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             DEEP SPACE: "The Wire" - 03/01/94 - TEASER              3.

2    CONTINUED:

					BASHIR (Cont'd)
			I mean... the author is supposed to 
			be chronicling seven generations of 
			a single family... but he tells the 
			same story over and over again... 
			All the characters live lives of 
			selfless duty to the state... get 
			old... and die.  And then the next 
			generation comes along and does it 
			all over again.

	Garak rubs his temples.  He doesn't seem to be in his usual 
	good spirits.

					GARAK
			That's the whole point, Doctor.  The 
			repetitive epic is the most elegant 
			form of Cardassian literature, and 
			The Never-Ending Sacrifice is it's 
			greatest achievement.

					BASHIR
			But the characters never really come 
			alive.  I mean, there's more to life 
			than serving the state.

					GARAK
			A Federation viewpoint if ever I 
			heard one.

	Garak looks impatiently at the line.

					GARAK
				(continuing, cranky)
			This is ridiculous.  Can't you just 
			move to the front of the line?  Tell 
			them it's a medical emergency or 
			something.

					BASHIR
			We're almost there.
				(picking up where 
				Garak left off)
			Look, maybe if you lent me another 
			book... by a different writer...

	Garak wrinkles his brow and squeezes his temples as if 
	fighting off a bad headache.