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Image in the Sand

Nog: "It's not that I'm afraid to fight.  I just don't want to die."

Odo: "In times of trouble, some people find comfort in hate and fear."

"Too much imagination can be dangerous."

Shadows and Symbols

06/07/1999

Ezri Dax: "I laid down on that operating table one person and I woke up a completely different person.  Well, I should say eight different people.  I was not prepared for this at all.  I mean, you're supposed to get years of training and preparation before you get joined and all I got was a 15-minute lecture from the ship's surgeon, and he wasn't even a Trill."

Ezri: "I am a trained Starfleet officer.  I have no business getting space sick."

Kira: "We're (Bajorans) just not as important to the war effort as the Romulans?"
Ross: "That's a harsh way to put it."
Kira: "The truth often is."

Martok: "We shed our blood to prove we are not frightened of death."

Odo (to Kira): "...  I was hoping that our relationships would be a long and happy one, but I suppose I'm willing to settle for short and exciting."

Odo: "Just when you thought things couldn't get more interesting."

Quark: "The things we do for love!"

Quark: "I don't believe it, gagh for breakfast, gagh for lunch, gagh for dinner.  Am I the only one that thinks Klingon menus need to have more variety?"

Quark: "Take me out of the oven, Moogie, I'm cooked."

Dr. Wykoff: "People who are fine don't write on walls."

Afterimage

Take Me Out To The Holosuite

Chrysalis

Treachery, Faith, And The Great River

06/07/1999

Damar: "Clones -- keeping track of them is a full time job."

Nog: "Rule of Acquisition -- Whisper your way to success."

Nog: "You have to have faith, Chief."
O'Brien: "In a rumor?"
Nog: "No, in the Great Material Continuum."
O'Brien: "Who are they?"
Nog: "It's not a 'they'.  It's the force that binds the universe together."
O'Brien: "I must have missed that class in engineering school."
Nog: "On Feringinar, we learn about the Continuum while we still have our first set of ears."
O'Brien: "This is no time for Ferengi fairy tales."
Nog: "The Continuum is real.  You se, there are millions upon millions of worlds in the universe -- each one filled with too much of one thing and not enough of another.   And the Great Continuum flows through them all, like a mighty river, from have to want and back again.  And if we navigate the Continuum, with skill and grace, our ship will be filled with everything our hearts desire."

Nog: "The river will provide."
O'Brien: "If it doesn't sink us first."

Odo: "... things don't always turn out as planned."
Weyoun 6: "Quite true, and when things go wrong, someone has to take the blame."

Odo: "I'm not a god.  I'm a security officer."

Odo: "It isn't easy to turn your back on your own people."

Weyoun 6: "I left Cardassia because my life was in danger."
Odo: "From whom?"
Weyoun 6: "Everyone."
Odo: "Aren't you beaing a little paranoid?"
Weyoun 6: "Of course I'm paranoid.  Everyone's trying to kill me."

Weyoun 6: "Why be a god if there's no one to worship you?"

Weyoun 6: "A sickness has spread throughout the Great Link.  The Founders are dying."

Once More Into The Breech

06/07/1999

Darok: "Men of our generation never stood on ceremony, huh?  We ate when we were hungry.  We fought when we were angered.  Oh -- I miss the simplicity of those days."

Darok: "... such is the way with children.  They often let the promise of the future obscure the glories of the past.  ...  They are quick to judge, but slow to forgive.  They still have much to learn."

Kor (to Worf): "The way of the warrior is not a humble path.   Show some pride in your accomplishments.  You earned it."

Kor: "Help me fight again, Worf.  Help me end my life as I've lived it -- as a warrior."

Kor (to Worf): "We both come from noble houses.  Among our people, that still counts for something."

Kor: "Savor the fruit of life, my young friends.  It has a sweet taste when it is fresh from the vine, but don't live too long.  The taste turns bitter -- after a time."

Martok: "You can wound a man without ever seeing his face."

Worf: "Your reputation, alone, should have assured you a command."
Kor: "I also have a reputation for a certain ruthless quality towards those who would stand in my way.  Mind you, it's not entirely undeserved.  In truth, I rather enjoyed being feared by my fellow officers.  However, there's a price to be paid for such -- single-minded devotion to one's ambition.  I made enemies -- perhaps more than were necessary.  I have no influence left in the Empire.  Even as our entire race grapples with the Dominion, there's no place for an old man with too many enemies and not enough friends."

The Siege Of AR-558

06/07/1999

Ezri: "Remember the 34th Rule of Acquisition:  War is good for business."
Quark: "Only from a distance.  The closer you are to the front lines, the less profitable it gets."

Fontaine: "... two singers on the same bill, that's a one-way ticket to Deadsville."

Fontaine: "Show biz, it can break your heart."

Fontaine: "... sometimes being a hologram can be a real pain in the asometric photons."

Kellin: "I'm an engineer, not a magician."

Kellin: "You're sure you're not an engineer?"
Ezri: "In nine lives, I've been a little of everything."

Nog: "I'm a Starfleet officer."
Quark: "You're a Ferengi, and I wish you'd start acting like one."
Nog: "You mean hiding under a rock every time trouble starts?"

Quark: "Let me tell you something about hu-mons, nephew.   They're a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working.  But take away their creature comforts -- deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers -- put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon."

Quark: "Rule of Acquisition 125:  You can't make a deal if you're dead."

Rom: "Life can be so unfair."

Covenant

It's Only A Paper Moon

12/11/1999

Bashir: "The mind has a strong natural instinct for survival."

Ezri: "Sometimes a patient can help guide his own treatment."

Ezri (to Vic Fontaine, a special holodeck character): "He [Nog] can't hide in here [the holodeck] forever.  He has to face reality sometimes."

Fontaine (in response to Nog questioning the health of a character in a television movie: "Noggles, take it easy.  It's only a movie."

Fontaine: "I can't have you hitting the customers.  It's not good for business."

Fontaine: "You know anything about bookkeeping?"
Nog: "I'm a Ferengi.  It's in our blood."

Fontaine (having the ability to end his own holo-program): "Computer ... end program!"

Fontaine: "... I'm smarter than the average bear...."

Fontaine: "You've got to play the cards life deals you.  Sometimes you win; sometimes you lose; but at least you're in the game."

Nog: "If I can get shot, if I can lose my leg, anything can happen to me....  I could die tomorrow.  I don't know if I'm ready to face that."

Rom: "My son is insane.  He is a one-legged crazy man."

Prodigal Daughter

Ezri: "There are day's when I wake up and I don't even know if I'm a man or a woman until I pull back the covers."

Ezri: "I make it a point to know as little as possible about the family business."

O'Brien: "It'll be good to get my hands on a problem I can solve for a change."

Sisko (re: O'Brien): "He's not a detective, he's and engineer."

Norvo Tigan: "I get drunk, I become an art critic."

Trivia

Ezri Dax was born Ezri Tigan.  Upon being joined with a symbiont, it is traditional for the symbiont's name to replace the family name.  As such, Ezri Tigan becomes Ezri Dax after joining with the Dax symbiont.

Ezri's nickname, used by her brother Norvo, is Zee.

Ezri's immediate family consists of a mother, Yanas, and two brothers, Janel and Norvo.

The Emperor's New Cloak

Field of Fire

Chimera

08/31/2000

Ezri (in respons to Laas' opinion of humanoids): "You've seen through our evil plan!"

Laas: "... humanoids are not very tolerant of difference."

Laas: "[Humanoids] disrupt the natural balance.  ...  The truth is I prefer the so-called primitive life-forms.  They exist as they were meant to -- by following their instincts.  No words got in the way, no lies, no deception."

Laas: "Humanoids are such tragic creatures.  They've lost the ability to take joy in simply existing and yet they haven't evolved into the next level where consciousness exists independent of form."

Laas (in response to a Klingon telling him not to transform in his presence): "I will change form where I please."

Laas (to Odo): "What you appear to be isn't always what you are."

Laas (re: Odo's friends): "They tolerate you, Odo, because you emulate them.  What higher flattery is there?  'I, who can be anything, choose to be like you.'  ...  What lies underneath is alien to them and so they fear it.  And that fear can turn to hate in the blink of an eye."

