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         DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ship" - REV. 07/29/96 - TEASER          

                  STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE                    
                              "The Ship"                               
                            TEASER                              

	FADE IN:

1    EXT. SPACE - PLANET (OPTICAL) (STOCK)

	A Runabout orbits a brown-gray planet.


					SISKO (V.O.)
			Captain's log, Stardate 50049.3. 
			We're conducting a mineral survey 
			of Torga Four, an uninhabited 
			planet in the Gamma Quadrant 
			believed to contain vast deposits 
			of cormaline.



2    EXT. ROCK PLANET - DAY

	CLOSE ON A MAN'S BOOT climbing the desolate rocky sand 
	dunes of this inhospitably hot and barren landscape.

					SISKO (V.O.)
			Our mission is to determine the 
			feasibility of establishing a 
			mining operation on the planet's 
			surface.

3    WIDER

	to REVEAL O'BRIEN struggling to keep up with MUNIZ
	(first seen in "Hard Time"), a young human crewman with 
	an easy, infectious smile, climbing the steep dune. 
	O'Brien, wanting to catch his breath, pretends to find 
	something interesting.

					O'BRIEN
			Hey, Muniz... what do you think of 
			this?

	Muniz stops his ascent and moves over to see what 
	O'Brien finds so interesting. O'Brien has taken out 
	his tricorder and is studiously examining the readings -- 
	all the while catching his breath.

					MUNIZ
				(what's the big deal?)
			Class Five pyroclastic debris and 
			ash... same morphology we've seen 
			all the way up, sir.