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TRANSCRIPT: 1X04 - STRANGE NEW WORLD
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[Restaurant. Cutler reads an exo-biology book while eating a soup. Novocovich comes with a tablet in his hands and sits down besides her.]

NOVOCOVICH: How can you eat that stuff?

CUTLER: (re: his dish) It's healthier than that.

NOVOCOVICH: At least it tastes like something.

CUTLER: I guess it just takes some more discriminating ... Vulcan cuisine.

[Novocovich laughs.]

CUTLER: Do you know there are over 5000 subspecies of termite ...?

[Suddenly bright sunlight shines into the restaurant. The guests curiously walk over to the windows. Enterprise orbits a strange planet.]

NOVOCOVICH: I thought we were headed for Anapula.

CUTLER: Anybody hear about this?

MAN: Not a word.

CUTLER: Maybe somebody lives here.

NOVOCOVICH: There's a lot of plant life. It might be an oxygene atmosphere.

CUTLER: What do you think? First contact?

MAN: I don't see any cities or agriculture.

NOVOCOVICH: Maybe they live underground or in the water.

CUTLER: Is that snow on those mountains?

NOVOCOVICH: I think the captain will make an announcement or something.

CUTLER: Call him.

===

[Bridge.]

ARCHER: T'Pol.

T'POL: 17% oxygene, 81% nitrogene.

TUCKER: Sounds like home.

ARCHER: Any people?

T'POL: The planet supports a diverse ecology, but there are no signs of humanoid life.

ARCHER: Still someone may have a claim on it. We don't wanna go ... into their backyard. Scan for mark ..., beacons, manmade satellites.

REED: None in range, sir. Looks like no one has planted a flag just yet.

ARCHER: Prep a shuttle pod, Mr Tucker.

[Tucker walks over to the turbo lift.]

ARCHER: (to Mayweather) I like the looks of the northern continent. See if you can find a good place to set down.

MAYWEATHER: (excited) Yes, sir.

[Tucker enters the turbo lift. He's about to push a button.]

T'POL: Captain. There are a number of protocols you may want to consider.

[Tucker steps out of the turbo lift.]

ARCHER: Protocols?

T'POL: Vulcan ships would begin by sending automatic probes down to collect more detailed scans. If the planet prove to be Minshara-Class we will then conduct a ... physical survey from orbit.

MAYWEATHER: Minshara-Class?

SATO: Suitable for humanoid life.

ARCHER: How long would all that take?

T'POL: Six or seven days.

TUCKER: You expect us to sit up here for a week while probes have all the fun?

T'POL: This planet has been here a long time. It will still be here in seven days.

ARCHER: I understand that you have a more cautious approach. But we didn't come out here to tiptoe around. (to Tucker) Get the pod ready.

[Tucker leaves the bridge.]

ARCHER: I'd like you to put together the survey team. I assume that's not a violation of protocol.

=== opening ===

[Enterprise orbits the planet. In engineering Tucker hands a case to another man.]

TUCKER: Thanks.

[Cutler kneels beside a case. She looks up to T'Pol who's looking on a small sample container.]

CUTLER: I tried some ... this morning. It was very good. Vulcan food is -

[T'Pol looks down to her. Cutler stops smiling.]

CUTLER: - interesting.

T'POL: Did you sterilize the sample containers?

[She hands the container down to Cutler.]

CUTLER: Yes.

[Cutler puts the container into a case and rises.]

CUTLER: Thanks for choosing me for this mission.

T'POL: You were selected because your specialty is entymology. There's plenty ... diverse insect population.

CUTLER: (mumbles to herself) Right.

[She climbs down to Tucker and hands him the case.]

TUCKER: You'd have better luck making friends with a house fly.

CUTLER: Yeah.

===

[A shuttle pod leaves Enterprise and heads for the planet. Tucker, Mayweather and Archer are looking out through the front window.]

TUCKER: Wow.

[Cutler looks out of a side window. T'Pol sits besides her, unmoved.]

CUTLER: Not every lightyear.

ARCHER: Set us down just east of those hills.

MAYWEATHER: Aye, sir.

[The shuttle pod lands on the surface, on grasland between trees. The door opens, Porthos jumps down on the grass and runs over to a tree.]

TUCKER: Where no dog has gone before.

ARCHER: (laughs) I almost forgot what fresh air smells like.

T'POL: The atmosphere contains trace elements of nitrogene dioxide, ... -

ARCHER: Put that thing away. Take a minute to enjoy yourself.

[T'Pol closes her handheld.]

ARCHER: Sky ever get this blue on Vulcan?

T'POL: Occasionally.

ARCHER: We're walking on an alien world, light years from Earth or Vulcan. Doesn't that impress you?

T'POL: I've been to 36 Minshara-Class planets. This experience is only marginally different.

TUCKER: Perfect.

He is some steps ahead, turns around with a camera in hand.

TUCKER: ... right there.

[Archer starts to put an arm around T'Pol, but stops himself when she shows no reaction.

ARCHER: Smile.

[T'Pol sighs. No smile. Tucker takes a picture.]

ARCHER: Be sure to get a copy of that to the Vulcan high command.

[Tucker smiles. T'Pol turns around to the other crewmen.]

T'POL: You have your assignments for a rendezvous here at 1900 hours unless the captain wants us to pose for some more pictures. Archer looks at her and shakes his head. The crew divides into several teams that start exploring the surroundings.]

[Archer, Tucker and Mayweather walk along a little creek.]

ARCHER: I'm afraid my log entry isn't gonna do this justice.

TUCKER: A cabin in these woods would be nice.

ARCHER: Three weeks in deep space, you're ready to jump ship?

TUCKER: (laughing) Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere. You guys would be lost without me.

MAYWEATHER: It's beautiful, alright. But I couldn't call a place home unless it came with a pair of warp nessels.

TUCKER: (looking at Mayweather) What a waste.

[Archer's communicator chimes.]

ARCHER: Archer.

T'POL: (over com) Is there a problem, captain?

ARCHER: No, no problem. Why?

T'POL: We were scheduled to rendezvous 15 minutes ago.

[Archer looks down to Tucker. They both smile unbelieving.]

ARCHER: Sorry, we lost track of time. We'll be right there.

===

Archer, Tucker and Mayweather are catching up to the shuttle.

T'POL: We've identified several ... I'd like to keep crewmen Cutler and Novocovich with me over night to study them.

ARCHER: Glad to see you getting in the spirit of things. Pick you up in the morning.

TUCKER: Captain, if it's alright with you, Travis and I'd like to stay as well.

MAYWEATHER: We would?

TUCKER: When was the last time you slept under the stars? It's funny camping here in the park.

T'POL: This isn't shore leave. This is a research mission.

[Archer turns to her.]

ARCHER: Why can't it be a little bit of both? Research isn't the only reason we're out here. (to Tucker) Pitch your tent, commander.

TUCKER: Thanks, captain. (to T'Pol) Don't worry. We'll keep out of your ...

====

[At night. The five crewmen are sitting around a camp-fire. Mayweather tells a ghost story.]

MAYWEATHER: Keep in mind. Those cargo vessels weren't equipped for rescue operations. So the captain wasn't sure what to do when he picked up this stress call. But it wasn't a ship that sent the signal. It was a life pod from of one of the old Y500 class freighters.

TUCKER: Those were retired decades ago.

MAYWEATHER: Exactly. The pod had been drifting in space for 63 years. Bio-scans showed one life sign inside the pod. Human. The assistant engineer, George Webb, a friend of my uncle's, was assigned to open it. It took him over an hour to cut through the hole. He said the metal felt strange. Cold to the touch.

TUCKER: Of course it was cold. It was floating in space for 60 years.

MAYWEATHER: He could hear a tapping noise coming from inside. But when he finally got it open - pod was empty. No body, nothing. A fews days later Webb started acting strange. Getting into fights with the crew. Muddering to himself in some sort of alien language. Then one day he locked himself in engineering and overloaded the impulse reactors. He almost destroyed the ship. He sealed himself in a life pod and rejected it.

CUTLER: I think the captain went after him.

MAYWEATHER: The reactors were too badly damaged. Some people say it was an alien lifeform that got into him. Others think it was the ghost of a dead crewman. I never knew what to believe. But Webb is still out there, drifting. When the subspace noise is real low, some com officers say they can still hear the echo of his distress call. Beep - beep.

TUCKER: (mysteriously) Oooh. (laughs)

[All are laughing, except T'Pol.]

T'POL: It's hardly doubtful that a distress beacon can function continuously for 63 years.

[The others look unbelieving.]

TUCKER: Let me guess. No ghost stories on Vulcan.

[Cutler points up to heaven.]

CUTLER: That's it. To the left of that trinary cluster.

TUCKER: What?

CUTLER: The sun.

MAYWEATHER: Are you sure?

CUTLER: Yeah. Positive. Just another spec of light. No different than any other.

TUCKER: When I was a kid I'd go camping with my buddies. We'd spent half the night looking up at the stars wondering what our own sun would look like from this far away.

MAYWEATHER: Now you know.

[Novocovich bends down his head and sighs.]

CUTLER: Are you okay?

NOVOCOVICH: Headache. (to T'Pol) If it's alright with you I'd like to lie down for a while before we get back to work.

T'POL: Certainly.

