DEEP SPACE: "Blood Oath" - REV. 01/26/94 - ACT THREE        33.

45   CONTINUED:	(2)

					DAX
			And he understood what he was doing 
			when he took a Klingon blood oath.

	Kang frowns, looks away.

					DAX
			You can't expect me to stay here and 
			not avenge my own godson's murder.  
			You can't ask me to live with that 
			dishonor.

					KANG
			I cannot dishonor myself by permitting 
			you to die in Curzon's place.

					DAX
			Who's talking about dying.  I have 
			no intention of dying.

	Without realizing it, Dax has moved too close to the truth... 
	Kang stands, moves away from the table, stands overlooking 
	the Promenade... Dax rises, speaks to his back..

					DAX
			You dishonor yourself already, Kang... 
			by placing your own honor above mine.  
			No Klingon warrior would leave a 
			comrade behind while he goes off to 
			battle.  Perhaps you're right.  
			Klingon honor isn't what it used to 
			be.

	He turns, furious.

					KANG
			You wish to anger me again!  You 
			think the old trick will work twice?!

					DAX
				(evenly)
			I understand Klingons.

					KANG
				(even more angrily)
			Fine then!  Let it work!  Come and 
			fight with us.  Come and be damned.