Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Abandoned (1994)

Jill Sayre: Mardah

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Quotes 

• Mardah : First rule of dabo is, "Watch the wheel, not the girl".

• Mardah : It's amazing, how some people would judge you based on nothing more than your job.

• 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?

• 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...