DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - TEASER       4.

4    INT. CHAMBER

	Koral switches on the portable TUBE LIGHTS along the 
	floor. Like the tunnels, the ceiling is braced with 
	BEAMS. Sections of the wall that once framed this room 
	are visible through the sediment. In the center of one 
	wall, an ancient stone TABLET is embedded in the stone.

	Kira and Jake follow Sisko into the room, and Koral 
	leads them over to the tablet. It's a vertical 
	limestone oval, similar in shape to the symbol of Bajor 
	on the temple entrance on DS9.

					KORAL 
			It's over thirty thousand years old...

	Jake is less than thrilled, but Sisko looks closely at 
	the tablet, which displays passages composed of ancient 
	Bajoran RUNES. Parts of the inscription have been 
	broken away or obscured by erosion and cracks.

					SISKO 
			These inscriptions, they look 
			similar to ancient Bajoran, but I 
			can't quite make them out.

					KORAL 
			Until recently, we couldn't 
			either. But we've been able to 
			piece together some rudimentary 
			translations.

	He points to a vertical strip of characters on the far 
	right.

					KORAL 
			The syntax is unusual, but all 
			forms of Bajoran share certain 
			root-ideograms.
				(taps one of them)
			You may recognize this one.

	Sisko leans in to get a better look.

					SISKO
			Welcome...