- Captain Sisko: Starfleet officers often have trouble learning the unofficial rules of the station. There's no manual to study. You have to learn things as you go. A little different than... life on a starship.
- Lt. Commander Worf: When I served aboard the Enterprise, I always knew who were my allies, and who were my enemies.
- Captain Sisko: Let's just say, DS9 has more shades of gray. And Quark definitely is a shade of... gray. He has his own set of rules, and he follows them diligently. Once you understand them, you understand Quark. I'd say that's true for... everyone here.
- [he offers Worf a glass of raktajino]
- Captain Sisko: You'll fit in, Commander. Just give it time.
- Lt. Commander Worf: [on Regana Tosh] That man arrived on the station this afternoon and came directly here. I believe the Ferengi bartender is plotting something with him.
- Major Kira: I wouldn't be surprised. Quark's always up to something.
- Lt. Commander Worf: If he is a known criminal, why does your Security Chief not do anything about him?
- Major Kira: Odo keeps him in check.
- Lt. Commander Worf: Yes - but not in prison.
- Chief O'Brien: Keiko only spends a few days at a time on the station. I'm the one living in those quarters. And if I want to set up a little workshop in the bedroom...
- Dr. Bashir: You set up a workshop in the bedroom?
- Chief O'Brien: Yeah. I don't use it when she's visiting.
- Dr. Bashir: Of course not.
- Chief O'Brien: She says I'm trying to live like a bachelor again. That I'm expressing a subconscious desire to push her out of our quarters.
- Dr. Bashir: Now, that *is* ridiculous.
- Chief O'Brien: That's what I said!
- Dr. Bashir: I mean... if anything, by spending your free time in the bedroom, a place you intimately associate with Keiko, you are actually expressing a... desire to be closer to her, during her absence. It... 's quite touching, really.
- Chief O'Brien: Exactly! Exactly! See, you understand. Now, why can't she see that? Why can't she be more like...
- Dr. Bashir: More like...?
- Chief O'Brien: Well - a man. Mo-more like a man?
- Dr. Bashir: So... you wish... Keiko... was a man?
- Chief O'Brien: I wish I was on this trip with someone else, that's what I wish!
- Dr. Bashir: [on an unknown planet] A lovely place. - Smells like a garbage dump.
- Chief O'Brien: I'm sorry I couldn't find a nicer place to crash-land. Should we try again?
- Quark: [aloud, to his customers] Well, everyone is welcome at Quark's. I don't discriminate.
- Quark: [to Worf] Just like Starfleet. They have a non-discrimination policy too, don't they, Commander? I guess we have something in common.
- Major Kira: You have more in common with a Rakonian swamp rat, Quark.
- Goran'Agar: Human. Gold uniform indicates a specialty in Security or Engineering. Rank: Chief Petty Officer. You are what Starfleet refers to as a 'non-com'.
- Chief O'Brien: That's right.
- Goran'Agar: You must have a great deal of experience.
- Chief O'Brien: I've been around.
- Goran'Agar: That makes you a priority target. We will kill you first.
- Goran'Agar: I have never seen a Founder.
- Dr. Bashir: Never?
- Goran'Agar: To us they're almost a myth. But everyone in the Dominion, even the Vorta, serve the Founders. I have fought against races that believe in mythical beings who guide their destinies and await them after death. They call them gods. The Founders are like... gods to the Jem'Hadar. But... our gods never talk to us. And they don't wait for us after death. They only want us to fight for them... and to die for them.
- Goran'Agar: Find O'Brien and return him to the holding area, alive.
- Arak'Taral: Alive?
- Goran'Agar: Are you questioning me?
- Arak'Taral: I knew you once, trusted you, obeyed you without question. But now, you're like this Human - weak, soft, inferior. If being free of white means becoming like you, I don't want to be cured.
- Arak'Taral: You don't like helping us.
- Chief O'Brien: No, I don't.
- Arak'Taral: Good. I don't like it either.
- Chief O'Brien: I'm glad we understand each other.
- [Goran'Agar has caught up with O'Brien and led him and Bashir to their runabout]
- Arak'Taral: You caught him. I shouldn't have doubted you. Shall we kill them ourselves or let the others?
- Goran'Agar: I will do the killing.
- [he shoots Arak'Taral]
- [Goran'Agar intends to kill his men]
- Dr. Bashir: You don't have to do this. Even if we can't save their lives, there's no need to sacrifice yourself.
- Goran'Agar: [to O'Brien] You are a soldier?
- Chief O'Brien: I have been.
- Goran'Agar: Then you explain.
- [he walks off and vanishes into the jungle]
- Chief O'Brien: He's their Commander. They trusted him. He can't leave them.
- Chief O'Brien: I wish things could've been different, Julian.
- Dr. Bashir: So do I.
- Chief O'Brien: And I'm... sorry I had to destroy your work.
- Dr. Bashir: You didn't "have" to, Chief. You had a choice; and you chose to disobey orders, override my judgment... and condemn those men to death.
- Chief O'Brien: Yes, I did. Because I thought it was the only way to save your life. Whatever else you may think of who I am and what I did, at least try to understand that.
- [last lines]
- Dr. Bashir: Tonight's supposed to be our weekly darts game.
- Chief O'Brien: Don't worry. I don't feel much like playing either.
- Dr. Bashir: Maybe in a few days.
- Dr. Bashir: Why did you stop taking the drug?
- Goran'Agar: It was not by choice. Three years ago, I was on a ship that crashed on this world. The rest of the crew died and I was left with only enough
- [Ketracel]
- Goran'Agar: White to sustain me for three days. I rationed my supply, and managed to stretch out the drug for eight days... and then it was gone, and I was ready to die. But death never came. I lived here for 35 days without a single drop of White. Being here, on this planet cured me.
- Dr. Bashir: And that's why you've returned here... to cure the rest of your men of their addiction as well. But it hasn't worked, has it? They still need the drug.
- Goran'Agar: We have come to the same place, breathed the same air, eaten the same food. It should have cured them as well.
- Chief O'Brien: Stop being so naive, Julian, and look at them for what they are. They're killers. That's all they know how to do. That's all they *want* to do.