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     DEEP SPACE NINE: - "The Begotten" - REV. 11/12/96 - ACT TWO    17.

9    CONTINUED:	(2)

					MORA
			I see you still have trouble 
			controlling your temper.

	Odo sets his jaw -- Mora has a way of getting under his skin.

					MORA
			I just wanted to determine its 
			mass.

					ODO
				(controlled)
			Doctor Mora... I understand that 
			you want to help, but I'm going to 
			do this alone.

	Mora smiles in a way that Odo finds condescending.

					MORA
			Alone? But, Odo... you don't know 
			the first thing about teaching a 
			changeling how to shape-shift.

					ODO
			I'll muddle through somehow. You 
			did.

	Mora ignores this barb, takes another tack.

					MORA
			It's too warm in here. A 
			changeling's morphogenic matrix is 
			most malleable at seventeen 
			degrees Celsius.

					ODO
				(dismissing this)
			I used to be able to change my 
			shape in almost any temperature.

					MORA
			But why not make it easy for the
			changeling.