"Enforceables"
(On the Phoenix-X, in its Battle Arena, Red forces his bat'leth down towards Kugo)
Red: Argh!!
(Kugo moves out of the way, hacking the bat'leth with the spinning end of her own modified bat'leth that has three different-sized loose blades)
Kugo: Umph!
(She flings Red's bat'leth away from her)
Red: Interesting combination of weapons.
(Kugo extends her tri-blade bat'leth forward at Red. The smaller spinning part of her weapon hooks behind Red and stabs him in the back of his shoulder)
Red: Grgh!!
(The computer acknowledges the session over)
Kugo (steps back): Ha! You can't expect to fight and not get hurt.
Red (rubs shoulder): I think I'm going to have to check the manual. That is not a regulation Klingon weapon.
(He leaves the Battle Arena for the day. Kugo hangs her tri-blade bat'leth on the wall and leaves too. She catches up and walks with Red down the corridors)
Kugo: Hey, wait for me.
Red: I must get to the Bridge. Aliens could attack any minute.
Kugo: Pfft. That never happens.
#Daniel: Daniel to Red. Report to the Bridge for possible alien attacks.
Red: Aye!
(He takes a turbolift to the Bridge before manning the helm as a transmission is brought on screen)
Daniel: On screen.
>Cloud: I am on screen.
Daniel: Oh. What can I help you with, Admiral?
>Cloud: It's about that Seifer. I believe that he may be a spy!
Seifer: Nah, I'm not.
>Cloud: Honestly, it was worth a shot.
(He checks his schedule)
>Cloud: I also wanted to give you a quick mission. You have to go to the Duratra Sector and meet with another ship. They've got a conversion system I think should be added to the Phoenix-X.
Daniel: Is it dangerous?
>Cloud: What am I, the danger police?
Daniel: I mean, some accountability would be nice.
(Kugo enters her Quarters, taking off the coat of her uniform in exhaustion from the fight)
Kugo: Ugh. Computer, messages?
#Computer: Four messages. Three, unimportant. One, more unimportant.
(She enters her washroom and turns on the sink)
Kugo: Trash that one. Play the other three.
#GoyCho (playback): Kugo. When you get in, let me know. We could go to dinner or something. Oh, wait, I forgot. Vulcans don't eat. Never mind then.
Kugo: That's not even a believable misconception.
Red: I must get to the Bridge. Aliens could attack any minute.
Kugo: Pfft. That never happens.
#Daniel: Daniel to Red. Report to the Bridge for possible alien attacks.
Red: Aye!
(He takes a turbolift to the Bridge before manning the helm as a transmission is brought on screen)
Daniel: On screen.
>Cloud: I am on screen.
Daniel: Oh. What can I help you with, Admiral?
>Cloud: It's about that Seifer. I believe that he may be a spy!
Seifer: Nah, I'm not.
>Cloud: Honestly, it was worth a shot.
(He checks his schedule)
>Cloud: I also wanted to give you a quick mission. You have to go to the Duratra Sector and meet with another ship. They've got a conversion system I think should be added to the Phoenix-X.
Daniel: Is it dangerous?
>Cloud: What am I, the danger police?
Daniel: I mean, some accountability would be nice.
(Kugo enters her Quarters, taking off the coat of her uniform in exhaustion from the fight)
Kugo: Ugh. Computer, messages?
#Computer: Four messages. Three, unimportant. One, more unimportant.
(She enters her washroom and turns on the sink)
Kugo: Trash that one. Play the other three.
#GoyCho (playback): Kugo. When you get in, let me know. We could go to dinner or something. Oh, wait, I forgot. Vulcans don't eat. Never mind then.
Kugo: That's not even a believable misconception.
(She washes her face)
#Gewdeque (playback): Kugo. Hey! Your commbadge was busy, so I thought I'd leave you message. Oh yeah, I forgot. Vulcans don't listen to messages. Wait. Now that I think of it, that would be illogical. I get you now!
#Gewdeque (playback): Kugo. Hey! Your commbadge was busy, so I thought I'd leave you message. Oh yeah, I forgot. Vulcans don't listen to messages. Wait. Now that I think of it, that would be illogical. I get you now!
Kugo: She kind of does.
#Matt (playback): Hey, Kayl. This is Matt. I just wanted to check if my outgoing messages went to the right persons. Actually, forget it. Gewdeque can fix it. Never mind.
Kugo: No, she can't!
(The engineer glances at her reflection in the mirror, just noticing part of her skin peeling on her face)
Kugo: What the...?
(On Starbase 55, Admiral Theseus is randomly flipping through the crew manifest of the Phoenix-X)
Theseus: Hmm. No. Nope. Nuh uh. No.
(Admiral Cloud enters the office)
Cloud: I'm done giving the Phoenix-X their orders to meet that ship. I had no idea we were that good of friends with the Romulans?
Theseus: Only an old friend with power, Senator Cronenza. He does the same thing I do, harbour a secret ship masked in the public of his people.
Cloud: Oh, yeah. When are we going to give the details of the Phoenix-X to the Federation Council?
Theseus: Never! Guards. Escort Cloud to Sickbay.
(Two guards apprehend Cloud)
Cloud: What? Why? No... No! ...Nooo!!!!
(Pause)
Cloud: Actually, that would be a good idea. Lately I've been having this phlegm problem in my throat.
Theseus: Oh, that's just disgusting. Go already.
(They leave and Theseus goes over to his computer to contact Cronenza)
(Meanwhile, on the Phoenix-X, Kugo and Lox enter the Trading Depot, a crowded plaza area on the ship where people can trade and sell items)
#Matt (playback): Hey, Kayl. This is Matt. I just wanted to check if my outgoing messages went to the right persons. Actually, forget it. Gewdeque can fix it. Never mind.
Kugo: No, she can't!
(The engineer glances at her reflection in the mirror, just noticing part of her skin peeling on her face)
Kugo: What the...?
(On Starbase 55, Admiral Theseus is randomly flipping through the crew manifest of the Phoenix-X)
Theseus: Hmm. No. Nope. Nuh uh. No.
(Admiral Cloud enters the office)
Cloud: I'm done giving the Phoenix-X their orders to meet that ship. I had no idea we were that good of friends with the Romulans?
Theseus: Only an old friend with power, Senator Cronenza. He does the same thing I do, harbour a secret ship masked in the public of his people.
Cloud: Oh, yeah. When are we going to give the details of the Phoenix-X to the Federation Council?
Theseus: Never! Guards. Escort Cloud to Sickbay.
(Two guards apprehend Cloud)
Cloud: What? Why? No... No! ...Nooo!!!!
(Pause)
Cloud: Actually, that would be a good idea. Lately I've been having this phlegm problem in my throat.
Theseus: Oh, that's just disgusting. Go already.
(They leave and Theseus goes over to his computer to contact Cronenza)
(Meanwhile, on the Phoenix-X, Kugo and Lox enter the Trading Depot, a crowded plaza area on the ship where people can trade and sell items)
BOB: I will accept two slips of latinum if you want this interesting holodeck program.
Elly: No. Why should I buy a holodeck program when it's so easy to just make one up on the holodeck? Also, what is the point of this place?
(She leaves)
BOB: Wow. Rude.
Lox (approaches): BOB, the Ferengi dealer and trader? Didn't you use to have a bar in the club?
BOB: Yeah, but now people are just getting drinks from the replicator. I'm telling you, sooner or later we'll all be replaced by technology!
Lox: Sure we will.
BOB: Want a holodeck program? Only two slips of latinum.
Lox: I only have currency in Seses.
Kugo: You guys haggle. I'm going over to Amos' Blood Junction. It's a fast food restaurant.
(She walks over to the service window)
Amos: What can I help you with today?
(He shows the panel on the wall with the Klingon foods menu)
Kugo: Yeah, I'll have some blood soup with a side of gagh.
Amos (goes into kitchen): Coming right up.
(He accesses the replicator which makes the food right away)
Amos (hands plate): Here you go.
Kugo: Wow, that's fast food.
(She takes her tray to a table and is about to sit down)
Kugo: Ugh!
(But she feels a weakness in her immune system and her body begins to morph. Her Vulcan appearance changes into Romulan)
Kugo: Argh!! Why is this happening...!?
(The people all around are surprised)
(On the Bridge)
Red: To get to the Avardes Sector, we will have to pass a transwarp conduit through this nebula in Sector 42-G3. That area of space is toxic with radiation unhealthy to biological lifeforms.
(He points to the holographic star chart at the back of the Bridge)
Seifer: I know. I always get a rash when I'm there.
Daniel: Yeah, a little too much info, Commander.
Red: That nebula will protect us and be a passage to the next area of space, which is the Duratra Sector.
