DEEP SPACE: "Battle Lines" - REV. 1/25/93 - ACT FIVE        45.

64   CONTINUED:

					O'BRIEN
			I'm thinkin' the only thing that 
			could block out a transponder signal 
			is a broad band damping field... and 
			that would require a low altitude 
			satellite system like this one... 
			and then suddenly we're being scanned 
			by these satellites and I'm 
			thinking...

					DAX
				(finishing his thought)
			... maybe they had something to do 
			with our missing Runabout...

					O'BRIEN
			Exactly.
				(checking sensors, 
				nods)
			See, they're putting out a mutual 
			induction field that would block 
			ninety-nine percent of all 
			transmissions to and from the 
			surface...

					DAX
			Is there any way for us to get a com 
			line through the field?

					O'BRIEN
			I've got one percent to work with, 
			don't I?

	Off her reaction...

65   EXT. MOON SURFACE

	Starting on the "dead" face of Shel-la... fallen beside 
	Zlangco... Nima and the others (note - since these are hand 
	weapons, this time the make-up must include wounds and 
	blood)... coming to one Nol who is stirring and on his knees 
	in pain... slowly the others begin to show vague signs of 
	life as we move to find Sisko and Bashir studying the grisly 
	scene...

					BASHIR
			The analysis is very clear.  Once 
			these microbes restore a body after 
			death, that body becomes permanently 
			dependent on them for all cellular 
			functions...