Citat från Star Trek: Deep Space Nine



Locutus of Borg (Picard):
"Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons, and escort us to Sector 001. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you."
(Emissary)


Major Kira:
"I suppose you want the office."
Commander Sisko:
"Well, I thought I say hello first and then take the office, but we can do it in any order you like."
Major Kira:
"Hello."
(Emissary)


Quark:
"Ohh I love a woman in uniform!"
(Emissary)


Major Kira:
"Red Alert! Shields up!"
Chief O'Brien:
"What shields?"
(Emissary)


Major Kira:
"This is the Federation ship Yangtzee Kiang, Major Kira Nerys in Command."
Gul Dukat:
"Yes, Major?"
Major Kira:
"Gul Dukat. We know you're headed for the wormhole."
Gul Dukat:
"Wormhole? What... wormhole is that?"
(Emissary)


Garak:
"Ah, an open mind.The essence of intellect. As you may also know I have a clothing shop nearby, so if you should require any apparel, or simply wish,as I do, for a bit of enjoyable company now and then, I'm at your disposal, doctor
Dr. Bashir:
"You're very kind, Mr Garak"
Garak:
"Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak. Now, good day to you doctor."
(Garak gets up, walks around the table and puts his hands on Bashir's shoulders)
Garak:
"I'm so glad to have made such an... interesting new friend today."
(Past Prologue)


Q with a wounded voice:
"Picard would never have hit me...!"
Commander Sisko:
"I'm not Picard"
(Q-Less)


Jake Sisko:
"Dad, I'm fourteen"
Commander Sisko:
"I'm glad we agree on something"
(Move Along Home)


Dr. Bashir:
"I'm sorry, Commander, but I've learned we can't afford to die here - not even once."
(Battle Lines)


Dr. Bashir:
"Do I annoy you?"
(The Storyteller)


Dr. Bashir:
"He's still dead, if that's what you mean."
(Dramatis Personae)


Major Kira:
"If your lies are going to this transparent, this is going to be a very short interrogation."
'Gul Darhe'el':
"Then I'll try to make my lies more opaque..."
(Duet)


Major Kira:
"Why? He wasn't Gul Darhe'el"
Kainon:
"He's a Cardassian. That's reason enough."
Major Kira:
"No, it's not..."
(Duet)



Major Kira on Ferengis:
"They're greedy, misogynistic little trolls and I wouldn't turn my back on them for a second."


Garak:
"I am no more a spy than you are..."
Dr. Bashir:
"...a doctor."
(Cardassians)


Garak:
"I don't make the rules."
Bashir:
"But you do play the game, don't you, Garak?"
(Cardassians)


Garak:
"I believe in coincidence. Coincidences happen every day. But I don't trust coincidences."
(Cardassians)


Sisko:
"So, you deduced that Garak thinks Dukat is lying about something you're not sure of, and you proceeded to interrupt my conversation to confront him about whatever that might be."
(Cardassians)


Garak:
"You don't need me to tell you, my friend. Notice the details. They're scattered like the crumbs all over this table."
(Cardassians)


Lt. Dax to Quark:
"I could probably think better without your hand on my thigh."
(Rules of Acquisition)


Odo:
"Patience is a lost virtue to most. To me, an ally."
(Necessary Evil)


Odo's Security Log at end of episode:
"My own very adequate memory not being good enought for Starfleet, I am pleased to put my voice to this official record of this day. Everything's under control. End log."
(Necessary Evil)


Seyetik:
"A great terraformer needs the green thumb of a gardener, the eye of a painter, the soul of a poet and, of course, it doesn't hurt to be a raging egomaniac."
(Second Sight)


Lt Dax:
"It's hard to talk man-to-man with a woman."
(Second Sight)


Kaneek to Major Kira:
"50 years of Cardassian rule have made you all frightened and suspicious. I feel sorry for you."
(Sanctuary)


Quark introducing O'Brien at a charity sporting event:
"Ladies and gentleman. Miles 'The Mechanic' O'Brien"
(Rivals)


Dr. Bashir to Lt. Dax:
"My replicator of yours?"
(The Alternate)


Dr. Bashir to Odo:
"I've prescribed rest because it's hard for a doctor to go wrong with that one."
(The Alternate)


Quark's eulogy to Dr. Bashir and Chief O'Brien:
"I will say this about them, and it's the best tribute I can think of: They were good customers"
(Armageddon Game)


