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          DEEP SPACE: "Defiant" - REV. 10/03/94 - ACT FIVE          45.
                           ACT FIVE                             

	FADE IN:

39   INT. CARDASSIAN WAR ROOM (OPTICAL)

	Dukat and Sisko are quietly assessing the situation.  Korinas 
	is sitting at her position, in the b.g.

					GUL DUKAT
			I've spoken to a few... friends in 
			the Central Command.  The Obsidian 
			Order isn't giving them any answers 
			either.

					SISKO
			The Order has to answer to someone, 
			don't they?

					GUL DUKAT
			In theory, they answer to the 
			political authority of the Detapa 
			Council just as the military does.  
			In practice... we both run our own 
			affairs.

					SISKO
			Not the most efficient system.

					GUL DUKAT
			It's worked for over five centuries.

	The Soldier reacts to something on his console.

					SOLDIER
			Gul Dukat... there's an incoming 
			message from the warship Kraxon.  
			They say they've found an unusual 
			neutrino signature in their sector... 
			it looks like radiation from a damaged 
			warp plasma relay.

					GUL DUKAT
			Is this... signature moving?

					SOLDIER
			No.  But they're scanning the area 
			with anti-proton beams.

	Dukat and Sisko exchange a look.

					GUL DUKAT
			Where is the Kraxon?