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      DEEP SPACE: "Past Tense, Pt. I" - REV. 10/20/94 - ACT TWO     20.

21   SISKO AND BASHIR

	Getting the twenty-first century equivalent of fingerprints 
	and mug shots.  They're in the Processing Center, the 
	administrative headquarters of Sanctuary District "A."  It's 
	a converted DMV office, and it's even more understaffed now 
	than it was then.

					VIN
			Other hand.

	Sisko holds out his other hand.  Vin grabs it and uses the 
	scanner to enter his prints into the computer.

22   INCLUDE THE MONITOR (VPB)

	Of a twenty-first century computer, very similar in design 
	to the one's in Brynner's office.  Right now the Monitor is 
	displaying Sisko's handprints.  Vin enters some commands 
	with his electronic stylus.  The computer responds verbally.  
	When it speaks, it's with a different voice than the computers 
	we're used to.  It's more artificial sounding and possibly 
	male.

					INTERFACE VOICE
			Welcome to SafeTech's fingerprint 
			database.  your government discount 
			has been accepted.  Remember our new 
			retinal scan services, now accessible 
			on Channel One-Seventy-Eight.

					VIN
				(to himself)
			Yeah, yeah.  Save the commercials.

	Vin taps in a series of commands.

					INTERFACE VOICE
			We're sorry... but the fingerprints 
			you have provided are not on record.

					VIN
			No I.D., no fingerprint records, no 
			Interface account.  It's like you 
			two don't exist.

					BASHIR
			Since we don't exist, why not let us 
			go?