Star Trek - Deep Space Nine Quotes
Q: An abysmal place, Earth. A thousand years ago it had character: Crusades, Spanish Inquisition, Watergate... Now its just incredibly dull.
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Benjamin Sisko: [referring to Dax] He taught me to appreciate life in ways I'd never thought about before. He taught me about art, and science and diplomacy. Whatever sense of honor I have today, he nurtured.
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Madame Arbiter: [referring to the extradition hearing proceedings] I intend to be here until supper, not senility.
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Odo: I have my eye on you, Quark.
Quark: [Jadzia Dax walks by] And I have my eye on you, Jadzia.
Quark: [Jadzia Dax walks by] And I have my eye on you, Jadzia.
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Jake Sisko: Dad, I'm fourteen.
Benjamin Sisko: I'm glad we agree on something. Go to bed.
Benjamin Sisko: I'm glad we agree on something. Go to bed.
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Benjamin Sisko: Major, I gave you a direct order.
Kira Nerys: Court-martial me.
Benjamin Sisko: I can't. You're not in Starfleet.
Jadzia Dax: If I were your superior officer, I'd court-martial both of you.
Kira Nerys: Court-martial me.
Benjamin Sisko: I can't. You're not in Starfleet.
Jadzia Dax: If I were your superior officer, I'd court-martial both of you.
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Chandra: [chanting] Allamaraine count to four./Allamaraine then three more./Allamaraine if you can see./Allamaraine you'll come with me.
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[Rom has returned a lost wallet]
Quark: Have you forgotten the First Rule of Acquisition?
Rom: No, brother.
Quark: Then repeat it!
Rom: "Once you have their money, you never give it back."
Quark: Have you forgotten the First Rule of Acquisition?
Rom: No, brother.
Quark: Then repeat it!
Rom: "Once you have their money, you never give it back."
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Quark: The Sixth Rule of Acquisition clearly states...
Zek: "Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity." I certainly never have.
Zek: "Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity." I certainly never have.
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Nog: Rule of Acquisition Number Nine: Opportunity plus instinct equals profit.
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Kira: When I was very small, I remember there was this tree right outside my window. It was the ugliest, most knarled and battered old tree I'd ever seen. Even the birds stayed away from it.
Mullibok: But you loved it.
Kira: I hated it, because it had grown so huge, its branches blocked out the sun for kelipates, and its roots buried themselves so deep in the soil nothing else could grow there. It was a big, selfish, annoying...
Mullibok: Nasty...
Kira: Nasty! Nasty old tree.
Mullibok: Sounds to me like it had a lot of character.
Kira: [after a pause] A lot.
Mullibok: But you loved it.
Kira: I hated it, because it had grown so huge, its branches blocked out the sun for kelipates, and its roots buried themselves so deep in the soil nothing else could grow there. It was a big, selfish, annoying...
Mullibok: Nasty...
Kira: Nasty! Nasty old tree.
Mullibok: Sounds to me like it had a lot of character.
Kira: [after a pause] A lot.
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Odo: Ladies and gentlemen... and all androgynous creatures, please stop using your imaginations!
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[Bashir has been assigned to chaperone a trio of visiting diplomats]
Benjamin Sisko: Cheer up, Doctor. If you do well, it could help your career.
Julian Bashir: Another hour with them could destroy my career!
Benjamin Sisko: It's a simple job: just keep them happy, and away from me.
Julian Bashir: Simple? Nothing makes them happy! They are dedicated to being UN-happy, and to spreading that unhappiness wherever they go! They are the Ambassadors of Unhappy!
Benjamin Sisko: Cheer up, Doctor. If you do well, it could help your career.
Julian Bashir: Another hour with them could destroy my career!
Benjamin Sisko: It's a simple job: just keep them happy, and away from me.
Julian Bashir: Simple? Nothing makes them happy! They are dedicated to being UN-happy, and to spreading that unhappiness wherever they go! They are the Ambassadors of Unhappy!
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Benjamin Sisko: All of us have had these assignments, Doctor.
Julian Bashir: Have you, sir?
Benjamin Sisko: As a matter of fact, Curzon Dax used to take perverse pleasure in assigning me to take care of VIP guests.
Julian Bashir: Ah, and now you take the same perverse pleasure in doing it to me.
Benjamin Sisko: Exactly.
Julian Bashir: Have you, sir?
Benjamin Sisko: As a matter of fact, Curzon Dax used to take perverse pleasure in assigning me to take care of VIP guests.
Julian Bashir: Ah, and now you take the same perverse pleasure in doing it to me.
Benjamin Sisko: Exactly.
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[Bajoran survivors of a Cardassian labor camp have gathered on DS9]
Quark: Who are they?
Odo: Survivors of Gallitep. They arrived here this morning. They've come to see justice done.
