Wision--SesQuaTercet USA ™ de facto trademark Petry System Family Wision USA

in conjunction with

project NEMO

presents

To Boldly Go (StarTrails)

a science-cubed fiction comic short, PG-13

Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, Strategic Director
a Wision--SesQuaTercet USA production

(a division of Lanthus Corporation)

[index][script][music][sets&settings][budget][prospectus][roles]
[science-cubed fiction comic short] Set-derived from the story of Professors' Spring Break (trilogy) requel (Fling, scene#17 introduces the lead actor) which turned the whole cosmos inside-out.... To Boldly Go is a 2-scene comic snippet played within the main feature, The StarTrails Game, science-cubed scenario fiction story of a little girl who excels in virtual starship command, and takes a summer-long ride aboard a NASA simulator: In, To Boldly Go, a starship takes-on twin loads of anti-and-matter, and mass-phase-rotates to enter a star.
[Music specified in this screenplay is the Strategic Director's selection]

Abstract

CONCEPT
Not a cloaking device: Nor an invisible man scenario:
But a mathematical concept applied obviously to publicly known high-energy physics: Matter and anti-matter are particle-for-particle oppositely charged: mutually negative:
Enter the mathematician: who asks for the complex number analysis: imaginary mass, imaginary energy: A very reasonable conjecture: Maintains conservation of mass-energy: Just not the usual around-the-kitchen stuff: Probably intangible, invisible: Probably polarized and interactive only by the cosine of the complex-mass-angle: Or like neutrinos [n] are invisible despite their energy (7.2 MeV/v typical example from the collapsing core of a supernova) equipollent to 10 thousand x-rays or 4 million red photons, yet so unlike photons: 99.9999999999% invisible and intangible: [The mathematician will come back later to examine hyper-complex (octonion) mass-energy]
To bolster ramifications, the mathematician postulates: conservation of the obvious yet unproven (laissez-physique-faire) mass-normalcy: And for scenario, constructs around this same rule, by supplying equal portions of normal-matter and anti-matter: so that sum-total normalcy is balanced-out: nulled to zero: cancelled to zero-moment: And rotates it freely: Facile! No big bang: Big buck: Big account: Big arithmetic!
Now the fun of a story is to visit some place by such means, and describe the simple difference: By first rotating mass to near perpendicular quadrature (100 grad, 90 deg) and allowing for engineering precision to half a mark: consequenting a remnant 1% polar cosine probability of interactability, visibility, tangibility -- and choosing a venue of then-equal clemency: we might enter a stellar fusion furnace, and take a "look"....
Of course, the other cosmic constant, gravity, though invisible (as always was) but definite, becomes a rediscovery for how it, newly applies:
PLOT
Part#1: Their starship is loaded with equal portions of anti-and-matter: Two Engineering cadets discuss with a Lieutenant, the concept of mass-phase rotation.
Part#2: Their starship ventures into the very inner depths of a star: The star darkens to black as they rotate mass-phase to quadrature, except a faint glow at the star-center: where they encounter an unexpected alien culture inside, an aggressive alien spaceship, and escape cleverly ejecting a popsicle stick which EXPLODES on contact -- and ponder how life and gravity must be inside their invisible star.

Scene

part#1

FADE IN (MATTE)
1 INT. STARSHIP ENGINEERING DECK - LIGHTED (COMIC-BOOK)

("TO BOLDLY GO" IN EXAGGERATION for the [OUTER STORY])

Undergraduate cadet officers HATCH, PAUL, talk: The LIEUTENANT busy-works, nearing:

PAUL
So, why is it, Hatch?
HATCH
(clips)

If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: Don't, call me, Hatch.
PAUL
Okay, then ... Girl-Catcher?
HATCH
That was a non-event.
PAUL
Then, Hatch, why is it: Why are we sitting here, calmly, between twin tanks of matter and antimatter? Enough to disintegrate the entire Earth in a truly cosmic event.
HATCH
The Lieutenant told us to wait.
LIEUTENANT
(busy, nears)
PAUL
Yes, but, why? what can we possibly accomplish with so much anti' - not even the mighty Enterprise ...
HATCH
Lieutenant? Sir: Can you explain to my fellow crewmate what we intend to do with so much anti-matter?

