Julian Bashir quotes from Deep Space Nine

Julian Bashir

Admiral, where's Sloan?

Admiral Ross

Sloan's dead.

Julian Bashir

Admiral... where's Sloan?

Julian Bashir

How long have you worked for Section 31?

Admiral Ross

I don't.

Julian Bashir

[scoffs] Just a "temporary alliance"?

Admiral Ross

Something like that.

Julian Bashir

And you don't see anything wrong with what happened?

Admiral Ross

I don't like it, but I've spent the last year and a half of my life ordering young men and young woman to die. I like that even less.

Julian Bashir

That's a glib answer and you know it. And it's a cheap way of avoiding the fact you've trampled over the very thing those young men and women are out there dying to protect! Doesn't that mean anything to you?

Admiral Ross

Inter arma enim silent leges.

Julian Bashir

"In times of war, the law falls silent." Cicero. Is that what we've become? A 24th Century Rome driven on nothing more than the certainty that Caesar can do no wrong?

Julian Bashir

Remember these? Romulan mind probes. Not the most pleasant of devices, but they're very efficient.

They're also illegal in the Federation.

Julian Bashir

Oh, I hope you can appreciate the irony of that statement.

Julian Bashir

[preparing to inject Odo with the cure] I should warn you -- you may feel some discomfort.

Odo

If you mean "It's going to be painful", just say so.

Julian Bashir

It's going to be painful.

Odo

All right, then. Go ahead.

Miles O'Brien

A-ha. [picks up a bottle] I knew Quark was hiding a bottle of the good stuff.

Julian Bashir

[inspecting the label] This is older than I am.

Miles O'Brien

What?! [looks at the label himself] I'm drinking with a child.

Bashir

Eight-hundred-million dead.

The casualty report's still coming in. (Turns to Bashir) Well, aren't you going to congratulate me, Doctor? My exile is now officially over; I've returned home. (pause) Or rather to what's left of it.

Bashir

(stammering, looking for the right thing to say) Listen, I— I— I know that this must seem...

You know, some may say that we've gotten just what we deserved. After all, we are 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, no, there's no doubt about it—we're guilty as charged.

Bashir

You and I both know the Cardassians are a strong people, they'll survive. Cardassia will survive—

Oh, please, Doctor, spare me your insufferable Federation optimism! Of course, it'll 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....

Bashir

(places a hand on Garak's shoulder) I'm sorry, Garak. I didn't mean—

Oh, it's... it's quite alright, Doctor. You've been such a good friend, I'm going to miss our lunches together.

Bashir

Oh, I'm sure we'll see each other again.

I'd like to think so, but one can never say. We live in uncertain times.(leaves)

Ezri Dax

Thermopylae?

Julian Bashir

Its a story of how 300 Spartans, lead by King Leonidas, hold off a mountain pass from a vast army of Persians.

Ezri Dax

So how does it go?

Julian Bashir

Well, for three days the Spartans lead a heroic struggle—

Ezri Dax

Let me guess—until they are wiped out.

Julian Bashir

How did you know?

Ezri Dax

Lucky guess. Have you ever seen anyone about these annihilation fantasies you have?