DEEP SPACE NINE: "The Ascent" - REV. 10/14/96 - ACT FOUR      40.

40   CONTINUED:	(3)

					QUARK
			Which means you've spent the last 
			ten years of your life trying to 
			catch a nobody. Without much 
			success, I might add. So you tell 
			me, which one of us is the bigger 
			failure.

	This gives Odo pause for thought, but Quark isn't 
	interested in anything he has to say. He's had the 
	last word and he's going to keep it that way. He walks 
	on, leaving Odo to catch up.

					QUARK
				(resumes counting)
			Ten thousand, eight hundred. Ten 
			thousand, eight hundred and one...

41   EXT. SPACE - DEEP SPACE NINE (OPTICAL)

	Re-establishing.

42   INT. REPLIMAT

	Sisko is drinking his morning coffee. Rom, wearing his 
	maintenance uniform, walks over to the replimat.

					ROM 
			Snail juice. Extra shells. Make 
			it a double.

	He takes his drink from the replicator and crosses over 
	to Sisko's table.

					ROM 
			May I join you?

					SISKO
			Be my guest.

	A grateful Rom sits across from Sisko.

					ROM 
			I wanted to ask you... about my 
			son. You know? Nog?

					SISKO
				(smiling)
			I think I've met him.