[He leaves for his tent.]

TUCKER: Has anyone heard the one about the ...

[The others are laughing.]

CUTLER: Wait a minute. You noticed something? Fireflies are gone.

TUCKER: Nice going, Travis, you scared off the bugs.

[Mayweather laughs.]

CUTLER: Maybe it's the ghost of George Webb.

TUCKER: Looks like about we have ourselves a little weather.

T'POL: A front is approaching from the south-west.

===

[Tucker and Travis are lying in their tent. A stormy wind goes over the camp, there are flashes.]

MAYWEATHER: It must be gusty at 80 kph.

TUCKER: That's nothing compared to a hurricane coming up to the Florida Keys.

MAYWEATHER: Try flying through a ... storm at warp two.

[In the second tent Novocovich suddenly sits up.]

NOVOCOVICH: Did you hear that?

CUTLER: What?

NOVOCOVICH: Someone's out there.

CUTLER: The winds.

[In the third tent T'Pol struggles with the tent's door.]

[First tent. Tucker suddenly jumps up.]

TUCKER: Oh, son of a bitch.

[Mayweather jumps up too.]

MAYWEATHER: What is it?

TUCKER: There's something in my bag.

[Kind of a scorpion crawls over his sleeping bag.]

TUCKER: Gimme a ...

MAYWEATHER: What for?

TUCKER: So I can squash it.

MAYWEATHER: Are we allowed to squash alien lifeforms?

TUCKER: If they ... in a sleeping bag.

[T'Pol listens to their screaming dialogues.]

TUCKER: ... the phase pistols.

MAYWEATHER: You wanna shoot a bug?

TUCKER: I'm just gonna stunn it.

[T'Pol opens her communicator.]

T'POL: T'Pol to Tucker.

TUCKER: (over com) Go ahead.

T'POL: Is there a problem, commander?

TUCKER: Oh, no, just an alien scorpion thing. It's in our tent.

T'POL: Do you require assistance?

TUCKER: I think I've got it under control.

[Their tent loses from the ground.]

TUCKER: T'Pol, you said you found a cave this afternoon.

T'POL: Less than half a kilometer from here.

TUCKER: I think we gonna need it.

===

[On Enterprise. Reed chimes at Archer's quarter.]

ARCHER: Come in.

[Reed enters and catches a basketball.]

ARCHER: Nice catch. You make a good two meter man. Too bad we don't have a ... on board.

REED: A shame.

[He returns the ball to Archer.]

REED: A windstorm is moving across the northern continent. Looks like a nasty one.

ARCHER: Survey team?

REED: They have taken a shelter but I'd recommend pulling them out. I've got a shuttle pod on standby.

[Archer pushes the com button.]

ARCHER: Archer to T'Pol.

T'POL: (over com) Yes, captain.

ARCHER: What's your status?

[T'Pol and the other crewmen are in a cavern.]

T'POL: We've relocated into a cavern.

ARCHER: Mr Reed thinks we should come down and get you.

T'POL: A landing under these conditions might be difficult. We'll be protected until the winds diminish.

ARCHER: We'll keep an eye on the storm. Let us know if you need anything.

T'POL: Understood.

ARCHER: Keep the pod on standby. Just in case.

REED: Aye, sir.

===

Tucker and Cutler open up some cases.

TUCKER: Who has got the food packs?

CUTLER: Nope.

TUCKER: Travis?

MAYWEATHER: Not me, sir.

T'POL: We must have left them at the camp side.

MAYWEATHER: I'll go.

[He takes a pocket lamp.]

TUCKER: Be careful.

[Novocovich looks closely on the cavern's walls.]

---

[Outside the cavern Mayweather struggles against the wind. He falls down. When he rises up he shortly sees a person moving away.]

MAYWEATHER: Trip?

[No answer. He nervously looks around.]

MAYWEATHER: Hello?

[Two people shortly show up between the trees.]

===

[Mayweather returns into the cavern.]

MAYWEATHER: Was anybody outside just now?

TUCKER: Just you, why?

MAYWEATHER: Someone else is out there.

CUTLER: What?

MAYWEATHER: Near the campside.

TUCKER: I think we have had enough ghost stories for one night.

MAYWEATHER: It's no story.

T'POL: We've scanned the planet. It's uninhabited.

MAYWEATHER: I'm telling you, I saw three people.

CUTLER: Three? What did they look like?

MAYWEATHER: It was too dark.

[T'Pol looks at her tricorder.]

TUCKER: Subcommander?

T'POL: Other than ourselves, there are no humanoid lifeforms here.

MAYWEATHER: There could be something wrong with your scanner.

T'POL: It's functioning perfectly. Perhaps you imagined seeing them.

MAYWEATHER: They looked pretty real to me.

