DEEP SPACE NINE: "Business as... " - REV. 1/30/97 - ACT THREE    38.

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					REGENT
			Seven... maybe eight million.

	Quark's lips fall open. Gaila and Hagath exchange a 
	look, "no problem."

					HAGATH
			We can help you with that.

					REGENT
			But that's just the beginning.
			Over the next couple of months, I
			would like the death toll to
			rise... slowly but steadily.

					GAILA
			Give us a figure.

					REGENT
			Let's say... twenty million.

					HAGATH
				(consulting with Gaila)
			What would be most effective?
			Prions?

					GAILA
			Either that or a mutagenic
			retrovirus. What do you think,
			Quark?

					QUARK
			Twenty-eight million dead? Can't
			we just wound some of them?

	There's a silent beat, the moment hangs in the air...