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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - ACT TWO      19.

15   CONTINUED:	(2)

					BASHIR 
			This is ridiculous. Nothing's 
			going to happen. Someday we're 
			going to look back at this and 
			laugh.

	Suddenly there's a strange RUMBLE like the sound of 
	approaching thunder -- it builds until the room starts 
	to VIBRATE and SHUDDER. Glasses RATTLE on tables as 
	people look around, trying to figure out what's going 
	on. A moment, then it's over.

					ODO 

			What was that?

	VOICES from off-screen get their attention. A small 
	CROWD has gathered at one of the WINDOWS to view 
	something outside.

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16   INT. PROMENADE - SECOND LEVEL (OPTICAL)

	Through the window, we see the wormhole OPENING.

17   ADJUST

	to include Odo, Bashir, Worf and Quark among the 
	onlookers.

					QUARK 
			That's the third time in the last 
			ten minutes.

	The RUMBLE again, followed by the same SHUDDER.

18   THE WINDOW (OPTICAL)

	The wormhole CLOSES and the SHUDDER SUBSIDES.

					WORF 
				(puzzled) 
			Still no incoming ships.

					ODO
			Well something's making the 
			wormhole do that.

	No one has an answer for him. After a beat, Bashir 
	turns to Worf.