tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14796099800431910522024-03-14T19:06:09.185+11:00Star Trek - Twelfth Night 2009Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-35687818826628101482010-01-06T23:59:00.001+11:002010-01-26T20:12:49.751+11:00Cover<center><br />
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</tbody> </table>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-11511435547519107362010-01-06T23:57:00.000+11:002010-01-07T03:55:14.674+11:00Forward - On Shakespearean Appropriations<div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What does it mean to do an appropriation? I mean a good one, because we're not just working with someone's fanfic here. I'm working with Old Bill's script here and if you don't get it right there's a special Hell that critic's reserve just especially for Shakespeare gone bad! Well, to appropriate means to take something and use it for your own purposes. It is often used as a synonym for stealing and when you think about it, if Old Bill were alive today, a cease and desist from CBS / Paramount would be the least of my worries, I'd probably be defending myself against a charge of plagiarism!</span><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Or would I?</span><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-style: normal;">I like to think that it's just as likely that he'd punch me in the shoulder, demand I take him down the pub and buy him a schooner of beer ...</span><i> and who is this Quentin Tarantino character anyway? </i></span> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">He'd laugh it off because, that's pretty much what he was doing himself! Old Bill would be no respecter of copyright today! His plays were, for the most part, appropriations of the type of material that the upper middle class, his target audience, thought of as "cultured". </span> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Culture. It's all in the eye of the beholder! If Italy was the Hollywood of the Elizabethan age then London was Bollywood, or Hong Kong, or Vancouver! I imagine his rooms in Whitechapel to be strewn with books, but not dusty old tomes lined up on shelves to simply act like trophies of an Oxford education and a Grand Tour of the continent. They'd be worn and dog-eared copies of Latin classics, broadsheets and pamphlets - some of which he might have ghosted himself to pay his debts! By contrast, locked in a coffer at the base of his bed, you'd also find carefully wrapped copies of the latest bestsellers from Milan, Venice and Rome, given or lent to him by patrons in the hope that they might stir his muse.</span><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And they were usually right, for Shakespeare had appropriation down to a fine art! His plays might have been based on the work of others but they were adapted specifically to his audience. They were written for a city populated by merchants and diplomats, artisans and courtesans, seamen and cutpurses. It was the capital of a small country whose merchant adventurers sailed the world and brought back riches of questionable origin.</span><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Shakespeare wrote for an audience that was smart , cosmopolitan and intellectually challenging. In an age when politics and religion were irrevocably intertwined, England was a Protestant island state in a Catholic sea. The popular house of Tudor was coming to a barren end with England's beloved 'Virgin Queen', Elizabeth, and only three generations later, their culture was to be torn asunder by a vicious civil war where the divine right of kings was forever capped by the rule of parliament.</span><br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="font-style: normal; margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">So, sure appropriation might be stealing but I’ll bet Old Bill would only charge me a beer as long as I did it prettily. </span> <br />
</div><div align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-bottom: 0.3cm;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>ah, d'ye mind if I borrow a couple of these DVD thingies off ye as well? What was his name again, Lucas?</i></span><br />
</div>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-37114281636788734182010-01-06T23:56:00.003+11:002010-01-26T20:06:36.417+11:00Act I Scene I<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="4" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"><colgroup><col width="19"></col><col width="173"></col><col width="416"></col><col width="19"></col></colgroup> <tbody>
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Whips Phase Pistol from holster and holds it to the man's neck</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">As Valentine scrambles to get up and out of the room, Archer walks back to the view port. When he gets there he picks up his wine goblet and flings it against the wall</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[ASIDE] Its not music or wine that I need! Its her! She's the only one who's ever left me... I want her back!... and the Defiant [SLYLY] Yes, the Defiant...</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody> </table>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-19042570213261027712010-01-06T23:55:00.005+11:002010-01-26T20:04:50.573+11:00Act I Scene II<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="4" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"><colgroup><col width="19"></col><col width="173"></col><col width="416"></col><col width="19"></col></colgroup> <tbody>
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP" width="416"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SCENE II. The medical laboratory of Dr Arik Soong on board his renegade Klingon Bird Of Prey) </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP" width="19"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Dark and murky atmosphere with a red tinge to the lighting. Vaguely medical scientific equipment along the walls and on island units that the camera pans across until it lands on a bio bed where we see naked feet.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cut to shot from head of bed as the person on it sits bolt upright, gasping for breath. Seen from the back, long dark hair falls over bare shoulders. Pan around her, zooming in until we get a a profile head and shoulders shot, enough so that we can see that she is female</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">In the background we hear the doors slide open and closed and her head snaps around smartly to face it, alert for trouble.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">(AFFECTIONATELY)it is good to have you back with us!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG starts to run a tricorder over her.