Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
A Time to Stand (1997)
Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko
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Quotes
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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.
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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.
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[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.
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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.
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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!
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Captain Sisko : How is the restaurant doing?
Joseph Sisko : All right. It's been three weeks since I poisoned anyone.
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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.