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    DEEP SPACE NINE: "Behind the Lines" - REV. 8/21/97 - ACT TWO    20.

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					ROSS 
			Your assignment is effective 
			immediately.

	It takes Sisko a moment to realize what this means --

					SISKO 
			Immediately, sir? What about the 
			Argolis mission?

					ROSS
				(no problem) 
			Commander Dax will captain the 
			Defiant.

	Something shifts in Sisko's mind -- when it was his 
	mission it was a risk worth taking, now it suddenly 
	seems so much more dangerous. Ross sees something 
	flicker across Sisko's features, misinterprets it.

					ROSS
			She is up to it, isn't she?

					SISKO
				(without hesitation) 
			Absolutely, sir.
				(beat) 
			I guess I'd just gotten used to 
			the idea of commanding the mission 
			myself.

	Ross is a busy man... as far as he's concerned the matter 
	is settled. Indicating a few PADDs on his desk --

					ROSS 
			Look over these tactical reports. 
			I want your thoughts on the Bolian 
			operation. We'll meet here at oh-
			six hundred.