[Novocovich hears some kind of voices. He turns around and lightens the back of the cavern.]

CUTLER: Ethan?

NOVOCOVICH: There's someone back there. I heard voices. (to T'Pol) Are you gonna tell me I'm imagining things too? It's not safe here.

TUCKER: We don't know that. They could be friendly.

NOVOCOVICH: And why are they hiding? Why don't they come out and say hello? We should leave.

T'POL: Where do you propose we go? Back out into the storm?

NOVOCOVICH: It's better than being trapped in here.

[He starts heading for the entrance. Tucker holds him back.]

TUCKER: Slow down, crewman. That's an order.

[Novocovich frees himself and runs out of the cavern.]

MAYWEATHER: Ethan!

[Tucker turns to the others.]

TUCKER: Stay here. Travis.

[He takes phase pistols out of a case and hands one over to Travis. They leave the cavern. T'Pol takes a third pistol out of the case.]

T'POL: I'll be back shortly.

CUTLER: Where are you going?

T'POL: There's someone back there. I intend to find them.

[She walks towards the back of the cavern. Cutler takes the fourth pistol out of the case. She looks around, frightened.]

===

[Out in the storm Tucker and Mayweather try to find Novocovich.]

MAYWEATHER: Ethan!

[Tucker walks by a rock. Suddenly kind of a rock person forms out of it.]

TUCKER: Travis.

[Mayweather closes up to him.]

TUCKER: I saw one.

[He lightens the rock again but the figure has disappeared.]

TUCKER: It came right out of that rock like it was a part of it.

MAYWEATHER: That could explain why they are not showing up on our scanners.

===

[In the cavern Cutler hears voices. She walks deeper into the cavern.]

===

[Out in the storm Mayweather nearly falls down in a canyon. Tucker helds him from falling.]

TUCKER: It's too dangerous. We should go back.

===

[In the cavern Cutler walks slowly further. She hears different voices, male and female. When she comes around a rock she sees T'Pol standing there with two humanoids. When T'Pol turns around the figures arer leaving. Cutler closes up to T'Pol.]

CUTLER: Who were they?

[T'Pol turns to her.]

T'POL: Excuse me?

CUTLER: Who - who were you talking to?

T'POL: Talking to? There's no one here.

[She walks back to the forward part of the cavern. Cutler looks astonished.]

===

[On the bridge. Tucker reports over com system.]

TUCKER: We've lost Novocovich and we are apparently not alone. There's some kind of lifeform down here.

ARCHER: Can you make it back to the cavern?

TUCKER: ..., sir.

===

[Tucker and Mayweather return into the cavern.]

MAYWEATHER: The captain is on his way. We're getting out of here.

TUCKER: Not a moment too soon. From what I saw these things live inside the rock.

T'POL: I performed a geological analysis. The rocks are pomposed of limestone and chronolithe. Nothing more.

CUTLER: She's lying, commander. I saw her talking to them.

TUCKER: Crewman?

CUTLER: In there. There were two of them.

T'POL: She's mistaken.

CUTLER: No, I'm not. Why don't you tell us what's going on? What did they want?

===

[A shuttle flies down to the surface. Archer steers it, Reed tries to locate Novocovich.]

REED: I've got a fix. 20 kilometers north-east.

ARCHER: Archer to Novocovich. - Ethan. Respond.

[Novocovich sits on the gras, seriously trembling.]

NOVOCOVICH: Who's there? Who is that?

ARCHER: This is Captain Archer. We're attempting to land. I want you to get back to the cavern.

NOVOCOVICH: ...

[Archer looks over to Reed who shakes his head.]

===

[In the cavern.]

T'POL: I have no reason to deceive you.

TUCKER: Neither does she. You keep claiming these creatures don't exist, but the rest of us have all seen them. That's a little strange, don't you think?

T'POL: I can't explain what you've seen. But I assure you I didn't speak to anyone.

TUCKER: I'd like to believe you. But you Vulcans don't exactly have a spotless track record when it comes to be inhonest with us.

T'POL: Your point?

TUCKER: You've held back things before. You might be doing it again.

[They look at each other. Tucker's com device chimes.]

TUCKER: Tucker here.

ARCHER: We're closing in on your position, Trip. There's a clearing a hundred meters from the cave entrance. Get to it.

[Tucker closes his handheld. He looks at T'Pol.]

===

[In the shuttle Reed pushes some buttons.]

REED: I'm reading them. Two kilometers due west.

ARCHER: I'm taking us down.

[The four crewmen walk outside in the storm and look up for the shuttle.]

ARCHER: There's a lot of winds here near the surface. Activate the auxiliary landing thrusters.

[Reed pushes some buttons.]

