Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Blaze of Glory (1997)

Ken Marshall: Michael Eddington

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• Captain Sisko : [about Cal Hudson]  He was a good man.

  Michael Eddington : He felt the same about you. He thought you were wrong about the Maquis; but he forgave you. Which is ironic, considering you never forgave him. You can't forgive any of us. And not because we betrayed Starfleet or the Federation. But because we betrayed *you*.

• Michael Eddington : I was their leader. I was responsible for them and I failed. I failed them all.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : Maybe we all failed them. Maybe we could've prevented this from happening. I don't know. It's going to take a long time and a lot of soul-searching before I find the answer. But right now we have a mission to complete.

• Michael Eddington : [his last words]  Rebecca...

• Michael Eddington : It may look like chicken, but it still tastes like replicated protein molecules to me.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : If you don't want it, don't eat it.

  Michael Eddington : Remember that Thanksgiving dinner you cooked for the senior staff last year? How many months did it take you to grow all those vegetables in the hydroponic garden? Every ingredient fresh, real. Though you did put too much tarragon in the stuffing.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : I wasn't aware that you were a food critic.

  Michael Eddington : I wasn't, until I joined the Maquis and started eating real food. Food that I'd grown with my own hands. Fresh corn, sweet as a baby's smile. And tomatoes. Do you know how hard it is to grow tomatoes? There's always too much rain or not enough. It's too hot, it's too cold. I wonder what happened to those tomato plants? Probably burned to the ground along with everything else.

  Capt. Benjamin Sisko : If we don't stop those missiles, a lot of things are going to burn to the ground. And not just on Cardassia.

  Michael Eddington : You never give up, do you, Ben? Here we are, having a pleasant conversation about food, and all you're thinking about is the mission and how to get me to cooperate. You're wasting your breath.

• Michael Eddington : I wish I knew for certain that killing you would make me feel better. But I suppose that can wait for another time.

• Michael Eddington : As far as I'm concerned, my life is over. I'm dead.

  Captain Sisko : For a dead man, you talk a lot.

• Captain Sisko : If those missiles hit Cardassia, it could start a war. Billions of people will be killed.

  Michael Eddington : If you expect me to shed a tear, you're going to be disappointed. I used up all my tears, when the Dominion slaughtered the Maquis. I sat here in this cell for three days and listened to the reports as they came in. In those three days, everyone, and everything I cared about was wiped out.

  Captain Sisko : I heard the same reports. It was a tragedy.

  Michael Eddington : Your generosity of spirit touches me. But you don't give a damn about what happened to us. And I don't give a damn about what happens to you.

• Captain Sisko : Do you want your freedom or not?

  Michael Eddington : Freedom, huh? Tell me, if they did release me - where would I go? What would I do?

  Captain Sisko : Anything you want.

  Michael Eddington : What about bringing the Maquis back from the dead? Can I do that? Can you? Can anyone? No. I didn't think so. In that case, I'll tell you what I want. I wanna lie here till the Jem'Hadar blow this place to pieces - and me along with it.

• Michael Eddington : If you can't have victory, sometimes you just have to settle for revenge.

  Captain Sisko : [laughs sarcastically]  Is that what you want? To be remembered as the man who helped bring about the worst war in Federation history?

  Michael Eddington : Not quite the legacy I had in mind. But I can live with it.

  Captain Sisko : [sardonically]  Can you?

• Michael Eddington : Let's get one thing straight, Captain. I'll get you to the launch site and I'll help you deactivate those missiles. But then you and I are going to have it out, once and for all.

  Captain Sisko : You want a fight, Mister, I will give you one.

  Michael Eddington : I don't intend to fight you, Captain. I intend to kill you.

• [the runabout with Sisko and Eddington is hunted down by two Jem'Hadar ships] 

  Michael Eddington : Dissipating our warp signature didn't work.

  Captain Sisko : Don't tell me the Maquis didn't have Plan B.

  Michael Eddington : You're not going to like it.

  Captain Sisko : Half an AU and closing. If you do have a plan, I guarantee I'll learn to love it.

• Michael Eddington : Attacking two Jem'Hadar soldiers with a pipe, that's a brilliant plan.

  Captain Sisko : It could be worse.

  Michael Eddington : I know, it could be me holding the pipe.

  Captain Sisko : Exactly!

• [Eddington shoots a Jem'Hadar soldier who has knocked Sisko down during a fight in a badly lit tunnel] 

  Captain Sisko : You have sharp eyes.

  Michael Eddington : Not really, I just waited to see which of you was knocked down first, and then I shot the one still standing.

  Captain Sisko : Thank you for your vote of confidence.

• Michael Eddington : You still there, Captain?

  Captain Sisko : Disappointed?

  Michael Eddington : Just checking.

• Michael Eddington : The Maquis won its greatest victories under my leadership.

  Captain Sisko : Your leadership, your shining moment of glory. Michael Eddington gets to take off his gold uniform and play hero. That's what you always wanted, to lead troops in a glorious cause. Well, you had your chance. And look where you led them: right into their graves!

  Michael Eddington : They died because I wasn't there when they needed me most. Because you put me in jail.

  Captain Sisko : They died because you filled their heads with false hopes, sold them dreams of a military victory, when what they needed was a negotiated peace.

  Michael Eddington : We had the Cardassians on the run.

  Captain Sisko : And they ran right into the arms of the Dominion. End of story!

• Captain Sisko : I didn't know you were married.

  Michael Eddington : We've held the ceremony two weeks before you captured me.

  Captain Sisko : Not much of a honeymoon.

• [Eddington is the last one to hold out against the invading Jem'Hadar] 

  Michael Eddington : Seems like a perfect time for a song. Wish I could think of one. Does anyone know a good song? Something rousing? Too bad!

  [he charges the Jem'Hadar and goes down in the blaze of their fire] 

• Michael Eddington : [Sisko and Eddington have reached the Maquis Command Center]  Come on, it looks clear.

  Captain Sisko : Wait.

  [He sweeps the room with phaser rifle fire - and hits two cloaked Jem'Hadar warriors waiting in ambush] 

  Michael Eddington : I'm glad one of us remembered they can do that.