Odo:
"I'm a shapeshifter. I just don't do faces very well"
(Shadowplay)


Cmdr. Sisko to Chief O'Brien:
"Take these phasers off stun, Chief. No more Mr. Nice Guy."
(Playing God)


Quark to Natima:
"Of course it hurts. It's supposed to hurt. It's a phaser."
(Profit & Loss)


Dr. Bashir:
"If you're not a spy ... maybe you're an outcast."
Garak:
"Or maybe I'm an outcast spy."
Dr. Bashir:
"How can you be both?"
Garak:
"I never said I was either."
(Profit and Loss)


Kang:
"Now Klingons are opening restaurants and serving food to the grandchildren of men I slaughtered in battle. Things are not what they used to be."
(Blood Oath)


Mirror Garak:
"True career advancement requires risk."
(Crossover)


Gul Dukat:
"Oh, that's right, you're the renegades, aren't you?"
(The Maquis, Part 1)


Gul Dukat to Cmdr. Sisko:
"Will you stop talking and shoot them?"
(The Maquis, Part 2)


Dr. Bashir:
"I'm a doctor, not a botanist!"
(The Wire)


Dr. Bashir about Dax's plant:
"In my expert medical opinion, I'd say... it's sick."
(The Wire)


Garak:
"Doctor, did anyone ever tell you that you are an infuriating pest?"
Dr. Bashir:
"Chief O'Brien, all the time, and I don't pay any attention to him, either."
(The Wire)


Dr. Bashir:
"So what things that you told me were the truth?"
Garak:
"All of it!"
Dr. Bashir:
"Even the lies?"
Garak:
"Especially the lies!"
(The Wire)


Cmdr. Sisko:
"If the Dominion comes through the wormhole, the first battle will be fought here."
(The Jem'Hadar)


Quark:
"This has not been a good day"
(The Jem'Hadar)


Cmdr. Sisko:
I'm about to put my fist in your opinion"
(The Jem'Hadar)



Cmdr. Sisko:
"When did I start thinking of this... Cardassian monastery... as home?"
(The Search, Part 1)


Garak:
"... the only explanation I can find is that our leaders have simply gone insane."
(The Search, Part 2)


Garak:
"It's a little foolish to worry about your careers at a time like this, when there's a good chance we're all about to be killed"
(The Search, Part 2)


Garak:
"Didn't anyone tell you the plan? First I pretend to be their friend, and then I shoot you."
(The Search, Part 2)


Garak's last words:
"Doctor, I'm afraid I won't be having lunch with you today."
(The Search, Part 2)


Cmdr. Sisko, showing he has too much time on his hands...:
"Beets are a very misunderstood vegetable."
(Equilibrium)


Garak:
"Treason, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder"
(Second Skin)


Garak to Major Kira:
"Major, I don't think I've ever seen you looking so ravishing."
(Second Skin)


Odo's response to Chief O'Briens comment on the Founders being 'cold-blooded':
"My people don't have blood, chief."
(The Abandoned)


Cmdr. Sisko on Gul Dukat:
"You know, I never knew how much this man's voice annoyed me."
(Civil Defense)


Gul Dukat:
"Let me guess; someone tried to duplicate my access code, hm?"
(Civil Defense)


Gul Dukat:
"Garak grovelling in a corner; this alone makes my trip worthwhile."
(Civil Defense)


Gul Dukat:
"You wouldn't let 2000 people die because you don't like... us?"
(Civil Defense)


Korinas, slapping Gul Dukat down:
"I only wish we had someone with such keen tactical instincts."
(Defiant)


Gul Dukat:
"...but someone has to pay for what's happened here, and I don't want that someone to be me."
(Defiant)


Dr Bashir:
"How many games of racquetball have we played in the last two months?"
Chief O'Brien:
"I don't know... 15, maybe 20?"
Dr Bashir:
"Try 70; I've been keeping track of that, too. And you know what all those games have proved to me? That I'm a poor substitute for you wife."
Chief O'Brien:
"I coulda' told you that 60 games ago."


