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          DEEP SPACE: "Destiny" - REV. 12/19/94 - ACT THREE         30.

19   CONTINUED:	(2)

					KIRA
			Look at what's already happened.  
			The river's returned to Janir, the 
			three vipers, and now the Sword of 
			Stars -- each of them predicted by 
			Trakor's prophecy.

	Kira steels herself, moves closer to Sisko.  This is difficult 
	for her to say to him.

					KIRA
				(quiet)
			And then there's you... the Emissary.  
			You're here... and you have a decision 
			to make... just like in the prophecy.

	A beat.

					SISKO
			Do you really believe I'm the 
			Emissary?

					KIRA
			I guess I always have.  But I've 
			never wanted to admit it to myself.
				(smiles)
			It's hard to work for someone who's 
			a religious icon.

	Sisko gets up, moves around the room for a moment.

					SISKO
			I hope this doesn't offend your 
			beliefs, but I don't think of myself 
			as an icon... religious or otherwise.
				(beat)
			I'm a Starfleet Officer, and I have 
			a mission to accomplish.  If I'm 
			going to call it off, it has to be 
			for a concrete reason, something 
			solid, something... Starfleet.

					KIRA
			All right, how about this?  The 
			prophets -- the aliens that live in 
			the wormhole, as you call them -- 
			exist outside of linear time.  They 
			know the past, present, and the 
			future.

					SISKO
			Agreed.