Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Tacking into the Wind (1999)

Nana Visitor: Colonel Kira Nerys

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Quotes 

• [Damar's family has been killed] 

  Damar : To kill her and my son - the casual brutality of it, the waste of life... What kind of state tolerates the murder of innocent women and children? What kind of people give those orders?

  Colonel Kira : Yeah, Damar, what kind of people give those orders...?

• [Garak informs Kira about Odo's true condition] 

  Colonel Kira : I love him, Garak; you think I really wouldn't notice?

  Garak : Why the pretense?

  Colonel Kira : Because I also know that he doesn't want me to find out about it. He wants to put up a brave front and protect me from the truth, well fine. If that's what makes this easier for him, if that gives him one last shred of dignity to hold on to, then I'll go on ignoring what's happening to him until the very end.

• Colonel Kira : Oh, that was stupid.

  Garak : Not at all. Damar has a certain... romanticism about the past. He could use a dose of cold water.

  Colonel Kira : Well, I could have picked a better time.

  Garak : If he's the man to lead a new Cardassia, if he's the man we all hope him to be... then the pain of this news made him more receptive to what you said, not less.

• [Rusot has provoked Kira into hitting him] 

  Gul Rusot : I guess... I hit a nerve.

  Colonel Kira : [strangling him]  No. *This* is hitting a nerve! Stop pushing me, or I'll make you realize just how many nerves you have in that miserable body.

• [last lines] 

  Odo : You're... probably angry.

  Colonel Kira : Why?

  Odo : I... I hid my true condition.

  Colonel Kira : Odo - I've known all along. But it's not over. Julian's probably working on a cure right now...

  Odo : Shh-shh, Nerys, Nerys, don't. Just... stay here, with me.

• Colonel Kira : [after another argument with Rusot]  You gonna do something about him?

  Damar : I am. I'm giving him my support.

• [first lines] 

  Kira : There. Right there. The explosion began at the intercooler matrix and your men were supposed to plant the bomb here, at the secondary plasma relay.

  Rusot : What difference does it make? The ship was destroyed.

  Garak : The intercooler was the obvious place for sabotage. Their security checks could have found the bomb and disarmed it before the ship left orbit.

  Rusot : But they didn't find it.

  Kira : That isn't the point. Your men ignored their instructions and their training.

  Damar : Let us not lose sight of the fact that the mission was a success.

  Kira : It was a success because the Jem'Hadar slipped up and we got lucky. Don't use those men again for anything other than routine reconnaissance.

  Rusot : They're five of my best men! Bronok is one of the most experienced...

  Garak : [Exasperated]  You've been told before. No names.

  Kira : Every cell has to be insulated from the cell above and the cell below. If I know the names of your men and I am captured...

  Rusot : Yes. I've heard the lecture.

  Kira : Well then, you shouldn't have to be reminded.

  Damar : It's been a long day. Why don't we take a break.

  Rusot : Good idea. The air in here is getting stale.