Dr Bashir:
"Causing people to suffer because you hate them... is terrible. But causing people to suffer because you have forgotten how to care - that's really hard to understand."
(Past Tense, Part 1)


B.C.:
"Gimmies - no sense of fun."
(Past Tense, Part 1)


Cmdr. Sisko:
"The name is Bell. Gabriel Bell."
(Past Tense, Part 1)


B.C.:
"Personally, I'm thinkin' Tasmania."
(Past Tense, Part 2)


B.C.:
"I really think we should kill this guy."
(Past Tense, Part 2)


Jake Sisko:
"Great. So we both disgust each other."
(Life Support)


Odo:
"After all, we've been in worse situations that this one and come out all right."
Major Kira:
"Name three!"
(Heart of Stone)


Odo, discussing kayaking:
"If it helps any, he's the one who does all the singing."
(Heart of Stone)


Cmdr. Sisko:
"Where you see the Sword of Stars, I see a comet; where you see vipers, I see three scientists; and where you see the Emissary, I see a Starfleet officer."
(Destiny)


Lt. Dax:
"And, as the 34th Rule of Acquisition states: 'Peace is good for business.'"
Quark:
"That's the 35th Rule."
Lt. Dax:
"Oh, that's right... what's the 34th?"
Quark:
"'War is good for business.' It's easy to get them confused."
(Destiny)


Galora, trying to woo Chief O'Brien:
"I assure you I am quite fertile... "
(Destiny)


Lt. Dax:
"You seem to be handling this well."
Dr. Bashir:
"Belive me... I'm not."
(Destiny)


Rom, upon seeing the Nagus' revised Rules of Acquisition:
"It means we're gonna have to memorise a whole new set of rules!"
(Prophet Motive)


Chief O'Brien:
"You'd rather play a game of racquetball?"
Dr. Bashir:
"Chief, since Keiko's been on Bajor we've played 106 games of racquetball."
Chief O'Brien:
"Right. So throw a dart."
(Prophet Motive)


Chief O'Brien:
"But I bet there are doctors all over the Federation saying: 'Julian Bashir? Who the hell is he?'"
<thwud of a dart missing>
(Prophet Motive)


Chief O'Brien:
"I hate temporal mechanics!"
(Visionary)


Major Kira:
"I'm always diplomatic."
(Visionary)


Dr. Bashir, on Chief O'Brien seeing himself dead:
"Well, it could've been worse. It could've been me."
(Visionary)


Garak on Cardassian mysteries:
"...the challenge is determining exactly who is guilty of what."
(Distant Voices)


Garak:
"... and what I find interesting is how your mind ended up casting me in the role of the villain! [...] To think, after all this time, all our lunches together, you still don't trust me. There's hope for you yet, doctor."
(Distant Voices)


Garak:
"Never tell the same lie twice."
(Improbable Cause (The Arc, Part 1))


Garak:
"The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination."
(Improbable Cause (The Arc, Part 1))


Enabran Tain:
"Always burn your bridges behind you; you never know who might be trying to follow."
(Improbable Cause (The Arc, Part 1))


Admiral Toddman:
"Sounds like Wolf 359 all over again."
(The Die is Cast (The Arc, Part 2))


Admiral Toddman, addressing Cmdr. Sisko:
"If you ever pull a stunt like that again, I'll court martial you or promote you! Either way you're in big trouble."
(The Die is Cast (The Arc, Part 2))


Garak to Odo:
"You know what the sad part is, Constable? I'm really a very good tailor."
(The Die is Cast (The Arc, Part 2))


Cmdr. Sisko to his son Jake:
"In a few places, you're writing about things you haven't actually experienced... at least I hope you haven't experienced. Unless you've joined the Maquis without telling me."
(Explorers)


Odo/Curzon:
"Come in, come in; I was just oozing around the room."
(Facets)


Captain Sisko:
"My son, the writer, thinks I ought to say something profound on this occasion."
(The Adversary)



Garak to his Klingon 'visitors':
"Let me guess. You either lost or desperately searching for a good tailor."
(Way of the Warrior)


Dr. Bashir:
"I can't belive you're not pressing charges."
Garak:
"Constable Odo and Captain Sisko expressed similar concerns but really doctor, there was no harm done."
Dr. Bashir:
"They broke seven of your transverse ribs and fractured your clavicle."
Garak:
"Ah, but I got off several cutting remarks which no doubt did serious damage to their egos."
Dr. Bashir:
"Garak, this isn't funny."
Garak:
"I'm serious doctor. Thanks to your administrations, I'm almost completely healed but the damage I did to them will last a lifetime."
(Way of the Warrior)


Garak knows a few Klingon oaths:
"You'd be surprised at the things you can learn while doing alterations."
(Way of the Warrior)


Captain Sisko quoting Curzon Dax:
"In the long run, the only people who can really handle the Klingons... are the Klingons"
(Way of the Warrior)


Lt.Cmdr. Worf about The Enterprise D:
"...there was nothing we could not do..."
Chief O'Brien:
"Except keep the holodecks working right."
(Way of the Warrior)


O'Brien introducing Dr. Bashir to Worf:
Dr. Julian Bashir, Lt. Cmdr. Worf.
Bashir:
Care for a game of darts?
Worf:
I do not play games.
O'Brien:
It's like poker, but with pointed tips. Aw-right then, think of it as target practice
Bashir:
The object is to throw this dart and hit that board over there
O'Brien:
Aim for the dot in the middle.
(Way of the Warrior)


Worf:
Nice Hat.
(Way of the Warrior)


Lt.Cmdr. Dax to Lt.Cmdr.Worf:
"I'll go easy on you."
(Way of the Warrior)


Odo:
"Doctor, if a Klingon were to kill me, I'd expect nothing less than an entire opera on the subject."
(Way of the Warrior)


Captain Sisko:
Mr. Garak, I'd like to see you in the wardroom immediately. Bring your tailor's kit.
Lt. Cmdr. Dax:
All together, we're talking about well over 100 ships, just in the first wave.
Garak:
Excuse me, I hope I'm not interrupting.
Captain Sisko:
I'd like to be measured for a new suit.
Garak:
Now?
Captain Sisko:
Right now.
Garak:
But Captain, I do have your measurements.
Captain Sisko:
Take them again. You were saying, Commander
Lt. Cmdr. Dax:
I was saying that between ground forces and warships, the Klingons have committed almost a third of their military to this invasion.
Captain Sisko:
How long before they reach their target?
Lt. Cmdr. Worf:
According to out estimates, the task force should enter Cardassian space within the hour.
Captain Sisko:
Don't forget the waist, I think I've lost a little weight.
Garak:
Well thank you, Captain. I think I have everything I need.
(Way of the Warrior)


Quark:
"I'll defend my bar..."
Odo:
"You're going to hit them with that box?"
...
Quark referring to Rom:
"I'll kill him!"
Odo:
"With what?"
(Way of the Warrior)


Lt.Cmdr. Worf:
"You are Drex, son of Martok?"
Drex:
"Yes..."
Lt.Cmdr. Worf:
"I am Worf, son of Mogh..."
(Way of the Warrior)


Gul Dukat:
"You are looking at the military advisor to the new Cardassian Goverment."
Captain Sisko:
"So, in other words, you saw which way the wind was blowing and switched sides."
Gul Dukat:
"It seemed like a good idea at the time."
(Way of the Warrior)


Dr. Bashir:
"Medical Officer's Log, Stardate 49066.5: Chief O'Brien and I have concluded our bio-survey of Merrick III in the Gamma Quadrant. We're on course back to the wormhole and should arrive at the station two days ahead of schedule."
(Hippocratic Oath)


Dukat:
I hope you don't take this the wrong way Major but I've always admired you, You are the embodiment of the new Bajor; A Bajoran born out of the ashes of the occupation, tempered with Cardassian steel
(Indiscretion)


Dr. Bashir:
"Well, it could've been worse. He could've said 'it's a very big step.'"
(Indiscretion)


Lt. Cmdr. Dax:
"I didn't come here to listen to a lecture about my responsibilities!"
Captain Sisko:
"You came here for advice from a friend, and that's exactly what you're getting!"
(Rejoined)


Garak:
Kiss the girl, get the key. They never taught me that in the Obsidian Order
(Our Man Bashir)


Garak:
"Interesting, you saved the day, by destroying the world."
Dr. Bashir:
"Bet they didn't teach you that in the Obsidian Order..."
(Our Man Bashir)


Joseph Sisko:
"I'm not sleeping... I'm checking my eyelids for holes."
(Homefront)


Joseph Sisko, by way of Ben Sisko
"There comes a time in every man's life when he must stop thinking and start acting."
(Paradise Lost)


Dukat:
"On Deep Space Nine you're nothing but a bureaucrat, an administrator, if you come with me you can be a soldier again, think about it Major, the chance to fight against a superior foe in a righteous cause, to protect a defeated and broken people from a cruel aggressor, you know as well as I do that if Cardassia falls, Bajor is next, help me stop the Klingons before you become their next target."
(Return to Grace)


Sisko to Worf:
"Wait 'til you get a fourth pip on your collar. You'll wish you had gone into botany."
(Rules of Engagement)


Garak to Bashir:
"I simply thought it would be polite to say hello. But clearly you don't think I'm capable of conducting any kind of pleasant discourse without some kind of nefarious ulterior motive."
(For the Cause)


Ziyal:
"Kira and my father both told me that you used to be an agent of the Obsidian Order. That you had my grandfather tortured and killed. And that you could easily kill me without a second thought."
Garak:
"I seldom credit the Major or your father with being entirely trustworthy; in this case, their both telling the truth."
(For the Cause)


Sisko on the temporary alliance between the Defiant crew and the Jem'Hadar:
"There will be a joint briefing session at 1900 hours..."
O'Brien:
"...followed by a get-to-know-you-buffet at 1930."
(To the Death)

Garak:
"Come now, Mr. Worf. You're a Klingon. Don't tell me you'd object to a little genocide in the name of self-defense."
(Broken Link)

Female Changeling to Garak:
"They're dead. You're dead. Cardassia is dead. Your people were doomed the moment they attacked us."
(Broken Link)

Garak:
"...but what are our lives compared to saving the entire Alpha Quadrant?"
(Broken Link)


(on Kira's pregnancy)
Bashir:
"You're positively glowing."
Kira:
"Oh, really."
Bashir:
"I think so, but I suppose my opinion doesn't really count."
Kira:
"Oh it counts. Don't forget, this is your fault."
Bashir:
"My fault?"
Kira:
"You performed the transfer from Keiko to me."
Bashir:
"After you volunteered."
Kira:
"After you put the idea in my head."
Bashir:
"After you flew the Runabout into an asteroid field."
Kira:
"After you insisted we check on those anomalous bioscans."
Bashir:
"That was Keiko!"
Kira:
"Yes it was, but I'd rather blame you."
Bashir:
"Whatever makes you happy. I never argue with my patients or my commanding officer."
(Apocalypse Rising)

Worf:
"You can smell the blood of history on these stones..."
(Apocalypse Rising)

Sisko:
"Brag all you want, but don't stand between me and the blood wine!"
(Apocalypse Rising)

Kilana:
"Do you have any gods, Captain Sisko?"
Sisko:
"There are ... things ... I believe in."
Kilana:
"Duty? Starfleet, the Federation? You must be pleased with yourself; you have this ship to take back to them. I hope it was worth it."
Sisko:
"So do I."
(The Ship)

Quark:
"Keiko made them stop. Now they're in the 'let's talk about our feelings' part of the fight. Show's over."
Bashir:
"Oh, well...uh, I mean that's good."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Dax:
"You know, for a Klingon who was raised by humans, wears a Starfleet uniform and drinks prune juice, you're pretty attached to tradition. That's OK. I like a man riddled with contradictions."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"War -- what is it good for? For me, absolutely nothing."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Bashir:
"I'll bet you looked."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Worf:
"I am a fool."
Dax:
"You're in love. Which, I suppose, is the same thing."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"Grilka and I have...something, and I want to pursue it."
Dax:
"For sex."
Quark:
"No! Well, that too."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"You know, it's attitudes like that which keep you people fromm getting invited to all the really good parties."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"This is ridiculous! I'm surrounded by corpses, my shoes are dripping in blood, and you want me to feel romantic?!"
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"So my choices are to not show up and be branded a coward and lose Grilka...or *die*?"
Worf:
"Yes."
Quark:
"Oh, come on now! There must be another way out of this! You people have rituals for everything except waste extraction."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Quark:
"Exercise make me sweat."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Dax:
"Sounds like you're describing a statue. What would you do with a woman like that? Put her up on a pedestal and clean her twice a week?"
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Kira:
"Miles?"
O'Brien:
"Yes, Nerys?"
Kira, softly:
"Get out."
(Looking for Par'mach in all the wrong places.)

Sisko:
"In the old days, operations officers wore red, command officers wore gold..."
Dax:
"And women wore less."
Bashir:
"I think I'm going to like history."
(Trials and Tribble-ations)

Dax about the 23rd century:
"I remember this time. I lived in this time. It's hard not to want to be a part of it again.
(Trials and Tribble-ations)

Sisko:
"Too much fun."
(Trials and Tribble-ations)




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