Daniel: Understood. Let's hit the slopes.
(They get on their way. The Phoenix-X jumps to transwarp)
(Meanwhile, Lox takes Kugo out into the hallway outside the Trading Depot)
Elly: No. Why should I buy a holodeck program when it's so easy to just make one up on the holodeck? Also, what is the point of this place?
(She leaves)
BOB: Wow. Rude.
Lox (approaches): BOB, the Ferengi dealer and trader? Didn't you use to have a bar in the club?
BOB: Yeah, but now people are just getting drinks from the replicator. I'm telling you, sooner or later we'll all be replaced by technology!
Lox: Sure we will.
BOB: Want a holodeck program? Only two slips of latinum.
Lox: I only have currency in Seses.
Kugo: You guys haggle. I'm going over to Amos' Blood Junction. It's a fast food restaurant.
(She walks over to the service window)
Amos: What can I help you with today?
(He shows the panel on the wall with the Klingon foods menu)
Kugo: Yeah, I'll have some blood soup with a side of gagh.
Amos (goes into kitchen): Coming right up.
(He accesses the replicator which makes the food right away)
Amos (hands plate): Here you go.
Kugo: Wow, that's fast food.
(She takes her tray to a table and is about to sit down)
Kugo: Ugh!
(But she feels a weakness in her immune system and her body begins to morph. Her Vulcan appearance changes into Romulan)
Kugo: Argh!! Why is this happening...!?
(The people all around are surprised)
(On the Bridge)
Red: To get to the Avardes Sector, we will have to pass a transwarp conduit through this nebula in Sector 42-G3. That area of space is toxic with radiation unhealthy to biological lifeforms.
(He points to the holographic star chart at the back of the Bridge)
Seifer: I know. I always get a rash when I'm there.
Daniel: Yeah, a little too much info, Commander.
Red: That nebula will protect us and be a passage to the next area of space, which is the Duratra Sector.
Daniel: Understood. Let's hit the slopes.
(They get on their way. The Phoenix-X jumps to transwarp)
(Meanwhile, Lox takes Kugo out into the hallway outside the Trading Depot)
Kugo: Doctor?
Lox: You're becoming Romulan.
(He scans her with a medical tricorder)
Kugo: I thought your surgery was complete?
Lox: You can't stay a species you're not forever. Your system eventually found a way to reconvert your body's DNA back.
Kugo: In English, Doctor!
Lox: That was English.
Kugo: Oh, yeah.
(The Phoenix-X makes its way through the nebula and drops transwarp out to the other side. They speed across space and approach the Romulan starship Caterina)
Daniel: You?
>Tressa (on screen): That's right, us! Wait a minute. You??
Daniel: I'm confused.
>Tressa: We were supposed to meet a ship here.
Daniel: So were we.
>Tressa: Of course it's Federation. Honestly, there's a lot of chaotic ventures being flung around by Romulan senators these days.
Daniel: Ahh, democracy.
>Tressa: You're scheduled to have an energy trans-converter installed.
Daniel: I guess so. What does it do?
>Tressa: It's an emergency converter system that breaks down torpedoes into power for the ship.
Daniel: Doesn't that waste torpedoes?
>Tressa: Yeah, that's why it's emergency.
Daniel: Somebody out there must be running out of ideas.
>Tressa (checks): Alright, I'll have my installation team beam over to your ship right away.
(Later, Armond and Red enter the Conference room just as an encoded subspace transmission is automatically rerouted)
>Wallace: Guys! I'm glad you could make it.
Armond: Huh? Me and Red walked in here just to take a three hour early break.
>Wallace: Oh, well. I just wanted to warn you about what's been going on.
Red: I knew it. Aliens are about to attack.
>Wallace: No. I'm not sure exactly what's happening, but I heard Theseus asked Cloud to do something important.
Armond: Like what?
>Wallace: I'm not sure, I said!
Armond: Oh, right.
>Wallace: Alls I know is that Theseus is up to something and it has to do with you guys. Just be careful around those Romulans.
Red: Perhaps we should speak to Admiral Cloud?
Armond: Agreed. Bye, Wallace.
(He presses a button on the screen)
>Wallace: Hey, that's rude—!
(The screen clicks off and they hail over long range subspace frequencies. Cloud goes on screen)
>Cloud: Yeah?
Red: Admiral, we must speak to you. What else is Theseus up to?
>Cloud: Oh, yes, that. Hold on, I'll get back to you.
(He leaves his desk to talk to an Ensign about reports. The screen clicks off due to inactivity)
Armond: Hey, that's rude.
Red: Something is going on and we have to find out what it is.
Armond: Do we have to?
Red: We can wait until after our break.
Armond: Agreed.
(Meanwhile, a couple Federation and Romulan officers are floating outside the Phoenix-X welding lasers to circuitry panels. The installation is underway)
Matt: I don't like all this floating through space. I was queasy all through my Starfleet zero-combat training.
Tey (floats): Really?
Matt: Nah, I was just making conversation.
(Kugo enters Main Engineering. People are looking at her, uncertain how to approach her because of her Romulan appearance)
Gewdeque: Hey. Uh, the new systems are almost complete. We just have to make sure the transwarp functions aren't affected.
(She hands Kugo a PADD)
Kugo: Oh. Uh, yeah. Thanks. Definitely.
Gewdeque: Is there a problem?
Kugo: Ohh, heh, heh. No, of course not. Heh, heh.
(She takes it and walks away from her, acting busy)
Shane (liquefies): Hey, you look weird. It's like you were one shape and now another. I've never seen that before.
Kugo: Damn, man! At least warn people before you do that.
(At the same time, the Bridge prepares to test the energy trans-conversion system)
Armond: Did you guys separate the energy range frequency to not-interfere with any of the other systems?
Kayl: Yes!
Armond: Good work. Your technical decoding efforts have been noted.
(He just stands there)
Kayl: Noted in your memory or in the computer?
Armond: Uhh, memory?
Kayl: Yeah, then that means they weren't really noted!
Armond: Good work. Your behavioral decoding efforts have been noted.
(Kayl enters the Captain's Ready Room where Seifer is re-hailing Cloud over subspace)
>Cloud: What can I help you with?
Seifer: I've been trying to contact you for hours!
>Cloud: That's weird. For some reason I can't remember where I've been?
Seifer: Tell me the real reason Theseus wants us on this mission.
>Cloud: What mission?
Seifer: This torpedo conversion bananza!
>Cloud: Ohhh. That mission.
Seifer: You were about to tell Red and Armond before.
>Cloud: I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.
Seifer: Are you just saying that because you think I'm a spy or do you really not know what I'm talking about?
>Cloud: A little from Column A, a little from Column B and a whole lot from a dark, shadowy column of complete absurdity.
Kayl: He's telling the truth, Commander.
Seifer: You can sense over long range subspace communications?
Kayl: What? No! He's got a terrible Poker face.
(They sit there surprised about that strange fact. They suddenly have an awkward moment from sitting there too long)
(Meanwhile, Daniel and Tressa walk down the corridors of the Phoenix-X)
Lox: You're becoming Romulan.
(He scans her with a medical tricorder)
Kugo: I thought your surgery was complete?
Lox: You can't stay a species you're not forever. Your system eventually found a way to reconvert your body's DNA back.
Kugo: In English, Doctor!
Lox: That was English.
Kugo: Oh, yeah.
(The Phoenix-X makes its way through the nebula and drops transwarp out to the other side. They speed across space and approach the Romulan starship Caterina)
Daniel: You?
>Tressa (on screen): That's right, us! Wait a minute. You??
Daniel: I'm confused.
>Tressa: We were supposed to meet a ship here.
Daniel: So were we.
>Tressa: Of course it's Federation. Honestly, there's a lot of chaotic ventures being flung around by Romulan senators these days.
Daniel: Ahh, democracy.
>Tressa: You're scheduled to have an energy trans-converter installed.
Daniel: I guess so. What does it do?
>Tressa: It's an emergency converter system that breaks down torpedoes into power for the ship.
Daniel: Doesn't that waste torpedoes?
>Tressa: Yeah, that's why it's emergency.
Daniel: Somebody out there must be running out of ideas.
>Tressa (checks): Alright, I'll have my installation team beam over to your ship right away.
(Later, Armond and Red enter the Conference room just as an encoded subspace transmission is automatically rerouted)
>Wallace: Guys! I'm glad you could make it.
Armond: Huh? Me and Red walked in here just to take a three hour early break.
>Wallace: Oh, well. I just wanted to warn you about what's been going on.
Red: I knew it. Aliens are about to attack.
>Wallace: No. I'm not sure exactly what's happening, but I heard Theseus asked Cloud to do something important.
Armond: Like what?
>Wallace: I'm not sure, I said!
