The Production Guide
Script To Screen: Collision Course
by Martin Willey

ARRA

I am Arra, Queen of Atheria.

KOENIG

Atheria?

ARRA

The Planet whose course has
terrified you and your people.

KOENIG looks down at the gun. It seems suddenly a
shameful object in the presence of this ancient creature.
He puts it away.

ARRA

We have expected you for many
millions of years. You see your
destiny has always been our
destiny.

KOENIG

But...how can that be possible?

ARRA

(completes his question)

When Man has walked upright.
on Earth for less than a million
years? We have watched your
progress since the creation of
your solar system. It was only
a matter of time before we met,
John Koenig.

KOENIG is amazed. He looks around for substantial evidence,
some recognisable visual peg on which to hang this
experience. There is none.

KOENIG

It seems to me we are here by
accident. Our Moon was blasted
out of Earth's orbit by a nuclear
explosion. No one could have
foreseen that.

ARRA

(laughs, but sympathetically)

Oh, poor John Koenig. How you
belittle yourself in the scheme of
things. And yet how small you are
to be so great!

KOENIG

(overawed)

I should very much like to know...
my place in the scheme of things.

ARRA

Can you consider your universe as
a cell under the microscope of one
of your Earthly scientists? Think
of your galaxy as one of the
innumerable chromosomes that make
up the cell of your Universe? And
of your solar system as just one
of the millions of genes in a single
chromosome? And you, John Koenig,
as a minuscule part of that single
gene? How small you are!

KOENIG

Do I exist at all?

ARRA

(excited)

Oh, but you do! And how
magnificent is the part you
play. Our separate planets
have met in the body of Time for
the great purpose of mutation.
We shall change it utterly and
the change shall reverberate
through the galaxies and
universes of eternity. You and
I are vital droplets in the
boundless ocean of Time. We have
met with purpose and we cannot
fail our destiny.