%- Star Trek Quotes collected by Hans-Wolfgang Loidl <hwloidl@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
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%- ----->>> ST Movies
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"That's a tough little ship you've got there."
"Little?"
	-- Riker and Worf, sparring over the Defiant, 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"It is an historical irony that Dr. Cochrane chose to usher in an era of
peace with a weapon of mass destruction."
	-- Data, musing on Cochrane's motives, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"Timeline?  This is no time to talk about time.  We don't have the
time!...what was I saying?"
	-- Counselor Troi, demonstrating her "counseling technique", 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"You're all astronauts...on some kind of star trek..."
	-- Zefram Cochrane, figuring out the big picture, 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"Starfleet medical records indicate that Borg implants can cause severe
skin irritation..."
	-- The Enterprise EMH, who's a door-stop, not a doctor, 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"	
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"Assimilate this!"
	-- Worf, doing a little target practice, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"We're not going to lose the Enterprise.  Not to the Borg.  Not while I'm
in command."
	-- Picard, insisting that resistance is not futile, 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"We've made too many compromises already.  They invade our space, and we
fall back.  They assimilate whole worlds, and we fall back.  Not again. 
The line must be drawn *here*.  This far!  No farther!  And *I* will make
them PAY for what they've done..."
	-- Picard, indulging his rage, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"You cannot begin to imagine the life you denied yourself..."
	-- The Borg Queen, addressing her reluctant consort, 
	-- "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"Resistance is futile!"
	-- Data, giving as good as he got, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"I must admit that for a time I was tempted by her offer...exactly 0.68
seconds -- for an android, that is nearly an eternity."
	-- Data, explaining himself, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"Don't try to be a great man.  Just be a man.  Let history make its own
judgments."
	-- Zefram Cochrane, 2073, "Star Trek: First Contact"
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"And I will make them PAY."
	-- Picard, "First Contact"
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"Friend of yours?"  "Yes."  "Husband?"  "No."  "Good."
		-- Zefram Cochrane and Deanna Troi, "First Contact"
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"Ahab must have his whale"
		-- Lily Sloane to Jean-Luc Picard, "First Contact"
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"You have broken your little ships."
		-- Lily Sloane to Jean-Luc Picard, "First Contact"
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"Guess old Ahab didn't know when to quit"
		-- Lily Sloane to Jean-Luc Picard, "First Contact"
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Riker: "Someone once said, 'Don't try to be a great man; just try to 
	be a man, and let history make its own account.'"  
Cochrane: "What rhetorical nonsense.  Who said that?"
Riker: "You did, 10 years from now"
		-- "First Contact"
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"I imagine I look worse than I ... feel."  
		-- Data to Picard, "First Contact"
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%- ----->>> ST VOY
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Get this cheese to sickbay.	
		-- b'elanna torreS in ``Learning Curve''
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A hologram and a psychopath may not be a match for the Kazon but it must do.
		-- Doctor, "Basics II"
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Don't fight it. Let it work for you.
		-- Zio about the affects of the clamp, "The Chute"
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Then it came over me, as though a fireball had exploded in my mind.
		-- Zio, "The Chute"
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This man is my friend. *Nobody* touches him!
		-- Kim, "The Chute"
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%- ----->>> ST TOS
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We have shown the council historical proof that our missions are peaceful.
		-- Kirk, "Mirror, Mirror"
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We accept that your Federation is benevolent, at present. But the future is 
always in question.
		-- Halkan official, "Mirror, Mirror"
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Our dilithium crystals represent awesome power.
		-- Halkan official, "Mirror, Mirror"
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%- ----->>> ST TNG
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Picard: Communication, understanding ...
D Mar: Let me try something different.
		-- "Silicon Avatar"
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Data: Do you wish a frank evaluation?
		-- 'Hero Worship' (after Tim asking Data: `What do you think?')
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Mind over matter.  Cogito ergo sum!
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Ship in a Bottle", 46424.1
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From the Start Trek episode 'In Theory' 
        (after Data: ".., are we no longer a couple?"; ..: "No, we are not"):
Then I will delete the appropriate program.
		-- Lt. Commander Data, stardate 44923.3
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From the Start Trek episode 'In Theory'
        (Data about having studied literature about romantic Rships):
There are many role models for me to emulate.
		-- Lt. Commander Data, stardate 44923.3
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From the Start Trek episode 'In Theory' 
        (Picard to Data, who's seeking advice on the matter of Rships):
I will be delighted to offer any advice I can on understanding women.
[disgruntled look] When I have some, I'll let you know.
		-- Captain Picard, stardate 44923.3
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From the Start Trek episode 'In Theory'
        (Worf to Data, who's seeking advice on the matter of Rships):
Klingons do not pursue relationships. They conquer that which they desire.
		-- Lt. Worf, stardate 44923.3
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It's as if I was in 'Frame of Mind'!
		Commander William T. Riker, stardate 46778.1
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I may be surrounded by insanity but I am not insane!
		Commander William T. Riker, stardate 46778.1
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Maybe you need another treatment.
		Dr. Syrus, stardate 46778.1
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People that I create in there are more real to me than anyone I meet out here.
 		Lt. Reg Barclay, "The Nth Degree"
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"You've told me what to eat and what to think and what to say -- and then,
when I show a glimmer of independent thought, you strap me down, you inject me
with drugs and you call it a treatment!" "You're becoming agitated." "You bet
I'm agitated. I may be surrounded by insanity, but I am not insane!"
		Commander William T. Riker, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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You're making excellent progress.
		Dr Syrus, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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There's still a great deal of you that believes you're on a starship.
		Dr Syrus, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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You're still with us, on the Enterprise.
		Lt Commander Deanna Troi, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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We'll continue later...
		Dr Syrus, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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It's not real.
		Commander William T. Riker, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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Riker: 	If I'm right, you're not really here. This isn't a real phaser -- it's 
	all a fantasy, and I'm going to destroy it any way I can.
Picard: What if it isn't a fantasy? Are you willing to kill to take that 
	chance?
Riker:  You're right [smiling] I'm not. But-- [turning the phaser on himself]
	I'm going to find out what's real and what's not.
		-- "Frame of Mind", stardate 46778.1
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It's not a phaser, it's a knife ... give it to me.
		Dr Suna, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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Riker: 	You're the only constant, the only person in both places! This isn't 
	real either.
Suna:	I assure you ...
Riker:	You're *lying*!!
Suna: 	Let me help you.
Riker: 	No!
		-- "Frame of Mind", stardate 46778.1
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Picard:	You should get some rest, we can talk some more tomorrow.
Riker: 	There's one thing I'd like to do first.
		-- "Frame of Mind", stardate 46778.1
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Don't let them tell you you're crazy.
		Woman inmate, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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I hear you are a Starfleet officer.
		Woman inmate, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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Data: 	I can see we have a *lot* of work to do.
Riker: 	I am *not crazy*.
		-- "Frame of Mind", stardate 46778.1
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The ship again [sighing] ...
		-- Dr Syrus, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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[Tilonus Four Institute for Mental Disorders]
		-- "Frame of Mind", stardate 46778.1
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Help me! Help ... me ...
		-- Commander William T. Riker, "Frame of Mind" stardate 46778.1
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Damned, have they invented the electric light by now?
		-- Lt. LaForge, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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No game, no fun.
		-- Lt. LaForge, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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To you all is memorization and recitation.
		-- Dr. Pulaski to Data, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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You're wasting your breath, Lieutenant. Asking that of Data is like telling a 
Computer not to compute.
		-- Dr. Pulaski, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Pulaski: Your artificial friend doesn't have a proper chance at solving a 
         mystery he hasn't read.
Data: I have read them all.
		-- "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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I accept the challenge.
		-- Data to Pulaski, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Reasoning from the general to the specific. Is that not the very definition 
of deduction?
		-- Data to Pulaski, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Inspiration, original thought all the true strengths of Holmes is not possible
with our friend.
		-- Pulaski, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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It's elementary, dear Data!
		-- Pulaski, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Create an adversary capable of defeating Data.
		-- LaForge, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Computer: Do you wish to input any commands?
Moriarty: Not at this point.
		-- "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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There can be no argument: the game has begun.
		-- Data, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Holmes, this murder does not connect with our case.
		-- Data, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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I do not know, and that is what puzzles me.
		-- Data, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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The time for games is over.
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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My mind is crowded with images, thoughts I do not understand but cannot purge.
They plague me. You and your associate look and act so oddly as if I have not
seen or met either of you before, yet you are so familiar. It is very 
confusing. I have felt new realities at the edge of my conscience trying to 
break through. 
