DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Sword... " - REV. 10/04/95 - ACT ONE     11.

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					DAX
			A Vulcan geological survey team 
			was mining bakrinium on an 
			uncharted planet when they 
			accidentally unearthed some 
			ancient ruins. They brought back 
			several artifacts to study, 
			including the cloth.

					WORF
			Kor was the Klingon ambassador to 
			Vulcan.

					DAX
			When he saw the cloth, Kor 
			recognized the markings and got 
			them to give it to him as a gift. 
			They didn't realize it, but the 
			markings were Hur'q.

					SISKO
			Hur'q... that's the Klingon word 
			for "outsiders," isn't it?

					WORF
			The Hur'q invaded our homeworld 
			over a thousand years ago. What 
			they could not pillage, they 
			destroyed. They took the Sword 
			and my people have been looking 
			for it ever since. It is said 
			that the recovery of the Sword 
			will bring a new era of glory to 
			the Klingon Empire. With the 
			Sword, the Emperor will be able to 
			unite our people again.

					SISKO
				(thinking about it) 
			And if two Starfleet officers were 
			involved in recovering the
			Sword... that might go a long way 
			toward patching things up between 
			us and the Klingons.

					WORF
			That is my hope as well, Captain.