DEEP SPACE NINE: "Rules of... " - REV. 1/26/96 - ACT FIVE      54.

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					CH'POK
			Children...

					SISKO
				(nods)
			Children. We've done some
			checking into their backgrounds,
			and in our opinion they appear to
			be a random group of people who
			shared only one thing in common:
			they all decided to travel on the
			same ship. Is that your
			conclusion as well?

					CH'POK
			Yes.

					SISKO
			And it was just... fate that led
			these particular people to board
			a doomed ship?

					CH'POK
			Fate is a human concept. They
			simply boarded the wrong ship at
			the wrong time.

					SISKO
			And then they did it again.

					CH'POK
			I... don't understand what you're-

					SISKO
			Three months ago a Klingon
			transport ship crashed in the
			mountains of Galorda Prime. Of
			course, everyone assumed the worst
			-- that the passengers and crew had
			all been killed. But then,
			miraculously... everyone survived.
			Do you know anyone who was on that
			ship?

					CH'POK
			No...