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          DEEP SPACE: "Meridian" - REV. 09/28/94 - ACT TWO          20.
                            ACT TWO                             

	FADE IN:

14   EXT. VILLAGE COMMONS - DAY


	As we PAN across the activity in the square, we see children 
	playing with a ball, a family with a picnic basket, heading 
	out of the city, people carrying baskets of fresh flowers, 
	etc.  A Meridian is showing O'Brien how to play a MUSICAL 
	INSTRUMENT.   Bashir is scanning someone with his tricorder.

	FIND Sisko and Seltin in mid-conversation, standing near the 
	door to a building.

					SELTIN
			We deeply appreciate your offer of 
			help, Commander... 

					SISKO
			If there is a way to stabilize the 
			dimensional shifts, we'll do 
			everything we can to find it.

					SELTIN
				(grateful)
			That's all we can ask...

	Suddenly Sisko reacts to something --

	A light, metallic ball whizzes into frame toward them -- 
	Sisko expertly snatches it from the air.  Two young Meridian 
	CHILDREN come running up after the ball.

					SISKO
			Here you go...

	He tosses the ball back to one of them, LITO. 

					LITO
			Do you want to play vajhaq with 
			us?