DEEP SPACE: "The Siege" - 07/15/93 - ACT TWO            19.

21   CONTINUED:

					DAX
				(unhappily shaking 
				off the cobwebs)
			Have I mentioned how allergic Trills 
			are to insect bites?

					KIRA
			Really?

					DAX
			The biochemical connections between 
			the host and symbiont can't tolerate 
			the...
				(interrupting herself, 
				startled)
			Is that a spider or a dog?

	We catch a glimpse of something large, black and crab-like 
	moving quickly across a rock in the foreground...

					KIRA
			Palukoo.  The Bajoran moons are 
			full of them.

					DAX
				(ugh)
			I suppose they became your pets and 
			you all sang songs about them around 
			the campfire.

					KIRA
			No, we ate them.

	Dax gives her a sharp look... Kira pauses... flashes the 
	palm beacon ahead...

					KIRA
			There it is...

22   ANGLE - TO REVEAL (OPTICAL)

	the smallest, most archaic looking spacecraft we've ever 
	seen on Star Trek.  In 20th century terms, it's a biplane.  
	As they move closer...