Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Soldiers of the Empire (1997)

J.G. Hertzler: Martok

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Quotes 

• Martok : Doctor... Thank you.

  Doctor Bashir : If you really want to thank me, don't walk in here dripping blood anymore. It takes days to get it out of the carpet!

• [last lines] 

  Martok : I see you're still wearing the crest of the House of Mogh.

  Worf : Yes. Jadzia calls it a... sentimental gesture.

  Martok : Ah... Perhaps you would consider replacing sentiment with the symbol of a new beginning? The House of Martok would be honored to welcome the son of Mogh into our family, as a warrior - and as a brother.

  [he hands his crest to Worf, who replaces his own with it] 

  Martok , Worf : [both, clasping hands]  Qapla'!

• Lt. Commander Worf : I have accepted the crew's battle records, and on their behalf, I pledge you our lives and ask that you lead us as Commander of this ship.

  Martok : I accept your lives into my hands.

• Martok : How is it that I have only one eye but I can see more clearly than anyone around me?

• Martok : I do not want an artificial eye!

• Martok : On the bridge, during the fight, when you dropped your guard - how did you know I would not kill you?

  Lt. Commander Worf : I did not know.

• Martok : [of the Jem'Hadar]  They're soulless creatures, Worf. Fighting for no goal or purpose except to serve the Founders. They take no pleasure in what they do, nothing is glorified, nothing affirmed. To the Jem'Hadar, we are nothing more than, than targets to be destroyed! I must not let them destroy us, Worf...

• Martok : Your... actions on the Rotarran - at the time I thought they were disloyal. But I have come to realize that your intention was to remind me of my duty as a soldier of the Empire and as a warrior. For that, I am grateful.

  Lt. Commander Worf : You did the same for me once.

• Doctor Bashir : [treating Martok with the assistance of a nurse]  Another three centimeters to the right and you would have severed your brachial artery - auto-suture, please - and if that had happened, you would have bled to death right there in the holosuite.

  Martok : The human fascination with "what might have been" is tiresome, Doctor. The artery is not severed, and I am not dead!

  Doctor Bashir : Oh, well, forgive me for boring you! Let me get straight to the point: you're acting like a fool!

  Martok : Your observation is noted. But spending two years in a Dominion prison camp has dulled my reflexes. This only proves that I need further training.

  Doctor Bashir : Turning off the holosuite safety protocols during a battle simulation is, at best, dubious. For a man with only one eye, it's positively idiotic. Now, if you would consider ocular...

  Martok : I DO NOT WANT AN ARTIFICIAL EYE!

  Doctor Bashir : Then you must accept the fact that you have a disability and stop acting...

  Martok : There are limits as to how far I will indulge you, Doctor!

• Martok : [to the crew of the Rotarran, after sparring with Worf has rekindled his warrior's spirit]  Who's with me?

• Martok : These personnel reports read like prison records!