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle! Don't move please! I want to check how the regenerators have affected your system</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Father! Did it work?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[BITTERLY] So it didn't work!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">A DNA transfer was unlikely to work Michelle, you know that. We were lucky to get as much of Major Reed's characteristics imprinted on your DNA as we did.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Father, this was our last hope of survival, to infiltrate Archer's command circle and bring him to our side</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">There are just some things that are imprinted on our DNA right down to the sub-atomic particle level and what makes Reed a man and you a woman are one of them.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">argh! Of all of your children, why was I the only one that was the right mass for the transfer? If only it could have been one of the boys! I have failed you.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Nonsense! Michelle, never feel anything less than the immaculate young woman that you are [SMILES] You are as close to genetically perfect as any of the augments, which makes you a thousand times better than that butcher, Reed</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">The only unfortunate thing is that you will now go through life looking like Major Malcolm Reed's twin sister</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[EXCITED] Reed is a major and would have his own quarters, I could say that I don't want anyone to see the remaining scars</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">A defect in the regeneration tank</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I've been working out! [LAUGHS] I could do this!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle, its not just your looks that could give you away. You are the pick of the worlds most magnificent genes and your education has been designed to match the perfect mind to your perfect body. But your only experience of life has been with your brothers and sisters and the few educators who can keep up with you! </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You know little of the world outside our family. It is a world that has been shaped by war and terror. These people are morally stunted cretins compared to you but they control weapons that can destroy whole worlds. </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">If you make one slip they will not just kill you but do it in the most painful way possible because to do any less would be to show weakness.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SOONG</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">All they value is strength. And power.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Before the Empress finds us and eliminates us as the one risk that could destroy her and her precious empire?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody> </table>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-39257547485486323832010-01-06T23:54:00.003+11:002010-01-26T20:07:07.246+11:00Act I Scene III<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="2" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"><colgroup><col width="173"></col><col width="416"></col></colgroup> <tbody>
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Darkness persists for a second then a spotlight cuts through the pitch to a stage where we see a female torch singer standing at a microphone. She starts to sing an exotic equivalent of the blues which fades into the background as the camera pans over a crowded nightclub floor...</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">to finally rest on a dingy table where we see a familiar face – Dr Phlox. He is not in his normal, birdlike, high spirits but is a melancholy drunk, staring at his drink.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">A hand comes out of the dark and slaps him across the face</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Is this the best you can do?</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Phlox jumps, surprised. Cut to youngish woman who has slipped into the booth opposite him. It is Nurse Cutler, an old friend from the Enterprise.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Sneering] The great Dr Phlox!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Relaxing] Oh, its you!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You were going to break down the boundaries of medical science! The emperor was going to be so grateful that he was going to grant you unlimited funding! What happened?</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Hungover/Drunk] I got greedy. Go away! [His head sinks into his hands]</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You backed the wrong side. I didn't.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Deadpan] I'm so happy for you. [Bitterly] I'm alive! Although I'm sure I don't know why after what happened on the Defiant!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">What happened on the Defiant could be the key to your future!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Head snaps up, suspicious] What do you mean?</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I mean... the Empress Hoshi trusts no one but she has a [Beat] unique way of handling her enemies. Some are too dangerous to let live, but some are too valuable to die. You proved that you were very valuable on the Enterprise and she needs a doctor in her retinue.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">But I backed the wrong side! I was loyal to the emperor!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Yes, but you were loyal none-the-less. You are being given one chance to change that allegiance, to join her household and prove yourself loyal to her!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Suspicious] What about you? What are you doing serving such a sadistic mistress?</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I could be a good doctor but because I won't use my body as a bargaining chip, I'm destined to stay a nurse, the servant of Empire toadies. Sato might have slept her way to the top, but she's no fool. She surrounds herself with people who really are the best at what they do rather than survivalists. I can respect that. There are things I want to do with my life and this could be my ticket to doing them.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Interested] What have I got to lose? I have nothing. No-one else will even let me on their ship. I'm just a fool to amuse them now, the Denobulan who thought he could meddle in Empire politics.