DEEP SPACE: "Explorers" - REV. 03/06/95 - TEASER           5.

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					BASHIR
			Do you happen to know when the 
			Lexington is coming?

					DAX
			Three weeks.
				(beat)
			Don't you have a friend aboard?

	Bashir makes a show of thinking it over.

					BASHIR
			Do I... ?

					DAX
			The medical officer... Elizabeth 
			Lense...

					BASHIR
				(as if trying to 
				remember)
			Elizabeth Lense... I think she may 
			have been in my class at Starfleet 
			Medical.

					DAX
			Wasn't she the valedictorian?