Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Abandoned (1994)

Avery Brooks: Commander Benjamin 'Ben' Sisko

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• 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.

• Jake Sisko : Mrs. O'Brien used to say that Mardah should try to get some of her stories published.

  Mardah : Jake, they aren't that good.

  Jake Sisko : Yes, they are.

  Mardah : Nothing like your poetry.

  Jake Sisko : You don't have enough faith in yourself.

  Commander Sisko : P-poetry - y-you write... poetry?

  Jake Sisko : Well - sort of. Not... not really.

  Mardah : Now who doesn't have enough faith in himself?

  Mardah : [to Sisko]  He writes some of the most beautiful things I've ever read. That's what won me over.

  Commander Sisko : [becoming more and more bewildered]  Er... His... poetry?

  Mardah : And the way he plays dom-jot.

  [Jake winces] 

  Commander Sisko : You play dom-jot?

  Mardah : Oh, your son can play. He's quite the hustler.

  Commander Sisko : A hustler?

• 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.

• [Sisko has just met the baby found in the wreckage of a ship] 

  Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : You are positively glowing! I haven't seen that look on your face since...

  Commander Sisko : ...since Jake stopped wearing diapers.

• Mardah : Jake seemed like just another teenage boy at first. But there's more to him than that.

  Commander Sisko : I'm beginning to realize that myself...

• [Sisko has been ordered to send the Jem'Hadar to another starbase] 

  Commander Sisko : There will be a complete team of xenobiologists and exopsychologists waiting for him.

  Odo : So they're going to study him, like a laboratory specimen.

  Commander Sisko : Well, he'll be very well treated.

  Odo : [sarcastically]  So he'll be a well treated specimen.

• Commander Sisko : But there are times when I would give almost anything for the days when I could make Jake happy... just by lifting him over my head.