DEEP SPACE: "The Passenger" REV. 12/01/92 - ACT FIVE        47.

56   INT. OPS

	Reactions.  With urgency --

					SISKO
			Can you get a Transporter lock on 
			him?

					PRIMMIN

				(pressing panels, at 
				O'Brien's station)
			Negative.  Their shields are up.

					SISKO
				(to the group)
			Suggestions... ?

					KIRA
			A small ship like a Runabout might 
			be able to get close enough to 
			overload their shield generators 
			with directed phaser fire... we used 
			to do it to Cardassian freighters 
			all the time...

					ODO
			But you'd be risking a hull breach... 
			and with all the deuridium on board...

					SISKO
			He's right... we can't risk releasing 
			deuridium into this system... every 
			populated area would have to be 
			evacuated...
				(beat)
			Dax... is there any way to disrupt 
			Vantika's control over Bashir?

	Moving to her station and already beginning to work...

					DAX
			I have an exact model of Vantika's 
			neural energy patterns.  If I can 
			design an electromagnetic pulse to 
			disrupt those patterns, Julian might 
			emerge... But we still need a way to 
			get it there.

					SISKO
			What if we send it right along the 
			tractor beam... at the same frequency 
			as their shields... ?