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I'll do it!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">He flings his arms wide in a theatrical gesture that smashes his tankard against the wall leaving him with just a handle which he looks at then tosses to the floor with a careless gesture</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Lead on good nurse! I'll play the fool for the Empress 'cos wit can wound more subtly than steel.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">The Nurse gabs him and starts to drag him towards the exit, shushing him. He weaves beside her, carried away with his speech</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Barb the epithets! Load my pen with poison.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Shut up you drunken fool! If this is a battle of wits you're sailing into you're sunk before you fire a shot!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Stops dead so suddenly that he pulls free of her grasp, standing with hands on hips. Points to nurse and raises voice so that whole bar can hear. Starts mock ship battle with bar crowd egging them on</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Red alert! Enemy at bearing 112 mark 5! Shiance ossifer, Identify! [BEAT] Nothing to worry about sir, its just an old scow</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cutler purses her lips and makes a grab for him but he slips past her and picks up a bottle from a nearby table</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Shields at half a litre sir! [pauses and peers at bottle] and they're green!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You'll need more than shields if I get my hands on you!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">She's hailing us captain![Starts to walk around her] She's disguised as a cruiser but she's old [Beat, crowd laughs] battered [Beat] and waaay too broad at the beam! [Slaps her on the rear and staggers off towards the bar, laughing]</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cutler looks surprised, shocked then angry! Marches up behind him and grabs him by the collar. Cut to doctors face: startled</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Argh! She's a Klingon!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cutler swings him around, face first into a column. </span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Angry] Klingon to this!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Doctor does slapstick fall onto his back on the dance floor. Everyone is laughing now and she starts to play to the crowd as well.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Its no use captain! she's too much for us! [Kneels next to him and lifts his head – he's out cold – then lets it fall] Sensors are down! [She picks up bottle, stands and rolls him on his back with her foot] We're dead in space. Phew! [Wafts hand in front of face at unpleasant smell] ...and venting plasma from all decks! Oh No! [Uncorks bottle] We've got a coolant leak! [Pours contents of bottle over his head]</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">She tosses the bottle on top of him then lifts her hands, palm up and shrugs. The crowd breaks into applause. Doctor starts to come 'round and she helps him up to a sitting position</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Groaning] Someone turn that damn alarm off! [Picks up empty bottle and squints at it] Where has all the Dilithium gone?</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Come on you old derelict! I honestly don't know what I see in you.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Its my irresistible femanones... [Beat] meraphones... [Beat. Smiles drunkenly] My charm! [Puckers up for a kiss]</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Pulls back from his breath] Doctor, your charm could kill a zark right now! Come on! Get up!</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">He staggers to his feet and she pushes him towards the door. He collides with the door jamb but bounces off, blinking – he's feeling no pain right now.</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Thank you, m'dear</span><br />
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</td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">She walks up to him and he looks thoughtful for a second</span><br />
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</tbody> </table>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-64138734743788006942010-01-06T23:53:00.000+11:002010-02-18T00:17:52.273+11:00Act I Scene IV<style><!--
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP" width="412"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">SCENE IV. The quarters of Cpt ARCHER on Illyria Station</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP" width="19"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Enter two Starfleet officers, Valentine and Curio</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">LT VALENTINE</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Do you know anything about this new officer, Major Reed? He's certainly shot into the Captain's good graces quickly.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">LT CURIO</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Stunned – Catches Valentine by the sleeve] Are you kidding? Wait, you didn't serve with Archer on the Enterprise did you? Reed is a killer! He's ruthless, he doesn't even know the meaning of the word mercy! I've seen him send one of his own men to the agoniser just for sneezing on inspection!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Valentine pulls his arm away</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">VALENTINE</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I don't care what sort of a brute he is, the captain deserves the best </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle Reed enters. She's in a Mirror Universe Starfleet uniform which hides her shape and her long hair has been cut down to a pageboy style. The two lieutenants jump to attention and give the MU salute. Michelle looks a little taken aback but snaps off a salute in return, wincing slightly when she hits her chest</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">At ease men [Voice is a little high so continues gruffly] Name and rank!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle strolls around them, inspecting them. They start to look nervous.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Very good. I want a status report on the Captain's security arrangements</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">VALENTINE</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Sir! We have this whole section of the station assigned to us. The doors are protected by DNA locks and the outer hull is polarised with sensors set to detect any unauthorised activity.