Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Quotes

Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is a TV program that was first aired in 1970 . Emissary completed its run in 1970.

It features Dennis McCarthy (composer) in charge of musical score.

Emissary (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Quotes

• (Chief O'Brien) "Computer, you and I need to have a little talk."

• (Major Kira) "You don't think Starfleet took command of this space station without the ability to defend it, do you?"
• (Gul Jasad) "Defend it? Your space station could not defend itself against one Cardassian warship."
• (Major Kira) "You're probably right, Jasad. And if you were dealing with a Starfleet officer, they'd probably admit -- we have a hopeless cause here. But I am just a Bajoran, who's been fighting a hopeless cause against the Cardassians -- all her life. So if you want a war; I'll give you one."
• (Chief O'Brien) "Major; remind me never to get into a game of Roladan Wild Draw with you."

• (Quark) "Never trust ale from a god-fearing people, or a Starfleet commander that has one of your relatives in jail."

• (Kai Opaka) "Ironic -- One who does not wish to be among us, is to be the Emissary."

• (Major Kira) "Yes?"
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "I'm Benjamin Sisko."
• (Major Kira) "I suppose you want the office."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Well, I thought I'd say 'hello' first, and then take the office. But we could do it in any order you like."
• (Major Kira) "Hello."

• (Gul Dukat) "Excuse my presumption, but this was my office only two weeks ago. I'm not used to being on this side of the desk. I'll be honest with you, Commander. I miss this office. I was not happy to leave it."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Drop by any time you're feeling homesick."

• (Jennifer Sisko) "You're awfully sure of yourself."
• (Ben Sisko) "It's not every day you meet the girl you're going to marry."
• (Jennifer Sisko) "Do you use this routine a lot with women?"
• (Ben Sisko) "No, never before; and never again."

• (Jake Sisko) "Small fries; threw 'em back. Wanna go for a swim?"

• (Major Kira) "They become meaningless."

• (Commander 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."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Unpack."
• (Quark) "I don't understand, Commander. Why would you want me to stay?"
• (Constable Odo) "I'm curious myself. The man is a gambler and a thief."
• (Quark) "I'm not a thief."
• (Constable Odo) "You are a thief."
• (Quark) "If I am, you haven't been able to prove it for four years."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Move us to position alpha, Ensign."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Meanwhile, our medical and science officers are arriving, and I'm looking forward to a reunion with a very old friend."

• (Major Kira) "Quark if you don't take your hand off of my hip I'll break every bone in your body."
• (Quark) "Wow what a woman."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Dax, we might have just discovered the first stable wormhole known to exist."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "What is it?"
• (Kai Opaka) "The Tear of the Prophet."

• (Sisko) "I was just talking with our good neighbor Quark. He's laying odds that the government's going to fall."
• (Major Kira) "Quark knows a good bet when he hears one. This government will be gone in a week, and so will you."
• (Sisko) "What happens to Bajor then?"
• (Major Kira) "Civil war."

• (Locutus of Borg) "Resistance is futile. You will disarm your weapons and escort us to sector 0-0-1. If you attempt to intervene, we will destroy you."
• (Vulcan Captain) "Red alert. Load all torpedo bays, ready phasers."

• (Kai Opaka) "Commander; I cannot give you what you deny yourself."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "I'm sorry?"
• (Kai Opaka) "Look for solutions from within, Commander."

• (Chief O'Brien) "I'm told the Cardassians decided to have some fun the day they left. Four Bajorans were killed trying to protect their shops."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Commence station log, Deep Space Nine, Commander Benjamin Sisko, stardate 46388.2.; At the request of the Bajoran provisional government, Starfleet has agreed to establish a Federation presence in this system, following the withdrawal of the Cardassian occupational forces. The first contingent of officers including my Chief of Operations, Miles O'Brien, arrived two days ago on the Enterprise."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "In the meantime, I will do the job I've been ordered to do to the best of my ability, sir."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "He's a little young for you, isn't he?"
• (Lt. Jadzia Dax) "He's twenty-seven, I'm twenty-eight."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "Three hundred twenty-eight maybe."

• (Sisko) "It can be argued that a human is ultimately the sum of his experiences."

• (Dr. Bashir) "Jadzia. Uh -- Maybe we could -- get together later, for dinner; o-o-o-o-or a dr- or a drink?"

• (Alien Batter) "Aggressive. Adversarial."
• (Sisko) "Competition, for fun. It's a game that Jake and I play on the holodeck. It's called 'baseball'."
• (Jake Prophet) "Baseball? What is this?"
• (Sisko) "I was afraid you'd ask that."

