- [Quark is not co-operating with the Cerritos's delegation negotiating with the Karemma]
- Col. Kira Nerys: What is wrong with you?
- Quark: I have principles!
- Col. Kira Nerys: No, you don't.
- [Tendi, Rutherford, and Mesk are trapped on a Karemma ship headed for the Bajoran wormhole]
- Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: Oh, man! We're almost to the wormhole! *gasp* Mesk! Mesk, you can save us!
- Mesk: Um, I'm sorry, what?
- Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: With all your pirating skills. You can take the ship, Orion-style.
- Mesk: Right, totally. Um, the, uh, thing with that is, um, I, uh... I don't know how! I've never pirated anything in my whole stupid life.
- Ensign D'Vana Tendi: What? It's all you talk about!
- Mesk: I'm a faker. I don't know. I've, I've never even been to Orion. I-I'm from Cincinnati.
- Ensign Samanthan Rutherford: What? Cincinnati?
- Ensign D'Vana Tendi: Are you freaking serious?
- Mesk: I got adopted by humans, and everything I know about Orions I learned from the holonovels. Bad ones, too. The ones with boobs on the cover.
- [Capt. Freeman has completed a trade agreement with the Karemma, which includes Quark giving them 76% of his franchises' profits to make up for him using their technology for years]
- Quark: *sigh* I thought you said your plan would make us both happy.
- Captain Carol Freeman: Well, you're happier being poor than in prison, aren't you?
- Quark: *screams* No!