DEEP SPACE: "The Alternate" - REV. 11/01/93 - ACT THREE      34.

46   CONTINUED:

	Suddenly, as he pulls at the breach just a little, the 
	sag opens and shockingly the lifeform, a pailfull this time, 
	cascades over O'Brien, startling him...

					O'BRIEN
				(startled)
			Ahhh!

	He starts to swipe at the stuff...

					SISKO'S COM VOICE
			O'Brien report!

	Then quickly realizes it's harmless...

					O'BRIEN
			I'm okay... I'm fine... I found our 
			missing lifeform...

	With his tricorder...

					O'BRIEN
			Except it's not a lifeform anymore.  
			It's dead.

	In the Security Office, Sisko and Odo react...

47   EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)

					SISKO (V.O.)
			Station log, Stardate 47391.7.  
			Engineering crews have been working 
			for over fifteen hours searching 
			conduits throughout the core section.  
			There have been no additional 
			incidents and no further evidence of 
			the alien lifeform has been found.  
			Yellow alert has been canceled.

48   INT. INFIRMARY (VPB)

	Bashir and Dax are studying the inert sample of the lifeform 
	on a monitor...

					BASHIR
			With this kind of cellular structure, 
			the lifeform would have needed a 
			higher concentration of carbon dioxide 
			than our atmosphere provides...