Odo: "You haven't told me your name."
Laas: "The Varalans called me Laas.  In their language, it means 'changeables'.  Not very imaginative, is it?"
Odo: "At least it's appropriate.  Mine means 'unknown sample'.  The scientist who found me didn't know what I was."

Odo: "I don't like to confront people with something that might make them uncomfortable."
Laas: "So you deny your true nature in order to fit in."

Odo (in response to Laas taking the form of 'fog' on the promenade): "If you want to relax, do it in private."

Odo (after Laas kills a Klingon): "Since when did the Klingons resort to legal quibbling?  The get involved in fights all the time.  They never file charges.  It isn't honorable."

Odo: "Is it a crime to shapeshift on the promenade?"
Sisko: "It's not a crime, but it's obviously not a good idea."

Odo: "Laas, humanoids are not the petty limited creatures you perceive them to be."

Odo: "... you've never known love."
Laas: "Compared to the link, it is a pale shadow, a feeble attempt to compensate for the isolation that monoforms feel because they are trapped within themselves."
Odo: "Perhaps the fact that it's not easy is what makes it worthwhile."

Quark (to Odo): "We humanoids are a product of millions of years of evolution.  Our ancestors learned the hard way that what you don't know might kill you.  ...  Our tolerance to other life forms doesn't extend beyond the two-arm, two-leg variety.  ...  I hate to break this to you -- but when your in your natural state -- you're more than our poor old genes can handle.  ...  We're at war with your people.  This is not time for a changeling pride demonstration on the promenade."

Sisko (re: Klingons claims against Laas when he was in the form of 'fog' on the promenade): "They claim he surrounded them menacingly."
Odo: "They felt menaced by fog."

Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang!

12/27/1999

Bashir: "Miles, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
O'Brien: "Depends on what you're thinking."

Frank 'Frankie Eyes' Chalmers: "I don't drink with losers."

Tony Cicci (entertaining a group of men): "Badda-bing, badda-bang!  Three shots in the back of the head.  That's the end of Little Paulie.  So what do you think Frankie says when I report back in?  'Little Paulie?!  No.  I told you to pop Big Paulie.  [group laughs]  That's the problem with our business:  too many guys named Paulie.  [group laughs again]"

Fontaine: "Sure I remember The Alamo.  ...  Laurence Harvey, Richard Widmark and John Wayne as Davy Crockett.  Great battle scenes, nice sets, but way too long."

Fontaine: "I don't look good in buckskin."

Fontaine: "You're blackballing me?"
Chalmers: "As of this moment you couldn't get a job as a singing busboy."

Fontaine: "I don't run at the first sign of trouble."

Fontaine (to Bashir and O'Brien): "If you guys screw up, I'm the one who winds up buried in the desert."

Fontaine: "My name is Frank Chalmers, but everyone calls me Frankie Eyes."
Kira: "Why is that?"
Fontaine: "'Cause I don't miss a trick."
Kira: "You're very sure of yourself."
Fontaine: "Well, doubt is for losers."
Kira: "And quite a philosopher."
Fontaine: "Well, I'm thinking of writing a book."

Fontaine: "Stealing from the Mob?  ...  You get caught and I kiss the world good-bye."
O'Brien: "Then the trick is not to get caught."

Fontaine (to Bashir and O'Brien): "Next time you two fight the battle of the Alamo, count me in.  Coonskin cap and all."

Fontaine (champagne in hand): "To the best friends a hologram ever had."

Kira: "Well you know what they say, 'Good things come to those who wait.'"
Chalmers: "Who are 'they'...?"

Kira (to Bashir): "You can tell your friend Felix that we shut the lid on his Jack-in-the-Box."

Nog: "If this Frankie Eyes hurts Vic in any way, he's going to have to answer to me."
Worf: "I do not understand how you could feel such loyalty for a hologram."
Nog: "He's not just a hologram.  He's my friend."
O'Brien: "Don't you like Vic?"
Worf: "As a singer, I find him entertaining.  But beyond that, I neither like him or dislike him.  He is a hologram.  And therefore he does not exist."
Kira: "He does for me."
Bashir: "I just talked to Felix.  I know what's been affecting Vic's program.  It's a Jack-in-the-Box."
Kira: "A what?"
O'Brien: "A Jack-in-the-Box.  It's a children's toy on Earth.  You wind it up and a figure pops out and goes 'boo.'"
Bashir: "Except this kind of Jack-in-the-Box is different."
Nog: "It doesn't go 'boo?'"
Bashir: "No.  This surprise is buried deep in the holosuite program."
O'Brien: "It's meant to shake things up, you know, make things more interesting.
Nog: "I wasn't bored, were you?"
Kira: "Not at all.  I liked Vic's the way it was."
Bashir: "Well, according to Felix, if we get rid of Frankie Eyes, everything resets back to the way it was."
Kira: "Well that's good to know."
Nog: "So how do we get rid of Frankie Eyes?"
Bashir: "Well, that's up to us.  But Felix did warn me that the programs is period specific."
O'Brien: "In other words, if we shoot, we have to use a .45 automatic instead of a phaser."
Bashir: "We can't shoot Frankie, it's too dangerous."
O'Brien: "The Mob could retaliate against Vic."
Bashir: "If anything happens to Vic, his matrix will be eliminated from the program, permanently."
Nog: "The news just keeps getting better, doesn't it?"
Sisko: "What news?"
Kira: "Oh, nothing, sir.  We're talking about a holosuite program."
Bashir: "Vic Fontaine's hotel's just been bought by ... gangsters."
Sisko: "I see.  When do you plan on going back to work?"

O'Brien: "That Felix, huh ... when he designs a holosuite program, he doesn't fool around."

Sisko: "My daddy taught me everything I know."

Sisko: "... Las Vegas, 1962, that's my problem.  In 1962, black people weren't very welcome there.  Oh, sure, they could be performers of janitors but customers, never."
Kasidy Yates: "Maybe that's the way it was in the real Vegas but that is not the way it is at Vic's.  I have never felt uncomfortable there and neither has Jake."
Sisko: "But don't you see?  That's the lie.  In 1962, the civil rights movement was still in it's infancy.  It wasn't an easy time for our people and I'm not going to pretend that it was."
Kasidy: "Baby ... I know that Vic's isn't a totally accurate representation of the way things were, but it isn't meant to be.  It shows us the way things could have been.  The way they should have been."
Sisko: "We cannot ignore the truth about the past."
Kasidy: "Going to Vic's isn't going to make us forget who we are or where we came from.  What it does is remind us that we are no longer bound by any limitations ... except the ones we impose on ourselves."

Kasidy: "You're supposed to help your friends when they're in trouble and Vic, hologram or not, is in trouble."

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

12/28/1999

Bashir: "I don't work for you."
Sloan: "You passed the test.  You were accepted into the organization."
Bashir: "I didn't ask to be accepted."
Sloan: "You were, never the less."

Bashir: "This war isn't over and you're already planning for the next."

Bashir: "... I don't work for you."
Sloan: "You will.  It's in your nature.  You are a man who loves secrets -- medical, personal, fictional.  I am a man of secrets.  You want to know what I know, and the only way to do that is to accept the assignment."

Bashir (to Ross): "That's the spirit sir, never say die."
Romulan Senator Kimara Cretak: "What an odd expression.  What does it mean?"
Sloan (posing as Wendell Greer): "It's a line from an old Earth poem.  ...  I couldn't help overhearing and etymology is one of my hobbies.  The, uh, phrase 'never say die' is originally from a 19th century poem based on Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.  Now, it's since passed into the vernacular as an exhortation never to give up no matter the cost."
Cretak: "Interesting."
Sloan (introducing self): "Wendell Greer, Assistant Director U.F.P. Department of Cartography."

Bashir: "I'm incapable of making a diagnosis by simply looking at a man."
Sloan: "Oh, your genetically-enhanced friends determined that Gul Damar killed a woman just by watching him give a political speech.  I'm sure you can do better than that."

Bashir: "... interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign power is explicitly forbidden by the Federation Charter."