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Data: Prof Moriarty, I presume.
Moriarty: Welcome, my dear Holmes, but not Holmes. And Dr Watson, but not
          Watson.
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Moriarty: Why does it frighten you, Holmes?
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Merde.
		-- Picard, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Your very silence speaks volumes.
		-- Prof Moriarty, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Riker: Nice suite.
Worf: *Thank* you.
		-- "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Two pence. It is supposed to be good luck.
		-- Picard, "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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Picard: Are you alright?
Pulaski: Yes, except for being crammed full of crumpets.
		-- "Elementary, Dear Data", stardate 42286.3
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%- ST DS9
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Sisko: Do I get a vote?
Kira: Of course you do.  It just doesn't count.
		-- "Through the Looking Glass"
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Bashir: So what am I supposed to do with these torpedoes?
Smiley: I have a few ideas.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Jake: Mom!?
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Regent: You are attempting to shift the blame away from yourself.
Garak: Am I succeeding?
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Regent: Spoken like a Klingon!
Garak: I am trying.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Regent: You are not my type!
Garak: I never said so.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Regent: And while you dispose of the Intendant, I will dispose of the rebels.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Regent: Make it so!
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Sisko: Go to collision course.
Smiley: Ah, pattern suicide.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Bajoran Rebel: You have sentenced my wife to death.
Intendant: Isn't that a coincidence? I hoped you weren't married.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Tell that your father: I spare your life today. That is a debt I am going to 
collect.
		-- Intendant to Jake, "Shattered Mirror"
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Haven't you missed his cheery face?
		-- Captain Smiley to Captain Sisko about Captain Bashir
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Intendant: I never could resist men called Benjamin Sisko.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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You are far away from home, *human*.
		-- Nog to Jake, "Shattered Mirror"
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Currently she is a little too powerful for her own good.
		-- Smiley about the Defiant, "Shattered Mirror"
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Smiley: Captain, you never cease to surprise me.
Sisko: Sometimes I even surprise myself.
		-- "Shattered Mirror"
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Sisko: "You are getting on my nerves, and I don't like your hat!"
		-- "Past Tense"
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O'Brien: Trust me Quark, darts and bars are getting together like egg and bacon.
		-- "Visionary"
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The Dominion represents the greatest threat to the alpha quadrant in the last 
century. 
		-- Romulan official, "Visionary"
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It is the first treaty between the Romulan Empire and the Federation in many 
years.
		-- Romulan official [about supplying the cloaking device for
		-- the defiant], "Visionary"
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The Romulans generally prefer to sit back and pull the strings from a
distance.
		-- Sisko, "Visionary"
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Sisko: And Major, when you meet the Romulans, try to be diplomatic.
Kira: I am *always* diplomatic.
		-- "Visionary"
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You often have personal talks with the changeling?
		-- Romulan official, "Visionary"
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Temporal displacement caused by a quantum singularity most commonly affects
delta series radio isotopes.
		-- Bashir, "Visionary"
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Do you have any evidence besides the fact that Klingons hate Romulans?
		-- Sisko, "Visionary"
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Sisko: Do you think that Quark had anything to do with this?
Odo: I always investigate Quark.
		-- "Visionary"
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It could be worse. It could have been me.
		-- Bashir to O'Brien who has seen himself die in the near
		-- future "Visionary"
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Sisko: Why didn't you just say so?
Odo: Sometimes I just have to remind you how good I am.
		-- "Visionary"
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Oh no, not *you* again.
		-- O'Brien to O'Brien, "Visionary"
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I *hate* temporal mechanics.
		-- O'Brien, "Visionary"
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Romulan: I think you are lying.
Quark: About which part?
Romulan: All of it.
Quark: Well, at least I am consistent.
		-- "Visionary"
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Garak: Who would want to kill me, a simple tailor?
		-- "Improbable Cause"
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Bashir [to Garak]: Have you heard the story about the boy who cried wolf?
		-- "Improbable Cause"
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Garak: Truth is an excuse for lack of imagination.
		-- "Improbable Cause"
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Garak: Let me guess: You're in *desperate* need of a tailor.
		-- Garak, welcoming some Klingon visitors, "The Way of the Warrior"
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This is all your fault!
		-- "Apocalypse Rising", Kira to Bashir about her pregnancy
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When we fight, we *fight*.
