the groundskimmers the miners
were using.
The Jem’Hadar force consists of a
few dozen soldiers on one-man skimmers coordinated from a larger command
skimmer containing a Vorta, the Jem’Hadar First, and four other soldiers.
Picard recognizes that the command
skimmer has to have a powerful communications system, since it can communicate
with ships in orbit despite interference from the Badlands .
He hatches a plot to capture it.
Defiant
Sisko’s team comes out of the Jefferies tubes and begins
to fight their way to Engineering.
On the bridge, Gul Evek is notified of the
disturbance and sends everyone belowdecks to fend off the attack, leaving
himself alone on the bridge.
882 Cygni
Data has programmed a tricorder to emit human
lifesigns.
A Jem’Hadar zeroes in on it, they
jump him and use his communicator to call the command speeder, report the
“capture” of the Starfleet survivors, and request the speeder to come pick them
up.
Defiant
Sisko’s team successfully gets to Engineering, and
brings down the emergency bulkheads, cutting the room off from the rest of the
ship.
O’Brien gets to work removing the
Dominion device from the main ODN trunk.
The Defiant is 15 minutes away from
882 Cygni.
If they don’t retake the ship
before they’re within weapons range of the 882 Cygni Dominion force, the Enterprise will destroy
the Defiant to prevent it from falling into enemy hands.
882 Cygni
The command speeder pulls up near
where Picard and co. are hiding
They successfully take down the Jem’Hadar soldiers,
take the Vorta prisoner (she’s Kilana, from DS9’s “The Ship”) and abscond with
the skimmer.
Their plan is to hightail it away
from the populated area, send a signal, and hope they’re rescued or find a
place to hide before the Jem’Hadar catch up with them.
Defiant
O’Brien removes the Dominion device, and Sisko is
able to route command functions to Engineering.
They call the Enterprise
and signal their success, but then discover that helm control is locked.
They start emergency engine shutdown, but the ship
is already locked on course for 882 Cygni V and will enter the planet’s gravity
well before it runs out of inertia.
The Enterprise is too busy engaging the Dominion
ships in the system to tractor them.
If they don’t regain helm control
the ship will crash in 5 minutes.
The only way to do it is to get to
the helm console on the bridge.
Sisko orders O’Brien to beam him directly to the
bridge. He’ll try to regain control while everyone else works to override the
lockout and route helm control to Engineering.
882 Cygni
Picard and co.’s commandeered skimmer speeds across
a salt flat, pursued by a dozen Jem’Hadar on one-man skimmers.
The Jem’Hadar’s skimmers are
faster, and they’re swarming around the Chariot shooting it up.
Picard and co. are defending
themselves as best they can, but they’re outnumbered.
They have managed to send a distress call, but the Enterprise is all tied up
fighting Dominion ships.
Defiant
On the bridge, Sisko and Gul Evek grapple for
control of the ship.
With the planet’s surface rushing up to meet them,
Sisko finally knocks Evek out, and makes it to the helm console, causing the
ship to pull up just before it hits the ground.
The Defiant screams over the heads of Picard’s team
and their pursuers.
The rush of air sends all the
speeders flying.
Picard’s team is all strapped in,
so no one’s seriously hurt, but before Picard can free himself, he sees Ro
Laren scramble free, jump on one of the unispeeders, and ride off.
Picard and friends are beamed up by
the Defiant
The Defiant returns to orbit in
time to take out a Jem’Hadar fighter while the Enterprise finishes off the Dominion
battleship.
Picard bodes farewell to Sisko
before going back to the Enterprise
Sisko makes a crack about Picard
not swiping Worf this time.
