DEEP SPACE NINE: "Ferengi Love... " - REV. 02/18/97 - ACT FIVE   55.

39   CONTINUED:

					QUARK
				(puzzled) 
			It sounds so good when you say it.

					ISHKA 
			But?

					QUARK
			I think I've been hanging around 
			Hew-mons too long. I think I'm 
			developing a... a...

	But Quark can't bring himself to say it.

					ISHKA 
			Conscience?

					QUARK
				(he shutters) 
			It's been coming for a long time.
			I've fought against it -- really 
			I have! But living with those 
			people, day in and day out... 
			being exposed to their ethics... 
			their morality... it's like I've 
			been brainwashed.

	Moogie reaches out and pats him on the hand.

					ISHKA 
			You poor boy.

					QUARK
			Moogie, I'm serious!

					ISHKA 
			I know you are. And I know how 
			important your problems are to 
			you. But frankly, Quark, right 
			now --
				(yelling in his face) 
			I don't give a damn about them! 
			We've got much bigger problems to 
			deal with. Do you want Brunt to 
			become Nagus?

					QUARK
			Of course not. He was willing to
			throw our entire economy into 
			chaos just so he could grab power.