DEEP SPACE NINE: "... Nor the... - REV. 08/21/96 - TEASER       2.

CONTINUED:	(2)

	(NOTE: it's not necessary to allot enough time for Jake 
	to physically write everything indicated in the script. 
	We can assume his notes are shorthand versions of his 
	thoughts.)

	The following dialog OVERLAPS, though Bashir's words 
	drop into the background so we can hear Jake clearly as 
	he writes.

		JAKE (V. 0. ) 					BASHIR 
	If I don't find a way 				Now get this:  a few
	to get out of doing 				months ago I was
	this article, my first 				running a neural scan 
	writing assignment is 				and noticed some 
	going to be my last 				anomalous protein 
		(grasping) 					readings. I thought 
	Maybe I should just 				there must be some 
	write to the editors 				mistake, so I ran an 
	at the Journal and 				amino acid sequence to 
	tell them they should 				be sure. But there it 
	find someone else to 				was again, the prion 
	do the profile of 				mutation rate had 
	Doctor Bashir.					spiked. I couldn't 										believe it. It meant 
								the anomalous proteins 
								had to have a strong 
								quantum resonance.

	Jake's interrupted when Bashir asks --

					BASHIR
			Do you follow so far?

					JAKE
			Sort of...

					BASHIR 
			Good. Because they're the key --
			the protein anomalies.

					JAKE (V. 0.) 
				(scribbling) 
			Who cares about anomalies!

	As he writes, Jake occasionally nods at Bashir as if 
	he's listening intently: