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           DEEP SPACE: "Destiny" - REV. 12/19/94 - ACT ONE           7.
                            ACT ONE                             

	FADE IN:

	(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)


4    INT. COMMANDER'S OFFICE - CONTINUOUS

	Sisko, Kira, and Yarka.

					SISKO
			Are you making some sort of threat, 
			Vedek?

					YARKA
			Not at all... I'm simply telling you 
			what was foretold in the ancient 
			texts.

					KIRA
			Ancient texts?  You mean a prophecy?

					YARKA
				(nods)
			Trakor's third, when he first 
			encountered the Orb of Change.

					KIRA
			I don't know it.

	Yarka seems disappointed to hear that his fellow Bajoran 
	doesn't know her prophecies.

					YARKA
				(gently chastising)
			Perhaps you should make more time to 
			study the texts, child.

					SISKO
			Are you saying that the arrival of 
			the Cardassian scientists was foretold 
			in a Bajoran prophecy?

					YARKA
			Exactly.  Trakor's words are clear... 
			"when the river wakes, stirred once 
			more to Janir's side... three vipers 
			will return to their nest in the 
			sky."
				(beat)
			The river has awoken, Emissary...