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         DEEP SPACE: "Meridian" - REV. 09/28/94 - ACT THREE         32.
                           ACT THREE                            

	FADE IN:

24   EXT. MERIDIAN SETTLEMENT (MATTE SHOT) - DAY

	from a distance.

25   EXT. VILLAGE COMMONS - DAY

	A few days later.  As the Meridians go about their activities, 
	Dax and Deral are seated side-by-side at a table, a few PADDS 
	spread out around them.  They've been working for hours.  
	After a beat, she looks up from her PADD.

					DAX
			How are those calculations coming... ?

					DERAL
			I'm checking them now...

	A beat as he works.

					DERAL
				(frustrated)
			It's the same as before... there's 
			nothing to indicate that gamma bursts 
			are causing the quantum fluctuations.

	He tosses his PADD down.  Dax sees how frustrated he is, 
	leans closer to him, caresses his face with her hand...

					DAX
			Then something else must be triggering 
			the dimensional shifts.  Whatever it 
			is, we'll find it.

	He looks at her for a beat, then nods... takes her hand -- 
	they're in this together.  Dax's combadge SOUNDS.

					SISKO'S COM VOICE
			Sisko to Dax.

					DAX
			Go ahead, Commander.

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