Deep Space Nine · Season 5, Episode 2
“The Ship” · Season 5, Episode 2
In this episode: Benjamin Sisko (4), Jadzia Dax (4), Quark (1), Julian Bashir (1), Odo (1)
[Odo frogmarches Quark and Dr. Bashir up to Ops]
[to Odo] All I'm saying is if you're going to prosecute me, I demand you prosecute my co-conspirator!
I'm not a conspirator!
And just what would you call yourself, Doctor?
An idiot...
[under his breath] I'll buy that.
[scowls at Quark] For asking for your help in the first place!
I can't feel my legs.
Don't worry. They're still there.
[Sisko stops O'Brien and Worf from fighting due to cabin fever and pulls them apart]
I said, that's enough! You're Starfleet officers. Now start acting like it!
Tough guys. A little pressure and they buckle. [Sisko rounds on her]
Dax, maybe you haven't noticed, but no one's laughing! Now I know it's hot, we're filthy, tired, and we've got ten isotons of explosives going off outside, but we will never get out of this if we don't pull it together and start to act like professionals.
Do you have any gods, Captain Sisko?
There are... things I believe in.
Duty? Starfleet, the Federation? You must be pleased with yourself. You have the ship to take back to them. I hope it was worth it.
[sadly] So do I.
[after the mission on DS9]
Starfleet Command is waiting for my official report, but every time I try to get it started, I find myself staring at the casualty list and reading the same five names over and over again. T'Lor, Rooney, Bertram, Hoya, Muniz.
It may sound cruel, but we both know that ship out there was worth it. Those five deaths may save five thousand lives, or maybe even five million.
And if I had to make the same trade all over again, I would. But five people are dead. Fine men and women who deserved a lot more than to die on some lonely planet fifty thousand light years away from home.
[quoting one of his instructors at Starfleet Academy] "Always maintain emotional distance between yourself and those under your command."
It's good advice.
And I try to follow it. But it's a lot more complicated outside of the classroom. Did you know that Jake and Muniz have the same birthday? That I performed the ceremony at Hoya's wedding? And Rooney, he could play the trumpet. I heard him at Quark's once and he had the people dancing in the aisles.
I remember. And you know something else I remember about him? How proud he was to wear his uniform. And how proud he was to serve under you. The same as Hoya, T'Lor, Bertram and Muniz. They chose a life in Starfleet. They knew the risks and they died fighting for something that they believed in.
That doesn't make it any easier.
Maybe nothing should.
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