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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - ACT ONE      16.

14   CONTINUED:	(3)

	Sisko moves around to see the screen. On the MONITOR, 
	we see a line of TEXT from the tablet. There are 
	conversion algorithms along the margins of the screen.

					DAX 
			The computer just translated part 
			of the inscription. Here it is in 
			modern Bajoran.

	She works the controls and the text TRANSFORMS into 
	modern Bajoran. It takes a moment for Sisko to read, 
	and when he does, the words disturb him...

					SISKO 
			"The time of Reckoning is at hand. 
			The Prophets will weep, and their 
			sorrow will consume... "
				(the rest stops him in 
				his tracks)
			"... the Gateway to the Temple."

					DAX 
			Tell me I'm wrong, but isn't the 
			Gateway to the Temple... Deep 
			Space Nine?

	Sisko's face tells us she's not wrong... off this 
	ominous moment, we...

									FADE OUT.

                        END OF ACT ONE