DEEP SPACE NINE: "Chimera" - REV. 12/16/98 - ACT FOUR      36A.

41A  CONTINUED:
					QUARK (Cont'd)
			You're smart enough to know
			people don't want to be reminded
			that you're different.
				(with a shiver)
			Who wants to see someone turn
			into goo? I hope you don't do
			that around Kira.

					ODO
			Why shouldn't I?

					QUARK
			If she's anything like me. She'd
			rather you didn't. We humanoids
			are the product of millions of
			years of evolution. Our
			ancestors learned the hard way
			that what you don't know might
			kill you. They wouldn't have
			survived if they hadn't jumped
			back when they encountered a
			snake coiled in the muck. And
			now millions of years later, that
			instinct is still there.

	Quark has an agenda here -- he's worried for Odo,
	but he's not about to come out and say so.

					QUARK
			It's genetic. Our tolerance for
			other lifeforms doesn't extend
			beyond the two arm, two leg
			variety. I hate to break it to
			you, but when you're in your
			natural state, you're more than
			our poor old genes can handle.

					ODO
				(dismissive)
			What are you saying, Quark? That
			the Klingons couldn't help what
			they did because of their genes?

					QUARK
			I'm not trying to excuse what
			they did. I'm only telling you
			why it happened.