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     DEEP SPACE NINE: "Starship Down" - REV. 09/12/95 - ACT FOUR    44.
                           ACT FOUR                             

	FADE IN:

59   INT. DEFIANT - MESS HALL (CONTINUOUS)

	After a beat...

					HANOK 
			I suggest we leave this room 
			immediately.

					QUARK 
			And go where? If that thing 
			explodes, the entire ship will be 
			destroyed.
				(a beat) 
			Maybe we should try to defuse it.

	Hanok's not sure this is such a good idea.

					HANOK
			We should wait for help.

					QUARK
			What if no one can get to us?

	The play of LIGHTS inside the torpedo changes, we hear 
	a HUM of power.

					QUARK 
			I don't like the sound of that. 
			It's up to us...

	Quark's made his decision.

					QUARK 
			There should be an emergency tool 
			kit around here somewhere.

	Hanok moves to look for it. Quark cautiously moves 
	toward the torpedo... studies its outer shell. Hanok 
	moves to his side, TOOLKIT in hand. Quark indicates a 
	specific part of the nose cone.

					QUARK 
			The arming mechanism must be 
			somewhere in here.
				(indicating)
			We have to remove this casing...

					HANOK 
			How?