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        DEEP SPACE NINE: "Hard Time" - REV. 2/05/96 - ACT ONE        6.
                            ACT ONE                             

	FADE IN:

	(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)

9    INT. O'BRIEN'S QUARTERS

	SISKO is breaking the news of what happened to O'Brien
	to KEIKO. Keiko's a few months pregnant and is just
	starting to show. She's trying not to overreact, but
	Sisko's news is pretty grim.

					SISKO
			Apparently he got curious about
			some Argrathi technology and asked
			a few too many questions.
			Argrathi security arrested him and
			charged him with espionage.

					KEIKO
			Miles would never break a law
			intentionally.

					SISKO
				(sympathetic)
			I know that. But by the time the
			Argrathi told us what'd happened,
			they'd already carried out his
			"correction."

	Keiko shakes her head. The whole thing doesn't quite
	seem real.

					KEIKO
			Can the memories they implanted be
			removed?

					SISKO
			The Argrathi claim it's
			impossible, but Doctor Bashir will
			do his best.