Kira Nerys quotes from Deep Space Nine

Gul Dukat

The man's a cold blooded heartless killer

Major Kira

Like I said, he's a Cardassian

Jadzia Dax

[as the crew of DS9 confront a Dominion armada] Dukat's ship is breaking formation; he's going after the fleet.

Kira Nerys

Open a channel. [Dukat appears on the viewscreen] Dukat, stop trying to be a hero and get back to the station.

Gul Dukat

Your concern is touching, Major, but I think you misunderstand me. I'm not attacking the Dominion fleet. I'm joining it.

Kira Nerys

What are you talking about?

Gul Dukat

[grinning] I'm afraid I have a confession to make. For the past few months, I've been conducting secret negotiations between Cardassia and the Dominion. And as of last week, Cardassia has agreed to become part of the Dominion.

Kira Nerys

[appalled] You can't be serious.

Gul Dukat

Goodbye, Major. You and me on the same side? It never seemed quite... right, did it? [He severs communication. A furious Kira turns to Dax]

Kira Nerys

Lock phasers, open fire.

Jadzia Dax

[shaking her head] Too late. He's gone

Quark

None of these charges are gonna stick! I haven't broken any laws! [beat] I have a license to run holosuites.

Odo

But you don't have a license to sell weapons, do you?

Quark

[pause] I defy you to prove that I've brought a single weapon onto this station.

Odo

It's a mere technicality; we both know what you're doing. And I promise you, you're going to face the consequences.

Sisko

Not today, he isn't! [pause] Let him go.

Odo

[incredulous] Let him go?!

Sisko

Major, tell the constable what you told me.

Kira

The Bajoran government insists that Deep Space 9 not interfere with the lawful transactions of Hagath and his associates. Hagath supplied arms to the resistance—without him or people like him, we would all be dead, and the Cardassians would still be in power. [beat] We owe him.

Odo

[exasperated] Captain!

Sisko

I don't like it any more than you do.

Quark

[smug] Better luck next time. [a furious Sisko spins Quark's chair around to face him]

Sisko

[angrily] You'd better hope there isn't a "next time," mister! I have cut you a lot of slack in the past—I even looked the other way once or twice when I could have come down hard on you—but those days are over! Now, we may not be able to get you for selling weapons, but you so much as litter on the Promenade, and I will nail you to the wall!!

Gul Dukat

Major. Sorry to disturb you.

Kira Nerys

Sorry enough to leave?

Kira

He fought for every last second. I don't even think he knew I was there.

Bashir

He knew. You gave him what he needed. He didn't die alone.

Kira

Maybe he gave me something I needed too. I missed my father's death by less than an hour. Did you know that? Less than an hour. I always told myself that it was bad luck, bad timing, the will of the Prophets. But the truth is, I didn't have to go when I did. I could have stayed a while longer. I saw my chance to get out and I took it. I saw so much death during the occupation, I felt so much pain. But my father, he was my strength, and I couldn't stand to see that strength slipping away. So I ran.

Bashir

Just like you tried to run from Ghemor.

Kira

He reminded me so much of my father. Going through it again, I just couldn't face it.

Bashir

But in the end, you did. You were there for Ghemor.

Kira

I owed it to him. I owed it to my father to get it right this time.

Quark

Did you catch him?

Odo

We caught him. Or rather, Major Kira caught him.

Kira

I didn't really do anything. I was in the Bajoran shrine, meditating, and he burst in, stark naked, fell to his knees, crying out to the Prophets for protection!

Bashir

Morn, of all people. Who would've thought he'd just snap like that?

Odo

Certainly not me. Which leads me to wonder, what could have pushed him over the edge? [looks pointedly at Quark]

Quark

Why are you looking at me? I'm the victim here! [Odo scoffs] He hit me with a bar stool!

Kira

Why did he hit you?

Quark

I don't have the faintest idea.

Kira

Think harder.

Odo

Witnesses say you were talking to him right up until the moment he went berserk.