ARCHER: Altitude: 70 meters. 40 meters.

[The crewmen on surface look up to the sky. The shuttle approaches.]

ARCHER: I have to try a different vector.

[The shuttle is heavily shaken.]

REED: Starboard.

ARCHER: I see it.

[The shuttle hits a big rock with one wing.]

REED: Thruster falls down. We're leaking plasma ...

ARCHER: Almost there.

REED: Sir, we can't savely land in this wind with the thruster out.

[The crewmen observe the shuttle turningaway from them.]

ARCHER: (over com) Archer to Tucker.

TUCKER: Captain. Aren't you forgetting something?

ARCHER: We're gonna have to wait till the wind dies down. Try to manage till then.

TUCKER: We'll do our best, sir.

ARCHER: If you ... any more of these aliens, try to make contact. See what you can find about them.

TUCKER: Understood.

[T'Pol looks at him.]

===

[The four crewmen are back in the cavern. Cutler sits down against a wall. She breathes heavily. Mayweather sits down beside her.]

MAYWEATHER: You are okay?

CUTLER: (laughs shortly) Never better.

[T'Pol works on a light.]

TUCKER: (to T'Pol) You heard the captain. He wants to know about your friends. What are you gonna tell him? (louder) What are you gonna tell him?

[T'Pol rises.]

T'POL: This is pointless.

TUCKER: Is it? - We are stuck down here for god knows how long with a bunch of rock people who as far as we know are staring at us from these walls right now. Not to mention a crewman out there who probably won't last the night. Now if we are gonna get through this I didn't know what the hell is going on. You are beginning to see my point?

T'POL: I share your concern for crewman Novocovich but as I told you -

TUCKER: You couldn't care less about him or even the rest of us. That would require some of those useless human emotions.

T'POL: Your emotions are beginning to affect your judgement. You are becoming irrational.

TUCKER: You've never seen me irrational.

MAYWEATHER: Sir. I hate to add to our problems, but we're running low on water.

TUCKER: Great. ... conservants left.

T'POL: That won't be necessary. I detected water about 60 meters in that direction.

TUCKER: How do we know you are not going in to talk to your friends?

T'POL: Join me, if you'd like.

CUTLER: It could be a trap, commander.

T'POL: I can survive without water for several days. Can you?

[Tucker takes his phase pistol out.]

TUCKER: Sit down.

[T'Pol looks down at the pistol. Tucker takes her pistol from her belt. T'Pol looks at him.]

TUCKER: You heard me.

[T'Pol sits down. Tucker sits down some meters apart.]

===

[Bridge. Archer enters.]

ARCHER: How's he doing?

SATO: Not good. His bio-signs are very eradic.

ARCHER: Try it again.

SATO: Enterprise to Novocovich.

[Novocovich lies on the ground, screaming. His com evice lies besides him.]

SATO: (over com) Can you here me? Ethan.

[Novocovich screams loudly. Archer and Hoshi look at each other. Archer pushes com button.]

ARCHER: Mr Reed, can you get a lock on it?

[Reed works on the transporter control.]

REED: Yes, sir.

ARCHER: Looks like our only choice.

REED: Understood. Standby.

[He tries to beam up Novocovich.]

REED: There's a problem, sir. There are ... in the ... stream. The phase discrimiminator constantly isolates the ...

[The beaming is completed, but Novocovich falls down unconscious. Reed heads towards him.]

REED: Reed to Sickbay. Medical emergency.

===

[In the cavern Tucker walks up and down. T'Pol works on her handheld.]

TUCKER: What are you doing?

T'POL: Working.

TUCKER: On what?

T'POL: Scans I took this afternoon.

TUCKER: Is there anything you wanna tell me about?

T'POL: There's nothing of scientific interest on this planet. Our mission here was a waste of time.

TUCKER: That's what you'd like us to think.

[He walks towards her.]

TUCKER: Let me see that thing.

[He takes the handheld from her.]

T'POL: The readings are in Vulcan. You won't understand.

TUCKER: No. But Hoshi would.

[He switches the handheld off and puts it into one of the cases.]

TUCKER: This could be evidence.

T'POL: Of what?

TUCKER: Your little conspiracy.

T'POL: I was wrong. There is something of interest here. I've learned a great deal about human behaviour.

TUCKER: Oh?

T'POL: Under stress you become volatile. You are a far more dangerous species than I've previously believed.

TUCKER: Your people have been telling us that kind of crap for a hundred years. Looks like you finally found a way to put us back in our cage.

MAYWEATHER: Sir?

TUCKER: Imagine news back home, Travis. Enterprise crew found dead. Six weeks into their historic voyage the bodies of all 82 crew members were located on an uninhabited world. A Vulcan ship made the unfortunate discovery. Cause of death remains in mystery. What the Vulcans won't say is they know exactly who attacked us. In fact they arranged the whole thing. They lured us down here so they could sabotage our mission.

