---------------------------- STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE ---------------------------- FIRST SEASON PROMO SUMMARY by Dean Adams June 14, 1993 Ep. Date PC Title ---- -------- --- ---------------- 1-2. 01/02/93 721 Emissary 3. 01/09/93 404 Past Prologue 4. 01/16/93 403 A Man Alone 5. 01/23/93 405 Babel 6. 01/30/93 406 Captive Pursuit 7. 02/06/93 407 Q-Less 8. 02/13/93 408 Dax 9. 02/20/93 409 The Passenger 10. 03/13/93 410 Move Along Home 11. 03/20/93 411 The Nagus 12. 04/17/93 412 Vortex 13. 04/24/93 413 Battle Lines 14. 05/01/93 414 The Storyteller 15. 05/08/93 415 Progress 16. 05/15/93 416 If Wishes Were Horses 17. 05/22/93 417 The Forsaken 18. 05/29/93 418 Dramatis Personae 19. 06/12/93 419 Duet 20. 06/19/93 420 In the Hands of the Prophets - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - = - --------------------------------------- DEEP SPACE NINE GENERIC/LAUNCH PROMOS --------------------------------------- Version #1 (:30) It waits... at the edge of the final frontier. It waits... for an untested crew to begin an unprecedented journey. But most of all, it waits for you. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. Version #1 (:15) It waits for an untested crew to begin an unprecedented journey. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. Version #1 (:10) From the edge of the final frontier comes a new television series. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Coming in January. Version #2 (:30) It waits... at the limits of time and space. It waits... for a freedom fighter to lead her people to peace [Kira], and for an extraordinary being to seek the mystery of his life [Odo]. But most of all, it waits... for you. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. Version #2 (:10) From the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation comes a new television series... Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Version #3 (:30) It waits... at the farthest reaches of the galaxy. It waits... for an alien fortune hunter [Quark], and a Starfleet officer [O'Brien], to face their greatest challenge. But most of all, it waits... for you. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. Version #3 (:15) It waits... for a father and his son to fulfill their destiny. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. Version #3 (:10) It waits at the edge of the final frontier. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. In January the wait will be over. ------------------ EMISSARY (#721) ------------------ (:30 version) At the edge of the final frontier, the universe's greatest mystery is about to unfold... A journey beyond the boundaries of charted space. Where a dark, mysterious world waits on the threshold of new discovery. Prepare yourself for adventure beyond imagination. Prepare for the thrilling two-hour world premiere of... STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. (:15 version) The greatest mystery in the universe unfolds. Prepare yourself for a thrilling adventure to the farthest edge of the final frontier, on the two-hour world premiere of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. (:10 version) Voyage to the edge of the final frontier, on the thrilling two-hour world premiere of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ----------------------- PAST PROLOGUE (#404) ----------------------- NEXT TIME ON STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE, A BAJORAN TERRORIST SEEKS REFUGE ONBOARD THE SPACE STATION... [ Cardassian ship firing on another vessel ] [ Bajoran beams into Ops ] [ Cardassian talking to Sisko ] Cardassian: He has committed brutal acts of destruction! [ Kira and Bajoran talking ] Bajoran: I want Bajor for Bajorans. BUT WHERE DO KIRA'S LOYALTIES LIE? Kira: You expect me to commit some act of violence against the Federation? [ Sisko, O'Brien, Kira, and Bajoran in a Runabout ] Bajoran: There is an armed explosive device onboard this ship. ...no more wormhole, no more Federation. [ Runabout enters wormhole ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. --------------------- A MAN ALONE (#403) --------------------- VOYAGE TO DEEP SPACE NINE, WHERE SECURITY OFFICER ODO MUST CONFRONT A NOTORIOUS CRIMINAL FROM HIS PAST... [ Odo fighting with a Bajoran man, Sisko breaks it up ] [ Sisko and Odo talking ] Odo: He went to prison for murder. I sent him there. NOW JUSTICE BECOMES AN ISSUE OF LIFE... AND DEATH. [ Bajoran man in holosuite; he