DEEP SPACE: "Cardassians" - REV. 08/17/93 - ACT TWO        19.

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					BASHIR
			Yes.  Isn't it true you were in charge 
			of the evacuation of Bajor?

					GUL DUKAT
				(where's this going?)
			Yes, I was...

					BASHIR
			Then it would have been your 
			responsibility to see that these 
			orphans were part of the evacuation.  
			Yet you chose to leave them behind... 
			why?

	Bashir is afraid to look at Sisko.  Sisko is not pleased 
	with this bald interruption, but he's curious about what 
	Bashir has said.  Gul Dukat reacts coolly.

					GUL DUKAT
			I did not choose to leave them behind, 
			Doctor.  I was ordered to leave them 
			behind.

					BASHIR
			Ordered?  By whom?

					GUL DUKAT
			The civilian leaders.  They...

					BASHIR
				(interrupting, prepared)
			Excuse me.  But if I understand the 
			Cardassian political system, the 
			civilian leaders have no direct 
			authority over military officers...

	Dukat stares at the impudent young doctor, looks to Sisko to 
	intervene... but Sisko is as curious as everyone else about 
	what the doctor is doing, is content to observe the odd 
	confrontation... so Dukat is forced to answer... tries to 
	make light of this...

					GUL DUKAT
			Who's been tutoring you in Cardassian 
			social studies, Doctor?

					BASHIR
			Your old friend, Garak.

	Bashir waits to see the reaction to the name.  There is 
	nothing more than a smile.