DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 11/01/93 - ACT FOUR       38.

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					ODO
				(to Sisko)
			Another thermal distortion... Did 
			you try the lights, Doctor?

					BASHIR
			No, I didn't want to disturb the 
			patients.

					ODO
			Commander, I suggest we check the R-
			F energy flow to the Infirmary... we 
			might find a power interruption just 
			as we did in the lab.

	Sisko acknowledges.  Mora is extremely impressed with Odo's 
	line of investigation here... Dax crosses to them, checking 
	her sensor.

					DAX
			No blood, or any fluid traces.  But 
			I am picking up a very slight trail 
			of something we didn't see last time.  
			An organic residue.

					SISKO
			Enough to test?

					DAX
			We'll see.

	She EXITS.

					SISKO
				(hits combadge)
			Sisko to Ops.KIRA'S COM VOICE Go 
			ahead.

					SISKO
			Restrict all nonessential personnel 
			to their quarters and go to red alert, 
			Major.

					KIRA'S COM VOICE
			Understood.

					SISKO
				(to Odo)
			Keep in touch with Dax's progress... 
			she might give us a way to track 
			this thing...