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DUFFY
Only because I just wet my pants.

LIEUTENANT’S COM VOICE

Tower to Runabout A-4112...

DUFFY
You had to fly under the bridge...

LIEUTENANT’S COM VOICE
You are engaged in an unauthorized flight...
please stand by to be tractored back to
base...

Duffy reaches forward to hit a com panel...

PICARD

Don’t answer that.

DUFFY
I’ve never seen the inside of a stockade...
do they have stockades for cadets?

PICARD
Only for the ones they catch.

EXT. RUNABOUT – NIGHT – (OPTICAL)

as a tractor beam shines up from the ground, the runabout rolls out of its path... and
as the beam automatically adjusts and tracks them, the vessel makes remarkable
twists avoiding it – it’s one helluva display of piloting...

INT. TOWER – NIGHT

An admiral, MATTHEW DOUGHERTY, 50, enters...

DOUGHERTY
Report!

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