Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Abandoned (1994)

Colm Meaney: Chief Miles O'Brien

Quotes 

• Commander Sisko : [about Mardah]  Quark may call her a dabo girl; but she's twenty years old. She's a woman, and Jake is a sixteen-year-old boy. It has to stop.

  Chief O'Brien : Well, why did you invite her over, if you don't mind my asking?

  Commander Sisko : Curiosity, mostly. I want to see what I was up against.

  Chief O'Brien : What if it turns out you like her?

  Commander Sisko : She's a dabo girl, she's dating my son - I don't want to like her.

• Chief O'Brien : Sixteen years old and dating a dabo girl... Godspeed, Jake.

• Chief O'Brien : [seeing Jake walk by with Mardah]  I thought you were gonna lower the boom on those two.

  Commander Sisko : Well, I was; but some things came up at dinner I didn't expect.

  Chief O'Brien : Ah - got to know her a little better, decided you liked her after all?

  Commander Sisko : No, actually I got to know Jake a little better. Have you ever played dom-jot with him?

  Chief O'Brien : Nope.

  Commander Sisko : Don't.

• Chief O'Brien : [referring to the Founders]  I still don't understand why they would engineer someone to be addicted to a certain chemical.

  Odo : I suspect it's another way of ensuring the loyalty of the Jem'Hadar to the Founders. If your soldiers are addicted to a drug that can't be replicated and only you can provide, that gives you a great deal of control over them.

  Chief O'Brien : Seems a pretty cold-blooded thing to do.

  Odo : My people don't have blood, Chief.