DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 10/28/93 - ACT ONE       12.

3    CONTINUED:	(3)

					ODO
			Doctor Mora was the scientist who 
			was assigned to me in my first years 
			here... if he went to the Board of 
			Ministers to request permission to 
			approach you, it would take months.  
			And he's very anxious to investigate 
			something in the Gamma Quadrant.  
			And may I say, Commander, so am I.

					SISKO
			You've got me curious, Constable.  
			Is it a secret?

					ODO
			No, but there isn't much to tell.  
			One of the Bajoran science probes 
			recently scanned a planet about six 
			light years from the wormhole.  It 
			picked up some very unique and 
			familiar DNA patterns.  Patterns 
			very much like my own, Commander.
				(beat)
			Doctor Mora thinks he may have found 
			the origin of my people... of... 
			me...

	Off Sisko's reaction...

4    EXT. SPACE - THE WORMHOLE

	The Federation runabout comes out of it into the Gamma 
	Quadrant... the wormhole closes...

5    INT. RUNABOUT

	DAX is the pilot.  Doctor Mora sits in the co-pilot seat.  
	Odo and a second Bajoran scientist are in the background.  
	We'll get to know this other scientist as DOCTOR WELD RAM.

					MORA
				(to Dax)
			As a scientist yourself, Lieutenant, 
			you can appreciate the difficulty of 
			our dilemma, and the elegance of the 
			solution.  When Odo was first found, 
			no one knew who, or indeed, what we 
			were dealing with.