%- ST:DS9 quotes from Jamahl Epsicokhan's reviews; collected by Hans-Wolfgang Loidl <hwloidl@dcs.gla.ac.uk>
Odo: "Is that all you can think about? Killing? Isn't there anything else you 
care about?" 
Jem'Hadar: "I don't think so."
		-- "The Abandoned"
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"Look, I have more important things to do than play 'Choose the Changeling.' " 
		-- O'Brien to dual Odos, "The Adversary"
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"I see. The auto-destruct program has begun. Well, well, well...you are in 
trouble." 
		-- Dukat, "Civil Defense"
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"This ship was built to fight. I think it's time she got her chance." 
		-- Riker, "Defiant"
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"Where you see a 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." 
		-- Sisko to Kira, "Destiny"
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"You know what the sad part is, Odo? I'm a very *good* tailor." 
		-- Garak, "The Die is Cast"
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"I've had enough of this. I am not some figment of your imagination!" 
		-- Kira to Bashir, "Distant Voices"
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"If you want to know who you are, it's important to know who you've been." 
		-- Dax, "Equilibrium"
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"It's not a synthale kind of night." 
		-- Bashir, "Explorers"
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"Well, if we tested you where you practiced, it wouldn't exactly be stressful, 
now would it?" 
		-- O'Brien to Nog, before beginning the "stress reaction" test., "Facets"
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"You know, the rate we go through Runabouts, it's a good thing the Earth has 
so many rivers." 
		-- Kira, "Family Business"
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"Marta was a mistake. She was too young, too immature for me. Major Kira is a 
woman." 
		-- Jake, "Fascination"
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Changeling: "No Changeling has ever harmed another." 
Odo: "There's always a first time." 
		-- Odo, "Heart of Stone"
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"I am Quark, son of Keldar. And I have come to answer the challange of D'Ghor,
son of...whatever."
		-- Quark, "House of Quark"
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"The truth is usually just an excuse for lack of imagination." 
		-- Garak, "Improbable Cause"
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"If I remove his brain and replace it with a machine, he might look like 
Bareil, he might even talk like Bareil, but he won't be Bareil. The spark of 
life would be gone. He'd be dead. And I will have killed him." 
		-- Bashir, "Life Support"
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"I think you'll find that random and unprovoked executions will keep your work 
force alert and motivated." 
		-- Intendent Kira, "Through the Looking Glass"
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"Sorry to hear you say that, but if you're asking for a refund, forget it. The 
contract specifically says that satisfaction is not guaranteed." 
		-- Quark to his customer, "Meridian"
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"Twenty-first century history is not one of my strong points--too depressing."
		-- Bashir, "Past Tense, Part I"
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"Nice tackle, Bell. You ever play any football?"
"Baseball, actually."
"Really? I'd hate to be a catcher and see you barreling towards home plate."
		-- B.C. and Sisko, "Past Tense, Part II"
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"You better hurry. I got the dampening field on this ship for a substantial 
discount." 
		-- Nagus Zek, regarding turbulent wormhole passage, "Prophet Motive"
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"Ever since we've come into the Gamma Quadrant I've had this feeling of being drawn somewhere -- pulled by some instinct to a specific place..." 
		-- Odo, "Search, Part I"
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"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." 


		-- Garak, joining Sisko and crew for some rebellious action, "Search, Part II"
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"Treason, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder." 
		-- Garak, "Second Skin"
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"I didn't fight the Cardassians for 25 years just so I could start shooting 
other Bajorans." 
		-- Shakaar, "Shakaar"
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"Commander, there is no careful way to question a Klingon." 
		-- Odo, "Visionary"
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"No more ceremonies to attend; no more blessings to give; no more prophecies 
to fulfill. I'm just a Starfleet officer again. All I have to worry about are 
the Klingons, the Dominion, and the Maquis. I feel like I'm on vacation." 
		-- Sisko, on relinquishing his role as Emissary, "Accession"
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"Maybe I don't know much about Ferengi culture, but I do know who holds the 
lease on your bar." 
		-- Sisko to Quark, "Bar Association"
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"Kiss the girl, get the key. They never taught me that in the Obsidian Order." 
		-- Garak, "Our Man Bashir"
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"If you try the trousers on first, you'll see I've added some extra padding to 
the seat... which should make swiveling on your bar stool much more 
comfortable." 
		-- Garak to Morn, "Body Parts"
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"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." 
		-- Garak, "Broken Link"
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Benjamin: "I am a Starfleet officer, the paragon of virtue." 
Kasidy: "You're more like a parody of virtue." 
		-- Kasidy, "For the Cause"
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"People see you as the guy who always gets his man. Now you're becoming the 
guy who tears up his quarters and sits alone in the rubble. And no one is 
going to want to place bets on how long someone's going to sit around in the 
dark." 
		-- Quark to Odo, "Crossfire"
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"There will be a joint briefing session at 1900 hours..."
"...followed by a get-to-know-you-buffet at 1930."
		-- Sisko and O'Brien, on the temporary alliance between 
		-- the Defiant crew and the Jem'Hadar, "To the Death"
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"The truth must be won... I'll see you on the battlefield." 
		-- Ch'Pok to Sisko, "Rules of Engagement"
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"When I had the chance to show that no matter what anyone did to me I was 
still an evolved, human being, I failed. I repaid kindness with blood." 
		-- O'Brien, "Hard Time"
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Bashir: "It smells like a garbage dump." 