Armond: Oh, right.
>Wallace: Alls I know is that Theseus is up to something and it has to do with you guys. Just be careful around those Romulans.
Red: Perhaps we should speak to Admiral Cloud?
Armond: Agreed. Bye, Wallace.
(He presses a button on the screen)
>Wallace: Hey, that's rude—!
(The screen clicks off and they hail over long range subspace frequencies. Cloud goes on screen)
>Cloud: Yeah?
Red: Admiral, we must speak to you. What else is Theseus up to?
>Cloud: Oh, yes, that. Hold on, I'll get back to you.
(He leaves his desk to talk to an Ensign about reports. The screen clicks off due to inactivity)
Armond: Hey, that's rude.
Red: Something is going on and we have to find out what it is.
Armond: Do we have to?
Red: We can wait until after our break.
Armond: Agreed.
(Meanwhile, a couple Federation and Romulan officers are floating outside the Phoenix-X welding lasers to circuitry panels. The installation is underway)
Matt: I don't like all this floating through space. I was queasy all through my Starfleet zero-combat training.
Tey (floats): Really?
Matt: Nah, I was just making conversation.
(Kugo enters Main Engineering. People are looking at her, uncertain how to approach her because of her Romulan appearance)
Gewdeque: Hey. Uh, the new systems are almost complete. We just have to make sure the transwarp functions aren't affected.
(She hands Kugo a PADD)
Kugo: Oh. Uh, yeah. Thanks. Definitely.
Gewdeque: Is there a problem?
Kugo: Ohh, heh, heh. No, of course not. Heh, heh.
(She takes it and walks away from her, acting busy)
Shane (liquefies): Hey, you look weird. It's like you were one shape and now another. I've never seen that before.
Kugo: Damn, man! At least warn people before you do that.
(At the same time, the Bridge prepares to test the energy trans-conversion system)
Armond: Did you guys separate the energy range frequency to not-interfere with any of the other systems?
Kayl: Yes!
Armond: Good work. Your technical decoding efforts have been noted.
(He just stands there)
Kayl: Noted in your memory or in the computer?
Armond: Uhh, memory?
Kayl: Yeah, then that means they weren't really noted!
Armond: Good work. Your behavioral decoding efforts have been noted.
(Kayl enters the Captain's Ready Room where Seifer is re-hailing Cloud over subspace)
>Cloud: What can I help you with?
Seifer: I've been trying to contact you for hours!
>Cloud: That's weird. For some reason I can't remember where I've been?
Seifer: Tell me the real reason Theseus wants us on this mission.
>Cloud: What mission?
Seifer: This torpedo conversion bananza!
>Cloud: Ohhh. That mission.
Seifer: You were about to tell Red and Armond before.
>Cloud: I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about.
Seifer: Are you just saying that because you think I'm a spy or do you really not know what I'm talking about?
>Cloud: A little from Column A, a little from Column B and a whole lot from a dark, shadowy column of complete absurdity.
Kayl: He's telling the truth, Commander.
Seifer: You can sense over long range subspace communications?
Kayl: What? No! He's got a terrible Poker face.
(They sit there surprised about that strange fact. They suddenly have an awkward moment from sitting there too long)
(Meanwhile, Daniel and Tressa walk down the corridors of the Phoenix-X)
Tressa: Captain. We believe that this new conversion system is going to work perfectly without any problems.
Daniel: The crew should be testing it out right now.
(Main power throughout the whole ship suddenly drains out. Main lights and control panels black out and only backups blink online)
Tressa: What the—?
(They're left in the dark)
Daniel: Uggh. I told the crew their main job was to not screw up.
(Everyone on the ship is in panic, having no idea what went wrong. Ensign Dan enters Engineering)
Ensign Dan: Aahh!! It's the end of the world!
Matt: Yeah, probably.
Ensign Dan: Aaaahh!!
Matt: I'm on my way to the Caterina to help compare their conversion system to ours. That way we could find out where we went wrong.
Ensign Dan: I'll come too.
Matt: Aahh!! It's the end of the world!
(They beam over to the Caterina. Kugo is already there in command of the away team)
Kugo: You will do as I say. I give the orders around here!
Matt: Yeah, I wasn't going to argue that.
Kugo: I'm taking my long break. You can have command if you want.
(She leaves the Caterina's Engineering feeling out of place with her crew. She's suddenly pulled into another room by some guy)
Kugo: Hey!
Heif: Sshhh!! There's a secret message for you.
Kugo: There is?
Heif: Yes. What, do you think I do not know a secret message when I see one?
Kugo: Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
(Heif clicks the screen on in this hidden room. Kugo is left alone with a subspace transmission from Romulus)
>Vanitrox: Greetings, Kugo.
Kugo: I thank you for those greetings.
>Vanitrox: I appreciate your appreciation.
Kugo: What do you want already?
>Vanitrox: I come with warning. They want you dead.
Kugo: Who are they?
>Vanitrox: When I said they, I really meant Cronenza.
Kugo: I don't even know who that is. Who are you?
>Vanitrox: I am with the Tal Shiar. We know that on this mission there are Romulans not working for us who are going to kill you.
Kugo: I see. Why is that?
>Vanitrox: Because of what you are and your past! Don't you see? You're a Romulan living on a Federation starship!
Kugo: Well, someone has to. Also, why are you helping me?
>Vanitrox: The Tal Shiar are not as evil as most people think. Take our advice. Watch your back and get out of there!!
(The screen clicks off and Kugo is left surprised. She walks out into the hallways where Shane walks with her)
Shane: I'm shapeshifted as one of you guys so the crew on this ship won't get suspicious.
Kugo: Heh, heh. That's nice...
(They pass Romulan officer after Romulan officer)
Shane: What's the matter, Kugo? You don't seem yourself today.
(Kugo starts to recognize some of the crewmembers as they pass)
Tey (nods): Ma'am.
(Kugo waits until Tey passes to pull Shane to the side)
Shane: Huh?
Kugo: Oh my god! That was Tey.
Shane: Do you need someone to talk to?
Kugo: Tey isn't part of their crew. He's an assassin!
Shane: Are you having classic Romulan emotional problems? Vulcans wouldn't be like this.
Kugo: Argh!! Never mind, you idiot.
(Daniel enters the Bridge of the Phoenix-X just as they're hailing Starbase 55)
>Theseus: Ah, the crew of the Phoenix-X. I love each and every one of you.
Seifer: Cut the crap, Theseus. What's really going on here?
>Theseus: Well, I got one of those Bajoran scented candles in my office and I'm starting to get high off it.
Daniel: That's not what we're talking about.
>Theseus: Ah, right. Those pesky rumours. I assure you, nothing is going on.
Seifer (cracks knuckles): I don't believe him Captain. Let's beat him up.
Daniel: He's two hundred lightyears away.
>Theseus: I ask the both of you to remain focused on this installation. Our undercover relations with the Romulans are very good right now.
Seifer (shrugs): One of them looked at me and I kind of yelped unexpectedly.
>Theseus: You idiot! Anyways, how goes said installation?
Daniel: Ah, well we lost power to the main systems and are slowly getting them back online. Kugo should be on top of things right about now.
(Armond is in Main Engineering at work)
Kortos: We were able to get communications online, but we still cannot even get main lights on.
Armond: Let's concentrate on the more critical systems like shields and propulsion. Who is supposed to be in command here?
Gewdeque: Commander! We've got a coolant leak in the warp engine!
(All the team runs to it in emergency. Kugo enters while everyone's gone, accessing a computer to reschedule her work hours)
#Computer: Only officers with Level 4 or higher clearance may alter the work sched—
(She uses a code to get past it)
#Computer: Algorythmic preversion unwantingly accepted. Schedule changes saved.
(Kugo leaves Engineering making her way through the dark Phoenix-X, from Deck 13 to Deck 6, passing person after person including many Romulan officers from the other ship)
Kugo: Open bay doors. Authorization Kugo-98-Beta-3-X.
(The computer acknowledges and the doors to the Armoury open for her. She enters and draws a Klingon mek'leth blade off the wall)
Kugo: Oh. Red etched his name on this.
(She looks around the cluttered room picking a cloaking suit off a hangar. Not hesitant, she puts it on, and then activates its cloaking field, rendering her invisible)
(On the Caterina, the Away Team is hailed)
#Daniel: There was an energy surge that overloaded the warp engine.
Matt: I ran a simulation on my armlet to test out any more potential problems.
#Daniel: And?
Matt (checks): It says, battery power low. Hmm.
#Daniel: Does the Caterina's conversion system have a trans-subsonic filter?
Matt: Yeah. Why?
#Daniel: Well, there's one lying around on the floor here. I tripped over it!