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Intelligence reports on possible hostile action against the captain?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Curio stamps to attention, holding out a PADD, still staring straight ahead</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle takes the PADD and starts to flick through it, speed reading.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Curio and Val look at each other, uncertain.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle turns again and moves between them. She's tall for a woman and leans towards each in turn as if she is sharing a secret.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Steps back</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Perhaps I am misjudging you gentlemen [BEAT] perhaps not. You will follow my instructions to the letter and any deviation will be acted on accordingly – by me – without warning [She is face to face with Valentine now, staring him down, menacing] Is that clear?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">VALENTINE & CURIO</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Yes, SIR!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Enter Archer</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Putting the fear of death into them already, Malcolm?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle jumps to attention herself, startled. How long had he been listening?</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Yes, SIR!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Good! I want you all focused on the court of the Empress – who is in it, their strengths and weaknesses. I want them out and me in! Reed!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Yes, sir?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Archer is in “command mode”. </span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[Coldly] You're my front line. She won't see me and she pays no attention to either of these two [Nod towards C&V] She knows you and you've gained something of a reputation over the years you've been in the tank. You're a throwback to the old times, the wild times.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">There is less instability in the current empire. Things are simpler. It all boils down to who has control of the Defiant – whoever has her is the Emperor. Hoshi has the access codes to the Defiant's main computer restricted to her alone and doesn't even allow her pet Mayweather more than navigational control. </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">She needs a captain and I'm the best. If I can convince her that I'm loyal I'll be back in the centre of things again.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">...and if not sir?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Smiles grimly</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Then we have to try something else</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">What do I say, sir? I've not had much experience with women.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle flusters for a moment then recovers – puts on a Macho swagger to impress “the guys”</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I mean, you just take what you want and move on, right?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Change of tempo/atmosphere – Archer lightens up, smirks at C&V</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Use your imagination! She's a woman, you're a man! Flatter her, impress her with my good points, tell her how much I love her and I can't live without her. [BEAT] Women love that kind of thing.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Out of Archer's line of sight and unseen by the other two, Michelle looks at Archer with an incredulous look then rolls her eyes. She continues, deadpan.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Archer smiles and turns to Michelle, puts his arm across her shoulder and leans in to her confidentially.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You shouldn't be so up-tight, Malcolm, they did a great job on you in the regeneration tank! Your skin's as smooth as a teenager's and you look like you haven't even started shaving yet! You're going to a real hit with the ladies!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle looks uncomfortable but has to play up to the situation</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cut to Valentine who looks surprised and sympathetic. Back to Archer and Reed, Archer chuckles</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Its just like falling off a horse, Reed, you've just got to …</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Archer and Reed together – Archer leering, Reed rolling eyes</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER & MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">get right back into the saddle!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Believe me sir, I have no interest in women what-so-ever at the moment</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Cut to Valentine whose eyebrows go up with a hopeful look .</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You will, Malcolm, you will.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Michelle, aside under her breath – missed by Archer but heard by Valentine</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[hunh] I won't Archer, believe me, I won't!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Unseen, Valentine looks sideways at Michelle, incredulously. Archer steps away and the moment is broken. He points to C&V</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">You two, escort Major Reed to the court of the Empress and do everything you can to help him.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Curio and Valentine stamp to attention, salute and chorus...</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">CURIO & VALENTINE</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Yes, SIR!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">VALENTINE</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">I'll do everything I can to help!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">The other three look at Valentine, deadpan. He looks uncomfortable. Archer moves to stage right.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MU ARCHER </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[ASIDE]By this time tomorrow the empress … and the Defiant! … will be mine!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Reed moves to exit stage left</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">MICHELLE REED</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">[ASIDE]The last thing I need is for Archer to get the Empress as well as the Defiant – he has to be mine … I mean ours!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><i><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;">Exit Reed. Curio follows with Valentine bringing up the rear.</span></i></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</tbody> </table>Kirok of LStokhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05342385515015039320noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1479609980043191052.post-39033127444875973622010-01-06T23:52:00.000+11:002010-02-18T21:14:43.631+11:00Act I Scene V<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cols="3" frame="VOID" rules="NONE"><colgroup><col width="96"></col><col width="624"></col><col width="48"></col></colgroup> <tbody>
