DEEP SPACE: "Past Tense, Pt. I" - REV. 10/19/94 - ACT ONE     11.

13   INT. DEFIANT - TRANSPORTER ROOM

	O'Brien and an N.D. crewmember are working on the transporter 
	equipment.

					O'BRIEN
			Check the Heisenberg compensators.  
			I'll run a level-one diagnostic of 
			the pattern buffer, see if there's 
			any kind of field imbalance.

	The N.D. nods and exits.  O'Brien immediately begins running 
	tests on the transporter controls.  Kira ENTERS.

					KIRA
			Chief.

					O'BRIEN
				(still working)
			Any news from Starfleet?

					KIRA
			Nothing good.  As far as they can 
			tell, Commander Sisko and the others 
			never materialized in San Francisco.  
			According to their sensors, our 
			transporter signal disintegrated 
			immediately after we began the beam 
			out sequence.

					O'BRIEN
				(still working)
			That doesn't agree with our records.  
			The system log shows that the 
			transport was completed successfully.  
			They definitely materialized 
			somewhere.

					KIRA
			That's good news, anyway.  The 
			question is... where?

					O'BRIEN
			I wish I knew.  Whatever the answer 
			is, it's not in the log.  The only 
			thing unusual it recorded was the 
			variance in the annular confinement 
			beam...

					KIRA
			But you corrected for that..