DEEP SPACE: "Emissary" REV. FINAL 08/31/92 - ACT THREE       49.

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					COMPUTER VOICE
			Initializing data base.  Requested 
			function will require two hours to 
			complete.

	Dax nods, leans back... stretches, takes a deep breath... 
	she looks at...

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	behind the forcefield... and as she studies it, her curiosity 
	cannot be denied... she stands... walks over and after a 
	beat, presses a panel... and the forcefield disappears... 
	and the green light swirls out and envelops her... and when 
	it disappears she is no longer in the laboratory but in...

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77   INT. OPERATING ROOM - DAY

	Dax is on an operating table, dressed in a hospital gown, 
	reacts to the sudden change.  She tries to get her bearings. 
	Beside her on another table is a very old man (CURZON) who 
	is dying...

					DAX
				(recognizes him, 
				surprised)
			Curzon... ?

	The old man reaches out a frail hand and take her hand 
	and squeezes it, smiles weakly at her...  in the 
	background, we can see glimpses of people standing 
	(no faces) as though some kind of ceremony is taking 
	place...

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	to see the old man's table in the background of Dax's table... 
	as a dripping wet worm-like symbiont is guided by a pair of 
	hands out of an orifice in the general area of the human 
	navel... and as the hands lift it, another pair of hands 
	uses ritual gold surgical scissors to clip an umbilical 
	connection to the old man...