INT. LONG ODDS - INFIRMARY

               All white room with curved walls. Stainless steel tables with
               clean sheets and thick pillows. Julie is on one table and
               Charlie opposite. Doc Long examines Julie. Julie and Charlie
               are bandaged up. Julie's left eye blinks alot.

                                   DOC LONG
                         You should be fine, Ms. Rayne. The
                         furn drugs are almost out of your
                         system. But if this eye twitch
                         continues to exacerbate we'll have
                         to do something about it.

                                   JULIE (IN AWE)
                         Yes, Doctor Long.

                                   DOC LONG
                         Let me get that paperwork.

               Doc Long leaves the white room.

               Julie winces, but hugs Charlie Twoclouds anyway.

                                   JULIE
                         It hard to take all this in. Part
                         of me is still on Kelios.

               Charlie gently hugs Julie back.

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS:
                         I'd like all of you here. The real
                         you, not some furn...
                         Your friends are in danger. Feel up
                         to rescuing some more furrs?

                                   JULIE
                         As soon as I ask Selmar about a
                         certain tape...



               EXT. HOGARTH ASTEROID LOOKOUT STATION- DAY 

               Charlie's star-raider (next size up from starfighter seats 4)
               Lands on a sheet of ice near a Lookout station like the one
               on Kelios except snow covered. An armed arctic wolf comes out
               of the station as Julie and Charlie deplane.
               Azreal comes out of the station and when Julie lowers her
               hood pounces on her excitedly and they roll around in the
               snow hugging. The wolf SVEN lowers his weapon and motions
               Charlie inside. 



               INT. HOGARTH LOOKOUT STATION- DAY 

               Inside the station is divided into living quarters and
               Kitchen/bath. Charlie and Sven sit in the main room and watch
               each other carefully while sounds of RUSHING WATER and
               girlish laughter issue from the other room. 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         Thank you for allowing my Furn to
                         bathe.  After the long trip out
                         here she needs to freshen...

                                   SVEN 
                         What brings you this far out? 

               They exchange suspicious looks. 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         What do you think? 

                                   SVEN
                         There were requests for my furns
                         correspondence and talk of
                         replacement. I'm very satisfied
                         with her performance and don't want
                         the hassle of breaking in a new
                         girl. 

               Charlie notices a chessboard and picks up the white queen. 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         Nothing like that. Do you play
                         well? 

               Sven relaxes and sets up the board. 

                                   SVEN
                         Fair to middlin'



               INT. HOGARTH LOOKOUT STATION- DAY 

               The backroom is part kitchen and part showers & bath. Julie
               and Azreal wrapped in towels take turns combing each others
               hair. 

                                   AZREAL 
                         Vhitey, That's what I call Sven, is
                         a real schatz. It would be sad to
                         leave him, but freedom? I do not
                         know...

                                   JULIE
                         Would he come along with us? 

                                   AZREAL
                         Perhaps...

               There's a loud KNOCK on the door 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS (O.C.)
                         Julie get out here something's up.



               INT. HOGARTH LOOKOUT STATION- DAY 

               Julie, Charlie, Sven and Azreal crowd around the computer.
               Sven reads aloud. 

                                   SVEN
                         "...Recall pending hearing into
                         disappearance of Starfleet
                         Personnel on your watch"   
                         They got lost in a...

                                   AZREAL
                         Whitey, the less said...
                         Can you fit two more in your ship.
                         We're going to be Pirates. 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         Come along then and it's Rebels. 



               EXT. GOAN ASTEROID LOOKOUT STATION- DAY 

               In a lush tropical jungle. Charlie and Julie look on as
               Bilail with a python draped around her neck holds a gun on
               RAMA, her former master.

                                   BILAIL
                         He wasn't that grotty. The snakes
                         were a hoot. Let's us tie him down
                         in the shack and leave him be. 

                                   RAMA 
                         Oh yes, That being best idea. I
                         will be causing no trouble. 



