Proving Ground Line-byLine

[Hopeful Romantic]

REED: What?

 

[Orac]

Talas: Betraying your family tradition by serving on a ship of exploration.

 

[Athena28]

REED: Actually, we haven't done much exploring for quite a while, but since you ask, he wasn't very pleased. The Royal Navy was his life.

 

[Orac]

Talas: Perhaps he'd feel differently if he saw you now, fighting for the survival of your race.

 

[mattman8907]

REED: I'm sure he would. Right, all done. I'll power it up and we'll see where we stand.
(when his back is turned, Talas points a blue light at the couplers)
(A/N: Naughty naughty Talas.)

 

[Orac]

[Meanwhile on the Bridge]

Archer: Report.

 

[Athena28]

T'POL: They've launched the prototype.

 

[Orac]

Archer: Can we get a closer look?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

SHRAN: This is Shran.

 

[Orac]

Unnamed Andorian [OC]: Yes, Commander.

 

[Athena28]

SHRAN: Transfer our sensor telemetry to Enterprise.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

(Both they and the Xindi Council watch as the crust of the moon is shattered into dust, although the core remains intact.)

[Xindi Council chamber]

REPTILIAN: Are these the satisfying results you promised?

 

[Athena28]

INSECTOID: You said the moon would be destroyed.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

[Weapon control center]

DEGRA: The device was building to an overload. We were forced to shut it down.

 

[mattman8907]

HUMANOID [OC]: Why?

[Xindi Council chamber]

HUMANOID: What happened?

 

[Chakoteya]

DEGRA [OC]: I need

 

[mattman8907]

[Weapon control centre]

DEGRA: Time to analyse the data.

 

[Orac]

[But in the Xindi Council chamber]

Reptilian Man: Time? We have given you more than enough time. We were promised a weapon to destroy the humans in one stroke, not hack away at them bit by bit.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

AQUATIC: He's right, Degra. Our patience is wearing thin.

 

[Orac]

Arboreal: That moon was nearly split in two. Clearly, progress has been made.