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     DEEP SPACE NINE: "Siege of AR-558" - REV. 10/13/98 - TEASER     4.

4    INT. DEFIANT - MESS HALL

	CLOSE ON a miserable QUARK, seated at a table. With 
	his head cupped in his hands, he stares morosely at 
	a steaming cup of raktajino.

					QUARK
				(mumbling) 
			Why me? Why did he have to send 
			me? I'm like a son to him...

	ADJUST to REVEAL EZRI, sitting at a nearby table, 
	reading a PADD. Quark and Ezri are the only two 
	people in the room.

					EZRI 
			Quark -- you're mumbling again.

					QUARK 
			I'm sorry.
				(a beat, then
				mumbling again)
			It's just not fair... I have
			responsibilities of my own...
			customers who depend on me...

	Ezri puts down her PADD, deciding the only way to 
	quiet Quark is to try and lift his spirits.

					EZRI 
			But the Grand Nagus himself 
			picked you for this assignment.

					QUARK 
			Some assignment... a fact-finding 
			mission to the front lines. 
			Zek's already inundated with 
			Starfleet intelligence reports. 
			What can I tell him that he 
			doesn't know?

					EZRI 
			Maybe he wants to hear things 
			from a Ferengi perspective.

					QUARK 
			Then let him ask Nog.

					EZRI 
			The Nagus trusts you.

					QUARK 
			What are you trying to do? Cheer 
			me up?