Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
The Abandoned (1994)
Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
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Quotes
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Commander Sisko : [about Mardah] Quark may call her a dabo girl; but she's twenty years old. She's a woman, and Jake is a sixteen-year-old boy. It has to stop.
Chief O'Brien : Well, why did you invite her over, if you don't mind my asking?
Commander Sisko : Curiosity, mostly. I want to see what I was up against.
Chief O'Brien : What if it turns out you like her?
Commander Sisko : She's a dabo girl, she's dating my son - I don't want to like her.
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Jake Sisko : Mrs. O'Brien used to say that Mardah should try to get some of her stories published.
Mardah : Jake, they aren't that good.
Jake Sisko : Yes, they are.
Mardah : Nothing like your poetry.
Jake Sisko : You don't have enough faith in yourself.
Commander Sisko : P-poetry - y-you write... poetry?
Jake Sisko : Well - sort of. Not... not really.
Mardah : Now who doesn't have enough faith in himself?
Mardah : [to Sisko] He writes some of the most beautiful things I've ever read. That's what won me over.
Commander Sisko : [becoming more and more bewildered] Er... His... poetry?
Mardah : And the way he plays dom-jot.
[Jake winces]
Commander Sisko : You play dom-jot?
Mardah : Oh, your son can play. He's quite the hustler.
Commander Sisko : A hustler?
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Chief O'Brien : [seeing Jake walk by with Mardah] I thought you were gonna lower the boom on those two.
Commander Sisko : Well, I was; but some things came up at dinner I didn't expect.
Chief O'Brien : Ah - got to know her a little better, decided you liked her after all?
Commander Sisko : No, actually I got to know Jake a little better. Have you ever played dom-jot with him?
Chief O'Brien : Nope.
Commander Sisko : Don't.
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[Sisko has just met the baby found in the wreckage of a ship]
Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : You are positively glowing! I haven't seen that look on your face since...
Commander Sisko : ...since Jake stopped wearing diapers.
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Mardah : Jake seemed like just another teenage boy at first. But there's more to him than that.
Commander Sisko : I'm beginning to realize that myself...
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[Sisko has been ordered to send the Jem'Hadar to another starbase]
Commander Sisko : There will be a complete team of xenobiologists and exopsychologists waiting for him.
Odo : So they're going to study him, like a laboratory specimen.
Commander Sisko : Well, he'll be very well treated.
Odo : [sarcastically] So he'll be a well treated specimen.
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Commander Sisko : But there are times when I would give almost anything for the days when I could make Jake happy... just by lifting him over my head.