• (Chief O'Brien) "Uh, that's the prefect's office up there."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "So all others have to look up with respect. Cardassian architecture."
• (Chief O'Brien) "Yes, sir. Major Kira's been using it."

• (Ben Sisko) "The sound of children playing; what could be more beautiful?"
• (Jennifer Sisko) "So you like children?"
• (Ben Sisko) "That almost sounds like a domestic enquiry."
• (Jennifer Sisko) "I've heard Starfleet officers don't want families because they complicate their lives."
• (Ben Sisko) "Starfleet officers don't often find mates who want to raise families on a starship."
• (Jennifer Sisko) "That almost sounds like a domestic enquiry."
• (Ben Sisko) "I think it was."

• (Dr. Bashir) "Oh, this will be perfect; real -- frontier medicine."
• (Major Kira) "Frontier medicine?"
• (Dr. Bashir) "Major, I had my choice of any job in the Fleet."
• (Major Kira) "Did you?"
• (Dr. Bashir) "I didn't want some cushy job or a research grant; I wanted this; the farthest reaches of the galaxy, one of the most remote outposts available. This is where the adventure is. This is where heroes are made. Right here; in the wilderness."
• (Major Kira) "This "wilderness" -- is my home."

• (Capt. Picard) "Good luck, Mr. Sisko."

• (Sisko) "I don't know if you can understand. I see her like this, every time I close my eyes. In the darkness, in the blink of an eye, I see her -- like this."
• (Jennifer Prophet) "None of your past experiences helped prepare you for this consequence."
• (Sisko) "And I have never figured out how to live without her."
• (Jennifer Prophet) "So, you choose to exist here."
• (Jennifer Prophet) "It is not linear."
• (Sisko) "No. It's not linear."

• (Gul Dukat) "Allow me to assure you that we only want to be helpful in this difficult transition. You're far from the Federation fleet, alone in this remote outpost, with poor defense systems. Your Cardassian neighbors will be quick to respond to any problems you might have."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "We'll try to keep the dog off your lawn."

• (Odo) "Most people in my experience wouldn't know reason if it walked up and shook their hand. You can count Gul Dukat among them."

• (Dr. Bashir) "So, where can someone practice with his phaser around here?"

• (Quark) "Commander, I've made a career out of knowing when to leave. And this Bajoran provisional government is far too provisional for my taste. And when governments fall, people like me are lined up and shot."
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "There is that risk. But then, you are a gambler, Quark."
• (Odo) "And a thief."
• (Commander 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."
• (Odo) "You know, at first, I didn't think I was going to like him."

• (Quark) "New rules?"
• (Major Kira) "You can't cheat every customer who walks through the door anymore, Quark. You are a community leader now."
• (Quark) "Very well, very well, perhaps we could discuss these new rules over a drink."
• (Major Kira) "If you don't take that hand off my hip, you'll never be able to raise a glass with it again."
• (Quark) "Oh, I love a woman in uniform."

• (Chief Miles O'Brien) "Sir, have you ever served with any Bajoran women?"
• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "No, why?"
• (Chief Miles O'Brien) "I was just wondering, sir."

• (Unnamed) "You exist here."

• (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."

• (Commander Benjamin Sisko) "This is going to take some getting used to."
• (Lt. Jadzia Dax) "Don't be ridiculous, I'm still the same old Dax; more or less."

• (Quark) "Nog. What's going on?"

• (Major Kira) "I cannot justify taking you into this wormhole. We have no idea what we're dealing with in there; it could be hostile --"
• (Odo) "Major, I was found in the Denorios Belt. 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 off as one of you, always wondering who I really am. Well, the answers to a lot of my questions may be somewhere on the other side of that wormhole."

• (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."
• (Sisko) "The Celestial Temple?"
• (Kai Opaka) "Tradition says 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."
• (Sisko) "What makes you think I can find your -- temple?"
• (Kai Opaka) "This will help you."
• (Sisko) "Kai Opaka, I --"
• (Kai Opaka) "I can't unite my people till 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."

• (Sisko) "In the end, it comes down to throwing one pitch after another, and seeing what happens. With each new consequence, the game begins to take shape."
• (Alien Batter) "And you have no idea what that shape is until it is completed?"
• (Sisko) "That's right. In fact, the game wouldn't be worth playing if we knew what was going to happen."
• (Jake Prophet) "You value your ignorance of what is to come?"
• (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 with ideas. But to coexist -- and learn."

• (Odo) "Yes, Major?"

• (Jake Prophet) "What comes before now is no different than what is now. Or what is to come. It is one's existence."
• (Sisko) "Then for you, there is no linear time."

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