DEEP SPACE NINE: "Far Beyond... " - REV. 12/10/97 - ACT TWO     31.

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					PABST 
			But you know I can't print it.

					BENNY 
			Why not?

					PABST 
			Come on, Benny -- your hero's a 
			Negro captain. The head of a 
			space station, for Christ's sake.

					BENNY 
			What's wrong with that?

					PABST 
			People won't accept it. It's not 
			believable.

					HERBERT 
			And men from Mars are?

					PABST 
			Stay out of this, Herb.
				(to Benny) 
			Look, Benny, I'm a magazine 
			editor -- not a crusader. I'm not 
			here to change the world. I'm 
			here to put out a magazine. 
			That's my job. And that means 
			I've got to answer to Mister 
			Stone, the national distributors, 
			the wholesalers --
				(holding up the story) 
			-- and none of them are going to 
			want to put this on the newsstand. 
			For all we know, it could cause 
			a race riot.

					HERBERT 
			Congratulations, Douglas. That's 
			the most imbecilic attempt to 
			rationalize personal cowardice 
			I've ever heard.

					KAY
				(to Pabst, amused) 
			Uh-oh, he's angry now.

					PABST 
			Herb's been angry ever since 
			Joseph Stalin died.