Bashir: "I don't believe we've been introduced."
Koval: "Koval."
Bashir: "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you."
Koval: "Why?"
Bashir: "Well, you've got me there.  It's just a simple form of expression, I suppose."
Koval: "And like most human expressions, completely devoid of meaning."

Cretak: "Repairs on our ships have continually been delayed in favor of Klingon and Federation vessels.  The Dividices and Genorex have been waiting almost three weeks while more than a dozen Klingon ships have been given first priority."
O'Brien: "Well, I make up the repair schedule according to my assessment of which ships have the greatest need."
Cretak: "Odd that the Klingons seem to always have the greatest need."
Worf: "They are usually more damaged because Klingon warships are relentless in pressing home their attack."
Cretak: "'Reckless' would be another way of putting it."
Worf: "The fight must be taken to the enemy."

Cretak: "Our soldiers are professionals.  We're here to fight, not to get drunk in Quark's"

Cretak: "I try to predict the future."

Garak: "Romulus....  You'll find the predominate color to be gray -- the buildings, the clothes, the people.  Did you know that the Romulan heart itself is gray?  It's true.  And all together appropriate for such an unimaginative race."
Bashir: "I take it you didn't enjoy your brief stunt on Romulus.  You were ... posing as a gardener, weren't you?"
Garak: "It was one of the few instances where my cover was more enjoyable than the actual assignment."

Garak: "I trust that Starfleet Intelligence will be sending someone along to make good use of this opportunity.  ...  This is a golden opportunity to gather intelligence on Romulan intentions and military capabilities."
Bashir: "They're our allies, Garak.  And with any luck, this could be the beginning of an entirely new friendship between our peoples."
Garak: "The eternal optimist."
Bashir: "Guilty as charged."
Garak: "How sad.  I must tell you I'm disappointed in hearing you mouth the usual platitudes of peace and friendship regarding an implacable foe like the Romulans.  But, I live in hope that one day you'll come to see this universe for what it truly is rather than what you'd wish it to be."
Bashir: "I shall endeavor to become more cynical with each passing day.  Look gift horses squarely in the mouth and find clouds in every silver lining."
Garak: "If only you meant it."

Koval (to Sloan, Prisoner 527): "You broke the cardinal rule of our profession.  You allowed business to become personal."

Ross: "If Sloan's here ... it suggests something more important than a simple intelligence gathering mission."

Ross: "... paperwork waits for no man."

[Bashir determined that Sloan was still alive and Ross was involved with Sloan and Section 31 and Koval in order to insure that Koval remain an ally of the Federation and that Cretak be removed as a threat to the alliance]
Ross: "Inter arma enim silent leges."
Bashir: "In time of war, the law falls silent.  Cicero."

Sisko: "... Section 31 is very meticulous in covering its tracks."

Sisko: "... this isn't a game.  Section 31 is very dangerous."

Sloan (to Bashir): "Section 31 has an assignment for you."

Sloan: "I enjoy being wrong."

Sloan: "Section 31 is extremely interested in this conference of yours.  ...  Your mission is to gather data about the Romulan leadership.  ..."
Bashir: "You want me to spy on our ally."
Sloan: "To evaluate an ally.  And a temporary ally at that."

Sloan: "Total recall is a useful attribute for an operative."

Sloan: "... Tuvan Syndrome."
Bashir: "...  It's a neurological disease which affects mainly Vulcans, Romulans and Rigellians.  It's degenerative, and incurable at the moment."

Sloan: "Let's make a deal, Doctor -- I'll spare you the ends-justify-the-means speech and you spare me the we-must-do-what's-right speech.  You and I are not going to see eye-to-eye on this subject....  This mission is reconnaissance."

Sloan: "That's not news to me, that the head of the Tal'Shiar is interested in biogenic weapons.  Pull your head out of the sand and take a look around, Doctor.  These are not nice people we're dealing with here."

Sloan: "We needed someone who wanted to play the game but would only go so far.  When the time came, you stood your ground.  You did the right thing.  You reached out to an enemy.  You told her the truth.  You tried to stop a murder.  The Federation needs men like you, Doctor.  Men of conscience.  Men of principal.  Men who can sleep at night.  You're the reason Section 31 exists.  Someone has to protect men like you from a universe that doesn't share your sense of right and wrong."

Penumbra [Part 1]

06/08/1999

Damar: "Our adversaries don't view their soldiers as expendable.   They're not bred in hatcheries like the Jem'Hadar."

Damar: "Power does have its privileges."

Ezri: "This is ridiculous.  We can't have a conversation if you refuse to talk about the things that we have in common."
Worf: "The, perhaps, we should not have a conversation."

Ezri: "What is it about men?  They either don't talk at all ... or they talk too much ...."

Ezri: "You're crazy."
Worf: "You could make anyone crazy."

Founder: "The vaccine -- how is it progressing?"
Weyoun: "I regret that it failed to stabilize the latest sample you provided."
Founder: "I see."
Weyoun: "I have a team of Vorta doctors working night and day to find a cure."
Founder: "Have them document their efforts and then eliminate them."
Weyoun: "Founder?"
Founder: "Activate their clones and order them to continue their predecessor's work.   Perhaps a fresh perspective will speed matters along."
Weyoun: "Of course."
Founder: "The Cardassians -- What have you told them?"
Weyoun: "They know nothing."
Founder: "Good.  The sickness that has infected the Great Link is none of their concern.  They may be our allies, but they are not to be trusted.  We must not show weakness."

Sisko (re: Ezri): "She's a Dax.  Sometimes they don't think, they just do."

Weyoun: "How can a god be ill?"
Damar: "Maybe she's not a god."
Weyoun: "Whether you believe the Founders are gods or not is irrelevant.  All they require from you is obedience."

Worf: "Jadzia explained to me that joined Trill are not supposed to become -- involved -- with anyone they were intimate with in a previous life."
Ezri: "I bet you've broken a few Klingon rules in your time."

'Til Death Us Do Part [Part 2]

06/08/1999

Ezri: "I wonder what the Breen look like under those helmets?"
Worf: "They say no one has ever seen one and lived to speak of it."
Ezri: "Maybe they're all furry.  It's supposed to be very cold on Breen."
Worf: "On thing is certain. ... They're dangerous.  They do not tolerate incursions into their space."

Ezri: "Dreams are full of things that don't make sense."
Worf: "That is why it is best to ignore them."
Ezri: "How can you say that?  Dreams contain valuable insights.  Things that don't seem to make any sense are actually the key to what your unconscious is trying to tell you."

Ezri: "I'm a counselor.  Analyzing dreams is part of my job."

Sisko: "The prophets don't always make themselves clear."

Sisko: "There's always a first time."

Sisko: "I am also human with dreams and wishes of my own."

Worf: "We must not give up.  The first duty of every captured officer is to attempt escape."

Worf: "You are being humorous."
Ezri: "Not very, I guess."
Worf: "Jadzia also used humor to lift her spirits."
Ezri: "You didn't laugh very much at her jokes either."

Worf: "These Breen are without honor."

Worf: "A Klingon would rather die than be held captive."

Strange Bedfellows [Part 3]

12/21/1999

Damar: "There are no minor planets in the Cardassian Union."

Damar: "It is my duty to inform you that you will be turned over to a Cardassian tribunal where you will be tried as war criminals."
Ezri: "War criminals?  What are the charges?"
Damar: "It is not necessary for you to know.  All you need to know is that you'll be found guilty and executed."

Damar (laughing after witnessing Worf break the neck of Weyoun 7): "Overconfidence -- the hallmark of the Weyouns.  ...  They'll just make another copy of him, you know.  You should have killed me.  There's only one Damar."
Worf: "I will keep that in mind."

Damar (assisting Ezri and Worf to escape): "I want you to give a message to the Federation.  Tell them they have an ally on Cardassia."

Ezri (she and Worf hanging by their legs in the detention cell): "I hat to say it but this is doing wonders for my back."
Worf: "I doubt that is what our captors had in mind."
Ezri: "Probably not."
Worf: "We must get back to the station and warn Starfleet about the Breen."
Ezri: "You're right.  There's just a few problems.  We're on a Jem'Hadar ship headed in the wrong direction hanging upside down and ... I think I'm getting space sick."

