Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Muse (1996)

Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• Captain Sisko : What are you?

  Onaya : It's not what I am that matters, it's what I do. You don't know the minds I've touched: Catullus, Tarbolde, Keats, a hundred others. I unlocked their potential.

  Captain Sisko : Is that what you did to Jake? Look at him!

  Onaya : They all die in the end, but look what I gave them in return: immortality. Their names will live on forever.

• Captain Sisko : [about Jake's novel]  It's really good.

  Jake Sisko : I know. I just wish I wrote it.

  Captain Sisko : You did.

  Jake Sisko : How can I be sure? I mean, without Onaya...

  Captain Sisko : Listen to me. You wrote these words, not her.

  Jake Sisko : But she got them out of me.

  Captain Sisko : Which means, they were somewhere inside of you. And all you have to do is to learn to find them for yourself.

• Captain Sisko : You've got a good start on a novel here, Jake. The dialogue is sharp, the story's involving, the characters are real... the spelling is terrible!