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        DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 10/28/93 - ACT TWO       21.

22   INT. SURGERY - LATER

	BASHIR is hard at work stabilizing and checking out his 
	patients, Dax, Doctor Mora, and Doctor Weld, who are all in 
	bunks.  Mora and Weld are unconscious, using respirator masks.  
	Dax is resting, but breathing normally.  Odo is sitting, 
	fully dressed on a bed.  Bashir talks to Sisko as he works...

					BASHIR
			They're stable for now.  Dax is in 
			fair condition, the Bajorans seem to 
			be more seriously affected.  Perhaps 
			they were exposed to more of the 
			gas, or there may be something about 
			Trill physiology... I'm not sure 
			yet...

					SISKO
			And Odo?

					ODO
			I'm fine.

					BASHIR
			The paralyzing action occurred when 
			the gas was taken into the respiratory 
			system.  Since Odo doesn't have a 
			respiratory system as we know it, he 
			apparently wasn't affected at all.

					SISKO
			O'Brien's off-loaded the cargo they 
			brought back.  He's set up everything 
			in the Science Lab.  I understand 
			there are some organic specimens 
			from that planet.  Maybe there's 
			something that can help you figure 
			this out.

					BASHIR
			Good idea.

	During the above, Odo has crossed slowly to Mora's bed...

23   AT MORA'S BED

	Mora is breathing irregularly, and with some difficulty.  
	Odo looks at him a long moment.  His mentor seems very weak 
	and small.