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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ascent" - REV. 10/14/96 - ACT FOUR     39A.

40   CONTINUED:	(2)

					ODO (Cont'd)
				(thinking)
			And the Ferengi Commerce Authority 
			did seize all your assets.

	Quark remains sullenly silent.

					ODO
			It's even worse than that isn't 
			it? You never could afford to 
			join, could you? All those years 
			of lying and scheming and 
			cheating, and you were still too 
			small-time for the Orions.
				(a beat)
			I guess you're not as successful 
			a businessman as you think you 
			are.

	This cuts Quark to the quick. He lashes back out at 
	Odo.