Chapter 2: Acceptance

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EXT. IOWA PLAINS - SUNRISE

CORN STALKS whipping by -- Kirk on his SPOKELESS MOTORCYCLE
rocketing across the plains -- his soul's been stirred and he's
fighting it -- he cranks it, ELECTRIC ENGINE SCREAMING ---

EXT. STARFLEET CONSTRUCTION YARD - SUNRISE

Kirk pulls up to us, kills the bike. Camera starts to MOVE
AROUND HIM -- he's dramatically BACKLIT and we COME AROUND for
an INCREDIBLE REVEAL of a SHIPYARD -- at its center, the skeletal frame of a NEW SHIP under arclights. UNMISTAKABLY, THE
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. Unformed, raw, like its future captain. Our
MUSIC SWELLS, we PUSH IN ON HIM, considering Pike's offer, El's motivational talk, his
future, his fate.

EXT. STARFLEET SHIPYARD - MORNING

The shipyard is abuzz with activity -- cadets loading into a shuttle -- and Pike, staring off, waiting. The PILOT
approaches:

SHUTTLE PILOT
Waiting for something, Cap?

PIKE
... No. Guess not.

ELLARA
You think he'll come ?

PIKE
The thing I saw it in his eyes when I gave him the dare, I guess so. Now come on go inside and sit.

ELLARA
Yeah I'm goin'.(After a few beats) Seriously Old man can't I just stay here and accompany you ?

PIKE
Yes I am very serious young lady. Now go inside and buckle up.

Not saying anything she just sighs and nods and makes her way towards her seat next to Uhura giving her a smile.

He climbs in. The pilot rapidly flips through switches, running
a pre-flight sequence. Pike straps in. Glances through the viewshield ..SEES SOMETHING.. and he smiles.
From his POV:
KIRK on his MOTORCYCLE, driving into the shipyard --

PIKE
Hold her a second ..

Kirk rides past a WATERFALL of cooling tanks -- stops the bike near the shuttle -- steps off, has nothing -- no bags -- just
the clothes on his back.

SHIPYARD WORKER
Nice ride, man.

Kirk kicks the stand, tosses the guy the startcard --

KIRK
Live it up.

Kirk walks past the startled worker and approaches Pike.

KIRK
Four years? I'm gonna do it in three.

Pike grins as Kirk passes him.
Inside the shuttle, Kirk moves down rows of new recruits, some
of them ALIEN. Passes UHURA and ELLARA giving her a flirtatious grin and the BARFIGHT CADETS, who PERK
UP when they see him -- one has a BANDAGED HAND

KIRK
At ease, Gentlemen. (then, to Ellara)
Never did get that last name right huh?

ELLARA
(can't help it: a grin)
RIGHT. That's a pity even though I told you, I must say your prediction ability are quite the low standards Mr. Kirk.
I think I alredy told you ....Your Charms aren't going to work on me(singing the last three with the smile while looking at him).

KIRK
Doesn't hurt to try right ?? (He says with a smirk of his own).

He smiles as he takes a seat at the back next to Ellara in the shuttle. Straps
in as it RISES •••

MAN'S VOICE
Are you people deaf? I told you I don't
need a doctor, damnit! I AM A DOCTOR!

Kirk and El turn to see a MAN being forced OUT of the BATHROOM by a
FEMALE FLIGHT OFFICER -- at 34, he has a Southern lilt and looks
like a prisoner waiting for the guillotine to fall:

FLIGHT OFFICER
you need to find a seat
Sir, for your own safety,
siddown, or I will MAKE you
sit down •.. do you hear me?
RIGHT NOW.

MAN
-- I had one, in the bathroom,
Darlin', with no windows --
-- I suffer from Aviaphobia,
case you don't understand big
words, it means 'fear of dying
in something that flies.'

They GLARE at each other, then the man drops into the seat
beside Kirk and El. The ship TORQUES to one side and the man GRIPS his
armrests, pale, sweating -- glances at Kirk:

MAN
I might throw up on you.

KIRK
I think these things're pretty safe--

MAN
Don't pander to me, kid: one tiny crack  in the hull and our blood boils in
thirteen seconds solar flare might
crop up, cook us in our seats -- Hell,
some of the damn passengers are blue. And wait'll you're sitting pretty with a
case of Andorian shingles, see if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding-- space is disease and danger, wrapped in darkness and silence.

KIRK
I hate to break this to you, but
Starfleet operates in space.

ELLARA
And also it being vast it is something to explore more like an adventure...One hell of an adventure especially for lifetime(She tells him in an excited voice hoping he would give it a chance and seemingly enjoy)

MAN
Yeah, well my ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce, I got nowhere to go but up. Leonard McCoy.

KIRK
Jim Kirk

ELLARA
Ellara Pike but you can call me El.

KIRK
-- you really gonna throw up--?

MCCOY
Maybe--

As the TREK THEME SOARS, the shuttle ascends.But None of them knew what they actually assigned for is truly gonna be a one hell of an adventure....

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