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         DEEP SPACE: "Prophet Motive" - 12/07/94 - ACT FIVE         54.

74   CONTINUED:

					QUARK (Cont'd)
			Our ambition to improve ourselves 
			motivates everything we do.

				(working up a head of 
				steam)
			Without ambition, without... dare I 
			say it... greed, people would lie 
			around all day, doing nothing.  They 
			wouldn't work, they wouldn't bathe, 
			they wouldn't even eat.  They'd starve 
			to death.
				(accusatory)
			Is that what you want?  Are you so 
			isolated and detached that you would 
			sit back and allow the extinction of 
			every corporeal being in the galaxy?

	Quark waits for a response.  There's a long beat, then...

					SISKO ALIEN
			Your argument is specious.  Changing 
			you will not result in the termination 
			of all corporeal existence.

	As if in agreement with the Sisko Alien, all the other Aliens 
	just stare blankly at Quark.

					QUARK
			All right, so maybe I exaggerated a 
			little.

					EMI ALIEN
				(ignoring him)
			We should alter this one and return 
			it to its own people.

					ROM ALIEN
			Agreed.  It is best to avoid contact 
			with this species.