Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Darkness and the Light (1997)

Nana Visitor: Major Kira Nerys

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• [Furel and Lupaza have offered to take care of the mysterious murderer of the Shakaar members] 

  Major Kira : The Occupation is over. We can't go around fighting private wars. Times have changed; we have got to change with it. Leave this for the authorities.

  Furel : [contemptuously]  Authorities!

  Lupaza : Maybe you feel that way now, but trust me. When you find out who killed Latha and Fala, and maybe now Mobara, you're not going to want to leave it to someone else. You're going to want him dead, and you're going to want *us* to do it.

• Major Kira : How did you get in? We just installed a new security system.

  Furel : And a pretty good one it is, too. But they have not yet invented the system that Lupaza cannot beat.

• Major Kira : I'm not afraid of you. I'm not some coward who's been sending anonymous messages and bombs to murder innocent people.

  Silaran : No, Kira! I didn't murder anyone! You did! You killed them all.

  Major Kira : There. That wasn't so hard, was it? Now we can talk.

  Silaran : Talk and lies won't help you. You're in the light; and the light reveals the truth.

• Silaran : Don't you feel guilty? Don't you feel ashamed of what you did?

  Major Kira : None of you belonged on Bajor. It wasn't your world. For fifty years you raped our planet, and you killed our people. You lived on our land, and you took the food out of our mouths, and I don't care whether you held a phaser in your hand or you ironed shirts for a living. You were all guilty, and you were all legitimate targets!

  Silaran : And that's what makes you a murderer! Indiscriminate killing, no sense of morality, no thought given to the consequences of your action. That's what makes us different.

• Major Kira : We both agree this baby's an innocent. Don't put him at risk, please, Silaran.

  Silaran : Don't worry. I promise that I'll take care of the child. And that I'll teach him the difference between darkness and light.

• Major Kira : He wanted to protect the innocent... and separate the darkness from the light. But he didn't realize... the light only shines in the dark. And sometimes innocence is just an excuse for the guilty.

• Odo : Perhaps you could make a list of all the attacks by the Shakaar in which you participated.

  Major Kira : It's a long list.

• Major Kira : Those herbs taste like something that crawled out of Quark's ear.

• Major Kira : Fala spent the Occupation cleaning floors in a Cardassian records office in Dahkur Province. She passed us information for years without anyone catching on. But she was always so afraid... afraid she'd be caught and executed. But she never stopped. I told her once, I thought she was braver than all of us, because she had to live with her fear every day. Even after the Occupation was over, she didn't want anyone to know that she was secretly helping us. She was worried... that someone would come looking for her for revenge.

  Captain Sisko : Looks like her fears were well founded.

• Major Kira : I should have you both thrown in the brig. But I'm glad to see you.

• Major Kira : I was thirteen when I joined the Resistance. Been hanging around the Shakaar base camp for a couple of weeks, you know, running errands, cleaning weapons, that kind of thing. And one night, they had an ambush planned and they were a man short, so I volunteered. But everyone thought I was too young, too small. Lupaza... stuck up for me. She said I had the heart of a sinoraptor. And they didn't have much choice. Furel made some kind of joke, I don't remember what it was, but I do remember that Lupaza hit him. She was always doing that. They loved each other in some way. But it was... up to Shakaar and... he stared at me for a long time before he decided I was big enough to carry a phaser rifle after all. So we set the ambush up along the ridgeline, that night, and waited. I was so cold, my hands were shaking. I was so afraid that one of them would look at me and think that I was nervous, that I kept biting my fingers to keep the blood flowing. We must have waited there three or four hours before the skimmer appeared, set down right where Furel said it would. And when that hatch opened and the first Cardassian appeared, I just started firing. And I didn't stop, until I'd discharged the entire power cell. When it was all over, I... I was so relieved that I hadn't let anyone down, my head was giddy. Furel told me to stop grinning, that it made me look younger, but I couldn't help it. I was one of them. I was in the Resistance.

• [last lines] 

  Major Kira : Let's go home.

  Captain Sisko : Sisko to Defiant.

  Crewman : [over communicator]  Go ahead.

  Captain Sisko : Four to beam up. Energise.