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       DEEP SPACE: "Emissary" REV. FINAL 08/25/92 - ACT SEVEN      105.

230  CONTINUED:

					BATTER ALIEN
				(grasping the meaning)
			And you have no idea what that shape 
			is until it is completed...

					SISKO
				(beat)
			That's right.  In fact, the game 
			wouldn't be worth playing if we knew 
			what was going to happen.

					JAKE ALIEN
				(flabbergasted)
			You value your ignorance of what is 
			to come?

					SISKO
				(acknowledges, driving 
				home his point)
			That may be the most important thing 
			to understand about humans.
			It is the unknown that defines 
			our existence.  We are constantly 
			searching... not just for answers 
			to our questions... but for new 
			questions.  We are explorers... 
			we explore our lives day by day...
			and we explore the galaxy, trying 
			to expand the boundaries of our 
			knowledge.  And that is why I'm 
			here.  Not to conquer you either 
			with weapons or with ideas.  But 
			to co-exist and learn.

231  JAKE ALIEN

	studies him curiously for a beat...

232  SISKO

	waits hopefully for a response... reacts as he looks down at

233  HIS HANDS

	bloody and burned as they were at the Saratoga.