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            DEEP SPACE: "Explorers" - 02/27/95 - ACT FOUR           44.

38   CONTINUED:	(4)

					JAKE
			You must've used up a month's worth 
			of Transporter Credits...

					SISKO
			My parents... they never said anything 
			about it... just "How you doing, 
			son, how was school today?" They 
			knew I'd get over being homesick 
			soon enough, and they were right.  
			By the third or fourth day, you 
			couldn't have pried me away from the 
			campus.

	Jake smiles at his father's story...

					SISKO
			Of course... if you go to Pennington, 
			you won't be able to beam back to 
			the station to have dinner with your 
			old man, but after a week or so, 
			you'll get over it...

	Jake sits up in the hammock, he isn't quite sure how to say 
	this.

					JAKE
			Dad, it's not me I'm worried about... 
			it's you.

					SISKO
			Me?

					JAKE
			If I go, you'll be all alone...

	Sisko is touched by his son's concern, even though he doesn't 
	share it...

					SISKO
			Jake, I appreciate you thinking about 
			me... but don't turn down this 
			opportunity on my account.  I'll 
			have plenty of people to keep me 
			company.  I can have dinner with 
			Dax, or Doctor Bashir... even Quark.

					JAKE
				(unconvinced)
			I guess... but I'd feel a lot better 
			if... you had someone... you know... 
			someone special... like a 
			girlfriend...