DEEP SPACE NINE: "Nor the... " - REV. 08/21/96 - TEASER       1A.

2    CONTINUED:

	Jake pulls out a small PADD and STYLUS...

					BASHIR 
			According to the so called 
			"experts," it's all a matter of 
			amino acid re-sequencing and 
			disulfide shuffling -- quantum 
			dynamics has nothing to do with 
			it.

	Jake jots something down, and we HEAR his thoughts as 
	he writes.

					JAKE (V.O.)
			I have absolutely no idea what 
			he's talking about.

					BASHIR 
			But how can that be? After all, 
			peptide bonds can be reconfigured 
			on a quantum level.

	During the following, Jake will stand and move away. 
	A beat later, Bashir will move to his side, determined 
	to keep his attention.