Benjamin Sisko quotes from Deep Space Nine

Benjamin Sisko

I hope you don't take this the wrong way, Constable... but there are times when I wish you'd never found your people.

Odo

Believe me, Captain, sometimes I feel the same way.

Nog

I'm sorry, Captain, the names of Red Squad members are supposed to be secret.

Benjamin Sisko

But you know who they are?

Nog

Hee-hee. It's not easy keeping secrets from a Ferengi, and I feel funny telling anyone else. Besides, if they found out I told you, I'd never get in.

Benjamin Sisko

Cadet, you are obviously under the mistaken impression that I am asking a favor. [increasingly hostile voice] I want a name and I want it now and that is an order. Understood, Mr. Nog?

Nog

Yes, sir.

...and our role would go unrecognized, at least for now.

Benjamin Sisko

Maybe if you had done your job right it would have. But you fouled it up, didn't you? You cadets did some sloppy work—some damn sloppy work.

Are you planning on using that?

Benjamin Sisko

Against a fellow officer? I hope not. [Takes off Leyton's combadge] But I will have to ask for your resignation.

You'll forgive me if I don't leap at the opportunity.

Benjamin Sisko

I have enough evidence to convict you of treason. We have Lieutenant Arriaga in custody on the Defiant, and he is ready to admit that under your orders, he attached a subspace modulator to the relay satellite on the far side of the wormhole. That's why it was opening and closing at random.

Why would anyone want to do that?

Benjamin Sisko

To make it look like a cloaked Dominion fleet was coming through the wormhole. That way, when Earth's power relays were sabotaged, people would think that an invasion was imminent.

That's a very interesting theory, but it's not going to do you much good. Lieutenant Arriaga isn't going to get to Earth. I've sent the Lakota to intercept the Defiant.

Benjamin Sisko

You really think one Starfleet starship will fire on another?

As far as Benteen's crew is concerned, the Defiant isn't a Starfleet ship. They've been told that everyone on the Defiant 's been replaced by Shapeshifters.

That was a mistake, Ben, talking to your ship from my office. Now that security knows you're here, you'll never make it past that door.

Benjamin Sisko

It doesn't matter whether I get out of here or not. By now, Odo is talking to Jaresh-Inyo. The President will have all the evidence he needs to stop you. It's over.

[slams his fist against his desk, furious] It's not over! I have enough loyal officers to make a fight of it.

Who will you fight? Starfleet? The Federation? Don't you see, Admiral? You're fighting the wrong war. And as for your loyal officers, Benteen's already abandoned you, and she was closer to you than anyone. You've lost. Don't make anyone else pay for your mistakes.

I hope you're not the one making the mistake.

Benjamin Sisko

Part of being a captain is knowing when to smile. Make the troops happy! Even when it's the last thing in the world you want to do. Because they are your troops, and you have to take care of them.

Worf

Life is a great deal more complicated in this red uniform.

Benjamin Sisko

Wait till you get four pips on that collar. You'll wish you had gone into botany.

Shields are down to 40 percent. That cruiser has us in weapons range. Do we make a run for it?

Captain Sisko

We run all right. Right at it.

[sarcastic understanding] Ahh... “Pattern Suicide". (reference to earlier confusion over what "Pattern Delta" was)

I heard you were back. (slaps Sisko) That's for making love to me under false pretenses! I was suspicious of you from the start.

Captain Sisko

You hid it well.

Michael Eddington

I know you. I was like you once, but then I opened my eyes. Open your eyes, Captain. Why is the Federation so obsessed about the Maquis? We've never harmed you. And yet we're constantly arrested and charged with terrorism. Starships chase us through the Badlands, and our supporters are harassed and ridiculed. Why? Because we've left the Federation, and that's the one thing you can't accept. Nobody leaves Paradise. Everyone should want to be in the Federation. Hell, you even want the Cardassians to join. You're only sending them replicators so that one day they can take their rightful place on the Federation Council. You know, in some ways you're worse than the Borg. At least they tell you about their plans for assimilation. You're more insidious—you assimilate people and they don't even know it.

Benjamin Sisko

You know what, Mr. Eddington? I don't give a damn what you think of the Federation, or the Maquis, or anything else. All I know is that you betrayed your oath, your duty, and me. And if it takes me the rest of my life, I'll see you standing before a court-martial that'll break you and send you to a penal colony where you'll spend the rest of your days growing old and wondering whether a ship full of replicators was really worth it.

Weyoun

Captain Benjamin Sisko. Your psychographic profile is required reading for Vorta Field Supervisors. I probably know things about you that you don't know yourself.

Benjamin Sisko

If you're trying to impress me, you can forget it.

Weyoun

What would you say if I offered to make you absolute ruler of the Federation? No President, no Starfleet Chief of Staff, just you.

Benjamin Sisko

I'd say your psychographic profile of me isn't as good as you think.

Weyoun

(laughs richly) Just doing my job.

Worf

It has come to my attention that Omet'iklan has made a threat against your life.

Benjamin Sisko

I didn't think it was public knowledge.

Worf

You told Commander Dax.

Benjamin Sisko

Well, that explains it.

I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead. As of this moment, we are all dead. We go into battle to reclaim our lives. This we do gladly, for we are Jem'Hadar. Remember, victory is life.

Victory is life.

Weyoun

Such a delightful people.

Miles O'Brien

I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien. I am very much alive and I intend to stay that way.

Benjamin Sisko

Amen!

Miles O'Brien

It's funny. I've served on half a dozen different ships and none of them have had cloaking devices except the Defiant. Now that we're not using it, I feel naked.

Worf

It is disconcerting, to say the least.

Benjamin Sisko

Gentlemen, I feel the same breeze you do.

Miles O'Brien

What are you smiling at?

Jadzia Dax

I don't know. I guess it's just being in the same room as so many naked men.

Sisko

Was that really necessary?

Gul Dukat

It was either that or trust in Mr. Worf's ability to lie. And frankly, I have more faith in my weapons.

Sisko

I said, that's enough! You're Starfleet officers. Now start acting like it!

Jadzia Dax

Tough guys. A little pressure and they buckle. [Sisko rounds on her]

Sisko

Dax, maybe you haven't noticed, but no one's laughing! Now I know it's hot, we're filthy, tired, and we've got ten isotons of explosives going off outside, but we will never get out of this if we don't pull it together and start to act like professionals.