Quark: Gallitep... imagine living through that hellhole... the pain... the sorrow... Do you think they like to gamble?
Quark: Who are they?
Odo: Survivors of Gallitep. They arrived here this morning. They've come to see justice done.
Quark: Gallitep... imagine living through that hellhole... the pain... the sorrow... Do you think they like to gamble?
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Kira Nerys: You're Marritza, aren't you?
Gul Darhe'el: You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Ho-ho, you stupid Bajoran girl! Don't you know who I am? I'm youre nemesis! I'm your nightmare! I'm the Butcher of Gallitep!
Kira: The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You're Amon Marritza, his filing clerk.
Gul Darhe'el: That's not true, I am alive! I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman! Who would, every night, cover his ears, because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy of the Bajorans...
[He breaks down and sinks onto his bunk, sobbing uncontrollably.]
Amon Marritza: I covered my ears every night. But I couldn't bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors... and do nothing. Marritza's dead, he deserves to be dead.
Gul Darhe'el: You mistake me for that bug? That whimpering nothing? Ho-ho, you stupid Bajoran girl! Don't you know who I am? I'm youre nemesis! I'm your nightmare! I'm the Butcher of Gallitep!
Kira: The Butcher of Gallitep died six years ago. You're Amon Marritza, his filing clerk.
Gul Darhe'el: That's not true, I am alive! I will always be alive! It's Marritza who's dead! Marritza, who was good for nothing but cowering under his bunk and weeping like a woman! Who would, every night, cover his ears, because he couldn't bear to hear the screaming for mercy of the Bajorans...
[He breaks down and sinks onto his bunk, sobbing uncontrollably.]
Amon Marritza: I covered my ears every night. But I couldn't bear to hear those horrible screams. You have no idea what it's like to be a coward. To see these horrors... and do nothing. Marritza's dead, he deserves to be dead.
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[Amon Marritza has just been stabbed by Kainon on the promenade]
Kira, holding the rapidly dying Marritza: Why!?! He wasn't Darhe'el!
Kainon: He was Cardassian! That's reason enough!
Kira: No... No it's not.
Kira, holding the rapidly dying Marritza: Why!?! He wasn't Darhe'el!
Kainon: He was Cardassian! That's reason enough!
Kira: No... No it's not.
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Kira Nerys: But she's teaching a fundamentally different philosophy -
Keiko O'Brien: I'm not teaching any "philosophy." What I'm trying to teach is pure science.
Kira Nerys: Some might say pure science taught without a spiritual context is a philosophy, Mrs O'Brien.
Keiko O'Brien: I'm not teaching any "philosophy." What I'm trying to teach is pure science.
Kira Nerys: Some might say pure science taught without a spiritual context is a philosophy, Mrs O'Brien.
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Odo: What do you know about the murder of Ensign Aquino?
Quark: You wound me. All these years together, I thought you knew me. Odo, I am not a killer!
Odo: No, but most of your friends are.
Quark: True, and I would gladly sell one of them to you if I could. But unfortunately, none of them have taken credit for the death of the Starfleet officer.
Quark: You wound me. All these years together, I thought you knew me. Odo, I am not a killer!
Odo: No, but most of your friends are.
Quark: True, and I would gladly sell one of them to you if I could. But unfortunately, none of them have taken credit for the death of the Starfleet officer.
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Odo: Keep your ears open.
Quark: Are you kidding? That's the Seventh Rule of Acquisition.
Quark: Are you kidding? That's the Seventh Rule of Acquisition.
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Winn: You live without a soul, Commander. You and your Federation exist in a universe of darkness and you would drag us in there with you. But we will not go.
Sisko: You have just made your first mistake, Vedek.
Winn: Have I?
Sisko: The Bajorans who have lived with us on this station, who have worked with us for months, who helped us move this station to protect the wormhole, who joined us to explore the Gamma Quadrant, who have begun to build the future of Bajor with us. These people know that we are neither the enemy nor the devil. We don't always agree. We have some damn good fights, in fact. But we always come away from them with a little better understanding and appreciation of the other. You won't succeed here. The school will reopen. And when your rhetoric gets old, the Bajoran parents will bring their children back.
Sisko: You have just made your first mistake, Vedek.
Winn: Have I?
Sisko: The Bajorans who have lived with us on this station, who have worked with us for months, who helped us move this station to protect the wormhole, who joined us to explore the Gamma Quadrant, who have begun to build the future of Bajor with us. These people know that we are neither the enemy nor the devil. We don't always agree. We have some damn good fights, in fact. But we always come away from them with a little better understanding and appreciation of the other. You won't succeed here. The school will reopen. And when your rhetoric gets old, the Bajoran parents will bring their children back.
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Kira: Commander, I heard what you said to Vedek Winn at the school. I just wanted you to know you were right what you said about the Bajorans, at least about me. I don't think you're the devil.
