Deep Space Nine quotes

Kira Nerys

I'm Kira Nerys.

That makes two of us.

Sisko

We've got ships from here to New Bajor looking for the two of you. Where have you been?

Kira

Through the looking glass, Commander.

Quark

285: “No good deed ever goes unpunished.”

Didn't you bring the holocam?

Miles O'Brien

Was I supposed to?

You said you were going to.

Miles O'Brien

Did I?

Last night, when we were going over the list in bed.

Miles O'Brien

Not me. I was dead as soon as my head hit the pillow.

You talked to me for a half hour.

Miles O'Brien

No, there must have been someone else in bed with us.

Miles O'Brien

I've been told that I've already been charged, indicted, convicted, and sentenced. What would I need with a lawyer?

Kovat

Ah, Mister O'Brien, if it seems immodest of me, I apologize, but the role of Public Conservator is key to the productive functioning of our courts. I'm here to help you concede the wisdom of the state, to prepare you to accept the inevitable with equanimity. There is an old Cardassian expression: “Confession is good for the soul.” But it's also good for the populace to see people like you confess. It makes them feel better about themselves. It makes their lives more bearable.

Miles O'Brien

So that's what this is all about? Make the people of Cardassia feel better, huh?

Kovat

No, no, no, but that's not a bad side effect.

Miles O'Brien

Have you ever won a case?

Kovat

Winning isn't everything.

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.

Quark

102: “Nature decays, but latinum lasts forever.”

Quark

I think I figured out why humans don't like Ferengi.

Benjamin Sisko

Not now, Quark.

Quark

The way I see it, humans used to be a lot like Ferengi: greedy, acquisitive, interested only in profit. We're a constant reminder of a part of your past you'd like to forget.

Benjamin Sisko

Quark, we don't have time for this.

Quark

But you're overlooking something. Humans used to be a lot worse than Ferengi: slavery, concentration camps, interstellar wars. We have nothing in our past that approaches that kind of barbarism. You see? We're nothing like you; we're better.

A Ferengi and a human. I was hoping the first race I'd meet from the other side of the anomaly would be the Klingons.

Benjamin Sisko

I'm sorry to disappoint you.

It's too late for apologies. The Dominion will no longer stand by and allow ships from your side to violate our territory.

I'm not here to make friends!

Welcome home, Odo.

Julian Bashir

Well, I guess this means the end of our Starfleet careers.

Well, I wouldn't worry about that, Doctor.

Jadzia Dax

That's easy for you to say.

Oh, you misunderstand me, Lieutenant. All I meant was, it's a little foolish to worry about your careers at a time like this, when there's a good chance we're all about to be killed.

Didn't anyone tell you? You see, I pretend to be their friend...then I shoot you.