Let me tell you something about hu-mons, nephew. They're a wonderful, friendly people as long as their bellies are full and their holosuites are working, but take away their creature comforts, deprive them of food, sleep, sonic showers, put their lives in jeopardy over an extended period of time and those same, friendly, intelligent, wonderful people will become as nasty and as violent as the most bloodthirsty Klingon. You don't believe me? Look at those faces. Look in their eyes.
S7 E8The Siege of AR-558
Rule of Acquisition 125: “You can't make a deal if you're dead.”
(looking around at the aftermath of the battle) We held.
RReese
Those were our orders, sir.
(searching for words to console Sisko) This was a great victory. One worthy of story and song.
It cost enough.
S7 E9Covenant
(to Benyan, a Pagh-Wraith worshipper) I've always found that when people try to convince others of their beliefs, it's because they're really trying to convince themselves.
(to Kira Nerys) Your anger is a challenge. I welcome it, because in the end it will only help me better serve the Pagh-Wraiths.
[Aboard the Defiant after Dukat has escaped and the Pah-Wraith cult has collapsed]
I thought Dukat was just claiming to share their faith because he wanted them to love him, but it was more than that. He's changed.
If you hadn't stopped him, he would've killed them all, and no one would have known his body wasn't among the remains. That sounds like the same old Dukat to me.
I know this is going to sound crazy, but I think Dukat convinced himself that he was doing what the Pah-wraiths wanted.
Who knows? Maybe he was.
Either way, he believes. And that makes him more dangerous than ever.
S7 E10It's Only a Paper Moon
[Nog has chosen Vic Fontaine's holoprogram as his Rehab]
At first, it struck me as a little... peculiar. But after I thought it over, I began to think that maybe this is a good sign after all.
How can hiding in one of Julian's adolescent programs be a good sign?
Hey...
It could be worse. He could be hiding in the Alamo program.
LLeeta
Or that ridiculous secret agent program.
Hey.
Or that stupid Viking program.
HEY!
When the war began, I wasn't happy or anything. But I was eager. I wanted to test myself. I wanted to prove I had what it took to be a soldier. And I saw a lot of combat. I saw a lot of people get hurt. I saw a lot of people die. But I didn't think anything was going to happen to me. And then suddenly, Dr. Bashir is telling me he has to cut my leg off. I couldn't believe it. I still can't believe it. If I can get shot, if I can lose my leg, anything can happen to me, Vic. I could die tomorrow. I don't know if I'm ready to face that. If I stay here, at least I know what the future is going to be like.
VFVic Fontaine
You stay here, you're gonna die. Not all at once, but little by little. Eventually, you'll become as hollow as I am.
You don't seem hollow to me.
VFVic Fontaine
Compared to you, I'm hollow as a snare drum. Look, kid, I don't know what's going to happen to you out there. All I can tell you is that you've got to play the cards life deals you. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. But at least you're in the game.
S7 E11Prodigal Daughter
YTYanas Tigan
Ezri Tigan—Dax—you tell your commanding officer that your mother is a very difficult woman and that she refuses to help look for Mr. O'Brien unless you're allowed to return home right away.
Where's your report?
Oh, it's in there. It's the one with Captain Sisko's boot prints all over it.
Would it help that if I said that, as someone who isn't especially close to his parents, I sympathize?
I'm about to present my family with a whole new Ezri. And to tell you the truth, they didn't really know what to make of the old one.
[indicating a painting above the fireplace] Is this yours?
NNorvo
Mom insisted on hanging it in here. I hate it.
Why?
NNorvo
Well, the composition is puerile and obvious, the colors belong on a child's toy, and the technique is laughable.
But other than that—
NNorvo
It's perfect.
S7 E12The Emperor's New Cloak
This is an alternate universe; shouldn't everything be different?
S7 E13Field of Fire
[confronting Chu'lak, a Vulcan serial killer] Why did you do it?
CLChu'lak
Because logic demanded it.
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