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        DEEP SPACE NINE: "Hard Time" - REV. 2/05/96 - TEASER         1.

                  STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE                    
                             "Hard Time"                               
                            TEASER                              

	FADE IN:

1    INT. ARGRATHI CELL

	This is an alien security cell, with rough-hewn stone
	walls and a smooth sandy floor. There are no beds or
	other furniture, just a heavy metallic windowless door
	of alien design. The light in the room is an odd blue-
	white, colored to match an alien sun. There's a hole
	dug in the ground in one corner of the room that
	provides a crude toilet.

	The room's only inhabitant is a male PRISONER in his
	mid- to late-fifties, with an unkempt beard and a
	tangled mass of white hair. We don't get a good look
	at his face, but he seems familiar. He's dressed in
	the ragged remains of a gold Starfleet uniform, but
	it's barely recognizable from decades of wear and
	neglect.

	The Prisoner is squatting on the floor, drawing an
	elaborate mandala in the sand. It's a beautiful
	abstract pattern and he works on it with great care.

	The Prisoner puts a finishing touch on the mandala as
	if rushing to beat some kind of deadline. Just as he
	finishes, a KLAXON SOUNDS, followed by an announcement
	from a disembodied voice.

					ARGRATHI COM VOICE
			All offenders prepare for
			decontamination. Decontamination
			will proceed immediately.

	The Prisoner braces himself.

2    NEW ANGLE (OPTICAL)

	A wall of coherent light passes through the room,
	sweeping everything inside, including the Prisoner and
	his sand-drawings. As it passes over the Prisoner, he
	doubles over, gritting his teeth and choking back a
	moan of pain. The beam obviously causes him great
	agony.

	It also completely erases the mandala, smoothing the
	sand as it progresses across the room.