Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Business as Usual (1997)

Avery Brooks: Captain Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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Quotes 

• Quark : So, about those charges... surely we can come to some kind of accomodation?

  Sisko : That depends.

  [shows him a pad] 

  Sisko : This is what it's going to cost to repair the cargo bay?

  Quark : That much?

  Sisko : That much.

  Quark : Well... perhaps we could come up with some kind of installment plan?

  Sisko : Works for me!

• [Quark learns he won't be prosecuted for helping to sell illegal weapons] 

  Quark : [to Odo]  Better luck next time.

  Sisko : You better hope there *isn't* a next time, Mister! I've cut you a lot of slack in the past; I even looked away once or twice when I could have come down hard on you. But those days are over. Now, we may not be able to get you for selling weapons, but you so much as litter on the Promenade, and I will nail you to the wall!

  Major Kira Nerys : Something to look forward to!

• Sisko : Chief, why is the baby in the pit?

• Sisko : Chief, why don't you take off for a few days until Keiko gets back? I think we can manage without you for that long.

  Chief O'Brien : Oh, that won't be necessary, sir. I have the situation well in hand.

  Sisko : What I'm trying to say is that keeping Kirayoshi in the pit is not an acceptable solution. Find another one.

• Sisko : You're facing some serious charges here, Quark. Incitement to riot, endangering the public safety, disregarding...

  Quark : How was I supposed to know everyone was going to start shooting? I just wanted them to cross paths, so that the deal would fall through.

  Sisko : It fell through all right. Hagath and Gaila barely managed to get off the station alive.

  Quark : I hear General Nassuc sent a purification squad after them.

  Sisko : I wouldn't count on seeing your former business partners again.

  Quark : I can live with that.

  Sisko : What about the Regent's death?

  Quark : The Regent's dead?

  Sisko : A purification squad caught up with him this morning.

  Quark : I can live with that, too. And I can think of twenty-eight million other people who won't mind, either.

  Sisko : Twenty-eight million... and one.

• [Quark is having a Nightmare where he enters the bar to find Sisko with a wound in his chest] 

  Sisko : Hello Quark.

  Quark : You don't... look so good.

  Sisko : That's because I'm dead.

  Jake Sisko : [a blood-stained Jake walks by Quark]  Way to go, Quark. I had my whole life ahead of me.

  Quark : [starting to panic]  I didn't do anything!

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : [Quark gasps when he turns around and sees Dax jet up with similar war wounds; accusingly]  You killed us all!

  Quark : Now Hold on! You can't blame me!

  Major Kira Nerys : [walks by Quark, circling around him like a shark]  Deny it all you want. YOU'RE RESPONSIBLE!

  Sisko : [also circling Quark]  I hope it was worth it.

  Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax : How much latinum did they pay you?

  Major Kira Nerys : [Quark is gasping in horror and guilt]  Enough to buy a new conscience?

  Chief O'Brien : [holding a bundle that is supposed to be Yoshi]  Why Quark? Why did you kill my baby?

  [Scene cuts to Jake, Sisko, Dax, Kira and O'Brien standing around a Dabo table with piles among piles of latinum. Quark is standing before the group, like an accused person in a murder trial] 

  Quark : [desperately]  This isn't my fault.

  [Dabo wheel stops] 

  Sisko : [ominously]  You lose!

  Quark : [in back away in horror and despair]  No... No...

  [Quark drops to his knees, holding his head] 

  Quark : [screaming in despair]  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

  [Quark screams himself awake from the nightmare. He looks around at the empty bar] 

  Quark : [whispers to himself; contritely]  What have I done?