"Far Beyond the Stars" Line-by-Line!

[Enterprise1981]

CASSIE: Hey, it's possible. baby, I know we can make this work for us. We could be happy. Besides, you don't have to give up writing altogether. Maybe you could write something for the Amsterdam News or some other Negro newspapers.

 

[Leandar]

Benny: I'm not a reporter, I'm a writer. I write fiction and the Amsterdam News is not going to publish stories about a space station four hundred years into the future.

 

[Enterprise1981]

WORF: Hear the game last night?

(Benny starts up from his stool and knocks over a passerby.)

 

[Leandar]

Willie: I'm sorry. I didn't mean to frighten you. You don't look so good. You sick or something?

 

[LeadHead]

Benny: Oh, no. I'm fine.

 

[Enterprise1981]

CASSIE: You want to lie down in the back?

 

[Leandar]

Benny: No, no, no. I just need some air.

 

[Enterprise1981]

CASSIE: Are we still on for tonight?

 

[Leandar]

Benny: I'll pick you up about ten. (Benny leaves into the street)

 

[Enterprise1981]

WILLIE: What are you doing till ten?

 

[Leandar]

Cassie: Whatever it is, I won't be doing it with you.

 

[Enterprise1981]

[Harlem street]
(Night time.)
PREACHER: Hello, Brother Benny.

 

[Leandar]

Benny: You again. I don't understand what you want from me.

 

[Enterprise1981]

PREACHER: To follow the path of the Prophets. Walk with the Prophets, Brother Benny. Show us the way.

 

[Leandar]

Benny: What way? I don't know what you're talking about.

 

[Enterprise1981]

PREACHER: Write the words, Brother Benny. The words that will lead us out of the darkness onto the path of righteousness.

(Benny walks away)

PREACHER: Write the words, Brother Benny. Write the words.

 

[Leandar]

(Benny's apartment - Benny gets in and sits straight down at the typewriter. Later, Cassie switches on the wireless. Benny is asleep holding a manuscript.)

Cassie: Hey, baby. You forgot all about our date.

 

[Enterprise1981]

BENNY: Our date? I'm sorry. I was working.

 

[JanewayRulz!]

CASSIE: Ben Sisko? Isn't that your coloured captain? Why are you writing another one of those stories. You couldn't sell the last one. What makes you think this one'll be any different?

 

[Leandar]

Benny: It probably won't be. But it doesn't matter. It's what I've got to do.