Matt: Ah. I knew we forgot something.
(On the Phoenix-X, in Transporter Room 2, Tey speaks to Billy)
Billy: Shouldn't you be's at work?
Tey: Yes.
(While Billy's being distracted, a Romulan beams in sneaking in a disruptor pistol)
Fen (hides it behind back): I am to work on Lieutenant Kugo's team.
Billy (notices): Alright, sirs.
Daniel: The crew should be testing it out right now.
(Main power throughout the whole ship suddenly drains out. Main lights and control panels black out and only backups blink online)
Tressa: What the—?
(They're left in the dark)
Daniel: Uggh. I told the crew their main job was to not screw up.
(Everyone on the ship is in panic, having no idea what went wrong. Ensign Dan enters Engineering)
Ensign Dan: Aahh!! It's the end of the world!
Matt: Yeah, probably.
Ensign Dan: Aaaahh!!
Matt: I'm on my way to the Caterina to help compare their conversion system to ours. That way we could find out where we went wrong.
Ensign Dan: I'll come too.
Matt: Aahh!! It's the end of the world!
(They beam over to the Caterina. Kugo is already there in command of the away team)
Kugo: You will do as I say. I give the orders around here!
Matt: Yeah, I wasn't going to argue that.
Kugo: I'm taking my long break. You can have command if you want.
(She leaves the Caterina's Engineering feeling out of place with her crew. She's suddenly pulled into another room by some guy)
Kugo: Hey!
Heif: Sshhh!! There's a secret message for you.
Kugo: There is?
Heif: Yes. What, do you think I do not know a secret message when I see one?
Kugo: Sorry, I didn't mean to offend you.
(Heif clicks the screen on in this hidden room. Kugo is left alone with a subspace transmission from Romulus)
>Vanitrox: Greetings, Kugo.
Kugo: I thank you for those greetings.
>Vanitrox: I appreciate your appreciation.
Kugo: What do you want already?
>Vanitrox: I come with warning. They want you dead.
Kugo: Who are they?
>Vanitrox: When I said they, I really meant Cronenza.
Kugo: I don't even know who that is. Who are you?
>Vanitrox: I am with the Tal Shiar. We know that on this mission there are Romulans not working for us who are going to kill you.
Kugo: I see. Why is that?
>Vanitrox: Because of what you are and your past! Don't you see? You're a Romulan living on a Federation starship!
Kugo: Well, someone has to. Also, why are you helping me?
>Vanitrox: The Tal Shiar are not as evil as most people think. Take our advice. Watch your back and get out of there!!
(The screen clicks off and Kugo is left surprised. She walks out into the hallways where Shane walks with her)
Shane: I'm shapeshifted as one of you guys so the crew on this ship won't get suspicious.
Kugo: Heh, heh. That's nice...
(They pass Romulan officer after Romulan officer)
Shane: What's the matter, Kugo? You don't seem yourself today.
(Kugo starts to recognize some of the crewmembers as they pass)
Tey (nods): Ma'am.
(Kugo waits until Tey passes to pull Shane to the side)
Shane: Huh?
Kugo: Oh my god! That was Tey.
Shane: Do you need someone to talk to?
Kugo: Tey isn't part of their crew. He's an assassin!
Shane: Are you having classic Romulan emotional problems? Vulcans wouldn't be like this.
Kugo: Argh!! Never mind, you idiot.
(Daniel enters the Bridge of the Phoenix-X just as they're hailing Starbase 55)
>Theseus: Ah, the crew of the Phoenix-X. I love each and every one of you.
Seifer: Cut the crap, Theseus. What's really going on here?
>Theseus: Well, I got one of those Bajoran scented candles in my office and I'm starting to get high off it.
Daniel: That's not what we're talking about.
>Theseus: Ah, right. Those pesky rumours. I assure you, nothing is going on.
Seifer (cracks knuckles): I don't believe him Captain. Let's beat him up.
Daniel: He's two hundred lightyears away.
>Theseus: I ask the both of you to remain focused on this installation. Our undercover relations with the Romulans are very good right now.
Seifer (shrugs): One of them looked at me and I kind of yelped unexpectedly.
>Theseus: You idiot! Anyways, how goes said installation?
Daniel: Ah, well we lost power to the main systems and are slowly getting them back online. Kugo should be on top of things right about now.
(Armond is in Main Engineering at work)
Kortos: We were able to get communications online, but we still cannot even get main lights on.
Armond: Let's concentrate on the more critical systems like shields and propulsion. Who is supposed to be in command here?
Gewdeque: Commander! We've got a coolant leak in the warp engine!
(All the team runs to it in emergency. Kugo enters while everyone's gone, accessing a computer to reschedule her work hours)
#Computer: Only officers with Level 4 or higher clearance may alter the work sched—
(She uses a code to get past it)
#Computer: Algorythmic preversion unwantingly accepted. Schedule changes saved.
(Kugo leaves Engineering making her way through the dark Phoenix-X, from Deck 13 to Deck 6, passing person after person including many Romulan officers from the other ship)
Kugo: Open bay doors. Authorization Kugo-98-Beta-3-X.
(The computer acknowledges and the doors to the Armoury open for her. She enters and draws a Klingon mek'leth blade off the wall)
Kugo: Oh. Red etched his name on this.
(She looks around the cluttered room picking a cloaking suit off a hangar. Not hesitant, she puts it on, and then activates its cloaking field, rendering her invisible)
(On the Caterina, the Away Team is hailed)
#Daniel: There was an energy surge that overloaded the warp engine.
Matt: I ran a simulation on my armlet to test out any more potential problems.
#Daniel: And?
Matt (checks): It says, battery power low. Hmm.
#Daniel: Does the Caterina's conversion system have a trans-subsonic filter?
Matt: Yeah. Why?
#Daniel: Well, there's one lying around on the floor here. I tripped over it!
Matt: Ah. I knew we forgot something.
(On the Phoenix-X, in Transporter Room 2, Tey speaks to Billy)
Billy: Shouldn't you be's at work?
Tey: Yes.
(While Billy's being distracted, a Romulan beams in sneaking in a disruptor pistol)
Fen (hides it behind back): I am to work on Lieutenant Kugo's team.
Billy (notices): Alright, sirs.
(Fen steps off the transporter pad and leaves. He walks down the dark hallways, already with knowledge of the ship's architecture. The corrider seems to be empty. Fen stops walking and glances around feeling as if he isn't alone)
Fen: Hello?
(No answer)
Fen (readies disruptor): Must be my imagination.
(Kugo is invisible and walks up behind him, grabbing his forehead back and using the mek'leth to slice his throat)
Fen: Aaughh-hh-!!-!!!
(On the Bridge, the viewscreen is activated)
Daniel: We have completed the installation.
>Mocca: Including the trans-subsonic filter?
Daniel: Uhh, yeah. Sure. That thing.
(He avoids eye contact)
>Mocca: Superb. Now it is just a matter of cleaning up and getting our people back to our ships.
Daniel: You and I both know we looked at each other's secret databases during all this time.
>Mocca: We never did that!
Daniel: Oh— uhh, just forget what I just said.
(He avoids eye contact again)
>Mocca: Anyway, I hope you will enjoy the funess of this very exciting piece of technology and that it brings the joy and happiness into your lives that it has to ours.
Daniel: Thanks.
(Beat. Mocca starts to look nervous as if he just lied about something. Daniel notices)
Daniel: Hey! You never even tested out this conversion system before. Have you!?
>Mocca: Aahh!!
(He hides under his computer)
Daniel: All this time installing when you don't even know how it works.
>Mocca (pops up): Yeah, pretty much.
Daniel: How do you expect your technology to advance if you don't risk testing it out?
>Mocca: Look. We're too paranoid to do all that. What if the ship exploded? I'd lose my MP3 collection!
Daniel: Who cares!? I want to know if this system works. I'm going to run a test at 14:00 Hours.
(In Main Engineering, Matt enters and meets up with Kayl)
Kayl: The Captian has requested that we begin testing the converter.
Matt: Understood. We can use it to bring power to the remaining other systems that are offline.
Kayl: Hey that's actually a good ide— I mean, of course. That's what we were going to do.
(Matt just looks at her)
Gewdeque: Has anyone seen Kugo?
(She approaches Armond just as he's about to leave)
Armond: No. I haven't seen her lately.
Gewdeque: Hmm. That's weird.
Armond: Yes. It is. Hmmm. Hhmmm...
(He looks away in deep thought)
Gewdeque: Are you undergoing some kind of constipation?
Armond: No. You!
(In Kugo's Quarters, Tey meets two more Romulans)
Lonv (readies disruptor): I just want to kill her and get it over with already.
Ina: Scanners said she was in here.
Tey: Wait for her.
(He leaves in impatience)
Lonv: This is the longest assassination attempt ever. Where is she?
Ina: Right? Like, get unalived already.
(Her eyes wander and she catches a visual distortion of space behind the couch. She aims her disrupter)
Ina: There!
(She fires at it, but it ducks out of the way and a control panel blows apart)
Lonv: She's cloaked!!
(Kugo, still invisible, grabs Ina from behind. Ina elbows, but Kugo pulls Ina's head back and then flips her over, dropping Ina to the floor)
Lonv: Argh. Die, face shifter!!
(He fires like crazy, uncertain where Kugo is)
Ina: Stop, you fool!
(He continues firing as Kugo grabs his arm and aims his firing at Ina)
Ina: Nnnoooo!!
(She is vapourized on the spot)
Lonv: Aarrgghh!!!
(He feels Kugo's breath behind him and turns around, grabbing her invisible arm before she attacks with the mek'leth)
Kugo: Uh!
(Lonv knees her in the side, and grabs for Kugo's weapon, pulling it and tearing her suit. The skirmish tosses the mek'leth away out of the suit's cloaking field)
Kugo: Argh!
(Her suit malfunctions, rendering different parts of her visible)
Lonv: Hahaha! Classy.
(Kugo punches, right-cross, Lonv's face, knocking him off balance)
Lonv: Uff! Less classy.
(He fires his disrupter as Kugo dodges the green blast, forward, extending her arm fast and grabbing the disruptor. They both hold it, struggling until it's fired through the window)
Kugo: Argh! Shields and primary life support aren't online!
(Items throughout the entire quarters are blown out, smashing the window into pieces, as Kugo leaps for her door. She grabs the side and pulls herself safely into the hallway)
Lonv: AAaaaaaahhh!!!!
(She watches as the doors are closing, Lonv being blown out through the window into space)
Kugo: See yourself out.
(In the Torpedo Bay, several officers work around a quantum torpedo casing)
Fen: Hello?
(No answer)
Fen (readies disruptor): Must be my imagination.
(Kugo is invisible and walks up behind him, grabbing his forehead back and using the mek'leth to slice his throat)
Fen: Aaughh-hh-!!-!!!
(On the Bridge, the viewscreen is activated)
Daniel: We have completed the installation.
>Mocca: Including the trans-subsonic filter?
Daniel: Uhh, yeah. Sure. That thing.
(He avoids eye contact)
>Mocca: Superb. Now it is just a matter of cleaning up and getting our people back to our ships.
Daniel: You and I both know we looked at each other's secret databases during all this time.
>Mocca: We never did that!
Daniel: Oh— uhh, just forget what I just said.
(He avoids eye contact again)
>Mocca: Anyway, I hope you will enjoy the funess of this very exciting piece of technology and that it brings the joy and happiness into your lives that it has to ours.
Daniel: Thanks.
(Beat. Mocca starts to look nervous as if he just lied about something. Daniel notices)
Daniel: Hey! You never even tested out this conversion system before. Have you!?
>Mocca: Aahh!!
(He hides under his computer)
Daniel: All this time installing when you don't even know how it works.
>Mocca (pops up): Yeah, pretty much.
Daniel: How do you expect your technology to advance if you don't risk testing it out?
>Mocca: Look. We're too paranoid to do all that. What if the ship exploded? I'd lose my MP3 collection!
Daniel: Who cares!? I want to know if this system works. I'm going to run a test at 14:00 Hours.
(In Main Engineering, Matt enters and meets up with Kayl)
Kayl: The Captian has requested that we begin testing the converter.
Matt: Understood. We can use it to bring power to the remaining other systems that are offline.
Kayl: Hey that's actually a good ide— I mean, of course. That's what we were going to do.
(Matt just looks at her)
Gewdeque: Has anyone seen Kugo?
(She approaches Armond just as he's about to leave)
Armond: No. I haven't seen her lately.
Gewdeque: Hmm. That's weird.
Armond: Yes. It is. Hmmm. Hhmmm...
(He looks away in deep thought)
Gewdeque: Are you undergoing some kind of constipation?
Armond: No. You!
(In Kugo's Quarters, Tey meets two more Romulans)
Lonv (readies disruptor): I just want to kill her and get it over with already.
Ina: Scanners said she was in here.
Tey: Wait for her.
(He leaves in impatience)
Lonv: This is the longest assassination attempt ever. Where is she?
Ina: Right? Like, get unalived already.
(Her eyes wander and she catches a visual distortion of space behind the couch. She aims her disrupter)
Ina: There!
(She fires at it, but it ducks out of the way and a control panel blows apart)
Lonv: She's cloaked!!
(Kugo, still invisible, grabs Ina from behind. Ina elbows, but Kugo pulls Ina's head back and then flips her over, dropping Ina to the floor)
Lonv: Argh. Die, face shifter!!
(He fires like crazy, uncertain where Kugo is)
Ina: Stop, you fool!
(He continues firing as Kugo grabs his arm and aims his firing at Ina)
Ina: Nnnoooo!!
(She is vapourized on the spot)
Lonv: Aarrgghh!!!
(He feels Kugo's breath behind him and turns around, grabbing her invisible arm before she attacks with the mek'leth)
Kugo: Uh!
(Lonv knees her in the side, and grabs for Kugo's weapon, pulling it and tearing her suit. The skirmish tosses the mek'leth away out of the suit's cloaking field)
Kugo: Argh!
(Her suit malfunctions, rendering different parts of her visible)
Lonv: Hahaha! Classy.
(Kugo punches, right-cross, Lonv's face, knocking him off balance)
Lonv: Uff! Less classy.
(He fires his disrupter as Kugo dodges the green blast, forward, extending her arm fast and grabbing the disruptor. They both hold it, struggling until it's fired through the window)
Kugo: Argh! Shields and primary life support aren't online!
(Items throughout the entire quarters are blown out, smashing the window into pieces, as Kugo leaps for her door. She grabs the side and pulls herself safely into the hallway)
Lonv: AAaaaaaahhh!!!!
(She watches as the doors are closing, Lonv being blown out through the window into space)
Kugo: See yourself out.
(In the Torpedo Bay, several officers work around a quantum torpedo casing)
Armond: Get ready to be blown away.
Kayl: You mean that figuratively, right?
Armond: I think so.
(Lasers connected from the launch hatch and the torpedo begin to light up as the torpedo is being broken down before their eyes)
GoyCho (noticing): What? I spent four hours putting that together!
Armond: Sshhh!
(Meanwhile, the Caterina moves a little back from the Phoenix-X)
Mocca: Uhhh, we'll just go here for no reason.
(The Phoenix-X powers up. Lights from windows all over it flicker on and the four nacelles illuminate)
>Daniel: See? Nothing went wrong.
Mocca: Oh yeah? Well, what about that window on your left side that's blown out?
>Daniel: Look. I implied that we could get the system online. I never said no windows wouldn't be blown out.
(On Deck 4, Seifer accompanies Captian Tressa on their way to Transporter Room 2)
Seifer: Well, I hope you've enjoyed your stay here on the Phoenix-X.
Tressa: I keep telling you, I haven't!
Seifer: Either way, I'm glad we were able to get that converter online. Like we'd be stupid enough to use it.
Tressa: What did you say?
Seifer: —Err, I said, with all the stuff it does, we couldn't refuse it.
Tressa: Agreed. Technology is amazing nowadays. Also, previous days and likely, future days. Even though you keep getting yours from other species.
Seifer: It's the only time we've got it from you.
Tressa: This is the second time. The first time was four years back when Theseus requested a quad-neural pathogen.
Seifer: Ohhh, reeeeeally?
Tressa: It increased his Doctor's abilities for the mind erasing technique.
Seifer: Are you sure it wasn't some kind of disorderly stimulant?
Tressa: Definitely. If I were you, I'd make sure I knew what my boss was really up to.
(She glances at him before he clenches his fist in frustration)
Seifer: Clouuuuddddd!
(They suddenly bump into a group of officers surrounding a dead body in the hall. Lox takes a look at the body that is Fen)
Gewdeque: What happened?
Lox: He's dead, Jim.
Seifer: I'm Night Seifer. We specifically didn't hire any Jims on this crew for that purpose.
Tressa (checks): He's not one of my people?
Lox: But, he's Romulan?
Kortos: Puh! He is a stowaway.
Tressa: Stowaways, from my ship?
Lox: Someone had to have killed this man.
(He examines the cut wound across Fen's neck)
Lox: Klingon mek'leth or d'k tahg.
Yeltso: One of us!
(On the Bridge)
#Ensign Dan: Head Ensign to the Captain.
Daniel (taps comm): You know I never approved that! Also, what?
#Ensign Dan: Sir. There's something you should see here.
