DEEP SPACE: "Meridian" - 09/20/94 - TEASER              2.

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					KIRA
			Odo, I know you don't need to eat... 
			but have you ever tried to anyway?

	Odo takes a beat, as if this were a slightly uncomfortable 
	topic.

					ODO
			Once... not long after I was first 
			able to assume humanoid form.

	Kira waits for him to continue; when he doesn't.

					KIRA
			And?

					ODO
			Since I don't have taste buds, it 
			was very unsatisfying... not to 
			mention messy.

					KIRA
			Messy?

					ODO
			I'd rather not talk about it.

	Before Kira has time to continue, an alien male, TIRON, 
	approaches their table.  He's tall and nattily dressed, with 
	jeweled RINGS on more than one of his fingers.  While he 
	comports himself with what he probably believes is a certain 
	suaveness, he comes off a bit arrogant.