DEEP SPACE NINE: "Blaze... " - REV. 03/21/97 - ACT ONE       14.

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					QUARK 
			And I might've idly suggested that 
			there wasn't a hope in hell of any 
			of us getting out of here alive.

					ODO
			And that's when he hit you with 
			the barstool and ran out onto the 
			Promenade screaming "We're all 
			doomed."

					QUARK
			Some people just don't react well 
			to stress.

	Suddenly Dax's Com Voice cuts in...

					DAX'S COM VOICE
			Ops to Major Kira.

					KIRA
			Go ahead.

					DAX'S COM VOICE 
			There's an incoming transmission 
			from Captain Sisko.

					KIRA
			I'll be right there.
				(to Quark) 
			Probably wants to warn us that the 
			first wave of Jem'Hadar is on the 
			way.

	She EXITS.

					QUARK
				(calling after her) 
			Very funny.

	But now Quark's feeling a little stressed.

					QUARK
				(to Bashir and Odo) 
			She is joking, right?

	But neither Odo nor Bashir feel like holding Quark's 
	hand right now. Bashir goes to work on the cut.

					BASHIR
				(no sympathy) 
			Hold still.