MAYWEATHER: (to T'Pol) You were the one who found these caves. And it was your idea to stay over night.

T'POL: I didn't ask you or Mr Tucker to join us.

[Tucker speaks to the walls.]

TUCKER: We know you are here. At least show yourselves. You aren't afraid of us, are you?

T'POL: There's no one there, commander.

TUCKER: Maybe you are waiting for the others to come down so you can kill us all at once.

[He suddenly turns around and lightens a wall.]

TUCKER: Did you see that?

[T'Pol loses her calmness.]

T'POL: (loudly) All I see is a dillusional engineer.

TUCKER: Sounds like you are getting a little volatile yourself, subcommander. I thought you had your emotions all locked up. Have a little problem, are you?

[Mayweather lightens the ceiling. Kind of a lizard seems to crawl along.]

MAYWEATHER: Commander, there!

[Tucker turns and shoots with his phase pistol. He shouts to the walls.]

TUCKER: You think we are gonna wait here until you slaughter us? I'll blow this whole cave apart if I have to.

[He screams loudly.]

TUCKER: I know you hear me.

===

[Sickbay. Phlox and Archer stand besides the still unconscious Novocovich. Phlox works on a wound on Novocovich's forehead.]

PHLOX: Human skin is a resiliant organ. These wounds should heal nicely.

ARCHER: Can I talk to him?

PHLOX: Yes. But I doubt he'll make much sense. Have you ever heard of tropal lycene?

ARCHER: No.

PHLOX: It's a psycho-tropic compound known for its hallucinogenic effects. This crewman's blood extremely is filled with it.

ARCHER: If it was down on the planet, why didn't our sensors pick it up?

PHLOX: Normally it's found in certain floweral plants. Perhaps your sensors weren't calibrated to detect it.

REED: Or perhaps it wasn't there until that damn wind started.

ARCHER: How long will the effects last?

PHLOX: Now that he's back on Enterprise he should be alright in, ah, three or four hours.

ARCHER: Will this tro -

PHLOX: Tropal lycene.

ARCHER: Will it effect T'Pol as well?

PHLOX: There is no way to know but it might effect her to a lesser degree or a greater degree.

[Archer pushes com button.]

ARCHER: Archer to T'Pol.

[T'Pol opens her com handheld.]

T'POL: Yes, captain.

ARCHER: We have Novocovich.

T'POL: And I have a phase pistol pointed at my head.

ARCHER: What?

TUCKER: ... right under our nose, captain. Our Vulcan here is not what she appears to be, never was.

ARCHER: What are you talking about?

TUCKER: There are some kind of creatures down here. They hide inside solid rock. Travis and I have both seen them. Cutler saw two of them talking to T'Pol. They are up to something, but of course she denies it.

ARCHER: Listen to me. You've all been exposed to a psycho-tropic compound. It causes ..., hallucinations -

TUCKER: You are telling me those creatures aren't real?

ARCHER: The compound comes from the pollen of a flowers. We think it was blown down from the mountains when the wind started. The doctor has run tests on Novocovich. He thinks he's gonna be okay in a few hours. So if you can get as deep as you can into the caves, your symptoms should disappear around the same time.

TUCKER: We didn't imagine this, captain.

ARCHER: You dealt with simulations very close to this in starfleet training. You're familiar with mind altering agents. We'll be down to get you as soon as the wind ... up.

TUCKER: You're not here, captain. You don't understand what's going on.

ARCHER: Put your weapon down, Trip. That's an order.

[Tucker lowers his phase pistol.]

ARCHER: T'Pol.

T'POL: He has lowered his phase pistol, sir.

ARCHER: Have you been affected?

T'POL: Yes, but only slightly.

ARCHER: Try to hold on. Archer out.

ARCHER: (to Reed) Get to the bridge. I want a weather report.

[Reed leaves Sickbay.]

===

[Tucker kneels besides the nearly unconscious Mayweather and pushes him slightly.]

TUCKER: Travis, still with me?

[Mayweather looks up. He sees and hears Tucker slightly distorted.]

TUCKER: I need you on your feet. Those things are coming back any time.

[Mayweather seems to not understand him.]

TUCKER: Listen to me. I'm giving you an order.

[Mayweyather is frightened. He tries to crawl away.]

TUCKER: What's wrong?

[He looks around, trying to find out what frightens Mayweather.]

TUCKER: Ensign?

[He speaks to the walls.]

TUCKER: What did you do to him?

[He stands up.]

TUCKER: (to T'Pol) I can see why you get along so well with them. Sneaking around with these shadows. That's second nature to you Vulcans, isn't it?