is stabbed in the back ] [ Sisko and Odo talking ] Sisko: You're not going to take the law in your own hands. Odo: Watch me. [ Zayra talking to Kira and Sisko ] Zayra: He was afraid that Odo would kill him. [ Kira talking to Odo ] Kira: Who might want to frame you for murder? [ Mob chasing Odo ] [ Sisko talking to Odo ] Sisko: I am temporarily reliving you of duty. [ Zayra and mob corner Odo ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. --------------- BABEL (#405) --------------- VOYAGE TO DEEP SPACE NINE, WHERE AN ALIEN VIRUS SABOTAGES THE STATION. [ View of Runabout returning to the station ] [ DNA pattern on display screen ] [ Bashir talking with Sisko and Odo ] Bashir: It's mutated into an airborne variety. Odo: Which means... Bashir: ...the whole station is infected. Sisko: Who created this virus? Bashir: The Bajorans, sir. NOW, CATASTROPHE THREATENS THE OUTPOST... [ multiple patients in Sickbay ] [ Sisko talking to Kira ] Sisko: I can't allow you to break quarantine... Odo: Better let her go, Sisko. She's all we've got. ...AND SURVIVAL LIES IN KIRA'S HANDS. [ Runabout approaching a planet; Kira and a Bajoran onboard ] Bajoran: This is kidnaping. Kira: All I want is the antidote! ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------------- CAPTIVE PURSUIT (#406) ------------------------- [ Sisko in Ops, talking to alien (in ship) on viewscreen ] Sisko: You've traveled almost 90 thousand light years. A WANTED PREDATOR FROM THE OTHER SIDE THREATENS THE SPACE STATION... [ Alien ship emerging from the wormhole ] [ Airlock door on station blasted open ] Alien: Show me where the weapons are stored. ...IS HE A DANGEROUS CRIMINAL, OR A PAWN IN A BRUTAL GAME? [ Alien talking with O'Brien and Quark ] Alien: I live the greatest adventure one could ever desire. NOW THE CREW FINDS THEMSELVES BATTLING THE UNKNOWN. [ O'Brien fires phaser at two "hunters" wearing helmets (not unlike Stormtroopers) and red uniforms; one of them is hit and falls ] [ In Ops ] O'Brien: He's running from something, that's for sure. [ Alien leaps across the room and knocks down a hunter ] [ O'Brien fires phaser, protecting Alien ] THE HUNT IS ON, ON THE NEXT ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ---------------- Q-LESS (#407) ---------------- A CRISIS IN THE MAKING... [ Station in motion; thrusters firing trying to stop it ] [ In Ops; Kira talking to Sisko ] Kira: We'll hit the wormhole in eighteen minutes. Dax: We're losing atmosphere. ...PUTS THE STATION ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH DISASTER! [ Alien ship enters the wormhole ] [ Miles talking to Sisko ] O'Brien: I just saw Q on the promenade. Sisko: Q, here? [ Sisko and Q talking ] Q: All gone... Sisko: Bring him back Q, now! IS Q UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS? [ Q in Ops ] Q: My advice to you is to evacuate now. ...OR IS THE DESTINY OF DEEP SPACE NINE EVEN OUT OF HIS CONTROL? [ Q appears in front of Vash ] ...ON THE NEXT ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: Star Trek's "Q" puts the station on a collision course with disaster, on an all new episode of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------- DAX (#408) ------------- WHEN YOU LIVE ON THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE, THE UNKNOWN IS YOUR ENEMY. [ Alien ship docked at station ] [ Three aliens abduct Dax in a corridor; Bashir sees them ] Bashir: Dax! [ Sisko, Odo, and Kira in Ops ] Sisko: Full station security alert. Odo: We have a hostage situation. ...BUT WHAT YOU FEAR ISN'T ALWAYS ON THE OUTSIDE... [ Alien man talking to Sisko, while Odo and Dax listen ] Man: The fugitive Dax is charged with the murder of my father. ...SOMETIMES ITS RIGHT ON BOARD. [ Sisko talking to Dax ] Sisko: Talk to me before I have to let these people take you. [ Alien abductors dragging Dax through an airlock ] Dax: Tell me what you want. [ Sisko and Kira in Ops ] Kira: They're boarding a ship. Sisko: Engage tractor beam... [ Ship departing from station; tractor beam fires ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. 15-second version: In space what you fear isn't always outside. Sometimes its right on board, on an all new episode of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. 