               EXT. LINDARBORE PLANETOID - DAY

               On the landing field Mikeale faces Julie and Charlie under
               their Star-raider. 

                                   MIKEALE 
                         You risked this ship and two pilots
                         and wasted tons of fuel to bring
                         two furns and only one trained
                         fighter here? 

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         Sir. Yes, sir

                                   JULIE
                         I'm a pilot? --
                         Sir!

                                   MIKEALE
                         Maybe, Are you winking at me
                         female? 

                                   JULIE
                         Sir. No sir. It's a nervous twitch. 

                                   MIKEALE
                         Head for the M. A. S. H. Small
                         potatoes.



               EXT. IN SPACE ABOVE LINDARBORE PLANETOID

               Orbiting a mostly green sphere Mikeale's Starfighter faces
               six similar craft. Five are painted dull gray and one is
               decorated with ocelot spots. They talk by ship to ship
               communicators.

                                   MIKEALE(ON COMM)
                         Ok maggots, you are not big horse
                         flies yet. You can maneuver in open
                         space, Now we try the Mazery.

                                   TRAINEE 1 (ON COMM)
                         Mazery?

                                   MIKEALE(ON COMM)
                         Pivot in place!

               All six trainee craft swivel one hundred eighty degrees and
               face a close packed field of space debris.  

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM CONT'D)
                         The Mazery.



               EXT. OCELOT SPOTTED STARFIGHTER IN SPACE ABOVE LINDARBORE

               Julie can be seen through the canopy in the pilot's seat.

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Yeah, and I bet Mazery loves
                         company.

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         What? 

               JULIE flicks comm off and reaches for a drink container.



               INT. JULIE'S SHIP

               The drink bottle has Gordian Knot Printed on it.

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         Ms. Rayne whenever you are ready we
                         can start...



               EXT. THE MAZERY

               Boulder sized rocks and ice chunks are kept in a delicate
               balance by gravitational forces creating a slowly shifting
               series of tunnels. 

               Julie's ship leads the other trainee ships through the maze,
               slowly.

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Follow. If we get sundered, pick a
                         side 'wall' and use that as a
                         guide. 

                                   TRAINEE IN LAST SHIP (ON COMM)
                         Damn.

               The tunnel shifts and one space rock slams the last ship into
               the opposite side where it breaks up. The pilot compartment
               ejects. 

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         You OK? 

                                   TRAINEE FROM LOST SHIP (ON COMM
                         Yep.

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Move your tails...

               The remaining ships continue at a faster pace and thread
               their way through the Mazery for sometime. The catpaw nebula
               and Lindarbore can be seen through gaps to small to navigate.
               They barely make it around a sharp bend. 

                                   TRAINEE FROM LOST SHIP (ON COMM)
                         Hi guys. You come back for me?

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Boobookittyfudge. We're going in
                         circles.



               EXT. THE MAZERY - LATER

               Julie's ship and three others approach a section where the
               catpaw nebula is in view. 

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Target the ice ball dead ahead and
                         fire on my command.

                                   THREE OTHER TRAINEES (ON COMM)
                         Ready -- Aim --

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Fire. 

               The ice ball explodes and the starfighters exit the maze.

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS (ON COMM)
                         Commander Leva, sir?  Can she  ride
                         point on the next raid? Julie?
                         Sorry, Wing Leader Rayne, Read this
                         Starfleet memo.

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Coming in now. Message received. A
                         Dhorkian freighter?
                             (to herself)
                         "The ocelot reached over her
                         spotted head and flicked the switch
                         that took her ship out of
                         hyperdrive into normal space ..."

               EXT -- DEEP SPACE

               A Bronze snail-like starship lumbers along. Much smaller
               opalescent rocket ships swarm it like flies.

               EXT -- DEEP SPACE --MOMENTS LATER

               A sleek one-person vessel with a faint leopard paint job
               appears suddenly, bringing up the rear.



