DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Quickening" - 03/19/96 - ACT FIVE      52.

49A  INT. INFIRMARY

	where Bashir is sitting at a diagnostic console,
	running tests on some samples he brought back from the
	planet.

					COMPUTER VOICE
			Nucleotide sequencing complete... 
			viral reproduction normal.

	Bashir lets out a frustrated breath, takes a TUBE out 
	of a SLOT in the console, slides in another.

					BASHIR
			Let's try an A-to-C base pair 
			reshuffling...

	The Computer BEEPS and sets to work... After a beat...

					SISKO (O.S.)
			Doctor...


	Bashir turns to see SISKO has ENTERED, holding a PADD.


					SISKO
			I read your report.

	Sisko says the two simple words an officer wants to 
	hear from his captain.

					SISKO
			Good work.

	Bashir accepts this politely, but with little 
	enthusiasm.

					BASHIR
			Thank you, sir.

					COMPUTER VOICE
			Nucleotide sequencing complete... 
			viral reproduction normal...

	Sisko realizes what Bashir is doing; off his look...

					BASHIR
				(quiet)
			People are still dying back there.

					SISKO
			Yes... but their children won't.

	Bashir takes little solace in this...

					BASHIR
			That's what I keep telling 
			myself...