(On Deck 3, Daniel approaches Kugo's Quarters where a crowd of people are around the force fielded doorway, looking inside at the mess)
Kugo: I can't believe my quarters blew out.
Daniel: There's your problem.
(He points out the hole regenerating in her quarters at two cold Romulan bodies floating in space)
Ensign Dan: Romulans. I hate Romulans!
Kugo: What?
(She punches him in the face)
Ensign Dan: Owe! My precious face!
Daniel: We have a killer on board the ship.
Ensign Dan: There was also a body found on Deck 4 with a mek'leth cut to his throat.
Daniel: That's it. I want a full investigation! Interrogate every possible suspect Odo-style!
Ensign Dan: Who should I interrogate first?
Daniel: Umm. That guy.
(He points to a random person)
Amos: Hey!
(In the Conference room, the trial begins as its redressed as a court room)
BOB: All rise. Court is in session.
Ensign Dan (paces): Mr. Red, did you or did you not kill those three Romulans!?
(The Klingon is in the witness chair and suddenly points at someone else)
Red: No! It was Kugo! She's the one who has been acting weird lately!
Shane: I object!
Kugo: Thanks?
Ensign Dan: It's her! I knew it!
BOB: Overruled.
Shane: No!! Lieutenant Kugo's just been insecure about her sudden change. It's understandable for her social diffusion to be a little rough at first.
Red: I guess that makes sense.
BOB: Sustained! This illegitimate kangaroo court is hoppingly dismissed.
(The Caterina turns around and heads away from the Phoenix-X)
>Tressa: We're being advised to accept your nonsense court findings in perpetuate of secret, illegitimate operations. On par with this whole venture, don't you think? Be sure to give our boss Cronenza's regard to your boss Theseus.
Daniel: What? They can do that themselves!
Kayl: You mean that figuratively, right?
Armond: I think so.
(Lasers connected from the launch hatch and the torpedo begin to light up as the torpedo is being broken down before their eyes)
GoyCho (noticing): What? I spent four hours putting that together!
Armond: Sshhh!
(Meanwhile, the Caterina moves a little back from the Phoenix-X)
Mocca: Uhhh, we'll just go here for no reason.
(The Phoenix-X powers up. Lights from windows all over it flicker on and the four nacelles illuminate)
>Daniel: See? Nothing went wrong.
Mocca: Oh yeah? Well, what about that window on your left side that's blown out?
>Daniel: Look. I implied that we could get the system online. I never said no windows wouldn't be blown out.
(On Deck 4, Seifer accompanies Captian Tressa on their way to Transporter Room 2)
Seifer: Well, I hope you've enjoyed your stay here on the Phoenix-X.
Tressa: I keep telling you, I haven't!
Seifer: Either way, I'm glad we were able to get that converter online. Like we'd be stupid enough to use it.
Tressa: What did you say?
Seifer: —Err, I said, with all the stuff it does, we couldn't refuse it.
Tressa: Agreed. Technology is amazing nowadays. Also, previous days and likely, future days. Even though you keep getting yours from other species.
Seifer: It's the only time we've got it from you.
Tressa: This is the second time. The first time was four years back when Theseus requested a quad-neural pathogen.
Seifer: Ohhh, reeeeeally?
Tressa: It increased his Doctor's abilities for the mind erasing technique.
Seifer: Are you sure it wasn't some kind of disorderly stimulant?
Tressa: Definitely. If I were you, I'd make sure I knew what my boss was really up to.
(She glances at him before he clenches his fist in frustration)
Seifer: Clouuuuddddd!
(They suddenly bump into a group of officers surrounding a dead body in the hall. Lox takes a look at the body that is Fen)
Gewdeque: What happened?
Lox: He's dead, Jim.
Seifer: I'm Night Seifer. We specifically didn't hire any Jims on this crew for that purpose.
Tressa (checks): He's not one of my people?
Lox: But, he's Romulan?
Kortos: Puh! He is a stowaway.
Tressa: Stowaways, from my ship?
Lox: Someone had to have killed this man.
(He examines the cut wound across Fen's neck)
Lox: Klingon mek'leth or d'k tahg.
Yeltso: One of us!
(On the Bridge)
#Ensign Dan: Head Ensign to the Captain.
Daniel (taps comm): You know I never approved that! Also, what?
#Ensign Dan: Sir. There's something you should see here.
(On Deck 3, Daniel approaches Kugo's Quarters where a crowd of people are around the force fielded doorway, looking inside at the mess)
Kugo: I can't believe my quarters blew out.
Daniel: There's your problem.
(He points out the hole regenerating in her quarters at two cold Romulan bodies floating in space)
Ensign Dan: Romulans. I hate Romulans!
Kugo: What?
(She punches him in the face)
Ensign Dan: Owe! My precious face!
Daniel: We have a killer on board the ship.
Ensign Dan: There was also a body found on Deck 4 with a mek'leth cut to his throat.
Daniel: That's it. I want a full investigation! Interrogate every possible suspect Odo-style!
Ensign Dan: Who should I interrogate first?
Daniel: Umm. That guy.
(He points to a random person)
Amos: Hey!
(In the Conference room, the trial begins as its redressed as a court room)
BOB: All rise. Court is in session.
Ensign Dan (paces): Mr. Red, did you or did you not kill those three Romulans!?
(The Klingon is in the witness chair and suddenly points at someone else)
Red: No! It was Kugo! She's the one who has been acting weird lately!
Shane: I object!
Kugo: Thanks?
Ensign Dan: It's her! I knew it!
BOB: Overruled.
Shane: No!! Lieutenant Kugo's just been insecure about her sudden change. It's understandable for her social diffusion to be a little rough at first.
Red: I guess that makes sense.
BOB: Sustained! This illegitimate kangaroo court is hoppingly dismissed.
(The Caterina turns around and heads away from the Phoenix-X)
>Tressa: We're being advised to accept your nonsense court findings in perpetuate of secret, illegitimate operations. On par with this whole venture, don't you think? Be sure to give our boss Cronenza's regard to your boss Theseus.
Daniel: What? They can do that themselves!
(The screen clicks off. Seifer then accesses long range communications)
Daniel: Oh, no. You're rebelling against us again.
Seifer: I'm just contacting Admiral Cloud.
(The screen is reactivated)
>Cloud: I'm being told to keep communications with you low, because of Section 31's nosing around.
Seifer: Admiral, Theseus has been erasing your memory to keep his secrets after you do work for him.
>Cloud: Heh! Yeah right. I'm always doing work for him. Just last week I did work under his request and I was supposed to... Umm.
(He tries to remember)
>Cloud: Oh, who cares!
Daniel: Admiral Cloud, this is very disturbing. You have meetings with the Federation Council all the time and Theseus must use you also for your connections to other parts of Starfleet.
>Cloud: I am not a victim of conspiracy!
Seifer: Would you consider yourself a victim of off-duty fashion?
>Cloud: Cotton pants are homey! Listen. If you insist, I'll be a little more cautious. Cloud out.
(Meanwhile, in the Conference room, everyone leaves court to get back to their posts)
Shane: That was fast.
Kugo: That and we don't know the rules of court.
Matt (walks over): What's the verdict?
Kugo: Not guilty.
Matt: I heard they used holographic representations of people with dwarfism for the jury.
Shane: Ahhhh, a satisfyingly offensive throwback to World War III.
(Matt and Shane leave. Kugo is left alone to think about her cover story)
BOB (walks by): So, you were lighting Bajoran scented candles in the cloaking device room while all the murders were going on, eh? I've gotta try that.
(She feels guilty for lying to her friends and catches up to anyone)
Kugo: Lieutenant! I have a confession.
Red: The humans refuse to acknowledge or respect dwarfism in entertainment media.
Kugo: No. The confession is that I killed those Romulans.
Red: Well, now I'm impressed! They dishonored you, of course.
Kugo: They were here to assassinate me for leaving them a long time ago.
Red: Self defense is legal in the Federation.
Kugo: That and I had no choice. First Hitman's Rule of Killquisition is, take them out before they take you out.
Red: Hitman? You should have been honest about who you were from the beginning?
Kugo: It's not easy when you lack the self respect for who you used to be.
Red: Wait here. I'm going to get the Captain.
(On the Bridge, Armond and Kayl are at a console at the back)
Kayl: It looks like we got most of the systems online.
Armond: Even this invasively immoral shipwide species identification system. It usually doesn't work unless plot.
Kayl: What does it do?
Armond: It can count the number of species on the ship. See, let's try, uhh...
Kayl: Romulan!
Armond: Okay. There should only be one now. Kugo.
Kayl: Computer, count the number of Romulans onboard.
#Computer: There are two Romulans remaining on the Phoenix-X.