               INT -- JULIE'S SHIP - CONTINUOUS

               Julie keeps the snail ship in view through her ships oval
               view ports. Julie flicks an overhead switch. Julie remembers
               her space pirates story and quotes it back in her mind.

                                   JULIE (V.O.)
                         "...Engaging her cloaking device
                         she slowly stalked the Dhorkian
                         starliner like her ancient
                         ancestors pursuing a... "



               EXT.  JULIE'S SHIP

               The ship shimmers and disappears from view.

                                   JULIE (V.O. CONT'D)
                         "As soon as they left this system,
                         she'd call in the other raiders. It
                         was her first time on point and she
                         wasn't going to blow it! Following
                         just out of scanner range..."

               RADIO STATIC

                                   BILAIL (ON COMM)
                         The Dhorks jumpgate yet? 

                                   JULIE (ON COMM)
                         Radio silence. 

               LOUD CLICK static ends. 

               Dhorkian Freighter enters jumpgate.

                                   JULIE (V.O. CONT'D)
                         Our spies say these aliens are
                         delivering a new weapon to Muller. 
                         Not if we can...



               EXT -- GEODE SYSTEM - LATER

               Further out than the asteroids, Starships of assorted sizes
               shapes and colors surround the Dhorkian Freighter with
               JAVAPORE on the hull. 
               Julie's, Charlie's and Mikeale's starfighters and one all
               white one are in view. The "LONG ODDS" (Doc Long's ship) is
               furthest out.

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         Captain of Javapore, We only wish
                         the contents of hold ---
                         Three seven four. Cooperate and no
                         one need get hurt. 

                                   CAPTAIN OF JAVAPORE (ON COMM)
                         This here is the personal vessel o
                         the Punjab o Javapore. You is
                         threading on thin rice.

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         Pilot Bjornston fire a warning shot
                         at their bridge. 

               The all white starfighter turns its guns towards the snail
               ships center.

                                   CAPTAIN OF JAVAPORE (ON COMM)
                         Forget that batchit. We is powering
                         down. 



               INT. STARSHIP "PUNJAB OF JAVAPORE" - MOMENTS LATER

               The Punjab's cabin. Ornate but bulky furnishings. Three
               Dhorkians, the PUNJAB and his lustmate ADA sit on a thick
               divan facing the ships CAPTAIN. Dhorkians are huge, Bosomy
               (male and female) blue, ram's horned, boar faced aliens. 

                                   PUNJAB
                         Ada, sweet nips, flash you self
                         down to three hundred seventy four
                         and move what's in there to three
                         hundred seventy five. 

               Ada slowly and laboriously stands up. The Punjab smacks her
               butt to help her.  

                                   PUNJAB (CONT'D)
                         Put the goodies from three hundred
                         seventy five in three hundred
                         seventy four. 

                                   ADA
                         ...Set the timer for fitty mins,
                         bossjab? 

                                   CAPTAIN OF JAVAPORE
                         Make it sixty six. 

               Ada ambles towards the door. 

                                   PUNJAB
                         Scoot.

               Ada increases her speed by less than half.

                                   ADA
                         Hokay...



               INT. STARSHIP "PUNJAB OF JAVAPORE"- LATER

               Wide curving corridor with heavy vault like bronze doors.
               Door three seven four is open. Julie with a patch over one
               eye, Azreal and Bilail stand around a floating pallet with a
               jug shaped glowing container. Ada stands off to one side by
               door three hundred seventy five glowering. 

                                   JULIE
                         A Klein bottle. Never thought I'd
                         see one. What's in it? 

                                   AZREAL
                         A singularity, black-hole. Göttin
                         im Himmel. You know what this could
                         do released near an asteroid or
                         large ship? 

                                   BILAIL
                         Suck big time, betcha. Hey J.R.
                         What's with the patch. Very
                         buccaneerish. 

