DEEP SPACE: "THE SEARCH" - REV. 07/13/94 - ACT FIVE        63.

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					ODO
			You're in a Shuttlecraft, and you've 
			been wounded so try not to move 
			around.

	Kira touches the bruise and winces.  Then memory floods back 
	and she reacts in concern.

					KIRA
			Odo, what happened?  We were under 
			attack...

	During the following conversation, Odo never takes his eyes 
	off something on the console in front of him.  Odo is 
	conflicted here... he's focused on whatever he sees on the 
	console, but Kira is also his friend and he's hoping that 
	she'll understand and support what he's done.

					ODO
			The ship was boarded, and you were 
			wounded in the attack.  I managed to 
			get us to this shuttlecraft, but I 
			don't know much more than that.  The 
			last time I saw the Defiant she was 
			dead in space and surrounded by 
			Jem'Hadar ships.

	Kira is shocked at this news and tries to take it all in.

					KIRA
			Sisko?  Bashir?

					ODO
			I don't know.

	Kira takes another beat and lets that sink in.

					KIRA
			Where are we?

					ODO
			Approaching the Omarion Nebula.

	Kira gives him a sharp look.

					KIRA
			You should have taken us back to the 
			wormhole.

					ODO
			You didn't object at the time.