DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Reckoning" - REV. 3/9/98 - ACT TWO     22-22C   

19   CONTINUED:	(3)

	And with that, she turns and takes her leave. Off 
	Sisko's face as he watches her go.

19A  INT. SCIENCE LAB

	Sisko watches as Dax studies the tablet, checking the 
	inscriptions against a PADD in her hand.

					DAX
			You're sending it back?
				(wry)
			I was just starting to have fun.

					SISKO
			You're not off the hook, old man. 
			I still want those inscriptions 
			translated.

	Dax figured this was coming --

					DAX
				(nods) 
			I can work off the holo-recordings 
			I took yesterday.

					SISKO
				(eyeing the tablet) 
			Have you made any more progress?
				(off her nod) 
			Good news or bad?

					DAX
			That depends.

					SISKO
			On what?


					DAX
				(indicating the tablet) 
			What this ideogram means. The 
			computer's giving me two 
			possibilities.

					SISKO
			Let's hear them.

					DAX
			During the Reckoning, the Bajorans 
			are either going to "suffer 
			horribly," or... "eat fruit."

					SISKO
			Eat fruit?