                                   JULIE
                         Doc's orders. For twitch. Let's go
                         ladies we're on the clock.

               STATIC on belt communicators. 

                                   SVEN (ON BELT COMM) 
                         Starfleet squadrons approaching ETA
                         5 ticks.



               EXT. LONG ODDS

               Mikeale's ship is docked to the side.



               INT. LONG ODDS INFIRMARY

               The Klein bottle sits on a gurney amid MRI and x-ray
               equipment. Azreal sits at a computer screen looking at a
               graphic of the interior of the bottle. 

                                   AZREAL
                         Commander Leva... I do not think we
                         have the right item...

                                   MIKEALE
                         Why?

                                   AZREAL
                         Black-holes are not artillery
                         shaped and do not have timers. This
                         one says zed colon ten ...zed
                         nine...

               Mikeale grabs the whole gurney and with wires and equipment
               trailing pushes it out the door.

                                   MIKEALE
                         Count...

                                   AZREAL
                         Eight...seven...



               INT. LONG ODDS AIRLOCK - CONTINUOUS

               Mikeale shoves the gurney and Klein bottle through the inside
               hatch and slams the red button on the side of the door. A Red
               line slowly crawls up a gauge.

                                   AZREAL (O.C.)
                         Five...four...

                                   DOC LONG (O.C.)
                         All ships in the vicinity of the
                         Long Odds move off post haste. 

                                   MIKEALE
                         How did He know?

                                   AZREAL
                         Two...one...

               The red line hits the top. The outer hatch opens. The gurney
               flies out into space. 



               EXT. LONG ODDS - CONTINUOUS

               The gurney hurtles away from the ship and then explodes in an
               expanding sphere. 



               INT. LONG ODDS CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER

               A large table with chairs in grooves on the floor. Julie,
               Mikeale, Bilail, Azreal, Charlie, Sven, and Lobo discuss
               things while Selmar serves coffee. Lobo has one metallic ear
               and a hook for a left hand.   

                                   MIKEALE
                         ...telling them what we were after.
                         They're still in the asteroid belt
                         so we have a second chance.

                                   JULIE
                         We should sneak aboard. Just one
                         furr and find the right article...

                                   BILAIL
                         The blue pig girl was blocking the
                         next door. Bet it's in there.

                                   MIKEALE
                         Two will be needed to carry it. Two
                         teams of two each will make the
                         attempt. TwoClouds and Burke. Rayne
                         and Bjornston.

                                   JULIE
                         Azreal I'll try and bring Sven back
                         in one piece.

                                   BILAIL
                         Ready to howl Charlie? 



               EXT. STARSHIP "PUNJAB OF JAVAPORE"

               In the asteroid belt, Starships of assorted sizes shapes and
               colors surround the Dhorkian Freighter. 

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         Let us try this a different way
                         this time. You are merchants not
                         fighters. Ok, how much Geode pay
                         you for real bottle? We will double
                         it.
                         All in hundred percent pure gold
                         pressed ladanum with no serial
                         numbers. Untraceable...

               Julie and Sven's ships fade out. Two vague shimmers in space
               move to the bottom end of the freighter. 

                                   CAPTAIN OF JAVAPORE (ON COMM)
                         I be telling the Punjab now. You
                         all wait on it.

               Julie and Sven's ships fade in attached to different
               airlocks. 

                                   MIKEALE (ON COMM)
                         Also remind him that we could
                         vaporize your ship before Starfleet
                         returns. 



               INT. STARSHIP "PUNJAB OF JAVAPORE" - MOMENTS LATER

               In the corridor with door numbers below three hundred seventy
               Julie and Sven glimpse a Dhorkian armed with an ax. Julie and
               Sven have a whispered conference. 

                                   JULIE
                         Do Dhorks like furry girls? 

                                   SVEN
                         Yeah?

                                   JULIE
                         I'll get his attention and you...

