BEGIN ACT 7


FADE IN on the ROMULAN WARBIRD firing on the DEFIANT.


Show the BRIDGE of the DEFIANT.

The DEFIANT is shaking, and DAX and TASHA right along with it.

DAX: What are THEY doing here?!

TASHA: Never mind! Raising shields! Loading forward torpedo bays!

TASHA presses some buttons as she's talking.

The shaking stops. The ROMULAN WARBIRD is on the viewscreen, in front of the
DEFIANT.

TASHA: Now reading full stop.

DAX (angrily and quietly): What the hell are you doing?!

TASHA holds her right palm out to DAX for a moment.

TASHA: Relax, I know what I'm doing.

TASHA presses a button and speaks, facing the viewscreen.

TASHA: Romulan Warbird, explain your presence here.

DAX and TASHA both look attentively at the viewscreen, waiting.

The viewscreen then changes to the BRIDGE of the ROMULAN WARBIRD. A MALE
ROMULAN is seated in a chair.

ROMULAN: This is the Imperial Romulan Warbird Kentar.

TASHA: What are you doing here?

ROMULAN (smiling): Ahhh . . . it is YOU! So I see it WORKED!

TASHA slowly stands up, her hands pressed down on the console, her eyes
wide open.

TASHA: (hissing) Did WHAT?

ROMULAN: Oh, (laughing) we thought you would have figured it out by now!

TASHA: Figured WHAT out? What the hell did you do to me?!

ROMULAN: You died . . . almost ten years ago. We knew that your current
technology could not save your life, so we had you beamed on board our
vessel, which was in orbit above Vagra II, and your transporter pattern and
neural signature were stored in our ship's computer. Then, when human
medical treatments had advanced far enough, we beamed you onto the Defiant.
I think you know the rest.

TASHA: Not really. I want you to tell me the rest. (louder) EVERYTHING!

ROMULAN (shaking his head): I'm afraid not.

TASHA: Why did you attack us?

ROMULAN: We wanted to WORRY you . . . (smiling) AND have some FUN.

TASHA: Yeah, well, you succeeded at BOTH. Now answer my questions!!!

ROMULAN: All of your questions will be answered when we take you back to
Romulus.

TASHA and DAX are both surprised.

TASHA: ROMULUS - WHY?!

ROMULAN (smiling): You'll see.

The viewscreen then returns to the view of the ROMULAN WARBIRD.

TASHA (quietly): Damn it!

TASHA sits back down.

DAX (reading from her console): The Warbird is firing phasers!

TASHA: Evasive manuevers.

DAX presses some buttons.


Show the DEFIANT escaping from phaser fire.


TASHA: Firing photon torpedoes. (presses a button)


Show the DEFIANT firing three photon torpedoes. All three directly hit the
ROMULAN WARBIRD.


TASHA (smiling, excited): Direct hit! Their shields are down! (pressing a
button) Lowering shields and engaging transport!

DAX quickly turns towards TASHA, surprised.

DAX: What?!

TASHA swiftly gets up and turns around. DAX then gets up and turns around,
too.

The ROMULAN is beamed onto the BRIDGE. A forcefield immediate surrounds him.

TASHA (looking at the forcefield): Forcefield in place.

TASHA and DAX look at each other, TASHA smiling, and DAX amazed.

TASHA winks with her right eye at DAX.

DAX laughs, and then they both look at the ROMULAN trapped inside the
forcefield, zapping himself when touching it.

TASHA walks up to the ROMULAN, still smiling.

TASHA: Welcome aboard the Defiant, you veruul.

The ROMULAN is still surprised to find himself trapped inside of a
forcefield and on the Bridge of a Federation Starship.


Show the DEFIANT flying through space back towards DEEP SPACE NINE.

DAX (V.O.): Ship's log, Stardate 51002.8: Lt.-Cmdr. Jadzia Dax reporting.
Due to the expertise of Lt. Tasha Yar, we have captured a Romulan Commander.
The Romulan Warbird has retreated. We have delivered our cargo, and are now
heading back to Deep Space Nine.


Show the INSIDE OF THE OBSERVATION LOUNGE.

SISKO, ODO, DAX, AND TASHA are seated at the table, with DAX sitting to
TASHA'S RIGHT, and ODO sitting to SISKO'S LEFT across from them.

DAX (excited): It was INCREDIBLE!

SISKO (to TASHA): How did you think of programming all those commands into
the press of ONE BUTTON?

TASHA (smiling): I experimented with the controls on the Tactical station
onboard the Enterprise. I had taken a LOT of programming classes at the
Academy, and had programmed different sequences of commands into different
buttons that were only in effect during MY SHIFT, to prevent someone else
from accidentally stumbling across them and doing some harm to innocent
people. I had done the same thing during my previous tour on the Princeton.

SISKO (smiling, softly): Absolutely brilliant!

TASHA (smiling and nodding): Thank you, sir.

SISKO (turning to ODO): Where is the Romulan now?

ODO: In Holding Cell 3.

SISKO (turning to TASHA): The Enterprise will arrive in roughly one hour.

TASHA (nodding, seriously): That gives me just enough time to question him
and get the answers I need.

SISKO nods.

TASHA gets up and walks towards the door.

SISKO then turns his chair around to face TASHA. He talks to her just as the
door opens.

SISKO: And Lt. -

TASHA turns around.

TASHA: Yes, sir?

SISKO (smiling): I'm looking forward to reading your REPORT.

TASHA (smiling and nodding): Yes, sir.

TASHA then turns around and walks out the door.

The door closes.

FADE OUT.

END ACT 7