DEEP SPACE NINE: "Favor the Bold" - REV. 9/5/97 - ACT ONE     12.

15   CONTINUED: (2)

					SISKO 
			The Dominion won't attack Earth.

					ADMIRAL SITAK
			How can you be sure?

					SISKO
			Because Earth isn't the key to the 
			Alpha Quadrant. The wormhole is. 
			And whoever controls Deep Space 
			Nine controls the wormhole.

	And off this moment of decision --

16   EXT. SPACE - TEROK NOR (OPTICAL)

	Establishing.

17   INT. QUARK'S

	The, by now, "normal" clientele: BAJORAN, CARDASSIAN, 
	and some JEM'HADAR. QUARK stands behind the bar 
	reading a PADD across from MORN, seated on his stool, 
	waiting expectantly.

					QUARK
			Unbelievable.
				(reads a little more) 
			Amazing.
				(reading a little more) 
			What nerve.

	Quark looks up from the PADD, shaking his head.

					QUARK
			Morn -- you do have a problem.

	Morn gives a melancholic nod.

					QUARK 
			But lucky for you, the solution 
			is simple. You're a grown man. 
			If you don't want to attend your 
			mother's birthday party, you don't 
			have to.