T'POL: Par shin zirats.

TUCKER: I have no idea what you just said but it didn't sound very nice.

[He speaks again to the walls.]

TUCKER: You are making a mistake working with her. She'll stab you in the back first chance she gets.

[He bends down his head.]

TUCKER: Anyway. Come out. It was settled as peacefully. Whatever she told you about humans, it's not true. You can see for yourself.

[He shouts loudly.]

TUCKER: Say something.

[He shoots in the wall right behind T'Pol. She looks over to her phase pistol. Suddenly Tucker looks astonished. He starts speaking to a single rock.]

TUCKER: What are you doing here? Yes, sir? I know, I know. But they are not giving me much choice, I've got to protect my crew.

[T'Pol looks at him. Then she heads for her pistol.]

TUCKER: I understand, Mr Valic. But I can't do that, they're trying to kill us.

[T'Pol gets her phase pistol. Tucker suddenly turns around to her. They both hold their pistols pointed at each other.]

TUCKER: Nice try.

T'POL: Moro Phezar.

===

[Bridge.]

REED: The center of the storm has already passed over them. But the system expands some 500 kilometers. We won't be able to land a shuttle pod before dawn.

ARCHER: When is that?

REED: Nine hours.

[The com system chimes.]

PHLOX: (over com) Phlox to Captain Archer.

ARCHER: Go ahead.

PHLOX: Please report to Sickbay immediately. It's urgent.

[Reed and Archer look at each other. Archer rushes out.]

===

[In Sickbay. Novocovich seems nearly dead.]

ARCHER: I thought you said he was gonna be fine.

PHLOX: I did. But ... contain a ... neutron. When it started to break down in his blood stream it released an undetectable toxin. I've injected him with ... but I - think it may be too late. If I'd run a submolecular scan I might have anticipated the complication, but there was no reason to. At least there didn't seem to be. - I can't tell you how sorry I am, captain.

ARCHER: What about the others?

PHLOX: They spent less time exposed to the pollen -

ARCHER: I've got four people down on the surface, doctor. I need to know if they are gonna be dead when we get there in the morning.

[He opens the door. He looks back to the doctor who stands unmoved besides Novocovich. Archer leaves.]

===

[[In the cavern. T'Pol and Tucker are still directing their phase pistols at each other. Tucker gives Mayweather a short look. Mayweather still leans against the wall.]

TUCKER: Stay awake, Travis. Can't afford to have you going on on me.

MAYWEATHER: I try, sir.

TUCKER: Cutler? You are okay?

[Cutler lies nearly unconscious on the floor. Tucker turns back to T'Pol.]

TUCKER: If you are waiting for me to pass out, you're wasting your time. You might as well have your friends come out now. Do whatever they were gonna do.

[T'Pol's com device chimes.]

T'POL: T'Pol.

ARCHER: How are you doing?

TUCKER: Who's that?

ARCHER: It's the captain, Trip. Are you alright?

T'POL: He's irrational, sir. Mayweather and Cutler are nearly unconscious.

ARCHER: Both of you listen to me very carefully. Novocovich may be dying. Turns out the pollen contains some kind of toxin our sensors haven't detected. He's responding to medication but his odds of recovery would be a hell of a lot better if we'd treated him sooner. The doctor and Malcolm are synthesizing ampulls of ... We gonna have to use the transporter to get it to you, but it's ... that you ... yourselves as soon as possible. Do you understand what I'm saying?

TUCKER: Taking in an injection wouldn't change a damn thing, don't you see that? The planet's ..., captain, first us, then all of you.

T'POL: Poleyem riat. Sucazvaz niran.

SATO: Lesal acendan danda.

T'POL: Tavoleyen murat.

ARCHER: What's going on, Hoshi?

SATO: She says, Trip is going to kill her. And I don't think she's imagining it.

TUCKER: ... one move ... and I'm gonna split you in two.

ARCHER: Trip. Listen to me. The pollen is affecting her too. Think about it. You've heard of people suffering from dementia who revert to their native language. She can't help it.

TUCKER: The only thing that is affecting her is those rock people. If I can stop her now I can save Enterprise.

ARCHER: Trip. How long have we known each other?

TUCKER: What's that got to do with anything?

ARCHER: Remember when your EV pack froze up on Titan during your mega training mission? You got nitrogene narcosis. You started to try to take off your helmet. Do you remember what I'm talking about?

TUCKER: What's your point?

ARCHER: I ordered you to keep your helmet on. You were delirious, thought you were gonna die, but you obeyed that order because you trusted me. I'm asking you to trust me now. Take the injection. Then we'll deal with these - rock people.