Ezri: "Last time you touched me, things got a little out of control."
Worf: "You are right about that.  I was seduced and betrayed."
Ezri: "Seduced?  I seduced you."
Worf: "At least we agree on that point."
Ezri: "What?"
Worf: "You desired a physical relationship with me from the very start.  That much was obvious."
Ezri: "You have the biggest ego of any man I've ever known."
Worf: "Considering how many men you have known, that is quite a statement."
Ezri: "Am I supposed to be embarrassed Jadzia had a few lovers before you."
Worf: "A few?"
Ezri: "You're right.  It was more than a few.  It was dozens.  Hundreds.  In fact, I don't think there's anyone aboard DS9 who wasn't her lover."  

Ezri: "The Dax symbiont has lived for over 300 years, esperienced eight lifetimes and now, it's all going to end with an execution on Cardassia.  Ezri Tigan's contribution to the Dax legacy will be to end it."
Worf: "There is no honor in self-pity."

Ezri: "We're not gods or prophets.  We're people.  We make mistakes."

Founder: "The alliance between the Breen Confederacy and the Dominion will end this destructive war that has torn this quadrant apart.  With the Breen at our side, the Federation will not be able to stand against us.  They'll be erased from the face of the galaxy."

Kira: "The worst of us can be redeemed.  ...  ... it seems to me that you have to set aside the things that led you astray -- ambition, jealousy."
Winn: "Oh, yes.  I have given in to the temptation of power."
Kira: "Turn away from temptation.  ...  Everything will change once you step down as Kai.  ...  Being in power is what led you on the wrong path."
Winn: "...  If the Prophets wanted me to step down, surely they would have told me so."
Kira: "They don't always use words to make their wishes known.  Sometimes they speak to us by touching our hearts but ... only you would know if they had done that."

Martok:  "The Cardassian 11th Order.  It's a reserve unit -- old men and walking wounded."

Martok: "... enough about the war with the Dominion.  I want to hear about the war at home.  You just married that freighter captain, didn't you?"
Sisko: "Yes."
Martok: "Then war has broken out, whether you know it or not -- a long, grueling, intoxicating war."

Kasidy Sisko: "It seems my Bajoran crew members have decided that serving under the wife of the Emissary is a little different than serving under his girlfriend."

Kasidy: "I married you -- I didn't convert -- and I'm not going to start ... acting like I suddenly believe in the Prophets."
Sisko: "I wouldn't want you to do anything that you're uncomfortable with.  [Kasidy leaves to take a shower]  And so, the battle begins."

Sisko Pah-Wraith (in vision to Winn): "Feel our love -- the love -- of the Pah-Wraiths."

Weyoun 7 (re: Ezri and Worf): "We will secure the prisoners below.  They will share a cell.  They may wish to physically comfort each other on the long trip back to Cardassia.  I find interspecies mating rituals fascinating to watch."

Weyoun 7: "I'm always serious."

Weyoun 8 (to Damar): "Make plans to do exactly as the Founder instructed or you can schedule an execution for yourself...."

Weyoun 8: "We are all one with the Dominion -- Vorta, Cardassian, Jem'Hadar, the Breen.  We all serve the Founders, and we will all make whatever sacrifices they deem necessary."

Winn Adami (to Dukat posing as Anjohl Tennan): "the Prophets are smiling on us.  They've not only brought us together but they've given us a great task -- the restoration of Bajor.
Dukat: "Our world will be reborn, and you will be its leader."
Winn: "A sacred responsibility."

Winn: "It is not allowed to interfere with the will of the Prophets."

Winn (with the Orb of Prophecy): "The Prophets show me nothing.  They won't speak to me.  They have forsaken me ... because I have been in communion with the evil one."

Winn: "I will no longer serve gods who give me nothing in return."

Worf: "This night would be better spent preparing ourselves for the next life instead of rehashing the mistakes of this one."

Worf: "It appears all we have left to do is to be executed."
Ezri: "Sounds like a lazy day to me."

The Changing Face Of Evil [Part 4]

06/08/1999

Bashir: "... I say we strengthen the south wall, the north wall and any other place that helps us keep the enemy out."
O'Brien: "Then it wouldn't be the battle of the Alamo, would it?"
Bashir: "I don't care.  I just want to win -- once."
O'Brien: "Be Santa Anna.  He wins every time."

Damar: "Cardassians have never been afraid of war."

Dukat (as Anjohl): "Bajor is only as strong as its Kai."

Founder: "Send my compliments to the Breen."
Weyoun: "I certain that will please them greatly."
Founder: "Really!?  I have no idea what would please the Breen, nor do I care, as long as they fight and win.  I will not tolerate defeat any longer."

Kira: "The Breen have attacked Earth."

Martok: "We must give the enemy credit.  To launch an attack on Starfleet Headquarters -- even my people never attempted that.  We've learned one thing about the Breen today, Captain.  They're a race of warriors."
Sisko: "That's about all we know.  Out intelligence reports are sketchy at best."
Martok: "Captain, every species has it's weakness.  They're no exception."
Sisko: "Let's hope you're right.  But whatever the weakness is, we better find it soon."

Quark: "I don't believe the two of you.  Your home world has been attacked.  The Breen have joined forces with the Dominion and here you are, calmly playing games."
Bashir: "You ever heard of grace under pressure, Quark?"

Quark: "Marriage -- it changes everything."

Ross: "Time may be the one thing we don't have."

Rusot: "Doesn't seem right -- all this plotting and secrecy.  What are we?  Romulans?"
Damar: "No, we're Cardassians, but right now Cardassia's an occupied territory and to defeat an occupying army takes careful planning and secrecy."
Rusot: "Can we really hope to defeat the Dominion?  With the Breen on their side, they're stronger than ever."
Damar: "But we will be fighting to win back our home and our freedom, and that will make us even stronger."

Solbor: "... that man is not Anjohl Tennan. ... Anjohl Tennan died nine years ago in the labor camp at Batal. ... I had a sample of his DNA sequenced.   He's not even a Bajoran.  He's a Cardassian. ... Don't you recognize the face of your enemy?  It's Gul Dukat.  He lied to you -- used you."

Weyoun: "Casualties are merely a bonus.  What matters is that we have struck fear into the heart of our enemy and made them feel weak and vulnerable."

Weyoun (re: the destruction of the Defiant): "Poor Captain Sisko.   I believe he was quite fond of that ship."

Winn: "Knowledge is never dangerous in the right hands."
Solbor: "There is an old saying -- He who studies evil is studied by evil."

Winn: "The Pah-Wraths, they are the true gods."

Worf: "The Cardassians are a proud people but the Dominion treats them like second class citizens."

Worf: "He is a child."
Ezri: "Miles does have a certain cherubic quality."
Worf: "I was talking about Dr. Bashir, and you know it ...."
Ezri: "...  But he is handsome."
Worf: "You deserve more than handsome.  He gets excited playing with toys."
Ezri: "He knows how to have a good time."

Worf: "They are wasting their time.  No matter how much planning they do there is no way that they can defend that mission against an enemy that numbers in the thousands.  Not without more men."
Ezri: "You know, if you want to go down there and help them ...."

Worf: "No one is unstoppable."

When It Rains...

01/14/2000

Bashir: "It's very difficult to keep a supply of synthetic organs on hand in a battlefield situation.  You never know how many livers you're going to need....  ... the Holy Grail of organ replacement is to be able to find a way to inject the patient with undifferentiated tissue so that it can become whatever organ is needed.  ..."
Odo: "Doctor, get to the point."
Bashir: "I need to borrow a cup of goo."
Odo: "Excuse me?"
Bashir: "Please?  I'll give it back.  You see, I need to study your morphogenic matrix so that I can synthesize organic tissue that can change form the way your cells do."

Bashir (to Odo): "I was running a scan on the sample you left me when I noticed something unusual.  ...  The disease that's killing your people.  You're infected.  My guess is you became infected when you linked with the female shapeshifter.  ...  ... from what I can tell, the virus is replicating quickly and it may not be long before symptoms start to surface."

