I'm not sleeping. I was checking my eyelids for holes.
“Homefront” · Season 4, Episode 11
In this episode: Miles O'Brien (2), Joseph Sisko (2), Benjamin Sisko (1), Quark (1), Kira Nerys (1), Odo (1), Worf (1)
I hope you don't take this the wrong way, Constable... but there are times when I wish you'd never found your people.
Believe me, Captain, sometimes I feel the same way.
[In Ops, the DS9 crew discuss the strange activity of the wormhole]
When was the last time the wormhole opened?
Twelve hours ago.
Perhaps it has returned to normal?
I suppose so.
You sound disappointed, Major.
I guess I am. Part of me was hoping that the Prophets were behind it, that they were finally going to show themselves to the Bajoran people.
I prefer Klingon beliefs.
I suppose your gods aren't as cryptic as ours.
Our gods are dead. Ancient Klingon warriors slew them millennia ago. They were more trouble than they were worth. [Kira and O'Brien exchange looks]
I don't think I'll ever understand Klingons.
Don't worry about it, Major. Nobody does. That's the way they like it.
You probably wouldn't understand this, Quark, but when you care about a place and it's in trouble and you want to do something about it, and you can't, it's very frustrating.
I know exactly what you mean! When the Great Monetary Collapse hit Ferenginar, I was hundreds of light-years away serving as a ship's cook on a long-haul freighter. I can't tell you the heartbreak I suffered, knowing that rampant inflation and currency devaluation were burning like wildfires through the lush financial foliage of my home. It still depresses me, even today. I remembered thinking my accounts needed me and there was nothing I could do! I felt so... so helpless. So you see, I do understand.
Somehow, you telling me that doesn't make me feel the least bit better.
I've got a dermal regenerator under the...(Joseph notices Sisko staring at the blood, and realises what he's wondering about) Benjamin Lafayette Sisko! What the hell has gotten into your head? You actually thought I was one of them, didn't you?
Sisko (desperate, upset): I don't know. I wasn't sure.
This business has got you so twisted around you can't think straight. You're seeing shape-shifters everywhere. Maybe you ought to think about something for a minute. If I was a smart shape-shifter, a really good one, the first thing I would do would be to grab some poor soul off the street, absorb every ounce of his blood, and let it out on cue whenever someone like you tried to test me. Don't you see? There isn't a test that's been created a smart man can't find his way around. You aren't going to catch shape-shifters using some gadget.
FPFederation President Jaresh-Inyo
Earth is in your hands, gentlemen. Do what needs to be done.
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