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

LIEUTENANT
Well, gentlemen, it's simple: You recall your basic freshman complex calculus theory ... there's matter, and there's anti-matter, which have the opposite electric charge for each corresponding nucleon and wavicle ...
PAUL
Yes, that's clear enough, but why so much, boom-power? if you'll pardon the slight.
LIEUTENANT
Well, okay, now - how do you get from positive one, to negative one, conservatively?
PAUL
We rotate the unit vector through the complex imaginary plane, pass i or minus i, to the negative unit.
LIEUTENANT
Very good.
PAUL
But ... why?
LIEUTENANT
That should be obvious, gentlemen:
You can't get from matter to anti-matter without an unconservatively big bang, unless you phase-rotate through imaginary mass....

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

PAUL
Complex-imaginary mass? such a concept ... just like our phasor guns - but how do we phase-rotate?
LIEUTENANT
Suppose we take equal portions of matter and antimatter ... we then have a total of neither in excess - they cancel each other out in sum total phase ... and together they can phase-spin freely ....
PAUL
Okay, that's why we have equal portions of disaster - pardon the literal expression - in separate twin tanks ... but what do we do with so much? Are we going to resurrect all the dead from phasor-wounds?
LIEUTENANT
No: Phasor-weapons hit with a narrow beam and cause co-rotation only at a spot.... We, gentlemen, are going to sit entirely inside the beam of a phasor-engine ....
PAUL
Beyond belief!!
(emotes [like CAPT KIRK])

We're boldly going where no man has wholly gone before!
[OUTER-STORY] (VO)
(REF EXTERIOR DIALOG)
All look-about distracted as the [outer-story] overrides.

FREEZE-PAGE-LEAVE

1
CONNECT

part#2

FADE IN (MATTE)
2 INT. STARSHIP COMMAND - APPROACHING A STAR (COMIC-BOOK)

("TO BOLDLY GO" IN EXAGGERATION for the [OUTER STORY])

THE STAR LOOMS QUICKLY CLOSER - SEEMING TO ADD LIGHT:

The CAPTAIN [CMDR Dave of the USS Regents] stands center: HELMSMAN, NAVIGATOR, COMMUNICATOR, SCIENCE OFFICER, [ENGINEER video+voice], DEFENSER sit appropriately: [AUTO-ENG, VOICE-ALERT, KLAXON, CUSTODIAN, ALIEN are E-VOICE]

CAPTAIN
Reduce speed to sublight, Helm!
HELMSMAN
Reducing to sublight, Sir:
1-point-4 light-speed,
1-point-2,
1-point-1,
1-point-0,
0-point-9 - we're sublight, Sir,
0-point-7,
0-point-6.
NAVIGATOR
Procyon-B is sitting there nice and pretty, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Bring us into close orbit!
NAVIGATOR
Closing orbit, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Engine rooms!
[ENGINEER]
Engine rooms, here, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Ready for quadrature mass-phase rotation!
[ENGINEER]
Aye -- ready, Sir: She's sitting like a banshee sniffing the wind: Ready for mass-phase-rotation.
NAVIGATOR
We have close orbit, Sir.

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

They cross close-orbit distance to star Procyon:
CAPTAIN
On my command, Helm!
HELMSMAN
On command, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Comm, put me on shipwide!
COMMUNICATOR
(keys)
    (PA-TWINKLES)
Shipwide, Sir.
CAPTAIN (PA-LOUD)
Ladies and Gentlemen: We are about to embark on the boldest journey mankind has ever taken: We are about to enter the realm of nonexistence from our own familiar cosmos:-- All hands ready!
COMMUNICATOR
Ready on all decks, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Engineering: Mass-phase rotation, 5 grads per hesit, to 99! Begin, now!
[ENGINEER]
Rotating, Sir.
[AUTO-ENG] (VO)
Gradshift:
(2 per sec.)

1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 -
(CONCURRENT)
8 - 9 - gradshift - 11 - 12 -
(and so on to 99)
CAPTAIN
(on Auto "6")

Give me quarter-impulse ahead!

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

The star dims gradually [to 1%] in mass-rotation, while: [AUTO-ENG] (VO) continues counting grads (2 per sec.) with decade reminders to 99, slowing on cue ca 90 (1 per sec.): [eg.... 18 - 19 - gradshift - 21 - 22 ...]
HELMSMAN
Quarter-impulse ahead, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Science Officer!
SCIENCER
We have steady process, Sir.
CAPTAIN
(on Auto "25")

Engine Room!
[ENGINEER]
Engine Room, here, Sir: She's a fine, banshee:
CAPTAIN
Comm!
COMMUNICATOR
We're still in contact with Star-Fleet, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Send our final hail! We're proceeding towards and into, Procyon-B.
NAVIGATOR
(on Auto "50")

1-million kilometers, Sir - sure looks hot out there.
CAPTAIN
Science Officer!
SCIENCER
Stellar-wind-ambient is 28-hundred degrees dynamic, and climbing, Sir: We're up to 14-hundred, at: 13 hesits to penetration.

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

COMMUNICATOR
(on Auto "75")

Captain: Star-Fleet sends it's highest regards, Sir - and, farewell.
CAPTAIN
Thank you, Comm.
The stellar PHOTOSPHERE ENVELOPES them:
NAVIGATOR
Sir: We're in the photosphere.
CAPTAIN
Slow to one-half rotation!
[AUTO-ENG] (VO:CONCURRENT)
(adjusting: 1 per sec.)

... 96-grads, 97-grads, 98-grads, 98-point-6, 98-point-9, 99-point-1: 99-point-2 grads and holding -- succession auto-terminated.
NAVIGATOR
Sir: We're entering the convection sphere.
CAPTAIN
Science Officer!
SCIENCER
Ship's hull is up to 2-thousand-50 degrees dynamic, and rising, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Sure looks bright out there....
Shields up full!
DEFENSER
Shields up, Sir.
SCIENCER
Hull, 22-50 degrees - 23-hundred - we can't sustain much higher, Sir: 24-hundred degrees - 24-50 ...
CAPTAIN
Full rotation, now, Helm!

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

The star darkens to faintly warmer than black around them: except a smudge in the distance ahead is the star-center:
HELMSMAN
Full rotation concluding, now, Sir: 99-point-5 grads, 99-point-7 grads, 99-point-9 grads, and holding at, 1-hundred-point-0-8 grads - we have slight overshoot.
SCIENCER
Ship's hull temperature has dropped to 3-hundred-80 degrees dynamic, Sir: It's a hot nebula out there.
CAPTAIN
Fine trim, Helm!
HELMSMAN
Fine trimming, Sir:
1-hundred-point-0-7 grads,
1-hundred-point-0-5 grads,
(CONCURRENT)

1-hundred-point-0-3 grads,
1-hundred-point-0-1 grads,
1-hundred-point-0-0 grads.
SCIENCER
Hull temperature dropping rapidly: 2-90 degrees - 1-10 - 45 - 43-point-3 degrees, and stabilizing, Sir.
CAPTAIN
That's odd.
NAVIGATOR
Sir, Procyon-B has vanished from sensors.... The whole cosmos is gone black.
CAPTAIN
What's that, then?!
(points-out)

I ordered 1-hundred-grads, fine trimmed.

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

HELMSMAN
Sir? We're at 1-hundred-point-0-0-3 grads: She's fine-trimmed, Sir: Can't tweak her a notch further.
CAPTAIN
Then, what is that on screen center?! Science Officer!
SCIENCER
Sir, it's approximately the star center: It shouldn't be visible unless it is extremely hot, 60-million degrees, or producing quadrature mass or at least quadrature photons ... perhaps a quantum black-hole, Sir, dancing in a hot rarefied domain, at the very core of Procyon-B, leaking neutrinos and ...
COMMUNICATOR
(interrupts)

Sir, we're being hailed!
CAPTAIN
By whom?!
COMMUNICATOR
It's unintelligible lingo-code, Sir! No: Wait ... here's ...

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

DISPLAY: An alien ship approaches: AD LIB LINGO CODE:
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-alijioiniev vessel in the okovowik podkruveyed entry fasvoijifoyodesi-
CAPTAIN
On screen! Science Officer: Who are they? Locate!
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-tsuvofidahid violations asafeklyar woiverlaom direct sudahareklimvyano pilot apokipidarekniyapskovaniyatak bearing pederosinalactenabidosafada docking kreyemaskiniyamatskubiyasay power lock adjutant piviniskotubals isprivinukrechniyapadoadosgadosapi-
SCIENCER
Unknown, Sir: Their lingo-code is entirely foreign, but not uncrackable. They're approaching starboard side: Propulsion appears to be simple tractor-beam on asteroid debris in the local space: It appears this space is not empty.
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-troiulufi supreme command ufiownya opijivaroieranesiovijadakapisnyaka-
    (KLAXON)
[VOICE-ALERT] (VO)
YELLOW! ALERT!
NAVIGATOR
Tractor beam, Sir!
ROOM BUMPS: ALL HANDS brace.