Bashir: "Why would Odo's medical records be classified?"

Bashir: "I'm just trying to figure out when Odo became infected.  I analyzed the sample he left and mapped out the life cycle of the virus and programmed the computer to calculate just how long it took for the virus to reach its present level of concentration.  ...  Got it.  Stardate 49419."
O'Brien: "Almost three years ago."
Bashir: "Wait a minute.  49419.  That's the day that Odo was at Starfleet Medical.  ...  No wonder Hilliard wouldn't let me see the file.  Section 31 must have created the virus, infected Odo, and then used him as a carrier."
O'Brien: "So that when he linked with another changeling he'd pass it on, and eventually the entire race would be infected."
Bashir: "31 is just trying to stop us from finding a cure.  They're trying to cover up the fact that they set out to commit genocide."
O'Brien: "Well, if they gave Odo this disease then they must have a cure."
Bashir: "We have to find a way to get our hands on that cure."
O'Brien: "... before 31 gets their hands on us."

Damar: "We are in no position to turn down help, no matter where it comes from."

Damar (to Kira, Odo and Garak): "Welcome to the headquarters of the Cardassian Liberation Front."

Damar: "We'll limit ourselves to targets defended by the Jem'Hadar and the Breen.  ..."
Rusot: "We're not Bajorans.  We don't kill our own.  ..."
Odo: "The Founders won't hesitate to play your own people against you."
Kira: "Anyone who is not fighting with you is fighting against you."

Dukat (having been blinded by the Kosst Amojan): "I can't see."
Winn: "I warned you.  The text of the Kosst Amojan is for my eyes only."

Garak (re: Damar's concerns): "We Cardassians are a proud people.  Losing Bajor to a rag-tag band of terrorists ... was a humiliation.  ... taking on a Bajoran officer as an advisor would undermine his authority."

Garak: "... let's try to remember that our enemy is the Dominion and not each other."
Rusot: "I don't need to be reminded who my enemies are."

Gowron: "It's time for me to take a more active role in this war.  As of today, I'm assuming direct command of our forces.  ...  I intend to see an end to this war, and soon.  The Dominion will rue the day they heard my name!"

Gowron: "While our allies sit and do nothing, the Klingon Empire will score the final triumph over the Dominion.  We'll be the saviors of the Alpha quadrant.  The glory will be ours, and ours alone."

Commander Hilliard: "... you've requested Security Chief Odo's medical records from stardate -"
Bashir: "- 49419...."
Hilliard: "And you state that he has contracted the morphogenic virus that's infected the Founders.  ...  How did he contract it?"
Bashir: "Presumably when he linked with one of them...."
Hilliard: "You're saying that he's been in contact with the enemy?"
Bashir: "Yes, but not recently.  It happened over a year ago."
Hilliard: "I assume that you've don your own scans of Odo over the years."
Bashir: "Of course."
Hilliard: "Then why do you need ours?"
Bashir: "To use as a point of comparison in hopes of finding a cure....  ..."
Hilliard: "I'm afraid those files are classified.  ...  I can't release those files to anyone that doesn't have Sigma Nine clearance.  ...  I fail to see why you're so determined to cure a disease that infects our enemy.  We're at war, Doctor."
Bashir: "The Founder's have nothing to do with it.  Odo's life is at stake!"
Hilliard: "Odo, who by your own admission has been known to consort with the enemy.  ...  I don't care about the circumstances.  If you find a cure, there's a good chance it'll fall into Dominion hands.  That's a risk that Starfleet Medical is not willing to take.  Request for the files is denied.  ... if I were you, I would drop this matter.  Otherwise, I'll have to refer it to Starfleet Security."

Kira (to Sisko): "You want me to go behind enemy lines and teach a bunch of Cardassians how to be resistance fighters?"

Kira (re: Damar): "When he killed Ziyal, he murdered an innocent girl that I considered a part of my family."

Kira: "Damar and Garak -- should be an interesting mission."

Kira: "A resistance organization is structured into cells, autonomous groups of ten or twenty people.  That way, if anyone gets captured, their ability to compromise the entire organization is limited.  They can't be forced to name names they don't know."
Garak: "The Obsidian Order worked the same way."
Kira: "...  Smaller groups are safer.  They're harder to track down."

Martok: "By tomorrow, we'll have 1500 Klingon vessels ready for deployment."
Romulan General: "With the Breen, the Cardassians and the Jem'Hadar you're still outnumbered twenty to one."

Martok (re: Gowron): "First he gives me a medal, then he takes over my command.  It makes no sense."

[After Sisko used his Sigma Nine clearance to obtain Odo's Starfleet Medical files]
O'Brien: "... is the file worth all the trouble...?"
Bashir: "There's more data here than I expected.  Starfleet Medical certainly were thorough.  ...  That's odd.  ...  The dispersal pattern in this resonance scan -- I've seen it before.  ...  When I first came to the station I had to familiarize myself with Odo's physiology.  Dr. Mora was kind enough to share his data with me.  This looks like the scan he did when he first found Odo."
O'Brien: "Are you sure?  There's a lot of numbers there."
Bashir: "I saw it with my own eyes not seven years ago."
O'Brien: "... you really are genetically enhanced, aren't you?"
Bashir: "According to the date, this scan was done while Odo was at Starfleet Medical"
O'Brien: "Two different scans can't have exactly the same dispersal pattern?"
Bashir: "It's impossible.  Someone took Dr. Mora's results and built up a phony medical work-up around them.  This isn't Odo's file.  They sent a fake."
O'Brien: "...  I can't believe Starfleet Medical would actually make up a fake file just to throw you off."
Bashir: "You're right.  It isn't something Starfleet Medical would do."
O'Brien: "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
Bashir: "Section 31."
O'Brien: "An organization that's prepared to do whatever it takes to 'protect' the Federation wouldn't even blink at doing something like this."
Bashir: "They don't want me to find a cure.  They're afraid the Founders will get hold of it."
O'Brien: "And to keep that from happening, they're willing to let Odo die."

Odo: "How's the food?"
Kira: "Replicated."

Odo: "...  Cardassians have little interest in justice."

Odo: "The Cardassians do love the heat."

Ross: "... it seems as if the Klingon fleet is the only thing that stands between us and the Dominion."

Rusot: "...  Commander Kira doesn't like to be reminded that her lover collaborated with her enemies."
Kim: "Odo wasn't a collaborator."
Rusot: "I suppose that depends on your definition of collaborator."

Winn: "How like a Cardassian to find amusement in an old man's death.  ..."
Dukat: "No one can be allowed to stand in our way."
Winn: "Remember your place, Dukat."
Dukat: "I thought my place was in your bed."
Winn: "That was before I knew who you were."
Dukat: "...  The Pah-Wraiths have changed me."
Winn: "But they can't change what you did."

Winn: "The Pah-Wraiths will spar those who they find worthy.  The rest are of no consequence."

Winn: "The text of the Kosst Amojan is for my eyes alone."

Winn (to Dukat): "The Pah-Wraiths have taken you sight in punishment for your arrogance."

Tacking Into the Wind

09/14/2000

Kira: "Each cell has to be insulated from the cell above and the  cell below."  

Odo: "It's just like you to come sneaking in here without warning."
Garak: "My approach may have been quiet, but I assure you, I had no intention of sneaking up on you."  

Odo: "Changing shape seems to accelerate the progress of the disease."  

Odo (to Garak): "If I don't want pity from the woman I love, why would I want it from you?"  

Bashir: "Section 31 have managed to stay in hiding for over 300  years.  They're not going to come scurrying into the light just because Miles O'Brien and Julian Bashir are on the case."  

Bashir: "No more cloak and dagger games.  Science is the answer here.  Every puzzle has a solution, every disease a cure.  It's just a matter of finding it."  

Gowron: "A good commander finds ways to beat the odds not hide behind them."  

Rusot: "Our priority should be to free Cardassia from the Dominion, not do Starfleet's dirty work."
Damar: "We're all in this together.  By helping Starfleet, we're helping ourselves."

