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       DEEP SPACE NINE: "Empok Nor" - REV. 04/07/97 - ACT ONE       10.
                            ACT ONE                             

	FADE IN:

	(NOTE: Episode credits fall over opening scenes)

10   INT. RUNABOUT 

	CLOSE ON a Cardassian board game we'll come to know as 
	Kotra. It's a cross between chess and Stratego, where 
	all the pieces are identical in shape, though each 
	player's pieces are of a different color. A hand moves 
	one of the pieces back, "retreating."

					GARAK (O.S.) 
			What are you doing?

	WIDEN TO SEE the two players, Garak and Nog. 
	O'Brien is nearby, at a side console, doing some recreational 
	reading off a PADD. Boq'ta is piloting the runabout.

					NOG 
			Regrouping.

					GARAK 
			But you're losing.

					NOG 
			That's why I have to protect my 
			assets.

					GARAK 
			This isn't a financial 
			transaction. Protecting your 
			"assets" is what got you into 
			trouble in the first place. You 
			have to go on the offensive -- you 
			have to attack.

	But Nog is committed to his own strategy.

					NOG 
			Your move.

					GARAK
			This is maddening. Asking a 
			Ferengi to play a Cardassian game 
			is like asking a Klingon to chew 
			with his mouth closed.

	Garak, exasperated, takes the octagonal dice and rolls. 
	Garak moves a series of pieces brazenly as he speaks: