DEEP SPACE: "Equilibrium" - REV. 08/17/94 - ACT FIVE        53.

39   CONTINUED:	(2)

					SISKO
			And we both know why, Doctor.  Because 

			the Symbiosis Commission altered the 
			records -- just like they tried to 
			erase all knowledge of Joran from 
			Dax's memory.

					BASHIR
			But now after eighty years the memory 
			block is deteriorating... Dax is 
			starting to remember the Joran host.

	Renhol tries to evade the issue.

					RENHOL
			What possible reason would anyone 
			have to create that sort of elaborate 
			cover up?

					SISKO
			We wondered about that ourselves... 
			what was it about Joran that had to 
			be hidden at all cost -- the fact 
			that he never should have been 
			selected as a host?  No, that simple 
			error in judgement wouldn't be enough, 
			would it?  It had to be something 
			more... something that would shake 
			the very foundation of your society.

	Bashir turns away from the diagnostic bed to address Renhol.

					BASHIR
			Tell me, Doctor... how many of your 
			people are suitable for joining?

					RENHOL
			I don't see how that's relevant.

					BASHIR
			I understand the percentage is very 
			low -- perhaps one in a thousand?

	Renhol sees that Bashir is going to keep asking until she 
	answers.

					RENHOL
			That's right.