Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Muse (1996)

Rene Auberjonois: Constable Odo

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• [a rather glum and depressed group is sitting around Lwaxana Troi] 

  Lwaxana Troi : Odo! Won't you join the party?

  Odo : Actually, I have some free time, and I was... wondering if you wanted to take a walk.

  Lt. Commander Worf : [apathetic]  I would.

• Odo : [at his Tavnian wedding]  Before I met her, my world was... a much smaller place. I kept to myself; I didn't need anyone else; and I took pride in that. The truth is... I was ashamed of what I was. Afraid that if people saw how truly different I was, they would recoil from me. Lwaxana saw how different I was - and she didn't recoil. She wanted to see more. For the first time in my life, someone wanted me as I was. And that changed me... forever. The day I met her... is the day I stopped being alone. And I want her to be part of my life from this day on. Marry me, Lwaxana. Let me into your light.

• Lwaxana Troi : Someone once said: "Life is a search to find the peace you once had when you were safe inside your mother".

  Odo : I didn't have a mother.

  Lwaxana Troi : [long sigh]  Don't worry, it's all right. You'll find your peace... just the same.

• Lwaxana Troi : Don't go do what I did. Look for someone to fix your broken heart, then end up pregnant and on the run.

  Odo : I... don't think there's much danger of that happening.

• [Odo has proposed to Lwaxana to marry him in a Tavnian ceremony] 

  Lwaxana Troi : In a Tavnian wedding, the groom must stand before the bride and tell her why he wants to marry her. And then, in front of his family and friends, he must proclaim his love for her and convince her to accept him as her husband.

  Odo : Well, I trust I can count on you to accept me even if I just stand there and read last week's criminal activity report.

• Lwaxana Troi : Goodbye, husband.

  Odo : Goodbye... wife.

• Odo : How are you feeling now?

  Lwaxana Troi : Like a Changeling who's had to hold his shape too long.

  Odo : Ah. Well, I, uh... I think I know how that feels.