- Doctor Bashir: [treating Kira on the ship] Apparently the planet is crawling with Bashirs.
- Major Kira: Maybe I'll stay up here.
- Odo: There's something else the other Odo wanted you to know... He was responsible for changing the Defiant's flight plan.
- [long pause]
- Major Kira: Why?
- Odo: So that you wouldn't have to die.
- Major Kira: I can't believe it. EIGHT THOUSAND PEOPLE!
- Odo: He did it for you, Nerys. He loved you.
- Major Kira: That makes it right?
- Odo: I don't know. He thought so.
- Captain Sisko: All right, we'll make a quick survey. But if all we detect is some fungus, we're not beaming down.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: What if it's smart fungus?
- Miranda O'Brien: This settlement was founded by the crew of a Starfleet vessel that crashed on this planet two centuries ago. I realize this is going to be hard for you to accept; but that ship was the Defiant. Two days from now, when you leave here and try to pass through the energy barrier, you'll be thrown back in time 200 years. You'll be stranded here and become the founders of this settlement. We... are your descendants.
- Molly: Aren't you gonna help?
- Chief O'Brien: I'm busy.
- Molly: You don't look busy.
- Captain Sisko: [laughs] She's an O'Brien all right.
- Major Kira: I've always believed that we're all given one destiny - one path. And now we're using technology to get around that... I'm not sure how it makes me feel.
- Odo: I know exactly how it makes me feel. You can't know how much it means to me to know you're going home, Nerys. Now, it won't change anything for me. I lost you two hundred years ago. But for the other Odo up on the ship it changes everything. He doesn't have to lose you. And somehow, knowing that makes me feel better.
- Major Kira: Praying over your own grave... it's got to be a new one.
- Odo: Yeah... If the Prophets were listening they're probably very confused.
- Major Kira: [after revealing that she and Shakaar have split up] The way I see it, people are either meant to be together, or they're not.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: I guess I'd rather believe that any relationship can work as long as both people really want it to.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Everyone we met - they never existed.
- Captain Sisko: They existed. As long as we remember them - they always will.
- Captain Sisko: I wish there was a way we could help you. But my people have the right to return home to their families, and I will not ask Kira to sacrifice her life for eight thousand people, for eight million! No one has the right to ask that. I'm sorry, old man; but there is nothing I can do.
- Brota: Last year I slew a yar-bear, three meters tall. Your Mek'leth was my only weapon. The beast maimed me, and for a time it seemed I would die from my wounds. Now I wish I had. It would have been a warrior's death.
- Parell: He could have taken his place among the honored dead in Sto-vo-kor.
- Worf: Perhaps he will yet.
- Brota: No. Ceasing to exist because my parents were never born - that is not a death worthy of Sto-vo-kor.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: You betrayed us. You betrayed me. You call yourself Yedrin Dax; but I don't recognize you.
- Yedrin Dax: Because of me, Kira died, and 48 people were stranded here. You don't know what it was like to live with that. For years, Benjamin, every time I looked at you, all I could think about was Jake, and how, because of me, he would never see his father again. Eventually, I had to accept the fact there was nothing I could do to change things; I couldn't bring Kira back. All I could do was look to the future, Benjamin, and make sure that we survived here - no matter what.
- Gabriel: They're here! They're here!
- Lt. Cmdr. Worf: Who?
- Gabriel: The Klingons!
- [members of the colony appear, some with forehead ridges and some without, all brandishing spears and other weaponry]
- Brota: Qapla'!
- Lt. Cmdr. Worf: Qapla'.
- Brota: We are the Sons of Mogh.
- Lt. Cmdr. Worf: You are my descendents?
- Brota: Some by blood, some by choice. Our hearts are Klingon. We live as warriors, just as you taught our ancestors long ago.
- Gabriel: I'm going to be one of them someday. I'll ride a wild torga and go hunting, and only come to the settlement to trade furs for the things I need.
- Parell: When you're older, you'll have the chance to prove yourself. If you are worthy, you can take a Klingon name and live among us.