Gul Dukat quotes from Deep Space Nine

Gul Dukat

A true victory is to make your enemy see they were wrong to oppose you in the first place, to force them to acknowledge your greatness!

Weyoun

Then you kill them?

Gul Dukat

Only if it's necessary.

Benjamin Sisko

Now, let me get this straight: you're not responsible for what happened during the occupation, the Bajorans are, hmm?

Gul Dukat

Yes! Yes, exactly!

Sisko

So, why do you think they didn't appreciate this rare opportunity you were offering them, hmm?

Dukat

Because they were blind, ignorant fools. If only they had cooperated with us, we could have turned their world into a paradise! From the moment we arrived on Bajor, it was clear that we were the superior race. But they couldn't accept that. They wanted to be treated as equals when they most certainly were not. Militarily, technologically, culturally, we were almost a century ahead of them in every way! We did not choose to be the superior race! Fate handed us our role! And it would've been so much easier on everyone if the Bajorans had simply accepted their role. But no. Day after day, they clustered in their temples and prayed for deliverance, and night after night, they planted bombs outside of our homes! Pride. Stubborn, unyielding pride. From the servant girl that cleaned my quarters, to the condemned man toiling in a labour camp, to the terrorist skulking through the hills of Dahkur Province. They all wore their pride like some twisted badge of honour.

Sisko

And you hated them for it.

Dukat

Of course I hated them! I hated everything about them! Their superstitions, and their cries for sympathy, their treachery and their lies! Their smug superiority and their stiff necked obstinacy! Their earrings and their broken wrinkled noses!

Sisko

You should've killed them all, hmm?

Dukat

Yes! Yes! That's right, isn't it? I knew it! I've always known it! I should have killed every last one of them! I should have turned their planet into a graveyard the likes of which the galaxy had never seen! I should have killed them all...

Sisko

And that is why you're not an evil man.

Dukat

What happened to the brave officer I served with? The one who stood at my side as we fought the entire Klingon Empire with a single ship?

Damar

Those were simpler times.

Dukat

Those days might be gone, but the man I served with isn't. He's still within you. Reach in and grab hold of him, Damar. Cardassia needs a leader.

Damar

You were its leader once. You could be again.

Dukat

The Pah-wraiths have shown me that I have another destiny. (offering his hand) Good luck, old friend.

Damar

And to you.

Eminence, that man is not Anjohl Tennan!

What are you talking about?

Anjohl Tennan died nine years ago in the labor camp at Batahl. I warned you not to trust him! I had a sample of his DNA sequenced. He's not even a Bajoran. He's a Cardassian!

Dukat

[disguised as Anjohl Tennan] We were brought together for a cause, a great cause! Our destinies are linked!

Don't listen to him! Look at him! Don't you recognize the face of your enemy? It's Gul Dukat!

Dukat

He doesn't understand, Adami! He couldn't possibly understand the love of the Pagh-wraiths!

The love of the Pagh-wraiths?! You're trying to release them! That's why you wanted the text of the Kosst Amojan!

Dukat

[cackling, to Winn] Did you really think the Pah-Wraiths would choose you as their Emissary? Soon, the Pagh-Wraiths will burn across Bajor, the Celestial Temple, the Alpha Quadrant. Can you picture it? An entire universe set in flames! To burn for all eternity! [Sisko enters and Dukat grins gleefully] The Prophets have sent me a gift. Their beloved Emissary, sent forth like an avenging angel to slay the demon.

Sisko

I should have known the demon would be you.

Dukat

[spreads his arms] Go ahead. Kill me...if you can. [Sisko aims a phaser rifle at him, but Dukat telekinetically rips it from his grasp, laughing madly] You'll have to do better than that, Captain!

Benjamin Sisko

You are pathetic!

Dukat

Then why are you the one on your knees?

Benjamin Sisko

First the Dominion, now the Pah-Wraiths. You have a talent for picking the losing side!

Dukat

Benjamin, please. We've known each other too long, and since this is the last time we will ever be together, let's try to speak honestly. We've both had our victories and our defeats. Now, it's time to resolve our differences and face the ultimate truth. I've won, Benjamin. You've lost.

Benjamin Sisko

The Pah-Wraiths will never conquer anything! Not Bajor, not the Celestial Temple, and certainly not the Alpha Quadrant!

Dukat

And who's going to stop us?

Benjamin Sisko

I am!

Dukat

[cackles] You can't even stand up!

Then I'll stop you! [She tries to throw the Book of the Kosst Amojan into the Fire Caves, only for Dukat to telekinetically snatch it from her]

Dukat

[angered] Are you still here?

[to Sisko] EMISSARY! THE BOOK! [Dukat directs flames from the Fire Caves at Winn, which encircle and then incinerate her]

Dukat

[venomously] Farewell, Adami. [seizing upon Dukat's distraction, Sisko gets to his feet and charges Dukat, sending them over the edge of the Fire Caves. A screaming Dukat and the Book of the Kosst Amojan are incinerated, but in a burst of white light, Sisko is transported to the Celestial Temple, where his mother greets him]

The Emissary has finished his task.

Benjamin Sisko

The Book was the Key, wasn't it?

To a door that can never be opened again.

Benjamin Sisko

And Dukat? Is he dead?

He is trapped there with them.