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[After the Defiant has rescued Sisko]
Sometimes life seems so complicated; nothing is truly good or truly evil. Everything seems to be a shade of grey. And then you spend some time with a man like Dukat, and you realize that there is such a thing as truly evil.
To realize that is one thing. To do something about it is another. So what are you going to do?
I'll tell you what I'm not going to do. I'm not going to let him destroy Bajor. I fear no evil. From now on, it's him or me.
[Quark's obtained a cache of what he thinks are bricks of gold-pressed latinum]
It's mine, all mine! [he holds up two bricks to Odo] What you are about to hear is the most beautiful sound in the galaxy! [He knocks the two bricks together, but instead of making a clinking sound, they crumble. To Quark's horror, when he checks other bricks, the same thing happens] No, that, that can't be! There's no latinum in these bricks!
What?
Someone's extracted all the latinum! There's nothing here but worthless gold!
[unable to hide his amusement] And it's all yours. [he chuckles and walks away, while Quark frantically checks the bricks for any sign of latinum]
No! Noooo! NOOOOO!
Would someone please shoot me and put me out of my misery?
Oh, how I long for a gun.
[Benny is told to stay home during a photo shoot because he is African-American]
It's just a photo.
I'll try to remember that.
You're firing me?
I have no choice, Benny. It's his decision.
Well, you can't fire me. I quit. To hell with you and to hell with Stone!
Try to stay calm, Benny.
No! I'm tired of being calm. Calm never got me a damn thing!
I'm warning you, Benny, if-- if you don't stop this, I'm going to call the police.
You GO AHEAD, CALL THEM! Call anybody you want, they can't do anything to me! Not anymore, and nor can any of you! I am a human being, dammit! You can deny me all you want, but you cannot deny Ben Sisko. He exists. That future, that space station, all those people, they exist in here! In my mind, I created it! And every one of you know it, you read it! It's here, you-- you-- you hear what I'm telling you?! You can pulp a story, but you cannot destroy an idea. Don’t you understand? That’s ancient knowledge. You cannot destroy an idea!
Tell me, please. Who am I?
Don’t you know?
Tell me.
You are the dreamer… and the dream.
The question is, what are you going to do?
The only thing I can do. Stay here and finish the job I started. And if I fail...
"I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith."
I've never known you to quote from the Bible.
I'm full of surprises, aren't I? And so are you. Sounds like that dream you had helped you sort things out.
I suppose it did. But I have begun to wonder: what if it wasn’t a dream? What if this life we’re leading, all of this -- you and me, everything -- what if all of this is the illusion?
That’s a scary thought.
I know, I know. But maybe, just maybe, Benny isn’t the dream. We are. Maybe we’re nothing more than figments of his imagination. For all we know, at this very moment, somewhere far beyond all those distant stars, Benny Russell is dreaming of us.
[O'Brien, Bashir and Dax are all 1 centimeter tall]
Are you telling me I'm going to be this bloody tall for the rest of my life?
[indicating smaller] This bloody tall, actually.
This conduit’s filthy, Chief. Don’t you ever clean up in here?
All right, all right. Let’s not badger the Chief.
Thank you!
I’m sorry. It was very small of me.
It’s amazing! It’s like we’re in the middle of an optronic forest!
"This is the story of a little ship that took a little trip." What do you think?
[struggling] It’s, uh... well, it rhymes. [grabs the padd from him] There’s nothing on this padd!
[Worf gives a rare grin]
Are you sure that you two returned to your original height?
Why do you ask?
It's just that you both seem to be a couple of centimeters shorter. A Changeling notices these sort of things.
Actually now that I think about it, you both do seem a little on the petite side.
Infirmary.
[Both run to the infirmary]
[to Odo] And they say you don't have a sense of humor.
[Quark and Odo chuckle]
Let me ask you something—back home, wherever that is, you got a family?
Yeah.
Good. After all, that's the most important thing.
I have a sense of humor. On the Enterprise, I was considered to be quite amusing.
That must've been one dull ship.
That is a joke. I get it. It is not funny, but I get it.
A Klingon. Why did they have to send a Klingon?
I'm a Trill. Does that make you feel any better?
Are you trying to be funny?
Not at all. [nods to Worf] He's the funny one.
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