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            DEEP SPACE: "Babel" REV. 10/19/92 - ACT THREE           29.
                           ACT THREE                            

36   EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)

					SISKO (V.O.)
			Station log Stardate 46423.7.  Nearly 
			sixty percent of DS Nine's population 
			has now contracted the aphasia virus.  
			We are advising all incoming ships 
			to maintain their distance from the 
			station until further notice.

37   INT. ACCESS TUNNEL (SAME LOCATION AS TEASER)

	Kira and a repair crew are carefully rechecking every inch 
	of the tunnel.  Kira scans an open panel with a tricorder.  
	She reacts to a reading and carefully reaches inside the 
	circuitry and as her fingers close around her target...

38   INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE

	The ALIEN DEVICE we saw in the teaser is now resting on 
	Sisko's table.

38A  WIDEN TO INCLUDE

	Sisko and Kira.

					KIRA
			I found it inside the replicator's 
			pattern generator.

					SISKO
			O'Brien must have accidently triggered 
			it when he repaired the system.

					KIRA
			According to Bashir, it introduced 
			an anomalous programming sequence 
			into the materialization subroutine.  
			In effect it built the virus directly 
			into the replicated food at a 
			molecular level.

					SISKO
			So what we have here is sabotage.