TUCKER: Too late, captain. I'm not gonna die with a hypo spray in my hand.

ARCHER: Trip!

TUCKER: No! That's not gonna happen.

ARCHER: Alright. Forget the medicine. - I think it's time I explain what's really going on. But just stand by for a minute. I need Malcolm to target your position. Then I'll give you your orders.

[Archer pushes the com button.]

ARCHER: Archer to Phlox. The sooner, the better.

PHLOX: Understood.

[He puts down a little case on the transporter floor.]

PHLOX: How close can you get it?

REED: I think I can safely place it two meters inside the ... of the cave.

PHLOX: Good.

[Reed beams the case down to the planet.]

===

[In the cavern.]

TUCKER: Captain. - Hello? - I'm waiting for that order, but I can't wait much longer.

[Archer nods to Sato.]

ARCHER: Alright, Trip. This is a major breach of security. But I'm going to have to trust you.

TUCKER: Go ahead.

ARCHER: Starfleet sent us here to make contact with a silicon based lifeform. T'Pol was the only person granted clearance to speak with them. Seems they have met Vulcans before.

TUCKER: Why couldn't you tell me that?

ARCHER: When a mission is classified top secret I don't ask why.

TUCKER: If it was so top secret, then why did you let us all come down to the surface? Let us spend the night?

[Archer thinks hardly. Hoshi bends over and whispers.]

SATO: The winds.

ARCHER: We never thought the storm would drive you into the caves. That's where these rock people live. They didn't want anybody in there except for T'Pol. So they're not too happy right now. I'm sure you can understand that. They'd even threaten to destroy Enterprise. Now - T'Pol needs to explain to them why you're all there. But she's not gonna have much credibility with you poiting a phase pistol at her. If they agree to listen to her, you'll need to lower your weapon. If they don't, I'm gonna have Malcolm destroy the cavern. Sacrificing four more crewmen is a small price to pay to save Enterprise.

TUCKER: I understand.

ARCHER: Now - I'm gonna ask Hoshi to tell T'Pol everything I just told you - in Vulcan. Is there a problem with that?

TUCKER: Go ahead.

ARCHER: Ensign.

SATO: Suraya mot desloya. Mora etonan fova toranis.

T'POL: Sucazvaz niran. Loconan siraz tura donina foran. Ma seray.

SATO: She says play-acting isn't exactly a Vulcan tradition. But she'll do her best.

[T'Pol speaks to the walls.]

T'POL: Murina luraz. Panfol bura vaz plomi miran. Acaza goran, foraz mi. Kisaka, liron mas.

[Tucker still points at her. She speaks into the com.]

T'POL: T'Pol hirakis purat itar.

ARCHER: Hope she knows the difference between stunn and kill.

[He nods to Hoshi. She opens the com channel.]

ARCHER: They've agreed to talk to her, Trip. So lower your weapon and act real friendly.

[Tucker lowers his weapon. T'Pol fires at Tucker. He falls down unconsciously. T'Pol walks towards the cave entrance and gets the small case. She injects the medicine to Tucker and Cutler. Mayweather tries to get away from her.]

MAYWEATHER: No.

[T'Pol presses her fingers into his shoulder. He falls back against the wall. She injects the medicine to him, then to herself.]

===

[Next morning. Tucker wakes up. T'Pol gives him some water to drink. He nods thankfully and drinks.]

TUCKER: You didn't shoot me last night, did you?

T'POL: I'm afraid I did.

MAYWEATHER: I was hoping it was all just a bad dream.

TUCKER: Are they gone?

T'POL: They were never here.

CUTLER: What?

T'POL: There were no rock people. You were all hallucinating.

TUCKER: The pollen?

T'POL: Yes.

TUCKER: Then - what about that speech you gave to the wall?

T'POL: The captain felt that if I played along it might help persuade you to lower your weapon. You had grown increasingly illogical and violent. Something about - splitting me in two.

TUCKER: A pretty good performance. - Look, I know I kind of shouted my mouth off last night.

T'POL: You were under the influence of the pollen. We all were.

TUCKER: Challenge your preconceptions without challenge you.

T'POL: Commander?

TUCKER: That's something Mr Valic used to say. Tenth grade, biology class. He was a Vulcan scientist who came to teach us about life on other worlds. I'd never seen a Vulcan before, not that close. - He scared the hell out of me.

T'POL: Perhaps it's not too late to follow his advise.

[Tucker nods thinkfully. Mayweather moves his head.]

MAYWEATHER: Oh. I must have twisted up my neck. - How's Novocovich? Do we know?

T'POL: The captain says he's going to be fine.

[Cutler leaves the cavern and looks up to the sunny sky. A shuttle pod comes down. The four crewmen walk over the grass towards it.]

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