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DEEP SPACE NINE: "Doctor Bashir... " - REV. 1/6/97 - ACT FOUR 45.
50 CONTINUED: (2)
O'BRIEN
Then it's true? You're...
BASHIR
The word you're looking for is,
"unnatural." Meaning "not from
nature." "Freak" or "monster" would
also be acceptable.
Bashir can't meet his eyes and sits down heavily on the
couch. The jig is up and there's no running away from
who he is any longer. The words come tumbling out of
Julian -- it's a story he's never told anyone, but
always thought he might, and once he starts, there's a
rushed anxious quality to the tale as if he's glad to
finally say it.
BASHIR
I was six. Small for my age. A
bit awkward physically. And...
not very bright. In the first
grade, while the other children
were learning how to read and
write and use a computer... I was
still trying to tell a dog from a
cat and a tree from a house.
(beat)
I didn't really understand what
was happening... I knew that I
wasn't doing as well as my
classmates... there were so many
concepts they took for granted
that I couldn't begin to master...
but I didn't know why. All I knew
was that I was... a great
disappointment to my parents.
(beat)
I'm not sure when they made the
decision, but just before my
seventh birthday we left Earth for
Adigeon Prime.
(beat)
At first, I remember being excited
at seeing all the aliens in the
hospital. But then they gave me
a room... and started the
treatments... and my entire world
began to change...