Sisko: Maybe we have made some progress after all.
Sisko: Maybe we have made some progress after all.
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Quark: Must I remind you of the 76th Rule of Acquisition?
Rom: Uh, 76th...
Quark: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
Rom: Uh, 76th...
Quark: Every once in a while, declare peace. It confuses the hell out of your enemies.
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[after Quark informs Odo that The Circle is being supplied with weapons from the Kressari and Odo tells him to get more information]
Odo: Quark, I hate to do this, but I guess I'll have to...
Quark: That's not fair!
Odo: I haven't done anything yet.
Quark: Whatever you're going to do, it's not fair.
Odo: You're a deputy.
Quark: It's not...! What?
Odo: You're a deputy. I want you to find out where the weapons are going on Bajor. Meanwhile, I'm going to find out exactly where they're coming from.
Quark: You and me, a team?
Odo: That's right.
[Quark bellows his head off with laughter, then sobers and hastily turns to leave.]
Quark: Goodbye.
Odo: Either that or I'm putting you in a cell.
Quark: That's not fair. On what charge?
Odo: Impeding an investigation. Unless you want to reveal the identities of the people you've been talking to.
Quark: You know I can't do that.
Odo: It's your choice. You're a deputy or you're a prisoner.
Quark: [with fake enthusiasm] I'm a deputy.
Odo: Quark, I hate to do this, but I guess I'll have to...
Quark: That's not fair!
Odo: I haven't done anything yet.
Quark: Whatever you're going to do, it's not fair.
Odo: You're a deputy.
Quark: It's not...! What?
Odo: You're a deputy. I want you to find out where the weapons are going on Bajor. Meanwhile, I'm going to find out exactly where they're coming from.
Quark: You and me, a team?
Odo: That's right.
[Quark bellows his head off with laughter, then sobers and hastily turns to leave.]
Quark: Goodbye.
Odo: Either that or I'm putting you in a cell.
Quark: That's not fair. On what charge?
Odo: Impeding an investigation. Unless you want to reveal the identities of the people you've been talking to.
Quark: You know I can't do that.
Odo: It's your choice. You're a deputy or you're a prisoner.
Quark: [with fake enthusiasm] I'm a deputy.
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Quark: Rule of Acquisition Number 286: When Morn leaves, it's all over.
Rom: There is no such rule!
Quark: There should be.
Rom: There is no such rule!
Quark: There should be.
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[Quark is pushing a heavy chest down the access tunnel]
Julian Bashir: Quark, leave it!
Quark: I can't leave it, it's all that I have. My personal mementos, my family album...
Julian Bashir: It's full of gold-pressed latinum, and you know it.
Quark: ...Who told you?
Julian Bashir: Your mother did, the day you were born.
[Quark shoves the chest aside and speed-crawls down the tunnel until he's nose-to-nose with Bashir]
Quark: NEVER-MAKE-FUN-OF-A-FERENGI'S-MOTHER. Rule of Acquisition Number 31!
Julian Bashir: Quark, leave it!
Quark: I can't leave it, it's all that I have. My personal mementos, my family album...
Julian Bashir: It's full of gold-pressed latinum, and you know it.
Quark: ...Who told you?
Julian Bashir: Your mother did, the day you were born.
[Quark shoves the chest aside and speed-crawls down the tunnel until he's nose-to-nose with Bashir]
Quark: NEVER-MAKE-FUN-OF-A-FERENGI'S-MOTHER. Rule of Acquisition Number 31!
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Jadzia Dax: Without navigational sensors...
Kira Nerys: We'll have to fly by the seat of our pants.
Jadzia Dax: Great! Seat-of-pants technology.
Kira Nerys: You Starfleet types are too dependent on gadgets and gizmos. You lose your natural instincts for survival.
Jadzia Dax: My natural instincts for survival told me not to climb aboard this thing. I'd say they're functioning pretty well.
Kira Nerys: We'll have to fly by the seat of our pants.
Jadzia Dax: Great! Seat-of-pants technology.
Kira Nerys: You Starfleet types are too dependent on gadgets and gizmos. You lose your natural instincts for survival.
Jadzia Dax: My natural instincts for survival told me not to climb aboard this thing. I'd say they're functioning pretty well.
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Odo: That's a very personal question.
Dax: I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore.
Dax: I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore.
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Jadzia Dax: [scared by a crawling animal] Oh! Whoah! What's that, is that a spider or a dog?
Kira Nerys: Palucko. The Bajoran moons are full of them.
Jadzia Dax: Oh. I suppose you used to make them your pets, and sing songs about them round the campfire.
Kira Nerys: No. We used to eat 'em.
Kira Nerys: Palucko. The Bajoran moons are full of them.
Jadzia Dax: Oh. I suppose you used to make them your pets, and sing songs about them round the campfire.
Kira Nerys: No. We used to eat 'em.
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