Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

In the Hands of the Prophets (1993)

Rosalind Chao: Keiko O'Brien

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• [Vedek Winn has asked Keiko O'Brien to refrain from teaching anything that might conflict with Bajoran beliefs] 

  Keiko O'Brien : I'm a teacher. My responsibility is to expose my students to knowledge, not hide it from them. The answer is no.

• Keiko O'Brien : Be careful who you share your jumja with.

• Vedek Winn : Do you believe the Celestial Temple of the Prophets exists within the passage?

  Keiko O'Brien : I respect that the Bajoran people believe that it does.

  Vedek Winn : But that's not what you teach?

  Keiko O'Brien : No, I don't teach Bajoran spiritual beliefs; that's your job. Mine is to open the children's minds to history, to literature, to mathematics, to science.

  Vedek Winn : You *are* opening the children's minds - to blasphemy. And I cannot permit it to continue.

• Keiko O'Brien : I'm not teaching any philosophy. What I'm trying to teach is pure science.

  Major Kira : Some might say pure science, taught without a spiritual context, *is* a philosophy, Mrs. O'Brien.

• [first lines] 

  Chief O'Brien : Try one. You'll like it.

  Keiko O'Brien : To early for me.