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

39   CONTINUED:	(4)

					BASHIR
			What would happen if for some reason 
			an unsuitable host was given a 
			symbiont?

					RENHOL
			That doesn't happen.

					BASHIR
			What if it did?

					RENHOL
			Rejection would set in... the host 
			and symbiont would both die.

					BASHIR
			How long before rejection sets in?

					RENHOL
			That depends on a number of factors 
			I don't have time to go into.

					BASHIR
			On average -- how long?

					RENHOL
			Three, maybe four days...

					BASHIR
			Then someone like Joran Belar -- an 
			unstable personality with violent 
			tendencies -- should have rejected a 
			symbiont within a matter of days.  
			But that didn't happen.  According 
			to our information, he was joined 
			with the Dax symbiont for six months.

					SISKO
			Six months, Doctor.  If a man like 
			Joran Belar can be joined successfully 
			for that long, how many others can 
			be joined as well?  Hundreds, 
			thousands... certainly more than the 
			Symbiosis Commission would have us 
			believe.  And that's what you've 
			been trying to cover up all along, 
			isn't it?  That's why you're willing 
			to let Jadzia die.

	Renhol holds his stare, determined to stonewall... Sisko 
	moves closer, quietly pressing...