DEEP SPACE: "Armageddon Game" - REV. 11/09/93 - ACT THREE     31.

32A  CONTINUED:	(3)

					O'BRIEN
			You have to lock the base of the 
			coil into that tiny receptor right 
			below it...

	Bashir reaches inside with the tool, starts struggling... 
	realizes it's harder than it appears... applies more effort... 
	O'Brien watches him quietly...

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35   INT. QUARK'S - SECOND LEVEL

	Kira and Dax sit at a table, still thinking about O'Brien 
	and Bashir.

					DAX
			You know, I just remembered... I 
			still have Julian's medical school 
			diaries...

					KIRA
			He let you read them?

					DAX
			He felt they would make me understand 
			him better.

					KIRA
			How?  By reading about all the women 
			he went out with?

					DAX
			They're not about that.  When he 
			gave them to me, he told me they 
			were about his innermost thoughts... 
			his struggle to graduate at the top 
			of his class... his dreams of a career 
			in Starfleet... his constant fear of 
			failure...

					KIRA
				(a little impressed)
			Really.  And did you understand him 
			better?

					DAX
				(guiltily; with sadness)
			I never got around to reading them...