Quark

Of course I was talking to him. That's what bartenders are supposed to do—talk to their customers.

Kira

What exactly was it that you were talking to him about?

Quark

All I said was that the military personnel on this station were starting to look a little nervous. When they get nervous, I get nervous.

Odo

And that's all you said?

Quark

Basically. [beat] I might've done some harmless theorizing.

Bashir

About what?

Quark

Oh, something like it was only a matter of time until the Dominion launched a full-scale assault on the Federation, and when that happened, this station would undoubtedly be their first target. [long pause] And I might've idly suggested that there wasn't a chance in hell of any of us getting out of here alive.

Odo

And that's when Morn hit you with a bar stool and ran onto the Promenade screaming, "We're all doomed"?

Quark

...Some people just don't react well to stress.

Kira Nerys

Are you so deluded, you actually believe that we're going to have some sort of intimate relationship?

Gul Dukat

We already do.

Odo

[calling out] Kira!

Kira Nerys

I have nothing to say to you!

Odo

Major, I know you're angry...

Kira Nerys

Oh, you bet I'm angry. Do you have any idea what's going on?

Odo

Yes... well, sort of. I've been... occupied.

Kira Nerys

Dukat is bringing down the mine field, the Federation fleet is about to be overrun by Dominion reinforcements, and Weyoun has ordered Rom's execution and you have been occupied?

Odo

I just wanted to say I'm sorry.

Kira Nerys

Sorry? That's all you have to say? Well, let me tell you something. We are way, way past sorry.

Kira Nerys

She loved you.

I could never figure out why. I guess I never will.

Quark

I've been a bartender a long time. I've seen all sorts of customers—sad ones, happy ones, complicated ones.

Kira

Uh-huh. And Bareil, where does he fit in?

Quark

He's one of the tormented ones.

Kira

I've always hated collaborators. I mean, what could be worse than betraying your own people? During the occupation, if I ever had doubt about what their fate should be, all I would think of my mother, how she gave her life for Bajor. She was a hero, they were traitors. It was that simple. Or so I thought.

Sisko

She did what she had to do to save her family. To save you.

Kira

It doesn't make it right.

Sisko

Maybe not, but it was her decision to make.

Kira

I did some checking. She died in a Cardassian hospital seven years after she met Dukat. Seven years. Do you know how many Bajorans died in labour camps during that time? Died, while my mother sat sipping kanar with Dukat.

Sisko

Tell me something, Nerys. If you hate her that much, why did you save her life?

Kira

Believe me, there's a part of me that wishes that I hadn't. But the fact is, no matter what she did, she was still my mother.

Kira Nerys

I thought we could have dinner.

Odo

And then what?

Kira Nerys

I don't know; maybe we could go dancing!

Odo

And then I suppose you'll want me to kiss you!

Kira Nerys

It's possible!

Odo

Well, then, who needs dinner? Why don't I just kiss you now and get it over with?!

Kira Nerys

Well, why don't you?!

Kira Nerys

You're right—who needs dinner?

Major Kira Nerys

[discussing Kai Winn] In a way, I feel sorry for her. She spends her whole life in service to the Prophets, and then one day, after years of self-sacrifice and commitment, she gets her reward – she's elected Kai. It should've been the greatest moment of her life.

Benjamin Sisko

But my being the Emissary spoiled it for her.

Major Kira Nerys

The Kai has always been the spiritual leader of Bajor, but Winn has to share that role with you. And to make matters worse, you're an outsider, a non-Bajoran – that's something she can never forgive you for.

Odo

You know, Nerys, observing humanoid relationships and being in one... are very different things.

Kira Nerys

Like night and day.

Odo

Nerys. I realize that things may seem bleak at the moment. But there's always hope.

Kira Nerys

When did you turn into an optimist?

Odo

Must have been that day in front of Quark's when we kissed for the first time.

Kira

That was some kiss, wasn't it?

Odo

Changed my life.