[In response to Maquis terrorist attacks, Sisko has detonated biological weapons in the atmosphere of one of their colony worlds]
[aghast]Do you realise what you've done?
I've only just begun. I'm going to eliminate every Maquis colony in the DMZ.
You're talking about turning hundreds of thousands of people into homeless refugees!
That's right. When you attacked the Malinche, you proved one thing; that the Maquis have become an intolerable threat to the security of the Federation, and I am going to eliminate that threat.
But think about those people you saw in the caves, huddled and starving. They didn't attack the Malinche.
You should have thought about that before you attacked a Federation starship.
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