TOS: The One Sentance PHOTO-NOVEL Episode

[Captain Tracy]

The Mid-1967 Hollywood Writer's Strike has hit Tinsel-Town hard. Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK is in full production, BUT today, there is NO SHOOTING SCRIPT!!

Bill Shatner - ever the hero - 'orders' all the Actors, camera men, sound tech's, and lighting guys to the stage,.. THE SHOW MUST GO ON!!!,... and Bill knows they can improvise a single episode!

POST the most relevant single photo, and then, ADD your own SINGLE SENTENCE OF DIALOG and continue the episode,...

All the Actors are in position, and with no "Stardate Set-up",.. Bill calls: LIGHTS,.. CAMERA,... ACTION!!

HERE WE GO!

KIRK: Mr. Spock,... Long Range Sensor Scan,... Report.


Your Turn!

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: 40 Romulan vessels will intercept us in about 5 minutes if we maintain our present course and speed, Captain!

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: Helm,... Change heading to 308, mark 16,... keep us on the fringe of their sensors;.... Bit edgy today Spock?

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: Captain, somehow...somehow those Romulan ships have anticipated the course change you've just now ordered and have increased their speed; they will intercept us in 1.4 minutes.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: HELM,... FULL REVERSE,.... EMERGENCY WARP,... I didn't catch that,...what was that you said Mr. Stiles??

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

UHURA: Captain, I'm picking up a distress call in Klingon.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: A KLINGON distress signal,... in this region of space?,... Translation, and point-of-origin Lieutenant?

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

Klingon Commander (crackling): This is....commanding the .....been ambushed by a fleet of Romulans...incredible speeds...10 birds of prey.....glorious deaths....request reinforcements....alliance with Terran....traitors...Organian Treaty....Glory to the Empire.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: Lieutenant, send a Code Three message to StarFleet Command informing them of the situation,... and pin-point that signal,.... Analysis and opinion Mr. Spock?

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: I would speculate that the Romulan fleet attacked the Klingons and now the Klingons either believe us to be in an alliance with the Romulans; or perhaps the Klingons are seeking an alliance with us against the Romulans; difficult to discern given the Klingon commander's garbled transmission which was sent presumably to his own government.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: Thank you Mr. Spock,... And agreed,.. on the first part of your hypothesis,... provided,... there ACTUALLY is a crippled Klingon vessel out there somewhere,.... AND a Romulan Armada,... See if you can assist Lieutenant Uhura in determining the source and location of that distress call.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

Stiles: Begging the Captain's pardon sir, and Mr. Spock's, both times Mr. Spock claimed he noticed a Romulan fleet, nothing came up on our boards down here; that's what I was trying to tell you earlier, sir.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: Are you suggesting Sensor malfunction,... exclusive to Mr. Spock's station,... or some other explanation, Mr. Stiles?

 

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[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: Captain, Mr. Stiles is quite correct; my knowledge of the whereabouts of the Romulan fleet did not come from our sensors, but form a more...internal source.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: Some,... Internal Source?,... Mr. Spock,... please, explain.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: Captain, it is difficult to explain. Millennia ago, when Vulcan was still warlike and barbaric, we used a telepathic war cry as a means of expressing our bloodlust when about to conquer an enemy. These facilitated signaling troops from great distances on Vulcan that it was time to attack. We called it Kara-foria…the call to arms. It hasn`t been perceived by a living Vulcan for dozens of centuries until today, when I felt it twice from the Romulans. Evidently the cultural parallels between Vulcans and Romulans are greater than I had originally suspected.

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: I see,... but Spock, I,... I can't command a Starship based on,... on intuitions,... and how do you account for your detailed knowledge of the position and actions of the Romulan Armada,... when they are not in range of our senors?

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

SPOCK: The Karia-foria should not be transmittable beyond more than a few hundred kilometers, and certainly not into open space. But Jim, I know what I sensed. Somehow the Romulans have managed to intensify the range of the Karia-foria so that it can cross over light years of space! This means they can orchestrate and coordinate mass attacks at various points throughout the galaxy much quicker than through conventional communication methods! At present, they seem to be targeting the Klingons, but why?

 

[Captain Tracy]

KIRK: That we don't know yet,... as we need facts,... I want the location and source of that Klingon distress signal nailed-down,... and I want it nailed-down fast Mr. Spock,... I'm heading to Sickbay,... inform me when you have information on the Klingon ship,... and Spock,... let me know if you should,... if you should sense anything else.

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