Odo quotes from Deep Space Nine

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

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

That's a very personal question.

I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore.

Kira Nerys

When did you realise?

Odo

The possibility occurred to me when you got the name Ches'sarro so quickly. Your friends from the underground must have already suspected him of being a collaborator. Once I knew the eight names were a list of collaborators, the murder of Vaatrik made sense for the first time. He must have been a collaborator too. He had the money for ginger tea. He had the private quarters. I never had a motive for his murder until now. He kept his wife in relative luxury. She surely wouldn't have killed him. So who would kill a Cardassian collaborator? Someone in the Bajoran underground, of course.

Kira Nerys

A colleague of mine was given the job of sabotaging the ore processor. Vaatrik was my responsibility.

Odo

You were here to execute him.

Kira Nerys

No. I was here to find the list. The names of the Bajorans who were selling us out. We'd been informed that Vaatrik was their direct link to Dukat.

Odo

That must have been why Dukat chose me to investigate. He had to stay as far away from this incident as he could so as not to endanger his network of Bajoran sympathizers.

Kira Nerys

Obviously, I never found the list. But that's what I was looking for in his shop when Vaatrik walked in on me. I didn't have a choice.

Odo

I misjudged you, Major. You were a better liar than I gave you credit for.

Odo

How did you get in here?

I am Koloth.

Odo

That doesn't answer my question.

Yes, it does.

Miles O'Brien

You don't know me very well, Constable, but I've been in service to the Federation—Starfleet—all my adult life. No one has ever questioned my loyalty. No one in my entire life has ever had cause to ask, “Miles O'Brien, are you a criminal?” I took an oath to defend the Federation and what it stands for. I don't steal from them. I don't lie to them. I'm no angel, but I try to live every day as the best human being I know how to be. I need my little girl to wake up in the morning and look up at me and see a man she can respect. Until now, she always could.

Odo

Being accused of a crime is not a disgrace, Chief. Some of the great figures of history have shared the honor with you.

Miles O'Brien

I didn't figure on dying a martyr.

Odo

Not all of them were martyrs; not all of them died. Some of them were just innocent men, like you.

Kovat

What? What happened?

Odo

You won.

Kovat

I won?... They'll kill me.

Major Kira Nerys

You belong to the Dominion, don't you?

Belong to it? Major, the Changelings are the Dominion.

Odo

[aghast] You're the Founders!

You can't be serious! Commander, if I were allowed on Cardassia, do you really think I'd be living here?

Sisko

Which brings up an interesting point. There're certain ministers in the Bajoran government who are concerned about your presence on the station; in fact, they want you removed. Right now, I see no alternative but to honor their request, unless of course... I can show them how you might be valuable to us.

Odo

Rescuing Kira would go a long way toward improving your standing with the Bajoran government.

Why should I care what the Bajoran government thinks of me?

Sisko

I don't know. But it seems to me, if someone were in trouble with the Cardassian Central Command, a Bajoran space station under Federation control might just be the safest place in the galaxy.

Commander, this is extortion.

Sisko

Hmm...yes, it is.

Chief O'Brien

[discussing the Jem'Hadar youth] I still don't understand why they would engineer someone to be addicted to a certain chemical.

Odo

I suspect it's another way of ensuring the loyalty of the Jem'Hadar to the Founders. If your soldiers are addicted to a drug that can't be replicated and only you can provide, that gives you a great deal of control over them.

Chief O'Brien

Seems a pretty cold-blooded thing to do.

Odo

My people don't have blood, chief.

Major Kira Nerys

[referring to the Jem'Hadar youth] How long do you think you're going to be able to control him?

Odo

I'm not trying to control anybody. I'm just trying to give him some choices other than becoming a laboratory specimen or a Jem'Hadar soldier.

Major Kira Nerys

I never thought I would say this to you, Odo, but you are listening to your heart, not your head. That boy was created in a laboratory! His body, his mind, his instincts, are all designed to do one thing; to kill.

Odo

My body, mind, and instincts were designed to be a Founder. You were trained to be a terrorist. But each of us chose to be something different. I just want to give him the same chance we've had!

Major Kira Nerys

All right. Give him a chance. Just don't forget: he is a Jem'Hadar. He's dangerous.

Odo

I'm well aware of the risk, Major.

Major Kira Nerys

I hope so."

Quark

I should have listened to my father. He always warned me this would happen.

Odo

[scoffs] What, that you'd spend your final hours in jail? I could have told you that.

Quark

No, he warned me never to leave home. There were plenty of business opportunities right outside my door, but no! I had to listen to the Seventy-Fifth Rule of Acquisition: “Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum.” A lifetime of plotting and scheming, wheeling and dealing, and what has it got me? One measly little bar. My uncle Frin owns thirty, and my cousin Gaila-

Odo

I know. [sarcastically] "He owns a moon!"

Quark

I told you that?

Odo

Many times.

Quark

It's a small moon, but big enough to live on.

Odo

Come on, Quark. You've done alright for yourself.

Quark

"What do you know about it?

Odo

Quark, I've met a lot of Ferengis in my time, and the truth is, while some of them have been more wealthy, I've never met one more devious."

Quark

Really?

Odo

Would I lie?

Quark

I guess not. Thank you, Odo. That means a lot to me. Now, can I have the phaser back?

Odo

No.

Quark

"Why go to so much trouble to keep people out of the security office?"

Odo

"It's not to keep people out, it's to keep me in. I suppose, during the Occupation, the Cardassians considered their security chief a security risk."

Quark

"And I know why."

Odo

"Oh, do you?"

Quark

"It's because they knew you were an honorable man. The kind of person who would do the right thing regardless of the circumstances. And now your integrity… is going to get us both killed. I hope you're happy."

Kira

You're right. The next time we are asked out to dinner, I'll make sure you're the one who says, "No".

Odo

I'd appreciate that.

The Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order are both ruthless, efficient organizations—a definite threat to us.

Odo

But not after today?

No, after today the only threat remaining to us from the Alpha Quadrant are the Klingons and the Federation. And I doubt either of them will be a threat for much longer.

Odo

The Changeling, before he died, he whispered something to me.

Benjamin Sisko

Go on.

Odo

He said, "You're too late. We're everywhere."