Deep Space Nine · Season 4
Read the dedication.
"To my father, who's coming home". Thank you, but I— I don't understand.
It was me. It was me all along. I've been dragging you through time like an anchor, and now it's time to cut you loose.
Jake, what are you saying?
It won't be long now.
Jake, you didn't have to do this. Not for me.
For you, and for the boy that I was. He needs you, more than you know. Don't you see? We're going to get a second... chance.
Keiko only spends a few days at a time on the station. I'm the one living in those quarters, and if I want to set up a little workshop in the bedroom—
You set up a workshop in the bedroom?
Yeah. I don't use it when she's visiting.
No, of course not.
She says I'm trying to live like a bachelor again, that I'm expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.
Now that is ridiculous.
That's what I said!
I mean, if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you are actually expressing...a desire to be closer to her...during her absence. It's quite touching, really.
Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand. Why can't she see that? Why can't she be more like—
More like?
[Beat] Uh, a man. Y—you know, more like a man.
So...you wish that Keiko...was a man.
I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that's what I wish.
What a lovely place. Smells like a garbage dump.
I'm sorry I couldn't find a nicer place to crash-land. Should we try again?
Tell me something—who's Tora Ziyal? When I reactivated the Ravinok's computer, I downloaded the manifest. There were two civilians on board, in addition to the prisoners and the crew. Your... friend Tora Naprem and a Tora Ziyal, a thirteen year-old girl.
I suppose you wouldn't believe me if I told you she was Naprem's sister?
Ziyal is a Cardassian name.
Quite an audience.
Seems a shame to disappoint them. We should probably do something.
We could get into a screaming match. Start throwing things at each other?
Not bad. Or I suppose we could throw ourselves at each other—profess our undying love and complete disregard for Trill society?
Doctor Pren would probably have a heart attack!
What do Klingons dream about?
Things that will send cold chills down your spine and wake you in the middle of the night. No, it is better that you do not know. Excuse me. [He leaves]
I can never tell when he's joking.
Perhaps it is better that we 'do not know'.
Everyone's trying to... look out for us. Protect us from ourselves. But in the end, all that matters is how we feel... and what we do about it. Because either way, we're the ones who have to live with the consequences.
That's the tricky part though, isn't it? Living with the consequences. When I'm not with you, when you're not around, it's like part of me is missing. I want to be with you more than anything. But I don't think I can do this.
Can you really walk away from me, from us? After all this time, we're back together. Don't throw that away.
I don't want to. Maybe I need more time. Maybe if I go back to Trill for a while—think it over. I could always come back later.
I wish I could believe that. But ultimately, it comes down to this—if you feel about me the way I feel about you, you won't get on that transport tomorrow. And if you do leave, I think we both know you're never coming back.
It's 50-50. Better odds than you get at the dabo table.
Dabo?
It's a game. If we get out of this, I'll teach it to you.
You took in a few lungfuls of Fluorine.
Remind me to hold my breath next time.
All I ask is a tall ship— And a load of contraband to fill her with.
All hu-mons look alike.
New customers are like razor-tooth gree-worms—they can be succulent, but sometimes they bite back.
[Rom has explained how he'll save their lives with a long string of technobabble]
Rom! You're a genius!
You think so?
How should I know? I have no idea what you're talking about.
Tries to warn his father not to interfer with theUniversal timeline
"within a year we'll be running this planet," and dreams of cultivating a vast Ferengi economic empire with himself as the Grand Nagus. [Tribute to Charleton Heston remarks in "Planet of the Apes"[!}
What do you know about atom bombs?
My people have been watching your world for years. We know all about you—baseball, root beer, darts, atom bombs.
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