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Phlox is leaning back against a wall, holding his forehead. He's not drunk but very badly hungover. Cutler is fussing about him, trying to straighten his clothes</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">CUTLER: Phlox! Pull yourself together! You have to smarten yourself up for the Empress or you'll be lucky if the agonizer booth is all she sends you away for!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: Don't pester me woman! I am what I am and if the “empress” doesn't like it then there'll be one less problem for me to face!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Gives him a shake, angry.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">CUTLER: I'm telling you! This is your only chance and if you blow it then I'll look bad as well!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Picks up a small box and opens it up to show him a magnificently made ceremonial dagger similar to that shown on the Mirror Universe emblem.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">CUTLER: At the right time, give her this as a gift. I know she's going through a nostalgia stage at the moment – she'll love it!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Phlox shrugs her off and tosses the dagger and box onto a side table.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: If she wanted another pimped up pill-pusher or another fawning hanger-on, she could have any one of dozens who are waiting in line.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Starts to move unsteadily away from her.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: There's some other reason why she wants me in circle and I don't think its just to do you a favour.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">CUTLER: [Exasperated] Pah! You're impossible!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: Why do all my wives say that? Here she comes!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Enter the empress, Captain Mayweather and two MACOs</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Well well, well. If it isn't the alien doctor who grew a spine!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: Hoshi. How are you?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: I'm doing well, doctor. In fact I'm doing so well, they call me empress</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: Titles. They mean nothing in the end. They call me a doctor but the best I can do is to scrape a living doing the things that respectable doctors won't touch</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: And I?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Phlox smiles and bows</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: You, empress Hoshi, are still the same talented, ambitious, beautiful and very, very dangerous woman who I have no intention of getting on the wrong side of.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Hoshi laughs</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: You are finally learning some sense, doctor</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: No, I'm finally learning that it is better to be a coward who survives than a brave fool</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: And what do you think, Captain Mayweather?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MAYWEATHER: I think you can trust neither. A coward will do anything to survive and a fool, brave or not, is a liability</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Mayweather doesn't like you [Beat] but he doesn't like anyone!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Console beeps next to Cutler, she taps screen </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">CUTLER: Empress Sato! Security shows an emissary from Captain Archer</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: How tedious! I would have thought that he would have got the message by now! Phlox! Make yourself useful. Bioscan them and report.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: [Starting to look queesy]As you wish.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Phlox goes to console and performs scans - SFX Scanner - Frowns slightly</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">[Murmurs] That's strange</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Impatient] Well?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">PHLOX: Its three Starfleet officers whose biometrics match two of Captain Archer's men.[Beat] The third is an old acquaintance: Major Malcom Reed. [Covers mouth and lets out long, uncomfortable burp]</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MAYWEATHER: They're not unexpected, Ma'am, but I can get rid of him if you want. </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: No! I remember Reed, He was Archer's pet butcher! I'm curious as to what Archer thinks he can say that the others can't</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Mayweather looks worried. Phlox looks sick.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MAYWEATHER: Ma'am, I'd prefer not to take that risk! I worked under Reed for three years – he's a sneaky, treacherous bastard.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Imperious] Captain! I'll be the one to say who I see! We'll use standard security – he's been floating like a pickled herring in brine for the past two years, so I can't see him being much of threat to us. Especially with your newest toy, hmmm?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">[The pickled herring reference is too much for Phlox – Muffled behind hand]Excuse me!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: [FEIGNS SLIP] Sergeant, oh, sorry, captain Mayweather.