- Martok: We keep falling back. The Dominion keeps pushing forward. I tell you, Worf, war is much more fun when you're WINNING! Defeat makes my wounds ache.
- Martok: A vital mission, impossible odds and a ruthless enemy. What more could we ask for? I tell you, Worf, I feel young again!
- Martok: Tell me, Alexander Rozhenko. Why are you on my ship?
- Alexander Rozhenko: To serve the Empire, General.
- Martok: That is a slogan, not an answer.
- Ch'Targh: [after Alexander has mistaken a battle simulation for a real battle situation] Keep a close watch. There may be more hostile simulation programs out there!
- Lt. Commander Worf: I cannot change the mistakes I have made. But from this day forward, I promise, I will stand with you.
- Alexander Rozhenko: We'll see if you mean it.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Yes, we will. What you're about to do entails a grave obligation. Do not accept it lightly.
- Alexander Rozhenko: I understand. And I accept.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Good. I will teach you what you need to know to be a warrior. And you will teach me what I need to know to be a father.
- Captain Sisko: Are you a betting man, General?
- Martok: One of my many pleasures.
- Captain Sisko: Then a barrel of bloodwine says, I set foot on Deep Space Nine before you do.
- Martok: [laughs, clasping forearms with Sisko] Done!
- Alexander Rozhenko: [presenting himself to Martok and Worf] Alexander Rozhenko.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Alexander.
- Martok: Rozhenko? Of what House is Rozhenko?
- Alexander Rozhenko: Of no House, sir. My honor will be my own.
- Martok: Nothing breaks the tension better than a tankard of warnog - except maybe a good brawl...
- Lt. Commander Worf: You heard about the fight in the mess hall.
- Martok: Yes, but not from my First Officer. I lost him the moment his son stepped aboard this ship.
- Lt. Commander Worf: We both know you do not belong here. You heard what I expect from the rest of the crew. Twice that I expect from you! Do we understand each other?
- Alexander Rozhenko: Perfectly.
- [Dukat has invited Kira to a party in honor of Ziyal]
- Major Kira: What time?
- Gul Dukat: Uh, 2130. Unless I'm unavoidably delayed.
- Major Kira: Ah, the busy life of an interstellar despot!
- Ziyal: Nerys. You didn't come to the party last night.
- Major Kira: I'm sorry, I couldn't. I think you know why.
- Ziyal: Please don't ask me to choose between you.
- Major Kira: I'm not. There's no choice. He's your father.
- [Dax has told Worf that she'd refuse to join the House of Martok]
- Lt. Commander Worf: If you refuse, it will be a grave dishonor. General Martok will not understand...!
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Worf - I'm joking.
- Lt. Commander Worf: So you *will* join our House?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Of course I will.
- Lt. Commander Worf: I can see, our lives together will not be easy.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: True. But they'll be fun.
- Alexander Rozhenko: You call yourself my father, but you haven't tried to see me or talk to me in five years. I wasn't the kind of son you wanted, so you pretended that you had no son. You never accepted me. You abandoned me.
- [first lines]
- Captain Sisko: [over communicator] Sisko to Dax.
- Lt. Commander Dax: [in the middle of a passionate encounter with Worf] Yes, Captain.
- Captain Sisko: [over communicator] We arrive at Starbase 375 in five minutes.
- Lt. Commander Dax: I'll meet you in the transporter room. Dax out.
- [to Worf]
- Lt. Commander Dax: Oh, now that's what I call really bad timing. I have to go.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Jadzia, there is just one more thing.
- Lt. Commander Dax: As long as it's not about the wedding.
- Lt. Commander Worf: When we exchange our vows, you must remember to present your d'k tahg to General Martok as a formal request for him to accept you into our house.
- Lt. Commander Dax: But I don't want to join his house.
- Lt. Commander Worf: What?
- Lt. Commander Dax: I don't want to get caught up in all those blood feuds. Every time a member of the House of Martok gets dishonoured or killed, I'll have to drop whatever I'm doing and rush off on some quest for vengeance. It's boring, Worf.