DEEP SPACE NINE: "Starship Down" - REV. 09/14/95 - ACT ONE      7.

8    CONTINUED:

					KIRA 
			They'd be smart not to. 
			That's a Class-J gas giant. I'm 
			reading wind speeds of over ten 
			thousand kilometers per hour.

9    VIEWSCREEN (OPTICAL)

	as the Karemma ship disappears into the planet's cloudy 
	surface, and a beat later, the Jem'Hadar ships plunge 
	in after it.

10   RESUME SCENE

	Sisko considers his options.

					HANOK 
			Twenty-three of my people are on 
			that ship... and they're going to 
			die because I was foolish enough 
			to defy the Dominion.

					SISKO
			They're not going to die, 
			Minister. Not if I can help it. 
				(to com) 
			Sisko to O'Brien.

								INTERCUT WITH:

11   INT. DEFIANT - ENGINE ROOM 

	where O'Brien is working a console. Two young Enlisted 
	Engineers, MUNIZ and STEVENS, work other consoles. 
	N.D.s man the rest.

					O'BRIEN
				(to com) 
			Go ahead, sir.