DEEP SPACE: "THE SEARCH" - REV. 07/08/94 - ACT ONE         18.

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					SISKO
			So is it good to be home?

					JAKE
			Yeah... I can't wait to sleep in my 
			own bed again.

	Sisko suddenly stops what he's doing and pauses... a look of 
	surprise on his face.

					SISKO
				(quiet)
			I wonder when that happened?

					JAKE
			What?

	Sisko sits down and looks around the room in wonder and shock.

					SISKO
				(amazed)
			When did I start thinking of this... 
			Cardassian monstrosity as... home?

					JAKE
				(smiles, then "thinks")
			I think it happened... last 
			Thursday... around seventeen hundred 
			hours.

	Sisko gives him a puzzled look, then Jake smiles and goes to 
	the large crate and opens it.

					JAKE
				(continuing)
			When you took all this stuff out of 
			storage back on Earth.

	Jake reaches in and takes out an intricately carved African 
	mask.  Sisko jumps up and moves quickly to Jake.

					SISKO
			Careful.  That's a two-thousand-year- 
			old Yoruba mask... and that "stuff" 
			is one of the finest collections of 
			ancient African art you'll ever see...