The Quickening (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Quotes

The Quickening (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) is a television show that debuted in 1970 . The Quickening stopped airing in 1970.

It features David Bell (composer) in charge of musical score.

The Quickening (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Quotes

• (Doctor Bashir) "The vaccine isn't difficult to make. But seeing that everybody gets it will be a huge task."
• (Trevean) "Oh, not a task. A privilege. Can you show me how to make it?"
• (Doctor Bashir) "I was hoping you'd ask that."

• (Doctor Bashir) "I'm gonna tell you a little secret, Jadzia. I was looking forward to tomorrow, to seeing Kira again, casually asking 'How was the nebula? And, oh, by the way, I cured that blight thing those people had'."
• (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax) "It's not a crime to believe in yourself, Julian."
• (Doctor Bashir) "These people believed in me, and look where it got them. Trevean was right. There is no cure. The Dominion made sure of that. And I was so arrogant, I thought I could find one in a week."
• (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax) "Maybe it was arrogant to think that. But it's even more arrogant to think there isn't a cure just because you couldn't find it."

• (Quark) "Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun, come right now, don't walk; run."

• (Doctor Bashir) "I thought this was a hospital, and that you were a healer."
• (Trevean) "I am. I take away pain."

• (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax) "Ekoria -- where did you get all this food?"
• (Ekoria) "I've been saving it for the hospital; for my death. But something tells me I'm not going to need it anymore."

• (Doctor Bashir) "I just want to do what I can to help, I'm not making any promises."
• (Trevean) "Take care that you don't. Because we have dealt with people who give false hope before. Believe me, their deaths make the blight look like a blessing."

• (Doctor Bashir) "People are still dying back there."
• (Captain Sisko) "Yes. But their children won't."
• (Doctor Bashir) "That's what I keep telling myself, sir."
• (Doctor Bashir) "Initiate re-shuffling sequence."

• (Doctor Bashir) "I must have sewn and stitched and repatched every square inch of that bear."
• (Ekoria) "Why were you so determined to keep him together?"
• (Doctor Bashir) "Well, I wouldn't be much of a doctor if I gave up on a patient, would I?"

• (Doctor Bashir) "First thing I have to do is run a complete bio-spectral analysis on an asymptomatic individual."
• (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax) "Loosely translated that means he needs a volunteer."

• (Trevean) "More than anything, the Dominion wanted my people to bear the mark of their defiance. So -- they brought us the blight. We're all born with it; we all die from it. When the blight quickens, the lesions turn red. Death soon follows. Some in childhood, most before they can have children of their own. Only a few live to be my age."

• (Ekoria) "Maybe you should go home. Maybe my people don't deserve your help."
• (Doctor Bashir) "Oh, they've just been suffering so long, they've lost hope that things can be better."
• (Ekoria) "It's more than that. We've come to worship death.; I used to wake up and look at myself in the mirror and be disappointed I hadn't quickened in my sleep. Going to Trevean seemed so much easier than going on living."

• (Epran) "I canceled my death for you. I was really looking forward to it."

• (Patient) "Yesterday, when I woke up, I -- saw that it had finally happened, I'd quickened. I always thought I'd be afraid, but I wasn't. Because I knew I could come here. Last night, I slept in a bed for the first time in my life. I fell asleep listening to music. This morning, I bathed in hot water, dressed in clean clothes -- and now I'm here with my friends and family -- Thank you, Trevean, for making this day everything I dreamed it could be."

• (Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax) "You know what worries me, Julian? It's that without me, you won't have anyone to translate for you."

• (Doctor Bashir) "Some people don't like to be around the sick; it reminds them of their own mortality."
• (Ekoria) "Doesn't bother you?"
• (Doctor Bashir) "Sometimes. I prefer to confront mortality, rather than hide from it. When you make someone well, it's like you're -- chasing death off, making him wait for another day."

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