Kira (to Rusot): "Stop pushing me or I'll make you realize just how many nerves you have in that miserable body."  

Damar: "What kind of state tolerates the murder of innocent women and children?  What kind of people give those orders?"
Kira: "Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give those orders?"  

Garak: "Damar has a certain romanticism about the past.  He could use a dose of cold water."  

Worf: "It is the duty  of every soldier to support their leaders in time of war."

Ezri: "I'm just not sure that I should be giving you advice on what to do in this situation.  It's a Klingon matter."
Worf: "You are still a member of the House of Martok."
Ezri: "This is the first that I've heard of it."
Worf: "The General and I talked about it weeks ago.  He likes you and he considers you an honorable woman -- a worthy successor to Jadzia.  And so do I."
Ezri: "That's very sweet of him."
Worf: "Sweet?"
Ezri: "Not a very Klingon word, is it?"
Worf: "No."
Ezri: "It's very -- honorable."
Worf: "Better.  Albeit, a little obvious."

Bashir: "When did you get so devious?"
O'Brien: "I've been hanging around you too long."

Gowron: "If you lack the courage to fight an uphill battle, then perhaps you should retire to your bed."
Martok: "I will fight any battle -- anywhere.  For the Empire."
Gowron: "Spoken like a true warrior."

Worf: "Kahless said, 'Great men do not seek power. They have power thrust upon them.'"  

Extreme Measures

12/18/1999

Bashir: "I know what I'm doing."

Bashir: "I should warn you, you may feel some discomfort."
Odo: "If you mean it's going to be painful, just say so."
Bashir: "It's going to be painful."
Odo: "All right then."

Ezri (after finding O'Brien and Bashir linked to Sloan): "... I guess this isn't some kind of obscure meditation therapy."

Guard (in Sloan's mind): "You're in a restricted area."
O'Brien: "I thought we were in the cerebellum."

O'Brien: "If he dies ..."
Bashir: "the cure for Odo dies with him."

O'Brien (to Bashir): "If you're determined to go on this lunatic mission inside Sloan's head then somebody with an ounce of sanity has to be with you."

O'Brien (in Sloan's mind, after Bashir and O'Brien are shot by the guard): "If none of this is real, why does it hurt so much?"

O'Brien (in Sloan's mind): "We can't just sit here ... waiting for death."

O'Brien (to Bashir): "... next time you take a trip inside someone's mind, you're going on your own."

Odo (to Kira): "I don't want your last memory of me to be witnessing my death.  ... I don't want the last thing I see to be pain in your eyes."

Sisko: "Genocide ... committed by people who call themselves Federation citizens."

Sloan: "Shooting and unarmed man -- that's a little ungallant, isn't it."

Sloan: "If I wanted to eliminate your work, all I'd have to do is destroy you lab."

Sloan (in Sloan's mind): "I lived in a world of secrets, of sabotage and deceit.  I spent so much time erasing my movement, covering my tracks that now, as I look back on my life ... I find nothing.  It's as if I never existed.  ...  In death, I can finally stay out of the shadows and prove to myself that I existed, that I lived."

Sloan (in Sloan's mind): "Doctor, you've been a beacon of light to me.  You're living proof that ideology is a poor substitute for kindness and decency and that at the end of the day it's our actions and not our beliefs that define who we are, what we are."

The Dogs Of War

01/03/2000

Bashir (re: Sao Paulo): "I hate the carpet."

Brunt (kissing Quark's hand): "It's never too early to suck up to the boss."

Brunt (having just agreed to a bribe amount to pay Quark and while giving Quark a pedicure): "If you will sign this."
Quark: "What is it?"
Brunt: "A receipt."
Quark: "For a bribe?"
Brunt: "Oh, surely you're aware of the new regulations making all bribes tax deductible."
Quark: "Wait, wait, wait, wait.  Did you just use the 'T' word?"
Brunt: "You mean 'tax'?"
Quark: "Are you telling me that are ... 'T's on Ferenginar?"
Brunt: "... you haven't been keeping up with the latest reforms, have you?  Zek institutes progressive income tax three months ago."
Quark: "You call that a reform?  Taxes go against the very spirit of free enterprise.  That's why they call it 'free'."
Brunt: "The government needed revenues to fund the new social programs -- wage subsidiaries for the poor, retirement benefits for the aged, health care ..."
Quark: "... I had no idea things had gotten so bad.  ...  Whatever happened to survival of the fittest?  Whatever happened to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer?  Whatever happened to pure, unadulterated greed?"
Brunt: "... things change."
Quark: "And they're going to change back.  --  The first thing I'm going to do is eliminate these so-called reforms before Ferenginar ends up looking like -- a Federation planet."
Brunt: "... I'm not sure the Congress of Economic Advisors will approve."
Quark: "I don't care who they are or what they are.  As Nagus, I can do what I want."
Brunt: "Not anymore.  All regulations proposed by the Nagus have to be ratified by the Congress before they become law.  Oh, you'll still be a powerful man.  I wouldn't be sucking up to you otherwise."
[Quark and Brunt kneel before a statue of a Ferengi bust]
Quark: "Blessed Exchequer, forgive us.  Your children have gone astray."

Damar: "Our fight for freedom continues....  I call on Cardassians everywhere to rise up....  ...  If we start together, nothing can oppose us.  Freedom is ours for the taking."
Crowd: "Freedom!  Freedom!  Freedom!"

Ezri: "I didn't know we were getting another Defiant-class ship."
Sisko: "That's what happens when you miss staff meetings."

Ezri: "You know, it takes a certain maturity to not be swept away by a romantic fantasy."
Bashir: "That's right.  Why let physical attraction overcome good sense?"
Ezri: "Chemistry isn't everything."

Martok: "There are advantages to falling back:  they shorten their supply lines while forcing us to lengthen ours."
Ross: "And with a smaller perimeter, they're less vulnerable to hit and run attacks."

Mila: "If you don't mind hiding in a basement then I guess I don't mind having you down there."

Mila: "I was never much of a cook, but I know how to keep a secret."

Mila: "... you might as well make yourselves useful.  This place hasn't been cleaned in years."
Kira (grabbing a rag and tossing it to Garak): "You heard the lady."
Garak (looking at the rag): "The glamour of being a revolutionary, hmm?"

O'Brien (re: Ezri and Bashir): "I don't get it.  He's interested, she's interested.  What's the problem?"
Worf: "He is an overgrown child and she is very ... confused."
O'Brien: "It could still work."

Odo (after Bashir explains that Section 31 infected him in hopes that he would infect the Founders): "... the Federation set out to destroy my people.  ...  They used me as an instrument to try and commit genocide."

Odo (to Sisko): "Interesting, isn't it?  The Federation claims to abhor Section 31s tactics, but when they need the dirty work done, they look the other way.  It's a tidy little arrangement, wouldn't you say?"

Quark: "A Nagus has to lead by example.  My greed has to be a shining light to everyone testament to the rewards of avarice."

Quark: "Did you know this Congress of economic meddlers actually passed legislation making monopolies illegal?  What's the point of being in business if you can't corner the market and gouge your customers?"
Rom: "There's something to be said for keeping prices down by ensuring healthy competition.  ..."
Quark: "You can't even dump industrial wastes anymore because it might harm 'the natural habitat'.  I'm supposed to start worrying about animals now.  Look how they live -- wallowing in dirt, sleeping in trees.  That's not natural."
Rom: "I suppose you could argue the Ferenginar's biodiversity is a precious resource that belongs to everyone.  ..."
Quark: "And don't even get me started about this whole 'labor rights' thing.  What have we come to if you can't demand sexual favors from the people in your employ?"
Rom: "Unharrassed workers are productive workers."

Quark: "... our people have lost their way.  ...  I read a report that over forty percent of the population no longer believes that you have to buy your way into the Divine Treasury when you die.  ...  They don't teach children the Rules of Acquisition anymore.  ...  There's a disease spreading through Ferengi society.  It's making us soft."

Quark: "I won't preside over the demise of Ferengi civilization."

Quark: "A man can only be pushed so far."

Ross (to Sisko): "As of this date, you are requested and required to take command of U.S.S. Sao Paulo."

