- Rom: You've got to finish what I started. The fate of the entire Alpha Quadrant rests in your hands. Billions and billions of people are counting on you.
- Quark: Boy, are they gonna be disappointed.
- Rom: Brother... You can do this. You have to do this. You will do this!
- Quark: What happens if I get caught?
- Rom: Then we'll die together - side by side, heads held high, knowing we did our best.
- Leeta: Oh Rom!
- Quark: But I don't want to die.
- Rom: If that's what's written... then that's what's written.
- Ziyal: It should be obvious, even to you, Damar, that I am not a true daughter of Cardassia!
- Damar: What is obvious to me is that your father should have left you to rot in that Breen prison camp. But he didn't. He took pity on you, and it's your duty to repay him. Now come with me!
- Major Kira: Let her go.
- Damar: And if I don't? What happens then?
- Major Kira: I was hoping you'd ask.
- [bashes Damar up until he goes down]
- Ziyal: Did you kill him?
- Major Kira: No. But I thought about it.
- [last lines]
- Captain Sisko: There's an old saying: "Fortune favors the bold." Well - I guess we're about to find out.
- Chief O'Brien: Here's to retaking the castle.
- Doctor Bashir: And planting our flag on its battlements once again.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: You two spend too much time in the holosuites.
- Weyoun: I must say, you're doing a wonderful job with Odo.
- Female Shapeshifter: Meaning what?
- Weyoun: Meaning that he's always posed a potential threat to our plans, but you seem to have... neutralized him quite nicely.
- Female Shapeshifter: Neutralize Odo? Is that why you think I'm here? Odo is a Changeling. Bringing him home, returning him to the Great Link, means more to us than the Alpha Quadrant itself.
- Ensign Nog: We have company, Captain. Two Dominion ships heading this way, bearing 197 mark 135.
- Chief O'Brien: They'll have us in weapons range in 22 seconds.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Shields?
- Ensign Nog: Shields at 30 percent.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Phaser banks?
- Chief O'Brien: The entire weapons array is offline.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Now we find something to hold on to...
- Ensign Nog: Can you believe it? They made me an ensign.
- O'Brien: I didn't realize things were going so bad.
- Ensign Nog: Scary, isn't it?
- Odo: Kira! Kira, wait, wait!
- Major Kira: [angry] I have nothing to say to you!
- Odo: I understand that you're angry...
- Major Kira: Oh, you bet I am angry. Do you have any idea what's going on?
- Odo: Yes - somewhat. I've been occupied.
- Major Kira: Ah. Dukat is bringing down the minefield, the Federation is about to be overrun by Dominion reinforcements and Weyoun has ordered Rom's execution, and you have been "occupied"!
- Odo: This is so difficult to explain.
- Major Kira: You gonna talk to me about the Link, don't bother. I'm a Solid, remember? I won't understand!
- Odo: Nerys... I'm sorry.
- Major Kira: Sorry? That's what you wanted to tell me? You're sorry?
- Odo: Yes.
- Major Kira: Well, let me tell you something, Odo: we are way, way past sorry.
- Weyoun: If aesthetics were truly important, the Founders would have included it in our genetic makeup.
- Major Kira: Or... they made a mistake.
- Weyoun: Gods don't make mistakes!
- Damar: That attitude of yours, Major - it won't be tolerated forever.
- Major Kira: You don't like my attitude, Damar? You're welcome to try to change it.
- Lt. Commander Worf: They are not interrogating you, Mister Garak. They are debriefing. There is a difference.
- Garak: Not from where I'm sitting.
- Major Kira: [discussing how to break Rom out of captivity] You can't trust them.
- Quark: I trust latinum, and so do they. Five bars will buy me five Nausicaans, a fast ship and very few questions. Breaking Rom out of the holding cell will be child's play compared to the things they're used to doing.
- Major Kira: Forget about it, Quark. Freeing your brother's going to take careful, precise planning. It's not the Nausicaan way. They're thugs. They'll come strutting onto the station, look at a Jem'Hadar the wrong way and before you know it there's blood on the Promenade.
- Quark: Think I can get my money back?
- Captain Sisko: [about Bajor] There are parts of the Eastern Province that are like Eden itself. Lush, green valleys covered in wildflowers that seem to spring up overnight, hundreds of small crystal-clear ponds, interconnected by waterfalls...
- Admiral Ross: All right, all right, I'm convinced. I'm already planning my next R and R down there. You know, it sounds like when your assignment on Deep Space Nine is over and Bajor is welcomed into the Federation, you're gonna have a tough time saying goodbye.
- Captain Sisko: I don't plan to say goodbye. I plan to build a house on Bajor.
- Admiral Ross: And what if Starfleet assigns you to a different sector?
- Captain Sisko: I will go wherever they send me. But when I go home - it will be to Bajor.