DEEP SPACE: "Paradise" - REV. 11/30/93 - ACT ONE           8.

7    EXT. COMPOUND - DAY

	Joseph, Sisko, and O'Brien make their way into the compound... 
	it is a formidable sight... a Federation ship has been 
	converted into a shelter, creating a huge backdrop... a rough- 
	hewn town square has been cleared in front of the ship... it 
	is bordered on one side by the beginnings of a farmers' 
	field... with corn and other vegetables growing... people 
	are harvesting the fields... in the square, they grind corn 
	into flour... a carpenter fixes a tool...

	One by one, the colonists notice Sisko and O'Brien -- the 
	first strangers they've seen in a decade -- and react with 
	surprise, awe, and friendly smiles.  No fear.  A few stop 
	what they're doing and timidly approach the newcomers.  One 
	of them is an attractive woman, (CASSANDRA) about 30.

8    ON O'BRIEN AND SISKO

	eyeing the ship.

					SISKO
			Erewon-class personnel transport...

					JOSEPH
			Commissioned the "Santa Maria."  
			Now, we just call it "the cabin."

	ALIXUS ENTERS, from the ship, Vinod at her side.  Alixus is 
	a handsome, happy-eyed, smiling, glowingly charismatic woman, 
	about fifty.  Her smile broadens into a wide, infectious 
	grin.

					ALIXUS
			After all this time... visitors!  
			Welcome to our community.  Are there 
			others?

					SISKO
			Just an empty runabout in orbit.  
			Hopefully, it'll attract some 
			attention.

					JOSEPH
				(hungry for news)
			"Runabout."  Is that some kind of 
			new Starfleet vessel?