DEEP SPACE: "A Man Alone" REV. FINAL 09/22/92 - ACT ONE      10.

18   CONTINUED:

					SISKO
				(with humor)
			I don't want years on my life.
			Not if I can only eat steamed 
			Azna... sauteed... rolloped... 
			fricasseed -- fine.  But not 
			steamed...

	Beat... he smiles, looks at her... this is familiar territory 
	for them...

					SISKO
			I've missed your steamed Azna.

	But somehow, as crazy a line as that is, it is too intimate, 
	too male-female... he breaks eye contact...

					DAX
			You must miss Curzon too...

					SISKO
			He was... you were... are... a 
			mentor... another father to me...

	Sisko shrugs, uncomfortable.

					DAX
			This happens a lot to Trills, 
			Benjamin. Sometimes, our friendships 
			with other species don't survive 
			because of the changes...

					SISKO
			It won't be like that with us.
			It's just... a little uncomfortable 
			right now...