10-second version: Sometimes what you fear isn't out in space, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ----------------------- THE PASSENGER (#409) ----------------------- OF ALL THE FORCES IN THE UNIVERSE, DEATH HAS REMAINED A MYSTERY... [ Alien ship emerging from the wormhole ] [ Man is shot by phaser ] [ Bashir examines an injured alien; alien grabs him by the neck ] ...BUT NOW, A PSYCHOPATHIC GENIUS... [ Bashir and alien doctor working; Odo observing ] Bashir: He is dead. Doctor: He's alive. Odo: That's impossible! ...HAS DISCOVERED THE SECRET TO IMMORTALITY. [ Bashir enters a burning stateroom ] [ Dax and Bashir viewing computer display ] Dax: The body dies, the consciousness lives on. Bashir: In another brain? ...AND SOMEONE WILL INHERIT HIS MURDEROUS LEGACY. [ Quark is grabbed around the neck from behind ] [ Sisko aims phaser at someone entering Ops; Kira and Odo watching ] [ Odo and Quark talking ] Odo: I'm watching you. Quark: And i'm watching you. [ man falls from upper level in promenade ] [ Station fires a beam at a shielded alien ship ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. 15-second version: A psychopath achieves immortality, but who will inherit his soul? On an all new episode of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. 10-second version: Someone has become a killer, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------------- MOVE ALONG HOME (#410) ------------------------- THEY CAME FROM THE DARKEST CORNER OF THE GALAXY... [ Alien ship arriving at Station docking ring ] [ Falow and other aliens entering the station through an airlock ] [ Sisko talking to Falow (alien leader) ] Sisko: First Contact is our most important mission. ...AND THEY BROUGHT WITH THEM THE GAMES THEY PLAY... [ Quark looks on amazedly at the alien's game tables ] [ Quark and Falow playing one of the games, a multi-level "chess" ] Quark: Did I win?? PREPARE YOURSELF FOR A NEW KIND OF SPORT. [ DSN officers find themselves on a "game grid" ] [ A game piece is moved on the board; Inside the game "maze", a door closes suddenly behind Sisko, Kira, Dax, and Bashir ] Odo: Four officers have just disappeared. [ Kira and Bashir walk down a corridor in the maze ] Kira: We're fighting for our lives here. ...WHERE TO WIN, YOU MUST SURVIVE. [ Sisko opens a door in the maze, to reveal Falow laughing ] [ Sisko alone on a "game grid" ] [ Falow speaking to Quark, sitting at the game board ] Falow: Choose their path. [ Kira in a room full of laughing aliens ] Kira (yelling): What is wrong with you people?! [ Odo opens a hatchway, but a blinding light forces him back ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: Prepare yourself for a new kind of game, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------- THE NAGUS (#411) ------------------- AN EMPIRE FORGED BY TREACHERY AND DECEIT... [ Old Ferengi, drinking ] [ Kira, Sisko, Dax, and Odo in Ops ] Kira: I'd advise us to lock up the silverware Odo: I'm already on it. ...IS ABOUT TO UNVEIL ITS MASTER PLAN. [ Quark and Odo, in Quark's bar ] [ Group of Ferengis at a meeting table ] Ferengi 1: Our word will be our bond. Ferengi 2: Until we decide to break it. Ferengis: FIRST, THEY WILL CHOOSE A NEW LEADER... Old Ferengi: Quark! Quark: ...THEN, THEY'LL TAKE OVER THE GALAXY. [ Quark and Old Ferengi talking ] Old Ferengi: When in doubt, be ruthless. [ Odo in Quark's bar ] Odo: How Touching. [ a large explosion ] [ Quark walks down the promenade, acknowledging his "subjects" ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: A powerful empire is taking over, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ---------------- VORTEX (#412) ---------------- ODO'S MYSTERIOUS LIFE HIDES A HAUNTING SECRET... [ Odo morphing... ] [ Odo talking to alien man ] Odo: You've heard of other shape-shifters? Alien: What would telling you get me? [ Alien fires a phaser at someone off-screen ] NOW, A FUGITIVE UNLOCKS THE KEY TO HIS PAST. [ Runabout entering the wormhole ] [ Alien shows a morphing pendant to Odo ] Alien: From the colony of the changeling. Odo: Tell me where it is. Alien: I have to show you. TO LEARN THE TRUTH... [ Quark takes cover as a man is hit with a phaser blast ] [ Sisko talking to Odo ] Sisko: I want you to escort the prisoner. [ Odo escorts the alien (in handcuffs) onto a Runabout ] ...ODO WILL RISK HIS LIFE. [ Odo talking to Alien Commander on Runabout viewscreen ] Odo: I don't give up my prisoners. Alien Commander: Then you can die with him. [ Alien bird-of-prey type ship firing on Runabout ] [ A console explodes as Odo pilots the Runabout ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: A fugitive finds an unlikely ally, on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ---------------------- BATTLE LINES (#416) ---------------------- BEYOND THE WORMHOLE... [ Runabout enters the wormhole ] [ Kira piloting; Sisko, Bashir, and Kai Opaka also onboard ] [ Kira looks at a sensor display ] Kira: We're being scanned by one of the satellites. Sisko: Shields up. Kira: It's firing. [ Runabout is hit ] ...ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GALAXY... [ Runabout out of control ] Sisko: Hold on, we're going down! ...A LIVING HELL IS ABOUT TO BE DISCOVERED... [ Dax and O'Brien in another runabout, searching ] O'Brien: They could be 20 light years from here, we wouldn't have the first clue. ...WHERE DEATH HAS LITTLE MEANING... [ Runabout crashed on a moon, alien warriors approaching ] [ Sisko talking to Bashir ] Sisko: We're in the middle of a pretty ugly war. ...BECAUSE NO ONE EVER DIES. [ an alien is hit by a phaser blast ] [ Sisko talking to an alien ] Alien: We're all prisoners on this moon. [ Kira is caught in a firefight ] Sisko: Major! ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF NEXT STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: A living hell has been discovered, where bloodshed is a way of life, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------------- THE STORYTELLER (#414) ------------------------- ACCORDING TO ANCIENT BAJORAN RELIGION, A FORCE WILL RISE AGAINST THE PEOPLE... [ O'Brien and Bashir on Bajor, in the middle of a large crowd ] [ The Bajoran "chosen one" is speaking to the crowd ] [ There is an electrical storm; a strange cloud forms above them ] Bashir: Is it alive?! ...AND ONLY THE CHOSEN ONE WILL HAVE THE POWER TO STOP IT. [ Bashir examines the unconscious Chosen One, with O'Brien and two Bajorans watching ] Bajoran: If he dies, we all die. NOW, O'BRIEN HAS BEEN DEEMED THEIR LAST HOPE... [ the storm increases its intensity ] O'Brien: Bloody hell!! ...AND AGAINST HIS WILL, BECOMES THEIR NEW SAVOIR. [ Miles walks among a revering crowd, wearing ceremonial robes ] [ Bajoran talking to O'Brien (earlier) ] Bajoran: Without your protection, it will kill us all. O'Brien: But there's been a serious misunderstanding. [ Miles standing before the crowd ] [ the storm is raging; explosions going off ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: O'Brien is mistaken for a savoir, on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------ PROGRESS (#418) ------------------ A REMOTE MOON, ON THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION... [ Runabout approaching moon; Kira and Dax on board ] Kira: All the inhabitants were supposed to be evacuated by now. [ On the moon, Mullibok (Brian Keith) talking to Kira ] Mullibok: If I leave here i'll die. A REBEL LEADER REFUSING TO SURRENDER... [ A group of farmers threaten Kira ] [ Kira talking to a Bajoran ] Bajoran: We'll have to beam him off the surface. Kira: You'll be killing him! [ in Sisko's office ] Sisko: Easy, Major. ...AND THE FEDERATION FACES A MUTINY... [ Bajoran security officers forcibly evacuating farmers ] [ Kira fires her phaser past Mullibok, at a pyramid object ] ...WITHIN IT'S OWN RANKS. [ Kira (out of uniform), standing with Mullibok ] [ Sisko talking to Bashir... ] Sisko: Right now she stands a pretty good chance of being out of uniform permanently. [ Mullibok fighting with a security officer; another officer tries to fire his phaser ] Kira: NO! ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: First Officer Kira joins a rebellion, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ------------------------------- IF WISHES WERE HORSES (#416) ------------------------------- IN THE DARK REACHES OF THE MIND LIES THE ULTIMATE ENEMY... [ A small ship launches from the Docking Ring ] [ Sisko watches the "folded space" on a viewscreen in Ops ] [ Sisko looks over Dax's shoulder as she examines a computer display ] Sisko: What is it? Dax: Its some sort of folded space. ...WHERE THE CREW'S POWER OF SUGGESTION... [ A leprechaun appears before O'Brien ] O'Brien: What are you? [ Sisko talking to the crew ] Sisko: It seems we're letting our imaginations run wild. [ Dax starts kissing a surprised Bashir ] ...REVEALS THEIR DARKEST FEARS. [ A fireball engulfs a corridor and blows back Kira against a wall ] [ Sisko, O'Brien, and the leprechaun in Ops ] O'Brien: Flux density readings inside the rupture are off the scale. THE TERRIFYING NIGHTMARE BEGINS! [ Kira watches a man covered in flames come down the corridor ] Kira: Lower Pylon One is gone! [ Sisko, O'Brien, and the leprechaun in Ops ] Sisko: Red alert. O'Brien: Torpedoes ready. Sisko: Fire! [ Torpedoes fire from station; the folded space sends out a shock wave ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: Journey inside the imagination, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. ---------------------- THE FORSAKEN (#417) ---------------------- IT'S GALAXY IS UNCHARTED... [ probe emerging from the wormhole ] [ Bashir and ambassadors on the station ] Ambassador: This probe may represent contact with a new species. [ Sisko and Kira searching a damaged corridor ] IT'S PURPOSE IS UNKNOWN... [ O'Brien examining a display ] Anara: Reactor 2 has just been shut down. O'Brien: What?! IT'S POWER IS UNSTOPPABLE... [ Bashir trapped in a smoke-filled room ] [ Sisko and Kira in Ops ] Sisko: Whatever it is, its totally disabling the station. ...AND IT'S FIRST VICTIM IS ODO. [ Odo and Lwaxana trapped in a turbolift ] [ Odo begins "dissolving" ] [ Kira and Sisko in Ops ] Sisko: Does anybody know the schedule of his regenerative cycle? Kira: I have no idea. [ Lwaxana watches as Odo dissolves ] Odo: Its beginning. No one has ever seen me like this before. ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: Odo is in danger! Odo is losing his human form, on the next STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. --------------------------- DRAMATIS PERSONAE (#419) --------------------------- IN A GALAXY TORN BY CONFLICT, THE FEDERATION HAS KEPT THE PEACE. [ A Klingon cruiser emerges from the wormhole ] [ Klingon cruiser explodes, shaking the station ] [ Kira and Sisko talking ] Kira: This station is Bajoran property. Sisko: Commanded by me. BUT SOMETHING'S TURNING ALLIES... [ Bashir, O'Brien, and Dax being attacked by an alien energy force ] [ Kira talking to Odo ] Kira: I need your help... Odo: You're going after Sisko. ...INTO ENEMIES. [ O'Brien talking to Dax, while piloting a Runabout ] O'Brien: Anyone who's against Sisko is against me. KIRA'S TAKING OVER! [ Kira and security men enter a room, pointing weapons ] [ Sisko and O'Brien talking ] Sisko: What can we do? O'Brien: Leave the station. Sisko: NEVER!!! [ Kira shoves Quark across the bar ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. -------------- DUET (#419) -------------- THEY SAY HE BUTCHERED THOUSANDS... [ Dax examining an image of Gul Dukat on a viewscreen ] Odo: He commanded a forced labor camp. MILLIONS CRY FOR JUSTICE... [ A Bajoran man speaking, with Kira watching ] Bajoran: Let me know when you hang the Cardassian. ...BUT ONLY ONE WILL STAND AGAINST HIM. [ Kira confronts Gul Dukat, with Odo and Bashir looking on ] Gul Dukat: Look at the hate in her eyes. THE WAR IS OVER... [ Kira and Gul Dukat arguing ] Gul Dukat: How many Cardassians did you kill? Kira: We had no choice! ...BUT KIRA'S BATTLE HAS JUST BEGUN. [ Gul Dukat runs down a corridor and is stopped by a security officer ] Kira: He was there. He did it. [ Bajoran man lunges for Gul Dukat with a knife ] ...ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: IS HE A CRIMINAL... OR A SCAPEGOAT? Gul Dukat: Its not the truth you are interested in. All you want is vengeance. Kira: I'll sentence you to death! NEXT TIME, ON STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. -------------------------------------- IN THE HANDS OF THE PROPHETS (#420) -------------------------------------- A RELIGIOUS EXTREMIST... [ Winn talking to Sisko ] Winn: You want nothing less than to destroy us. ...SETS OFF A WAVE OF TERROR. [ O'Brien and Odo running through the Promenade ] Winn: I understand my duty to defend the Bajoran faith. A HOLY WAR THAT COULD DIVIDE THE STATION... [ Sisko and Kira talking in Ops ] Kira: I think i've given you all the support I can, short of... Sisko: It's not enough. ...AND BRING THE FEDERATION TO IT'S KNEES. [ Sisko talking to Winn and other Bajorans ] Sisko: We are neither the enemy, nor the devil! Winn: We'll see... [ An explosion and fire on the station; Odo and O'Brien arrive ] ...ON THE SEASON FINALE OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Short version: A religious fanatic sparks a holy war of terror, on STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. << END OF DSN SEASON ONE PROMO SUMMARY FILE >> --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-- Dean Adams * dadams@netcom.com * dnadams@nyx.cs.du.edu --==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--