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 DEEP SPACE NINE: "Business as... " - REV. 1/30/97 - ACT FOUR 41-42.    
                           ACT FOUR                             

	FADE IN:

30   OMITTED

31   INT. OPS

	At the science station, Dax and Kira are whispering 
	together.

					DAX
			The Vulcan science vessel T'Pan is 
			requesting permission to dock.

	Captain Sisko emerges from his office, starts toward 
	the floor where Chief O'Brien is replacing some 
	isolinear rods in the computer.

					KIRA
			Put her at Docking Bay Three.

					DAX
				(nods) 
			The Wellington has finished 
			refueling. It should decouple 
			within the hour.

					KIRA
			Got it.

	Sisko gets more and more curious as he overhears Kira 
	and approaches O'Brien -- because EVERY CONVERSATION 
	CONDUCTED IN OPS IS AT A WHISPER. Sisko arrives at the 
	Chief's work site. O'Brien looks up.