DEEP SPACE NINE: "Siege of AR-558" - REV. 10/13/98 - ACT ONE   11B.

13C  CONTINUED:	(2)

					LARKIN 
			Vargas can show you.

					VARGAS
				(tightly wound) 
			Supplies -- that's just great. 
			Don't they know we need to get 
			off this rock?

	REESE, a stone-faced veteran, wearing a necklace of 
	Jem'Hadar white tubes, stands near Larkin.

					REESE 
			Take it easy, Vargas.

					VARGAS 
			Take it easy? I'd love to take 
			it easy. Just get me out of this 
			vole-hole and I promise all I'll 
			do, for the rest of my life, is 
			take it easy! According to 
			Starfleet regulations we're 
			suppose to be rotated off the 
			front lines after ninety days -- 
			ninety days. We've been stuck 
			here for five months!

	A long uncomfortable beat; there's a simple, painful 
	truth to what Vargas's saying. These people have 
	clearly been under tremendous strain.

					LARKIN
				(to Sisko) 
			Welcome to paradise, captain.

	And off Sisko evaluating the situation --

14   INT. BASE CAMP - 2ND LEVEL/COMMAND BUNKER - NIGHT

	Sisko and Larkin are looking down at a large 
	Dominion communications array which is being worked 
	on by a half-dozen Starfleet technicians. Among 
	them is KELLIN, a young, brash engineer. (Note: all 
	the engineers wear hand phasers.) Ezri is also 
	amidst the engineers, watching them work.

					LARKIN 
			There it is... the only reason 
			anyone gives a damn about this 
			place. It's the largest Dominion 
			communications array in the 
			sector.