Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (TV Series)

Ties of Blood and Water (1997)

Alexander Siddig: Doctor Julian Bashir

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• Major Kira : He got so quiet... toward the end. I-I could hear him whispering things - his wife's name, Iliana's, even mine. Then the pain just got too much for him and he just lay there, breathing. And at the end of every exhale... there was this pause, and I thought, "That's it. It's over." Then he'd force another breath. And another... I started counting them. One hundred... two hundred... three hundred... He fought for every last second. I don't think he even knew that I was there.

  Doctor Bashir : He knew. You gave him what he needed. He didn't die alone.

• Major Kira : [sobbing]  I missed my father's death by less than an hour. Did you know that? Less than an hour! I always told myself that it was... bad luck, bad timing - will of the Prophets. But the truth is... I didn't have to go when I did. I could have stayed a while longer. I saw my chance to get out and I took it... I saw so much death during the Occupation, I felt so much pain... But my father... he was my strength. And I... I couldn't stand to see that strength slipping away. So I ran.

  Doctor Bashir : Just like you tried to run from Ghemor.

  Major Kira : He reminded me so much of my father... Going through it again, I... I just couldn't face it.

  Doctor Bashir : But in the end, you did. You were there for Ghemor.

  Major Kira : I owed it to him. I owed it to my father - to get it right this time.

• Doctor Bashir : Regardless of what Ghemor has done in the past, he doesn't deserve to die alone. Nobody does.