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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "In the Cards" - REV. 04/15/97 - TEASER       1.

                  STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE                    
                            "In the Cards"                             
                            TEASER                              

	FADE IN:

1    INT. SISKO'S QUARTERS

	We're at the end of a dinner party that SISKO has
	thrown for the senior staff, but it may be the most 
	downbeat social affair on DS9 in the last two years. 
	BASHIR and O'BRIEN are getting quietly drunk at one end 
	of the table, a bottle of scotch sitting between them. 
	KIRA and ODO are sitting next to them. WORF is 
	standing off to one side, seeming to inspect Sisko's 
	art collection, but it's really an excuse to avoid the 
	after-dinner conversation. Sisko is at the head of the 
	table, trying to be the genial host, but his heart just 
	isn't in it tonight.

	JAKE and NOG are removing the dirty dishes from the 
	table and they exchange a few glances between them as 
	the depressing evening drags on.

					O'BRIEN
			Did you hear about the Tiananmen? 
			She was reported missing last 
			night. Near the Cardassian border.

					KIRA
			That's three in the last three 
			weeks.

					BASHIR 
			We're going to run out of ships at 
			this rate.

					KIRA
			That's not funny.

					BASHIR 
			It wasn't meant to be. Unless 
			Starfleet Command starts doing 
			something about the Dominion, the 
			situation's just going to get worse.

					KIRA
			What do you want Julian? A war?

	But Sisko jumps in before Bashir has the chance to 
	reply.