(They sit there thinking about it)
Armond: That's not right.
(Lieutenant Kugo re-enters the empty Conference room. She is about to turn on the lights)
Kugo: Computer, ligh—
Tey: Aarrghh!!
(Kugo dodges his attack from behind and turns around to look at him)
Kugo: Huh?
(She can't find him anywhere because Tey is invisible)
Tey: Heh, heh, heh.
Kugo: You're cloaked.
(Tey fires his disrupter, as Kugo leans to the side dodging it)
Kugo: Ugh!
(She grabs a chair with her foot and flings it off the floor at him. The laser from his disrupter is shot out of mid air, vapourizing the chair)
Kugo: Kugo to secur—
(She doesn't have time to talk as Tey fires again, missing her and blasting a wreak in the wall)
#Elly: Lieutenant?
Daniel: Oh, no. You're rebelling against us again.
Seifer: I'm just contacting Admiral Cloud.
(The screen is reactivated)
>Cloud: I'm being told to keep communications with you low, because of Section 31's nosing around.
Seifer: Admiral, Theseus has been erasing your memory to keep his secrets after you do work for him.
>Cloud: Heh! Yeah right. I'm always doing work for him. Just last week I did work under his request and I was supposed to... Umm.
(He tries to remember)
>Cloud: Oh, who cares!
Daniel: Admiral Cloud, this is very disturbing. You have meetings with the Federation Council all the time and Theseus must use you also for your connections to other parts of Starfleet.
>Cloud: I am not a victim of conspiracy!
Seifer: Would you consider yourself a victim of off-duty fashion?
>Cloud: Cotton pants are homey! Listen. If you insist, I'll be a little more cautious. Cloud out.
(Meanwhile, in the Conference room, everyone leaves court to get back to their posts)
Shane: That was fast.
Kugo: That and we don't know the rules of court.
Matt (walks over): What's the verdict?
Kugo: Not guilty.
Matt: I heard they used holographic representations of people with dwarfism for the jury.
Shane: Ahhhh, a satisfyingly offensive throwback to World War III.
(Matt and Shane leave. Kugo is left alone to think about her cover story)
BOB (walks by): So, you were lighting Bajoran scented candles in the cloaking device room while all the murders were going on, eh? I've gotta try that.
(She feels guilty for lying to her friends and catches up to anyone)
Kugo: Lieutenant! I have a confession.
Red: The humans refuse to acknowledge or respect dwarfism in entertainment media.
Kugo: No. The confession is that I killed those Romulans.
Red: Well, now I'm impressed! They dishonored you, of course.
Kugo: They were here to assassinate me for leaving them a long time ago.
Red: Self defense is legal in the Federation.
Kugo: That and I had no choice. First Hitman's Rule of Killquisition is, take them out before they take you out.
Red: Hitman? You should have been honest about who you were from the beginning?
Kugo: It's not easy when you lack the self respect for who you used to be.
Red: Wait here. I'm going to get the Captain.
(On the Bridge, Armond and Kayl are at a console at the back)
Kayl: It looks like we got most of the systems online.
Armond: Even this invasively immoral shipwide species identification system. It usually doesn't work unless plot.
Kayl: What does it do?
Armond: It can count the number of species on the ship. See, let's try, uhh...
Kayl: Romulan!
Armond: Okay. There should only be one now. Kugo.
Kayl: Computer, count the number of Romulans onboard.
#Computer: There are two Romulans remaining on the Phoenix-X.
(They sit there thinking about it)
Armond: That's not right.
(Lieutenant Kugo re-enters the empty Conference room. She is about to turn on the lights)
Kugo: Computer, ligh—
Tey: Aarrghh!!
(Kugo dodges his attack from behind and turns around to look at him)
Kugo: Huh?
(She can't find him anywhere because Tey is invisible)
Tey: Heh, heh, heh.
Kugo: You're cloaked.
(Tey fires his disrupter, as Kugo leans to the side dodging it)
Kugo: Ugh!
(She grabs a chair with her foot and flings it off the floor at him. The laser from his disrupter is shot out of mid air, vapourizing the chair)
Kugo: Kugo to secur—
(She doesn't have time to talk as Tey fires again, missing her and blasting a wreak in the wall)
#Elly: Lieutenant?
(She makes a run for it, out the Conference room and down the back corridor to a ladder, descending two decks)
Kugo: Computer, activate life support console.
(A command screen lights up on the side in the corridor and she accesses the Phoenix-X's lighting systems)
Kugo: Turn on transparent light, Authorization Kugo-98-Beta-3-X.
(Tey is behind her and he suddenly becomes visible as a white ghost)
Tey: Huh?
(He fires at Kugo but Kugo dodges and the panel explodes. Kugo avoids the explosion and enters the next room, Transporter Room 1)
Kugo: Billy, beam me to anywhere else on the ship.
Billy: Ohhh, this is so hard to choose.
Kugo: Let's go!
(The Tey ghost enters just as Kugo is being beamed out)
Tey: Argh!!
(He fires at Billy, who just dives behind the computer frame, as Kugo is dematerializing out)
Tey (accesses controls): Computer!
(In Sickbay, Kugo rematerializes as Doctor Lox is with a patient)
Lox: Lieutenant?
Kugo: Oh, this helps.
(She grabs a vile of volatile acid off the shelf as Tey is beaming in)
Tey: Argh!
(He is about to fire when Kugo tosses the vile at him, which shatters on his disrupter. He drops his weapon)
Lox: Computer, erect a Level 10 force field arou—
(Tey punches Lox in the stomach and pushes him over the medical bed)
Lox: Oof!!
(Kugo grabs Tey from behind and spins him around to kick him in the side of the head)
Tey: Uh!
(He grabs her leg before it hits him, as she leaps off her other leg and uses that one to knee him on the other side of his head, twisting around to above him and kicking him to the ground. Kugo lands on her feet as Tey hits the floor in pain)
Tey: Arghh!!!
(On Deck 6, Kugo makes a run for it down the corridors in search of a weapon. Tey chases)
Kugo: Who told you to have me killed?
(Tey activates a control panel on the side of the wall and accesses life support easily)
Tey: Heh, heh. Someone on your side.
(He takes gravity off on that deck, making the two of them float)
Tey: Now you can't run.
(He turns on the propulsion tubes on the sides of his boots to speed over to Kugo)
Kugo: I don't have to run.
(She flips in full circles, kicking him up his chin. He goes flying back until he stops himself)
Tey: Haha!
Kugo: Billy, beam me to anywhere else on the ship.
Billy: Ohhh, this is so hard to choose.
Kugo: Let's go!
(The Tey ghost enters just as Kugo is being beamed out)
Tey: Argh!!
(He fires at Billy, who just dives behind the computer frame, as Kugo is dematerializing out)
Tey (accesses controls): Computer!
(In Sickbay, Kugo rematerializes as Doctor Lox is with a patient)
Lox: Lieutenant?
Kugo: Oh, this helps.
(She grabs a vile of volatile acid off the shelf as Tey is beaming in)
Tey: Argh!
(He is about to fire when Kugo tosses the vile at him, which shatters on his disrupter. He drops his weapon)
Lox: Computer, erect a Level 10 force field arou—
(Tey punches Lox in the stomach and pushes him over the medical bed)
Lox: Oof!!
(Kugo grabs Tey from behind and spins him around to kick him in the side of the head)
Tey: Uh!
(He grabs her leg before it hits him, as she leaps off her other leg and uses that one to knee him on the other side of his head, twisting around to above him and kicking him to the ground. Kugo lands on her feet as Tey hits the floor in pain)
Tey: Arghh!!!
(On Deck 6, Kugo makes a run for it down the corridors in search of a weapon. Tey chases)
Kugo: Who told you to have me killed?
(Tey activates a control panel on the side of the wall and accesses life support easily)
Tey: Heh, heh. Someone on your side.
(He takes gravity off on that deck, making the two of them float)
Tey: Now you can't run.
(He turns on the propulsion tubes on the sides of his boots to speed over to Kugo)
Kugo: I don't have to run.
(She flips in full circles, kicking him up his chin. He goes flying back until he stops himself)
Tey: Haha!
(Kugo pushes herself off the wall down the next corridor)
Tey: You know, you used to be one of us!
(Kugo goes to a control panel while Tey picks up a heavy cargo box off the floor and uses his propulsion boots to boost the box's momentum towards her)
Kugo: Uh!
(She flips over the box, but a part it cuts her shoulder. Blood spills out in floating blobs everywhere)
Kugo: Aaarggh!
Tey: Heh, heh. Excellent.
(She grabs her arm in pain, still accessing the control panel)
Tey: What are you doing?
Tey: You know, you used to be one of us!
