Realm of the Dragon
EPISODE 7
| Warping into a new system, the USS Highlander and the rest of the battle damaged fleet are set upon by the Dominion Forces. Struggling to keep the ship together, and with shield failing the Highlander is hit with one of the Breen's destructive torpodoes, causing a complete ship wide shutdown. Adrift in space, the Highlander is pushed into an unknown planet's atmosphere and plummets towards the surface. With all systems shot and off line, the crew hold on, for impact. |
| Stranded on an alien world, the crew on the Highlander set about to repair the starship, and remove it from it's burial place 25 metres into the ground. While the engineering Dept work overtime on the systems, the rest of the crew break into two away teams to search the surrounding country side. Sensor describe a level 2 civilisation, based on the Medieval Ages of Earth's past. Knight's and Peasants, King's and castles create this fantasy world. |
| As the Engineering Teams manage to repair most systems, the two away teams have got themselves into trouble. The team led by Lt. Commander laiz, is captured by a band of rogues, and only after some quick thinking by Ensign Scott and Lt. Aiz, are the remaining members rescued. Badly hurt, Lt.Jg Hiland is rushed to Sickbay. With no communications from the other away team, led by Commander Crusher, Captain James assembles a team to hunt them down. Picking up their trail, the Captain's team ends up in the Capital city, dominated by a hugh Castle. With new information to the Commander's team whereabouts, the Captain and his security team are attacked in the streets by a band of rogues called the " Red Arrows " |
| In the ensuing battle, the Captain is gravely wounded, as the rest of his team dispatch the rogue band. Driven by the need to find his wife and the XO, the Captain struggles on the the Castle wall with the rest of his team. Using a sewerage tunnel for access, the team make their way into the prisons of the Castle only to find that the missing away team has been moved to an audience with the King. Meanwhile, back on the Highlander, under the command of Lt. Commander Sidney James, the crew have discovered a baby dragon in the lower decks. Using telepathic communications, Sian has discovered that three more hatchling reside on board the ship, and their mother will be returning soon. |
| Racing off on a goose chase, Captain James and his team, steal some horse and leave the city, hoping to find his wife and the missing crewmen. Mean while, the Doctor and the missing crew are less than 500 metres away, locked in an audience with the down trodden King. Finally with the Highlander repairs completed, Lt Lang assembles an away team with the most unusal members of the crew, and using the natives fear of the super natural, beams into the Throne Room of the Castle to rescue the Team. Now with Commander Crusher and his tired and wounded party rescued, the Lt. and his "supernatural" sidekicks beam into the coutnry side to prevent the Captain's team being set upon by a band of Brigands. With the assistance of the newly arrived mother dragon and her recently hatched offspring, the Brigand lay down their arms, and the Captain is returned to the Ship. Using the Dragons to clear the area, the Highlander removes itself from it's burial crypt and limps off into space under cover of it's now operating cloak.
What will await the Highlander when she returns to Federation Space ? |
