Deep Space Nine quotes

Don't be ridiculous, you're not going to shoot me.

Commander Benjamin Sisko

What makes you so sure?

This is Dax you're talking to, Benjamin. We both know that if you shoot me, even on stun, you risk killing the symbiont.

Commander Benjamin Sisko

If I let you go, Jadzia dies.

But Dax will live. What's one girl's life compared to eight lifetimes of knowledge and experience? [smirks] You're not going to shoot me. You know that, and so do I. Goodbye, Benjamin. [he walks past Sisko into the shuttle]

Commander Benjamin Sisko

Verad! [Verad turns around as Sisko raises his phaser] Don't call me Benjamin! [Sisko shoots Verad]

I believe in coincidences. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences.

Quark

“A deal is a deal!” Rule of Acquisition Number 16.

I like a customer who knows what she wants.

Julian Bashir

Out here in space, no one is completely independent. We all depend on one another.

Well, you can depend on me.

Julian Bashir

And you've proven that. So what is it going to take for the rest of us to prove to you that you can depend on us?

Quark

Never place friendship above profit.

21st Rule of Acquisition.

Quark

I'm glad you agree.

But the 22nd Rule of Acquisition says, "A wise man can hear profit in the wind."

I wanted to learn from the very best.

Quark

Uh-huh. Which brings to mind the 33rd Rule of Acquisition...

"It never hurts to suck up to the boss!"

Just remember one thing—the bigger the smile, the sharper the knife.

Quark

48th Rule of Acquisition.

Quark

I think I agree with the 59th Rule of Acquisition: "Free advice is seldom cheap."

The riskier the road, the greater the profit.

Quark

62nd Rule.

That's right!

But you know what 103rd Rule of Acquisition says!

Quark

Not offhand.

"Sleep can interfere with..."

Quark

And I don't care either!

Kira Nerys

When did you realise?

Odo

The possibility occurred to me when you got the name Ches'sarro so quickly. Your friends from the underground must have already suspected him of being a collaborator. Once I knew the eight names were a list of collaborators, the murder of Vaatrik made sense for the first time. He must have been a collaborator too. He had the money for ginger tea. He had the private quarters. I never had a motive for his murder until now. He kept his wife in relative luxury. She surely wouldn't have killed him. So who would kill a Cardassian collaborator? Someone in the Bajoran underground, of course.

Kira Nerys

A colleague of mine was given the job of sabotaging the ore processor. Vaatrik was my responsibility.

Odo

You were here to execute him.

Kira Nerys

No. I was here to find the list. The names of the Bajorans who were selling us out. We'd been informed that Vaatrik was their direct link to Dukat.

Odo

That must have been why Dukat chose me to investigate. He had to stay as far away from this incident as he could so as not to endanger his network of Bajoran sympathizers.

Kira Nerys

Obviously, I never found the list. But that's what I was looking for in his shop when Vaatrik walked in on me. I didn't have a choice.

Odo

I misjudged you, Major. You were a better liar than I gave you credit for.

Quark

The 47th Rule of Acquisition says, "Don't trust a man wearing a better suit than your own."

You're enjoying this, aren't you?

Quark

Taken in by one of your own victims, and no one to turn to but me? Ha-ha-ha! I can't remember when I've been so entertained.