STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE "Waltz" - REV. 11/12/97 - ACT TWO    17.

14   CONTINUED:	(2)

					DUKAT (Cont'd) 
			When I was a newly minted glinn 
			on the Kornaire, I once had to 
			help clean up a compartment where 
			three men had gone through an 
			explosive decompression. I didn't 
			sleep for a week after that.

	Sisko isn't feeling up to this kind of discussion right 
	now.

					SISKO
			Let's change the subject.

					DUKAT 
				(mocking) 
			The Emissary has spoken. 
				(off Sisko's look) 
			Oh come on, Benjamin. Have a 
			sense of humor about all this.

					SISKO 
			I'm not in much of a joking mood.

					DUKAT 
			What a shame. There's so much to 
			laugh about. 
				(beat) 
			You don't see it, do you? Just 
			a few hours ago, I was a prisoner 
			on my way to trial and you were 
			my old friend come to visit me in 
			my cell. Now look at us -- I'm 
			free, you're a prisoner of your 
			own battered body, and there's a 
			very good chance we'll be rescued 
			by the Dominion. 
				(laughs) 
			You have to laugh at a universe 
			that allows such radical shifts 
			in fortune, Benjamin.

					SISKO
			I'll laugh when a Federation 
			starship arrives and they put you 
			back in a cell.

	Dukat laughs again, refusing to take that possibility 
	seriously.