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: I'm not carrying one. [SOFTLY, TAUNTING] Why Captain, anyone would think you didn't trust me?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Major Reed! Long time, no see!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: Hoshi [BEAT] or is that empress Sato now?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Hoshi will do, as long as you don't overstep your station!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: I feel suitably honoured that the supreme commander of the Terran empire has deigned to give me an audience.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: This isn't feudal Japan, Reed, I don't require my followers to bow and scrape before me.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: No disrespect is intended, empress, but Mayweather is right, personal audiences are a dangerous thing</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Go! [They look undecided. She shouts] All of you! Now!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Get to the point! What does Archer have to say that I want to hear?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: [Businesslike]He's infatuated by you and it could be the death of him! Do you know why I'm on Risa? [Beat] There's a faction in Starfleet who want to see Archer depose you. I was taken out of the tissue regeneration tanks to come here and use my influence on the captain to make a play for the empire.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Continue!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: They're [Beat] disturbed though by his lack of action, his extended stay here, trying to get back into your [sneers] 'good graces'. The Archer I knew never mooned over any woman, he took what he needed then moved on.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: There's nothing new about plotting officers, I expect it from all my captains. What's stopping him? </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: [Shrugs]I don't think he knows himself. One moment he will talk about you with a faraway look in his eyes and in the next he will curse you for taking the Defiant from him.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Tell him to put in with the admirals, he's got more chance of success</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: As you wish, but he's like a man possessed, he'll not listen to me. [changes tack] I can understand what he sees in you though [Beat] assuming its all natural</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Laughs]Oh, its natural! Do you think its easy hiding anything with this uniform? [gestures at bare midriff].</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: Oh I don't know, there are things hidden under my uniform that only a doctor should see.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Scarring?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: [Plays for sympathy] I'm just not the same man I used to be.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: I find that hard to believe. [Suspicious] You know, now that you mention it, I don't remember you being this talkative on the Enterprise, you only seemed interested in explosions, guns and torture.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: Well there's got to be more to life than just fun I suppose. I have two years to catch up on. You've changed too, not quite so... spontaneous. [Questioning] Was it worth it? The intrigue, betrayal and backstabbing?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Laughs] Oh yes! That was the fun part!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: But what?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: But what about now? Is holding on to power as much fun as acquiring it?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: I do what needs to be done.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: Ah! But it doesn't have the same bubbles in it does it? [BEAT] You've fought all your life to get here and now you find that [Beat]there's nowhere to go from the top except down!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Rubbish! I like being on top!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Tell me mister Reed, what would you do if you were Archer?</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: You would have to watch me like a hawk!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: I would spend every waking moment looking for ways to trip you up, to bring you down and make you mine!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Who in their right mind would want a lover who they knew was just waiting for the chance to turn the tables on them!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: You would! Because you live for havoc! Because you would know that I would allow no other man to threaten you!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: What nonsense!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: Then I'll not intrude on your time any longer!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MICHELLE REED: [Mock formal]Empress Hoshi, you are cruel to tempt me with a position I don't deserve. I'm quite happy serving Captain Archer</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Furious]Then get out of here!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Reed salutes then exits</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Aside, scornful]Empress of all you survey! You sound like a desperate schoolgirl! What's changed about Reed? He doesn't act like the old Reed or someone who's been asleep for two years... it as if he knows what's under my skin.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Spots the gift box that Phlox has thrown away and picks it up</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Mayweather! </span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MAYWEATHER: Yes, Maam!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Throws box at his feet, he stoops to pick it up.</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: Catch up with Reed and... give him his gift back! Tell him I will see him tomorrow and failure to appear will not be tolerated!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">MAYWEATHER: [Looks uncertain]Yes, Maam!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">Exit Mayweather and MACOs, confused</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New;">HOSHI: [Aside, intensely]The fate of a thousand planets depends on me and yet... I'm out of control! All I want to do is pursue! Engage! Capture and... [languidly]enslave!</span></td> <td align="LEFT" bgcolor="#ffffcc" sdnum="3081;0;00" valign="TOP"><span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: small;"><br />
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