Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

The Begotten (1997)

James Sloyan: Dr. Mora

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• Odo : What are you doing?

  Dr. Mora : I'm measuring its volume. It's been here a week and it's only grown 17%. After three days in my lab you were twice that size.

  Odo : Well, maybe I was anxious to grow up, so I could get out of there.

• Dr. Mora : I can't wait to see what next preposterous thing you're going to try. Who knows, maybe in a couple of months it may get so tired of your incessant chatter that it might actually do something.

• Dr. Mora : By the Prophets, Odo, I wasn't even sure you were a lifeform.

  Odo : I wasn't sure about you either.

• Dr. Mora : I was under enormous pressure to come up with results, and I did. My technique worked. The fact that you are standing here whining about it proves it.

• Dr. Mora : If it wasn't for me, you'd still be sitting on a shelf somewhere in a beaker labeled 'unknown sample'.

  Odo : If it wasn't for me, you'd be a nobody. Starfleet wouldn't hire you to judge a science fair!

• [Odo is ecstatic after he managed for the first time to get the baby-Changeling to take on a shape] 

  Dr. Mora : I smiled the first time *you* did that. Little did I realize you would end up hating me for it.

• Dr. Mora : You formed a connection with this Changeling. That is something I was never able to do with you.

  Odo : That's not true. I respected you.

  Dr. Mora : You feared me.

  Odo : You didn't know what I was, you... were experimenting on what looked like a lump of organic residue. That's what I'd still be if it weren't for you.

  Dr. Mora : You don't know how much it means to me to hear you say that.

• Dr. Mora : I suppose it's all my fault. If I hadn't poked and prodded you so much, you may have grown up in a less forbidding disposition.

  Odo : Something tells me, no matter what we do to that Changeling, it's going to have a more pleasant disposition than mine. It's just the way I am.

• Dr. Mora : Take care of yourself, Odo.

• Dr. Mora : Spare the rod, spoil the child.

• Odo : I think I finally understand how much I meant to you... and what you must have gone through when I left.

  Mora : You had to find your own way in the world.