DEEP SPACE NINE: "Body Parts" - REV. 04/08/96 - ACT ONE       7.

6    CONTINUED:	(3)

					ROM
			Rule of Acquisition seventeen: "A
			contract is a contract is a
			contract. But only between
			Ferengi."

					QUARK
			Exactly.
				(getting overwhelmed)
			But you're right... it's still a
			lot of debt.

	A silent beat, till Rom gets an idea.

					ROM
			You can always sell the desiccated
			remains of your corpse on the
			Ferengi Futures Exchange.

					QUARK
			Who's going to want to buy a disk
			of desiccated Quark? I'm
			nobody... just some bartender
			with a domineering mother and an
			idiot brother.

					ROM
			That's not true.

					QUARK
			Which part?

					ROM
			All of it. Except for the mother
			part. You're more than just a
			bartender. You're the first
			Ferengi to make contact with the
			Dominion.

					QUARK
			I won't get any cheers for that.

	Rom thinks about it a moment.

					ROM
				(I know!)
			You were the Grand Nagus --

					QUARK
			For a week. If I'm lucky, I'll be
			a footnote in some Ferengi
			financial almanac.