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      DEEP SPACE: "Past Tense, Pt. I" - REV. 10/19/94 - ACT TWO     22.

23   CONTINUED:

					O'BRIEN
			I think I know what happened to 
			Commander Sisko and the others.  The 
			temporal surge we detected was caused 
			by the explosion of a microscopic 
			singularity  passing through this 
			solar system.  Somehow, the energy 
			emitted by the singularity shifted 
			the chroniton particles in our hull 
			into a high state of temporal 
			polarization.

					KIRA
			Which means what?

					O'BRIEN
			Which means that the transporter 
			beam was redirected when it passed 
			through the polarized particles.

					KIRA
			Redirected where?

					O'BRIEN
			Not "where."  When.  The beam was 
			redirected through time, not space.  
			They arrived in San Francisco, just 
			like they were supposed to...

					KIRA
			But not when they were supposed to.  
			How much time are we talking about?  
			Days?  Weeks?

					O'BRIEN
			More like centuries.

	As Kira reacts to this...

24   INT. PROCESSING CENTER - DAY #1

	Sisko is sitting on a bench with several homeless men and 
	women.  All the other people in his area of the Processing 
	Center seem to be mentally ill in one way or other.  The 
	bench is part of a line which stretches out the door.  Sisko 
	is waiting patiently, filling out some kind of form, but 
	Bashir is at the front of the line, complaining to Vin, who 
	is still on duty...