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          DEEP SPACE: "Meridian" - REV. 09/22/94 - ACT FIVE         61.

61   CONTINUED:

					BASHIR
			Commander, I'm reading intense seismic 
			activity throughout the planet's 
			crust...

					O'BRIEN
				(off console)
			It better shift soon, or it's going 
			to tear itself apart.

	Off their realization that Meridian is in danger...

61A  EXT. VILLAGE COMMONS - DAY (OPTICAL)

	The TREMORS have intensified.  As Dax watches, everything 
	around her begins to SHIMMER and FADE until the Meridians 
	lose cohesion, turning into ghost-like misty energy figures -- 
	but Dax remains solid.  Deral extends a shimmering hand to 
	Dax...

					DERAL
			Jadzia...

	Dax tries to take hold of Deral's hand, but their hands pass 
	through each other.  Everything around Dax seems to be trapped 
	in an intermediate state between matter and energy... In his 
	last moment of cohesion, Deral looks at her... their eyes 
	say it all.  And then he slips away... Dax can't breath 
	without an atmosphere, begins to drift helplessly as the 
	ground, the environment, loses cohesion around her... gravity 
	disappears...

61B  INT. DEFIANT - BRIDGE (OPTICAL)

					O'BRIEN
				(off console)
			I'm picking up some kind of 
			singularity in the planet's quantum 
			matrix... it's interfering with the 
			dimensional shift...

					BASHIR
				(off console)
			It's functioning almost like an 
			anchor...

					O'BRIEN
			Commander, it's Dax -- her presence 
			there is destabilizing the matrix.