DEEP SPACE NINE: "Starship Down" - REV. 09/14/95 - ACT ONE     16.

21   CONTINUED:

					DAX 
			Chief, if you can spare someone to 
			meet me in Jefferies Tube Four, 
			I'll try to re-route power through 
			the secondary couplings. 

	O'Brien turns to Muniz.

					O'BRIEN
			Muniz.

					MUNIZ 
			Yes, sir.

	He grabs a TOOLKIT and heads for the ladder to the 
	second level.

22   EXT. ATMOSPHERE (OPTICAL)

	as the Defiant sinks deeper...

23   INT. DEFIANT - MESS HALL

	where Quark is holding his hands over his ears to shut 
	out the terrible SOUND of the hull groaning. Hanok is 
	sweating, looking around at the walls as if waiting for 
	them to give way.

24   INT. DEFIANT - JEFFERIES TUBE

	as Dax and Muniz scramble into position and start 
	opening a panel.

					DAX
			All right... let's recalibrate the 
			ODN manifold.

					MUNIZ 
			I'll uncouple the plasma relay...

	The hull GROANS ominously. Dax sees that Muniz's hands 
	are shaking as he works...

					DAX
			Sounds a little like a Yridian 
			Symphony, doesn't it?

					MUNIZ 
			I don't know, I've never heard 
			one.