ENTERPRISE
"Abdication"
TEASER
FADE IN:
EXT. AWAY CAMP - NIGHT
Mayweather hums while he sets up the camp galley. He hears a CLICKING noise and looks in its direction.
TRIP (O.S.)
Travis.
Trip walks up to Mayweather fiddling with a scanner.
MAYWEATHER
Yes, sir?
TRIP
The Captain just
checked in.
They'll be here in about a half
hour and he said
there are seven
starving crewmen with him.
MAYWEATHER
I'll make
sure supper's hot, sir.
(re: the scanner)
What are you doing?
Trip smacks the side of the scanner with the heel of his hand.
TRIP
Stupid piece of
junk! Someday I'm gonna invent a scanner that runs its own
diagnostics.
MAYWEATHER
What's it
doing?
TRIP
Oh...
(smacks
scanner again)
it keeps giving me odd readings.
MAYWEATHERS
Odd how?
TRIP
(annoyed)
It
shows energy signatures and
bio- signs one minute and the
next
they're gone. Poof!
(beat)
I'm gonna go scout around camp
just in case. Have to set up the
perimeter alarms before the
Captain gets back anyway.
MAYWEATHER
(shrugs)
Maybe
it's ghosts, sir.
TRIP
(laughs)
Only
ghosts around here, Travis,
are in your ghost stories. Be back
soon.
Mayweather watches Trip disappear into the trees, looking concerned.
FADE OUT.
END OF TEASER