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       DEEP SPACE: "Emissary" REV. FINAL 08/12/92 - ACT SEVEN      103.

					SISKO
				(beat)
			For Jennifer and me, all the 
			experiences in our lives prepared us 
			for the day we met on the beach... 
			helped us recognize that we had a 
			future together.  When we married, 
			we accepted all the consequences of 
			that act, whatever they might be... 
			including the consequence of you.

					JAKE ALIEN
			Me?

					SISKO
			My son, Jake...

228  INT. STARSHIP SICKBAY - CLOSEUP ON A NEWBORN BABY

					BOY
			and Sisko finds himself holding his 
			child in his hands for the first 
			time... as a Starfleet doctor and 
			nurses, all aliens, tend to Jennifer 
			in bed... who looks up in her post 
			labor flush...

					JENNIFER ALIEN
			The child with Jennifer.

					SISKO
			Yes.

					JENNIFER ALIEN
				(beginning to 
				understand)
			Linear... procreation... ?

					SISKO
				(acknowledges)
			Yes.  Jake is the continuation of 
			our family...

					JENNIFER ALIEN
				(remembering)
			"The sound of children playing."

229  CATCHER'S MITT

	as a bat swings and misses a ball as it pops into the glove.  
	Pan up to find Jake Alien is the catcher... and a batter 
	stands in front of him, both dressed in Chicago Cubs uniforms 
	of the early 1920s...


					BATTER ALIEN
				(accusing)
			Aggressive.  Adversarial.