- [last lines]
- Odo: Are you sure you've returned to your normal size?
- Chief O'Brien: Of course.
- Doctor Bashir: Why?
- Odo: Well, you both appear to be a couple of centimeters shorter than you were the last time I saw you. A Changeling notices that sort of thing.
- Quark: I didn't want to say anything, but... you do look a little on the petite side.
- [O'Brien and Bashir look at each other]
- Doctor Bashir: Infirmary!
- [they hurry out]
- Quark: [to Odo] And they say you don't have a sense of humor.
- [both chuckle]
- Lt. Commander Worf: It is an ancient Klingon tradition to commemorate an important event with a poem. Jadzia asked me to compose one for this occasion.
- Captain Sisko: Well, what have you got so far?
- [Worf is about to answer when Nog returns their attention to the crew in the runabout]
- Nog: They've penetrated the accretion disk!
- Major Kira: [aside, to Sisko] Now is it my imagination, or did the kid just cover for him?
- Captain Sisko: This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- [Dax is trying to open a door by activating the control panel with the runabout]
- Chief O'Brien: Don't hit it too hard. You could shatter the control panel.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Don't worry, I have a light touch.
- Doctor Bashir: Not according to Worf...
- Doctor Bashir: This conduit's filthy, Chief. Don't you ever clean up in here?
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: All right, all right, let's not badger the Chief.
- Chief O'Brien: Thank you.
- Doctor Bashir: I'm sorry. It was very small of me.
- [Nog is trying to override the bridge control lockouts, without success]
- Nog: [desperate] Do you have a backup plan, in case this doesn't work?
- Captain Sisko: Yes, I'll destroy the ship.
- Nog: ...There are still a few algorithms I haven't tried yet.
- Chief O'Brien: What are you smirking at? You're as small as I am.
- Doctor Bashir: Actually, you're sitting 1.14 meters closer to the focal point of the anomaly. Which means, you've shrunk .04 percent more than I have.
- First Kudak'Etan: It'll be Alphas like us that determine the future of this quadrant. *That* will be the new order of things.
- Chief O'Brien: [indicating the size of about seven centimeters] Are you telling me I'm gonna be this bloody tall for the rest of my life?
- Doctor Bashir: [indicating about one centimeter] This bloody tall, actually.
- Captain Sisko: [referring to a Jem'Hadar] In a battle of wits between you and him, I'll bet on you every time.
- Major Kira: Hm... What kind of odds are you giving?
- [Nog, unaware of O'Brien and Bashir's re-wiring on the bridge, finally succeeds in re-routing the ship's functions]
- Nog: Oh, I am good!
- Captain Sisko: [after his crew has overpowered the Jem'Hadar] He should have listened to you and killed me when he had the chance.
- Second Ixtana'Rax: He was a First. They don't need... to... listen. Obedience brings victory. And... victory is...
- [dies]