DEEP SPACE NINE: "Paradise Lost" - REV. 11/14/95 - ACT ONE     13.

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					SISKO
			Maybe if you'd done your job
			better, it would have.
				(getting in Shepard's face)
			But you fouled it up, didn't you?
			You cadets did some sloppy work...
			some damn sloppy work.

					SHEPARD
			With all due respect, sir...
			that's not true, sir. The mission
			went perfectly. If anything, it
			was easier than the simulations.

					SISKO
			Son, if you think you can protect
			your hide by lying to me, you'd
			better forget it. Mistakes were
			made, and I will find out who's
			responsible.

					SHEPARD
			I'm not lying to you, sir. I was
			there. I was at Planetary
			Operations the whole time. If
			anything had gone wrong, I
			would've known about it.

	Sisko looks skeptical.

					SISKO
			Is that so?

	Sisko looks like he's considering Shepard's point of
	view. Finally, he softens slightly, as if trying to
	keep an open mind.

					SISKO
			All right, cadet. Let's go over
			this step-by-step from the time of
			your mission deployment until your
			return to base...
				(checking the PADD)
			... at nineteen forty-seven hours
			PST on the twenty-third.

					SHEPARD
			Yes, sir. We assembled on the
			Eastern Quad at seventeen hundred
			hours on the evening of the twenty-
			third.

	This is what Sisko wanted. He encourages the cadet to
	continue.