DEEP SPACE NINE: "Little Green Men" - REV. 09/20/95 - ACT TWO   20.

27   CONTINUED:	(2)

	Professor Carlson takes out a pack of cigarettes, hands 
	one to Nurse Garland, puts one in his own mouth, and 
	lights both cigarettes.

					PROFESSOR CARLSON 
			You can't keep this from the 
			public forever, General. Beings 
			from another planet have landed on 
			Earth. It's one of the most 
			important events in human history.

					GENERAL DENNING 
			Maybe. But we can't risk causing 
			a panic. I'm not telling the 
			public anything until we know 
			exactly what we're up against.

	Denning turns and we see that everyone in the room is 
	watching Quark, Nog and Rom through the two-way 
	mirror. We can't hear them until the General reaches 
	over and flips a toggle switch activating a speaker 
	over the mirror. (Because the Ferengis' universal 
	translators are on the blink, we hear untranslated 
	Ferengi whenever we're seeing them from the humans' 
	point of view. Rough translations are in parentheses.)

					QUARK 
			Pip im gren tovat. Yop bree gren 
			skin law po far.  (This is all your 
			fault. I told you to check 
			the ship.)

					ROM 
			Yop im too, yoba. Yop sko ta yop 
			ma. (I'm sorry, brother. I did 
			the best I could.)

28   INT. EXAMINING ROOM

	Quark, Rom and Nog are trying to make sense of their 
	surroundings. Now that the Ferengi are alone, we 
	understand them perfectly. Quark checks the room's 
	only door.

					QUARK 
			Locked.
				(he looks around the 
				room) 
			What is this place? Where are we?

					ROM 
			I wish you'd stop asking that. I 
			told you, I don't know.