                                   SVEN
                         No. I will not attack from behind.
                         I will confront him, you sneak
                         past. 

                                   JULIE
                         Whatever. 

               Julie moves to an alcove. Sven boldly walks up to the
               Dhorkian and then backs away as the Dhorkian follows him.
               When the Dhorkian passes Julie's alcove Julie sticks out her
               leg. The Dhorkian falls flat on his face. Julie starts down
               the corridor. 

                                   JULIE (CONT'D)
                         Confront.



               INT. STARSHIP - CONTINUOUS

               In the corridor with door numbers above three hundred eighty
               Bilail and Charlie glimpse Ada armed with an ax looking the
               other way. Bilail pushes Charlie into an alcove, pulls a
               dagger and runs forward. Bilail stabs Ada in the butt and
               runs back past Charlie with Ada in pursuit. Charlie proceeds
               in the other direction. 



               INT. DOOR THREE HUNDRED SEVENTY FIVE - MOMENTS LATER

               Charlie and Julie stand in the doorway.  Julie points a
               scanner (like a P.D.A) at another Klein bottle. The scanner
               graphics show the interior of the bottle. A dense black ball
               rolls on a Mobius strip leaving ghost images of itself before
               and after.  

                                   CHARLIE TWOCLOUDS
                         ...Right on this time?

                                   JULIE
                         Gotta be.
                             (into belt comm)
                         Pull back...

               Sven enters looking a little battered.

                                   SVEN
                         Need a hand? 

                                   BILAIL (ON BELT COMM)
                         ...Locked her a storeroom, be right
                         --
                         Bloody hell. Uhggg...

                                   JULIE
                         Bilail. Franny? You guys get the
                         whosis out of here on Charlie's
                         ship. I'll get Ms. Burke. 



               INT. STARSHIP - MOMENTS LATER

               Another corridor in a cul-de-sac Bilail is crumpled in a
               heap. There's a bleeding gash in her shoulder and her right
               leg looks broken. Ada towers over her ax raised for a death
               blow, as Julie comes up behind them. Julie pulls a survival
               knife from her belt moves in to stab Ada and freezes.

                                   JULIE (V.O.)
                         Shit. I couldn't shoot Ben and now
                         I can't knife pigface. Bilail's
                         gonna die? No...

               Julie stabs Ada and the Dhorkian girl turns towards her. Ada
               backhands Julie hard and the ocelot flies towards a bulkhead.
               But instead of slamming into it Julie spins in midair and
               springs back at Ada, claws out and mouth full of fangs open.  

                                   ADA
                         Want more sister? Come and get
                         your...

               Julie lands on Ada's face, grabs her horns and starts kicking
               her in the face. Julie shreds her shoes and starts raking her
               toe claws on Ada. Ada pulls Julie's knife out of her own back
               and tries to bring it around to cut Julie but Julie just cuts
               Ada's wrist with a claw and pulls the knife out of the
               Dhorkian's hand. 

               After some more fighting Ada has multiple stab and scratch
               wounds and Julie some bruises and a black eye. They stand
               apart panting.

                                   JULIE
                         Give up. I'll lock you in a room,
                         Take my friend and leave. No harm,
                         no Fowl. 

                                   ADA
                         Can't do that. Punjabi would have
                         my ass on a platter.

                                   BILAIL (O.C.)
                         ...Need a real big Platter for
                         that.

               Ada's ax flies from Bilail's direction and hits Ada square in
               the back of the head. Ada falls like a stunned ox. 

                                   JULIE
                         Fran? You OK? 

                                   BILAIL
                         That's too right. Headache, bum
                         leg, otherwise no worries. Let's
                         boogie. Gimme a hand. 

               Julie APPLAUDS. 



               INT. LONG ODDS INFIRMARY

               Azreal sits at a computer studying the graphics of the mini
               black hole in the Klein bottle. Suddenly she remembers.



               INT. PROF. FOSTER'S REPORT - AZREAL'S MEMORY

               Azreal remembers pages of the report she read in the hotel
               steam room at SC. As she thinks about them the pages turn. 

               First page - 

               Swanee Technical Assessment and Research Team 

               Findings on the elastic nature of reality in line with
               quantum physics and chaos theory

               Second page -

               Diagrams of worm holes in the space-time continuum and
               equations and formulae 

               Third page 

               Prof. S. A. Foster, Ph.D. 

               My Findings.

               Full page a printed text about Prof. Foster's research.

                                   PROF. STEPHANIE FOSTER (V.O.)
                         ...Imaging a world of evolved apes,
                         When my assistant Dr. Charlton
                         Forte came in and drew my attention
                         to something floating over our
                         heads. 

               Fourth page

               A photograph of Prof. Foster, Dr. Forte and to lab techs
               (white rats) staring up at a small space warp showing a
               distant planet that looks like Earth. 

                                   PROF. STEPHANIE FOSTER (V.O. CONT'D)
                         Before it faded we ascertained it
                         was indeed populated by almost
                         hairless and somewhat sentient
                         apes...



               INT. LONG ODDS INFIRMARY - BACK TO THE PRESENT

               Azreal shakes her head to clear it, stands. 

                                   AZREAL
                         ...Got to ask Doc Long about this
                         and maybe Sven...



               EXT. LINDARBORE LANDING FIELD.

               Mikeale addresses a large crowd of ragtag freedom fighters on
               or around very many starships in various states of repair.
               Julie, Bilail, Azreal, Charlie, Sven, Selmar, Lobo, Felix,
               Roger, Lisa, Kenny, Stan, and Kyle are in the crowd.
               Mikeale's voice booms out of speakers set in trees and
               scaffolds around the crowd. 

                                   MIKEALE
                             (echoing)
                         Today day day day... I I I feel eel
                         eel like the luck luck luckiest
                         furr in the Geode Geode ode ode.

               Mikeale switches off the mike and yells

                                   MIKEALE (CONT'D)
                         Would somebody please fix this damn
                         thing.

               Felix rushes up twiddles some knobs. LOUD FEEDBACK. Fiddles
               some more and slinks off. 

                                   MIKEALE (CONT'D)
                         One Two... OK, As I was trying to
                         say. I feel honored that all of you
                         have chosen to not merely oppose
                         Citizen Lenny and Grand Admiral
                         Muller, but allow me to lead you.
                         Doctor Enoch Long has few words
                         then I have some news. 

               Doc Long takes the stage. 

                                   DOC LONG
                         I've been about for some little
                         time now. 

               Titters from the crowd.

                                   DOC LONG (CONT'D)
                         I noticed that bad things don't
                         leave on their own. You got to
                         chase them away. Sometimes you've
                         got to be rough about or they don't
                         take the hint. Important thing is
                         don't sink to their level or you
                         just become the next bad thing. 

               Doc Long leaves and Mikeale returns. 

                                   MIKEALE
                         Sixty percent of Geode's Starfleet
                         are now on our side. Open rebellion
                         has broken out planetside...



               EXT. GEODE - SOUTH PARKLANDS - CIUDAD DEL LEONARDO - DAY 

               Thousands of rebels surround the state capital building. The
               building is onion domed with minarets at the corners.  A few
               rebels have ray guns and laser rifles. Some have handguns and
               carbines. Most carry edged weapons and farm implements.
               Barney and GENERAL LISSIMO (a donkey) watch from a balcony.

                                   BARNEY
                         Admiral Muller's orders, you must
                         stop them here. If they join with
                         the North Parklands faction the
                         World Gov is no more. Total
                         anarchy.  

                                   GENERAL LISSIMO 
                         I was going to surrender. We have
                         too few men left. 

               A bullet barely misses them. 

                                   BARNEY
                         Lets go back inside. I brought just
                         the thing.