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        DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ship" - REV. 07/29/96 - ACT ONE       15.

22   INT. OPS

	KIRA ENTERS from the captain's office to find ODO, 
	BASHIR and QUARK in a heated argument.

					QUARK
			If you're going to prosecute me --
			I demand you prosecute my co-
			conspirator.

					BASHIR
			I am not a conspirator!


						ODO
			What would you call yourself, 
			doctor?

					BASHIR 
			An idiot --

					QUARK
			I won't dispute that.

					BASHIR
				(to Quark)
			-- for asking your help in the 
			first place!

	Kira steps in the middle of the fray.

					KIRA
			Would someone tell me what's going 
			on here?

	Bashir and Quark just glare at each other... Odo looks 
	them over as he explains to Kira.


					ODO
			Quark brought aboard a shipment of 
			Regalian fleaspiders without an 
			import permit.

					QUARK
				(pointing to Bashir)
			He asked me for them!

						BASHIR 
			The spiders were for you, major. 
			I can synthesize a drug from their 
			venom that should improve your 
			circulation.
				(to Odo)
			But I didn't know I needed a 
			permit to import them.

					KIRA
			So what's the problem? Fill out 
			the paperwork.