Star Trek - Deep Space Nine Quotes

Kira Nerys: I suppose you want the office.
Benjamin Sisko: Well I thought I would say hello first and then take the office, but we can do it in any order you like.
Kira Nerys: [sarcastically] Hello!

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Jean-Luc Picard: Have we met before?
Benjamin Sisko: Yes sir, we met in battle. I was on the Saratoga at Wolf 359.

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[Discussing Bajor's possible membership in the Federation]
Benjamin Sisko: Sounds like they're not ready.
Jean-Luc Picard: Your job, short of violating the Prime Directive, is to make sure that they are.

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Kira Nerys: You are throwing it all away... all of you!
Bajoran Bureaucrat: You're being a fool!
Kira Nerys: Well, then, don't ask my opinion next time!

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[about Sisko]
Kai Opaka: How ironic... one who does not wish to be among us is to be the Emissary.

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Benjamin Sisko: It's really quite simple, Quark. You're not going to leave.
Quark: Not going to leave? But we're packed and ready to go.
Benjamin Sisko: Unpack.
Quark: I don't understand, Commander. Why would you want me to stay?
Odo: I'm curious myself. The man is a gambler and a thief.
Quark: I'm not a thief.
Odo: You are a thief!
Quark: If I am, you haven't been able to prove it for four years.

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Quark: Commander, I've made a career out of knowing when to leave. And this provisional government is far too provisional for my taste and when governments fall, people like me are lined up and shot.
Benjamin Sisko: There is that risk, but then, you are a gambler, Quark.
Odo: And a thief.
Benjamin Sisko: You know, Quark, that poor boy is about to spend the best years of his life in a Bajoran prison. I'm a father myself. I know what your brother must be going through. The boy should be with his family, not in some cold jail cell. Think about it. It's up to you.
[He exits]
Odo: You know, at first, I didn't think I was going to like him.

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Benjamin Sisko: [To Captian Picard] In the meantime, I will do the job I've been ordered to do to the best of my ability, sir!

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Kira Nerys: Quark, if you don't take your hand off my hip, you'll never be able to raise a glass with it again.
Quark: Oh, I love a woman in uniform.

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Benjamin Sisko: That may be the most important thing to understand about humans. It is the unknown that defines our existence. We are constantly searching, not just for answers to our questions, but for new questions. We are explorers. We explore our lives day by day, and we explore the galaxy trying to expand the boundaries of our knowledge. And that is why I am here: not to conquer you with weapons or ideas, but to coexist and learn.

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Kai Opaka: Nine orbs, like this one, have appeared in the skies over the past 10,000 years. The Cardassians took the others. You must find the Celestial Temple before they do.
Benjamin Sisko: The Celestial Temple?
Kai Opaka: Tradition says that the orbs were sent by the prophets to teach us. What we have learned has shaped our theology. The Cardassians will do anything to decipher their powers. If they discover the Celestial Temple, they could destroy it.
Benjnamin Sisko: What makes you think I can find your... temple?
Kai Opaka: [gives Sisko the orb ark] This will help you.
Benjamin Sisko: Kai Opaka, I...
Kai Opaka: I can't unite my people until I know the prophets have been warned. You will find the temple. Not for Bajor, not for the Federation, but for your own pagh. It is quite simply, Commander, the journey you have always been destined to take.

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Benjamin Sisko: I have a son that I’m raising alone, captain. This is not the ideal environment.
Jean Luc Picard: Unfortunately, Starfleet officers do not always have the luxury to serve in an ideal environment

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Benjamin Sisko: Commander, help me! Jennifer, hold on...
Bolian commander: Sir...
Benjamin Sisko: Just help me to get her free!
Bolian commander: She’s gone. There’s nothing we can do. We have to leave...we have to go now sir!
Benjamin Sisko: Dammit, we just can’t leave her here!

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Benjamin Sisko: It won’t be so bad. I’ve heard that Bajor is a beautiful world.
Jake Sisko: So why can’t we live on the planet instead of some old space station?

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Vedek: Welcome, Commander. Please enter. The Prophets await you.
Benjamin Sisko: Another time, perhaps.
Vedek: [Nods] Another time.

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Miles O’Brien: That’s the prefect’s office up there.
Benjamin Sisko: So all others have to look up with respect. Cardassian architecture.

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Benjamin Sisko: Is something bothering you, Major?
Kira Nerys: You don’t want to ask me that, Commander.
Benjamin Sisko: Why not?
Kira Nerys: Because I have the bad habit of telling the truth, even when people don’t want to hear it.
Benjamin Sisko: Perhaps I want to hear it.
Kira Nerys: I don’t believe the Federation has any business being here.
Benjamin Sisko: The provisional government disagrees with you.
Kira Nerys: The provisional government and I don’t agree on a lot of things which is probably why they sent me to this god-forsaken place. I have been fighting for Bajoran independence...ever since I was old enough to pick up a phaser. We finally drive the Cardassians out, and what do our new leaders do? The call up the Federation and invite them right in!
Benjamin Sisko: The Federation is only here to help...
Kira Nerys: ...help us, I know. The Cardassians said the same thing sixty years ago.

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Benjamin Sisko: That’s enough!
Odo: Who the hell are you?
Kira Nerys: Odo, this is our new Starfleet commander.

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Kira Nerys: I suppose Starfleet officers aren’t used to getting their hands dirty.

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Kira Nerys: [to Sisko] This government will be gone in a week and so will you.

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Quark: I love the Bajorans, such a deeply spiritual people, but they make a dreadful ale.

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Kira Nerys: Red alert. Shields up.
Miles O’Brien: What shields?

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Odo: Doctor, most people in my experience wouldn’t know reason if it walked up and shook their hand.

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Kira Nerys: I am just a Bajoran who has been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians all her life. So if you want a war, I’ll give you one!

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Miles O’Brien: Bloody Cardassians! I just got the damned thing fixed.

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Julian Bashir: So, where can someone practice with his phaser around here?

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Odo: I don’t know where I came from, no idea if there are any others like me. All my life, I’ve been forced to pass myself as one of you – always wondering who I really am.

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Julian Bashir: You know, some people say that you remained on DS9 as the eyes and ears of your fellow Cardassians.
Garak: You don't say! Doctor, you're not intimating that I'm some sort of spy, are you?
Julian Bashir: I wouldn't know, sir.
Garak: Ah, an open mind. The essence of intellect.

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Julian Bashir: You’re very kind, Mister Garak.
Garak: Oh, it’s just Garak. Plain, simple...
Bashir and Garak: ...Garak

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Odo: You can leave your weapons or leave the station. Please choose now.
B'Etor: Who are you?
Odo: The one giving you the choice.

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