Here's a tentative go at the teaser :-
TEASER
TEXT scrolls up the screen:
ON STARDATE 52988.31, THE DOMINION WAR DREW TO
A CLOSE. WHILST THE KLINGONS AND THE ROMULANS
REBUILT THEIR CRIPPLED EMPIRES, STARFLEET RENEWED
THEIR POLICY OF EXPLORATION.
SINCE THAT DATE, FOURTEEN YEARS HAVE PASSED ...
EXT. DEEP SPACE
MAJESTIC, BEAUTIFUL and SERENE - an ubroken field of stars stretches as far as the eye can see ...
CAPTION STARDATE 66402.01
UNTIL the BAJORAN WORMHOLE blossoms into reality and the USS DEFIANT soars out and approaches the camera.
SMASH CUT TO:
INT. DEFIANT / BRIDGE
A handsome twenty-something male, at the helm, passes his hands over his controls - this is LIEUTENANT JG FEDERICO ROSSI.
ROSSI
Welcome to the Gamma Quadrant, ladies,
gentlemen and crewmembers of other and
neither gender ...
AZHAN (OS)
As soon as we're clear, take us to warp.
ROSSI
Aye, Sir.
REVEAL the figure who just gave the order. Small breasts, muscular physique, shoulder length hair and hazel eyes that glitter with the anticipation of doing some exploration.
This is Commander Azhan 982 and s/he is a Hermat.
S/he shifts in hir chair when the stars on the main viewscreen elongate as the Defiant goes to warp.
AZHAN
ETA?
ROSSI
Five hours, twenty minutes.
EXT. SPACE
DEFIANT is at warp speed - the stars zipping past.
INT. DEFIANT / COMMANDER'S QUARTERS
Azhan lies on the bed holding a PADD, engrossed in whatever it is that s/he's reading s/he barely registers the first chime of the communicator. The second stirs hir from his reverie and s/he hits the communicator :-
AZHAN
Azhan.
ROSSI (over comms)
Rossi here. We're on approach to the
Omarion Nebula, Commander. I Thought
you'd want to know ...
AZHAN
Thankyou, Lieutenant. I'll be up there in
a second. Azhan out.
Azhan taps his communicator - tosses his PADD back onto the bunk and we HOLD on the PADD as Azhan exits. The title page of the book that Azhan was reading shows it to be 'RISK IS MY GAME: A BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES T. KIRK'.
INT. DEFIANT / BRIDGE
Azhan strides onto the bridge. On the viewscreen, the gaseous flares of a nebula flicker with interior light and a dull, ruddy planet grows nearer to the ship.
Rossi looks back from his position at the helm as Azhan takes up position in front of his chair.
AZHAN
Mister McManus, raise the Founders on the
usual channels ...
A crewman (COMMERSON) goes to work - another crewman turns from the science station:
CREWMAN
Sir, this can't be right - the sensors aren't
picking up any lifeforms on the planetoid.
Azhan arches his eyebrow.
AZHAN
None at all?
The crewman nods affirmative.
CREWMAN
None at all.
AZHAN
Commerson?
COMMERSON
No response on any channel.
Azhan sits, steeples his fingers in front of him and considers his options as his crew turn their heads from their stations in front of him to see what he's going to do.
After a moment of silence:
AZHAN
Commerson, open a channel to Starfleet
Headquarters. I need to speak to Admiral
Reinhardt immediately ...
PULL BACK from Azhan ...
EXT. SPACE
DEFIANT hanging over the dull and ruddy FOUNDER PLANET with the flickering nebula behind it as we ...
FADE THROUGH
TO:
TITLE SEQUENCE
Star Trek: Challenger
Based Upon 'Star Trek'
created by Gene Rodenberry
STARRING
Zachary Levi as Captain Azhan 982
ALSO STARRING
Jeffrey Combs as Commander Marcus Wolfe
Olga Kurylenko as Lt Commander Marika Losano
Debra Jo Rupp as Lt Commander Niska
Susan Sarandon as Doctor Tilan Soran
Yvonne Strahovski as Lt Commander Zarah Ataan
Jonathan Togo as Lieutenant Federico Rossi
CREATED BY
Members of
TREKBBS
FADE THROUGH
TO:
EXT. EARTH
Hanging in space.