(Kugo goes to a control panel while Tey picks up a heavy cargo box off the floor and uses his propulsion boots to boost the box's momentum towards her)
Kugo: Uh!
(She flips over the box, but a part it cuts her shoulder. Blood spills out in floating blobs everywhere)
Kugo: Aaarggh!
Tey: Heh, heh. Excellent.
(She grabs her arm in pain, still accessing the control panel)
Tey: What are you doing?
(The box finally hits the wall down the hallway, blocking the turbolift. Kugo reactivates most of the gravity grid and they both fall to the floor. The box makes a big sound and her blood splats. Kugo ladders a deck down into the Battle Arena)
Tey: What is this place?
(Kugo prepares to fight him)
Kugo: Let's do this. Fairly.
Tey: One thing about assassinations.
(He uses this time to unwrap a hidden disrupter behind his shin pad)
Tey (aims): They are not meant to be fair.
(He fires it at her, just cutting the shoulder of her uniform)
Kugo: Ugh!!
(He fires again, but she collapses her legs and rolls forward to him, swinging her foot around to trip him)
Tey: Uh!
(He leaps it and kicks her in the face. Kugo falls onto her back in the centre of the arena)
Tey: Now you'll finally die...
(She gathers her energy and rolls to the side, dodging another disruptor beam)
Tey: Don't you ever get tired!?
(Kugo gets up, grabbing her tri-blade bat'leth off the wall)
Tey: What is that?
(She swings it around tactically, and flings the spinning end of it to his disrupter. The pointy end grabs the weapon and flings it across the room)
Tey: You're not the only one with ideas.
(He notices a control panel on the wall and runs to it)
Kugo: What are you doing?
(He activates three holographic Nausicaan fighters)
Red: Kugo!
(The Klingon enters the Battle Arena in time)
Kugo: Red, cover me!
Red: Computer, deactivate holograms.
#Computer: Unable to comply.
Tey: Protecting our hacks is part of our skillset!
(The first Nausicaan approaches Kugo, kicking for her face. Kugo leans back, dodging it, and then grabbing his foot and spinning to the side, taking the Nausicaan to the ground. She breaks its leg and it disappears)
Tey: Hahaha!
(Red grabs for the disruptor, but Tey back kicks Red twice on the side and then the head. Red steps back and charges at him to tackle, but Tey leaps and knees him in the face and still in mid-air, kicks him across, sending Red flying into the wall)
Tey: The gravity must still be weak.
(Kugo jumpflips over the second Nausicaan and kicks it in the back of its head while in mid air. She lands to her feet as it hits the floor. Kugo spins her windmills bat'leth around and stab it in its back and it disappears)
Red: Arrgghh. You do not want to make me mad.
(He picks a bat'leth off the wall and swings it to Tey's neck. Tey leans back to get away, but it keeps going and cuts across the chest of his ghosted suit)
Tey: Ah!!
(The third Nausicaan goes to attack Kugo, but Kugo spins around to behind him and grabs around his shoulder and side. Kugo flips over, still holding the Nausicaan, and flips him over her, tossing it to the floor. The Nausicaan disappears on level of pain)
Kugo: Gotcha.
(Tey rolls along the floor to his disrupter and picks it up. It is partially malfunctioning)
Red: Kugo, watch out!
Lox (enters with medical kit): Is anyone dead yet?
(Tey fires and the disrupter as it spurts out a few weak beams at Kugo. Kugo throws the tri-blade bat'leth tactically at Tey, but Tey dodges and Kugo is hit. She falls to her knees almost vapourizing)
Red: Got it.
(Red catches the tri-blade bat'leth and swings it overhead and its moving parts around to Tey. Tey tries to dodge it and fire at Kugo again but is stabbed through the heart)
Tey: Aauhhgg!!!
(Lox runs over to Kugo and puts a hypospray to her)
Lox: This'll stop the molecule breakdown of the disruptor.
Kugo: Ughh. Thanks.
(Elly and the rest of security finally arrive)
Lox: Oh, there you are. You just happen to arrive after all the action.
Elly: You know the rules! Also, how is Kugo?
Lox: She'll be okay.
(He puts another hypospray to Kugo as security cleans up the dead body of Tey)
Red: Do we know who did this?
Kugo: Ugh. It is possible Theseus had my death ordered through Senator Cronenza.
Red: But we can't prove that. Can we?
(She tries to sit up)
Kugo: No and I didn't think anyone would come for me for, well, you know.
Red: Just because you're Romulan now and have revealed who you used to be doesn't mean we aren't on your side. You're honorable now.
Kugo: Thanks.
Red: You know, this does come in handy.
(He hangs the tri-blade bat'leth on the wall and leaves the Battle Arena as more officers arrive to take care of things)
Tey: What is this place?
(Kugo prepares to fight him)
Kugo: Let's do this. Fairly.
Tey: One thing about assassinations.
(He uses this time to unwrap a hidden disrupter behind his shin pad)
Tey (aims): They are not meant to be fair.
(He fires it at her, just cutting the shoulder of her uniform)
Kugo: Ugh!!
(He fires again, but she collapses her legs and rolls forward to him, swinging her foot around to trip him)
Tey: Uh!
(He leaps it and kicks her in the face. Kugo falls onto her back in the centre of the arena)
Tey: Now you'll finally die...
(She gathers her energy and rolls to the side, dodging another disruptor beam)
Tey: Don't you ever get tired!?
(Kugo gets up, grabbing her tri-blade bat'leth off the wall)
Tey: What is that?
(She swings it around tactically, and flings the spinning end of it to his disrupter. The pointy end grabs the weapon and flings it across the room)
Tey: You're not the only one with ideas.
(He notices a control panel on the wall and runs to it)
Kugo: What are you doing?
(He activates three holographic Nausicaan fighters)
Red: Kugo!
(The Klingon enters the Battle Arena in time)
Kugo: Red, cover me!
Red: Computer, deactivate holograms.
#Computer: Unable to comply.
Tey: Protecting our hacks is part of our skillset!
(The first Nausicaan approaches Kugo, kicking for her face. Kugo leans back, dodging it, and then grabbing his foot and spinning to the side, taking the Nausicaan to the ground. She breaks its leg and it disappears)
Tey: Hahaha!
(Red grabs for the disruptor, but Tey back kicks Red twice on the side and then the head. Red steps back and charges at him to tackle, but Tey leaps and knees him in the face and still in mid-air, kicks him across, sending Red flying into the wall)
Tey: The gravity must still be weak.
(Kugo jumpflips over the second Nausicaan and kicks it in the back of its head while in mid air. She lands to her feet as it hits the floor. Kugo spins her windmills bat'leth around and stab it in its back and it disappears)
Red: Arrgghh. You do not want to make me mad.
(He picks a bat'leth off the wall and swings it to Tey's neck. Tey leans back to get away, but it keeps going and cuts across the chest of his ghosted suit)
Tey: Ah!!
(The third Nausicaan goes to attack Kugo, but Kugo spins around to behind him and grabs around his shoulder and side. Kugo flips over, still holding the Nausicaan, and flips him over her, tossing it to the floor. The Nausicaan disappears on level of pain)
Kugo: Gotcha.
(Tey rolls along the floor to his disrupter and picks it up. It is partially malfunctioning)
Red: Kugo, watch out!
Lox (enters with medical kit): Is anyone dead yet?
(Tey fires and the disrupter as it spurts out a few weak beams at Kugo. Kugo throws the tri-blade bat'leth tactically at Tey, but Tey dodges and Kugo is hit. She falls to her knees almost vapourizing)
Red: Got it.
(Red catches the tri-blade bat'leth and swings it overhead and its moving parts around to Tey. Tey tries to dodge it and fire at Kugo again but is stabbed through the heart)
Tey: Aauhhgg!!!
(Lox runs over to Kugo and puts a hypospray to her)
Lox: This'll stop the molecule breakdown of the disruptor.
Kugo: Ughh. Thanks.
(Elly and the rest of security finally arrive)
Lox: Oh, there you are. You just happen to arrive after all the action.
Elly: You know the rules! Also, how is Kugo?
Lox: She'll be okay.
(He puts another hypospray to Kugo as security cleans up the dead body of Tey)
Red: Do we know who did this?
Kugo: Ugh. It is possible Theseus had my death ordered through Senator Cronenza.
Red: But we can't prove that. Can we?
(She tries to sit up)
Kugo: No and I didn't think anyone would come for me for, well, you know.
Red: Just because you're Romulan now and have revealed who you used to be doesn't mean we aren't on your side. You're honorable now.
Kugo: Thanks.
Red: You know, this does come in handy.
(He hangs the tri-blade bat'leth on the wall and leaves the Battle Arena as more officers arrive to take care of things)