DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Darkness... " - REV. 11/01/96 - ACT THREE   35.

35   CONTINUED:

	Dax and Kira exchange a look.

					DAX
			I make it a policy never to argue 
			with someone's lobes.

					KIRA
			Okay... let's say these are 
			composite messages. Does that 
			help us?

					DAX

			Maybe.
				(starts working)
			Since the first word in all three 
			messages is the same, let's assume 
			that it's simply been copied three 
			times. That gives me a reference 
			to begin screening out the 
			electronic interference.

	On the computer screen, we see the voice print analysis 
	now focus in on the first word of all three messages. 
	It's a graphic of jagged lines and symbols. The 
	graphics on the screen start changing and a single
	voice print begins to emerge from the mess. Dax hits 
	a control and we hear the voice again... but this time 
	there's less distortion than before.

					SCRAMBLED VOICE
			That's... that's... that's. 
			that's... that's...
				(continues throughout)