		-- Dax about her relationship with Worf, "Rules of Engagement"
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G'Pok: Chief O'Brien, for how long have you been serving in Starfleet?
O'Brien: 22 years.
		-- "Rules of Engagement"
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Worf: Life is a lot more difficult in this red uniform.
Sisko: Wait until you get a fourth pip on your colloar. You will wish you had 
	gone into *botany*.
		-- "Rules of Engagement"
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I hate temporal mechanics.
		-- Chief O'Brien, "Visionary"
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I hate prototypes.
		-- Chief O'Brien, "Apocalypse Rising"
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I am First Omet'iklan, and I am dead.  As of this moment, we are all
dead.  We go into battle to reclaim our lives.  This we do gladly, for
we are Jem'Hadar.  Remember, victory is life.
                        -- Omet'iklan, "To the Death"
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I am Chief Miles Edward O'Brien.  I'm very much alive, and I intend
to *stay* that way.
                        -- Chief O'Brien, "To the Death"
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"I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy.  I know many things."
	-- Worf, "The Darkness and the Light"
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"I do not smirk -- but if I did, this would be a good opportunity"	
	-- Worf, "The Darkness and the Light"
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"You people have rituals for everything except waste extraction!"
	-- Quark, "Looking for par'Mach in all the wrong places"
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"Interesting, you saved the day by destroying the world."
		-- Garak, "Our Man Bashir"
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"Kiss the girl, get the key. That's what they didn't tell me in the Obsidian 
Order."
		-- Garak, "Our Man Bashir"
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"Then the Andorian said: `This is not my antenna'."
		-- Quark to Morn, who just doesn't get Andorian jokes, "Homefront"
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"Give us the authority we need, Mr President, and we will take care of the rest"
		-- Sisko to President Jaresh-Inyo, "Homefront"
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"Do what needs to be done."
		-- President Jaresh-Inyo, "Homefront"
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"In the end it is your fear that will destroy you."
		-- A Changeling on Earth, "Paradise Lost"
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Paradise has never been so well protected.
		-- Sisko, "Paradise Lost"
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Time, like latinum, is a highly limited commodity.
		-- Brunt, FCA, "Bar Association"
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I give it two months.
		-- Quark about the marriage of Rom and Leeta, "A Call to Arms"
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Kira: So all we have to do now is to stop the convoys from coming through the 
      wormhole, deploy the minefield, and prepare for a possible invasion.
Odo: I don't know about you, but I feel better already.
		-- "A Call to Arms"
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Did you know that children were dying on Cardassia? It was heartbreaking.
		-- Weyoun to Sisko, "A Call to Arms"
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O'Brien: Three months of bloody slaughter and what have we got to show: nothing.
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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Genetically engineered, indeed.
		-- Garak about Bashir, "A Time to Stand"
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Garak: So, what are our chances to win this war? Better than 50%?
Bashir: 32.9%
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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Bashir: I have just received word from the 7th fleet. Only 14 vessels made
        it back to our lines.
Martok: *14* out of 120!?
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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Bashir: We cannot take these losses any longer. Not if we want to win this war!
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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He is such a worrior.
		-- Dax about Worf, "A Time to Stand"
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How am I going to tell him that I have evacuated all of Deep Space Nine except
for his grandson?
		-- Sisko before talking to his father, "A Time to Stand"
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I raised you to become a chef for all the good it did me.
		-- Joseph Sisko, "A Time to Stand"
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Dax: The computer agrees with Julian.
Garak: No wonder. They both think alike.
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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All I want to say is: it could be a lot worse.
		-- Quark about the occupation, "A Time to Stand"
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Dukat: Even amongst servants somebody must be in charge.
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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Jake: What about the freedom of press!?
Weyoun: Please, tell me that you are not *that* naive.
		-- "A Time to Stand"
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Adult Nog: "But Morn is still there, running the bar!" 
		-- "The Visitor"
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Bashir [to Morn]: "Seventeen...brothers and sisters?" 
		-- "Starship Down"
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Quark: "Poor Morn. This is going to break his hearts." 
		-- "Through the Looking Glass"
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Quark: Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #286: "When Morn leaves, it's all over". 
		-- "Rivals"
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Quark: ... no, it was Rolidia, and Morn was just turning to her saying ...
		-- "Rules of Engagement"
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