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S3 E7Civil Defense

I should have listened to my father. He always warned me this would happen.

[scoffs] What, that you'd spend your final hours in jail? I could have told you that.

No, he warned me never to leave home. There were plenty of business opportunities right outside my door, but no! I had to listen to the Seventy-Fifth Rule of Acquisition: “Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum.” A lifetime of plotting and scheming, wheeling and dealing, and what has it got me? One measly little bar. My uncle Frin owns thirty, and my cousin Gaila-

I know. [sarcastically] "He owns a moon!"

I told you that?

Many times.

It's a small moon, but big enough to live on.

Come on, Quark. You've done alright for yourself.

"What do you know about it?

Quark, I've met a lot of Ferengis in my time, and the truth is, while some of them have been more wealthy, I've never met one more devious."

Really?

Would I lie?

I guess not. Thank you, Odo. That means a lot to me. Now, can I have the phaser back?

No.

"Why go to so much trouble to keep people out of the security office?"

"It's not to keep people out, it's to keep me in. I suppose, during the Occupation, the Cardassians considered their security chief a security risk."

"And I know why."

"Oh, do you?"

"It's because they knew you were an honorable man. The kind of person who would do the right thing regardless of the circumstances. And now your integrity… is going to get us both killed. I hope you're happy."

[Dukat has accidentally activated an old recording left by his former commanding officer]

LKLegate Kell

Dukat! If you are seeing this recording, it means you tried to abandon your post while the station's self-destruct sequence was engaged. That will not be permitted.

(flustered) This is outrageous!

LKLegate Kell

You have lost control of Terok Nor, disgracing yourself and Cardassia. Your attempt to escape is no doubt a final act of cowardice. All fail-safes have been eliminated. Your personal access codes have been rescinded. The destruct sequence can no longer be halted. All you can do now is contemplate the depth of your disgrace... and try to die like a Cardassian.

S3 E8Meridian

Major Kira Nerys

[threatening Quark] Let me put it another way. If I ever catch you pointing a holo-imager at me again, you will end up eating it.

S3 E9Defiant

...but someone has to pay for what's happened here, and I don't want that someone to be me.

TRThomas Riker

[saying the same thing William T. Riker will say about the Defiant in Star Trek: First Contact] Tough little ship.

Today is his eleventh birthday. I'd promised to take him to the amusement center in Lakarian City. He always wanted to go but I never have the time. I told him, this year will be different this year, Mekor. This year I will make the time.

I've had the same experience with Jake. At that age they never understand, do they? You just hope that one day they'll look back and say, “Now I understand, now I know why he did that.”

When my son looks back on this day, the only thing he'll remember is that a Federation officer on a Federation ship invaded his home and kept his father away from him on his eleventh birthday. And he won't look back with understanding, he'll look back with hatred. And that's sad.

S3 E10Fascination

[after punching out Bareil] Sorry, Benjamin. He was just beginning to annoy me.

Dad, you promised Nerys would be here!

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

Zanthi Fever?!? Oh, that— that's ridicu- that's impossible. That only affects older Betazoids.

Well, that may be, but according to my tests, you show all the symptoms. Zanthi Fever is a virus which affects the empathic abilities of um... mature Betazoids. It causes them to project their emotions onto others.

Then Mrs. Troi's amorous feelings for— [knowing smile] someone on the station were being passed along to the people around her.

Not everyone, only those within close proximity to her when she had an attack; and even then, there would have had to have been some pre-existing latent attraction.

[concerned] You're saying Dax—

Only on a subconscious level. Best not think about it too much, if you ask me.

I'm terribly sorry, Commander. I hope I haven't caused too much trouble.

I'm sure no permanent harm was done. Right, Doctor?

A simple wide-spectrum anti-viral agent should cure Mrs. Troi, and as for everyone else, well, they'll be back to normal in a day or two. Excuse me. [to Sisko] I promised Nerys that I'd meet her in her quarters this evening.

[stopping him] I think you ought to postpone that visit... for a day or two.

[disappointed sigh]

[Infatuated with Keiko]

My ears tingle at the sight of you.

Nervous, Chief?

What are you talking about?

That's your fifth cup of coffee in twenty minutes.

I didn't realize you were keeping track.

Oh, nervous and irascible.

If you hadn't seen your wife and child for two months, you'd be irascible too.

Well, believe me, I'm looking forward to Keiko and Molly's visit as much as you are.

Ha, I doubt that.

How many games of raquetball have we played in the last two months?

I don't know. Fifteen, maybe twenty.

Try seventy. I've been keeping track of that, too, and do you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for your wife.

I could have told you that sixty games ago.

Now, Jake, what can I do for you?

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

Ah, and she doesn't.

I don't know what she thinks.

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

Marda and I broke up.

You broke up? Well then, who?

You.

...Me?

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

You humans, you never learn. You let your women go out in public, hold jobs, wear clothing, and you wonder why your marriages fall apart.

S3 E11Past Tense, Part I

Causing people to suffer because you hate them is terrible, but causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care— That’s really hard to understand.

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