32:[1,#b],67:[1,#b]
            DEEP SPACE: "Paradise" - 11/24/93 - ACT FOUR            37.

27   CONTINUED:

					DAX
			At warp, I wouldn't be in such a 
			hurry to volunteer.
				(shakes her head)
			If Chief O'Brien were here, maybe... 
			without him, either one of us would 
			wind up a subspace particle field 
			off the Rio Grande's stern...

					KIRA
			Got a better idea... ?

					DAX
				(standing and moving 
				to a rear panel)
			I'm a science officer.  It's my job 
			to have a better idea.

	She starts, pressing panels...

					KIRA
			What are you doing?

					DAX
			Trying an old rope trick I learned 
			on Earth once.

					KIRA
			A rope trick.

					DAX
			A very talented Hopi I knew did things 
			with rope you wouldn't believe... 
			it's an old West American artform... 
			she could throw a lasso around Curzon 
			on the dead run from ten meters 
			away...

					KIRA
			You're suggesting we try to "rope" 
			the Rio Grande at warp...

					DAX
				(acknowledges)
			With a tractor beam.

					KIRA
			When we pull it back to impulse, 
			isn't there a risk that the strain 
			will rip both hulls apart?

	Returning to her seat --