Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)
The Darkness and the Light (1997)
Randy Oglesby: Silaran
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Quotes
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Silaran : A creature born within the comforting anonymity of darkness awakens in the harsh truth of daylight. It squirms in the glare, afraid of the light that pins it to the chair like a needle through its heart.
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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.
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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.
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Silaran : Panic starts to creep into its soul; does it understand? Or is it so blinded by the light that it can think only of returning to the velvet cloak of darkness? No matter. Perhaps it is better that it doesn't realize how close death has come. But make no mistake. There is no escape. It has reached the end, and soon, it will die.
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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.
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Silaran : The creature slept, dreaming its dark dreams, and happy to be out of the light. The innocent life it held would awaken in brilliance, and never... know darkness... again.
