DEEP SPACE: "Vortex" - REV. 1/13/93 - ACT FIVE           52.

75   CONTINUED:

					CRODEN
			He's coming about...
				(beat)
			... powering his shields...
				(beat)
			... his starboard photon bank is 
			armed...

					ODO
			Computer, engage!

	The Runabout lurches...

			CRODEN			COMPUTER VOICE
		He's firing photons!	Impulse engines on line.

76   EXT. PLASMA FIELD (OPTICAL)

	The Runabout lurches out of frame as Ah-Kel's ship fires 
	its photon torpedoes.  Immediately, the environment around 
	it ignites and consumes the Miradorn vessel.

77   EXT. SPACE - THE VORTEX (OPTICAL)

	The Runabout emerges from the Plasma Field followed by a 
	tremendous billowing gas explosion as the field ignites.

78   INT. RUNABOUT

	The interior is rocked by the explosion... but it finally 
	settles down...

					ODO
				(to the girl)
			Everybody back there in one piece?

					YARETH
				(shaky)
			Yes.

					ODO
				(to Croden)
			Good.  Take us out of your precious 
			vortex.

	Croden looks at Odo with appreciation as he takes over the 
	controls.  Odo leans back with relief.