DEEP SPACE NINE: "Rapture" - REV. 10/23/96 - TEASER         2.

2    CONTINUED:

					DAX (Cont'd)
				(delineating a larger 
				imaginary canvas)
			... bigger.

	Sisko and Kira give her a look. Dax tries to recover 
	with:

					DAX
			Not that small is bad.


					KIRA 
			We've been trying to force the 
			Cardassian government to return 
			this to us since the end of the 
			Occupation. It's good to have it 
			back.

					DAX
			I thought you said it was being 
			returned to the State Museum in 
			Ilvia.

					SISKO
			It will be. Tomorrow. But I 
			couldn't let it pass without 
			stealing a look.
				(with a half-smile)
			Sometimes, being the Emissary 
			isn't such a bad thing.

	As Dax looks at the painting once again, Sisko can't 
	contain his enthusiasm.

					SISKO

				(pointing to the 
				Obelisk)
			See that? It's a Bantaca spire. 
			Ancient Bajoran cities were built 
			around them.

	Sisko marvels at the structure.

					SISKO
			They were all about eleven meters 
			tall... made of hundreds of 
			stones, carved and fitted together 
			so tightly that they didn't need mortar.

					KIRA 
			It's said they mark the city's 
			place in the cosmos.