DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ship" - REV. 07/29/96 - ACT FOUR       47.

70   CONTINUED:

					MUNIZ
			The colors... like a thousand 
			shooting stars.

	A particularly LOUD EXPLOSION. Muniz grins.

					MUNIZ
			That was a good one, eh?

	O'Brien decides the best thing is to go along a little 
	with Muniz's fantasy.

					O'BRIEN
			That was a good one.

71   ON DAX

	ENTERING, carrying a couple of odd-looking isolinear 
	rod-like devices as yet ANOTHER EXPLOSION detonates.

					DAX
			I'll say one thing for the 
			Jem'Hadar... they travel light. 
			There's no cargo... no storage
			compartments...
				(re: the devices)
			I found these data crystals in one 
			of the computer rooms... they may 
			have some encoded information on 
			them... but the crystal structure 
			seems to have been randomized.

					SISKO
			In other words, they're blank.

					DAX
			As far as I can tell. It would 
			help if we knew what we were 
			looking for.

	Sisko looks over the devices as Dax slumps to the 
	ground, tired and frustrated. ANOTHER EXPLOSION 
	strikes.

					SISKO
				(trying to keep his own 
				frustration in check)
			But, we don't.


	After a beat, Sisko steps over to check on Muniz.