Jake Sisko quotes from Deep Space Nine

Benjamin Sisko

It won’t be so bad. I’ve heard that Bajor is a beautiful world.

Jake Sisko

So why can’t we live on the planet instead of some old space station?

Jake Sisko

Dad, I'm fourteen.

Benjamin Sisko

I'm glad we agree on something. Go to bed.

Jake Sisko

Dad, you promised Nerys would be here!

Benjamin Sisko

She will be. And stop calling her “Nerys”.

Kira Nerys

Now, Jake, what can I do for you?

Jake Sisko

I need some advice. See, there's this older woman and I think we're perfect for each other.

Kira Nerys

Ah, and she doesn't.

Jake Sisko

I don't know what she thinks.

Kira Nerys

Well, Jake, my advice to you is to tell Marda how you feel. That way you'll know...

Jake Sisko

Marda and I broke up.

Kira Nerys

You broke up? Well then, who?

Jake Sisko

You.

Kira Nerys

...Me?

Jake Sisko

I love you, Nerys. Wanna go out with me?

Jake Sisko

This is the last chance I'm ever going to have to help you. [Jake fades in and out] [Pained] No!

Benjamin Sisko

Jake, it's over. It's not going to work.

Jake

It has to.

Benjamin

Let go, Jake! If not for yourself, then for me. You still have time to make a better life for yourself. Promise me you'll do that. [Pleading] Promise me!

Jake

Read the dedication.

Benjamin

"To my father, who's coming home". Thank you, but I— I don't understand.

Jake

It was me. It was me all along. I've been dragging you through time like an anchor, and now it's time to cut you loose.

Benjamin

Jake, what are you saying?

Jake

It won't be long now.

Benjamin

Jake, you didn't have to do this. Not for me.

Jake

For you, and for the boy that I was. He needs you, more than you know. Don't you see? We're going to get a second... chance.

Nog

I'll do the cleaning on the odd-numbered days; you do the cleaning on the even days.

Jake Sisko

We're going to clean every day?

Nog

No, just the odd and even ones.

Nog

Healthy body, healthy mind.

Jake Sisko

Please, Nog. No cliches before breakfast.

Jake Sisko

We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.

Nog

What does that mean exactly?

Jake Sisko

We're going to beard the lion in its den.

Nog

[Confused] Lions, Geigers, bears...

Jake Sisko

Oh, my.

Jake Sisko

I don't even know who you are anymore.

Nog

I'm the chief engineer of the starship Valiant.

Jake Sisko

I'll have them put that on your tombstone.

Nog

You gonna write a story about all this?

Jake Sisko

Probably.

Nog

What are you going to say?

Jake Sisko

What do you think I should say?

Nog

That it was a good ship, with a good crew, that made a mistake. We let ourselves blindly follow Captain Watters, and he led us over a cliff.

That's not true. Captain Watters was a great man.

Nog

Dorian, he got everyone killed.

If he failed, it was because we failed him.

Nog

[to Jake] Put that in your story too. Let people read it, decide for themselves.

Nog

He may have been a hero. He may have even been a great man. But in the end, he was a bad captain.

Jake Sisko

Quark, listen. I'm working on a crime novel, but I've hit a wall in my writing. It's not truthful anymore—phony, artificial. I'm having trouble creating real, flesh-and-blood characters, especially nefarious ones. If you could just let me just watch and listen as you pull off whatever it is you're going to pull off, it could really help me out. You could give me insight. I could even model my lead character after you.

Quark

Lesson number one: no one involved in an extralegal activity thinks of themselves as nefarious.

Jake Sisko

Sorry.

Quark

I'm a businessman, okay? Now, if you're interested in learning more about my business, I think that could be arranged.

Jake Sisko

She is so cute.

Benjamin Sisko

She is also about three hundred years too old for you.