O'Brien: "I'm sorry I couldn't find a nicer place to crash-land. 
	 Should we try again?" 
		-- O'Brien, "Hippocratic Oath"
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"This business has got you so twisted around you can't think straight. You're seeing shapeshifters everywhere." 
		-- Joseph Sisko to son Benjamin, "Homefront"
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"Captain Sisko is right...you are in love with the sound of your own voice." 
		-- Kira to Dukat, "Indiscretion"
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"The speed of technological advancement isn't nearly as important as 
short-term quarterly gains." 
		-- Quark, "Little Green Men"
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"The dialogue is sharp, the story is involving, the characters are real...the 
spelling is terrible.
		-- Sisko, after reading his son's novel, "The Muse"
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"We do not fear you the way you fear us. In the end, it's your fear that will 
destroy you." 
		-- Changeling, "Paradise Lost"
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"Maybe it was arrogant to think that [you could find a cure in a week]... but 
it's even more arrogant to think there isn't a cure just because you couldn't 
find it." 
		-- Dax to Bashir, "The Quickening"
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"You came here for advice from a friend, and that's *exactly* what you're 
getting." 
		-- Sisko to Dax , "Rejoined"
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"Well...it would seem that we're not...worth...destroying." 
		-- Dukat, after not being attacked by the Klingons; 
		-- obviously hitting a low point in his life, "Return to Grace"
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"Captain Bashir, Captain O'Brien, Captain Sisko. We may not have enough troops 
or ships or weapons, but we have *plenty* of Captains." 
		-- "Smiley" O'Brien, "Shattered Mirror"
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"For a long time I have tried to walk the line between the Empire and the 
Federation. I told myself I could live in either world--that it was my choice. 
But the truth is I can not go back to the Empire." 
		-- Worf, "Sons of Mogh"
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"The Captain has gotten us out of tougher spots than this. Last year, when the 
 Romulans tried to invade the Founders' homeworld, we went up against a dozen 
 Jem'Hadar ships."
"I know, Chief. You've told me this story."
"Well, unless you want to hear it again, you'd better get down to the torpedo 
 bay and start working on those probes."
		-- O'Brien and Engineer Stevens, "Starship Down"
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Worf: "A true warrior has no need to exaggerate his feats." 
Kor: "You'd better hope I exaggerate, or else when they start singing songs 
about this quest and come to your verse, it will be 'And then Worf came along.' " 
		-- Kor, "The Sword of Kahless"
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"I'm no writer, but if I were, it seems to me I'd want to poke my head up 
every once in a while and take a look around; see what's going on. It's life, 
Jake. You can miss it if you don't open your eyes." 
		-- Sisko, "The Visitor"
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"We were like warriors from the ancient sagas. There was nothing we could not 
do."
"Except keep the holodecks working right."
		-- Worf and O'Brien on life aboard the *Enterprise*, "The Way of the Warrior"
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"I hate prototypes." 
		-- O'Brien , "Apocalypse Rising"
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"Well, I guess you're not as successful a businessman as you think you are."
"Which means you spent the last ten years of your life trying to catch a 
nobody--with little success, I might add. So you tell me, which one of us is 
the bigger failure?"
		-- Odo and Quark, "The Ascent"
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"Well, I'd better be going. I left a patient on the operating table." 
		-- Bashir, "The Assignment"
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"Constable, why are you talking to your beverage?" 
		-- Worf, "The Begotten"
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"I don't care if you held a phaser in your hand or you ironed shirts for a 
living. You were all guilty and you were all legitimate targets!" 
		-- Kira, voicing her uncensored feelings, 
		-- "The Darkness and the Light"
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"Think of it--five years ago no one had ever heard of Bajor or Deep Space Nine.
Now all our hopes rest here. Where the tides of fortune take us no man will 
know."
"Very tricky, those tides."
		-- Gowron and Sisko, "By Inferno's Light"
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"Who cares about anomalies? People want stories about things they can relate 
to." 
		-- Jake, making a good point about storytelling, 
		-- "Nor the Battle to the Strong"
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"This is ridiculous! I'm surrounded by corpses, my shoes are dripping in 
blood--and you want me to feel romantic?" 
		-- Quark, "Looking for Par'mach in All the Wrong Places"
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"Elim, remember that day in the country? You must've been almost five."
"How can I forget it? It was the only day."
		-- Enabran Tain and Elim Garak, "In Purgatory's Shadow"
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"Before Captain Sisko found B'hala, my path was clear. I knew who my enemies 
were. But now nothing is certain." 
		-- Kai Winn, "Rapture"
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"Now I know it's hot, we're filthy, tired, and we've got ten isotons of 
explosives going off outside; but we will never get out of this if we don't 
pull it together and start to act like professionals!" -- Sisko in the face 
of dissension
		-- Sisko in the face of dissension, "The Ship"
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"You were special. You were the one man who stood apart from everyone else, 
the one man who stood for justice. Now what?"
"Now I'm just another imperfect solid."
		-- Kira and Odo, "Things Past"
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"I can't wait to get back to Deep Space Nine and see your face when you find 
out I never existed." 
		-- Bashir to O'Brien, attempting to dissect a pre-destination 
		-- paradox, "Trials and Tribbleations"
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"Sir, have you ever reminded Starfleet Command that they stationed Eddington 
here because they didn't trust me?"
"No."
"Please do."
		-- Odo and Sisko, "For the Uniform"
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"Do not hug me."
		-- Worf to Bashir, "Let He Who is without Sin"