Sisko: "Anything yet?"
O'Brien: "She should be here any minute.  Running a little late."
Sisko: "This is no way to start a relationship."

Sisko (reading from pad): "Special dispensation from the Chief of Starfleet Operations to change the name from Sao Paulo to Defiant."

Kasidy: "I'm pregnant."

Weyoun: "The Dominion has never surrendered in battle since it's founding 10,000 years ago."

Weyoun: "The Federation is, by its very nature, timid.  When they see that we've pulled back, their first impulse will be to leave us alone."

[The following conversation takes place over a video communication between Grand Nagus Zek and Quark.  Unfortunately, due to distorted video and audio, Zek doesn't realize that he is not talking to Rom and Quark doesn't realize that Zek is addressing the conversation to Rom.  So much for that renowned Ferengi hearing.  Much of this episode involving the Ferengi on DS9 is built around this miscommunication.  Throughout this episode, Quark believes he is going to be the Grand Nagus.  For those people who have to rely on Closed Captioning, this episode may have been a little confusing.  Closed Captioning makes this entire conversation clear so there would have been no reason for Quark to believe Zek was addressing him instead of Rom.  The following quotation is taken from audio and Closed Captioning.]    
Grand Nagus Zek:  "I'm retiring.  Your mother and I are moving to Risa to enjoy our old age and do a lot of shagging, if you know what I mean.  ...  I'll be coming to Deep Space Nine to name my successor.  ...  I've chosen you to succeed me.  You're going to be the new Grand Nagus.  Congratulations, Rom." 

Zek: "A new Ferenginar needs a new kind of Nagus -- a kinder, gentler Nagus...."

Zek: "It's a great responsibility to stand at the bow of the Ferengi ship of state.  A Nagus has to navigate the waters of the Great Material Continuum, avoid the shoals of bankruptcy and seek the strong winds of prosperity."

What We Leave Behind

09/24/2000

Ezri: "Julian?  ...  We have to get up.  ...  It's a big day."  
Bashir: "It was a big night.  Cleared up a lot of unanswered questions."  
Ezri: "Such as?"  
Bashir: "Such as just how far these spots really go down."  

Bashir: "You know, I've never been into battle with someone I've slept with before."  
Ezri: "Well, there's a first time for everything."  

O'Brien (re: model of Alamo): "Molly, please don't touch that."  
Molly O'Brien: "I let you play with my toys."  

Molly: "I knew it.  ...  We're not going back to Earth."  
O'Brien: "Of course we are.  Daddy's going to teach at the Academy when the war's over."  
Molly: "Then why haven't you told Julian?"  
Keiko: "'Out of the mouth of babes.'"  

Kasidy Sisko (suffering from morning sickness): "Reports of my death have been exaggerated, but not by much."  

Sisko: "All right, people.  What do you say we end this war?"  
O'Brien: "Sounds good to me."  
Sisko: "Ensign, I believe you know the way to Cardassia."  
Nog: "If I get lost, I'll just follow the ship in front of us."  

Founder: "Our brave Jem'hadar soldiers have a motto:  'Victory is life.'"  

Founder: "I would promise the Breen the entire Alpha quadrant if I thought it would help win this war."  

Damar: "If I'm to lead this revolt, I can't do it hiding in a cellar."  

Mila (to Garak): "... when you were a small boy, I was worried about you.  Always getting into trouble.  So secretive, so full of deceit.  Who would've thought those disgraceful characteristics would be turned to virtues."  

O'Brien (to Bashir): "I said I wish you'd wipe that grin off your face.  You're not the first person to fall in love, you know."  

Worf (re: Bashir): "... I am going to kill him."  
Ezri: "You're kidding, right?"  
Worf: "And Jadzia said I did not have a sense of humor."  

Sarah: "The Emissary's task is nearing completion.  ...  You have walked the path the Prophets laid out for you, Benjamin.  Do not falter now.  ...  Know this, my son.  Your journey's end lies not before you but behind you."  

Winn: "I don't forgive war criminals.  To think I took Gul Dukat to my bed; one of the most hated men in Bajoran history."  

Quark: "For a hologram, you're not very accommodating."  
Fontaine: "Oh, is that why you dropped by -- to insult me?"  
Quark: "I dropped by because I had nothing else to do.  ...  Everyone's off fighting this stupid war."  
Fontaine: "It's not easy staying behind, is it, knowing your friends are out there risking their lives?"  
Quark: "They think they have it rough?  They should try leading my life for a day.  The hospitality industry isn't for the fainthearted."  
Fontaine: "A bartender's life is a lonely one."  
Quark: "That's true, but few people understand it.  They think it's one big happy party.  They forget that the person giving the party never has any fun.  He's too busy making sure everyone else is having fun.  All I do all day long is give, give, give."  

Quark: "I thought you said a bartender's life was a lonely one."  
Fontaine (leaving with girl): "It is, but I'm not a bartender."  

Garak: "Ironic, isn't it - the savior of Cardassia a former Bajoran terrorist?"  

Garak: "Chop off a snake's head and the body will die."  

Mila: "You've hardly touched your meal.  No wonder you're not looking well."  
Garak: "I'm not looking well because I live in a cellar."  

Bashir: "Sit still or you'll end up with one arm shorter than the other."  
O'Brien: "You'd do anything to beat me at darts."  
Bashir: "I haven't lost a game to you in months."  
O'Brien: "I'm going to miss our games."  
Bashir: "What are you talking about?  You're going to be fine."  
O'Brien: "I'm leaving D.S. Nine, Julian.  I'm moving back to Earth.  ...  I've been offered a position at Starfleet Academy, Professor of Engineering.  ...  Somebody has to teach you officers the difference between a warp matrix flux capacitor and a self-sealing stembolt."  

Jem'hadar soldier: "On your feet.  ...  We prefer our prisoners to be standing when they die."  
Garak: "Does anyone have any last words?  ..."  
Jem'hadar soldier: "...  Final words are not permitted."  
Garak: "How disappointing."  

Founder: "I want the Cardassians exterminated."  
Weyoun: "Which ones?"  
Founder: "All of them, the entire population."  
Weyoun: "That will take some time."  
Founder: "Then I suggest that you begin at once."  

Ross: "We've already lost a third of our fleet."  
Martok: "Then we must see to it that those soldiers did not die in vain."  

Winn: "We've reached the end of one journey and stand ready to begin another.  What's the matter, Dukat?  You look disappointed."  
Dukat: "Well, this may sound naive, but I was expecting to see fire.  They are called the 'Fire Caves'."  

Garak: "All during the years of my exile I imagined what it would be like to come home.  I even thought of living in this house again with mila.  But now she's dead and this house is about to be reduced to a pile of rubble.  My Cardassia is gone."  
Kira: "Then fight for a new Cardassia." 
Garak: "I have an even better reason, Commander.  Revenge."  
Kira: "That works, too."  

Winn: "I rid myself of the Prophets and shed a lifetime of hypocrisy."  

Nog (re: Defiant): "She did pretty well for a first date don't you think, Captain?"  
Sisko: "I'd say she did fine, ensign."  

Sisko: "How are you holding up, old man?"  
Ezri: "All things considered, I think I'd rather be on Risa."  

Garak: "Here we are, ready to storm the castle, willing to sacrifice our lives in a noble effort to slay the Dominion beast in its lair and we can't even get inside the gates."  
Kira: "Maybe - maybe we could go up to the door, and - and ask the Jem'hadar to let us in?"  
Damar: "Why don't we just have them send the shapeshifter out to us?"  

Weyoun (re: Breen): "I still can't help but wonder.  ...  What's under that helmet."
Founder: "A braver man than you."  

Founder: "I'm dying.  ...  It's ironic, isn't it?  That I should die as a solid."  

Founder (after Garak kills Weyoun): "I wish you hadn't done that.  That was Weyoun's last clone."  
Garak: "I was hoping you'd say that."  

Kira: "This war's over.  You lost."  
Founder: "Have I?  I think you'll find that neither the Jem'hadar or the Breen will agree with that assessment.  They will fight to the last man."  
Kira: "And what will that accomplish?"  
Founder: "Isn't it obvious?  You may win this war, Commander, but I promise you, when it is over, you will have lost so many ships, so many lives that your victory will taste as bitter as defeat."     

