- Doctor Bashir: I'm so glad that you find the lack of proper medical facilities amusing; but if trouble breaks out, it's not a viewscreen or a chair or even a sandwich you'll be wanting. It's a bio-bed, with a surgical tissue regenerator.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: Maybe. But right now I would settle for a viewscreen.
- Nog: Or a chair.
- Chief O'Brien: Or a sandwich.
- Joseph Sisko: You know, there's something I just don't understand. You're always telling me that space is big, that it's an endless frontier, filled with infinite wonders.
- Captain Sisko: It's true.
- Joseph Sisko: Well, if that's the case, you would think it would be more than enough room to allow people to leave each other alone.
- Captain Sisko: It just doesn't work that way. It should; but it doesn't.
- Gul Dukat: Oh, I could make things very pleasant for you here, Kira.
- Major Kira: You could start by doing something about your breath.
- Garak: Ever since it's become public knowledge that you're genetically engineered, you used every opportunity to show off.
- Doctor Bashir: I have nothing to hide anymore. I might as well use what I have.
- Garak: Well - what are our chances? Over fifty percent?
- Doctor Bashir: Thirty-two... point seven.
- Garak: I'm sorry I asked.
- Garak: You're not genetically engineered; you're a Vulcan.
- Doctor Bashir: If I'm a Vulcan, then how do you explain my boyish smile?
- Garak: Not so boyish anymore, Doctor.
- Quark: You know, I never expected to say this, but as occupations go - this one's not so bad.
- Major Kira: Yeah, I suppose that's true if all you're worried about is a monthly balance sheet.
- Quark: I'm not just concerned with profit, Major. Look around: do you see any ghetto fences dividing the promenade? Or exhausted Bajoran slave laborers sprawled on the ground after a grueling day in the ore processing center? Do you hear the cries of starving children? I don't. Now don't get me wrong; I miss the Federation too. All I'm saying is: things could be a lot worse.
- Joseph Sisko: Are things really as bad as the news service claims?
- Captain Sisko: Maybe worse.
- Joseph Sisko: Well, you certainly know how to comfort a frightened old man.
- Captain Sisko: You didn't raise me to be a liar.
- Joseph Sisko: I raised you to be a chef, for all the good it did me.
- [last lines]
- [During a secret mission, Sisko and his crew lose their warp drive]
- Garak: Forgive my ignorance, but if we don't have warp drive, how long is it gonna take us to reach the closest Federation starbase?
- Captain Sisko: A long time, Mr. Garak.
- Garak: How long?
- Doctor Bashir: Seventeen years, two months and three days - give or take an hour.
- Major Kira: What do you think is gonna happen here, Dukat? That you're gonna wear me down with your charming personality? That I'm gonna be swept off my feet by that insincere smile? Are you really so deluded that you actually believe that we're gonna have some kind of intimate relationship?
- Gul Dukat: Oh, we already do.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: So, what do you plan on doing the next couple of hours?
- Captain Sisko: I haven't given it much thought.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: Maybe now would be a good time to contact your father.
- Captain Sisko: Maybe.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: Benjamin, you haven't spoken to him for months. And Jake is his grandson.
- Captain Sisko: How do I explain that I evacuated every Federation citizen off Deep Space Nine except his grandson?
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: You'll think of something. You always do.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: [on a traditional Klingon wedding ceremony] First we'll shed blood, and then we'll feast.
- Worf: As it should be.
- Captain Sisko: Take it from me, old man: a small wedding is the way to go.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: You get married the way you want, and I'll get married the way I want. I'll see you later, Captain.
- [leaves with Worf]
- Captain Sisko: Try not to break any bones!
- Captain Sisko: How is the restaurant doing?
- Joseph Sisko: All right. It's been three weeks since I poisoned anyone.
- [Quark serves Kira a drink]
- Quark: This one's on the house.
- Major Kira: What do you want, Quark?
- Quark: The usual: peace, love and understanding - not to mention a generous profit margin.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: Let's see... a radial geodesic in a thirty-nine Cochrane warp field contracts normal space at a rate of...
- Doctor Bashir: [with confident authority] Full impulse one point three seconds before the bomb detonates.
- Captain Sisko: Dax?
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: [off her console] The computer agrees with Julian.
- Garak: Of course it does... they think alike.
- Nog: I still don't see why we couldn't install a few chairs on the bridge.
- Chief O'Brien: Because this ship wasn't designed for chairs.
- Nog: Well, my feet aren't designed to stand for long periods of time. They get tired.
- Chief O'Brien: Maybe we should leave you behind.
- Nog: My feet might like that, but I wouldn't.
- Chief O'Brien: It's not your feet you need to worry about, it's your stomach. Have you noticed? There isn't a single food replicator anywhere on this ship.
- Nog: That shouldn't be a problem. Captain Sisko said there'll be plenty of field rations.
- Chief O'Brien: Try eating field rations for three weeks, and then tell me it isn't a problem.
- Lieutenant Commander Jadzia Dax: Twenty-two seconds until the explosion.
- Nog: Twenty-two seconds - that's plenty of time!
- Chief O'Brien: See, Cadet, there's nothing to worry about.