Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Nor the Battle to the Strong (1996)

Cirroc Lofton: Jake Sisko

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• Jake Sisko : The battle of Ajilon Prime will probably be remembered as a pointless skirmish. But I'll always remember it as something more - as the place I learned that the line between courage and cowardice is a lot thinner than most people believe.

• Jake Sisko : Some people say that you don't know what you're really made of until you've been in battle.

  Doctor Bashir : Well, let me tell you, Jake. There are many situations in life which test a person's character. Thankfully, most of them don't involve death and destruction.

• [after saving everyone in the hospital from the invading Klingons by chance, Bashir calls Jake a hero] 

  Jake Sisko : More than anything, I wanted to believe what he was saying. But the truth is, I was just as scared in the hospital as I'd been when we went for the generator. So scared, that all I could think about was doing whatever it took to stay alive. Once that meant running away, and once it meant picking up a phaser.

• Jake Sisko : Who cares about anomalies? People want stories about things they can relate to - life and death, good and evil. An outbreak of Cartalian fever would be just the thing. The brave doctor battles the deadly virus! Listen to me, I'm actually rooting for a plague.

• Jake Sisko : I've been on the station when it was under attack plenty of times. But somehow the danger never seemed as real as it does here. Maybe it's because I spent all day seeing first hand what the Klingons are capable of. Or maybe it's because for the first time in my life my father's not here to protect me.

• Jake Sisko : [writing]  Triage, the sorting of the wounded, forces decisions that - I gotta get a grip. Focus! - decisions that test what it means to be a doctor...

• Jake Sisko : "Surgery under fire!" Now we're talking!

• Jake Sisko : I keep turning it over in my head. The shelling. Losing sight of Bashir. Running. And I keep trying to make sense of it all - to justify what I did. But when it comes down to it there's only one explanation: I'm a coward!

• Jake Sisko : I couldn't stand hearing him apologize to me like that - not after what I'd done to him.

• Ensign : It's funny - one minute your life's moving along, just like you always thought it would. And the next you do somethin'... that changes everything - that makes you realize you're not who you thought you were. At the Academy, I did really well in the battle simulations; I never had any problems. But when you're out there, and the live shells are detonating all around you, it's a whole different thing.

  Jake Sisko : All you can think about is getting away from the explosions...

• Jake Sisko : I wonder if Kirby knew that the whole time we were talking, all I could think about was how close the Klingons were. He didn't seem that worried. No one else seems to be losing sleep over it. So why is it the only thing I can think about?