Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Maquis, Part II (1994)

Marc Alaimo: Gul Dukat

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• Gul Dukat : Anyone can blow up a ship. Ha! But to look your enemy in the eye, knowing you'll remember his face for the rest of your life, now that takes... a stomach, much stronger than you'll ever have.

• Commander Sisko : According to Sakonna, the Maquis are going to attack the depot sometime within the next 52 hours.

  Gul Dukat : But she didn't tell you on which colony the depot is hidden?

  Commander Sisko : She says she doesn't know.

  Gul Dukat : How convenient.

  Commander Sisko : I believe her.

  Gul Dukat : Why? Because Vulcans don't lie?

  Commander Sisko : As a rule, they don't.

  Gul Dukat : They don't blow up ships either, as a rule.

• Gul Dukat : In Cardassia, the verdict is always known before the trial begins; and it's always the same.

  Commander Sisko : In that case, why bother with a trial at all?

  Gul Dukat : Because the people demand it. They enjoy watching justice triumph over evil, every time. They find it comforting.

  Commander Sisko : Isn't there ever a chance you might try an innocent man by mistake?

  Gul Dukat : Cardassians don't make mistakes.

  Commander Sisko : I'll have to remember that.

• Gul Dukat : [on Legate Parn]  I'm sure he made some rather ugly threats on my behalf, hm?

  Commander Sisko : He said that you were the one responsible for smuggling weapons into the demilitarized zone. That if the Maquis did not execute you, then the Central Command would - *after* a comforting trial, I'm sure.

• Gul Dukat : I thought you were strong, Commander. You're not. You're a fool - a sentimental fool.

  Commander Sisko : I said I'd stop the Maquis, and I have. But I will not kill a good man for defending his home.

• Gul Dukat : Will you stop talking and shoot them?