Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Afterimage (1998)

Nicole de Boer: Ensign Ezri Dax

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Quotes 

• Captain Sisko : What are you gonna learn in the next few months that you haven't already learned in the last 300 years?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Oh, how to keep from breaking into tears for no reason... How to resist the urge to stand on my head - things like that.

  Captain Sisko : Why are you standing on your head, by the way?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Emony used to do it.

  Captain Sisko : The gymnast?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : She found it relaxing.

  Captain Sisko : Do you?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Actually, it's giving me a headache.

• Quark : Remember all those late night tongo games?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Who could forget?

  Quark : Mmm...

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Wait a minute... You owe me ten strips of latinum from our last game!

• Odo : Why don't you join us for dinner tonight?

  Lieutenant Ezri Dax : I don't want to put you out.

  Colonel Kira : Oh no, please come; it'll take the pressure off me. All he does is sit there and count how many times I chew.

• [Garak has tried to force open the door of an airlock] 

  Garak : I can't believe the way I humiliated myself back there. I just... wanted to get out. I couldn't breathe.

  Ensign Ezri Dax : If you were looking for fresh air, you sure were knocking on the wrong door.

• Ezri Dax : Do you remember anything traumatic happening to you when you were young? Something involving being trapped in a confined space?

  Garak : If I had been that careless, my father would have left me there, to teach me a lesson.

• Ezri Dax : It's a strange sensation, dying. No matter how many times it happens to you, you never get used to it.

• [first lines] 

  Ensign Ezri Dax : It's funny. Before yesterday, I'd never set foot on this station, but... it's as familiar to me as the back of my hand. Isn't that odd?

• Ensign Ezri Dax : I told him all about Trill traditions - Jadzia did. We discussed them - *they* discussed them.

  Captain Sisko : I understand.

  Ensign Ezri Dax : These pronouns are going to drive me crazy!

• Garak : They have no idea that I broke their code. All those Cardassians are going to die because of me!

  Ensign Ezri Dax : I suppose that's one way of looking at it.

  Garak : What other way is there?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : That by helping to end the war, you'll be saving lives.

  Garak : Save lives? And what lives would I be saving? Human? Klingon? Romulan?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : And Cardassian.

  Garak : No, not Cardassians! They're going to fight to the bitter end; the Dominion will see to that. Don't you understand? Don't you see? I wanted to believe that I was helping my people, liberating them. But all I've done is to pave the way for their annihilation. I'm a traitor!

• Ensign Ezri Dax : It means a lot to me that you want me to stay, but... I can't.

  Captain Sisko : Because of Worf?

  Ensign Ezri Dax : Mostly.

  Captain Sisko : Well... you just say the word, and I will intimidate him for you.