DEEP SPACE: "Defiant" - REV. 10/03/94 - ACT FIVE         51A.

45   CONTINUED:

					GUL DUKAT
				(contemptuous)
			A Federation trial...

					SISKO
			It's the best I can do.

	Dukat thinks about this for a long beat.


					GUL DUKAT
			I would be willing to hand over the 
			Maquis and the ship... but not Riker.  
			He led the mission... if I can bring 
			him to justice, and obtain information 
			on Orias, that might be enough for 
			the Central Command.

	Now it's Sisko's turn to think about this for a moment.

					SISKO
			I might be able to get him to agree 
			to that... on one condition.  We 
			both know that Cardassian sentences 
			are determined well in advance of 
			the trial.  I'd like you to arrange 
			for a sentence other than death.

					GUL DUKAT
			I'll have to clear it with the 
			Ministry of Justice.

	Sisko glances up at the display screen which shows the Defiant 
	getting closer and closer to the Obsidian Order ships.

					SISKO
			You'd better make it quick.

	Dukat moves o.s. and Sisko continues to watch the screen.

									CUT TO:

46   INT. DEFIANT - BRIDGE

	As before.