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       DEEP SPACE: "Paradise" - REV. 12/08/93 - ACT TWO 14-16.         
                            ACT TWO                             

	FADE IN:

1    EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE - ESTABLISHING

	(OPTICAL)

2    INT. OPS

	KIRA and DAX at their stations.  N.D. Supernumeraries as 
	needed.  Kira is picking up a message on her panel.  

					KIRA 
			Do you know an Admiral Mitsuya...

					DAX
			Best poker player in the fleet.  
			Next to me.

					KIRA
			Well, he's diverting the Crockett to 
			stop at DS Nine the day after tomorrow 
			to "talk about Cardassian foreign 
			policy"...

					DAX
			That's just an excuse to get Benjamin 
			in a game... Mitsuya cleaned him out 
			last year.  We better hail the Rio 
			Grande and get them moving back this 
			way...

	As Kira presses panels...

					DAX
			I've worked on Benjamin's poker for 
			two lifetimes... he just can't learn 
			to bluff...

					KIRA
			That's odd...

					DAX
			I know... you'd think a man like 
			Benjamin...

					KIRA
			No.  The Rio Grande.  It's not 
			responding to our hails.

	OFF their curious reaction...