Winn (to Dukat): "The Pah-wraiths demand a sacrifice, someone worthy of them.  Who better than you?"  

Founder: "... I have no intention of surrendering my forces.  It would be a sign of weakness on my part, an invitation to the solids to cross into the Gamma quadrant and destroy the Great Link."  
Odo: "Believe me, I'm well aware that the Federation has its flaws but a desire for conquest isn't one of them."
Founder: "...  And what of the Klingons and the Romulans?  Can you make that claim for them, too?"  
Odo: "The Klingon and Romulan empires are in no shape to wage war against anyone.  Besides, the Federation wouldn't allow it."  
Founder: "The Dominion has spent the last two years trying to destroy the Federation and now you're asking me to put our fate in their hands?  ...  I can't do that, Odo.  I don't have your faith in the solids."  

Founder (to Garak after being cured by Odo): "If you will stand aside, I'll order the Jem'Hadar to cease fire.  ..."
Odo: "...  She's agreed to stand trial and accept responsibility for what she's done."

Odo: "... it's time I rejoined the Great Link."  

Martok: "This is a moment worth savoring.  To victory, hard fought and well earned."  

Garak: "Well, aren't you going to congratulate me, Doctor?  My exile is now officially over.  I've returned home, or rather, to what's left of it.  ...  You know, some may say that we've gotten just what we deserved.  After all, we're not entirely innocent, are we?  And I'm not just speaking of the Bajoran occupation.  No, our whole history is one of arrogant aggression.  We've collaborated with the Dominion, betrayed the entire Alpha quadrant.  Oh, no, no, there's no doubt about it.  We're guilty as charged."  
Bashir: "You and I both know that the Cardassians are a strong people.  They'll survive.  Cardassia will survive."  
Garak: "Oh, please, Doctor.  Spare me your insufferable Federation optimism.  Of course, it will survive, but not as the Cardassia I knew.  We had a rich and ancient culture.  Our literature, music, art was second to none.  And now, so much of it is lost.  So many of our best people, our most gifted minds -"  

Garak: "We live in uncertain times."  

Founder: "The war between the Dominion and the Federation Alliance is now over."  
Ross: "400 Years ago, a victorious general spoke the following words at the end of another costly war:  'Today the guns are silent.  A great tragedy has ended.  We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph and from both we have learned there can be no going back.  We must move forward to preserve in peace what we've won in war.'"  

Martok: "We've been discussing your plans for the future."  
Worf: "I was not aware I had any plans."  
Ross: "Commander, how would you feel about being named Federation Ambassador to Dronos?"  
Worf: "I am not a diplomat."  
Martok: "And I am not a politician but sometimes fate plays cruel tricks on us, Worf.  Come.  Kronos needs you.  And what's more, I need you."  
Ezri: "You helped him become Chancellor.  Can't very well turn your back on him now."  
Worf: "Well, my first loyalty is to you, Captain."  
Sisko: "Thank you, Mister Worf.  I'll probably regret this in the morning but, if it's what you want, then by all means."  
Worf: "It has been a great honor serving with you."  
Sisko: "The honor is mine."  
Worf: "I accept."  
Martok: "Excellent.  An Ambassador who'll go targ hunting with me.  Well, perhaps being Chancellor won't be so bad after all."  

Fontaine: "If you're here for another game of 'Go Fish', I'm a little busy right now."  
Quark: "Actually, I'm here for the 'end of the war, good-bye to Chief O'Brien, good-bye to Odo, good-bye to Worf party.'"  

Quark: "Earth's nothing more than a rotating ball of boredom.  If you ask me, you'd be better off staying here.  ..."
Kira: "Don't tell me you're getting sentimental, Quark."  
Quark: "Me?  Not a chance.  I just don't like change."  
Sisko: "You better get used to it.  Things are going to be pretty different around here now."  

Sisko: "... no matter what the future holds, no matter how far we travel, a part of us, a very important part, will always remain here on Deep Space Nine."  

Fontaine: "'... Nothing lasts forever.'"  

Dukat (to Winn): "Did you really think the Pah-Wraiths would chose you as their emissary?"

Dukat: "The profits have sent me a gift.  Their beloved Emissary sent forth like an avenging angel to slay the demon."  
Sisko: "I should have known the demon would be you."  

Dukat: "Come closer.  That's it.  Now bow to me.  I said bow."  
[Dukat forces Sisko to his knees]
Sisko: "You are pathetic."  
Dukat: "Then why are you the one on your knees?"  
Sisko: "First the Dominion, now the Pah-wraiths.  You have a talent for picking the losing sides."
Dukat: "...  We've both had our victories and our defeats.  Now it's time to resolve our differences and face the ultimate truth.  I've won....  You've lost."
Sisko: "The Pah-Wraiths will never conquer anything...."
Dukat: "And who's going to stop us?"
Sisko: "I am!
Dukat: "You can't even stand up."

Sarah: "The Emissary has completed his task." 
Sisko: "But the Pah-wraiths." 
Sarah: "You've returned them to their prison within the Fire Caves." 
Sisko: "The book was the key wasn't it?" 
Sarah: "To a door that can never be opened again." 
Sisko: "And Dukat, is he dead?" 
Sarah: "He's where he belongs, with the Pah-wraiths.  Your time of trial has ended.  You need to rest now." 
Sisko: "Oh, I intend to as soon as I return to Deep Space Nine." 
Sarah: "That won't be necessary.  You're with us now." 

Odo: "I've never been good at good-byes." 
Kira: "There are going to be a lot of people that are disappointed." 
Odo: "If they don't know how I feel about them now, a few parting words won't make the difference." 
Quark: "Aha!  I knew it.  When I saw the two of you slip out, I said to myself 'that no-good misanthropic cantankerous changeling is trying to sneak off the station without anyone noticing.'  ...  So, now that I'm here, is there something   you want to say to me?  ...  Such as, 'Good-bye.  You certainly were a worthy adversary,' or maybe something with the words 'mutual respect' in it."
Odo: "...  I have nothing I want to say to you." 
Quark: "Are you telling me that after all these years, after all we've been through, you're not even going to say good-bye to me?" 
Odo: "That's right.  Nerys, I'll be on the runabout." 
Kira: "Don't take it hard, Quark." 
Quark: "Hard?  What are you talking about?  That man loves me.  Couldn't you see?  It was written all over his back." 

Odo: "Nerys, please, tell everyone I'll miss them." 
Kira: "Even Quark?" 
Odo: "Even Quark." 

Ezri: "I think that after dinner tonight we should go to Quark's, spend some time in the holosuite." 
Bashir: "Oh, I'd like a trip to Vegas." 
Ezri: "Actually, I was thinking about the Alamo." 
Bashir: "We can't go there." 
Ezri: "Why not?" 
Bashir: "'Cause that's what Miles and I did.  But I do have a new program, the Battle of Thermopylae.  Do you know it?  Well, it's about a force of Spartans led by King Leonidas who defend a mountain pass against a vast army of Persians." 
Ezri: "What happens then?" 
Bashir: "Well, for two days, the Spartans lead a heroic struggle." 
Ezri: "Until they're wiped out."
Bashir: "Yes.  How do you know?" 
Ezri: "Lucky guess.  I take it we'll be the Spartans." 
Bashir: "Fighting to the last man." 
Ezri: "Just like the Alamo." 
Bashir: "Exactly." 
Ezri: "Have you talked to a Counselor about these annihilation fantasies?" 
Bashir: "Do you think I should?" 
Ezri: "Mm-hmm.  I'll set up a session for you tomorrow." 
Bashir: "What about tonight?" 
Ezri: "Tonight, we defend the pass." 

Kira: "As of this moment, betting pools of any kind are illegal on this station.  I catch someone placing a bet; I put you in a holding cell for fifteen days.  Is that clear?" 
Quark: "Fifteen days?  Can I bring my own pillow?" 

Quark: "It's like I said, the more things change, the more they stay the same."