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

ALL HANDS braced:
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-nisa reduce shields and be boarded spoiwesafuvuveortumiyeskawanabistro kebayashitogogustoformapasabivnyas-
CAPTAIN
That's plain enough -- Comm: Hail them: We will send an ambassador!
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-trasoyux monitor dedifoodsiawefeki evidences oirevierluksduvishcordora consequences foradiniripescovashtin detainment scalafesoretorkimasinofo pending porosatonelscopelipartamano prarbacuvuristamovalemnyaprodoshmy-
COMMUNICATOR
I've tried echo-contact, Sir: They don't respond -- no response to hail: neither.
SCIENCER
Sir! We can't approach them! The alien vessel mass is negative-quadrature rotated: They're anti-matter: Our, anti!
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-jujuwefer officer occupation wefaw verification owiyesoifeariuhejinire jodiufadahfasdafemesablatorgensami-
CAPTAIN
Defense-weapons: Prepare a warning phasor!
SCIENCER
(clips)

Belay that order! We're not in free space -- Sir.
(a beat)

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-jarifoyu fleet difavufodiufegerach ordered tomaraguchisnuvilofegahatar surrender jinowebopatinofibjequerij command afevopavinopsionvofivnafixu koiujiciwokavaneyuwahuinfaxapramas-
SCIENCER
(continues)

Firing phasor-rotation here inside the star will only succeed in back-loading the phasor-cannons.
CAPTAIN
(broad smiles)

Garbage Detail!
[CUSTODIAN] (VO)
Garbage Detail here, Sir: What's you're pleasure?
[ALIEN] (VO:CONCURRENT)
-curwijoha failure quivisiutoyedese result in ficuwudidafiodaerfasfasm- prompt skaweyusuteroivisheyacuiviye suffer terasomigarelapormonerkalbra preemptory renemasacorfamgelripota-
CAPTAIN
Eject a popsicle stick!
[CUSTODIAN] (VO)
Aye, Sir -- popsicle stick away.... One popsicle stick over-board, Sir.
SCIENCER
(at instruments)

Tracking ... bearing: 3-7 by 4-2 -- nearing the alien vessel....
[ALIEN] (VO)
-lacado destruction chukfidovekmis.
(CLICK)
AN EXPLOSIVE FLASH ON THE ALIEN VESSEL --

FREEZE-PAGE-FLIP

DISSIPATES, LEAVING IT DAMAGED BUT INTACT:
SCIENCER
Direct hit, Sir: Heavy damage just off their tractor beam port -- they're backing away: I guess they've never seen anti-matter -- not surprising since they can't rotate phase inside a star;
Think of how inverted must be their laws of physics and gravity: their notions of empty space so ignorant of reality, yet themselves so far advanced technologically:
Fascinating!
COMMUNICATOR
(prompt)

Alien communications has been dis-acquired, Sir.
CAPTAIN
Thank you, Comm - and that'll be enough eulogizing, Science Officer. Take us out of this star, Helm! Mass-rotate outside! We must visit this quadrature space another time.
HELMSMAN
Aye: we're exiting Procyon-B.
The starship pulls away from the alien vessel, turns and retreats from the local inner-star-space:
[OUTER-STORY] (VO)
(REF EXTERIOR DIALOG)
ALL look-about awed as the [outer-story] overrides ... finally all glaring at US intruders (audience), as they rotate phase to normal star-background outside the star.

FREEZE-PAGE-LEAVE

2
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THE END

[StarTrails §3]



Screenwriter: Raymond Kenneth Petry
Strategic Director: Mr. Raymond Kenneth Petry, Director, SesQuaTercet
Registrar: Wision--SesQuaTercet USA (division of Lanthus Corporation USA)
Recipient: project N E M O Nuclear Emergency Management Organization
Registered Owner: Lanthus Surrogate Executive Accessions Management

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