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      DEEP SPACE NINE: "Soldiers... " - REV. 03/03/97 - ACT ONE       9.

5    CONTINUED:

					WORF
				(continuing) 
			You... know that I was forced to
			fight the Jem'Hadar guards in the 
			camp...
				(off his nod) 
			Each day they would call me to the 
			ring and each day I would fight. 
			But then, there came a day when 
			I... wavered.

					SISKO
			You mean you didn't want to go 
			back into the ring?

					WORF
			No. I mean that I considered 
			letting them kill me. It seemed 
			like the only way out.
				(beat) 
			Just before I went into the ring, 
			Martok turned to wish me 
			success... and then he saw what 
			I was planning -- saw it in my 
			eyes. It was a moment of 
			Tova'dok.

					SISKO
			Of what?

					WORF 
			There is no human word for it. It 
			is a moment of... clarity between 
			two warriors on the field of 
			battle. Much is said without the 
			need for words. In that moment, 
			Martok knew what was in my mind.
				(beat) 
			Once I realized that he saw my 
			intention to give up, I could no 
			longer go through with it. I went 
			back into the ring... and fought 
			once more.

	A quiet beat as Sisko studies the face of this man he 
	knows so well and yet doesn't know at all. Worf 
	immediately feels uncomfortable.

					WORF 
			Perhaps it is something that a 
			human cannot understand...

	Sisko picks up a PADD and makes a few entries.