- Admiral Ross: Good luck, gentlemen - good luck to all of us.
- Letant: Romulans don't believe in luck.
- Martok: All the better! Leaves more for the rest of us.
- Weyoun: You haven't changed a bit, have you?
- Gul Dukat: On the contrary, I'm a new man. I no longer have a need for conquest or power. I'm far beyond all that. I exist in a state of complete clarity - a clarity I intend to share with the universe.
- Weyoun: You're right, Dukat, you have changed. You've gone from being a self-important egotist to a self-deluded madman. I hardly call that improvement.
- Captain Sisko: [by Jadzia's coffin] When I first met you, you told me that my relationship with Jadzia Dax wouldn't be any different than the one I had with Curzon Dax. Things didn't work out that way. I had a hell of a lot of fun with both of you. But Curzon was my mentor. You... you were my friend, and I am going to miss you. I should've listened to the Prophets and not gone to Cardassia. Then maybe you'd still be alive. -... - I've failed as the Emissary, and for the first time in my life I've failed in my duty as a Starfleet officer. I need time to think. Clear my head. But I can't do it here, not on the station, not now. I need to get away - and find a way to figure out how to make things right again. And I have to make things right again, Jadzia. I have to.
- [Bashir and Quark are brooding in Vic's lounge over their lost love]
- Vic Fontaine: It's simple: you take one beautiful, happily married filly, add the possibility of her giving birth to a foal, and what's that leave you? A couple of lovesick stallions that never got out of the starting gate.
- Quark: [to Bashir] You have any idea what he's talking about?
- Doctor Bashir: A baby!
- Quark: It's bad enough she married that Klingon psychopath.
- Doctor Bashir: A baby - do you have any idea what that means?
- Quark: That their marriage's gonna last a lot longer than we thought.
- [Sisko has been honored with the Christopher Pike Medal of Valor]
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: To think I knew him when he was just a callow youth.
- Chief O'Brien: Oh, I bet even then he showed signs of greatness.
- Odo: You know, Nerys - observing humanoid relationships and being in one... are very different things.
- Martok: [to Sisko and Admiral Ross] Mark my words: by this time next year, the three of us will drink blood wine in the halls of Cardassia's Central Command!
- Major Kira: [looking over Sisko's abandoned desk] I was afraid of that. He's not sure he's coming back.
- Odo: What makes you say that?
- Major Kira: His baseball - he took it with him.
- [Dax and Worf, who is preparing to go into battle, are talking about their plans to have a baby]
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: Just remember when you get back: we have a lot of work to do.
- Lt. Commander Worf: I don't consider that 'work'.
- [Worf and Dax return from the holo-suite]
- Doctor Bashir: You were supposed to be up there exercising. I don't see any sweat. Where are all the bruises, the... the... the broken bones, the blood?
- Lt. Commander Worf: We were talking.
- Quark: For an hour and 45 minutes?
- Lt. Commander Worf: It is a private matter.
- Lt. Commander Jadzia Dax: We're thinking about having a baby!
- Lt. Commander Worf: It *was* a private matter.
- Chief O'Brien: You got here early.
- Garak: This is a momentous occasion. It's not every day I embark on a journey to liberate my home world.
- Chief O'Brien: That's one way to put it.
- [last lines]
- Jake Sisko: Dad - Grandpa's ready to close up the restaurant. He wants to know when you're comin' in.
- Captain Sisko: In a little while.
- Major Kira: Now I know why you've been avoiding me for the past few days.
- Odo: I haven't been avoiding you. I've been helping you to avoid me.
- Captain Sisko: The Prophets don't see me as a Starfleet captain. They see me as their Emissary.
- Admiral Ross: That's the problem, isn't it? For the past six years you've tried to be both. And up to now I've been patient. I have indulged you, I have gone out on a limb for you many times. But this is it. You've got to make a decision. You are either the Emissary or a Starfleet captain. You can't be both.
- [first lines]
- Saghi: Peldor joi, Emissary.
- Sisko: Peldor joi to you too. Well, it looks like the festival was a big success.
- Kira: Oh, everyone seemed to enjoy it. Thank you, Captain.
- Sisko: For what?
- Kira: For insisting that the festival take place in spite of the fact we're in the middle of a war.
- Sisko: War or no war, we have a lot to be grateful for. And we must remember that.
- Kira: Yes, we must. Shouldn't you be heading over to the ward room for the ceremony?
- Sisko: On my way.