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        DEEP SPACE NINE: "Rejoined" - REV. 08/30/95 - ACT ONE        9.

5    CONTINUED:	(2)

	Quark heads off with an annoyed expression. Bashir and 
	Kira take their drinks and head for a table of their 
	own.

					KIRA
				(to Bashir) 
			Dax teach you that?

					BASHIR
				(nods) 
			Next time I want to pull a rabbit 
			out of his ear.

	They sit down.

					KIRA
			One thing I don't understand is 
			why Dax and Lenara can't just... 
			pick up where they left off. I 
			mean, if they're still in love 
			with each other --

					BASHIR 
			Ah, but there's the rub. Even if 
			they do harbor feelings for each 
			other, it's strictly against the 
			rules of Trill society for them to 
			acknowledge it in any way.

					KIRA
			The "rules?"

					BASHIR 
			It's more of a... taboo, really. 
			Having a relationship with a lover 
			from a past life is called, 
			"reassociation," and the Trill 
			feel very strongly that it's... 
			unnatural.

					KIRA
			Unnatural? How can it be 
			unnatural for a married couple to 
			resume their marriage?

					BASHIR 
			The whole point of joining is to 
			allow the symbiont to accumulate 
			experiences over the span of many 
			lifetimes. But in order to move 
			on from host to host, the symbiont 
			has to let go of the past... let 
			go of parents, children, siblings, 
			even spouses.