DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ship" - REV. 07/29-/96 - ACT ONE       12.


18   INT. JEM'HADAR SHIP - COMMAND CENTER - DAY

	Shafts of light from the palm beacons dance through the 
	floor hatch (which normally functions as a ceiling 
	hatch). O'Brien is the first to emerge, leading the 
	others into what we will come to know as the "Command 
	Center."

	O'Brien take a few steps into the room when his light 
	comes upon a grisly sight -- the upside down FACE OF A 
	JEM'HADAR SOLDIER hanging like a dead bat. Startled, 
	O'Brien is about to open fire on the Jem'Hadar soldier 
	before he realizes that the soldier is already dead -- 
	his face frozen in agony.

	Sisko and the others scan the room with their light 
	beacons to discover SEVERAL OTHER DEAD JEM'HADAR 
	SOLDIERS hanging from the ceiling, suspended by odd-
	looking plasma conduits that are strapped to their feet 
	and run up to their bodies. A few OTHER JEM'HADAR 
	SOLDIERS are sprawled on the ground -- including a 
	female VORTA -- all with the same expression of agony.

	Sisko and the others examine the inverted room: the 
	Command Center of the ship and its configuration is 
	unlike anything we've seen before. There is no 
	viewscreen. No chairs. No creature comforts of any 
	kind. Instead of the usual Captain's Chair, there is 
	a central "position" with several sophisticated gadgets 
	protruding from the floor and ceiling. The other 
	"positions," or stations, are all pointed inward -- 
	toward the central position -- in such a way that 
	anybody manning those stations would face the central 
	position. There are three side doors and two floor 
	hatches leading to other parts of the ship.

					SISKO
				(pointing at one of the 
				doors)
			Muniz.

	Muniz nods and cautiously EXITS through the door.