DEEP SPACE: "Prophet Motive" - 12/07/94 - ACT TWO         19.

13   CONTINUED:	(2)

					QUARK
				(with conviction)
			It means... absolutely nothing.
				(still grasping)
			Maybe if we hold the pages up to the 
			light.

	Quark takes the book from Rom and holds it at different angles 
	up to the light.

					QUARK
			No... that's not it.

	He examines the binding, the ink, the fabric of the paper.  
	He smells it, taps on it and listens to it, and licks it, 
	but still can't find an answer.

					QUARK
			The answer must be right in front of 
			us.

					ROM
			I know.  Maybe the Nagus has gone 
			insane.

					QUARK
			Nonsense.  The Nagus is the most 
			brilliant Ferengi alive.  I've 
			modeled my life after him.  Don't 
			ever let me hear you speak that way 
			about him again.

					ROM
			But what if he really believes all 
			this?

					QUARK
			How could he believe this insanity?  
			No.  It has to be part of some 
			brilliant, twisted, devious plan.  
			The Nagus isn't like you and me, 
			Rom.  He thinks ten, sometimes twenty, 
			steps ahead.  These Rules are probably 
			the key component in some vast plot 
			to seize financial control of the 
			entire quadrant.

					ROM
			So what do we do?

					QUARK
			The only thing we can do.  We put 
			down this book and we walk away.