DEEP SPACE NINE: "A Simple... " - REV. 1/20/97 - ACT FOUR      55.

43   CONTINUED:

					SORM 
			Oh.
				(thinks for a beat,
				shrugs)
			Makes sense.

	Off this moment...

44   OMITTED 

45   INT. SCIENCE LAB 

	The crystal is sitting inside a tabletop device, 
	nestled between two diodes. Dax is telling O'Brien and 
	Arissa what she's found. A Deputy stands at the door.

					DAX
			There's an enormous amount of data 
			stored inside the crystal, and a 
			lot of it is quantum level 
			information.

					O'BRIEN
			There goes our plan.

					ARISSA
			What do you mean?

					O'BRIEN
			We were thinking of replicating a 
			few copies of the crystal and 
			trying to access them one at a 
			time. That way if we triggered a 
			self-erase protocol, it wouldn't 
			matter. We could try again.

					ARISSA
				(catching on) 
			But there's no way to copy quantum-
			level information.

					DAX
			Exactly.

					O'BRIEN
				(re: crystal) 
			We're going to have to be very 
			careful. If we accidentally erase 
			whatever's on this, it'll be lost.

	Arissa takes this in, the stakes for her are high.