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         DEEP SPACE NINE: "Rapture" - REV. 10/23/96 - TEASER         1.

                  STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE                    
                              "Rapture"                                
                            TEASER                              

	FADE IN:

1    INT. WARDROOM

	CLOSE ON an ominous and eerie-looking stone Obelisk 
	bathed in an unearthly light. WE SLOWLY PULL BACK, 
	REVEALING various Bajorans in long, flowing robes, 
	reverently surrounding the very tall and impressive 
	slab. Behind them, a fountain. WE KEEP PULLING BACK 
	to see that the Obelisk is in the middle of a kind of 
	agora -- a town square of an ancient Bajoran city.

					DAX (O.S.)
			That's it?

	WE CONTINUE TO PULL BACK, finally revealing this to be 
	a very detailed and "realistic" eighteen-by-twelve-inch 
	painting on a weathered piece of parchment.

					SISKO (O.S.)
			That's it. The "City of B'hala," 
			painted nearly twenty thousand 
			years ago --

2    WIDER

	to include SISKO, KIRA and DAX staring at the ancient 
	painting which has been pulled out of its own elaborate
	shipping crate by TWO BAJORAN SECURITY AGENTS. Sisko 
	eyes the painting with tremendous appreciation.

					DAX
			Hmm.

	Sisko and Kira exchange a look, taken aback by her "hmm."

					KIRA 
			Jadzia -- you're looking at the 
			most important Bajoran icon ever 
			painted. The only known "proof" 
			that B'hala actually existed, and 
			all you have to say is "hmm"?

					DAX
			No, it's just that you both gave 
			it such a build up that I thought 
			it would be a lot...