Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Business as Usual (1997)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

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Quotes 

• [Jake has offered to babysit the O'Briens' baby] 

  Chief O'Brien : You're sure you're up to it?

  Jake Sisko : Absolutely. I babysat Ensign Pran's hatchlings a couple of times - made sure those little wings didn't get all tangled.

  Chief O'Brien : Kirayoshi doesn't have little wings.

  Jake Sisko : Even better!

• Sisko : Chief, why don't you take off for a few days until Keiko gets back? I think we can manage without you for that long.

  Chief O'Brien : Oh, that won't be necessary, sir. I have the situation well in hand.

  Sisko : What I'm trying to say is that keeping Kirayoshi in the pit is not an acceptable solution. Find another one.

• [Quark is having a Nightmare where he enters the bar to find Sisko with a wound in his chest] 

  Sisko : Hello Quark.

  Quark : You don't... look so good.

  Sisko : That's because I'm dead.

  Jake Sisko : [a blood-stained Jake walks by Quark]  Way to go, Quark. I had my whole life ahead of me.

  Quark : [starting to panic]  I didn't do anything!

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : [Quark gasps when he turns around and sees Dax jet up with similar war wounds; accusingly]  You killed us all!

  Quark : Now Hold on! You can't blame me!

  Major Kira Nerys : [walks by Quark, circling around him like a shark]  Deny it all you want. YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE!

  Sisko : [also circling Quark]  I hope it was worth it.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : How much latinum did they pay you?

  Major Kira Nerys : [Quark is gasping in horror and guilt]  Enough to buy a new conscience?

  Chief O'Brien : [holding a bundle that is supposed to be Yoshi]  Why Quark? Why did you kill my baby?

  [Scene cuts to Jake, Sisko, Dax, Kira and O'Brien standing around a Dabo table with piles among piles of latinum. Quark is standing before the group, like an accused person in a murder trial] 

  Quark : [desperately]  This isn't my fault.

  [Dabo wheel stops] 

  Sisko : [ominously]  You lose!

  Quark : [in back away in horror and despair]  No... No...

  [Quark drops to his knees, holding his head] 

  Quark : [screaming in despair]  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  [Quark screams himself awake from the nightmare. He looks around at the empty bar] 

  Quark : [whispers to himself; contritely]  What have I done?

• Chief O'Brien : What are you telling me, my baby's just... sad?

  Doctor Bashir : Perhaps he's become prematurely aware of life's existential isolation.

  Chief O'Brien : You sure it's not a rash?

  Doctor Bashir : Look on the bright side. He'll probably be a great poet.