Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

For the Uniform (1997)

Ken Marshall: Michael Eddington

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• [Eddington has sent Sisko a copy of "Les Misérables" to read] 

  Michael Eddington : Pay close attention to the character of Inspector Javert - the French policeman who spends twenty years chasing a man for stealing a loaf of bread. Sound like anyone you know?

  Sisko : Why don't you beam over and we'll discuss it?

• Michael Eddington : Mr. Cing'ta won't be joining us. His shuttle had an accident on the way to this rendezvous.

  Sisko : Is he dead?

  Michael Eddington : You just don't understand the Maquis, do you, Captain? We're not killers. Mr. Cing'ta's accident has marooned him on a particularly nasty planet in the Badlands. But I assure you, he's very much alive.

  Sisko : How merciful. You condemned him to a slow death.

  Michael Eddington : It's more than he deserved. He was going to sell us out to you. He betrayed us.

  Sisko : Now, there's a subject *you* know a lot about.

• [to provoke Eddington, Sisko has just poisoned the atmosphere of a Maquis planet] 

  Michael Eddington : Can't you see what's happening to you? You're going against everything you claim to believe in. And for what? To satisfy a personal vendetta?

  Sisko : *You betrayed your uniform*!

  Michael Eddington : And you're betraying yours, *right now*! The sad part is, you don't even realize it. I feel sorry for you, Captain. This obsession with me - look what it's cost you.

  Sisko : *Major! Shut that thing off! Commander Worf*! Prepare to launch torpedoes!

  Michael Eddington : *Wait*! If... you call off your attack, I'll hand over all our biogenic weapons.

  Sisko : Not enough!

  Michael Eddington : All right, Javert. I'll give you what you want... me.

• Michael Eddington : Tell me, Captain - what is it that bothers you more, the fact that I left Starfleet to fight for a higher cause? Or the fact that it happened on your watch?

• Michael Eddington : Look at them, Captain. They're humans - just like you and me. And Starfleet took everything away from them. Remember that the next time you put on that uniform. There's a war out there, and you're on the wrong side.

  Sisko : You know what I see out there, Mr. Eddington? I see victims. But not of Cardassia or the Federation. Victims of you, the Maquis.