DEEP SPACE NINE: "Children... " - REV. 03/11/97 - ACT ONE     14A.

15   CONTINUED:	(3)

					YEDRIN (Cont'd) 
			The wormhole hadn't been 
			discovered yet... there was no way 
			to get back to the Alpha Quadrant.

	Lisa pipes up, offers a tidbit she obviously learned 
	in class. She sounds like a schoolchild talking about 
	the Pilgrims.

					LISA 
			Our ancestors decided to make this 
			their new home.

	Not one to be upstaged, Molly chimes in.

					MOLLY 
			They needed to build a shelter 
			quickly, before the winter came.

					LISA
				(indicating all around) 
			This is it -- it's the oldest 
			building there is.
				(can you believe it?) 
			At first, everyone had to sleep in 
			here -- all forty-eight of them.

	Sisko wheels around to face Yedrin --